New Zealand Memories Issue 154

The Hermitage
With growing interest in the Aoraki / Mount Cook region, the Department of
Tourist and Health Resorts saw the opportunity for expansion and a second
‘Hermitage’ was built in 1914. The splendour of the hotel is obvious in this
photograph; sadly to be razed by fire in 1957. The item forms part of our
Canterbury regional section beginning on page 58. Courtesy: A. Pickmere
APPETISER
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. Eph-E-TOURISM-Mt-Cook-1935-01
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EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
As 2022 is ushered in, I bring greetings with the hope of a more settled year. The
unfolding of the pandemic has been akin to something out of a science fiction
book. I am pleased to hear that the uninterrupted publication of the magazine has
brought a welcome distraction from stringent lockdowns.
And there’s no shortage of distractions in this issue. John Stackhouse leads the way
with his excellent World War II feature illustrated by a collection of remarkable
photographs. An account of the American icebreaker which docked in New
Plymouth in 1958 is written by Rachel Sonius and includes a recent interview with USS Staten Island sailor
Jim Freund (at age 87) who shares fond memories of his six days in Taranaki before heading to Antarctica and
‘Operation Deep Freeze’.
David Hill began his teaching career at Tamaki College with Form 5C in 1965 and writes, “I never saw any of
5C again. They’d be 70 or 71 now; how incredible.” Calling Mr Hill’s ex-students to give a teaching appraisal
of their 1965 year.
Do children still play marbles? Peter Wood remembers ‘marble season’ and the names and games associated
with the popular pastime. Boys generally preferred marbles when I attended Primary School, while girls opted
for knucklebones and skipping. Those chanted rhymes still echo when I see a skipping rope… Bluebells, cockle
shells, Eevie, ivy, over.
I was fascinated with the connection between Thomas Edison and the Mayor of Gisborne; take a look at the
photograph and story from the Tairawhiti Museum printed on page 72. Always something new to discover!
As I pen this editorial, New Zealanders are enjoying the stunning weather and the freedom to travel our
beautiful country. Long may it last!
Wendy Rhodes,
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Contributors
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections
Burte, Donald
Christchurch City Libraries
Clover, Ken
Derbyshire, Neil
Freund, Jim
Gregory, Ian
Julien, Ann Briton
King, Trevor
McKinnon, John
National Museum, Royal NZ Navy
Nelson Provincial Museum,
Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao
Pickmere, Alan
Rangiora Museum
Ritchie, R
Ruland, Joyce
Smith, Jennifer
Sonius, Rachel
Stackhouse, John
Stewart, Graham
Tairawhiti Museum
Te Whare Taonga o Te Tairawhira
Taranaki Research Centre, Puke Ariki
Trask, Peter
Tucker, Gary
Walsh, Graeme
Whaley, Derek. R.
Wickham, Alison
Wilcox, Errol John
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Contents
The Roar of the Four Merlins 4
John Stackhouse recounts an episode from World War II.
Train Adventures 12
‘Taihape was a busy town on the main trunk,’ writes Ian Gregory.
Port Chalmers: Clyde of the South 14
Neil Derbyshire‘s father started work in the shipyards in 1942.
Marble Season 21
Recollections of school ‘marble season’ from Peter H. Wood.
That’ll Teach Them 22
Teaching Form 5C in 1965 by David Hill.
From the Regions: Wellington / Wairarapa 24
Memories of Eighty Years Ago 34
Errol John Wilcox grew up on a farm near Wellsford.
Centrefold: On the Street 36
Central Nelson from the steps of Christ Church c.1915.
Staten Island Weather in New Plymouth 38
1958 visit of icebreaker: a contribution from Rachel Sonius.
The Mettle of Her Heart 44
Joyce Rutland shares an emotional family story.
Flax Industry of the Thames Valley 48
An article by Ken Clover.
Sworn to Secrecy 53
Jennifer Smith adds a touch of humour.
Harold Julien - Horseman 54
A story based in Hawke’s Bay by Ann Briton Julian.
Remember Bill and Boyd? 57
Trevor King supplied the mid-1960s publicity shot of the duo.
From the Regions: Canterbury 58
Index and Genealogy List 70
Issue 151 August/September 2021
Editor’s Choice: Straight to the Top 72
Gisborne’s battery powered trams, 1913.
ISSN 1173-4159
February/March 2022
Cover image:
Island Bay, Wellington.
contributed by R. Ritchie.
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An Interview with Sam Hunt
Taupo Childhood in the 1950s

FEATURE
The Roar of Four Merlins
John Stackhouse
The huge bomber banked north of the city, lining up for the run in. The pilot, looking below, observed
the broad, braided river originating in the mountains to the west and flowing across a wide plain
to the sea. A wide bay swept towards an estuary and steeply rising peninsula to the southeast. The
lower slopes of these hills were partially covered in houses, a glimpse caught of a harbour on the
other side. The pilot, briefed by his navigator, descended towards the outskirts of the city and the crew began to
make out individual buildings, a haze of smoke from many household chimneys, vehicles, trams and as they got
lower, faces turned skyward. Theirs was not a surprise operation, they were expected. The pilot took the giant
bomber even lower as the city centre, dominated by a cathedral spire and to its south a cathedral dome, came
clearly into view.
