New Zealand Memories Issue 160

APPETISER
Prisoner-of-War Support
Stalag XVIII-A was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war
camp located to the south of the town of Wolfsberg in Nazi Germany.
A newspaper advertisement dated 27 May 1942 was the catalyst for
the formation of a New Zealand next-of-kin support group.
Turn to page 18 to read the full account.
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection AWNS-19420708-21-5
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EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
Unlike our counterparts in the Northern Hemisphere, New Zealanders cram
Christmas, New Year celebrations and summer holidays into one big event
to make the most of our climate. I hope you managed to balance the three
successfully. If you are a grandparent, you will no doubt be ready to relax and
what better way than to immerse yourself in our 160th issue featuring the return
of familiar authors with a selection of splendid new offerings.
The leading article from first-time contributor Marie Chaillet-Bell illustrates
changing times and gives a realistic glimpse of a family settling in Auckland in
1914 and struggling to make ends meet. Times were hard but fun was still to be
found.
Then there are the stories with which we identify; David Grantham reminds us of
the traditional Sunday roast, Gordon Tait takes us on a twentieth century holiday
and Jeanette Grant will have readers humming a familiar radio jingle.
Christopher Moor has a knack of procuring unique stories for the magazine and his true account of ‘The Bank
House’ is no exception. “Only in New Zealand” I thought to myself as the tale unfolded.
While searching on-line for photographs to illustrate Sue Courtney’s article, describing the formation of a
prisoner-of-war support group by her grandmother in 1941, I came across a small museum in Northern Ireland
with a Red Cross parcel amongst their collection. I contacted Inver Museum and they sent me the photograph,
same day, along with permission to publish. We live in an instant society.
The Rangitira Stowaway photograph on page 67 is from Lyttelton Museum’s fine collection - but it’s a
collection without a home. If you are looking for a 2023 calendar, please support their rebuild.
Warm wishes for a happy and healthy New Year.
Wendy Rhodes,
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Contributors
Albertland & Districts Museum
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ.
Auckland Heritage Collection
Binet, Reverend Vincent
Birchall, Barry
Chambers, Betty
Courtney, Sue
Dalmatian Archive and Museum
Duckett, Alan
Grant, Jeanette
Grantham, David
Hill, David
History House, Greymouth
Kei Muri Mapara, Methodist Church
of New Zealand Archives
Mihaljevich, George
Mitchell, Huia
Moor, Christopher
Newsham, John
Petchell, Phyl
Smith, Jo
Stewart, Graham
Studd, Frances Jill
Tait, Gordon
Te Uaka The Lyttelton Museum
Tiller, Eileen
Walsh, Graeme
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ISSN 1173-4159
February/March 2023
Contents
Our Ancestors Came From France 4
Marie Chaillet-Bell relates the joys and the hardships.
The Bank House 12
A vault in the hills of Naenae; a story from Christopher Moor.
Sunday Dinners 14
David Grantham’s account of a replicated roast meal in Christchurch.
Stalag XVIII.A Relatives Club 18
A WWII prisoner-of-war support group. Written by Sue Courtney.
From the Regions: West Coast 24
Lost in Words 34
A street sign catches David Hill’s eye.
Centrefold: A Life of Toil 36
Clydesdale horses on Wellington’s Cambridge Terrace.
Holidays at Te Moana Reserve 38
Gordon Tait has fond memories of vacations north of Timaru.
The Great New Zealand Exhibitions 40
Barry Birchall records the history of these outstanding events.
A Kiwi Girl’s Scrapbook 46
An illustrative glimpse of life in the 1920s by Francis Jill Studd.
The Copper 48
Not just for doing the laundry!
Tooth Tales 49
Jeanette Grant returns with another amusing story.
A Northland Pilgrimage, 1932 50
Jo Smith recounts a motoring journey by four Methodist ministers.
Rangitira Stowaway in Lyttelton 53
A delightful contribution from Lyttelton Museum.
Election Night in Blenheim 54
“What a night that was”, writes Betty Chambers.
From the Regions: Auckland 56
Mailbox 67
New Zealand Memories Back Issues in Stock 68
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice: Canterbury Stopover 72
Coach team outside the Glacier Hotel, Bealey in 1882.
