“The Tryst” George Ford’s launch on the Kaituna River (Ford Collection)

3 November, 1927 – Official Opening of the Ongatoro Outlet at Maketu (Ford Collection)

c1927/28 – The Kaituna River Board (Ford Collection); - Back L to R: Robert King, George Ford, Horace Earp, Edmund L Broad, Archie Snodgrass, Jim Collins. Front L to R: Mil Cruickshank, Jock Anderson, Matt Griffin, Stewart Mitchell, William Berqui

1930s – Floating bridge across the Kaituna River (Ford Collection)

1930s – Flax stripping machine invented by R H (Dickie) Milburn (Ford Collection)

1930s – Floating bridge across the Kaituna River with sheep going to The Sandhills (Ford Collection)

1930s – Floating bridge across the Kaituna River (Ford Collection)

May 1940 – Jack Ford duck shooting on the Rangitāiki Plains (Ford Collection)

1951 – L TO R: Peter and CECILIA, John (rowing) and Michael Pittar (bow). Leaving Pittar residence, Kaituna Road, BY BOAT. (Gifted by Pittar Family to Ford Collection)

1951 – Pittar Farm. Cow shed & implement shed in Foreground. The gumtrees are on the Ford Farm, Ford Road, Maketu between Te Tumu Cut and Maketu. (Gifted by Pittar Family to Ford Collection)

1981 Lower Kaituna River Diversion – photo taken in 1983 (Ford Collection)