New Zealand Memories Issue 86 - Contents
All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor 4
Margaret Stott remembers her sailor
Grandpa’s Shop 10
A story by Beverley Emson
Bullock Drivers Earned Rugged and Colourful Reputations 12
Peter Hewson is an authority on the old bullocky
Elephants in the Waipawa River 16
A contribution from the Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers Museum
Comings and Goings : The Cook Strait Ferries 18
Victor Young shares his expertise
From the Regions : Coromandel/Bay of Plenty 22
Stockings 34
An excerpt from the new publication ‘Home’
Centrefold : Home Away from Home 36
Enterprise and Determination 38
Chinese settlement on the West Coast: an article by Julia Bradshaw
Barnardo’s Young Helpers’ League 42
Pamela McKirdy reminds readers of the fundraising organisation
Fifty Years and Still Counting 44
Jean Needham emigrated to New Zealand by air in 1960
The Hursthouse Affair 48
John Hursthouse examines the capture of two government surveyors
27 Palmerston Road 50
Jacqueline Crompton Ottoway’s childhood on the North Shore of Auckland
From the Regions : Northland 54
In Print 64
Can You Help? 66
Reader’s Response : Diamond Wedding 67
Mailbox 68
Index 70
Editor’s Choice 72
Benjamin Dixon, Greymouth Stationers
Cover image:
The bridge to ‘Knocknaveigh’ (article page 28).
Courtesy: Richard Might Coote.

