Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Russell Poole
p. 5 Mrs (Dr) Martin tracing Margery Martin, the wife of Dr Arthur Anderson Martin / Leanne Croon Hickman
p. 14 Fragments of a year in the life of a Palmerston North business /Jill White
p. 22 A growing...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2018
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Margaret Tennant
p. 5 To bridge or not to bridge...? / Jill White
p. 17 Money for my boy: the story of Katherine Wilson's will / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 25 The final battle / Simon Johnson
p. 35 An indeterminate sente...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2016
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 Refuge for thousands: the role of Manawatu after the Hawke's Bay earthquake / Dorothy Pilkington
p. 14 James Baxter Fleck / Alice Hunt-O'Keefe
p. 23 A forgotten hero / Margaret Tate
p. 33 R...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2007
Mark Briggs (1885-1965) was a flax worker, conscientious objector, Palmerston North businessman and member of the Legislative Council.
He was particularly noted as being one of the fourteen New Zealand conscientious objectors who, in 1917, was t...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1936
In 2018 the site of Whitaunui, the World War II Military Defaulters’ Camp near Shannon, was listed as a Schedule 2 heritage site in the District Plan of the Horowhenua District Council. The three defaulters’ camps in the Shannon district were Paia...
Creator: Margaret Tate
Place: Horowhenua
Date: 2016
An article about Whitaunui and Paiaka camps for conscientious objectors during WWII, officially called military defaulter camps. The article is illustrated with images of camp life at the time.
This article was originally published in the 2016 "...
Creator: Margaret Tate
Place: Near Shannon, Horowhenua
Date: 2016
An article about Whitaunui and Paiaka camps for conscientious objectors during WWII, officially called military defaulter camps.
It complements an article based on local information drawn from a range of archival and published sources, that appea...
Creator: Margaret Tate
Place: near Shannon, Horowheuna
Date: 2018
This account of the Shannon World War Two Detention Camps is based on contributions from a large number of family members and descendants of those who were in the camps. it also offers an overview of the history of the camps based on research b...
Creator: Margaret Tate
Date: 2017
This extract from Maurice Clark’s memoirs, tells of his reasons for becoming a conscientious objector in World War II, his experiences in the Shannon camps and a brief account of his subsequent career in the insurance industry.
Maurice Frederick ...
Creator: Maurice Clark