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Last Post

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

“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….

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Yesterday’s Military Funeral

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

“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” –…

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Fatal Railway Accident in Wellington

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

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…

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Four Killed Car Over 40ft bank Island Bay Tragedy

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

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…

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Travelling Midwife

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

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…

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Prime Ministers

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

There are six New Zealand Prime Minsters interred at Karori Cemetery. The most noted is Peter Fraser, who was Prime Minister 1940-1949. He was elected following the death of Michael…

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Mollie Tripe

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

A recent blog post about James McLauchlan NAIRN encouraged us to take a look at the life of another artist buried at Karori Cemetery – Mary Elizabeth (Mollie) TRIPE (nee…

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Early Artist in New Zealand History

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

James McLauchlan Nairn (18 November 1859–22 February 1904) was a Glasgow born painter who  strongly influenced New Zealand painting in the late 19th century.  Nairn studied at the Glasgow School of Art for four years…

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Homewood

By friends on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

The big house on the hill, on Homewood Avenue, not far from Karori Cemetery was built in 1846, when the first owner Henry Samuel Chapman cleared the land to build…

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Three Vaults

By friends on May 18, 2020October 4, 2020

A Facebook post on 23 March 2020 showed a detail from the door of one of the “Three Vaults” in Karori Cemetery. There is a wayfinding place on the “main”…

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