Letter, Leanne Young
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Young, Leanne
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Brief Description
a) A three page letter written by Leanne Young nee Moody. Leanne writes that she was thirteen and on her first day at the Napier Technical College. She remembers helping to pull a girl up by her hair and climbing out over a slab of concrete. She writes that 57 years later she met up with the girl she had helped.
Her mother and some of the family went to Nelson Park but they were told to take to the hills as a tidal wave was expected. She writes of camping on a bank in Hooker Avenue for three or four days. They were eventually taken to Dannevirke and then on to Wellington where she attended Wellington Technical College for three months. Her father, who only had one hand, and her brothers, stayed and helped clear wreckage and search for people at the hospital. In a postscript Leanne writes about the shops at Tin Town and of how people forgot their differences and all helped one another.
b) A newspaper clipping for registration for the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake survivors' afternoon tea held at Colenso High School on 16 February. It asks for the name, address, age at the time of the earthquake, and a daytime telephone contact number for the person who wishes to register. On the registration form Leanne has listed her name as Anne Young, nee Moody.
Her mother and some of the family went to Nelson Park but they were told to take to the hills as a tidal wave was expected. She writes of camping on a bank in Hooker Avenue for three or four days. They were eventually taken to Dannevirke and then on to Wellington where she attended Wellington Technical College for three months. Her father, who only had one hand, and her brothers, stayed and helped clear wreckage and search for people at the hospital. In a postscript Leanne writes about the shops at Tin Town and of how people forgot their differences and all helped one another.
b) A newspaper clipping for registration for the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake survivors' afternoon tea held at Colenso High School on 16 February. It asks for the name, address, age at the time of the earthquake, and a daytime telephone contact number for the person who wishes to register. On the registration form Leanne has listed her name as Anne Young, nee Moody.
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Media/Materials description
Handwritten in blue ink on lined paper; handwritten in blue ink on printed paper.
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Measurements
Letter.: Height x Width: 190 x 126mm
Newspaper clipping.: Height x Width: 68 x 100mm
Newspaper clipping.: Height x Width: 68 x 100mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Post 03 Feb 1931
Post 03 Feb 1931
Other number(s)
73513
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