New Zealand Memories Issue 157 - Contents
Life on the Railways 4
Alan (Mick) Hodder grew up in a railway worker’s cottage in the 1930s.
Scouting Around 8
Off to the Pan-Pacific Jamboree with David Hill.
Ampelio Saves the Pilot 11
A tall but true tale from Zeff Veronese.
There’s No Town Like It! 12
Malcolm Smith taught at Blackball between 1961 and 1963.
Off to Sunday School: Rangiora, 1934 15
Helen Hirst’s introduction to St Mary’s Church.
From the Regions: Coromandel/Bay of Plenty 16
Joining the Workforce 28
Ralph Levinson started work as an insurance clerk in 1964.
Man Powered 34
Joan Leonard helped the war effort in 1944.
Centrefold: When Duty Calls 36
Nelson Troop 4th Contingent photographed on 27 February 1900.
The Great Cartoon ‘Whodunnit’ 38
John Stackhouse solves a World War One puzzle.
The Scows 48
Early New Zealand cargo vessels are examined by John Newsham.
Dartnall Family General Store at Springston 50
Alec Astle follows ninety years of retail ownership.
The Night Soil Collection 56
Wendy Clark discusses a delicate subject.
From the Regions: Northland 58
Reader’s Response 68
Happy 150th Birthday SPCA
Mailbox 69
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice: Snowy Queenstown in 1934 72
Cover image:
Members of the Auckland
Tramping Club outside
the Commercial Hotel,
Dargaville c.1928.
New Zealand Memories Issue 157 - Index
A
ABLE Mr & Mrs 55
Ahipara 59
ALPS Mr & Mrs 55
animal welfare 68
Aratapu 67
Army Cadets 8
Army Camp (Opua) 62
Arthur Skelton's Band 32
artist 13
Auckland 8,28
Auckland Bus Co. 28
Auckland City 29
Auckland Tramping Club 66
Awanui Beach 58
B
babies (district nurse) 60
BANKS Sir Joseph 16
Barwick's Auction Mart 69
Battenburg cake 30
Bay of Islands 62
Bay of Plenty 24
BAYLDON Francis 17
BIGGS Mr & Mrs 55
BIRCHALL Deaconess 15
Blackball 12
Blackball mine 12
Blackball School 12
Boer War 36
Boy Scouts 8
BRICKELL Barry 31
Brown's Mill 31
BRUSEWITZ Henry 36
Burlington Tea Rooms 30
bushman's camp 26
C
CAMPBELL Mr HH. 65
Canterbury 50
cartoonist 38
cartoons 38
CASTLE Len 31
Chandris Line 33
Christchurch 52
CLARKIN Pat 23
coal (Blackball) 13
COBHAM Lord 9
Commercial Hotel (Dargaville) 66
commuting (Auckland) 28
COOK Capt. James 16
cooking (coal range) 7
Cornwall Park 8
Coromandel 17
Coronation Hotel 65
Croations 66
Cruickshank, Miller & Co. 31
Crystal Palace 32
D
dance venues 32
Dargaville 66
DARROCH Davey 48
DARTNALL Arthur 51
Audrey 52
Clement 51
Cyril 52
Edmund 50
Henry 50
Henry Lloyd 51
DARTNALL Henry Martin 52
Howard 50
Lucy 50
Mabel 52
Neville 52
Pauline 52
Percy 51
Sarah 51
William 1,50
Winifred 52
Dartnall & Co. 51
Dartnall & McMeekan 51
Dartnall Bros. 52
department stores (Auckland) 31
Depression 6
District Nurse 60
dog registration (1898) 61
dog tax' 61
Doyleston 50
DUDLEY Archdeacon B.W. 15
DUFTY Todd 20
DUSKY Mrs 15
DYSON William 46
E
EARP George 19
EBAN Mr 56
education 6
effluent 56
EGGINTON Ray 567
emigartion 19
