Part 8 plots 301 to 339 2 jun 2016

Plot 301 HAWKES ALFRED JOHN In the 1950 Wises Post Office Directory he is listed as Farmer 1969 Rodney Electoral Roll Alfred John HAWKES Kaukapakapa, farmer.

Olga Betty HAWKES Kaukapakapa, married

Plot 302 HAWKES Olga Betty

Plot 303 HAWKES Clive Alfred Son of Alfred and Betty interred 2009

Plot 304

HAWKES Josephine Ada nee Guntren 1925-2012 Died in Australia buried here in 2012

Josephine Ada HAWKES Death Notice Published in The New Zealand Herald from July 31 to Aug. 6, 2012 First 25 of 111 words: HAWKES, Josephine Ada (nee Guntren). Passed away on 29 July 2012 in Australia.

Dearly loved wife of Len for 66 years, aged 87. Dearly loved..

Plot 305 HUMBY Heather Jean nee SHANKS 1925-2015

Published in The New Zealand Herald from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27, 2015 HUMBY, Heather Jean (nee Shanks). Peacefully passed away on 21st December 2015 at North Haven Hospital, Whangaparaoa in her 91st year, with family at her bedside. Loved daughter of the late James Speirs and Amelia Jane (Jean) Shanks of Kaukapakapa. Loved sister of the late Maxwell and Earl Shanks, and Avis.

Very much loved mother of Celane and Herman, Sherrie and Mike, and Paul. Nan of Blair and Tiffany ,Aaron and Amy, Gavin, Daniel and Kate; Elysia and John. Our most precious and cherished mother, rest peacefully beautiful lady, we will cherish our special memories forever, you will be sadly missed. A service to celebrate Heather's life will be held at The Chapel of Faithfull Funeral Services, 35 Red Beach Road, Hibiscus Coast on Wednesday, the 30th of December 2015 at 11:00 AM followed by an interment at Kaukapakapa Cemetery.

Special thanks to the wonderful nurses and caregivers at North Haven Hospital for their loving care.

Heather Jean Humby nee Shanks 1925-2015 Eulogy delivered by Brenton Faithfull at Heather's farewell service.

Heather was born on 7th April 1925. She was the very much loved mother of Celane and Sherrie and Grandmother to Blair and his brother Aaron who lives in Melbourne and unfortunately unable to join us here today, Gavin, Daniel and Elysia. She was the grandchild of Gavin and Elizabeth Shanks who settled in Kaukapakapa in 1863, from Scotland. Heather’s parents were Amelia Jane (known as Jean) and James Speirs Shanks.

She was the eldest of their 3 children, with 2 brothers - Maxwell who died aged 2 years, and Earl, 6 years her junior, who passed away just 18 months ago.

Heather grew up on the family farm called “Roseneath” on what was then known as “Shanks’ Hill”, Kaukapakapa. It was a tough time growing up through the depression years and then the war, watching her cousins head off to fight and never to return. There are many stories about the gum diggers who would come to work on the farm for food and lodgings and what-ever kauri gum they could dig for, and the hard times for everyone during these years.

Heather attended Kaukapakapa Primary School, and later Helensville District High school. She was a very athletic girl and won various school trophies and prizes for her athletics and running. However, the night before any big athletics day she was usually up all night in a state of high anxiety and a very upset tummy.

Unfortunately her high school education was severely compromised by many months in Auckland Hospital battling rheumatic fever.

Heather was also very talented at art and drawing. All her school books had doodlings all over them which would get her into serious trouble at school. She followed that passion to the Elam School of Art once she left high school. But sadly, Heather’s ideas on drawing and those of the Art School differed to the point where she gave it up – including the art itself, except for little doodles she would do for her daughters, after lots of persuasion by them.

Heather used to ride a horse to Kaukapakapa Primary School. In fact, Heather would ride everywhere – horses were her passion. She was a very accomplished rider, finding much success in show-jumping and dressage competitions. She owned many horses over the years and has photos of them all.

Another passion was dancing – she loved to dance! It was Heather’s dad who gave her a love of music and dancing. James was a talented ballroom dancer and passed his talent onto his daughter. He taught her to dance at the many dances held at the Kaukapakapa hall. He passed away when Heather was only 15 years old, and she missed him terribly.

After James passed away, they sold the family farm and moved to an orchard in Waimauku. Heather worked as a telephonist at the Waimauku telephone exchange, then at Milne & Choice in Queen Street (something she was always very proud of).

Later, Heather worked at Hobsonville airbase, becoming the first civilian office worker employed by the Airforce. It was something of an experiment to see how it would work – it did work and they later employed others.

It was here that Heather met Vic Humby, an Airman, and they were married in March 1955. Shortly after, Vic was posted to Singapore where the Airforce was deploying men to help in the “Malayan Emergency”.

Soon after, Heather followed and they lived in barracks on the Airbase there. Celane was born towards the end of 1956, with the family returning to New Zealand – arriving back on Celane’s first birthday in 1957. They lived with Heather’s mother while they had a new home built in Henderson and 2 years later Sherrie arrived.

