Haining Street. We recently shared the story of Yen Yep, a gardener in Haining Street. Today is the story of Violet King who died Haining Street in 1906, aged 32….
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Euphemia Culbert Baxter O.B.E.
Euphemia Cunningham, known as Effie, was born in Edinburgh in 1892 and was working in a printing factory when war began. Two of her brothers were regular soldiers and were…
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” –…
Homewood
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…