emigrant's clothing 19
employment 28
essential industry (WWII) 34
F
Fairbairne Wright & Co. 52
farming (Thames) 20
fashion (1960s) 32
Flagstaff Hill (Russell) 63
flax milling 20
food delivery 54
FORNASIERO Ampelio 11
Evelina 11
fortified village 27
Fortress Bay of Islands 62
FRIZZEL Mabel 52
G
Galaxie 32
Gallipoli 38
ganger (railway) 6
General Store 1,50
George Roy Ltd 50
George Walker Ltd 31
gold diggers 19
goldfields 18,23
government forces (1898) 61
GREEN Audrey 52
Greenlane 8
groceries 54
Guardian Assurance 28
gumdiggers 66
GUNN Doctor 6
H
HAMILTON Laurie 50
hand tools 30
handy hints 7
Hauraki Plains 20
Hawke's Bay Earthquake 5
HAWKES Wayne 32
HIRST Helen 15
Joan 15
HISCOCKS Eceldoine Frederick 38
HOGAN Edward 56
HOLLAND Nathaniel 16
HOLYOAKE Keith 9
horse teams 23
horses (Boer War) 36
HOSKIN Ernie 53
HOWARD John 50
Hutt Valley High School 69
hymns 15
I
insurance clerk 28
IVORY Winifred 52
J
J. Evans & Sons 59
J.J. McCaskey & Son 34
Jamboree 8
Jamboree logbook 8
JANES Terry 68
JOLLIFFE John 63
K
Karaka Creek 18
kauri gum 59
Kelston Boys' High School 28
KEMP Thomas Samual 62
Kerepehi 20
KING Marcus 63
Kohukohu 64
Kohukohu arch bridge 63
Kororareka 63
KRISKOVIC Petar 66
L
Lake Okataina 27
Leo O'Malley Menswear 32
LEONARD Joan 34
Lerry's Rebels 32
LEVINSON Ralph 28
Lucky Hit gold mine 18
M
machining work 35
Maclean Bros. 65
MAHN Harvey 33
Mahurangi River 49
Man Power regulations 34
Man Power Scheme 34
Mangawhare 67
Mangonui 60
Maraehaka Harbour 26
marching team 35
MARICIC Josip 66
MARSHALL John 53
MARTIN Henry 52
McCRAE Robert 28
McKAY Alexander 60
McMEEKAN Robert 51
McWILLIAM Charles 50
MEIKLEJOHN Septimus 49
merchandise (store) 53
Mercury Bay 17
Milford 32
Milne & Choyce 32
Miner's Right 19
Monaco 32
MONTGOMERY Mr A.W.S. 23
Montgomery's Hotel 23
Mount Maunganui 24
MRZLJAK Josip 66
N
Napier 8
NASH Walter 9
Nelson 36
Nelson Troop 4th Contingent 36
NGAPUA Hone Heke 61
NICCOL George 48
night service truck 56
night soil 56
night soil collection 56
North Shore (Auckland) 56
North Shore Drainage Board 56
Northcote Council 56
Northern Maori 61
Northern Wairoa 67
Northland 58
NORTHWOOD Arthur 59
Northwood Bros. 60
Norton's egg mixture 6
NZ Expditionary Force 38
NZ Medical Corp 52
O
O'NEILL Dorina 11
Mick 11
Ohinemuri 23
Omaha 48
Opua 62
Orange Hall 32
Orete 26
Oriental Ballroom 32
Orion coal range 5
Otago Regiment (WWII) 38
Owharoa Hotel 23
P
pa 17,27
Paeroa 23
PAGE George 53
Pan Pacific Scout Jamboree 9
Parker 45 fountain pen 28
PARKINSON Sydney 16
Passchendaele 42
Patetonga 20
Peter Pan Ballroom 32
PETRINOVIC Josip 66
Piako River 21
PleaZers 32
PRAIN Alexander 38
George Gordon 38
Harry 38
Robert 40
Public Work's Dept 62
Q
Queenstown 72
R
RADCLIFFE Frederick 63
RAE Phyllis 13
Rahotu School 13
railway 5,8,20,28
railway workers 6
railway workers' cottage 5
Rangiora 15
Rawene 61
Ray Columbus 32
retailer (Springston) 50
Richmond 50
riflemen 36
Rotorua 27
