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Record of Military Service of 7/1337 Sgt. J H Boyce
Document - NZEF. Record of Military Service of 7/1337 Sgt. J H Boyce while serving with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade Headquarters during the Great War NZEF Discharge Certificate - Charles Boyce. #21773 Rank: Rifleman Unit: NZ Rifle Brigade Total service 2 years 190 days (home and active) "Discharged as a consequence of being no longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in Action (Gas Poisoning)
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SC Bennington's School of Aeronautics notes
Spencer Charles Bennington's School of Aeronautics notes By S C Bennington Notes taken during/at School of Aeronautics 1918 In front of notebook SC Bennington C Flight No. 5 Squadron, No 1 Wing RAF Hastings. June 15th 1918. Spencer Charles Bennington was born in Waimate on 20th April 1896. He was educated at Geraldine Public School before working as an engineer. In December 1917 he took his Flying Certificate at the Canterbury Flying Scho...
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School certificate - honourable sacrifice WWI
Certificate issued to Molly Hampton along with other pupils of Douglas School honourably sacrificed the acceptance of Annual Prizes, and gave the proceeds to the Great Britain and Belgian Relief Fund.
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Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, telgrams and photos about William F Simpson
Scrapbook consisting of newspaper articles, photographs and telegrams about the athletic career of Mr William Farey Simpson. Also other articles of later athletes and F F Simpson's (WF Simpson's son) athletic careers. Mr W F Simpson was a guard on the New Zealand Railways and was stationed at Waimate.
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Souvenir Program - Gala Opening - Kerridge Oden's Regent Theatre , Waimate
Souvenir Program - Gala Opening - Kerridge Oden's Regent Theatre, Waimate Friday 16 November 1956 at 8pm Includes message from Mr R J Kerridge, Managing Director, Kerridge Oden
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Souvenir Programme - Hook-Hunter-Makikihi Queen Carnival - Dempsey, Isobel
Souvenir Programme - Hook-Hunter-Makikihi Queen Carnival for Crowning ceremony held at the Makikihi School grounds
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Souvenir and Autograph Book of New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914
Souvenir and Autograph Book of New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914 Various photographs, no signatures
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Souvenir menu for Christmas Day 1937 at the Royal Hotel Waimate
Souvenir menu for Christmas Day 1937 at the Royal Hotel Waimate. Management - HC Johnston
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St Patricks' School Calendar 1989 - Waimate Publishing Company
St Patricks' School Calendar 1989 with hand drawn pictures
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Sweet Memories sheet music
Musical scores for the following popular songs: Oft in the Stilly Night The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond Killarney Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes Ye Banks and Braes Published by New Zealand Music Publishing Company, Christchurch Includes advertising by Waimate and Timaru businesses Waimate businesses include: CS Hood - Watchmaker and Jeweller M.P. Stores for groceries, kitchen hardware and crockery Tom Mitchell Men's Wear Speciali...
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Testimonial Letter from John Douglas about Malcolm McIver
Letter dated 1881 from John Douglas on Waihao Downs letterhead. "This is to certify that the ? Mr Malcolm McIver has been in my employment, here, as Station Manager, for the past two years., and that he left my employment of his own accord with a view to benefit himself. That I found him careful, attentive to his duties, obliging and competent especially amoung sheep and in land improvement especially laying off fences and such like"
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The Certificate of Service of Lieutenant Albert D Smith, 1916 - 1917
The Certificate of Service of Lieutenant Albert D Smith, 1916 - 1917 Lieutenant Smith joined the New Zealand Rifle Brigade and left from Wellington, bound for England, on 26th June 1916. His parents were Robert Young Smith and Mary Ann Smith of 180 High Street, Waimate. Albert was the eldest of nine children. He was a keen member of the Cadets while at school and at a young age became an officer in the Territorials. Before enlisting Albert w...
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The Soldier's Farewell to Waimate
Sheet Music - The Soldier's Farewell to Waimate Words by George Dash Music by Thomas Rive Cometh strength from out thy mountains. Skies give promise overhead. But my eyes would be twin fountains. With the tears I will not shed. For Waimate I am leaving. And though gladly I would stay. I must rid my heart of grieving Duty calls me far away Eastward lies the blue of ocean. Guards thy west the Hunter Range. O'er whose slopes in ...
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The Song of Waimate
The Song of Waimate - Musical Score The ‘Song of Waimate’ is dedicated to W. Geddes Esq.,who after travelling the world proclaimed Waimate as "The Best Little Town that I Know". The music was written by Harold Scotney and the words by George Dash. The song was written prior to the 1929 Jubilee of the Borough and was sung at the Radio Concert Broadcast from the Olympia Hall, Waimate on Friday 18th October, 1929. Thy foothills empurpled in gl...
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The Song of Waimate
The Song of Waimate - Musical Score The ‘Song of Waimate’ is dedicated to W. Geddes Esq.,who after travelling the world proclaimed Waimate as "The Best Little Town that I Know". The music was written by Harold Scotney and the words by George Dash. The song was written prior to the 1929 Jubilee of the Borough and was sung at the Radio Concert Broadcast from the Olympia Hall, Waimate on Friday 18th October, 1929. Thy foothills empurpled in gl...
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The Waimate Conspiracy
The Waimate Conspiracy (1:41:31) This good humoured, deeply fanciful mock documentary about a land claim has a distinctively Cantabrian flavour. The 2005 discovery of a cannonball buried for 138 years in a paddock throws Waimate into turmoil. It’s all some locals need to confirm their long-held belief that local Maori were forcibly removed from their tribal lands in a bloody battle in the winter of 1866. The town is divided as a hotly conteste...
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Ticket to Jubilee of Waimate Broadcast Concert at the Olympia Hall
Ticket to Jubilee of Waimate Broadcast Concert at the Olympia Hall
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Tickets to annual steeplechase meeting, 1985
Admission Ticket to annual steeplechase meeting Saturday 13th July 1985 A B Wilson - Secretary Ticket to Member's and Steward's Stands Member's car sticker to place on windscreen
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Transportation ticket for the Waimate Primary School Excursion Waimate to Timaru, Thursday 18 February 1932
Transportation ticket for the Waimate Primary School Excursion Waimate to Timaru, Thursday 18 February 1932
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Travel Warrant - WWI G.W.A Cooling
Travel Warrant - WWI Cooling, G.W.A travel from Buiford to Oban 20/02/1919
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