New Zealand Memories Issue 155 - Contents
The Unswinging Sixties 4
From Napier to the capital: David Hill in Wellington.
The Dinner Party 8
Gordon Tait recalls socialising in the seventies.
Saved by Hank the Yank in Bari Hospital 10
John Richardson, prisoner of war. Courtesy of Renée Hollis.
More on the Wireless… 16
‘A Switched On Era’ and ‘Children’s Session’ by Christopher Bourn.
‘Radios and Records’ by John McKinnon.
Trains 20
A nostalgic poem from Mike Crean.
From the Regions: Gisborne / Eastland 21
Love is a Marching Girl 28
Alan Turley examines the popularity of marching teams.
Education in the Twenties 30
Anne Moore attended Mati School near Matamata.
The Chief 34
Westport horse finds fame. From Eddie and Graeme Walsh.
Centrefold: Standing the Test of Time 36
Auckland’s Royal Oak Hotel.
Striking Out 38
The Blackball Miners’ Strike of 1908 by Claire Duncan.
All in the Line of Duty 46
Geoff Benge’s uncle was a stoker on the ship ‘Achilles’.
The Sad Tale of an Ancestral Bible. 48
Bruce Isted recounts the story.
Preserving Fruit 63
No shortage of produce for bottling writes Anne Moore.
From the Regions: Southland 50
Harry and Connie Stables 58
Bert Stables remembers farming at Wharehine..
Motoring de Luxe, 1923 64
A daring South Island drive; compiled by Ted Shields.
Can You Help? 67
Mailbox 68
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice: Coffee Break 72
The Gaggia expresso machine impacts Christchurch.
Cover image:
“Donated by the Frost Family” with no other details.
Turn to page 67.
New Zealand Memories Issue 155 - Index
A
advertising 1, 51
aerial tramway 40
alcohol 9
All Blacks 5
anti-german sentiment 48
Arbitration Court 43
Argyll motorcar 64
Athletic Park 5
Auckland 36, 47
Auckland Islands 54
Aunt Daisy 16
aviation 52
B
BAKER Ella 31
Iris 31
Mr 52
Balderstone & Party 45
BANK Jock 33
Mick 33
BANKS Audrey 31
Jack 31
Joan 31
Mick 31
Bari Hospital 10
BARTON Don 31
BASHAM Maud 53
Basin Reserve 5
Battle of River Plate 46
BENSLEY Margaret 52
Bermaline loaf 52
BEVERLY Margaret 31
May 31
Nessie 31
Bible 48
Black Ball Shipping 39
Blackball 38
Blackball Creek Coal Co. Ltd 45
Blackball miners 39
Blackball Miners Strike 39
Blair Athol team 28
BLENNERHASSET Bush 31
Bluff 55
Bluff Post & Telegram 55
boarding house 4
BORDONI Lt. 14
BORGE Victor 6
BOWLER Billy 31
Nelson 31
Bowler Bros. 49
BOYES Lyall 16
BRANKS Russell 53
Brunner 44
Buller River 33
Bullock team 27
BUTLER Mr J.E 36
C
camera (homemade) 61
Canterbury 64
Catlins 1
cattle farming 58
chanting (alphabet) 30
children's radio 17
Christchurch 72
cinemas (Wellington) 6
Cleddau River 52
Coal Mines Act 40
