A bill advertising the sale of beach-front 'lots' for house building (particularly holiday baches) at what is today Raumati Beach but which was then named and marketed as "Scarboro" which was envisaged as being a NZ version of Scarborough, a seaside resort town in Yorkshire, England.
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Date1907Original size (mm)870 x 565Holding InstitutionOnslow Historical SocietyInstitution collectionLarge format maps and plansReferenceOHS-1-14Acknowledgement
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Plan of the Scarboro' of New Zealand [Raumati Beach] (1907). Wellington City Libraries, accessed 11/04/2026, https://wellington.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/9371