Meet Anne and Phillip of Waikaretu

By Dave Stewart, on May 6th, 2025

Anne and Phillip lived 5 kms down the road. To give you an idea of what that meant, if I walked to their farm I passed 4 other houses. In those first couple of years I went there a lot. They looked after me. They rescued me. . . . → Read More: Meet Anne and Phillip of Waikaretu

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The Mad Butcher

By Dave Stewart, on February 13th, 2023

Dad had a lot of friends and we learned this as we went through our teens. we knew there were friends who came around and visited and there were his work friends and football club friends and friends from his other clubs and interests.

Dad asked all of them, all of them, to keep . . . → Read More: The Mad Butcher

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Dad was a freezing worker.

By Dave Stewart, on February 12th, 2023

Ian and Elaine with their some of their mokopuna

My dad did a trade when he was a young man. He became a bootmaker. But he couldn’t feed his kids on what he was making so he got a job at Hellaby’s Freezing Works in Otahuhu.

He worked hard and we never went . . . → Read More: Dad was a freezing worker.

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Wills Video

By Dave Stewart, on June 17th, 2015

‘Kevin Barry’ Song and Slideshow (right click HERE and select save target as) Large file – 61 megabytes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX63DGknmVU

Funeral Day Photos Video Download (right click HERE and select save target as) Large file – 125 megabytes

https://exposures.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/wake.mp4

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