coalmining 40
COCROFT Sgt Major 14
coffee bars (Wellington) 6
COLEMAN Mr 52
Coleman's Mustard 1
Communist Party 45
Conservator of Forests 52
coracle 54
CRABB Archie 31
crystal sets 18
cuisine 8
CULLEY Eliza 48
cycling (Wyndham) 55
D
Danthonia seed 58
DC3 Dakota 52
De havilland bi-plane 52
dining (1970s) 8
dinner party 8
Dinner Party Cookbook 8
Disappointment Island 54
DODDRELL Elsworthy 22
Dominion Hotel (Greymouth) 45
DUDDING Bill 58
Dunedin 57
Dunedin (marching) 28
Dunedin North Post Office 57
Durban Chief 34
E
Edmonds Cookery Book 8, 53
education 30
Education Board 30
ELLERBECK Charles Joseph 22
Harry Syers 22
John Henry 22
Lawrence Anderson 22
Ellerbeck Studio 22
entertainment 6
F
Fails Café 72
family genealogy 48
farming 58, 64
fashion (1960) 7
Federation of Miners 43
FINNIE Allan `56
Carolyn 56
Maureen 56
FITZGERALD Mr H.M 43
food parcels (POW) 15
food preparation 8
FRASER Colonel 11
FRASER Peter 43
FROST Miss 30
fruit preserves 49
FW Niven & Co. 51
G
Gaggia expresso 72
GALT Mr 52
Georgetown 53
GIBBS Nick 60
GILMOUR Robert 51
Gisborne 21
Gisborne Photo News 23
GORDON Ian 7
John 16
gramophone 18
Grand Hotel (Invercargill) 52
Great Strike 1913 44
H
handwriting (school) 31
HICKEY Patrick 43
Homer Tunnel 53
HOPPERS Arthur 31
Ethel 31
Len 31
Olive 31
horseracing 34
Howard Morrison Quartet 6
HULLEN Annah 48
Greta 48
Heinrich 48
I
Indept Political Labour League 43
industrial relations 43
infant photography 22
INGER Ed 60
INNES Mr J 22
Invercargill 50
Invercargill landmarks 50
Invercargill Municipal Baths 52
Italian Campo 57 12
Italy (WWII) 11
J
jam making 49
JOHNSTON Gwen 31
JOHNSTON Jack 31
JOHNSTON Norman 31
Joliffetown 40
K
Kauri 61
KELSO Dorren 16
Kingston Trio 6
Kuaotunu 22
L
Lamphouse Store 18
LECKIE Bill 53
Lochiel team 29
LONG Sam 60
M
Macduffs team 29
MacEWEN Neville 5
Maia School 57
Malone Joe 31
marching girls 28
marching teams 28
marching uniforms 28
MARSH Dorothy 62
Grace 63
Harold 61
MASSEY William 43
Massey's Cossacks' 43
Matamata Junior High 30
MATEER Hugh 12
Mati School 30
MAXWELL Brian 31
MAYBURY Jack 16
McLEOD Florrie 29
Milford Sound 52
milk bar 5
Millars bakery 52
miners 39
Miners' Union 43
Moonlight Gully 40
Morse Code 56
motoring (1920s) 64
MUNZ Peter 7
Murchison Police Station 66
N
NAC 52
Napier 4
NELSON Elsie 53
nuclear submarine 7
NZ Dominion 34
NZ Forest Service 52
NZ Larbour Party 39
NZ Marching & Rec. Assn 28
NZ Marching Assn 28
NZ Socialist Party 43
O
Opera House 5
Opua block 61
Oruawharo River 61
Otago 28
P
Pakarae 25
PAYZE children 31
Peria district 30
Philosophical Expedition 54
phonograph 18
photographer (Ellerbeck) 22
photographer (Marsh) 61
