Places

Date: February 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177211-F

Description: A flat area is marked out with roads and town blocks. Accompanied by a woman a group of children walk across a pedestrian crossing. Behind them a child in a pedal car waits and other children watch. In the background children can be seen along the edges of the marked out area. Photograph taken in February 1957 by Morrie Hill. Scourse of decriptive information - A Library client has identified this event as part of the Karori School centenary in 1957. Information recieved in January 2007. This event was part of the centenary of Karori School in 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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..