New Zealand Memories Issue 150

APPETISER
Mud-bound Parliamentarians
The ‘Winterless North’ Tour (16-30 January 1917) comprised a delegation of parliamentarians, dignitaries,
journalists, and businessmen who travelled in a procession of 33 motor cars around Northland to witness poor
roading conditions. Hampered by bad weather, the roads proved a challenge - demonstrated by this car bogged
down in mud between Herekino and Kohukohu - and only ten cars completed the journey.
Read the full account by Fiona Davies in our Northland regional section.
Courtesy: Whangarei Museum, Kiwi North Ref: 1995.56.41 (below).
Courtesy: Graham Stewart
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EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
We’ve reached another milestone. The 25th Anniversary was celebrated at the end
of 2020 and now New Zealand Memories marks 150 issues. Little did I imagine the
dizzy heights of Issue 150 when I first took over as a hesitant editor at Issue 11.
Nor did I ever imagine that a constant flow of varied and splendid stories would
keep our pages full. But they do. Thank you to the multitude of contributors who
have been part of our story thus far. Bless you all.
With the demise of the cheque, and its imminent removal from New Zealand
society, I was keen to pay homage to this disappearing icon, one that has served
the country well since 1840. I was directed towards the knowledgeable Andrew Clifford of the Numismatic
Society and the result, an excellent article on the history of the cheque in New Zealand illustrated with rare
examples.
Ray Salisbury’s fine leading article opens in Nelson, the date 1842, and paints a fascinating picture of the
challenges facing early settlers in their search for suitable grazing land. Their tenacity in face of hardships is
astounding.
Paul Aubin’s unique brand of humour is applied to the topic of dancing and, in particular, to the dances held
in his hometown… and the consequences of those weekly gatherings. “The Dunedin Town Hall Dance, over
its many Saturday nights, acquired a legendary status for expediting so many hundred, or thousands of engagements
and matrimonies,” writes Paul. This was not only true of the Deep South; local dances throughout the country
proved to be the catalyst for many a budding romance. And on the note of romance, David Hill is sure to win
over the hearts of the ladies - and score brownie points from Mrs Hill - with his very sweet finale to The Big
Night.
Keep safe and vigilant as the vaccination programme rolls out to the general public, and I’ll be back to chat
with you again in August after I’ve had my injection.
Wendy Rhodes,
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Contributors
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Bourn, Christopher
Clifford, Andrew
Davies. Fiona
Dillon, Miles
Dykes, Mervyn
Hill, David
Hirst, Helen
McLeod Family
Moore, Anne
Mytton, Joan
Nelson Provincial Museum,
Pupuri Taonga O Te Tai Ao
Paviour-Smith, John
Paviour-Smith, Robert
Peka, June
Pickmere, Alan
Russell, Tony
Salisbury Family archives
Salisbury, John Park
Salisbury, Ray
Stewart, Graham
Subritzky, Mike
Sullivan, Peter
Tairawhiti Museum
The Treasury, Thames
Thorn Family Archives
Waipu Museum
Wairarapa Archive
Whangarei Museum, Kiwi North
Wood, Bev
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ISSN 1173-4159
June / July 2021
Contents
Amazing Grazing 4
Ray Salisbury’s article is set in the Nelson region.
A Night “Round the Telly” 12
Television memorabilia from Christopher Bourn.
The Big Night 16
David Hill was a school prizegiving recipient.
The Town Hall Dance 18
Paul Aubin recalls Dunedin’s Saturday night dance scene.
From the Regions: Northland 24
In Loving Memory of Morrie 34
Bev Wood pays tribute.
Centrefold: Tramping Party 36
Head of the Lake, Te Anau.
Reader’s Response: Triple Tragedy 43
A Brief History of Cheques in New Zealand 44
Written by Andrew Clifford.
Once a Jolly Swagman… 48
Mervyn Dykes gives an account of an extraordinary “swagger”.
Afternoon Tea 51
Quite an occasion in the 1940s as recorded by Helen Hirst.
