Be Our Guest entry: Letter, June Craven
Maker
Craven, June Miriam
Production date
Nov 2005
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter to the Be Our Guest competition by June Craven (nee Davis). She writes of her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
June Miriam Craven was five years old and it was her first day at school at the Catholic School in Greenmeadows when the earthquake struck. She writes of setting off across the paddocks to get home to Waverley Road where she was staying with her aunt, Kate Dorrington. Men tried to stop June as there were power lines down and huge cracks in the earth. June's mother, whose maiden name was Edith Murrow, was in Wellington Hospital at the time. June writes that her family home was in Ahuriri where Rothmans was later built.
June Miriam Craven was five years old and it was her first day at school at the Catholic School in Greenmeadows when the earthquake struck. She writes of setting off across the paddocks to get home to Waverley Road where she was staying with her aunt, Kate Dorrington. Men tried to stop June as there were power lines down and huge cracks in the earth. June's mother, whose maiden name was Edith Murrow, was in Wellington Hospital at the time. June writes that her family home was in Ahuriri where Rothmans was later built.
Maker
Production date
Nov 2005
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Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
A4 handwritten sheets.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 298 x 210mm
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Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by June Craven
Other number(s)
m2006/27/84, 34816
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