New Zealand Memories Issue 124 - Contents
A Winding Pathway to Love and War 4
John Stackhouse records his grandfather’s story.
Fathers in the Delivery Suite? Not in the 1950s 12
Maternity procedures were very different then. Joyce Powell explains.
Top of the Vox 16
Matt Elliott unearths an Auckland ventriloquist.
Recollections of a Bank Manager 18
Brian Mudge remembers his first job in Rotorua.
Olveston 24
Dunedin’s historic homestead.
From the Regions: Hawke’s Bay 26
Origins 34
Claire Duncan explores the origins of common sayings.
Centrefold: Day-trippers to Waiwera 36
Artie Shaw and the Naval Band in New Zealand 38
Roger Strong takes us back to the days when swing was king.
Turning Point 42
A poignant story from R.B. Wynn-Williams.
Uncle Reuben: Pioneer Motorist of the Buller 44
An account of early settlement by Graeme Walsh.
Youth’s Hope Goes Crashing 50
Written by Ethel Webber, and contributed by grandson Roger Miller.
From the Regions: Otago 54
Mailbox 67
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice: : The Scrum Machine 72
A timeless gem from noted cartoonist Nevile Lodge.

Cover image:
John (Jack) Brinsdon stands proudly beside his Dennis
petrol wagon c.1923.
Courtesy of Garth Brinsdon.

New Zealand Memories Issue 124 - Index

A
A. Pringle & Co. 26
Adelphi 16
Agency Officer (bank) 22
AGLORA Joe 41
Ahuriri 30
ALPERS Mr O.T.J. 6
Amberley 4
American soldiers 12
ANDERSON Mr T. 32
antibiotics 14
ARSHAWSKY Arthur 39
Arthur Cleave & Co 16
Artie Shaw Navy Band 39
ASHCROFT Mrs 28
William Hugh 28
William James 28
Auckland 12, 16, 39
Auckland Hospital Board 12
Auckland Town Hall 39
B
babies 12
Bains Gorge 64
Balmacewan 56
bank manager 19
Bank of New South Wales (Rotorua)
19
banking 19
beekeeping 28
BENJAMIN Abraham 24
David 24
benzine (petrol) 54
Benzine Coy. 54
betting (races) 20
BETTS Charles 44
Charlie 48
Elizabeth 44
Florence Maud 46
Henry 44
Reginald 48
Rueben 44
Val 48
Betts Motors Ltd 47
Betts’ Garage 48
Big Tree motor oil 48
Big Tree petrol 54
birth control 14
Black Cat Goldmine 63
brickmaker 30
BRINSDON John 54
BROWN Private Tot 9
Brown & Fairburn 48
Brunsfield Medal 57
Buller Motor Garage 47
Buller River 44
Bullock Creek 65
Burnham Military Camp 48
C
Cadillac motorcar         46
Cambridge 23
CAMPBELL Miss 26
Canterbury 4
Canterbury Infantry Regiment 7
cartoonist 72
Caversham 57
Central Otago 61
Charleston 45
Chinese (gold) 62
Christchurch 48
Christmas Parade 22
clarinetist 39
COLENSO Mr R. 32
COLLINS James C. 32
contraception 14
Cornwall Park 12
CRANE Aaron 45
Harriett 45
D
dancehalls 39
Dannevirke 26
David Benjamin & Co. 24
De Pelichet McLeod’s woolstore 30
Dennis petrol wagon 54
DOWNIE Florence Maud 46
Downie’s Hotel 46
dressmaking 12
Duke & Duchess of York 29
Dunedin 24, 55
Dunedin Golf Club 56
E
E. Hayes & Sons 60
Empress Theatre 16
engineering (Hayes) 60
entertainment (music) 1, 39
F
FALCONER Marion 58
fencing 61
FINDLAY Sir John 6
flannel pilchers 14
flourmill 61
FOGARTY Michael 56
Ford Prefect 21
Fuller’s Opera House 16
G
Gallagher Bros. 45
Gallipoli 8
garage (Westport) 47
general practitioner (Lyttelton) 42
GEORGE Sir Ernest 24
GLASSFORD Mrs 50
Glenhope 46
gold mining 62
golfing 56
Gore 58
GOUDIE Mr 7
GRANTLY-READ Dr D. 14
H
HARRIS Mr 32
Tasso 41
Hart’s Public Warehouse 16
Hastings 29
Hastings Post Office 29
Hastings Railway Station 29
Havelock North 28
Hawera 50
Hawke’s Bay 26
HAY James Augustus Lewis 28
HAYES Ernest 61
Hannah 61
Hayes Engineering 60
Herald Office 32
HILL Bob 30
Molly 30
historic house 24
honey (Rakanui) 28
HOOD David 57
house plans 24
HUTCHINSON William 58
I
Ida Valley 61
Ida Valley flour mill 61
ILES Miss 6
Inangahua Landing 45
J
jazz 1, 39
judges’ runner 20
K
KILKENNY Jack 47
kiln (brick) 30
knitting 14
L
LA POLLA Ralph 41
Lands Office (Napier) 32
layette pattern 13
LE FAVE Dick 41
LEWTON Fred 6
LODGE Necille Sidney 72
Lyttelton 42
M
MACKENZIE David 43
Manawatu 72
Manawatu rugby 72
MARSHALL Molly 30
Rev. 32
Matamata 23
Maternity care 12
Maternity Certificate 14
maternity clothes 12
maternity layette 12
MATHISON Mr S. 59
Mr T. 59
McKays Crossing 1, 39
MEECHANG Maurie 62
Terry 63
Tony 63
MICHAELIS Marie 24
midwifery care 14
Mornington 57
Mornington Hotel 56
Mount Brown 4
MUDGE Brian 18
Murchison 46
Murchison Court House 47