RULE Mr W.H. 50
Russell 62
Rustic Camp (Dargaville) 66
S
Salked & Co. 50
SALKELD Walton 50
Salkeld, Howard & Dartnall 50
school leaver 28
SCOTCHER Mr 20
Scouts 8
scows 48
Seddon Richard John 24
Selwyn 50
SERCOMBE Mr W.J. 50
shipping Arrag-na-Pogue 48
Australis 33
Dungarven 48
Eclipse 48
Eunice 48
Hawk 48
HMS Endeavour 16
Jane Gifford 49
Kiatia 48
Korara 48
Lake Erie 49
Makarau 48
Ngahau 48
Owhiti 49
Pandora 64
Pirate 49
Scout 48
Southern Isle 48
Surprise 48
Ted Ashby 49
Vesper 48
Zingara 49
shipping (Northland) 59
SHRIMPTON John 15
SMEELE Peter 31
SMITH Des 68
SMITH Judith 12
Malcolm 12
SMITH Norman 32
SOKOLIC Bogoslav 66
South African War 36
Southbrook 15
SPCA 68
SPCA Tauranga 68
spinning tops 6
Springston 1,50
St Mary's (Southbrook) 15
STANISLAUS Sister 14
STICHBURY Peter 31
storekeeper (Springston) 50
SUBRITZKY Capt. Henry 59
Dorothy 59
Sunday School 15
surface men (railway) 6
Surfside (Milford) 32
T
Tai Tung Restaurant 32
TAIT Peter 8
Takapuna Beach 49
Tauranga 25
Tauranga SPCA 68
Tauranga Town Hall 25
TAYLOR Mr 14
telegraph bureau 54
Thames 18
The La De Das 32
THOMPSON Joseph 50
timber industry 20
TOIA Hone Riiwi 61
TOMKINS Sarah 51
Totara North 49
tourism (Rotorua) 27
Traey of Waitangi 63
train AB engine 6
travelling shop 55
TURNER Bill 23
Turua 20
Turua Mill 20
TYNAN Dorothy 59
John 59
Tynan's gum store 59
U
uniforms (WWII) 35
V
VERONESE Dorina 11
Zeff 11
Victoria Arcade 30
violin maker (Auckland) 32
W
Waihi 24
Waihopo 59
Waikato Battery 23
Waikino 23
Waipoua 66
Waipu 65
Wairoa River 67
Waitakere railway line 28
Wakefield 50
war effort (WWII) 34
Warkworth 49
weighing babies 60
West Auckland 28
Western Front (WWII) 40
Westland 12
Whakarewarewa 27
Whakatane 26
Whangaehu 5
Whanganui 5,34
Wharf Store (Mangonui) 60
Whitcombe & Tombs 31
Wirth's Circus 6
World War One 38,52
World War Two 11,34,62
WRIGHT Henry 18
X
Y
Z
There’s No Town Like It!
Malcolm Smith taught at Blackball between 1961 and 1963.
The Scows
Early New Zealand cargo vessels are examined by John Newsham.
Arched Rock at Mercury Bay - Coromandel
A hand-coloured engraving of a fortified pa on top of an arched rock at Mercury Bay.
A
ABLE Mr & Mrs 55
Ahipara 59
ALPS Mr & Mrs 55
animal welfare 68
Aratapu 67
Army Cadets 8
Army Camp (Opua) 62
Arthur Skelton's Band 32
artist 13
Auckland 8,28
Auckland Bus Co. 28
Auckland City 29
Auckland Tramping Club 66
Awanui Beach 58
B
babies (district nurse) 60
BANKS Sir Joseph 16
Barwick's Auction Mart 69
Battenburg cake 30
Bay of Islands 62
Bay of Plenty 24
BAYLDON Francis 17
BIGGS Mr & Mrs 55
BIRCHALL Deaconess 15
Blackball 12
Blackball mine 12
Blackball School 12
Boer War 36
Boy Scouts 8
BRICKELL Barry 31
Brown's Mill 31
BRUSEWITZ Henry 36
Burlington Tea Rooms 30
bushman's camp 26
C
CAMPBELL Mr HH. 65
Canterbury 50
cartoonist 38
cartoons 38
CASTLE Len 31
Chandris Line 33
Christchurch 52
CLARKIN Pat 23
coal (Blackball) 13
COBHAM Lord 9