“Gotta Milk the Blimmin’ Cow” 52
Tony Russell relates a story from his mid-Canterbury upbringing.
Memories of Remuera Primary School During World War II 54
Ann Cryer (nee Patton) was enrolled at school in 1938.
From the Regions: Bay of Plenty / Coromandel 58
Mailbox 69
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice 72
In Tribute
Cover image:
Inglewood in Taranaki painted
by Christopher Aubrey, 1896.
Collection of Puke Ariki
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FEATURE
Amazing Grazing
Ray Salisbury
Land Hunger
The New Zealand Company’s second settlement, Nelson, was established in 1842. The settlers were promised
more real estate than what was available. To alleviate the scarcity of pastoral land, a handful of European
explorers began to penetrate the hinterland of the Nelson province, up the Motueka River and south as far as
the Nelson Lakes.
Māori told tales of extensive grassy plains in the north-west corner of the South Island – this was the primary
motivation for Charles Heaphy and those who followed him. During 1846, Thomas Brunner participated in at
least four harrowing expeditions, including one down the Buller gorges in a survival epic known as the greatest
exploratory journey in New Zealand history. A decade later, a young farmer named James Mackay set out to
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FEATURE
investigate the validity of these claims for himself, but
ultimately failed to find this ‘land uplifted high.’
By 1853, when the Salisbury family arrived in
Nelson, there was no land available for sheep farming,
so they struck westward for Motueka. After carving
a dug-out canoe, the men hauled the laden waka up
the Motueka River for three days, then settled at the
mouth of the Graham River. Building a mud house
with a thatched roof, they became the first to settle
the Pokororo district, living in the shadow of Tūao
Wharepapa, now re-named Mt Arthur. They set to
work felling native bush, clearing and grubbing the
land.
As these law clerks from Lancashire adapted to
farming the river flats and breaking in stock, they
embraced the outdoor lifestyle and became competent
bush-men and horsemen. Their first crop was potatoes.
Their cattle were poisoned by tutu and were replaced
with sheep, but high ferns and scrub were not suitable,
so they cut a second track upstream for a further 32
kilometres. With the help of a stowaway sailor named
Batteyn Norton, they stocked and farmed what is now
the ‘Baton’ River valley, where they found traces of
gold and coal. Unfortunately, regular floods eroded
their precious farm and gold diggers harassed their
sheep on the Baton run. The Salisbury brothers were
on the lookout for new pastoral land.
Tableland
The year was 1863. Abraham Lincoln was president
of the United States, while Queen Victoria reluctantly
made Lord Palmerston the British Prime Minister.
The population of Australia was topping one million,
while New Zealand’s population was approximately
180,000. And a solitary figure was bashing through
dense bush up the Graham Valley, a remote, untrodden
corner of the colony.
It was on Saturday 17 March, 1863, when Thomas
Salisbury found himself swallowed by the great, green
forest. He struggled up a bush-clad ridge to the top of
the Lodestone (1462m). He eventually reached a subalpine
tussock plateau to the north-west of Mt Arthur
he named the ‘Tableland,’ where he found some gold.
Unfortunately, his discovery led to the area being
formally designated as a goldfield, with some thirty
diggers scratching around like ragged chooks looking
for minute grains.
Above: John Park Salisbury.
Courtesy: Salisbury Family Archives
Salisbury’s Ferry on Motueka River, 1879.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. Ref: E-305-q-019 E.A.C. Thomas
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FEATURE
Amazing Grazing
An economic downturn began in 1874 when wool prices fell heavily. During what was dubbed the Long
Depression, sixty percent of New Zealand’s products were based on wool, which sometimes netted only four
pence a pound. If a farmer was lucky, he could sell a fat sheep for six shillings.
John Park Salisbury had insufficient room for his stock to feed on his Graham River property. As the first gold
rush had died out by 1875, he obtained a licence to graze the Tableland. And so it was that Salisbury took his
teenage sons, John Edward (14) and Ernest James (12), into the wilderness behind Mt Arthur. In his memoir,
After Many Days, he wrote:
‘We started off up the mountain-side with a hundred sheep before us … However, it was midsummer and
the weather favoured us. We drove all day, and camped at night, and the third day, with some help from
a table-land digger, we had the satisfaction of viewing our little flock spread out contentedly in the valley.’