Cover image:
Much activity on Queen Street Wharf, 8 February 1904.
Auckland Heritage Collection Ref: 1-W1089
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STORY
Our Ancestors Came
From France
Marie Chaillet-Bell
My great-grandfather, Charles Nemours Chaillet, was
born between 1820 and 1830 in the ancient town
of Nemours in Brittany some hundred kilometres
southeast of Paris. Charles became a fencing master
and wed; this first marriage failed. His second marriage was to a
young woman by the name of Louise Foulan and, for a new life, they
emigrated to South Africa where Charles found work as a park manager
at Greenpark, a large sugar plantation just outside Durban in Natal.
The couple was blessed with two children, Gaston (born in 1881) and
Lydie a little later. As an adult, Gaston eventually took over from his
father as manager of the plantation.
During sister Lydie’s wedding, Gaston met a young woman named
Noelie Martial, the groom’s sister. Noelie came from Mauritius, a
French Republic island well out in the Indian Ocean. Her father, a
Frenchman, was a trader / businessman and her mother had died so two
maiden aunts brought up Noelie. A wealthy family, Noelie’s upbringing
included all social niceties of life. Gaston wooed her, she accepted and
they married. They should have been happy but life in Durban was very
different. Because Noelie was of mixed blood (Indian I believe) she was
not accepted by the owners and forced to work in the kitchens. A mixed Gaston, Noelie and Louis Chaillet.
marriage was frowned upon.
When my father, Louis, was born in 1907 he had light brown skin and, consequently, was not accepted at the
plantation school. His sister Madeleine, four years younger and white skinned, had fewer problems. By 1913 the
family had had enough and they decided to leave. Where to? How they chose New Zealand I will never know
but with the two children and all belongings they headed into the unknown. They arrived in Auckland in 1914
not long after the start of the First World War.
The following is an excerpt written by my father describing those early days. It was written before he died in
1983.
‘In late 1915 we were living in Ponsonby when farming beckoned my father as a promising career; apart from
managing a large sugar plantation in South Africa, he had little knowledge of working the land. He bought
a fifty-acre block of land, the boundary of which ran for a short distance alongside Murphys Road in South
Auckland, then circled back to meet Redoubt Road in the vicinity of Mill Road. There was no house on the
property which had only ten acres in grass the rest covered in blackberry, gorse, fern, tea tree and some native
bush bordering a stream.
I remember travelling by train to Papatoetoe where we were met by the farmer from whom we were renting a
cottage, until our own house was built. When we arrived at the cottage, situated almost directly opposite Mill
Road, we were surprised to find no signs of the horse-drawn van bringing our furniture and food supplies which
had left Auckland earlier that day.
Late in the afternoon my father decided to investigate and found the van stuck in the mud at the corner of
Great South Road and Redoubt Road. The van could not be moved until the next day when more horses would
be available. A kindly neighbour gave us milk and bread for our evening meal and breakfast when she discovered
our plight. That night we slept on the floor, with newspapers as bed covers.
Once settled in, my father proceeded to build our house and an outdoor privy similar to those in South Africa,
where a deep hole had its sides boarded in with timber to prevent a cave-in of the sandy soil which provided
natural drainage. The clay sub soil in Redoubt Road required no timbering and thereby hangs a tale.
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STORY
“… our penny-a-week each pocket money was spent in buying
a comic, a bag of conversation lollies or a lucky packet…”
The next task was to bring the property into
cultivation - a backbreaking task achieved with the aid
of a post-hole borer, a slasher and grubber, a couple
of horses, a plough, and a set of discs and harrows.
My mother, who had enjoyed a privileged life, was
now indulged in slashing gorse and blackberry and
grubbing out roots in the soil. This life diminished
her spirit and she became withdrawn with only the
occasional brief glimpse of her happy self.
My parents toiled all day. At night they burned off
the huge piles of cut scrub. Concerned about this
nightly burn-off, one of the neighbours contacted
the police. As our family were from a country which
had fought against Britain during the Boer War, this
neighbour felt we were more aligned to Germany, and
with Redoubt Road on a high rise, visible to both the
Waitemata and Manukau harbours, we were sending
signals to lurking German raiders. The police came,
and they found a young exhausted family trying to
make a life for themselves and went on their way.