Commercial Hotel (Dargaville) 66
commuting (Auckland) 28
COOK Capt. James 16
cooking (coal range) 7
Cornwall Park 8
Coromandel 17
Coronation Hotel 65
Croations 66
Cruickshank, Miller & Co. 31
Crystal Palace 32
D
dance venues 32
Dargaville 66
DARROCH Davey 48
DARTNALL Arthur 51
Audrey 52
Clement 51
Cyril 52
Edmund 50
Henry 50
Henry Lloyd 51
DARTNALL Henry Martin 52
Howard 50
Lucy 50
Mabel 52
Neville 52
Pauline 52
Percy 51
Sarah 51
William 1,50
Winifred 52
Dartnall & Co. 51
Dartnall & McMeekan 51
Dartnall Bros. 52
department stores (Auckland) 31
Depression 6
District Nurse 60
dog registration (1898) 61
dog tax' 61
Doyleston 50
DUDLEY Archdeacon B.W. 15
DUFTY Todd 20
DUSKY Mrs 15
DYSON William 46
E
EARP George 19
EBAN Mr 56
education 6
effluent 56
EGGINTON Ray 567
emigartion 19
emigrant's clothing 19
employment 28
essential industry (WWII) 34
F
Fairbairne Wright & Co. 52
farming (Thames) 20
fashion (1960s) 32
Flagstaff Hill (Russell) 63
flax milling 20
food delivery 54
FORNASIERO Ampelio 11
Evelina 11
fortified village 27
Fortress Bay of Islands 62
FRIZZEL Mabel 52
G
Galaxie 32
Gallipoli 38
ganger (railway) 6
General Store 1,50
George Roy Ltd 50
George Walker Ltd 31
gold diggers 19
goldfields 18,23
government forces (1898) 61
GREEN Audrey 52
Greenlane 8
groceries 54
Guardian Assurance 28
gumdiggers 66
GUNN Doctor 6
H
HAMILTON Laurie 50
hand tools 30
handy hints 7
Hauraki Plains 20
Hawke's Bay Earthquake 5
HAWKES Wayne 32
HIRST Helen 15
Joan 15
HISCOCKS Eceldoine Frederick 38
HOGAN Edward 56
HOLLAND Nathaniel 16
HOLYOAKE Keith 9
horse teams 23
horses (Boer War) 36
HOSKIN Ernie 53
HOWARD John 50
Hutt Valley High School 69
hymns 15
I
insurance clerk 28
IVORY Winifred 52
J
J. Evans & Sons 59
J.J. McCaskey & Son 34
Jamboree 8
Jamboree logbook 8
JANES Terry 68
JOLLIFFE John 63
K
Karaka Creek 18
kauri gum 59
Kelston Boys' High School 28
KEMP Thomas Samual 62
Kerepehi 20
KING Marcus 63
Kohukohu 64
Kohukohu arch bridge 63
Kororareka 63
KRISKOVIC Petar 66
L
Lake Okataina 27
Leo O'Malley Menswear 32
LEONARD Joan 34
Lerry's Rebels 32
LEVINSON Ralph 28
Lucky Hit gold mine 18
M
machining work 35
Maclean Bros. 65
MAHN Harvey 33
Mahurangi River 49
Man Power regulations 34
Man Power Scheme 34
Mangawhare 67
Mangonui 60
Maraehaka Harbour 26
marching team 35
MARICIC Josip 66
MARSHALL John 53
MARTIN Henry 52
McCRAE Robert 28
McKAY Alexander 60
McMEEKAN Robert 51
McWILLIAM Charles 50
MEIKLEJOHN Septimus 49
merchandise (store) 53
Mercury Bay 17
Milford 32
Milne & Choyce 32
Miner's Right 19
Monaco 32
MONTGOMERY Mr A.W.S. 23
Montgomery's Hotel 23
Mount Maunganui 24
MRZLJAK Josip 66
N
Napier 8
NASH Walter 9
Nelson 36
Nelson Troop 4th Contingent 36
NGAPUA Hone Heke 61
NICCOL George 48
night service truck 56
night soil 56
night soil collection 56
North Shore (Auckland) 56
North Shore Drainage Board 56
Northcote Council 56
Northern Maori 61
Northern Wairoa 67
Northland 58
NORTHWOOD Arthur 59