Back in 1867, Nelson engineer Arthur Dudley Dobson had surveyed a bridle track over Flora Saddle, but this
was incomplete. It would have been a narrow trail leading on to Salisbury’s Open, where the flock grazed on red
tussock. Here, the drovers sheltered beneath an overhanging rock, a natural limestone bivouac. Today, one can
read the monograms of musterers carved into the cold stone walls, and relax on comfortable mattresses on the
capacious sleeping platform.
On their third day, the graziers led their flock up Starvation Spur to Butchertown, then over Balloon Hill.
Higher and higher, the animals were taken around the cirque of Lake Peel, traversing along exposed bluffs above
Deep Creek, then down a steep, forested valley wall to the leasehold land by the Cobb River.
The Land Act of 1877 allowed for farmers to utilise Crown land, especially high country runs such as Cobb
Valley which was, at the time, extremely remote. The total area of graze-able land here was 8093ha. The Salisburys
built huts from pit-sawn timber, fences, a holding paddock and sheep yards on their 809ha lease. The family
continued to farm the lower valley until 1920, grazing 250 head of cattle and 1200 Romney ewes. Isaac Gibbs
was the first of three generations to farm the upper Cobb Valley.
Clara Salisbury and her surviving children. Courtesy: Salisbury Family Archives
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FEATURE
Salisbury sheep graze Iron Lake. Courtesy: John Park Salisbury
Flood and Fire
February 6, 1877 was a dark day in the Motueka Valley. Decades of bush felling had led to erosion, so there
was insufficient forest cover to soak up severe rainfall. Bridges and houses washed away, and hundreds of sheep
were drowned. The terrible devastation was reported in the Colonist: ‘The flood had changed the face of the land
and course of the river. The economic and psychological damage is hard to estimate.’ In downtown Motueka,
boats and Māori canoes were rowed and paddled up and down High Street. Amazingly, no human lives were
lost. The pioneer John Salisbury penned his own account:
‘Everything else went, houses, land, stacks, horses, sheep, and cattle, fences and out-buildings. In a few short
hours all vanished, leaving for miles a scene of desolation which could hardly be described. Where the land was
not bodily washed away … it was covered over twelve feet with mud, logs, and strata of all sorts.’
The Salisburys’ neighbours lost their home which was torn from its foundations. Salisbury himself also had
land washed away. It was difficult to retrieve the ragged Tableland sheep due to landslips created during the
flood. Fortunately, his flock were fine.
When the early pioneers were not battling floods, they had to contend with other difficulties. During 1897 a
tragic fire tore through many properties, razing the Sixtus homestead to the ground. Acres of pasture went up in
flames; many animals were roasted alive. John Salisbury Jnr. offered his Tableland lease to the Brereton family,
who took surviving sheep to graze on Balloon Hill. Cyprian Brereton recalled: ‘When John Salisbury gave us
grazing, the sheep spent the autumn between the Open and Mount Peel. Before the heavy snows fell, I went up
to muster them.’
It was Autumn when young Brereton climbed up onto the Tableland to visit his sheep and was hosted by
Billy Lyons. The old hatter purchased six sheep from him, which were dressed and hung in the trees. The next
morning, a motley bunch of hungry miners appeared for their mutton. In his book, No Roll Of Drums, Brereton
likened the stunted trees with old men:
‘The men who mustered this country all felt its fascination. It grew on them the longer they were associated
with it. The gnarled old trees, bent and twisted, with branches only a few feet from the ground, were
evidence of their struggle against the elements. Many of them were like old men, bent and deformed in
the struggle for existence.’
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ENTERTAINMENT
A Night ‘Round the Telly’
Christopher Bourn
Television has just turned sixty. Up and down the country residents in
retirement villages and Grans and Grandads grapple with seventy
channels bemoaning the fact that “there’s nothing worth watching”. They
try to convince whoever will listen that television was much better in the
good old days when there was only one channel… and that was in black and white!
