Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Jeannie Goodwin
Maker
Goodwin, Jeannie
Production date
14 Dec 2006
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter to the Be Our Guest competition written by Jeannie Goodwin (nee Watson) about her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
Jeannie Goodwin was the youngest of eight children in the Watson family. Her eldest brother was the founder of Direct Fisheries in Waghorne Street, Port Ahuriri. She was in Primer Four at Hastings Street School on 3 February 1931. Her teacher Miss Pidd saved many children by not letting them run outside. Her mother came to school still wearing her apron.
The family lived on the beach, as their house was unsafe. She writes that what wasn't damaged in the city by the earthquake was then burnt by the fire. Her family were shipped out of Port Ahuriri, and she remembers the women and children being lifted on board a small freighter by a tarpaulin which was then swung around but that the men were permitted to board by climbing rope ladders. She remembers Doctor Gilray as being one of the surgeons at the temporary hospital at Nelson Park, and that Tin Town shops were built in a circle over the Fish Pond Fountain area in Clive Square while Napier was being rebuilt.
Jeannie Goodwin was the youngest of eight children in the Watson family. Her eldest brother was the founder of Direct Fisheries in Waghorne Street, Port Ahuriri. She was in Primer Four at Hastings Street School on 3 February 1931. Her teacher Miss Pidd saved many children by not letting them run outside. Her mother came to school still wearing her apron.
The family lived on the beach, as their house was unsafe. She writes that what wasn't damaged in the city by the earthquake was then burnt by the fire. Her family were shipped out of Port Ahuriri, and she remembers the women and children being lifted on board a small freighter by a tarpaulin which was then swung around but that the men were permitted to board by climbing rope ladders. She remembers Doctor Gilray as being one of the surgeons at the temporary hospital at Nelson Park, and that Tin Town shops were built in a circle over the Fish Pond Fountain area in Clive Square while Napier was being rebuilt.
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Production date
14 Dec 2006
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Media/Materials description
Handwritten on card in blue ink.
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Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 215 x 142mm
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Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Jeannie Goodwin
Other number(s)
m2006/27/156, 36223
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