Murchison Earthquake 47
MURISON Mr W.D. 57
musterers’ hut 65
N
Napier 28
Napier Hill 30
Napier Hospital 30
Napier kiln 30
nappies 14
National Woman’s Hospital 12
New Plymouth 52
NEWMAN Billie 46
Newman Brothers 46
Newman coaches 46
nursing (maternity) 14
NZ Plunket Society 13
O
Oamaru 54
Old Man Range 62
Olverston 24
Onepango 4
Otago Golf Club 56
Oturehua 60
P
Packers Point 45
Paekakariki 40
PARSONS Bill 6
Passchendaele 9, 43
PATERSON Mr E. 59
PATTERSON Warren 58
PEARSON Hannah 61
PETRIE Annie 8
PETRIE Clarice 8
PETRIE Edward 8
PETRIE Fank 7
PETRIE Janie 7
PETRIE Jessie 8
PETRIE Lily 8
pigeon shooting 6
Plaza Theatre 16
Plunket 13
politics 30
Pomahaka 62
Pomahaka River 62
popular music 1, 39
Port Officer of Health 42
Prince Edward Theatre 16
Q
Quail Island 42
Queen’s Jubilee 27
R
rabbit control 61
race meetings 20
Rakanui honey 28
Rangiora 6
recordings (glass acetate) 40
records (78rpm) 40
Reefton 44
REID Mr J.C. 57
Robands Service Station 22
Rongotai 40
Rongotai Exhibition Dance Hall 40
ROSE David 40
Ross & Gledinning 28
Rothman’s Tobacco Factory 30
Rotokohu 45
Rotorua 19
Rotorua Christmas Parade 22
Rotorua Racing Club 20
Rough Ridge 60
Roxburgh 62
royal tour cavalcade 47
rugby 72
rugby scrum 72
S
scrum machine 72
SEALY Mr 32
service cars 46
SEWELL Joseph 47
sewing 12
sewing machine 12
SHAND Professor 57
SHAW Artiel 39
sheep farming 4
Shell petrol 54
Shine Gorge 65
Shipping HMS Nimrod 42
HMS Torch 42
Maheno 10
Otago 45
Renowa 29
RMS Tahiti 8
Ruapehu 28
SS Rimutuka 51
Taranaki 24
Terra Nova 42
SMITH Angus 26
SMITH Mr R. 59
SMITH Sydney Charles 26
Social Security Act 1938 14
SOUTER Mr R.A. 57
Southern Cemetary (Dunedin) 55
St Andrews Cross 57
STACE Frank 6
STACKHOUSE Archie 5
STACKHOUSE Elsie 5
Ernest 4
James 4
Janie 5
Leonard 4
Mary 5
swing (dance) 39
T
T.B. Shelters 28
Taradale Town Hall 31
Taranaki 52
Taupo 21
Taupo Banking Agency 22
taxi service 47
Te Puke Station 67
Telfer Medal 57
Teviot 64
The Olde Cup (golf) 57
THEOMIN David 24
THEOMIN Dorothy 24
Edward 24
Marie 24
THOMSON John 57
TIFFEN Mr 32
TODD Andrew 58
TOUGH Dave 41
TOWNLEY Frederick 55
Frederick junior 55
Sara 55
TREMAINE Harriett 45
Trentham 28
Trentham Army Camp 7
tuberculosis 28
U
UPHAM Capt. Charles 43
Dr Charles Hazlitt 42
Ethel         42
Reginald 43
US 39th general Hospital 12
US Marines         1, 39
US Navy         39
V
VALENTINE Charles 16
ventriloquist 16
ventriloquist dummy 16
W
waggoner 45
Waikaia 64
Waipawa 27
Waipawa Parade 27
Waiwera 36
Waiwera Beach 36
Waiwera Hot Springs Hotel 36
Waiwera wharf 36
Wandle Valley 10
WEBBER Ethel 50
Wellington 7, 39
Wellington Girls’ College 8
WEST-HILL Percy 67
Westport 45
Whangamomona 52
Whites Aviation 67
WILSON Mr A.W. 26
Windmill Works 61
windmills 60
wing dams 64
wirestrainer 60
WOOD Mr 7
wool-classing 30
World War One 4
World War Two 39, 48
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