Americans Everywhere Maurice Perry In about June 1942, after the war in the Pacific had started, the Government took over the farms between Paekakariki and Raumati South for a training area for United States marines, shortly to arrive in New Zealand. Three large camps...
3 Hotdogs Please and Hold the Sauce Roy and Bette Gunn The Gunn family (who then lived in Houghton Valley, Wellington) owned a holiday bach on Renown Rd in the early 1930s to 1951. George and Kathleen Gunn had five children; John, Helen, Sandra and the twins Roy and...
The Esplanade Since 1941 Glystar Inwood (née Leckie) I have lived in Raumati South since 1941. We lived at Number 61 The Esplanade, before the sea wall was built and before the road was extended to Queen Elizabeth Park. My parents knew Peter Head and his family who...
Karate Chop! Gladys Rees We came to live in Raumati South in 1966 and were fortunate enough to purchase our home on the corner of Poplar Avenue and The Esplanade – a home we had admired for several years and never expected it would ever come on the market. The beach...
St Paul’s by the Sea The following is from a taped interview with Sister Mary Joseph and Sister Celine, who celebrated 50 years of the Presentation Sisters’ order in our parish in 2004. The Queen Elizabeth II park end of Jeep Road is full of history: the site of a...
Our Bush Hero Keith Elliott At the funeral service of Elliott VC, one of his cobbers said, “We were lucky when we were young, because we had nothing. From this nothing, tough New Zealanders became brave soldiers.” They say he gave his medal to his old school, Feilding...
