From personal ephemera collection.
This advertising postcard is from a collection that is held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, NZ.
From personal ephemera collection.
These personal photos were taken at Ruatuna, the Coates family home on the Kaipara Harbour. One of the Coates’ sons, Gordon Coates was Prime Minister of New Zealand. The piano stool does not belong to the Chappell piano; it belonged to an earlier piano the family owned.