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New Zealand Memories Issue 102
New Zealand Memories Issue 102 - Contents
Kuma Matija of New Lynn 4
A heartwarming story from George Mihaljevich.
Dannevirke ‘The Dane’s Work’ 10
Phillipa Nilson traces the district’s early history.
A Lonely Telegraph Line 18
A journey to Central Otago with David Eddy.
My First Job in the Post Office 22
Don Campbell worked in Otaki during the war years.
From the Regions: Taranaki 26
Flying Saucers and Fairy Rings 34
The day the flying saucer landed at Ngatea. Written by Ken Clover.
Centrefold: Like Father, Like Son 36
English railway workers erect a camp at Raurimu.
Connections 38
A moving account of Southland friendship from Mags Meechang.
Read All About It 44
Clive Skilton examines a 1883 handbook with some curious advice.
Charlie Dawes, Kohokohu Photographer 48
A profile by Keith Giles. Illustrations from Sir George Grey Special Collections.
The Tram’s Terminus 52
Desmond Gate relates childhood memories of Auckland trams.
An Arduous Voyage 54
An account of an 1842 passage to New Zealand. By John Newsham.
From the Regions: Nelson / Marlborough 56
Mailbox 66
New to Print 68
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice 72
A Mean Machine.
Coverimage:ThefirstmotorcaratKohukohu.Photographed
by Charlie Dawes outside the Kohukohu Hotel in 1907.
Courtesy: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries 1142-D427.
New Zealand Memories Issue 102 - Index
A
advice to settlers 45
AH MING 43
ALLARDICE James 15
ALLEN James 50
ALLEN Jessie 49
ALLEN William McIlreen 49
almanac 45
ANDERSON Francis Victor 72
ANDERSON Neils 12
army training 60
ASHLEY Robert 63
Auckland 4
Auckland City 52
Auckland Transport Board 52
B
BARRETT Tom 41
BARTULOVICH Jessie 8
Nick 8
Bayly Park 30
BELICH Ivy 8
Nick 8
Sir James 8
BERENTZEN Anton 15
BERNTSEN Anne 16
Anton 16
Bodil 16
Carl Johan 16
George Peter 16
Johanne 16
Niels Johan 16
betting 24
BINETTO Jack 42
BLACKMORE Mr. C. 35
BLAIR Major Darcy 60
BLAKELY Mr. 21
Blenheim 64
Boon & Co. 27
Boulder Bank lighthouse 57
Breakwater 27
BRERETON Cyprian Bridge 59
BRETT Henry 45
Brooklands Park 28
BRYERS Jessie 49
bus timetable 57
C
cabbages 7
CAMPBELL Don 23
Mr. J. 30
Mr. T. 30
Canterbury Regiment 59
canvas/timber tents 36
Central Otago 18
Christianity 5
Christmas (1872) 12
Chunack Bair 42
circus pony 32
coal wagon 38
COLE Mr. 30
colonial hospitals 28
Colonial Surgeon 28
colonists 45
CONNELLY Titi 48
cooking (1880s) 47
CORCORAN Den 43
Coromandel 5
Coyle Park 53
CRAIG Selwyn 72
CRANSHAW Mr. 30
cricket 30
D
Dalmatia 5
Danevirk 12
Danevirk map 13
Danish 10
Dannevirke 10
DAVIDSON Noeline 42
DAWES Abner Earle 49
Ada Ann 49
Ann 49
Jessie 49
Rachel Peet 49
Samual 49
Charles Peet 48
Christina May 49
Dog Tax 49
DROWER Mr. 11
Drower’s Store 11
Dun Mountain Bus 57
DUNCAN David 26
E
Edge Mine 38
Egmont Hotel 30
ELLIOT Mr. H. 30
emigration 64
enlistment (WWII) 42
‘Evening Star’ newspaper 45
EWING Robert 63
F
Fairfield House (Nelson) 58
Farmer’s Department Store 8