physical education 33
Pines, The 6
Pinkney's Store 53
PLUNKET Governor 21
Plunket Shield cricket 5
POTTS Jean 31
Reece 31
POW conditions 14
POW food parcels 15
preserving (fruit) 49
preserving jars 49
prisoner of war 10
Progressive Readers 31
publicity 1, 51
Q
R
radio 16
radio comedies 16
radio kitsets 18
radio quizzes 16
radio serials 16
rationing coupons (WWII) 69
Read's Quay 21
records 19
Red Cross 15
'Red Feds' 43
RICHARDSON John 10
RNZ Navy 60
ROACHE May 31
Tom 31
ROTHBURY Miss 30
Royal Hotel 67
Royal Oak 36
Royal Oak Hotel (Auckland) 36
Royal Oak Pharmacy 36
rugby 5
Runanga Coal Mine 43
S
Sargettes team 29
SAVAGE Michael 43
scab' workers 45
SCHMIDT Genrel 11
School Journal 32
school monitors 32
SEMPLE Bob 43
SHEGADEEN James 60
Shegadeen's Store 60
SHEPHERD Eliza 48
George 48
Greta (Margaret) 48
shipping Aquilla 11
Dundonald 54
Gradisca 14
Graf Spee 47
Hinemoa 54
HMNZS Achillies 46
HMS Herald 54
HMS Neptune 46
Regina 48
USS Halibut 7
SHONE Phil 16
SINCLAIR Pete 16
SKURR John 25
Skyline Cabaret 6
SMITH Merv 16
Social Democratic Party 44
Southland 1, 50
Southland Times Co. 51
St Georges Primary School 52
STABLES Constance 58
Dulcie 60
Harry 58
Ray 60
Star Boating Club 4
Station 4YZ 53
steamers 51
STEVENS Joan 7
Stewart Island 54
strike (1908) 39
Surah Beach 1
SWAYNE Bertha 31
SWAYNE Jean 31
Sylvan Cove 54
T
Taramakau Bridge 64
Te Wheau 59
teacher training 7
telephone operator 56
Thornbury School 56
Thornbury telephone exchange 56
Thos. Dwyer 18
Timaru 64
Tokomaru Bay 25
toll calls 57
TOOGOOD Selwyn 16
TOWNLEY Major John 21
traction engine 27, 57
trains 20
Treaty of Waitangi 54
TRETHEWEN William 4
tributism 45
Tweedsmuir Intermediate 52
U
Uncle Tom 16
Union Line shipping 50
unions 39
United Labour Party 43
Unity Conference (1912) 43
V
Victoria University 5
von Langsdorf Capt. Hans 47
W
Waihi Miners 43
Waimakariki River 65
Waitaha Valley School 68
WALSH Eddie 34
WATSON Hilda
Mona 31
Watties tinned food 5
WEBB Paddy 43
Weir House Hostel 5
WEISSNER Annah 48
Wellington 4
Wellington (marching team) 29
Wellington Winter Show 28
Wellsford Motors 60
West Coast 38, 64
Westport 34
Whangara 23
Whangara Hotel 23
Wharehine 58
WHITE Mr W.B (Brian) 46
WILLIAMS Edward 54
WILLIAMSON John 53
Williamson Construction 53
WITHEFORD Constance 58
Guy 59
Isobel 59
WOOD Eliza 48
World War Two 10, 46
WRIGHT Annie 33
Norrie 33
Ted 33
Wyndham 55
X
Y
Z
The Dinner Party
Gordon Tait recalls socialising in the seventies..
Striking Out – Blackball Miners’ Strike 1908
The Blackball Miners’ Strike of 1908 by Claire Duncan.
Motoring de Luxe, 1923
A daring South Island drive; compiled by Ted Shields.