In the newly-built house we had a kerosene stove
and tank water was used for cooking and washing.
Candles and kerosene lamps provided us with lighting.
Groceries were bought in bulk from Laidlaw Leeds
which later became the Farmers Trading Company.
Bread and meat was obtained from John Hall’s general
store in Otahuhu and was delivered three times a week
by horse and cart.
On Saturday mornings my sister and I would walk
down to collect mail from a small post office on the
Great South Road, a short distance south of the
Redoubt Road intersection. At this shop our pennya-week
each pocket money was spent on buying a
comic, a bag of conversation lollies or a lucky packet,
which was a gaily coloured packet containing a few
lollies and a small gift.
There was no radio in those days and we had to rely
on ourselves for entertainment. This generally took
the form of a visit to others’ homes, occasionally for a
meal, but more often for a social evening and singsong
accompanied by a piano. Once in a while there was
a concert at the Flat Bush School. I remember one
occasion when the guest artist was a Miss Christina
Ormiston who was regarded by some people as New
Zealand’s ‘queen of song’.
Sometimes when several families organized a picnic
or outing, a four-wheeled farm wagon was the form
of transport. One Boxing Day around 1917, we went
to Weymouth Beach; it took us two hours each way.
So more often we went to Howick where there was
a wharf. I can remember coming home in the early
moonlit evening singing such songs as Little Grey
Home in the West, Keep the Home Fires Burning and
There’s a Long, Long Trail Awinding.
On one occasion we schoolchildren were taken in
this same four-wheeled farm wagon to Onehunga to
visit the Woollen Mills and then to Royal Oak to a
private zoo owned by a Mr Boyd. (I believe that this
zoo provided the nucleus for the present Auckland
Zoo.)
I recall when a school friend and I robbed pears
from a tree growing on Murphy’s property at the back
of the school. Our felony was seen and reported to
the Mr Tidmarsh the Headmaster. He didn’t punish
or reprimand us but instructed us to go and see old
Mrs Murphy after school to inform her what we had
done. She gave us a lecture and told us what naughty
little boys we were and then gave each of us a dose
of castor oil because the pears were green. After that
all was forgotten and forgiven when she gave us a
most scrumptious afternoon tea. I can still taste those
scones and cream cakes!
“The lions at Onehunga Zoo, Auckland which are now being taken on a tour of New Zealand owing to the bylaw
which prevents their retention in their former quarters.”
From the Auckland Weekly News dated 10 June 1921. John Boyd owned the private zoo between 1915-1922.
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STORY
Our nearest neighbours, when we first went to Redoubt Road, were the Diproses and the Wilsons, who later
sold out to the Grants and Hollands. Other nearby neighbours were the Frosts, the McGowans, the Honeybuns,
the Fogartys and the Cooper-Smiths.
After four years of heartbreaking labour my father decided to sell the property, mainly because of a storm that
demolished the henhouse. The homeless hens sought refuge in the privy and, in the pushing and shoving that
followed many fell down the hole and were drowned in the water that had partly filled the bottom. My father
decided there were easier ways of earning a living than farming.
After spending a year in New Lynn, we moved to a ten-acre block of land on the corner of Barrack and Banks
Road in Mount Wellington.
L.C.N. Chaillet (Jerry)
Group portrait of pupils outside the Panmure Public (District) School with their teachers Billy Cahill and Miss Walker
in 1910. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1031-P135
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STORY
Louis Charles Nemours (Jerry) Chaillet: he went to sea as a ship’s boy on the 33-metre topsail schooner Huia (built
in Dargaville in the 1880s). Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 4-04059-PAN
In Mount Wellington, Gaston bought a couple of cows for milk and cream to make butter and a handoperated
separator was purchased for separating the cream from the milk. (A new skill for Noelie to learn – how
to work a butter churn.) A couple of dozen chickens followed for eggs - and the occasional roasted chook - with
a little income coming in from eggs sold from an honesty box at the front gate. A mixed fruit orchard was
planted at the side of the house. This land, semi-landscaped with some gardens featuring masses of popular
flowers and a large vegetable garden, was too small to support a living so he began to think how the farmlet
could be used profitably. Hmm! Maybe selling flowers? Before her marriage Noelie had enjoyed creating floral
arrangements. Maybe something could be made of this!
