Congratulations to all those graduating students who took part in the Unitec Graduation ceremonies at Auckland's Aotea Centre yesterday :)

(via Elizabeth Frances Tunks (née Boylan) (1832-1916)) Lovely to see the unveiling of the pou at Tunks’ Reserve | Mareanui today - link to the research I was contracted to do on the site and the history of Elizabeth Street back in 2022 :)

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"Andrew Wilson Malcolm was the father of New Zealand suffragist Kate Sheppard. He served during the American Civil War, but died at Fort Craig at San Antonio in New Mexico, at the age of 42. His cause of death was given as Delirium tremens (DTs), a severe, life-threatening form of alcohol withdrawal. This may have been one of the reasons why Andrew’s daughters later become heavily involved in the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union" - Debbie McCauley.

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(via Cecil George Guinness (1894-1917)) "Cecil George Guinness worked as a warehouseman for Guinness Brothers at No. 1 The Strand in Tauranga. He lost his life during World War I, when he was killed in action on 19 October 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele, a futile and senseless slaughter in a never-ending quagmire of mud, slime, blood, and rotted bodies, dreamed up by incompetent military leaders with reckless disregard for the lives of the men under their command. There are no words to adequately describe the hell that was Passchendaele." - Debbie McCauley.

Celebrating the 129th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in New Zealand – the first self-governed nation in the world to achieve this – and remembering the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition | Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine. (via Eliza and the White Camellia: A Story of Suffrage in New Zealand by Debbie McCauley)

(via St George’s Anglican Memorial Church (est. 1993))

A two-piece bikini in purple, black, orange and yellow. Made of lycra and polyamide. Size 14. Seagull design on both sides of pants plus one cup of the top. Pants with elastic gathering around legs and waist. Top with bound edge in white with attached ties around neck (string style) and around back from cups. The top has horizontal seam across each cup.

Swimsuit, Bikini - Tauranga Heritage Collection

(via Peter Dillon (1788-1847)) "Tauranga trader Peter Dillon was living at Maungatapu Pā by 1835, in a raupō whare ‘repurposed’ from Te Papa Mission Station. At a height of six feet, four inches (193 cm), the brawny redheaded Catholic Irish sea captain claimed to know the South Seas better than any other European of his time. In 1827 he solved the disappearance of French navigator and explorer Lapérouse, along with two French frigates, somewhere in the Pacific in 1788. Said to be witty and clever, he was also motivated by self-aggrandisement and said to have a volatile and sometimes violent nature." - Debbie McCauley.

"William John Gray would become one of the most respected and practical pioneers of Katikati, even though he deliberately locked a Bishop out of St Peter’s Anglican Church in 1883. A councillor, county engineer and builder, he was normally a quiet and dignified community leader who from 1914 drove a Ford Runabout car with a convertible top, folding windshield, and wood-spoke wheels. His grandson, Arthur James Gray, would write ‘An Ulster Plantation. The Story of the Katikati Settlement’ in 1938." - Debbie McCauley.

"Arthur James Gray is the author of ‘An Ulster Plantation. The Story of the Katikati Settlement’ which was founded by George Vesey Stewart in 1875. First published in 1938 with a forward by Alan Mulgan, the book has undergone several reprints, and is both comprehensive and entertaining as it tells stories such as the pioneer who varnished his cow-bails and the farm cadets who did everything except farm" - Debbie McCauley.

"Tauranga settler Robert Hynds had an adventurous life. From his beginnings in Northern Ireland, to the cane fields of Queensland, Australia, and believing doomsday had arrived during the 1886 Tarawera Eruption in New Zealand. He then went bear hunting in Canada, and riding with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in the United States, before arriving back in New Zealand by steamer as heavy seas and a fierce southerly gale were howling through Cook Strait. Robert finally settled to a more sedate pace in Tauranga with his family, in the Greerton | Pākōrau and Gate Pā | Pukehinahina area where Hynds Road carries his name" - Debbie McCauley.

"Hynds Road in Tauranga was named after the Hynds family who arrived in New Zealand from Northern Ireland in May 1900 on board the ‘Rakaia’. The street crosses the southern suburbs of both Greerton | Pākōrau and Gate Pā | Pukehinahina" - Debbie McCauley.

"Alick Mirrielees was a pharmacist and optometrist in Tauranga from 1910 and became heavily involved in the local community. A recruiting officer during World War I, he also sold ‘photographic goods’ and the ‘Mirrielees Series’ of photographs remains well-known today. Alick was also a member of the ‘Tauranga Tourist Traffic League’ which placed a series of photographs of local points of interest in strategic places around the country to encourage people to visit Tauranga" - Debbie McCauley.