New Zealand Memories Issue 86 - Index

Index Issue 86

A

A & P Shows 12

Ahipara 63

Alexandra 48

Alexandra Hotel 48

ANDERSON, Colin 58

David 58

George 58

Helen 58

Margaret 58

Robyn 58

anti-opium petition 37

ANZAC Day 59

Arapohue 55

Arapohue Cemetery 55

Armed Constabulary 48

Ashburton Gorge 14

assisted immigration 46

Auckland 10, 50

Auckland Police Court 49

aviation 66

aviation (BOAC) 46

B

BABICH, Joe 59

Lou 59

Mrs 59

Vera 59

bach 25

BARNARDO, Dr. Thomas 42

Barnardo’s 42

BATTY, Tony 60

Bausch & Lomb Multiplex 69

Bay of Plenty 22

BEANLAND, Mr J.W. 6

Birkenhead 50

BLAND, William 14

BOAC plane 46

BOLT, George 11

BOULTON, George 14

BRAMLEY, Jill 59

Bruce Bay 66

BRYCE, Minister (Native Affairs) 48

BUCKMASTER, Ernest 58

Bull’s Battery 32

bullocks 12

bullock team 12

bullocky 12

BURCH, Judd 59

BUTLER, Samuel 15

C

camping 59

Canterbury 12

Canterbury A & P Assn. 12

Canterbury Plains 15

Catholic Mission School 58

cenotaph 55

CHANG LING, Charlie 39

Cheviot 12

Chinese 36

Chinese community 37

Chinese markets 39

Chinese miners 39

Chinese stores 39

Christmas holidays 27

clothing (Chinese) 36

clothing coupons (WWII) 34

COLEBROOK, Percy 48

COLLINS, June 53

Community Arts Service 60

Cook Strait 18

Cook Strait ferry 18

COOTE, Adeline 30

Edmond 30

Ellen 28

James 28

Jane 28

Mary 28

Might 31

Winifred 28

Coromandel 22

Coromandel Hotel 33

County clerk 58

COWIE, William 29

cows 54

Cracroft Station 15

CRAIG, Charlie 59

CROMPTON, Jeanett 52

Rex 52

Wallace 52

D

D’AUDNEY, Angela 60

darning (stockings) 34

DICKIE, Blair 67

David 67

Ngaire 67

diving (Rotorua) 22

DIXON, Benjamin 72

Dixon’s Stationers and Fancy Goods 72

donkey rides 25

donkeys (beach) 24

DOWNEY, Gwen 58

Judy 58

Logan 58

Lorraine 58

Dreadon & Kelliher 55

E

Eastbourne Council 58

education 62

electricity (Northland) 56

elephants 1, 16

emigration 46

EVANS, Archdeacon 30

F

Fast Cat Ferries Limited 21

ferries 18

ferry service (Cook Strait) 20

FINCH, Jane 48

fishing 25, 59

FLEMING, June 34

flooding (Kaeo) 60

FONG CHOW, Arthur 40

Lily 39

FONG, Mrs C. 39

Franz Josef Glacier 66

Fun Doctor 68

G

GABY, Bill 59

Hazel 59

GASCOIGNE, Major Fred 48

GEOK, Anne 40

Annie 40

David 40

George 40

Jim 40

Kathleen 40

Luey 40

GILES, Alan 56

GILLESPIE, Nancy 34

Glen Wye Station 15

GOLDER, Mr. W. 16

goldfield (Thames) 29

goldmines 31, 39

goldmining (West Coast) 39

Government Buildings 47

government gardens (Rotorua) 22

Grahamstown 32

GREEN, Bert 58

Eveline 58

Gladys 58

Peter 58

Greymouth 41, 72

H

HARRIS, Jane 29

Hastings 69

Hawke’s Bay 1, 16

HAY, Robert Turnbull 10

HERBERT, Dorrie 59

Mark 59

HEWSON, Alexander 15

Highway 10 59

HILLIAM, Noel 55

Hokianga 56

Hokianga Harbour 56

holidays 25, 59

Holmes Stereoscope 69

Homecraft teacher 60

HUMPHREY, Miss 42

Hursthouse Affair 48

HURSTHOUSE, Charles 48

I

interpreter (Chinese) 37

IRVINE, Lucy 63

J

JACKSON, William 31

Junction Hotel (Thames) 32

K

Kaeo 57

Kaeo Transport 59

Kaimai Ranges 25

Kaimaumau 60

Kaipara 55

Karaka Creek 32

KENNEDY, Albert 59

KENNEY, Eddie 59

Peter 59

Khandallah Station 68

Kilbirnie School 42

King Country 48

Kiwi Shipping 21

Knocknaveagh 28

Kumara 39

L

ladder (stockings) 34

launches (Hokianga) 56

LEIGH, Rev. Samuel 58

lisle stockings 34

LONG, Albert 40

George 40

Harry 40

LUSH, Vicesimus 29

M

Main Trunk Railway 48

Mangere Immigration Hostel 47

Maori community (Northland) 63

Maori language 63

maps 69

market gardens 39

Marlborough Sealink 21

MARTIN, Ron 59

Matangirau School 58

