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…
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…
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…
Written and illustrated by Zela Charlton – 08/01/01 Zela Lots of us these days have a yearning to be away from the congested noisy streets – even the trendy pavement cafes of Ponsonby cease to appeal after a time. More and more of us are actually trying to escape, hence the increasing number of so-called…
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…
Therese Banks – 15/12/00 Christchurch’s Electric Shuttle wins Resource Management Award Successfully operating now for almost two years, the designline Electric Shuttle has just been named joint overall winner of the Canterbury Resource Management Awards 2000. The judges said the low emission buses are part of an integrated approach to addressing significant urban transport issues…
Interview with Professor Lyle Campbell and Professor Elizabeth Gordon Dorothy – 15/12/00 Talking to these two Linguistics professors who are full of enthusiasm for their subject, their teaching and their research gave me the same feeling of excitement about what is offered to today’s students as I felt when talking to Professor Parkin in the…
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…
Film Review – Conrad – 8/12/00 Guy Ritchie brings us a London gangster comedy in the same vein as his earlier ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’, and delivers a similarly fast paced, complex weave of characters and plot that entertains from beginning to end. Attempting to explain the plot would involve describing a large…
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…
