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Like thousands of other New Zealanders, the people of Wakefield district threw themselves into fundraising in 1915. Bill Newth built this model of the Maheno on a Hodgson truck for a gala patriotic parade in Nelson.
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'Maheno fundraising float', URL: https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/maheno-float-wakefield, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 19-Dec-2014
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