New Zealand Memories Issue 77 - Contents
‘Cartomania’ 4
Wayne King explores this Victorian hobby
Motoring Memories 8
Olive Clarke and her baby Austin
Mum 10
A poem by Keith Austen
‘Waimangaroa 1938’ 12
An tale with a twist from Joe Kelly
The Plight of the Desperate 14
Set in Auckland, this 1880s story is told by Rae Atkins
Kiwi Stands Tall 18
An item from the British ‘Soldier Magazine’
Three Kids and a Cow 19
A nostalgic snap contributed by John Mortimer
Three Men and Two Gold Watches 20
Alan Turley unravels a sporting surprise
From the Regions : Southland 22
Hands of Time 33
By Margaret Joyce Beumelburg
Wit and Satire 34
Cartooning in New Zealand by Hugh Hickman (Part I)
Who’s A’feared 42
The account of the Blandfield Spitfire by Max Pudney
The Big Screen 44
New Zealand cinema in the 1940s and ’50s
TANZA : 60th Anniversary of Blue Smoke 48
Kevin Bowen reminds us of a kiwi music icon
A Bridge over the Waingongoro 52
Frederick Basham’s claim to fame is recorded by Arthur Fryer
The Apple Pie Bake Off 55
Brian Goodwin tells a sweet tale
The Apple Song 57
Joyce Kelly recalls the popular jingle
From the Regions : East Coast / Gisborne 58
Log Riders of the North 64
Brian Eastwood explores the hard life of the rafters
Mailbox 66
In Print 68
Index and Genealogy List 70
Editor’s Choice 72
Lounging with farmyard friends
Cover image:
New Plymouth Tramways War Period
Conductresses 1939/45.
From left: I Lepper; A.R.L. Young;
M.V. Lacey; L. Warburton; N. Collingwood;
E.S. Walker; B.L. Byers.
Courtesy: Taranaki Aviation Transport and
Technology Inc.
New Zealand Memories Issue 77 - Index
A
Addington Railway Workshops 25
ALEXANDER, James 66
All Blacks Tour (1905) 38
ANDERSON, Harold 65
Apple Pie Bake Off 55
apple surplus 55
Ararua 64
Ashburton 66
ATTRIDGE, George 50
Auckland City (1880) 17
Auckland Supreme Court 17
Aunt Daisy 52
aviation 42
B
BARRINGTON, Clarice 60
Ernie 60
BASHAM, Fred 52
Maud 52
BEGG, Mr. A.C. 28
BELC, Marian 42
BELL, Barbara 60
BELL, Fred 64
BIGGAR, Mr. G. 28
Bill Wolfgramm & His Hawaiians 49
Blandford Spitfire 42
BLENKARNE, Percy 18
BLOMFIELD, Lofty 21
BLOMFIELD, William 36
‘Blue Smoke’ 49
BRANNIGAN, Dorothy 51
BRASSEY, Mr. 17
bridges 53
brown trout 28
BROWN, James 1, 34
BUCKLAND, Mr. W.A. 53
Burton Bros. 5
BYERS, B.L. 3
C
Cameron family 23
CARNELL, Samuel 5
caroling 66
carte-de-visite 5
CARTER, Jimmy 50
Cartomania 4
cartoonists 1, 34
cartoons (films) 47
cartoons (newspapers) 1, 34
cartoons (political) 38
Christchurch Bicycle Club 66
Christchurch City 44
CHRISTIE, Jack 51
cinema 44
Coastal Artillery Co-operation Unit 43
COLLINGWOOD, N. 3
Colombus Radio shops 50
competition (recipe) 55
Conductresses 3
CONYERS, Jack 42
COOPER, John 72
COULAM, Job 23
council engineer (Hawera) 53
COXHEAD, Mr. F.A. 32
cycling 66
D
DALLAS, Stan 50
dances 51
Dargaville 8, 65
DAVIS, Mr. W. 6
Delage car 66
Devonport ferry 9
DISDERI, Andre 5
DOMETT, Alfred 38
DOWNS, Elva 8
Duke and Duchess of York 24
E
East Coast 58
Eltham 54
Eltham County Council 54
Empire Air Training Scheme 43
