We had a crack team of twenty volunteers join the Committee on 15 November 2020 for a working been in Gum Gully. We cleared three long paths of debris in…
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Influenza
FROM DISTANT SHORES – Some of those who died of influenza in 1918 and were buried in Karori Cemetery came from far away – Arthur Howell, Captain, SS Alma, from…
Influenza
In 1918 influenza killed men and women in their productive years, aged 20-50. In many cases their deaths left orphans to be cared for by wider family, or the state….
Influenza
Mary KEEGAN lived with her husband and children (she had 12) on a coal hulk in Wellington Harbour. During the 1918 influenza epidemic several of the children became sick as…
Old Photos
Love how these old photos of the Cemetery keep popping up! (There are so few of them) Crematorium & Chapel (1909)HISTORY: https://www.wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz/…/164-karori…
World Television Day
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…
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…