Catweazle
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What I collect: Chatham Islands (NZ), Molokai (US), Lord Howe Island (AU), Greenland, GB, some Australian Pre-decimals for good measure et hoc genus omne.
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Post by Catweazle on Jun 19, 2024 12:08:44 GMT
how about Maria Harrison ? Hmm, hard to tell isn't.
Certainly there was a Maria Harrison nee Dunn who passed away in New Zealand on 3.1.1934. Could it have been the same?
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paul1
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Post by paul1 on Jun 19, 2024 14:06:21 GMT
pass ;-) - have a horrible feeling you may never know - but I do like sleuthing.
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Catweazle
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Posts: 103
What I collect: Chatham Islands (NZ), Molokai (US), Lord Howe Island (AU), Greenland, GB, some Australian Pre-decimals for good measure et hoc genus omne.
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Post by Catweazle on Jul 23, 2024 13:18:50 GMT
To add, this is the other picture post card that appears in DK's link to the article on the New Zealand Postcard Society website.
On the front, a message has been written in Maori: “Koia nei te whaka ahua o te kainga” which can be translated as this is what your home looks like. As you can see, it has been mailed to Mr. J. J. Guest (?) who was the head teacher of the Te One School. Today, this is a local primary school located north of Waitangi past Lake Huro but, as you can see, children are much the same as they were back then in these photos taken sometime during the early twentieth century!
According to the article in the Postcard Pillar, the headmaster to whom this postcard is addressed, J.J. Guest, lived on the other side of the island at Owenga with his wife, Lillian, and five children: Frances, Evelyn, Kitty, Eric and Bey. He had his own photographic studio on the Chathams and used a Zeiss Double Protar camera. As well as providing images for the Lilywhite Chatham Island Series of postal cards, some of which I've posted above, as well as for the Auckland Weekly News for some years, he almost certainly privately published his own postcards. However, the same article also makes mention of his cousin, Ernest Matthias Capewell Guest (1873-1957) who was once a storekeeper and postmaster on the island. Yet there is nothing on page 47 or R. M. Startup's list of postmasters in his volume. What's going on there, folks? Has Startup missed something? |
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