What were those programmes they remember with such affection? Who were the
personalities that drew families around hired television sets - with rabbit ears perched
on top - when days of the week were defined by favourite programmes?
Thursday was The Avengers night (no one in their right mind ever scheduled a
meeting on a Thursday night). Saturday was Rawhide and The Untouchables while
Sunday was Dr Findlay’s Casebook. The famous Philips K9 colour television set was
still over a decade away in the future.
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ENTERTAINMENT
At age nineteen Elizabeth Bourn (nee Andrews) was the youngest continuity announcer
employed by NZBC. Photographed at the beginning of a career on screen that ended in1988.
AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3 and DNTV2 flickered in furniture shops and television
hire stores and workers on their way home peered in shop windows transfixed by the
announcer outlining the evening’s programme line up. Remember The Prisoner (starring
Patrick McGoohan), The Planemakers, Coronation Street with Ena Sharples and Minnie
Caldwell in the snug, Candid Camera, The Dean Martin Show, Softly Softly (Stratford Johns
as Inspector Barlow), Maigret with its wonderful theme music, Steptoe and Son, Bonanza
and Hancock’s Half Hour. There was no remote to fight over, just the anticipation of a night
‘round the telly’.
Television was people; announcers with genuine personalities were household names. The
first true ‘star’ was Graham Kerr, elevated to stardom in a tiny demonstration studio with
an audience of twenty directed by Roy Melford with three static cameras. Following on,
truly outstanding on-screen personalities (nearly all from Radio): Fred Barnes (the original
Country Calendar front man), newsreaders Peter Brian, Bill Toft and, the most popular
of them all, Dougal Stevenson (who resisted the move of Network News to Auckland
thus calling an end to his career). Cookery stars Des Britten and Alison Holst, Peter Read
The Night Sky (in one episode he interviewed Buzz Aldrin just back from the moon), the
irreverent Paul Holmes in Buck House, the brilliant original Fred Dagg in News at Nine, the
versatile Peter Sinclair C’mon and Mastermind, Tina the weather girl (who almost started
World War Three with her pronunciation of ‘Taupo’) and outstanding sports commentator
Keith Quinn. The Talent Quest Studio One / New Faces first brought to the screen Split Enz,
Hogsnort Rupert, Shona Laing, Suzanne Prentice, The Rumour and Brendan Dugan, many
of whom are still performing today.
NZBC Producer Christopher Bourn (left) with Sportsview front man Bill McCarthy in 1968. Bill
went on to front the 1974 Commonwealth Games and also became a Network newsreader.
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Tramping Party
Dunedin’s Burton Bros. photographed this group of
trampers posing beside a hut at the head of the lake
in April 1895. Lake Te Anau can be seen beyond the
trees in this exceptionally sharp glass plate negative
image. The outdoor attire is quite magnificent with the
two women standing splendid in their bloomers and leg
o’ mutton sleeved jackets. Courtesy: Graham Stewart
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FARM LIFE
“Gotta Milk the Blimmin’ Cow”
Tony Russell
Along with gathering wood for the stove, milking the house cow must surely have been a bane of
equal proportions in day to day life on the land many years ago. Most people on the land (farmers in
particular) kept a house cow - it was just an everyday part of life.
When I was but a very small lad growing up in Greendale, mid-Canterbury, my Dad kept a house
cow. Fresh milk was nice, as was the cream and home-made butter. He had improvised a bail beneath some big
macrocarpas behind the house, and it was here he sat with his thoughts for a short period once or twice a day.
You know, being snuggled against a cow wasn’t really too bad - she was always warm and soft, and she possibly
had to contend with the discomfort of cold hands on a frosty morning!
After milking, he put the milk through the hand separator, and when the skimmed milk poured into the
bucket, a thick froth formed on the top, just like fluffy snow. I had a little blue enamel mug on hand, and
delighted in scooping it through the froth, then trying to eat or drink it - I’m not sure which! It must surely
have been a varied collection of noises as I tried to suck on something just a tad heavier than air. I still have my
mug, and when I look at it, I am right back there, scooping it through the froth as Dad turned the separator!
