University studies, marriage and fatherhood Dorothy – 2/05/03 University study After leaving school Neil enrolled at the University of Canterbury to study for a B.Sc. At the end of his first year his results were so impressive that he was invited to join the B.Sc. Honours course in Physics. Transport to U.C. Neil was still…
Dorothy – 23/04/03 Maud Reeves, nee Robison, (1865-1953) has been remembered in a number of roles – as the wife of William Pember Reeves who was a New Zealand Cabinet Minister and socialist reformer; as a suffragette during the struggle for votes for New Zealand women; as a gracious hostess to influential people when her…
Part 3 Dorothy -22/04/03 Biddy Pollard (née Davies) wrote to The Listener expressing her concern about the publication of the extract from “Auto da Fay”. Her letter was published under the heading, “Speak, Memory”. “I was a pupil of Christchurch Girls’ High School at the same time as Fay Weldon and in the extract from…
Part 1 Dorothy – 14/04/03 Old Girls who attended Christchurch Girls High School in 1944-6 were amazed and angered when they read in Auto da Fay Fay Weldon’s portrayal of the school in the years when she was a pupil there. They were also very displeased when the magazine, New Zealand Listener, chose to publish…
Dorothy – 31/03/03 In response to many requests Bill Moore now has available occasional cards featuring eight of his New Zealand paintings. They represent a range of his painting styles and depict a number of Christchurch and Canterbury scenes, including a wintet high country scene, Akaroa and Duvauchelle on Banks Peninsula and the Worcester Street…
Formative influences Dorothy – 28/03/03 The articles on the Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation, based on interviews with Dr Neil Cherry, have been among the most widely read articles in NZine. Since November 2001 when Dr Cherry found that he had a terminal illness, motor neurone disease, I have interviewed him about his early family life…
Dorothy – 25/03/03 At the end of March it will be a hundred years since W J Clarke purchased his first Burrell traction engine and began his business as a threshing contractor in South Canterbury. The South Canterbury Traction Engine Club with the help of enthusiasts from other areas will attempt a world record by…
News from the Otago Museum, Dunedin – 20/03/03 Moa Display at the Otago Museum Photo Source Otago Museum An expedition of nine people, led by the Otago Museum, left for the Serpentine Range on a Wednesday afternoon in late February with great expectations of discovering more bones of the upland moa, Megalapteryx didinus. The expedition…
An interview with Robert Barrett Dorothy – 19/03/03 The next generations of Barretts follow in the farming tradition on Banks Peninsula Robert Barrett followed the family tradition and took up farming on Banks Peninsula. After serving in the army in the Korean War he obtained a Rehabilitation farm at Kaituna Valley and he and his…
Dorothy – 3/03/03 Eileen at her 102nd birthday party Eileen McDavitt died on 20 July 1999, aged 104 years. To review her life is to review 104 years of New Zealand history. This remarkable woman lived life to the full and retained clear memories of life in New Zealand during the twentieth century – meeting…