The bomb aimer, ready to release the bomber’s payload, assisted by the engineer and navigator, waited for the
pilot’s command. The pilot, after careful consideration, gave the nod and the expectant residents of Christchurch
were showered by thousands of leaflets below as the Lancaster bomber bisected the city, its four Merlin engines
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roaring, the noise rattling windows and thrilling the watchers. The citizens of Christchurch
had waited patiently but now they peered into the sky at the first sound of the Lancaster’s
engines, the throaty roar of four Rolls Royce Merlin engines. People ran from houses and
shops to view the four-engine visitor and Saturday afternoon sports games stopped to allow
players and spectators alike to view the bomber. To the Cantabrians watching the aweinspiring
Lancaster, Q-Queenie VI, this was an exciting moment to be savoured, but on
the opposite side of the globe in Germany the sight or sound of an Avro Lancaster and its
four Merlin engines was to be feared. The already legendary Lancaster was an awe-inspiring
sight.
The leaflets fluttering down on Colombo, Manchester, Kilmore, Barbados, Litchfield
and a hundred other Christchurch streets were keenly sought after as ‘Lancaster bomber
visit souvenirs’. Children scuttled between the adults to collect the fluttering paper. The
leaflets themselves carried an important message: 3rd Liberty Loan: £350000 stock: 2½
per cent. Stock repayable 15 June, 1947/49. 3 per cent. Stock payable 15 Dec., 1953/56…
Not a catchy propaganda leaflet stirring the populace to victory, but one carrying a vital
message all the same. Some 12000 of them were dropped in the flight from Ohakea, across
Wellington, a stop at Woodbourne near Blenheim and along the east coast of the South
Island. The most sought after were those that had been personally signed by the Prime
Minister, Walter Nash. The government was using the first visit to New Zealand of the
mighty Lancaster bomber as a means to raise private investment in the war effort, thus
reducing the ‘millstone’ of external debt that the costly business of war brought.
Her city leaflet dropping and low-flying done, Queenie was guided by her Australian
pilot Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson DFC, DFM back across Christchurch to the west
to land at RNZAF Wigram. The crew soon spotted the aerodrome and sweeping over the
suburb of Riccarton nearby they did a low run across the airfield before circling back and
finally lining up again across the city and landing into the southerly breeze. As they flew
low across the rooftops they became aware of thousands of people around the perimeter
of the airfield. They had travelled in trams and hundreds of cars to be there to see the
Lancaster land. Faces upturned, and frantically waving a greeting, they gained their reward
as the bomber thundered overhead. The numbers of spectators and the level of enthusiasm
and interest was likened in newspaper reports to the welcome accorded Kingsford-Smith
after the first flight across the Tasman and his visit to Wigram in 1928.
The size of the Lancaster emphasised by the de Havilland Tiger Moth trainer parked beside
its port wing at Wigram.
Queenie, soon after landing at Wigram.
Source: RNZAF Official G1335, 12.6.43, Author’s collection
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Queenie, on display soon after landing at Wigram, surrounded by admirers. RNZAF Official, G1331 12.6.43. Author’s collection.
Queenie was greeted by an expectant throng of RNZAF personnel and their families who excitedly chattered
above the noise of the giant bomber as Isaacson taxied onto the edge of the concrete apron in front of the main
building, arriving later than expected at 4.55 p.m., the last rays of the sun disappearing behind the snow-capped
Southern Alps, casting long shadows across the aerodrome. The weather, for June, was obliging in Canterbury
and although a little chill as the sun began to sink below the distant mountains, the crowds were able to get a
close-up view of the legendary Lancaster as the engines died and the props turned their last rotation for the day.
Chocks in place against the giant wheels and the crowd awaited the aircrew as the ladder was placed against the
open fuselage door. The official greeting party moved forward inside the roped area as the crowd pressed forward
en masse. The Governor General’s wife, Lady Newall, and the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr. E. H. Andrews,
were the first to greet Isaacson and his crew. After a long day’s flying via Wanganui, Hawera, Stratford, New
Plymouth, Ohakune, Taihape, Palmerston North, Masterton, Wellington and Blenheim, Queenie had arrived.
Wherever she went in New Zealand Queenie caused a stir. After her time in Christchurch she flew south over
Ashburton, Timaru, Dunedin to Invercargill. As Queenie flew low in the skies of Southland, small towns along
the way turned out to see her. In Winton, the Presbyterian Church was almost full as congregation and the local
Home Guard unit worshipped at Sunday morning service. Suddenly, during the service, a well-known member
of the community stood up in his pew and announced: “Ladies and Gentlemen, the bomber”. The congregation,
minister included, trooped out of the church to watch the giant plane fly overhead, and when it had disappeared
they all went back to church and the minister continued with his sermon. It must have been a leap of faith on
the part of the minister that his congregation would return, settle and listen to his enlightening words!