engineering (bridge) 53
entertainment 42, 49
F
farm animals 19
farming 25
featurettes 47
FEGEN, Kathleen Sophia 15
Violet Kate 15
ferry steamer 24
film stars 44
films 44
FINEY, George 40
Fiordland 32
fire (bush clearing) 58
fishing 28
Fowler engine 30
FOX, William 6
franchise (female) 36
G
gardening 72
gaslight 22
Gisborne 58
Gisborne Station 62
GLENDINNING, Russell 25
Glenfalloch Station 23
gold (Thames) 15
gold mining 23
gold rush 25
goldmining town (Nokomai) 23
GOODLAND, Mr. 53
gramophone 49
Granity 66
Great Northern Railway 24
GRENELL, John 51
H
H.M.V. 51
HADFIELD, Darcy 20
HALL, Gerry 50
HARGREAVES, Frederick Ashby 58
HARRIE, Nancy 51
Hawera 53
Hawera County Council 53
heavy engineering 25
HILL, Mr. J.C. 40
Hillside Railway Workshops 25
HISCOCKS, Fred 38
housework 10
HUNTER, Ashley 34, 38
I
illustrators 35
insurance fraud 17
Inter-Allied Games 20
Invercargill 22
J
JACKSON, Mr. H.H. 63
JENKINSON, Mr. S.H. 63
JESPERSON, Reilly 8
Jimmy Carter’s Hawaiian Band 49
jingle (radio) 57
John Fowler Traction Engine 30
K
Kaihu Express 8
Kaikoura 46
KARAITIANA, Ruru 49
kauri logs 64
KEDDELL, Gerald 21
KEENE, Buster 51
KELLY, Joe 12
John 12
Kingston 25
Kingston Flyer 24
Kiwiana music 48
L
LACEY, M.V. 3
Lake Wakatipu 24, 28
LEPPER, I. 3
lighthouse keeper 32
LINDSAY, Jack 21
LLOYD, Trevor 36
locomotives 62
log rafting 64
log rider 64
logging 64
LOW, David 40
Lyall Bay School 56
M
MACANDREW, James 28
Makairo 7
MALLOCH, David Lindsay 43
Manganui 65
Maori Battalion 49
market garden 60
MARSH, Dennis 51
MASON, Dan 20
Matakohe 64
Matawhero 60
McMINN, Pat 51
MCNEELEY, John 50
McPHEE, John 16
Katie 16
Violet 15
Moa Creek 23
Mohaka 50
MORGAN, Reg 56
mothers 10
motorcar (Austin Saloon) 8
music sheets 10
N
N.Z. Centennial Hall 57
N.Z. Govt. Railway Workshops 62
National Apple Pie Competition 55
New Plymouth 3
New Plymouth Tramways 3
New Zealand Army 18
New Zealand music 48
New Zealand musicians 51
Newman 72
Nokomai 23
Nokomai goldfields 23
Northern Wairoa River 64
Northland 64
O
Ohakea 19
Olympic Games (1920) 21
Omaru Creek 64
Otago Acclimatisation Soc. 28
P
PATERSON Brothers 28
PERRIN, Ivan 56
PETAIN, Phillipe 20
Phoenix motorcar 52
photography (carte-de-visite) 4
picture theatres 44
PIETRAZAK, Henryk 43
pilot (WWII) 42
PIPER, John 7
POPPELWELL, Mr. D. 28
Port Chalmers 28
‘Post-Mortem’ portraits 5
Poverty Bay 60
POYNER, Reg 64
Preservation Inlet 32
Pukatora Station 58
PULMAN, Elizabeth 7
George 7
Puysegur Point 32
Q
Queenstown 24
R
salmon 28
satirists 35
sawmill 65
SCATZ 38
SEDDON, Richard John 34
sheep dipping 59
sheep farming 59
shipping Aquitania 28
Freetrader 24
TSS Earnshaw 49
S
SHORE, Dinah 51
SIMMONS, Luke 51
SKALSKI, Stanislow 43
SKINNER, Mr. 53
Southland 22
Southland Acclimatisation Soc. 28
Southland County Council 30
Southland Farmers Implement
& Engineering Co. Ltd 30
spitfires 42
steam train 24
steamroller 22,30
STUBBS, Olive 8
suffrage 36
SUNDBERG, Joel 65
SYRON, Mr. 13
T
TANZA 49
TANZA label 51
Tariki 53
TE RAU, Kereopa 5
Thames Volunteers 15
The Apple Song 56
The Bulford Kiwi 18
