Figure 1.--Although New Zealand is best known for its rugby football, cricket is also popular. This group of bous were photographed in the 1940s preparing to play a cricket match. One of the boys is hammering in cricket stumps with a cricket bat. Four others hold stumps and/or balls. The boy on the right holds a toy gun. Taken by D. Pickard in Dunedin. The photograph is from the Archives New Zealand (Reference: 1/2-C-09205; F). |
My school days are long since gone -- sadly ...
I went to school in the mid-40's to mid-50's
...in Kaikohe, Northland. I was one who
enjoyed school - especially Primary Level.
Memories of luke-warm milk and an apple a
day - plus hot cocoa in tin mugs, at lunchtimes
during winter ... The 'respect' we held for our
teachers; the solid grounding of the three "R's"
... the Pot Belly stoves that kept us warm
...'softball' games during lunchtime; or
'basketball' in the winter... Nothing dramatic
for me - just happy memories of no worries -
no cares ... Those were the days ... hmmm
mmm mm
- Carol Davey, October, 1997 Kaikohe
The Principal: Mr. L.E. Titheridge recorded: 6th February 1945, 550 students and twenty-one teachers gathered with mixed feelings of excitement, trepidation and expectancy to share that task of turning the hospital into a school...Avondale Technical High School...1945 will go down in the annals of history as one of the important years of all time. The ending of the war in Europe and the Pacific...the threshold of a new era marked by a new national school curriculum...the school motto Kohia Nga Taikaka founded... 'emu parades': large lines of students bent over picking up stones from the new playing fields...the establishment of the nationwide renowned orchestra with Mr. Gordon Cole.