She then treated the residents of Lumsden and Queenstown to a ‘fly over’, the crew and passengers themselves
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riveted by the majestic beauty of the Southern Alps and
its ‘jewel in the crown’, Mount Cook, partially sheathed
in cloud. The southern lakes added to the exquisite
scenery as the bomber lifted up and over the snowcapped
mountains to the isolated West Coast. Queenie
then hugged the rugged coastline where the surging
Tasman Sea collides with some of New Zealand’s most
isolated and unpopulated areas. Jackson’s Bay, then the
towns of Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport and Nelson
thrilled to the roar of Queenie’s four Merlins before she
headed back over Cook Strait to touch down at Ohakea
Aerodrome near Wellington, her day’s work done.
But she still had much flying to do in the Dominion
of New Zealand. The remainder of the North Island
awaited their glimpse of the Lancaster bomber. After
her overnight stay at Ohakea, Queenie’s navigator
plotted a course to Auckland on 14 June, and the
residents of many small towns along the way prepared
to greet Queenie as she overflew. Some were in for a
treat but some others were to miss out, as newspaper
reports conveyed at the time. Isaacson flew a winding
course via Hawkes Bay, Rotorua, Hamilton and Thames.
Flight Lieutenant Isaacson talking with the
Commanding Officer of Whenuapai Air Station,
Group Captain Roberts.
On 13 June the residents of Otaki eagerly anticipated Queenie’s arrival, as reported in the Otaki Mail (June
14): The Lancaster bomber that passed over Otaki yesterday afternoon was followed with intent by local district
residents, but a large number of residents, who wended their way to the beach, received a disappointment as many
failed to see the bomber on account of its altitude and its close proximity to the hills. A very politely worded account.
A similar experience for many locals in Whakatane on the 14 June led to one disappointed resident, who had
only caught a blur of low-level Lancaster as Queenie hugged the terrain and disappeared behind hills, to state:
I only got a whiff of the exhaust!
In other centres locals were thrilled: As reported in the Auckland Star (15 June 1943), the boys of Auckland
Grammar School got a great view of Queenie as she circled Mount Eden: … the unusual thrill of actually looking
down on the immense machine while in flight was experienced by a company of Auckland Grammar School boys
undergoing military drill on top of the Mount. An equally memorable incident for the remaining 900 or so boys
drilling in the school grounds was an unannounced leaflet raid made by the bomber, and a truly hectic scramble by
the youngsters to secure souvenirs. The huge plane banked steeply near the school flagstaff as the boys were drilling in
the upper ground. “The ranks broke in a mad rush,” said one lad, “and the leaflets showered down from what looked
like roof-top height. We scrambled to collect them.” A case of boyish enthusiasm getting the better of strict military
discipline! In another school nearby the teachers weren’t allowing any souvenir hunting, all the leaflets collected
were confiscated by the staff!
However it seems that the residents of a nearby facility may have had even greater luck in collecting the
leaflets, if they had been able to, as they were liberally showered with them. The only catch was they would have
had to be out exercising at the time to be able to get hold of one. Although many leaflets were souvenired by the
boys of Auckland Grammar School, most were carried by the breeze to land behind the foreboding walls of the
Auckland gaol. It is doubted if the inmates would have been heavy subscribers to the 3rd Liberty Loan even if
they did manage to get hold of a leaflet.
The Lancaster was escorted over Auckland once more by two P40 Kittyhawk fighter aircraft. These were flown
by New Zealand fighter pilots Flight Lieutenants Thomas and E. M. Buckeridge. It was flying low and watchers
on the rooftops and in the streets gained a thrilling impression of its size, power and speed. The attending aircraft were
completely dwarfed… (Auckland Star 14 June 1943). The Lancaster circled Auckland a number of times and the
residents of Auckland occupied any possible vantage point to see Queenie. Her final run across the city took her
almost parallel to Queen Street, overflying the Chief Post Office. This was appropriate timing as a parade was
about to take place to celebrate Commonwealth Day. Queenie went on to land at RNZAF Whenuapai.
Weekly News, June 23, 1943, Author’s collection.
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SHIPBUILDING
Port Chalmers:
Clyde of the South?
Neil Derbyshire
My family moved to Port Chalmers early in 1942 so my father could work in the new shipyards
established to build minesweepers for the Navy. For about four years this ‘essential industry’
employed a workforce of around 200.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington,NZ Ref: WA-52055
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SHIPBUILDING
At the outbreak of hostilities
There were only five ships in the New Zealand Navy 1 when war broke out in 1939. There were the cruisers,
Achilles and Leander, which saw service in the Atlantic and Pacific: the Achilles’ exploits in the Battle of the River
Plate are well-documented. Two escort sloops, Leith and Wellington, were based in Auckland but showed the flag
in ports throughout New Zealand and in the South Pacific. When war broke out, they were recalled to England.
Then there was the small minesweeper Wakakura which, since 1925, had served as a training ship for the naval
reservists in four ports.
