Be Our Guest entry: Letter, Nora Tooke
Maker
Tooke, Nora
Production date
2006
Object detail
Brief Description
Letter to the Be Our Guest competition by Nora Took. She writes of her memories of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
Nora lived with her parents and five other siblings (aged seven and under) in Havelock North. She and her three sisters were cutting thistles in a paddock when the earthquake struck. Cracks opened and closed in the ground. Her mother had been looking after the younger boys inside their house. Her father, who had been blinded in the First World War, worked as a drover. After the earthquake their house was condemned and the family slept in a tent in a paddock with hay bales around them. They cooked outside on camp ovens, billies, iron pots and kettles over an open fire. They later went to stay with her father's mother in Waihi. Nora and her sisters started school, at Waihi South School. Her father got a job looking after the school grounds, along with other unemployed people.
Nora lived with her parents and five other siblings (aged seven and under) in Havelock North. She and her three sisters were cutting thistles in a paddock when the earthquake struck. Cracks opened and closed in the ground. Her mother had been looking after the younger boys inside their house. Her father, who had been blinded in the First World War, worked as a drover. After the earthquake their house was condemned and the family slept in a tent in a paddock with hay bales around them. They cooked outside on camp ovens, billies, iron pots and kettles over an open fire. They later went to stay with her father's mother in Waihi. Nora and her sisters started school, at Waihi South School. Her father got a job looking after the school grounds, along with other unemployed people.
Maker
Production date
2006
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Handwritten on lined paper; typed on unlined paper.
Media/Materials
Measurements
In the Be Our Guest Folder No 2.: Height x Width: 298 x 210mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Mrs Shirley Pascoe
Other number(s)
m2006/27/163, 36236
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