Panoramic view from Maungarei Mount Wellington: Panmure Basin left, what is now the Ellerslie Panmure
Highway running left to right; Mutukaroa / Hamlins Hill in the middle distance; the Manukau Harbour beyond.
Photographed on 5 September 1921.
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STORY
Sunday Dinners
David Grantham
It all started with my sister Esther asking what to do with the old family dinner set – well, actually, part
dinner set. It looks like it was a 6-piece setting but it is seriously depleted now - for instance only one
of the cups still exists. As well as the normal dinner plates, bread and butter plates, saucers and pudding
plates, there are soup plates, three carving plates, serving bowls, a sugar bowl, milk and cream jugs, a gravy
boat and teapot.
Johnson Bros of England were the manufacturers.We think Mum and Dad were given it for a wedding
present in 1941; we know they brought it out from England with them when they came to New Zealand on
the Rangitata in 1947. (Johnsons used a large number of patterns on their crockery, but even after a long google
search, I couldn’t find the name of ours.)
From the discussion about the dinner set grew the idea of a family meal with my siblings – Sunday lunch just
like we had in our home in Aldwins Road in Christchurch in the ‘50s and ‘60s. We wanted to keep it as realistic
as possible with the same food we ate at the time.
Our house in Lincoln was the obvious choice to have the meal – we still have the original mahogany family
table. Normally as kids, we had it at its smallest, seating eight, with two people sitting on each of the four sides.
(There were six children in the family.) Two extension leaves could extend the seating capacity to twelve. The
origin of the table is unknown but it could have been made in Australia, since ‘NSW’ (New South Wales) is
painted underneath. It was probably second-hand when it was bought in the early 1950s. We had two sets
of six similar looking wooden chairs, but my wife Maree and I offloaded four of the more rickety ones when
Our six-bedroom family home at 156 Aldwins Road, Christchurch in the early 1950s. It was demolished in the mid-
1970s and the land used as a supermarket carpark. Today it is the site of a Ministry of Social Development office.
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STORY
1955 Sunday best from left: Esther (8), Chris (5), Mary (7), Dad (Elmer), Mum (Erica), Eunice (7 months), Dave (2)
and Ruth (13).
we migrated south from Waikanae to Lincoln a year ago. Luckily the family hasn’t cross-examined me about
disposing of some of the family heritage.
I have no memory of using the dinner set when we were young. Our everyday one was a big Arcoroc set,
manufactured in France. We bought it in the early ‘60s and it came in a wooden packing crate. I remember
helping unpack it in our dining room. We had dinner plates, bread and butter plates, pudding plates, mugs,
saucers and teacups. They were solid and long-lasting, but not so good if you dropped one of them on a really
hard surface causing it to shatter into a thousand pieces.
Silverware we still have. Originally a 24-piece setting of forks and spoons, I have half of it. On the handles
there is a griffin from the Grantham family crest. We used bone-handled knives as kids and still use replacement
ones today.The original glasses for water have well gone, but as we always had water with our dinners; my sister
Eunice supplied the glassware and water jug.
Sunday dinner was usually a forequarter of mutton. Mmm – the problem was, where could we get one these
days? I tried three butchers in Christchurch and came up with nothing. Then the first one Eunice tried, she
came up trumps – Fresh Meats, Barrington. The kitchen in the family home had a gas stove, so the forequarter
was put in to roast before we left for church. Redcurrant jelly was always an accompaniment to the roast; for our
replica dinner, we were able to buy a jar from the local New World supermarket. Back in the day, we fluctuated
between Ilam Hardy and Chippewa potatoes, and later Ruas. Eunice found some Chippewas at Raeward Fresh.