farming 41
farming advice 45
FAVEL Mary Ann 39
FELTHAM Miss 24
fig tres 5
fishing 65
floods (Blenheim) 64
flying saucer 34
food (Dalmatian) 7
food parcels (WW II) 8
FRIBERG Bror Eric 11
G
Gallipoli 42
Galloway 18
GATE Desmond 53
GIBBARD Mayor E. 10
GIBBONS Master 65
GIBSON Mr. 21
GLASGOW Mr. 30
Glen Eden 5
Glinks Gully 35
GMC Trucks 60
GODBAZ Martin 60
GODFREY Connie 63
GORDON-JONES William 49
Gothic Revival building 29
government subsidy 45
grapevines 6
GREY Sir George 28
Greymouth 32
GUDGEON Mr. 30
GUNN James 41
GWD Garage 41
H
HALCOMBE Mr. 11
HAMILTON Mr. 16
handbook (settlers) 45
HASSALL Mr. 30
Hawera 30
Hawera Jubilee 31
HAWKE Lord 30
HEALEY Mr. C.M.S. 63
HEBELY Eric 63
Henui 28
HILL Henry 16
Hokianga 49
Home Guard (Nelson) 59
horses (performing) 32
hospital (New Plymouth) 28
house designs 47
housing (pit-sawn timber) 16
HURSTHOUSE Charles 55
Charles Wilson 55
Helen 55
John 55
I
immigration 10, 45
immigration barracks (Napier) 11
influenza epidemic 40
J
JACK Nelli 43
JENNINGS Boyce 63
Mart 63
K
Karaka 51
Kauaeranga Valley 5
KELLIE Bill 68
KIRKPATRICK Matthew 42
KNELL Barbara 63
Kohukohu 48
Kohukohu Hotel 51
KUM Nikola 8
Roko 5
KUMA Matija 4
L
LEWIS Hester 63
Rene 63
LIGHTBAND Mr. 30
Lion 27
Lord Hawke’s Eleven 30
Lutheran Church 15
Lyell 56
M
MacMURRAY Charles 20
MacSHANE Dr. Alexander 28
Mahuta 35
Main Trunk Railway 11
Main Trunk Railway (survey) 55
Mangatera 11
MANNING Capt. 60
Maori Pharmacopoeia 45
Marlborough 62
MARSICH Mr. 8
Mrs. 8
Matamau 11
McCARTHY Helen 41
Mr. 30
Pte. D.G. 39
McCarthy’s Flat 42
McPhees Rock 18
medical advice 45
medical care (1848) 28
medicine 45
MEE CHANG Wong 39
MEECHANG Bella 39
Eric 39
Ethel 39
Henrietta 39
Ian 39
Margaret 39
Mary Anne 39
Maurice 39
Minni 39
Noble 39
Noeline 39
Prudence 39
Richard 39
Roly 39
Wattie 39
Middlemarch 18
Mikotahi 27
military outpost 28
motorman (trams) 53
Moturoa 27
MOUND Gilford 23
Muriwai 72
N
Napier 11
Navy League 63
NEILSEN Bodil 15
NEILSON family 11
Nelson 56
Nelson College 59
Nelson College for Girls’ 58
Nelson Museum 59
New Lynn 4
New Lynn Hotel 5
New Plymouth 55
New Plymouth 27
New Plymouth Racecourse 32
New Plymouth Tramways 27
NEWSHAM Thomas 55
Newton King wharf 27
Ngamotu Beach 32
Ngatea 34
Ngatimoti 59
Norsewood 11
NORTH Hilda 63
Norwegian settlers 11
O
O’BRIEN Mr. 63
O’GRADY Mr. J. 63
O’NEIL Bert 34
Ohakea Air Force 23
orchard 5
ORCHISON Mr. 18
ORMOND Mr. J.D. 12
ostrich farming 45
Otaki Post Office 22
OTENE Family 51
Oue 49
P
PAINE Bertha 64
Charles 64
Edward 64
Francis 64
Frank 64
Selwyn 64
Parihaka 26
Patea 31
Patea and Ohawe Surf
Life Saving Club 31
Patea Baths 31
Patea Beach 31
Patearoa 21
Patearoa Hall 21
PATERSON Mr. 21
PAYLY Mr. G.T. 30
peace celebrations 62
PEET Ann 49
PERHAM Mr. 30
petrol coupons (WW II) 22
petrol rationing 22
PHILIPPS Mr. F.R. 51
Philipps’ Boot Store 51
photographer (Dawes) 49
Picton 62
Picton Brass Band 63
Picton School 63
Point Chevalier 52
Ponies 32
Port Nelson 57
Port Nicholson 55
portrait photography 49
Post and Telegraph Dept. 18