The Navy soon took over the passenger liner Monowai (10,852 tons) for use as an armed merchant cruiser. She
escorted ships around the Pacific and served as a troopship. 2 Obviously more ships were needed and so an order
was placed for three Bird-class trawlers from Britain. These arrived in 1941. The day after war was declared three
of Sanford’s fishing trawlers (originally Royal Navy minesweepers) were requisitioned. 3
Ships destroyed by the enemy
New Zealand soon realised how vulnerable the country
was to enemy attack. Beginning in June 1940 two
German surface raiders, Orion and Komet, laid huge
minefields at harbour entrances around New Zealand
during a 12 months’ period. The Orion laid 228 contact
mines in the approaches to the Hauraki Gulf on the
night of 13-14 June. At 3.40 a.m. on the 19th, the
Trans-Pacific liner Niagara, on its regular run to Suva
and Vancouver, struck two mines off Bream Head and
sank quickly. Fortunately, all 349 passengers and crew
got away safely in 18 lifeboats but the ship’s secret cargo
of ammunition and gold worth £2.5 million were lost.
A salvage effort recovered almost all the gold from the
wreck in late 1941. 4
On 20 August 1940 the Turakina was sunk nearly 500
kilometres off the Taranaki coast after a brief gun battle
– the first ever fought in the Tasman Sea. Thirty-six
members of its crew were killed. Another 21 survivors
were rescued and taken prisoner; one soon died from
his wounds. 5
On 25 November the Germans sank the little steamer
Holmwood off the Chatham Islands, with its 17 crew
and 12 passengers taken prisoner, and two days later,
the Germans scored their greatest prize. The 16,712-ton
liner, Rangitane, was sunk 550 kilometres off East Cape.
This was the largest Allied merchant ship to be sunk by
a German surface vessel during the Second World War.
1 Although the Royal New Zealand Navy was not established until 1941
there had been a naval presence before then in the form of the New Zealand
Division of the Royal Navy.
2 R.J. McDougall: New Zealand Naval Vessels, Wellington: GP Books,
1989, pp. 54-55
3 McDougall, pp. 78-80.
4 Niagara mined off Northland coast’, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/
niagara-mined-off-northland-coast, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage),
updated 18-Jun-2020.
5 ‘Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman’, URL: https://nzhistory.
govt.nz/turakina-sunk-by-german-raider-in-tasman-sea, (Ministry for
Culture and Heritage), updated 27-Jul-2017.
Port Chalmers before the container port was
established and the ship repair facilities closed. To the
left of Careys Bay (on the lower right with the cemetery
above) are the shipyards with their own wharf.
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On the Street
Trafalgar Street North photographed from the steps of Christ Church in about 1915. Horse-drawn cabs await
passengers in this typical scene depicting the bustle of daily life in the early 1900s. To the right stands the Municipal
Buildings and the clock tower on the horizon shows the position of the Post Office. Telegraph poles indicate
advances in communication.
Courtesy: Nelson Provincial Museum, Pupuri Taonga O Te Tai Ao Ref: F.N. Jones 6x8 21
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INDUSTRY
The Flax Industry of the
Thames Valley
Ken Clover
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ Ref: A-245-008
James Richmond sketched the flax-clad shore with the small storage hut on poles at Ohinemuri, Thames in the 1860s.
From the earliest times when flax was first processed in New Zealand - in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries - as long as there were sailing ships the flax fibre used for cordage was in great demand. That
demand continued until the advent of synthetic fibres. To see the amount of ropes and cordage on and
around the masts of those great sailing ships, one could understand the need for great quantities of flax
cordage… there seemed to be ropes everywhere.
At the start though there was a bit of a hiccup because, when the first ships began trading for navy supplies,
tests were done at the naval base at Chatham in England. It was found that the flax sourced from Riga and Chile
was superior to the New Zealand flax. At the same time the Kahikatea spars sourced from this country failed the
usage tests as well. Nevertheless, when the seekers of suitable trees for spars and masts went a bit further in the
hills and discovered the Kauri and they then realized that New Zealand flax was readily available and cheaper to
obtain than from elsewhere. Trade in both timber and flax took off and it became the chief bartering agent in
trade from this country.
Local Mãori Chiefs were not slow to realize this and they set up flax farming and processing plants at various
places where the fibre was produced and stored ready for barter for guns and supplies. As only shells were used to
strip the flesh from the fibre, it would not have been easy work.
For the drainage work to be started, the large areas of native flax were a big consideration. To justify the large
expenditure at the time on the draining operations, two means of recouping the costs were planned. Firstly there
was the selling of the sections once they were fit to begin farming and the second was the selling of the flax leases.
There were many thousands of acres of flax naturally growing over a large area of swamp that could be harvested,
processed for its fibre and sent to distant mills to be used in various ways. Old maps indicate that most leases were
for a finite period. For example that area at Hopai / Pipiroa was to expire on 14 May 1908. This was, no doubt, to
coincide with the draining work beginning in earnest in that area. Many other areas had the same date but a few,
such as at Waikaka (which was next to the tramway), were to run for ten years from 8 December 1905. Things
did not quite work out as the planners first thought, but over the years many of those thousands of acres of flax
were harvested and the area’s flax industry was born.