Tinned peas are still available in supermarkets; and, obviously, fresh carrots were not a problem to find. Another
dish Mum often made was red cabbage with Granny Smith apples, so that became part of the 2022 menu. We
always had puddings as kids, usually milk puddings – junket, sago, rice, tapioca or custard – accompanied by
fruit. Our mum was Swiss, so for our down-memory-lane dinner we settled on one we called Swiss pudding. It
probably goes by other names, but it was a custard made with the yokes of several eggs; the whites were beaten
later, raspberry jam added and the mixture spread on top of the custard. (And, no, the pudding wasn’t put in
the oven to turn the egg white mixture into a meringue; we ate the egg whites raw.)
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Clydesdale Procession
A procession of Clydesdale horses on Cambridge Terrace, Wellington in the 1920s. The
hotel Selwyn is on the left, the Wellington Council’s works depot can be seen in the
background and the tall chimney, straight ahead, was known as ‘the Destructor’.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. Ref: Ref 1/2-099996-G
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FEATURE
A Northland Pilgrimage, 1932
Four Methodist ministers, a car and a camera
Jo Smith
Illustrations supplied by Kei Muri Mãpara, Methodist Church of New Zealand Archives.
Behind the camera was Reverend Vincent Binet. Driving the car and navigating the route was Reverend
W “Wizard” Avery. Classical languages teacher and head of the Methodist Theological College,
Reverend Dr Harry Ranston, and NZEF chaplain and Pitt Street Methodist Church minister
Reverend William Walker were along for the ride
1822 has always been celebrated as the Wesleyan (Methodist) Church in New Zealand’s anniversary year.
Wesleyan missionary Reverend Samuel Leigh sailed into the Bay of Islands on 22 January 1822. After living
with the Anglican missionaries for 16 months, Leigh set up the first Wesleyan mission station with other
missionaries near Kaeo in 1823.
By 1932 New Zealand was in economic depression and there was serious hardship and starvation for great
numbers of people. “Call it a combined Home-Foreign Missionary deputation-holiday-motor tour of North
Auckland” Binet wrote about the trip. Their main object was to give some spiritual stimulus to the isolated
Methodist parishes in Northland. Probationary ministers and home missionaries would be examined on their
course of study. Historic sites visited as the holiday part of the trip.
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FEATURE
Port Albert
Excerpts from the Reverend Vincent Binet’s diary.
On 2 December 1932 they left Auckland by car, heading north via Port Albert.
5 December 1932 Waitangi
A local lady resident had the temerity and yet, withal, the generosity, to loan her rowing boat to the ministerial
party so that General Hobson’s house, where the Treaty was signed in 1840, might be visited. Fortunately the
present occupant, Mr Gordon Hewen, was available and kindly placed his valuable information at the disposal
of the travellers, who were shown through the old house at Waitangi, and later we stood together in front of the
house, exactly upon the spot where the famous Treaty was signed on February 6, 1840.
Waitangi
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STORY
Election Night in Blenheim
Betty Chambers
On Wednesday 27 November 1935, an election was held to determine the twenty-fifth New Zealand parliament,
resulting in the first Labour Government in New Zealand’s history. Almost ninety-one percent of the 919,798
people registered to vote did so. The incumbent governing coalition, consisting of the United and Reform parties
lead by George William Forbes, was suffering from a sharp decline in popularity. Meanwhile the left-leaning Labour
party (headed by Michael Joseph Savage) was steadily garnering support around the country. Betty Chambers
remembers the excitement and anticipation leading up to the election in her hometown of Blenheim.
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STORY
The nineteen thirty five election. What a night that was! I was fifteen and had only recently become
aware of politics. Every adult who came to our house in the weeks before the election talked parties
and policy. The predictions of dire results if ‘that Labour rabble’ (as they were referred to by some) got
into power was a little frightening. Community conversation was littered with polemical speculation.
My mother was a good listener, but maintained she was apolitical. As president of the Plunket Society she
was totally committed to promoting the Plunket cause, whichever party gained the benches. Dad favoured an
Independent candidate.
Nowadays on election night, most will watch results broadcast on the television. In 1935, in my hometown
of Blenheim, hundreds gathered on the pavement outside the front window of the Marlborough Express while
they watched for the progress bulletins. The people filled the road, that triangular gap where the old Post Office
stood on one corner, the Club Hotel on the other, and met High Street at the junction. The Marlborough Express
was opposite. The atmosphere was expectant, excited and jovial. Similar scenes
were occurring at that same moment in townships all around the country; in
the main centres the public trooped in their thousands to watch the bulletins
unfold. (The photograph at left shows the scene outside the Evening Post office
in Wellington.)