Post Office (Otaki) 22
Post Office Lines Training School 20
POWELL Lt. V.L. 63
PRATT Mr. 30
procession (Picton) 63
prohibition 5
Q
R
rabbiting 42
RABONE Samuel 64
Raggedy Range 18
railway camp 36
railway workers 11
rationing (WW II) 8, 22
Raurimu 36
RIES Hans Jnr. 16
Marie 16
Pastor H.M. 16
road building 12
ROBERTSON Frank 30
Fred 30
Rock and Pillar Range 18
ROSE Em 64
John 64
Rough Ride 18
Ruahine Ranges 11
rugby 42
rugby ball 42
S
Saddleback 27
SALE Jessie 8
Mr. 8
Mrs. 8
saloon tram 27
Scandinavian settlements 11
School Cadets 63
scientific investigation 35
SCOTT Donald 63
SEARLE Mr. J.S. 35
Seddon Memorial Tech 53
settlement (Danish) 10
settlers 55
Seventy Mile Bush 11
sewing class 58
SHEARER Bill 41
Tom 41
Shepherd’s Creek 41
shipping Ballarat 11, 16
Boyne 49
Hovding 11
Iris 68
Partizanka 9
Radnick 9
SS Aorangi 64
Thomas Sparks 54
VSS Waihi 64
Simpson’s donkey 42
Slaughterhouse Creek 41
Southland (Waikaka) 38
sport (1930s) 65
sport’s car 72
SPRATT Mick 43
Stratford 32
Sugar Loaves 27
survey (Danevirk) 13
SUTHERLAND Mrs. Donald 69
Swedish settlers 11
T
T.A.B. (Otaki) 24
Tahoraite 11
TALBOYS Brian 35
tapu 28
Taranaki 26
Taranaki land wars 28
Taranaki militia 28
Tautane 16
Te Kuiti 35
Te Puhi Maori Group 51
TE WAKE Ben 49
TE WHITI 11, 26
Te Whiti’s Monument 26
telegram boy 22
telegram messenger 22
telegrams 22
Telegraph Hotel 24
telephone operator 23
THATCHER Frederick 29
The Gables (New Plymouth) 28
The Gables Colonial Hospital 28
THOMAS Jack 65
Thyra’s Vold 10
TIBBUTT Alfred 36
toll lines 18
Tophouse 60
Tophouse aerodrome 60
touring car (1910s) 26
TOWNSHEND John 63
tram conductor 53
trams 27, 52
trolley buses 52
U
UFO sightings 35
Umawera 49
Union Jack 62
Union Steamship Co. 57
Urenui 26
V
Valdemar’s Wall 11
Valentine tank 60
Vikings 11
VINSEN Albert Victor 32
Martha 32
Robert 32
VISKOVICH Miss 8
W
Waihi Strike 69
Waikaka 38
Waikaka Hotel 42
Waikaka School 41
Waikawa Pa 63
Waikumete Cemetery 5
Waipukurau 11
Wairau Plain 64
war telegram 22
WARNER Pelham 30
Weber 16
WEBER Charles 13
Wellington Harbour 55
WESTON Mr. 30
Westport 59
Whakaruatapu 11
WHITTLE Mr. 30
WILLS Mr. 35
WILSON Dr. Peter 28
wine making 6
Woodville 11
WW I 59
WW II 8, 32, 60
X
Y
Yugoslavia 8
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advice to settlers 45
AH MING 43
ALLARDICE James 15
ALLEN James 50
ALLEN Jessie 49
ALLEN William McIlreen 49
almanac 45
ANDERSON Francis Victor 72
ANDERSON Neils 12
army training 60
ASHLEY Robert 63
Auckland 4
Auckland City 52
Auckland Transport Board 52
B
BARRETT Tom 41
BARTULOVICH Jessie 8
Nick 8
Bayly Park 30
BELICH Ivy 8
Nick 8
Sir James 8
BERENTZEN Anton 15
BERNTSEN Anne 16
Anton 16
Bodil 16
Carl Johan 16
George Peter 16
Johanne 16
Niels Johan 16
betting 24
BINETTO Jack 42
BLACKMORE Mr. C. 35
BLAIR Major Darcy 60
BLAKELY Mr. 21
Blenheim 64
Boon & Co. 27
Boulder Bank lighthouse 57
Breakwater 27
BRERETON Cyprian Bridge 59
BRETT Henry 45
Brooklands Park 28
BRYERS Jessie 49
bus timetable 57
C
cabbages 7
CAMPBELL Don 23
Mr. J. 30
Mr. T. 30
Canterbury Regiment 59