Mayor Island 25

McCONNACHIE, Jack 58

McNab and Mason 10

MEDHURST, Mr 30

Memorial Gates (Arapohue) 55

mining (Chinese) 39

missionary school 63

Mititai 55

MONTGOMERY, Alice 55

Edward 55

Henry 55

John 55

Thomas 55

William 55

MOSELEN, Alma 59

Bert 59

Lyall 59

Mount Maunganui 24

MUDGWAY, Leslie 66

MUNRO, Colin 53

Mr. 52

N

Navy 5

Nelson 20

New Year’s Eve 27

New Zealand Aerial Mapping 69

New Zealand House (London) 46

New Zealand Rail 46

New Zealand Railways china 46

New Zealand Railways 21

NEWALL, June 52

NEWRICK, Jim 16

NEWSHAM, William M. 48

Newton East School 10

Ngati Kinohaku 48

Ngati Maniapoto 48

Northcote 50

Northern Steamship Co. Wharf 29

Northern Wairoa R.S.A. 55

Northland 54

O

Ohinemuri River 29

Opotiki 23

Otorohanga 48

P

Pacifica Shipping 21

Paengarenga Harbour 63

Paeroa 28

Paeroa Racing Club 29

Palmerston North 67

Parihaka 48

Passchendaele 55

Paua 63

PHELPS, Sam 15

photogrammeterist 69

Picton 20

PILCHER, Percy 16

Pirongia 48

PORRITT, Colonel 30

Lord 30

Master 28

prophet 48

Public Works Camp 55

Puke Junction 30

Pupuke School 58

PYE, Bill 59

Q

Quinns Terrace 39

R

racial prejudice (Chinese) 39

Rakaia 15

Rawene 56

RICHARDSON, James 32

ROLLESTON, William 15

Rotorua 22

rugby 40

Runa Runa 63

RYKEN, Peter 59

S

schooling 62

Sea Shuttles (New Zealand) Limited 21

shearing 56

sheep (wool) 56

sheep farming 67

sheep station 15

shipping

Arahura 21

Aramoana 20

Aratere 21

Cook 6

Drake 6

Echo 21

Hinemoa 18

HMNZ Pegasus 6

HMS Kiwi 6

Inchkeith 6

Kahu 6

Kaitki 21

Konanda 21

Malaita 56

Maori 20

ML 410 Fairmile 6

Monte Stello 21

Ngapuhi 30

Nimrod 6

Osprey 6

Pembroke IV 6

Penguin 20

Philomel 6

Portland 21

President III 6

Rangatira 20

Rotomahana 20

Santa Regina 21

Scarba 6

Sealink 21

Sierra 56

Straitsman 21

Takapuna 20

Tamahine 20

Taniwha 30

Te Aroha 21

Towai 21

Victory 6

Wahine 21

Wakakura 6

Shipping Corp. of New Zealand 21

silk stockings 34

SIMPSON, Margaret 9

SISTER ALOYSIUS 58

SMALLFIELD, Canon 31

SMITH, Bill 15

St. George’s Church 29

Stafford 39

State Housing 67

stationery shop 72

stereo photography 69

stereoscope 69

Sterling’s Store 59

stocking darner 34

stockings 34

Stoneyhurst Station 15

STOTT, Monty 55

Strait Shipping 21

surfboards 25

survey party 48

surveyors 48

T

Taita Church 67

Taranaki 48

Tauranga 27

TAYLOR, Richard 63

Te Hapua 62

Te Hapua School 62

Te Kaha 23

Te Kao 63listed in capitals.

TE KOOTI 48

Te Kuiti 48

Te Kumi 48

TE MAHUKI 48

TE WHITI, Chief 48

teaching (homecraft) 60

Thames goldfield 29

Thames Hospital 32

THOMPSON, George 15

traction engine 16

Tranz Rail 21

Trentham camp 47

tsunami 59

Tutkaka Coast 54

tutu 14

typist 47

U

Union Steam Ship Co. 20

W

WAHANUI, Chief 48

Waihou River 30

Waima River 56

Wainui School 58

Waiotira 55

Waipawa River 1, 16

Waitaruke Mission Settlement 58

Walker Bros. General Store 23

war effort 67

watch & clock repairer 10

WEBB, Bill 55

wedding (WWII) 8

Wellington 20

Wellington City 44

West Coast 36, 38

Whakarewarewa 22

Whangaroa 58

Whangaroa County Council 60

Whangaroa Hospital 59

WHELAN, Bill 5

Daisy 5

Denis James 4

Margaret 9

Midge 9

Whenuapai Airport 47

Whitcombe & Tombs Limited 6

White Swan Hotel 59

whitebait 39

WICKMAN, Eric 59

June 59

Wild A8 Stereo Plotter 69

WILSON, Rev. W.H. 30

Wirth’s Circus 1, 16

wool 56

Wooley’s Bay 54

woollen stockings 34

woolstores 56

WWI 55

WWI Cenotaph 55

WWII 34, 67

Y

Yankee Tom 14

yoke (bullock) 14

YOUNG HEE 37

Young Helpers’ League 42

YOUNG SAYE 37