The Knaves 51
The Rivers Sisters 51
The Tumbleweeds 51
THOMPSON, Mr. D. 4
toffee apples 61
Tokaora 53
Tokaora Bridge 54
topiary 72
traction engine 30
tramways 3
transport (Austin Saloon) 8
trout 28
U
V
vegetable garden 19
Victoriana 4
VOLKNER, Rev. Carl 5
W
WARDELL, Francis Joseph 15
wages (rafters) 64
Waikato Wars 15
Waikouaiti 43
Waimangaroa 12
Waimangaroa River 12
Waingongoro 52
Waingongoro Bridge 53
Wairarapa 72
Waitati Stream 28
WALKER, Daphne 49
WALKER, E.S. 3
WALLACE, Kath 8
WALSHE, Ginger 12
WARBURTON, L. 3
WARD, Justice 17
WARD, Sir Joseph 38
Water of the Leith 28
Whataupoko 59
WHITE, Brian 60
Muriel 60
WILLIAMS, Pixie 49
WILSON, Cole 51
WILSON, Harry 21
WILTON, Jimmy 21
WOLFGRAMM, Bill 49
Women’s Suffrage 36
WWI 18, 21
WWII 3, 40, 42, 44, 49
WWII cartoons 40
X
Y YOUNG, A.R.L. 3
Z
A
Addington Railway Workshops 25
ALEXANDER, James 66
All Blacks Tour (1905) 38
ANDERSON, Harold 65
Apple Pie Bake Off 55
apple surplus 55
Ararua 64
Ashburton 66
ATTRIDGE, George 50
Auckland City (1880) 17
Auckland Supreme Court 17
Aunt Daisy 52
aviation 42
B
BARRINGTON, Clarice 60
Ernie 60
BASHAM, Fred 52
Maud 52
BEGG, Mr. A.C. 28
BELC, Marian 42
BELL, Barbara 60
BELL, Fred 64
BIGGAR, Mr. G. 28
Bill Wolfgramm & His Hawaiians 49
Blandford Spitfire 42
BLENKARNE, Percy 18
BLOMFIELD, Lofty 21
BLOMFIELD, William 36
‘Blue Smoke’ 49
BRANNIGAN, Dorothy 51
BRASSEY, Mr. 17
bridges 53
brown trout 28
BROWN, James 1, 34
BUCKLAND, Mr. W.A. 53
Burton Bros. 5
BYERS, B.L. 3
C
Cameron family 23
CARNELL, Samuel 5
caroling 66
carte-de-visite 5
CARTER, Jimmy 50
Cartomania 4
cartoonists 1, 34
cartoons (films) 47
cartoons (newspapers) 1, 34
cartoons (political) 38
Christchurch Bicycle Club 66
Christchurch City 44
CHRISTIE, Jack 51
cinema 44
Coastal Artillery Co-operation Unit 43
COLLINGWOOD, N. 3
Colombus Radio shops 50
competition (recipe) 55
Conductresses 3
CONYERS, Jack 42
COOPER, John 72
COULAM, Job 23
council engineer (Hawera) 53
COXHEAD, Mr. F.A. 32
cycling 66
D
DALLAS, Stan 50
dances 51
Dargaville 8, 65
DAVIS, Mr. W. 6
Delage car 66
Devonport ferry 9
DISDERI, Andre 5
DOMETT, Alfred 38
DOWNS, Elva 8
Duke and Duchess of York 24
E
East Coast 58
Eltham 54
Eltham County Council 54
Empire Air Training Scheme 43
engineering (bridge) 53
entertainment 42, 49
F
farm animals 19
farming 25
featurettes 47
FEGEN, Kathleen Sophia 15
Violet Kate 15
ferry steamer 24
film stars 44
films 44
FINEY, George 40
Fiordland 32
fire (bush clearing) 58
fishing 28
Fowler engine 30
FOX, William 6
franchise (female) 36
G
gardening 72
gaslight 22
Gisborne 58
Gisborne Station 62
GLENDINNING, Russell 25
Glenfalloch Station 23
gold (Thames) 15
gold mining 23
gold rush 25
goldmining town (Nokomai) 23
GOODLAND, Mr. 53
gramophone 49
Granity 66
Great Northern Railway 24
GRENELL, John 51
H
H.M.V. 51
HADFIELD, Darcy 20
HALL, Gerry 50
HARGREAVES, Frederick Ashby 58
HARRIE, Nancy 51
Hawera 53
Hawera County Council 53
heavy engineering 25
HILL, Mr. J.C. 40
Hillside Railway Workshops 25
HISCOCKS, Fred 38
housework 10
HUNTER, Ashley 34, 38
I