The demand was such that the naturally growing flax was soon to be supported by the planting of large areas set
out in rows to facilitate the cutting process. Flax mills began to spring up over the Thames Valley where there was
the greatest concentration of flax growing, where running water was on hand for the washing process and where
some flat land was available for erecting the drying fences.
In the Plains area most mills were sited near a river or stream so as the water could be utilized in the fibrestriping
process and also so that the flax could be brought to the mill by punts or barges and the fibre later taken
Harvesting flax with a scythe in the early twentieth century. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ Ref: 1/1-009565-G
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66. Camping Holiday; South Otago Shipwreck; NAC; Ray Columbus; Ninety Mile Beach. Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
67. RMS Niagara; Auckland Department Stores; 100 Years of Rugby League; Children’s Fashion. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
68. Cross Creek Railway; Dancing in the 1930s; Pioneer Photographer; The Big ‘O.E.’. Auckland / West Coast
69. Battle of the River Plate; Morris Eight; Christmas in the 19th Century; Pararekau Island. Wellington / Canterbury
70. Coaching in South Island; ‘Six O’Clock Swill’; Knucklebones; West Auckland Winemaker. Gisborne / Southland
71. The Piano; Historic Cook Strait Flight; ANZAC Cross; Canterbury Pioneer. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
72. Athletic Park; Mother’s Medicine; Gt. Barrier; Nelson’s Public Works Camp. Northland / Coromandel-Bay of Plenty
73. Emigration 1870s; Radio; Oamaru; Canterbury Childhood; Scouts. Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
74. Cycle to Oldsmobile; Granny’s Album; All Blacks; SS Captain Cook; Wellington’s Beloved Dog. Otago / Hawke’s Bay
75. Old Fashioned Sweets; The 1845 Regiment; Emigration - Gradac to New Zealand. Auckland / West Coast
77. Motoring Memories; Blandford Spitfire; Aunt Daisy; Cartooning; 1919 Games. Gisborne / Southland

78. Kawau Island; Washdays; Golden Bay Schooldays; Diphtheria Vaccinations; Telephones. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
79. Immigration; Christchurch Exhibition; Wellington Transport; Dunedin’s Gardens. Northland / Coromandel-Bay of Plenty
80. Holidays; WW II Aviation; Farmer’s Catalogue; Ballroom Dancing; Murchison; Military Training. Taranaki / Marlborough
81. Telephones; Heaphy; From Dalmatia; Pavlova; Farming; World War II; Rabbit Fences. Otago / Hawke’s Bay
82. Murchison Memories; 1913 Epidemic; Wellington Bedsit; Farm Dogs; Temuka Tales. West Coast / Auckland
83. The Woolshed Dance; Edmonds Sure to Rise; Soldier’s Survival; Auckland Childhood. Wellington / Canterbury
84. The Fun Doctor; Khandallah Station; Nursing in the 1950s; Early Road Construction. Southland / East Coast
85. Antipodes Wreck; War on Home Front; Springbok Tour ’81; Toys; Migrants’ Ships; Croquet. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
86. The Navy; Cook Strait Ferries; Paeroa; Chinese Settlers; Emigration by Air, 1960. Northland / Coromandel-Bay of Plenty
87. 1858 Christmas; General Grant; Canterbury Choirboy; Bradford Truck; Typist’s Tale. Nelson-Marlborough / Taranaki
88. Wellington Boarding House; Nursing 1940-50s; Caroline Bay; Rotorua Forest Research 1960s. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
89. Scottish Emigrants; Radio Career; Mountaineering Mystery; Brian Brake; WW II Espionage. Auckland / West Coast
90. Old Comics; Auckland Theatres; 1935 Trans-Tasman Airmail Flight; Hercules Bikes; Racing Cars. Canterbury / Wellington
91. Whitebaiting West Coast; Grandmother’s Medicine Cabinet; Farming West Otago. Southland / Gisborne-East Coast
92. Tasman Sea Crossings; The Corset; Petone; Swagmen; New Lynn; First Ascent of Mt.Cook. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
93. Cape Foulwind; Baby Austin Motoring; Air Raid Warden; Rodeo, McKenzie Plains. Coromandel-Bay of Plenty / Northland
94. Paeroa / Pokeno Railway Line; Dunedin Trams; Boxing 1950s; Farming; Northland Settlers. Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