The years passed, and for one reason or another we didn’t have a cow any longer, but bought milk from
Mr Fred Cullen who was a neighbour about a quarter of a mile along the road, or along the riverbed - it all
depended which way you felt like walking. Mr Cullen was one of the old school. He had worked hard, raised a
family with his good wife, and was now retired. But he still kept a handful of cows; a couple to milk, possibly
one in calf and perhaps one which had dried off. He milked them night and morning, and sometimes the day
caught up with him, and he would sit out in the gathering dark, no doubt with thoughts, and getting warm
against the cow at the same time.
Mr Cullen had a voice which carried, as did his children. It’s strange how things come to mind after so many
years. On one occasion, Dad and I were chopping some wood for the fire (again), it was almost dark, when we
heard the yell.
“Dad!” It was Mr Cullen’s daughter calling. There was no reply.
“DAD!” Still no reply. How the sound travelled in the still evening air, and with nothing much to muffle it
as it travelled along the river bed, her call was crystal clear.
“DAD!!” again.
With a smile on his face, my Dad yelled back, “Whattya want?”
She must have thought her Dad was answering, as she once again yelled into the night air.
“Dad, can I go and see Aunt Jessie after tea?”
“Yeah, righto!” yelled my Dad.
“OK - I’ll see you a bit later!” was her parting shot.
Dad and I giggled at each other as we loaded our arms and headed indoors. I hope she didn’t get into trouble
for taking off, and we often wondered if she ever realised what had happened.
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FARM LIFE
Bert Lea milking the cow at Greendale in about 1954.
While we were still buying our milk from Mr Cullen, our next door neighbour in the other direction, Mr
Charles Adams, called to ask Dad if he would like to go into a share-milking arrangement with him. If it was
anything to do with milking a cow again, Dad was something of a reluctant starter, but listened to what Mr
Adams had to say. Mr Adams had a few cows too, but as he was now well into his eighties he had come to a
point where the chore of milking twice a day was something of a bother. (Milk was a necessity for the house.) As
he was still happy to milk the cow in the morning, would Dad like to milk it at night and keep the milk? Dad
agreed to be a partner in the scheme.
It really wasn’t such a bad arrangement in the summer months, but the winter was a different story. It was
usually dark when Dad arrived home from work, and then he had to set off “to milk the blimmin’ cow!” More
often than not, the cow had turned her back on the day and wandered off into the shelter of the old-man broom
at the bottom of the paddock for the night. Not even the thought of a slice of hay seemed to keep her up near
the shed! If it was raining as well as cold, it was a wet task to flush her out of her shelter. But it was much worse
if she had stayed nearer to the shed and Dad had walked right passed her in the dark!
More years passed. I grew up and left home, and eventually there was a need to have a handful of cows of my
own. A growing family dictated there was always ample amounts of milk in the fridge. Milk wasn’t delivered to
the gate in those days, so milking a house cow was about the only viable option. Apart from that, we separated,
and fed the skimmed milk to the pig and the chooks, and had cream for the table or to make butter. And we
made copious amounts of butter during the flush months, and saved the surplus in the freezer, to use when it
really wasn’t worth the effort of having to wash the churn. This worked well, just so long as we didn’t put it next
to something which could taint it in the freezer. This did occasionally happen, much to the consternation of
the small mouths around the table. (One of my sons told me in later years how he liked to stay with one of his
friends at weekends or during the holidays, because their butter was bought and didn’t taste funny!)
Milking the cow really wasn’t such a bad task in the summer months ... the worst part was getting started.
