
Growing Up In NZ

Farm Reflections
Article and photos by Verna Morris – 19/01/01 A Farmer’s Wife Looks Back On Life In Central Otago In The 1950s And 1960s I was a schoolgirl when I first visited the Maniototo district in Central Otago to stay on an uncle’s farm at Teviot. We visited neighbours three or four miles further on at…
Growing up in New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 9: Secondary Schooling For Country Pupils
Part 9 – Secondary Schooling For Country Pupils Dorothy – 19/01/01 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the 1900 – 1925 Growing Up in New Zealand series. When country school pupils finished at primary school in the period…

Growing up in New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 10: Nowhere Far From The Sea
Part 10 – Nowhere Far From The Sea Four Fishermen – 19/01/01 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. As Basil Dowling said in one of his poems, wherever you are…
Growing up in New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 8: Looking back at Christmas
Part 8 – Looking Back At Christmas Dorothy – 22/12/00 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. Many of today’s children reading about what Christmas was like in the years between…

Growing up in New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 7: Home Schooling And Freedom
Part 7 – Home Schooling And Freedom On The Home Farm Foster Abilities An interview with Jackie Steincamp, Dorothy – 15/12/00 You can read the previous parts in the Growing up in New Zealand 1920 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. What sort of…

Growing Up In New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 5: Attending Intermediate
Part 5 – Attending Intermediate And Secondary School In The Cities Dorothy – 01/12/00 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. A few intermediate schools in some cities Intermediate schools were…

Growing Up In New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 4: Primary Education For Children In The Towns
Part 4 – Primary Education For Children In The Towns Dorothy – 22/11/00 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. Preschool education Most children did not have pre-school education. A few…
Growing Up In New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 3: Health In The Home
Part 3 – Health In The Home Dorothy – 3/11/00 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. Ideas on how to keep well and how to treat sickness have changed in…

Growing Up In New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 2: New Zealand, Gender Roles
Part 2 – Roles And Routines At Home Dorothy – 25/10/00 You may wish to read the first part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 here. Or read the articles in the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. Gender roles clearly differentiated There were clearly defined roles for men and…

Growing Up In New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 1- New Zealand Home Life
Part 1 – Household Economies And Food Dorothy – 7/4/00 People who grew up in New Zealand in the second quarter of the twentieth century noticed many changes in daily life as they shared their memories for this series of articles. Household economies We could all remember our mothers’ economical housekeeping. Either we remembered the…