Originally published 21 November 2020 Who better to highlight on this day than one of NZ’s biggest – in every sense of the word – media stars for 30 years […]
Author: friends
Myrtle Muir
A fascinating story of a great woman. Myrtle is buried in Karori Cemetery and the Friends located her grave on Sunday. https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2020/11/silver-ferns-coach-history-mrs-muir/?fbclid=IwAR3H7tV067FMiPZDX6FxcMcbcDFst5PQpN1cKuyGM9vhbhbEONT7BZZ4caw
Old Photos
WCC Archives have digitised some more old photos of the Cemetery. Here we gaze over the playing courts of Cardinal McKeefry School and the beginnings of Ian Galloway Park (previously […]
Sexton & Sextant
Sexton & Sextant are two words which are quite often confused. Just so you know, here’s the meaning of each: SEXTON: a person who looks after a church and churchyard, […]
Wreck of the S. S. Penguin
WRECK OF THE U.S.S. PENGUIN, NEAR WELLINGTON HEADS, N.Z., ON THE NIGHT OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12: INCIDENTS; AND PORTRAITS OF SOME OF THOSE SAVED AND DROWNED. (The Australian, 27 Feb […]
Last Post
“LAST POST” AT FRIDAY’S FUNERAL.—BugIer blowing the “Last Post,” the Legion of Frontiersmen standing at attention, outside the Crematorium at Karori Cemetery on Friday afternoon at the funeral of Messrs. […]
Yesterday’s Military Funeral
“YESTERDAY’S MILITARY FUNERAL.—The funeral of the late Lieut.-Colonel A. J. Petherick, a former commander of the D Battery, passing under Kelburn Viaduct yesterday on its way to Karori Cemetery” – […]
Fatal Railway Accident in Wellington
Frank Wilde was killed in 1914 when the horse drawn express cart he was driving was run into by a locomotive travelling to or from the Te Aro Station, Wakefield […]
Four Killed Car Over 40ft bank Island Bay Tragedy
Exploring the stories behind the adjacent plots of Olga BARDEBES, age 19, & Ernest DICKSON, age 22, in the Catholic section, reveals a tragic tale. They were two passengers in […]
Travelling Midwife
The recently cleaned headstone on the plot of Sarah Ann CRIPPS gleams in the shade of tree lined avenues in the first Public section of Karori Cemetery. The simple inscription […]