Once things were under way it was all right. Perhaps after a day in town or visiting friends at the weekend, the
cows still had to be milked when we got home, and now it was my turn to lament, “Gotta milk the blimmin’
cow!” n
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INDEX and GENEALOGY LIST
A
ADAMS Charlie 53
afternoon tea 51
air raid drills 56
AKTV2 13
ALLEN Steve 14
ANSELL Mary 54
ANSELL Michael 54
Anzac Day 55
artist (Aubrey) 38
AUBREY Christopher 38
Auckland 24, 54
Awanui 32
B
baking 51
Balloon Hill 6
ballroom dancing 19
Bank of NZ 44
BARNES Fred 13
BARTRUM Max 54
Baton River Valley 5
Bay of Plenty 63
BEATSON Cecil 9
Guthrie 9
BELL Sir Allen 24
big game fishing 61
BLACK Grace 43
Thomas 43
blackout (WWII) 55
BOSTOCK Eric 24
BOURN Christopher 12
Elizabeth 13
Bowentown 61
Bowentown Beach 61
BRERETON Cyprian 7
BRIAN Peter 13
BRITTEN Des 13
BROWN Joe 21
Peter 54
BRUNNER Thomas 4
BULLOCK Pynson 54
Burton Bros. 36
Butchertown 6
C
CAMERON June 54
camping ground (Mt Maunganui) 63
caravans (Mt Maunganui) 63
CARTER John 47
Carter Holt Harvey 47
CARTHEW Mr P.R. 39
cattle farming 6
CHADBAN Ernie 61
CHAPMAN Jack 43
CHAPPELL George 58
cheques 44
Christchurch 9, 50
CHTV3 13
Civic Theatre 47
coal mining 43
coastal schooner 64
Cobb Dam 11
Cobb Mustering map 8
Cockle Bay 24
Cod Liver Oil 66
COLLINS Jeremy 54
Colonial Bank of NZ 44
colonisation 40
Commonwealth Games 14
Conn River 6
Cook & Co 47
COOPER Oliver 44
Coronation Pier (Tauranga) 63
CRAMER-ROBERTS Ken 54
CRAWFORD Family 67
Crown land 6
CULLEN Fred 52
Culverden 9
D
DAGG Fred 13
dance halls 19
dance programme 18
dancing (Dunedin) 19
DAROUX Louis John 49
Deep Creek 6
Dept of Education 66
DICKSON Ewen 54
DNTV2 13
Dobson 43
DOBSON Arthur 6
Dobson Mine 43
dogs (stock) 10
DOWLING Cathy 14
DUGAN Brendan 13
Duke of Edinburgh 72
Dunedin 19
Dunedin Town Hall 19
Dux Litterarum 17
Dux Ludorum 17
E
economy (Northland) 24
education 55, 66
Edwardian fashion 61
EDWARDS Brian 14
emigration 30
ERSKINE Doddie jnr 43
Isa 43
exploration 4
F
FAMILTON Relda 14
Far North 28
farming 5
fashion (Edwardian) 61
fashion (tramping) 36
fishing competition 28
flooding (Motueka) 7
Flora Saddle 6
food parcels (WWII) 57
FORD Barbara 43
Barbara jnr 43
Bess 43
Bill 43
George 43
Grace 43
Isa 43
James 43
Jess 43
Jim 43
John 43
Johnny 43
Kate 43
Tom 43
FOUNTAIN Johnny 54
FOWLER Ian 54
FRASER Peter 67
Freeman Jackson & Co 45
G
GARVEY Mr 49
GIBBS Isaac 6
Glide motorcar 24
gold diggers 5
gold discovery 44
gold mining 59
Golden Disc Awards 15
GOODWIN Jennie 14
Graham River 5
Graham Valley 5
Greendale 52
GREY George 32
Grey Valley Colliers Ltd 43
Greymouth Municipal Band 43
GRIMMER Don 54
GROOBY Harry 9
Tom 9
H
hangi 67
HANSEN Ann 30
Ella 30
John Tollis 30
May 30
HARDIMAN Pat 54
HAYWARD Maxine 66
head lice 66
HEAPHY Charles 4
HEATH Ash 10