illustrators 35
insurance fraud 17
Inter-Allied Games 20
Invercargill 22
J
JACKSON, Mr. H.H. 63
JENKINSON, Mr. S.H. 63
JESPERSON, Reilly 8
Jimmy Carter’s Hawaiian Band 49
jingle (radio) 57
John Fowler Traction Engine 30
K
Kaihu Express 8
Kaikoura 46
KARAITIANA, Ruru 49
kauri logs 64
KEDDELL, Gerald 21
KEENE, Buster 51
KELLY, Joe 12
John 12
Kingston 25
Kingston Flyer 24
Kiwiana music 48
L
LACEY, M.V. 3
Lake Wakatipu 24, 28
LEPPER, I. 3
lighthouse keeper 32
LINDSAY, Jack 21
LLOYD, Trevor 36
locomotives 62
log rafting 64
log rider 64
logging 64
LOW, David 40
Lyall Bay School 56
M
MACANDREW, James 28
Makairo 7
MALLOCH, David Lindsay 43
Manganui 65
Maori Battalion 49
market garden 60
MARSH, Dennis 51
MASON, Dan 20
Matakohe 64
Matawhero 60
McMINN, Pat 51
MCNEELEY, John 50
McPHEE, John 16
Katie 16
Violet 15
Moa Creek 23
Mohaka 50
MORGAN, Reg 56
mothers 10
motorcar (Austin Saloon) 8
music sheets 10
N
N.Z. Centennial Hall 57
N.Z. Govt. Railway Workshops 62
National Apple Pie Competition 55
New Plymouth 3
New Plymouth Tramways 3
New Zealand Army 18
New Zealand music 48
New Zealand musicians 51
Newman 72
Nokomai 23
Nokomai goldfields 23
Northern Wairoa River 64
Northland 64
O
Ohakea 19
Olympic Games (1920) 21
Omaru Creek 64
Otago Acclimatisation Soc. 28
P
PATERSON Brothers 28
PERRIN, Ivan 56
PETAIN, Phillipe 20
Phoenix motorcar 52
photography (carte-de-visite) 4
picture theatres 44
PIETRAZAK, Henryk 43
pilot (WWII) 42
PIPER, John 7
POPPELWELL, Mr. D. 28
Port Chalmers 28
‘Post-Mortem’ portraits 5
Poverty Bay 60
POYNER, Reg 64
Preservation Inlet 32
Pukatora Station 58
PULMAN, Elizabeth 7
George 7
Puysegur Point 32
Q
Queenstown 24
R
salmon 28
satirists 35
sawmill 65
SCATZ 38
SEDDON, Richard John 34
sheep dipping 59
sheep farming 59
shipping Aquitania 28
Freetrader 24
TSS Earnshaw 49
S
SHORE, Dinah 51
SIMMONS, Luke 51
SKALSKI, Stanislow 43
SKINNER, Mr. 53
Southland 22
Southland Acclimatisation Soc. 28
Southland County Council 30
Southland Farmers Implement
& Engineering Co. Ltd 30
spitfires 42
steam train 24
steamroller 22,30
STUBBS, Olive 8
suffrage 36
SUNDBERG, Joel 65
SYRON, Mr. 13
T
TANZA 49
TANZA label 51
Tariki 53
TE RAU, Kereopa 5
Thames Volunteers 15
The Apple Song 56
The Bulford Kiwi 18
The Knaves 51
The Rivers Sisters 51
The Tumbleweeds 51
THOMPSON, Mr. D. 4
toffee apples 61
Tokaora 53
Tokaora Bridge 54
topiary 72
traction engine 30
tramways 3
transport (Austin Saloon) 8
trout 28
U
V
vegetable garden 19
Victoriana 4
VOLKNER, Rev. Carl 5
W
WARDELL, Francis Joseph 15
wages (rafters) 64
Waikato Wars 15
Waikouaiti 43
Waimangaroa 12
Waimangaroa River 12
Waingongoro 52
Waingongoro Bridge 53
Wairarapa 72
Waitati Stream 28
WALKER, Daphne 49
WALKER, E.S. 3
WALLACE, Kath 8
WALSHE, Ginger 12
WARBURTON, L. 3
WARD, Justice 17
WARD, Sir Joseph 38
Water of the Leith 28
Whataupoko 59
WHITE, Brian 60
Muriel 60
WILLIAMS, Pixie 49
WILSON, Cole 51
WILSON, Harry 21
WILTON, Jimmy 21
WOLFGRAMM, Bill 49
Women’s Suffrage 36
WWI 18, 21
WWII 3, 40, 42, 44, 49
WWII cartoons 40
X
Y YOUNG, A.R.L. 3
Z