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Date: 18 August 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1981/2839-F

Description: Ethel Curtis (left), and Margaret Battersby with Nathan Wise and Fiona Leggat, at Wadestown School, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 18th of August 1981. Ethel Curtis and Margaret Battersby were former senior teachers of junior classes at Wadestown School. They were visiting the school in relation to its' centenary in October 1981. Miss Battersby, 94, was Miss Curtis' teacher for her first few years as a Wadestown School pupil, and taught there from 1909 until her retirement in 1933. Miss Curtis returned several times to teach, the last of them for 10 years before her retirement in 1969. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at Education-Primary schools-T to Z..

Date: 12 Dec 1942

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8869

Description: Photograph taken during the Tasman Tercentennial celebrations. Shows Dr van der Plas (leader of the Netherlands delegation to New Zealand for the Tasman Tercentennial celebrations), W H Parry (Minister of Internal Affairs), and children, at Tasman's memorial in Okarito, Westland, on 12 December 1942. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Inscriptions: Verso - JPascoe [?] Friday with Coasters Argue Dr Charles Van der Plas and Parry Netherlands Delegation to Tasman Tercetennial Celebration Okarito Memorial 12/12/42 6 Oct 1961 (Leader Page) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.7 x 21.1 cm