A
advertising 1, 51
aerial tramway 40
alcohol 9
All Blacks 5
anti-german sentiment 48
Arbitration Court 43
Argyll motorcar 64
Athletic Park 5
Auckland 36, 47
Auckland Islands 54
Aunt Daisy 16
aviation 52
B
BAKER Ella 31
Iris 31
Mr 52
Balderstone & Party 45
BANK Jock 33
Mick 33
BANKS Audrey 31
Jack 31
Joan 31
Mick 31
Bari Hospital 10
BARTON Don 31
BASHAM Maud 53
Basin Reserve 5
Battle of River Plate 46
BENSLEY Margaret 52
Bermaline loaf 52
BEVERLY Margaret 31
May 31
Nessie 31
Bible 48
Black Ball Shipping 39
Blackball 38
Blackball Creek Coal Co. Ltd 45
Blackball miners 39
Blackball Miners Strike 39
Blair Athol team 28
BLENNERHASSET Bush 31
Bluff 55
Bluff Post & Telegram 55
boarding house 4
BORDONI Lt. 14
BORGE Victor 6
BOWLER Billy 31
Nelson 31
Bowler Bros. 49
BOYES Lyall 16
BRANKS Russell 53
Brunner 44
Buller River 33
Bullock team 27
BUTLER Mr J.E 36
C
camera (homemade) 61
Canterbury 64
Catlins 1
cattle farming 58
chanting (alphabet) 30
children's radio 17
Christchurch 72
cinemas (Wellington) 6
Cleddau River 52
Coal Mines Act 40
coalmining 40
COCROFT Sgt Major 14
coffee bars (Wellington) 6
COLEMAN Mr 52
Coleman's Mustard 1
Communist Party 45
Conservator of Forests 52
coracle 54
CRABB Archie 31
crystal sets 18
cuisine 8
CULLEY Eliza 48
cycling (Wyndham) 55
D
Danthonia seed 58
DC3 Dakota 52
De havilland bi-plane 52
dining (1970s) 8
dinner party 8
Dinner Party Cookbook 8
Disappointment Island 54
DODDRELL Elsworthy 22
Dominion Hotel (Greymouth) 45
DUDDING Bill 58
Dunedin 57
Dunedin (marching) 28
Dunedin North Post Office 57
Durban Chief 34
E
Edmonds Cookery Book 8, 53
education 30
Education Board 30
ELLERBECK Charles Joseph 22
Harry Syers 22
John Henry 22
Lawrence Anderson 22
Ellerbeck Studio 22
entertainment 6
F
Fails Café 72
family genealogy 48
farming 58, 64
fashion (1960) 7
Federation of Miners 43
FINNIE Allan `56
Carolyn 56
Maureen 56
FITZGERALD Mr H.M 43
food parcels (POW) 15
food preparation 8
FRASER Colonel 11
FRASER Peter 43
FROST Miss 30
fruit preserves 49
FW Niven & Co. 51
G
Gaggia expresso 72
GALT Mr 52
Georgetown 53
GIBBS Nick 60
GILMOUR Robert 51
Gisborne 21
Gisborne Photo News 23
GORDON Ian 7
John 16
gramophone 18
Grand Hotel (Invercargill) 52
Great Strike 1913 44
H
handwriting (school) 31
HICKEY Patrick 43
Homer Tunnel 53
HOPPERS Arthur 31
Ethel 31
Len 31
Olive 31
horseracing 34
Howard Morrison Quartet 6
HULLEN Annah 48
Greta 48
Heinrich 48
I
Indept Political Labour League 43
industrial relations 43
infant photography 22
INGER Ed 60
INNES Mr J 22
Invercargill 50
Invercargill landmarks 50
Invercargill Municipal Baths 52
Italian Campo 57 12
Italy (WWII) 11
J
jam making 49
JOHNSTON Gwen 31
JOHNSTON Jack 31
JOHNSTON Norman 31
Joliffetown 40
K
Kauri 61
KELSO Dorren 16
Kingston Trio 6
Kuaotunu 22
L
Lamphouse Store 18
LECKIE Bill 53
Lochiel team 29
LONG Sam 60
M
Macduffs team 29
MacEWEN Neville 5
Maia School 57
Malone Joe 31
marching girls 28
marching teams 28
marching uniforms 28
MARSH Dorothy 62
Grace 63
Harold 61
MASSEY William 43
Massey's Cossacks' 43
Matamata Junior High 30
MATEER Hugh 12
Mati School 30
MAXWELL Brian 31
MAYBURY Jack 16
McLEOD Florrie 29
Milford Sound 52