95. Aunt Daisy; Otago Gold; Emigrants 1928; NZ Mounted Rifles; Captain Moonlight. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
96. WW II Scharnhorst; 1918 Influenza Epidemic; James K. Baxter; Ardmore Teachers’ Training College. Auckland / West Coast
97. Boxing; Early Settlers’ Pantry; 1912 Olympics; Night Ride from Waitara; N.Z. Troops in Sydney. Wellington / Canterbury
98. 1918 Cadillac; Black Horse Brewery; Wellington’s Ratcatcher; 1912 Waihi Miners’ Strike. Southland / Gisborne-East Coast
99. Dunedin Settlers, 1863; Wartime Otaki; Auckland’s Gracious Home; WW I Enemy Aircraft. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
100. Greymouth Radio; Schools of Yesteryear; Farming During the Great Depression; The Newspaper Men; WWII Aviation
101. Polish Children’s Camp; Flood of the Century 1913; Voice of Oscar Natzka; Northland / Coromandel-Bay of Plenty
102. Photographer: Charlie Dawes; Dannevirke Settlers; Southland Connections; Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
103. Wellington During the War Years; Greenstone Eardrop; Old Butchers Shop; 1908 Boxing Match. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
104. Fly-swats and Fly-papers; Early NZ Aviation: Lyttleton Harbour Tragedy; NZ’s Unofficial Hangman Auckland / West Coast
105. Irish Orphan in Gold Rush Otago; The Caravan; Wash Day Blues; Mount Eden Memories Canterbury / Wellington
106. Italian Fishermen of Island Bay; The Austin A30; A Rural Medical Practitioner Southland/ Gisborne Railways
107. The Mooloo Express; 1914 All Blacks; Sixpence to Spend; Christchurch Nurses on holiday Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
108. Martinborough Summers; Coastal Shipping; My Grandmother’s Brooch; ‘Gertie’ Coromandel-Bay of Plenty / Northland
109. Airships Over Ohakea; A Fifties Childhood in Taradale; Emigrating - the Hard Way! Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
110. Guy Fawkes, 1938; Old-fashioned Remedies; First Flight Under the Auckland Harbour Bridge Hawke’s Bay / Otago
111. New Zealand’s First British War Bride; The Franz Josef Glacier; From Waipu to World War One Auckland / West Coast
112. Memories of Teaching in Kohukohu; Delivering Town Milk; The Last Wool Boat, 1944 Canterbury / Wellington
113. Auckland Holidays at Beachlands; Early Nelson Settlers; Fashion: The Crinoline Cage Southland / Gisborne-East Coast
114.Canterbury Settlers,1873; Steam Traction Engine Restoration; The HMNZHS Maheno Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
115. Redwood’s Flour Mill, Blenheim; Patriotism, Passion and the Foxton Piano Coromandel-Bay of Plenty / Northland
116. Building Rongotai Airport; Keepsakes in the Cigar Box; New Zealand Cinema Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
117. Boarding School Antics; Cycling Napier Hill; Pighunters and Packhorses; The Games We Played Hawke’s Bay / Otago
118. Joining the RNZAF in 1955; Wellington Televeisipn 1960s; Otago’s Platypus Submarine Auckland / West Coast
119. Railway Workshops, Dunedin; Birkdale in the 1940s; Otaki Children’s Home; Those Rompers!; Canterbury / Wellington
120. Zeppelin Down!; Radio Broadcasting; Great Barrier Island; Travelling Dental Nurse; Southland / Gisborne-East Coast
121. A House Divided; The 1898 Dog Tax Rebellion; Otorohanga’s Treasure; The White Lady; Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
122. The ‘Nightmen’; Forgotten Goldfield; Beginnings of French Akaroa; Icecream; Coromandel-Bay of Plenty / Northland
123. Whites Aviation; Emigration - TSS Captain Cook; Te Paki Station; Millerton All BlacksTaranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
124. Pioneer Motorist of Buller; Golfing in the 1800s; Fathers in the Delivery Suite?; Artie Shaw. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
125. Origins of Mother's Day; Whites Bay; Kimble Bent - Pakeha Deserter; Battle of Crete. Auckland / West Coast
126. Otago Gold Fever; State Housing; Motueka Wharf; The controversial Brian Sutton-Smith. Canterbury / Wellington
127. War Blacks; An Enduring Grandmother; An Akaroa Childhood; Collecting Tin Tags. Southland / Eastland