HENDERSON Hugh 16
Herekino 27
high country runs 6
HILL David 16
HOBSON Lt. Governor 44
Hobsonville 34
Hogsnort Rupert 13
HOLMES Paul 13
HOLST Alison 13
Houhora 32
house cow 53
I
incendiary bomb 56
Inebriates Home 50
Iron Lake 7
itinerants 48
J
JACKSON Peter 54
JAMES Billy T 14
JOHNSTON Alma 14
JOHNSTON Mr 66
JONES Russell 17
K
Kaipara Steamship Co 45
Kaitaia 25
Karangahake 58
Kawau Island 32
KEBBLE Mark 54
KEY Ian 54
KLINK Clyde 54
KNAP Mr J 47
KNIGHT Lex 21
Korakia 67
KORBER Heinrich 30
Johann 30
Jurgen 30
Maria 30
Sophie Elisabeth 30
Kororareka 44
L
La-De-Da's 14
LAING Shona 13
Lake Peel 6
Lake Rotoiti 67
Lake Te Anau 36
Land Act of 1877 6
LANG Sir Frederick 24
Latin studies 17
LEA Bert 52
LEARWOOD Suzanne 54
LEE Julian 21
LORD Mr 56
LYONS Billy 7
M
MACKAY James 4
maize 64
Maori Battalion 67
Maori Language 66
map (Northland) 26
Maraehako 64
MARCIEL Capt 50
MARSHALL Isabel 43
James 43
Robert 43
Martha Hill 59
MARTIN Marama 14
MATTHEWS Cecil 17
MATTHEWS Family 32
Maungaturoto Co-op Dairy Co 33
McCARTHY Bill 12
McLEOD Mr and Mrs 66
McMILLAN Family 61
McNEISH James 55
McPhail & Gadsby 14
MEAR Family 67
MELFORD Roy 13
milking 52
MILLS Marion 54
Milton 44
mining accident 43
MOLLOY Michael 15
MOORE Kevan 14
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INDEX and GENEALOGY LIST
MOREHU Mrs 67
Morris 8 motorcar 35
motoring 1, 24
Motueka River 5
Motueka Valley 9
Moturoa 38
Mount Camel Station 32
Mount Maunganui Beach 63
Mount Taranaki 39
Mourea 66
Mt Arthur 5
Mt Buckley Mine 43
MUNRO Dorothy 54
Mr 66
mustering 7
MYTTON Hugh 11
N
Napier 49
Napier Boys' High 16
Napier Girls' High 16
Napier Municipal Theatre 16
National Bank of NZ 44
Native Affairs Dept 66
Native School Act 66
natural remedies 66
Nelson 4, 30, 72
New Plymouth 38
New Plymouth Girls' 17
New Zealand Banking Co 44
New Zealand Company 4
NGARIMU Lt. 67
Ngatimoti 9
Ninety Mile Beach 28
Northland 1, 24
NORTON Batteyn 5
numismatics 44
NZ Broadcasting Corp. 12
NZ Company Settlement Scheme 30
O
O'BRIEN John Burke 48
Ohinemuri River 59
Ohinemuri River Claim 59
Ohingaiti 49
Ohore 32
Okere 66
Okere Falls 63
Old Time dance 21
Oldsmobile 32
Ophans Club Hall 22
Otago Boys' High 20
Otaramarae 66
P
Paeroa 59
PAHEWA Canon Hakaraia 65
Pakatoa Island 50
Palais de Dance 22
PALMER Mr 67
Palmerston North 50
Parihaka 40
parliamentarians 1, 24
PATTERSON Neil 54
PATTON Ann 54
Perham, Larsen & Co 47
Peria 28
personalised cheques 44
Peter Fraser Design School 67
PETERSON Don 54
Petone 44
Pokororo district 5
Port Ahuriri 17
PRENTICE Suzanne 13
prizegiving (school) 16
PUCKEY Family 32
Q
Queen Elizabeth II 72
QUINN Keith 13
R
RANFURLY Lord 63
Rangataua 47
ration book (WWII) 57
ration coupons 57
READ Peter 13
Recreation Ground 42
REID John 14
Remuera 54
Remuera Primary School 54
Reserve Bank 44
ROBINSON Betty 19
Ern 9
Jack 19