milk bar 5
Millars bakery 52
miners 39
Miners' Union 43
Moonlight Gully 40
Morse Code 56
motoring (1920s) 64
MUNZ Peter 7
Murchison Police Station 66
N
NAC 52
Napier 4
NELSON Elsie 53
nuclear submarine 7
NZ Dominion 34
NZ Forest Service 52
NZ Larbour Party 39
NZ Marching & Rec. Assn 28
NZ Marching Assn 28
NZ Socialist Party 43
O
Opera House 5
Opua block 61
Oruawharo River 61
Otago 28
P
Pakarae 25
PAYZE children 31
Peria district 30
Philosophical Expedition 54
phonograph 18
photographer (Ellerbeck) 22
photographer (Marsh) 61
physical education 33
Pines, The 6
Pinkney's Store 53
PLUNKET Governor 21
Plunket Shield cricket 5
POTTS Jean 31
Reece 31
POW conditions 14
POW food parcels 15
preserving (fruit) 49
preserving jars 49
prisoner of war 10
Progressive Readers 31
publicity 1, 51
Q
R
radio 16
radio comedies 16
radio kitsets 18
radio quizzes 16
radio serials 16
rationing coupons (WWII) 69
Read's Quay 21
records 19
Red Cross 15
'Red Feds' 43
RICHARDSON John 10
RNZ Navy 60
ROACHE May 31
Tom 31
ROTHBURY Miss 30
Royal Hotel 67
Royal Oak 36
Royal Oak Hotel (Auckland) 36
Royal Oak Pharmacy 36
rugby 5
Runanga Coal Mine 43
S
Sargettes team 29
SAVAGE Michael 43
scab' workers 45
SCHMIDT Genrel 11
School Journal 32
school monitors 32
SEMPLE Bob 43
SHEGADEEN James 60
Shegadeen's Store 60
SHEPHERD Eliza 48
George 48
Greta (Margaret) 48
shipping Aquilla 11
Dundonald 54
Gradisca 14
Graf Spee 47
Hinemoa 54
HMNZS Achillies 46
HMS Herald 54
HMS Neptune 46
Regina 48
USS Halibut 7
SHONE Phil 16
SINCLAIR Pete 16
SKURR John 25
Skyline Cabaret 6
SMITH Merv 16
Social Democratic Party 44
Southland 1, 50
Southland Times Co. 51
St Georges Primary School 52
STABLES Constance 58
Dulcie 60
Harry 58
Ray 60
Star Boating Club 4
Station 4YZ 53
steamers 51
STEVENS Joan 7
Stewart Island 54
strike (1908) 39
Surah Beach 1
SWAYNE Bertha 31
SWAYNE Jean 31
Sylvan Cove 54
T
Taramakau Bridge 64
Te Wheau 59
teacher training 7
telephone operator 56
Thornbury School 56
Thornbury telephone exchange 56
Thos. Dwyer 18
Timaru 64
Tokomaru Bay 25
toll calls 57
TOOGOOD Selwyn 16
TOWNLEY Major John 21
traction engine 27, 57
trains 20
Treaty of Waitangi 54
TRETHEWEN William 4
tributism 45
Tweedsmuir Intermediate 52
U
Uncle Tom 16
Union Line shipping 50
unions 39
United Labour Party 43
Unity Conference (1912) 43
V
Victoria University 5
von Langsdorf Capt. Hans 47
W
Waihi Miners 43
Waimakariki River 65
Waitaha Valley School 68
WALSH Eddie 34
WATSON Hilda
Mona 31
Watties tinned food 5
WEBB Paddy 43
Weir House Hostel 5
WEISSNER Annah 48
Wellington 4
Wellington (marching team) 29
Wellington Winter Show 28
Wellsford Motors 60
West Coast 38, 64
Westport 34
Whangara 23
Whangara Hotel 23
Wharehine 58
WHITE Mr W.B (Brian) 46
WILLIAMS Edward 54
WILLIAMSON John 53
Williamson Construction 53
WITHEFORD Constance 58
Guy 59
Isobel 59
WOOD Eliza 48
World War Two 10, 46
WRIGHT Annie 33
Norrie 33
Ted 33
Wyndham 55
X
Y
Z
The Dinner Party
Gordon Tait recalls socialising in the seventies..
Striking Out – Blackball Miners’ Strike 1908
The Blackball Miners’ Strike of 1908 by Claire Duncan.
Motoring de Luxe, 1923
A daring South Island drive; compiled by Ted Shields.