128. Fagan the Bullocky; Dunedin Schoolboy Antics; King Tom and the Lost Tribe. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
129. Board Games; From Hull to Hastings; Wartime Dunedin; Dalmatian Settlement. Coromandel-Bay of Plenty / Northland
130. The Wairau; Forgotten Ships; Scottish Doctor in Cheviot; Thames to the Trenches. Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
131. Early Dunedin; Great Barrier Island; Wahine Storm; Dalmation Gum Diggers; Napier Brickworks. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
132. Invercauld shipwreck; Friendly Road Choirs; Karori Settler; Standard Ten Motorcar. Auckland / West Coast
133. Hudson and Halls - Television; Early motoring; Student Days At Otago University. Wellington / Canterbury
134. Plymouth Company Settlers; Napier Hill; Aucklands Motutapu Island WWII. Southland / Gisborne-East Coast
135. Camping Holidays; The Morris 8; Bygone Christmas Festivities; Flax Industry. Waikato / Wanganui-Manawatu
136. English Birds Introcued to NZ; Buzzy Bee; King Dick; Compulsory Military Training. Coromandel-Bay of Plenty / Northland
137. The Party Line; Railway Construction; The First Wahine; Flying Firsts in NZ. Taranaki / Nelson-Marlborough
138. Nelson Pie Cart; Early Carterton Settlers; Thames Mining; The Dalmatian Community. Hawke’s Bay / Otago
139. The Great Stink; Hopalong Cassidy; Wellington’s Trolley buses; Bridging the Ahaura River. Auckland / West Coast
140. West Coast Gold Rush; Farming a Century Ago; University Capping Stunts; Granny White. Wellington / Canterbury
141. New Zealand in Song; Washday Blues; Drovers and their Dogs; Tinkering with Motorcars. Gisborne / Southland
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INDEX and GENEALOGY LIST
A
A & A.J. Caithness 63
A&G Price 17
Ahiriri 54
Air Force Cross 9
Air Training Corp 27
Air Week Liberty Loan 8
American sailors 38
Andrew Orr &Co. 67
ANDREWS Mr E.H. 6
ANSTIS Bessie 54
Antarctic 39
anti-submarine booms 16
Aoraki 1, 58, 60
ARCHER Harry 61
Archers flour mill 61
Arthur's Pass 58
Arthur's Pass Station 59
Ashburton 67
Ashburton Post Office 67
ATC Cadets 27
Auckland 22
Auckland Chief Post Office 11
Auckland Grammer School 7
AUSTIN Father James 40
aviation 4
B
bathing machines 67
battery powered tram 72
beach (Timaru) 67
beaches (Wellington) 32
BERRYMAN Clarence 63
George 63
Malcolm 63
Roy 63
Bill and Boyd 57
Boiler Point 17
BUCKERIDGE Flight Lt. 7
bullock team 60
BURGESS Mr M.J. 67
BURTE Barbara 25
Donald 25
Burton Bros. 31
C
caning 22
Canterbury 1, 58
Caroline Bay 67
CATE Bill
`57
Chatham Islands 66
children's games 21
Christ Church (Nelson) 36
Christchurch 4, 62
CLARK Jack 41
clothing (1940s) 35
coal range 34
COOK John 17
COPLEY Bill 9
CORBETT Mary 44
corporal punishment 22
CROOKS Mr T 67
D
DALRYMPLE Gunner 43
dancing (New Plymouth) 39
Days Bay 32
DELANEY Don 9
Dept Tourism & Health Resorts 1, 58
Dodge motorcar 35
DREW Val 53
Dudding Bros. 52
DUFF Mr 55
Mrs 55
Dunedin 14, 53
E
EDISON Thomas 72
education 22, 27
F
farming 34
Featherston 24
Featherston Garage Co. Ltd 24
Featherston station 25
Feilding 12
Federal Rubber Co. 63
flax 48
flax cutters 50
flax industry 48
Fletcher Construction 17
Foresters Arms Hotel 26
Fourth Liberty Loan (WWII) 10
FREUND Lt. Jim 41
G
games (marbles) 21
gaslights 26
Gisborne 72
Gisborne Tramways 72
gold salvage 15
GRAY Cecil 8
Charles 8
Flight Lt. Murray 8
Tydvil 8
GREGORY Ian 12
Steve 12
Greytown 26
GROSE Flight Sgt. 9
H
HAIGH Sam 26
HALL Jim 41
HANDBURY Eric 39
Harmonisers 39
Hawke's Bay 54
haymaking 34
Hefford Drapery 67
HENDERSON Edith May 55
Heretaunga College 27
Hermitage 1, 58, 60
Holt's Mill 56
HONNOR Alfred 38
HOPKINS Mr A.W. 67
Horohoro 44
horse riding 55
HRH Prince of Wales 58
hunt (horses) 54
Hutt Valley 27, 57
Hutt Valley High School 27
I
icebreaker 38
ISAACSON Flight Lt. Peter 5
J
jockey 55
Johnsonville 33
JONES George 26
Hon. Fred 20
JULIAN Bernard 54
Bessie 54
Edith 55
Harold 54
Joyce 56
K
Kahikatea 49
Kaihere Mill 50
Karitane Hospital 62
Karitane nurses 62
Kathleen Haire Tango Team 39
Kawerau 54
Kerepehi 50
Kerepehi Flax Milling Co. 52
KIDDEY W.E. 63
KING Colin 39
Kittyhawk 11
KNEWSTUBB Mr J.T 17
L
Lambert Twins 39
Lancaster bomber 4
LAWLESS Matekino 44
leaflet drop 5
leaping competition 55
