Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Nola M Robinson
Maker
Robinson, Nola
Production date
02 Dec 2005
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter to the Be Our Guest competition by Nola M Robinson (nee Redward). She writes about her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
Nola was almost eight years old, and lived just outside of Dannevirke. She had three siblings and they all went to Tipapakuku School in a school bus. They were in the middle of an arithmetic test when the ceiling started to creak. Their teacher told them to go outside to the playing field. They travelled home on the school bus. The water tanks at their house were alright but not the chimneys. They cooked on an old kerosene primus and had baths that night in an old tin bath outside, with water heated in the copper in the wash house.
Nola was almost eight years old, and lived just outside of Dannevirke. She had three siblings and they all went to Tipapakuku School in a school bus. They were in the middle of an arithmetic test when the ceiling started to creak. Their teacher told them to go outside to the playing field. They travelled home on the school bus. The water tanks at their house were alright but not the chimneys. They cooked on an old kerosene primus and had baths that night in an old tin bath outside, with water heated in the copper in the wash house.
Maker
Production date
02 Dec 2005
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Typed on unlined paper. Handwritten date and inscription in blue ink.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 297 x 210mm
Signature/Inscription
17 McCallum Street / Dannevirke, Stamp
From: Mrs Nola M Robinson / (nee Redward) / N M Robinson, Inscription
5491
2nd Dec 2005
From: Mrs Nola M Robinson / (nee Redward) / N M Robinson, Inscription
5491
2nd Dec 2005
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Nola Robinson
Other number(s)
m2006/27/117, 35447
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