Northwood Bros. 60
Norton's egg mixture 6
NZ Expditionary Force 38
NZ Medical Corp 52
O
O'NEILL Dorina 11
Mick 11
Ohinemuri 23
Omaha 48
Opua 62
Orange Hall 32
Orete 26
Oriental Ballroom 32
Orion coal range 5
Otago Regiment (WWII) 38
Owharoa Hotel 23
P
pa 17,27
Paeroa 23
PAGE George 53
Pan Pacific Scout Jamboree 9
Parker 45 fountain pen 28
PARKINSON Sydney 16
Passchendaele 42
Patetonga 20
Peter Pan Ballroom 32
PETRINOVIC Josip 66
Piako River 21
PleaZers 32
PRAIN Alexander 38
George Gordon 38
Harry 38
Robert 40
Public Work's Dept 62
Q
Queenstown 72
R
RADCLIFFE Frederick 63
RAE Phyllis 13
Rahotu School 13
railway 5,8,20,28
railway workers 6
railway workers' cottage 5
Rangiora 15
Rawene 61
Ray Columbus 32
retailer (Springston) 50
Richmond 50
riflemen 36
Rotorua 27
RULE Mr W.H. 50
Russell 62
Rustic Camp (Dargaville) 66
S
Salked & Co. 50
SALKELD Walton 50
Salkeld, Howard & Dartnall 50
school leaver 28
SCOTCHER Mr 20
Scouts 8
scows 48
Seddon Richard John 24
Selwyn 50
SERCOMBE Mr W.J. 50
shipping Arrag-na-Pogue 48
Australis 33
Dungarven 48
Eclipse 48
Eunice 48
Hawk 48
HMS Endeavour 16
Jane Gifford 49
Kiatia 48
Korara 48
Lake Erie 49
Makarau 48
Ngahau 48
Owhiti 49
Pandora 64
Pirate 49
Scout 48
Southern Isle 48
Surprise 48
Ted Ashby 49
Vesper 48
Zingara 49
shipping (Northland) 59
SHRIMPTON John 15
SMEELE Peter 31
SMITH Des 68
SMITH Judith 12
Malcolm 12
SMITH Norman 32
SOKOLIC Bogoslav 66
South African War 36
Southbrook 15
SPCA 68
SPCA Tauranga 68
spinning tops 6
Springston 1,50
St Mary's (Southbrook) 15
STANISLAUS Sister 14
STICHBURY Peter 31
storekeeper (Springston) 50
SUBRITZKY Capt. Henry 59
Dorothy 59
Sunday School 15
surface men (railway) 6
Surfside (Milford) 32
T
Tai Tung Restaurant 32
TAIT Peter 8
Takapuna Beach 49
Tauranga 25
Tauranga SPCA 68
Tauranga Town Hall 25
TAYLOR Mr 14
telegraph bureau 54
Thames 18
The La De Das 32
THOMPSON Joseph 50
timber industry 20
TOIA Hone Riiwi 61
TOMKINS Sarah 51
Totara North 49
tourism (Rotorua) 27
Traey of Waitangi 63
train AB engine 6
travelling shop 55
TURNER Bill 23
Turua 20
Turua Mill 20
TYNAN Dorothy 59
John 59
Tynan's gum store 59
U
uniforms (WWII) 35
V
VERONESE Dorina 11
Zeff 11
Victoria Arcade 30
violin maker (Auckland) 32
W
Waihi 24
Waihopo 59
Waikato Battery 23
Waikino 23
Waipoua 66
Waipu 65
Wairoa River 67
Waitakere railway line 28
Wakefield 50
war effort (WWII) 34
Warkworth 49
weighing babies 60
West Auckland 28
Western Front (WWII) 40
Westland 12
Whakarewarewa 27
Whakatane 26
Whangaehu 5
Whanganui 5,34
Wharf Store (Mangonui) 60
Whitcombe & Tombs 31
Wirth's Circus 6
World War One 38,52
World War Two 11,34,62
WRIGHT Henry 18
X
Y
Z
There’s No Town Like It!
Malcolm Smith taught at Blackball between 1961 and 1963.
The Scows
Early New Zealand cargo vessels are examined by John Newsham.
Arched Rock at Mercury Bay - Coromandel
A hand-coloured engraving of a fortified pa on top of an arched rock at Mercury Bay.