Dad spent the evening of the general election at the office of the Independent
candidate. Mum looked after the Plunket restroom for the convenience of
the country women waiting in town while their husbands joined the crowd
watching for the election results. I spent my time between standing outside the
newspaper office, and rushing back to the Plunket rooms to let Mum know
how things were going.
The results were posted flat against the inside of the window – big hand
printing, blue pencil on white paper. At the appearance of each bulletin a cheer
would go up from whichever section had reason to cheer. I couldn’t see any ‘Red
Feds’, ‘Commies, ‘Labour agitators’ or layabouts. I saw lots of good citizens of
Blenheim. Various members of the gentlemen’s two clubs from nearby strolled
along to watch for a while and then nipped back to report to their cronies, have
a little liquid refreshment and return to witness the landslide victory of the first
Labour Party.
By ten o’clock it was clear that the United / Reform Government had gone
down; although some Labour supporters stayed on to savour the victory others
quietly went off home. Mum and I waited at the Plunket Rooms for Dad.
Eventually he arrived. While we waited for Mum to lock up I asked, “What’s
going to happen now Dad?” “Nothing much”, he replied. “We have a new
government with a lot of new ideas”. n
The first Labour Cabinet, 1935 led by Michael Joseph Savage (seated at right).
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. 1/1-018443-F
Election Night crowds in 1935 outside the Evening Post office in Willis Street,
Wellington. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. Ref: F-32710-1/1. Crown Studio Collections.
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INDEX and GENEALOGY LIST
A
ABERNATHY Howard 67
advertising jingle 49
Ag. Industrial & Mining Expo 40
Air Force Relations book 22
All Saints (Howick) 61
Ambury Dairy 10
ANSCOMBE Edmund 45
Art Deco design 45
Auckland 4, 18, 40, 49
Auckland City 56
Auckland Harbour Bridge 56
Automobile Assn. 56
AVERY Rev. W. 50
B
Baillies Bar (Westport) 32
Bank House" 12
bank security (WWII) 12
bank vault 12
Bay of Islands 50
Bealey 72
BEERE Daniel 62
BETTS Charlie Snr 32
Reuben 32
BINET Rev. Vincent 50
boilers 53
BLACKBURN Alwine 16
Herbert 16
BOYD John 5
BRETT Mary 64
Sir Henry 64
bretzeli 17
Brian Boru Hotel 26
BRODIE John 34
BROWN Joan 46
Mr (Greymouth) 29
Tom 46
Brunner 29
Brunner Mine 29
Brunner Mine explosion 29
Brunnerton 29
Burton Bros. 72
bush locomotive 24
C
CADE Ada 46
Isobel 46
CAHILL Billy 8
cairn (Kaeo) 52
Camellia Granthamiana 16
Canterbury 72
Canterbury Industrial Assn. 41
Canterbury University 34
Cascade Coal Co. 32
CHAILLET Charles Nemours 4
Gatson 4
Gerald 8
Grace 8
Louis 4
Louise 4
Lydie 4
Madeleine 4
Marie 9
Noelle 4
CHAILLET-BELL Marie 10
Charleston 30
Charleston Basin 30
Charleston Hotel 30
Chase bus 61
Cheltenham 7
Christchurch 41
Christchurch Exhibition 41
Christmas holidays 39
CHURTON Lui 18
Louis Paul 18
CLARKE Eric Manley 49
Eric Reay 49
Olive 49
Clonbern Store 61
clothing (children) 8
Club Hotel (Blenheim) 55
Clydesdale horses 36
coach team 72
Constant Bay 30
copper 53
CRAIG Jessie 29
Croatian Cultural &
Benevolent Society 58