A few years later the family moved to Kumeu and then again moved to the Scenic Drive, Swanson, in 1966 – a small house on 3 acres of fruit trees and native bush. Vic built on to this wee home turning it into a great family home. Heather loved her home here and always referred to it as “The Haven”.

Heather returned to the workforce in the 1970’s, finding various jobs that she could fit around the needs of her family – and public transport – since she never learned to drive.

After the breakup of Heather’s marriage she bought a home unit in Glendene, and then later Avondale, and eventually bought a small home in Cooks Beach which she just adored.

She was so happy there and once again created a home and a garden for herself and for holidaying family and grandchildren. She worked tirelessly creating an amazing garden of flowers, fruit trees and vegetables out of what was really only sand. When her health deteriorated some years later due to a fracture to her lower spine caused by a fall as she ran inside to answer the telephone, she returned to Auckland and spent a short time convalescing at the Beach Front Rest Home before buying an apartment at the Peninsula Club in Whangaparaoa. Because of the bout of Rheumatic fever as a child, Heather underwent aortic valve surgery at age 80, which she faced with her usual pragmatic approach, and she recovered well.

More recently, Heather needed better care and she moved to the Beachfront Resthome and then in March this year to North Haven Hospital, where she spent her final days under the very special care and attention of her nurses and caregivers. A very big thank you to all of them for their loving care.

Firstly, we want to say thank you for coming here today to celebrate Mum’s life with us and to farewell her onto her next journey.

We really would like to make this a Celebration of Mum’s life – because at almost 91 years – it really is an achievement worthy of celebration Our Mum really was an amazing lady and we have huge admiration for the strength and courage she has shown throughout her life. It wasn’t an easy life – with the usual ups and downs, but I think far more downs than her fair share.

As a young woman, horses and dancing were the loves of her life. She used to tell us how, as a young girl, if she wasn’t riding a horse, she was pretending to be one. Putting a bridle around her neck and galloping around the farm, or tethering herself to a fence or a hitching rail and standing for ages with one leg bent – just like a horse would. It’s hard to imagine a child with such boundless energy actually standing, tethered, long enough to rest – but as I horse I guess you would. Mum always told us she could ride before she could walk.

One of the stories she always told was when, in her early twenties, she rode a horse from Taupaki into the city all through the night. She had to get it back to its owners in St Heliers, having ridden the horse in a competition over the weekend. She left Taupaki late at night and arrived in St Heliers in the early hours of the morning.

She then got changed and went into work at Milne & Choice in Queen Street. 2 highlights of that incredible journey of hers were – a homeless man asleep and snoring loudly in a bus stop and cockroaches covering the road outside the breweries in Carlton Gore Road, causing the horse the skid, and Mum very nearly falling off as a result.

There were lots of funny stories she’d tell us, from catching huge eels in the creek below the house on the farm, and then running back up to the house screaming in terror with the eel being dragged along behind her …… to

her popping her brother Earl onto a bike that had blocks on the pedals and no brakes and pushing him down the hill into the creek. Our Nana used to tell us all about her as a child – her parents certainly had their work cut out for them raising our Mum. She was a very mischievous handful who would never walk if she could run, or run if she could ride.

Mum was first and foremost a home maker. She loved home, and family was her priority – cooking, cleaning, sewing, baking, gardening ….. but she was also a fun-loving Mum. I remember games of tiggy and picnics on the front lawn and gathering mussels as a family at Bethels Beach. She had a quick sense of humour and loved a good laugh, and playing tricks. Routine was important to her and she would always put on a pot of tea – she loved her tea – and make a “proper lunch” no matter what. But Mum was somewhat of a fastidious housekeeper and one of the things I remember about her in those days was that she never seemed to stop! The house was always spotless and shiny. “A place for everything, and everything in its place” was a favourite saying of hers. She also would warn us not to be houseproud to a fault as she was. Don’t let it rule your life she’d say (something I struggle with) – I must be a chip off the old block in some ways.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way” was another of her favourites that she live by and led by example. She was pretty unstoppable when she was pursuing a purpose and I often wish I had even half her drive and determination, not to mention her energy. Drive and determination will only take you so far though, and things didn’t necessarily go to plan! Mum once tried to move the old concrete incinerator that had held the old copper. It somehow got away from her and rolled all the way down the hill (with Mum running behind it yelling at it to stop! – and it ended up several metres into the bush. It’s probably still there today!

Another day, we came home from school and couldn’t find her anywhere. So we hunted and called, to find her high up in the top of the huge macrocarpa trees down one side of the front of our section. She was up there with a hand saw sawing off huge branches. She said she was topping them to let a bit more sunshine through.

Dad hadn’t quite got around to do it. There was just no stopping her once she had made her mind up. I don’t know where she got the strength and energy.

She was a very driven lady once she had her teeth into something. Nothing was ever too much trouble for her when it came to a problem one of her girls might have had. She would bend over backwards to solve our problems – even if it meant spending hours on the telephone …… and us growing up and becoming independent women, made no difference. Perhaps it stemmed from the fact that Dad, being in the Airforce, was posted away for long stretches of our childhood and Mum just had to raise us mostly on her own at times. She just had to solve the problems.