John 54
rock 'n' roll 21
Rotoiti Timber Mill 67
Rotorua 68
Rotorua High School 67
Royal Visit (Nelson) 72
rugby (Napier Boys') 16
S
safe house (WWII) 55
SALISBURY Clara 6
Ernest Adams 6
John Edward 6
John jnr 7
John Park 5
Thomas 5
Salisbury's ferry 5
Salvation Army Home 50
SAMUEL Mr E.J. 24
Sanatorium (Rotorua) 68
Saturday night dance 19
SCHIMDT Heidi 54
school ball 23
school dance 23
SELINGER Eva 54
SHANLEY Janet 54
SHAW Tony 54
sheep drive 9
sheep farming 6
shipping Greyhound 32
Isabella 32
Lady Escott 45
Montezuma 32
Palmyra 30
Prince Alfred 32
Ruapehu 43
S.S. Aotea 45
Saint Pauli 30
Tutanekai 63
SINCLAIR Peter 13
SMITH Beth 17
Snapper Bonanza 28
Snapper Classic 28
SOWMAN Wally 9
SPANHAKE Frederick 30
Otto 30
Sophia 30
SPARKSMAN Dennis 28
Pat 28
Split Enz 13
STEAD Dorothy 54
May 54
STEVENSON Dougal 13
stockmen 10
STRANG Harry 21
Subritzky Homestead 32
SUBRITZKY Archi 31
Bert 31
Frederick 31
Harold 31
Johannes Anton 31
Jurgen 31
Lil 31
Louisa 31
Ludolph 31
Otto 31
Romualdus 31
Sophia 31
Subritzky General Store 31
SULLIVAN Peter 31
sundowner 48
surfboat 64
swagman 48
SWINBURNE John 54
T
Tableland 6
Takaka River 11
talent quests (music) 13
Talisman Gold Mining Co 58
Taranaki 38
Taranaki Maori 40
Tauranga 63
TAYLOR Dick 14
Mr P.C. 33
Te Kaha 64
Te Kaha Hotel 65
Te Kaha Point 65
Telethon 14
televised rugby test 14
television 12
television announcer 13
television producer 12
television programmes 12
TEMPLETON Willy 11
Terrace Gaol 49
Thames 60
Thames-Coromandel Coast Road 60
The Merry Macs 21
The Rumour 13
THOMSON Mr A.D 50
THORN Avelon 11
Ken 10
Martin 10
timber mill 47
TOFT Bill 13
Tokomairiro 44
Tokomaru Farmers Co-op 47
Tokomaru Bay 47
TOLINSON Dan 9
TOOGOOD Selwyn 15
Tophouse 9
trampers 36
Tramway Hotel 58
transport funding 24
trenches (WWII) 56
trout (Cobb Valley) 11
TWENTYMAN Owen 54
U
Union Bank of Australasia 44
V
VAILE Hubert 60
W
WAGENER Louisa 32
Waihgi 59
Waihi Dredging Co 59
Waihi Goldmining Co 59
Waihi-Paeroa Gold Extraction Co 59
Waikino 59
Waiorore 65
Waipawa Building & Inv. Soc. 45
Waipu 33
Waipu Store 32
Waitakere Ranges 34
Waitara 40
WAKEFIELD Capt. Arthur 44
Edward Gibbon 44
WALLACE Muriel 19
Warkworth 24
WELLS Eddie 10
Whakarewarewa 68
Whangamarino School 66
Whangapipiro/Rachel Pool 68
Whiritoa 61
Whitianga 60
Whitianga Hotel 60
Whitianga Wharf 61
WILLIAMS D.O.C. 14
Emma 67
Mrs Togo 66
Winterless North Tour 1, 24
WIXEN Powhiri 66
WNTV1 13
WONG Joan 54
wool 6
woolclasser 17
World War Two 55
X
Y
Z
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
In Tribute
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh during their Royal Visit to Nelson in January 1954.
Courtesy: Nelson Provincial Museum, Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao, Misc Collection ¼ 1540.
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