Croatian picnic 58
cuisine (1950s) 15
D
Dargaville 7
DAVIDSON May 18
DAVIES Arthur 72
decimal currency 12
dental care 49
dental clinic 49
dental posters 49
dentist 49
DENTON Frank 46
Devonport Steam Ferry Co. 56
DUDDING Mr G.E 65
Duddings Store 65
Dunedin 41
DUNN Andrew Syme 18
Mr M.J 18
E
EASTON Paul 13
egg delivery 29
election night (1935) 54
elections 54
electricity (Reefton) 28
Ellerslie 8
Ellerslie Post Office 8
Ellerslie theatre 11
emigrants (South Africa) 4
entertainment (holiday) 39
EVERTON Mrs H.V 19
Exchange Hotel (Reefton) 28
exhibitions 40
F
Falcon Press 63
false teeth 49
family crest 15
family dinner set 14
family silver 15
farming 4
FERGUSON Sir Charles 45
film production 35
Flat Bush School 5
Fletcher Construction 45
floristry 6
food parcels (POW) 21
FORBES George William 54
G
Geddes Dental Renovations 49
Gieseking's Buildings 26
Glacier Hotel (Bealey) 72
GLEN Ralph 67
gold mining 30
goldminers 30
GORDON Sir Arthur 41
Grafton Bridge 40
Grafton Gully 62
GRANTHAM Alexander 16
Chris 51
David 14
Elmer 15
Erica 15
Esther 15
Eunice 15
Joce 16
Maree 14
Mary 15
Ruth 15
Great Depression 50
Great Exhibition 40
Grey Lynn 63
Grey Lynn Council 63
Grey Lynn Fire Station 63
Grey River 29
Greymouth 26
Greymouth flood (1872) 27
Greymouth Post Office 27
GUNNION Tom 38
GUTHRIE John 34
H
Hagley Park 41
HANNAH Mike 13
hansom cabs 27
HARROW Edwin 64
HARTIGAN Harry 32
Hauraki Corner 64
Henderson 63
Herald Island 58
HEWN Gordon 51
Hokianga harbour 52
holiday hut 39
holidays (1930s) 10
holidays (Canterbury) 38
Home Guard 12
horse coach 28, 72
horses (Clydesdale) 36
Howick 61
hussifs (POW) 23
I
industry promotion 41
international exhibitions 40
inter-island steamer 67
IVICEVICH Marin 59
J
JACKSON Adam 25
Michael 25
Jacksons 25
Jacksons Accommodation House 25
Jacksons station 25
JACOBS John 29
Tom 29
Jaubert & Twopeny 41
jingle (advertising) 49
Judges Bay 62
K
K buses 61
Kaeo 50
Kent's Bakery 10
KEYS Leonard 61
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Kindergarten (Newmarket) 10
Kohukohu 52
KUNZ Charlie 38
L
L.J. Keys Ltd 61
Labour Government 54
Lake Hotel 64
Lake Pupuki 64
laundry 53
laundry blue 53
LEIGH Rev. Samuel 50
Lincoln 14
Love Construction 45
Lower Hutt 12
Lyttelton 67
M
MAHER Tommy 72
Mangere 10
Manson & Co (Greymouth) 26
Maori feast 52
MARCROFT Edwin 67
Elsie 67
Mason & Clayton 41
Matai 29
Maungawhau School 49
McKESSAR Barry 17
Eunice 17
Methodist Church 50
Methodist ministers 50
Methodist Theological College 50
Midland railway line 25
Minnesdale Chapel 67
missionaries 50
MITCHELL Huia 53
MOFFATT Isabelle 67
John 67
motorway 60
Mount Wellington 6
Murchison Earthquake 32
MURPHY Mrs 5
N
Naenae 12
National Bank Reefton 28
New Plymouth 34
New Plymouth Boy's High 34
Newmarket Kindergarten 10
next-of-kin parcels 22
night soil men 11
NOLA Peter 59
NORTH Joe 13
Lily 13
Pauline 13
Northland 50
Northland pilgrimage 50
NZ & South Seas Expo 42
NZ Centennial Expo 45
NZ International Exhibition 41
O
O'MALLEY James 72
OGDEN David 13
Onehunga Zoo 4
ORMISTON Christina 5
Otahuhu 4
Otira 25
Our Star of The Sea 61
outdoor copper 53
P
Pakihi 30
Panmure 11
Panmure School 7
Papakura Military Camp 49
Papatoetoe 4
Parnell 62
Payne's Cordial Factory 32
Penrose 60