LEWIS Price 38
Liberty Loan (WWII) 7
Lower Hutt 27
Lower Hutt Library 29
LUCAS Herbert 58
LYONS Huia 44
LYSNAR Mayor W.D. 72
Lyttelton 64
Lyttelton Harbour 65
M
MacAndrew Intermediate 53
MADDEN Mr H.P. 67
Maori cultural group 38
marbles 21
MARTIN John 31
Marton 12
maths lesson 23
McKINNON John 28
McMurdo Sound 42
Merlin engine 4
MILLARD Mr J.N. 27
minefields 15
minesweepers 14, 16
MOREHU Ema 44
Tawhairiri 44
Morgan & Cable 17
Mount Cook 1, 58
Mount Egmont 41
MOYER Bob 41
Mt Cook Village 60
Mt. Cook Motor Co. 60
Municipal Buildings (Nelson) 36
music 57
N
Naenae College 27
Napier 54
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NASH Walter 5
native flax 49
Nelson 36
New Plymouth 12, 38 54
New Zealand Navy 15
NEWALL Lady 6, 20
Sir Cyril 12, 20
newborn babies 62
Ngatea 50
NIELSON Flight Lt. Robert 9
O
Ohinemuri 49
Ohurakura 56
Operation Deep Freeze 38
Otago 14
Otago Harbour Board 20
Otira 58
Otira Tunnel 58
P
P&T Office (Greytown) 26
paddle staemer 64
PAGE Archie 9
Parliament Buildings 31
party lines 35
Patetonga 50
Piako 50
PIZINGER Ensign D. 42
Plimmerton 33
Port Chalmers 14
powhiri 38
preserved eggs 34
Provincial Council 30
Pukekura Park 41
Q
Queenie VI bomber 5
R
railway 12, 25
Railway Hotel (Wellington) 33
railway refreshment room 12
railway station 12
RANSOM Stan 27
recording (music) 57
Rhythmics 39
RICHMOND James 49
RITCHIE Alan 9
RNZAF Wigram 5
Robert Holt & Sons 56
ROBERTS Group Capt 7
ROBERTSON Boyd 57
Robilliard & Son 67
ROEBUCK Neville 42
ROWLES Mr W.H. 24
Royal Australian Air Force 9
RUHI Bondi 45
Jean 45
Mavis 45
Pare 45
Pare (junior) 47
Pat 44
Tawhairiri 44
RULAND Joyce 44
S
school assembly 27
School Certificate 22, 28
school dance 23
school holidays 12
school magazine 29
school prizegiving 53
school sports 27
school subjects 27
school uniform 27
seaside (Wellington) 32
SEED Elsie 61
Grace 61
James 61
James jnr 61
Kate 61
shipbuilding 14
shipping: Aorangi 65
Archilles 15
Aroha 18
Avon 18
Futurist 16
Hautapu 18
HMNZS Philomel 16
HMNZS Waiho 16
Holmwood 15
Inchkeith 16
James Cosgrove 16
Killegray 16
Kiwi 16
Komet 15
Leander 15
Leith 15
Maimai 18
Matai 16
Moa 16
Niagara 15
Orion 15
Pahua 18
Puriri 16
Ragitane 15
Sanda 16
Scarba 16
Tui 16
Turakina 15
USS Staten Island 38
USS YF-1050 18
Viti 16
Waiho 18
Waima 18
Waipu
Wakakura
18
15
Wellington 15
shipping booms 16
shipyards 14
Silverstream 28
SIMPSON Rev. J.A 20
Smiths Dock Co. 16
SMITH Pilot Officer Charles 8
soldiers' ballot 34
South British Insurance 31
Southbrook 61
SPENCER Claude 9
Star Gymnasium 39
steam train 27
STEVENSON Isaac 17
Stevenson & Cook 17
strike (Patetonga) 51
submarines (WWII) 16
SWAN George Henry 31
Sydney Harbour Bridge 11
T
TAIATINI Bondi 44
Taihape 12
Taihape Station 13
Tamaki College 22
Taranaki Softball Assn. 42
Taumarunui 12
Te Hana 34
teaching 22, 27
Thames valley 48
Third Liberty Loan (WWII) 7
THOMAS Flight Lt. 7
Tiger Moth 5
Timaru 67
Torehape Fibre Co. 52
Tourist & Health Resorts 60
TOXWARD Christian 31
train guard 13
train prefects 27
trains 12,25
trams 72
troopship 15
U
Union Steam Ship Co. 20
University Entrance 28
Upper Hutt 27
Upper Hutt Post Office 29
US sailors 38
V
W
Waiteitei Settlement 34
Waikaka 49
Waiouru Military Camp 12
Wairarapa 24
Wairarapa rail oar 28
Waitakaruru Mill 50
Waitangi (Chathams) 66
war land ballot 34
WASSON Raymond 41
weaving 44
Wellington City 30
Wellsford 34
West Shore Hotel 54
Whakarara Station 56
Whakatane 56
Whatu Korowai 44
Wigram 5
WILCOX Brian 35
Errol 35
Mr 35
Mrs 35
WIRIHANA Christina 44
World War One 34
World War Two 4, 14, 66
Worster Bay 32
Wyatts Store 32
X
Y
Z
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
Straight to the Top
Gisborne Mayor W. D. Lysnar was a man who kept abreast of the times. In 1910 the Mayor visited the United
States and met with the great American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison. Obviously impressed with
Edison’s battery powered trams, Tram One and Tram Two (pictured) began operation on the Gisborne Tramways
in April 1913, with an additional two vehicles being introduced later. The service ceased in 1929.
Courtesy: Tairawhiti Museum, Te Whare Taonga O Te Tairawhiti Ref: 451-5
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