canvas/timber tents 36
Central Otago 18
Christianity 5
Christmas (1872) 12
Chunack Bair 42
circus pony 32
coal wagon 38
COLE Mr. 30
colonial hospitals 28
Colonial Surgeon 28
colonists 45
CONNELLY Titi 48
cooking (1880s) 47
CORCORAN Den 43
Coromandel 5
Coyle Park 53
CRAIG Selwyn 72
CRANSHAW Mr. 30
cricket 30
D
Dalmatia 5
Danevirk 12
Danevirk map 13
Danish 10
Dannevirke 10
DAVIDSON Noeline 42
DAWES Abner Earle 49
Ada Ann 49
Ann 49
Jessie 49
Rachel Peet 49
Samual 49
Charles Peet 48
Christina May 49
Dog Tax 49
DROWER Mr. 11
Drower’s Store 11
Dun Mountain Bus 57
DUNCAN David 26
E
Edge Mine 38
Egmont Hotel 30
ELLIOT Mr. H. 30
emigration 64
enlistment (WWII) 42
‘Evening Star’ newspaper 45
EWING Robert 63
F
Fairfield House (Nelson) 58
Farmer’s Department Store 8
farming 41
farming advice 45
FAVEL Mary Ann 39
FELTHAM Miss 24
fig tres 5
fishing 65
floods (Blenheim) 64
flying saucer 34
food (Dalmatian) 7
food parcels (WW II) 8
FRIBERG Bror Eric 11
G
Gallipoli 42
Galloway 18
GATE Desmond 53
GIBBARD Mayor E. 10
GIBBONS Master 65
GIBSON Mr. 21
GLASGOW Mr. 30
Glen Eden 5
Glinks Gully 35
GMC Trucks 60
GODBAZ Martin 60
GODFREY Connie 63
GORDON-JONES William 49
Gothic Revival building 29
government subsidy 45
grapevines 6
GREY Sir George 28
Greymouth 32
GUDGEON Mr. 30
GUNN James 41
GWD Garage 41
H
HALCOMBE Mr. 11
HAMILTON Mr. 16
handbook (settlers) 45
HASSALL Mr. 30
Hawera 30
Hawera Jubilee 31
HAWKE Lord 30
HEALEY Mr. C.M.S. 63
HEBELY Eric 63
Henui 28
HILL Henry 16
Hokianga 49
Home Guard (Nelson) 59
horses (performing) 32
hospital (New Plymouth) 28
house designs 47
housing (pit-sawn timber) 16
HURSTHOUSE Charles 55
Charles Wilson 55
Helen 55
John 55
I
immigration 10, 45
immigration barracks (Napier) 11
influenza epidemic 40
J
JACK Nelli 43
JENNINGS Boyce 63
Mart 63
K
Karaka 51
Kauaeranga Valley 5
KELLIE Bill 68
KIRKPATRICK Matthew 42
KNELL Barbara 63
Kohukohu 48
Kohukohu Hotel 51
KUM Nikola 8
Roko 5
KUMA Matija 4
L
LEWIS Hester 63
Rene 63
LIGHTBAND Mr. 30
Lion 27
Lord Hawke’s Eleven 30
Lutheran Church 15
Lyell 56
M
MacMURRAY Charles 20
MacSHANE Dr. Alexander 28
Mahuta 35
Main Trunk Railway 11
Main Trunk Railway (survey) 55
Mangatera 11
MANNING Capt. 60
Maori Pharmacopoeia 45
Marlborough 62
MARSICH Mr. 8
Mrs. 8
Matamau 11
McCARTHY Helen 41
Mr. 30
Pte. D.G. 39
McCarthy’s Flat 42
McPhees Rock 18
medical advice 45
medical care (1848) 28
medicine 45
MEE CHANG Wong 39
MEECHANG Bella 39
Eric 39
Ethel 39
Henrietta 39
Ian 39
Margaret 39
Mary Anne 39
Maurice 39
Minni 39
Noble 39
Noeline 39
Prudence 39
Richard 39
Roly 39
Wattie 39
Middlemarch 18
Mikotahi 27
military outpost 28
motorman (trams) 53
Moturoa 27
MOUND Gilford 23
Muriwai 72
N
Napier 11
Navy League 63
NEILSEN Bodil 15
NEILSON family 11
Nelson 56
Nelson College 59
Nelson College for Girls’ 58
Nelson Museum 59
New Lynn 4
New Lynn Hotel 5
New Plymouth 55
New Plymouth 27
New Plymouth Racecourse 32
New Plymouth Tramways 27
NEWSHAM Thomas 55
Newton King wharf 27
Ngamotu Beach 32
Ngatea 34
Ngatimoti 59
Norsewood 11
NORTH Hilda 63
