Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Thomas (1887-14/4/1941) and Mona (1928-15/4/1941) Ivey. "driving home from the Fairlie show"

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TRUCK STRIKES POLE Death Of Prominent Timaru Farmer Daughter Seriously  Injured Mr  Thomas  Hicks  Ivey,  a well-known farmer of Kingsdow...

The Foster Family. "his bereaved mother, who has now lost all her sons"

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  For the Empire’s Cause. The deepest sympathy of the whole district is extended to Mrs C. Poster, of Quartz Reef Point, in the great afflic...
Monday, 26 June 2023

23/944 Rifleman Douglas Henry Varcoe, 27/7/1894-21/12/1926. "regarded as dead by his fellow fighters"

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The War. THREE LOCAL MEN WOUNDED. The list of wounded during the past week contained the names of three local young men:  Douglas Varcoe  (s...
Saturday, 24 June 2023

22114 Sergeant-Major Joseph Scott, MM, 15/1/1889-2/2/1961. "A soldier to the end"

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  TWO SUCCESSFUL RAIDS NORTH OTAGO BOYS DECORATED.  GENERAL BYNG'S CONGRATULATIONS.  A message received by the officer commanding the Te...

26/593 Rifleman Lancelot Douglas Miller 22/11/1888-19/2/1919. "accorded a military burial"

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Lancelot Miller joined the NZ Rifle Brigade in October, 1915. He served in Egypt and on the Western Front.  He was hospitalised with influen...
Friday, 23 June 2023

The McTainsh Family of Sandymount. "smoke coming through the kitchen roof"

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John and wife appear in 1883 with dairy and livestock entries in the Peninsula A and P shows.  The McTainsh children - eleven of them Alice,...

Ah Sing, 1834-30/3/1904.

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ASSAULT BY A CHINAMAN. A savage assault was perpetrated on Sunday afternoon by one Chinaman upon another. They were both patients in the Hos...