PETCHELL Gib 65
Phyll 65
picnic 28, 58
Pine Island 58
Pitt St Methodist Church 50
Plunket Society 55
PLUNKETT Lord 44
pocket money 11
POCKNEY Mr 10
polling 67
Ponsonby 4
POPOVICH George 59
POW (Germany) 18
POW Camp (Wolfsburg) 21
POW Letters 22
POW parcels 22
Princes Theatre (Reefton) 28
prisoner-of-war 18
Q
Queen Elizabeth II 63
R
R.H. Betts Buller Motor Garage 32
RADICH Tony 59
railway ganger 25
RANSON Rev. Dr. Harry 50
RED Cross (POW) 23
Reefton 28
Reefton Power Station 28
Remuera 61
Reserve Bank 12
Robert Burns Hotel 30
Royal Oak 5
RYAN Grace 7
S
S. William's Draper 28
Saturday Matinee 11
SAVAGE Michael Joseph 54
scrapbook 46
Second NZEF 18
SEDDON Richard John 42
Seddon Memorial Tech 7
Self Help 22
SHEEDY Mr D 26
shipping Huia 6
Omrah 49
Rangatira 67
Rapaki 67
Wahine 67
SHRIVES Mr S 27
SIMMONS Esther 17
Paul 17
Southern Motorway 60
souvenir (exhibitions) 45
souvenir catalogues 45
St Georges Rowing Club 62
Stalag XVIII Relatives Club 18
Stalag XVIII.A 18
steam train 64
steamer (Cook Strait) 67
stowaway 67
STUBBS Olive Beryl 49
Teresa 49
William 49
suburban buses 61
Sunday lunches 14
Sunday roast 15
SUTHERLAND Ben 22
Swiss pudding 15
T
Takapuna 64
Tamaki River 11
TAUROA Rev. Matarae 52
Te Moana 38
Te Moana reserve 38
Tetlow's Four Square 63
THEIM Ben 24
TIDMARSH Mr 5
Timaru 38
TOMICH Ante 59
tourism 72
tram (Remuera) 61
transport (Auckland) 56
Treaty House 51
Tunnel Claim (Charleston) 30
TWIDLE Audrey 53
U
United/Reform Party 55
V
VELA Filip 59
Victoria League Club 19
VINAC Jakor 59
W
W.P. Cochran & Co. 64
Waima 52
Waitangi 51
Waitemata Harbour 57
WALKER Miss 8
Rev. William 50
WALTON Capt. J.W 20
WARD Sir Joseph 27
WARREN John 52
wedding 67
Wellington 12, 36, 45, 55, 67
Wellington Works' Depot 36
Wesleyan Church 50
Wesleyan mission station 50
West Coast 24
Westland 24
Westport 32
Weymouth Beach 5
Whanganui 46
Wharehine 67
Wharehine School 67
Whites Aviation 60
WIDMER Ailwine 16
WILLOUGHBY Mr 38
WILTON Gwen 12
Ron 12
WOODS Ruth 17
WORDSWORTH Jillian 13
work's depot (Wellington) 36
World War Two 12, 18
wringer (clothes) 53
X
Y
Yellow Bus Company 10
Z
zoo 5
Each issue of New Zealand Memories contains an index and, in keeping
with genealogy ideals, all surnames of individuals are 71listed in capitals.

EDITOR’S CHOICE
Canterbury Stopover
An 1882 Burton Bros. photograph of the Glacier Hotel in Bealey, an accommodation hotel and coach stopping
place on the Christchurch to Hokitika Road. Mr James O’Malley, the new proprietor, stands behind the two
horses leading the coach team at left. The driver in the tall hat holding the reins is Arthur Davies. Tommy Maher
is the driver of the coach at right. Further additions to the original Glacier Hotel were added as tourist traffic
increased and eventually it became a two-storeyed building. As shown in the second newspaper clipping, James
O’Malley was still proprietor in 1905.
Reference: The Weekly Press, 5 April 1923, p. 29
New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 501, 17 November
1882, Page 27 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
West Coast Times, Issue 13668, 30 October
1905, Page 1 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
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