Norwegian settlers 11
O
O’BRIEN Mr. 63
O’GRADY Mr. J. 63
O’NEIL Bert 34
Ohakea Air Force 23
orchard 5
ORCHISON Mr. 18
ORMOND Mr. J.D. 12
ostrich farming 45
Otaki Post Office 22
OTENE Family 51
Oue 49
P
PAINE Bertha 64
Charles 64
Edward 64
Francis 64
Frank 64
Selwyn 64
Parihaka 26
Patea 31
Patea and Ohawe Surf
Life Saving Club 31
Patea Baths 31
Patea Beach 31
Patearoa 21
Patearoa Hall 21
PATERSON Mr. 21
PAYLY Mr. G.T. 30
peace celebrations 62
PEET Ann 49
PERHAM Mr. 30
petrol coupons (WW II) 22
petrol rationing 22
PHILIPPS Mr. F.R. 51
Philipps’ Boot Store 51
photographer (Dawes) 49
Picton 62
Picton Brass Band 63
Picton School 63
Point Chevalier 52
Ponies 32
Port Nelson 57
Port Nicholson 55
portrait photography 49
Post and Telegraph Dept. 18
Post Office (Otaki) 22
Post Office Lines Training School 20
POWELL Lt. V.L. 63
PRATT Mr. 30
procession (Picton) 63
prohibition 5
Q
R
rabbiting 42
RABONE Samuel 64
Raggedy Range 18
railway camp 36
railway workers 11
rationing (WW II) 8, 22
Raurimu 36
RIES Hans Jnr. 16
Marie 16
Pastor H.M. 16
road building 12
ROBERTSON Frank 30
Fred 30
Rock and Pillar Range 18
ROSE Em 64
John 64
Rough Ride 18
Ruahine Ranges 11
rugby 42
rugby ball 42
S
Saddleback 27
SALE Jessie 8
Mr. 8
Mrs. 8
saloon tram 27
Scandinavian settlements 11
School Cadets 63
scientific investigation 35
SCOTT Donald 63
SEARLE Mr. J.S. 35
Seddon Memorial Tech 53
settlement (Danish) 10
settlers 55
Seventy Mile Bush 11
sewing class 58
SHEARER Bill 41
Tom 41
Shepherd’s Creek 41
shipping Ballarat 11, 16
Boyne 49
Hovding 11
Iris 68
Partizanka 9
Radnick 9
SS Aorangi 64
Thomas Sparks 54
VSS Waihi 64
Simpson’s donkey 42
Slaughterhouse Creek 41
Southland (Waikaka) 38
sport (1930s) 65
sport’s car 72
SPRATT Mick 43
Stratford 32
Sugar Loaves 27
survey (Danevirk) 13
SUTHERLAND Mrs. Donald 69
Swedish settlers 11
T
T.A.B. (Otaki) 24
Tahoraite 11
TALBOYS Brian 35
tapu 28
Taranaki 26
Taranaki land wars 28
Taranaki militia 28
Tautane 16
Te Kuiti 35
Te Puhi Maori Group 51
TE WAKE Ben 49
TE WHITI 11, 26
Te Whiti’s Monument 26
telegram boy 22
telegram messenger 22
telegrams 22
Telegraph Hotel 24
telephone operator 23
THATCHER Frederick 29
The Gables (New Plymouth) 28
The Gables Colonial Hospital 28
THOMAS Jack 65
Thyra’s Vold 10
TIBBUTT Alfred 36
toll lines 18
Tophouse 60
Tophouse aerodrome 60
touring car (1910s) 26
TOWNSHEND John 63
tram conductor 53
trams 27, 52
trolley buses 52
U
UFO sightings 35
Umawera 49
Union Jack 62
Union Steamship Co. 57
Urenui 26
V
Valdemar’s Wall 11
Valentine tank 60
Vikings 11
VINSEN Albert Victor 32
Martha 32
Robert 32
VISKOVICH Miss 8
W
Waihi Strike 69
Waikaka 38
Waikaka Hotel 42
Waikaka School 41
Waikawa Pa 63
Waikumete Cemetery 5
Waipukurau 11
Wairau Plain 64
war telegram 22
WARNER Pelham 30
Weber 16
WEBER Charles 13
Wellington Harbour 55
WESTON Mr. 30
Westport 59
Whakaruatapu 11
WHITTLE Mr. 30
WILLS Mr. 35
WILSON Dr. Peter 28
wine making 6
Woodville 11
WW I 59
WW II 8, 32, 60
X
Y
Yugoslavia 8
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