We remember when Mum decided that since we were older and well and truly into high school years, it was time for her get a job and help with the family finances. Boy Dad wasn’t happy about this but she was determined. As was common at that time, Dad handled the finances, but being a very practical lady, mum happily used her new found wealth on improvements around the home. Some of the things on her list of purchases were - a new wheelbarrow, a lawnmower, a ladder and a transformer for Dad – which I remember her hiding under the hedge until it was time to divulge the surprise! And new carpet and furnishings for the home.

There was a very social side to Mum – she and Dad were members of the Swanson RSA and they enjoyed the dances and socials they attended there together – Dad to chat with his friends and Mum to Dance, and sing and dance and dance. The annual Christmas Ball was something she looked forward to each year and she’d glam up appropriately for this, spending what seemed to me like the whole day getting ready.

Music to her was also the birdsong at morning and evening and we have cassettes she recorded outside early in the mornings – she labelled them “Dawn Chorus” – they’re full of the sounds that we remember – tuis,

blackbirds and others - it’s amazing and so beautiful. We will cherish those tapes but we will have to hang on to all our old tape decks now so we can still play them.

Mum loved her music and we literally have cases and cases full of music she recorded off the radio – all neatly labelled with the name of every song on them. I’m not sure what we will do with them – but how can we ever part with them. This became one of her favourite hobbies while living at Cooks Beach. Another favourite thing to do was riding her new red bike. She finally had wheels! Her grandkids nicknamed her “Cooks Beach Nana”.

Mum was also a self-proclaimed “news Junkie”. Whatever was going on in the world, she knew about it. You didn’t need a newspaper – just ask Mum! In fact, if she discovered we hadn’t heard about a certain something on the news we would get a very clear message that she was not at all impressed with us!! And if you happened to phone her while the news was on – well look out! Fancy not checking the time before phoning Mum! She was a natural researcher and loved gathering information. She kept news clippings galore. I can only imagine what google would have meant to her had she had access to that at a slighty youger age!! And sometimes I think it’s just as well she didn’t google!! She always followed the cricket and the rugby – knew all their names and what they were doing in their “private lives” according to the news or the Womens Weekly!

The same went for the horse racing – or anything horses. And she had a love of nature. In her later years David Attenborough was a constant on her telly. She even watched Parliament when it was on TV!! I guess this all helped to keep her mind sharp as a tack and clear for as long as it was …. And this is why it came as

such a shock when they told us she had early dementia. How could that be for someone so switched on and sharp.

But most of all, we will remember how much Mum loved home and family.

Elysia, Daniel, Celane, Sherrie, Gavin , Heather, Blair and Aaron

Well dear Mum – you’re home now. We miss you so much already and we know there’ll be days that are hard.

But you taught us so many things in life that really matter and we are so thankful for that. Most people would agree – there’s no one quite like “Mum” - and Mum, you were the best.

We love you Mum. Rest easy now.

Notes used for basis of eulogy given by Bruce Shanks, at Heather's funeral.

With the passing of Heather Jean Humby nee Shanks , an era has closed. She was the last of her generation, the grandchildren of Gavin Brash Shanks and his wife Elizabeth nee Leckie who had emigrated from Coatbridge near Glasgow in Scotland in September 1862, on board the "Cairngorm" A journey which took them 118 days from London.

Here they were met by Elizabeth's parents John and Agnes Leckie who came to NZ about 1860 To every immigrant over the age of 21 who had paid for his or her passage to the colony, the N.Z. Government granted 40 acres of land, and under this scheme the Shanks family received eighty acres, of unimproved land at Kaukapakapa However when the family arrived in Auckland the Maori Land Wars were being fought and Gavin Brash and his Father-in-law John Leckie were handed rifles and sent out to the Blockhouse at Otahuhu in an attempt to prevent the Maoris invading the town Following the settlement of the Maori Wars Gavin Brash Shanks, finding that conditions in Auckland were in a state approaching starvation, went to Kaukapakapa to work his allocated land.

Here he eventually felled kauri trees, pit sawed the timber and built his own house. He was very community minded, in helping establish, roads, bridges, School, Hall and Church .

It was into this family that Heather's father James was born in 1875.

Heather was born 7 April 1925,at St Helen's Hospital Auckland her father was 50 at this stage, and he had careers of road contracting, hotel proprietor, and farming and Heather was the eldest of a second family for James or "Jimmie as he was known.

The Auckland hospital was one of a number of St Helen's Hospitals which were founded and named by Prime Minister, Rt Hon Richard J Seddon who was born in the English town of St Helen's. The hospitals were established when Seddon was Prime Minister to provide quality maternity care to the wives of working men and for training midwives. The first of the St Helen's Hospitals opened in 1905 in Wellington and Dunedin, followed by Auckland the following year. Richard Seddon was unable to open the Auckland Hospital as planned as he died shortly before the opening.

1922 A new purpose built concrete St Helen's Hospital is built on the Pitt Street site next to the original wooden building which becomes the nurses home. The matron's flat is situated on the ground floor of the old hospital. a younger brother Maxwell born when Heather was 3 and then her other brother Earl when she was 6.

Maxwell died aged 2.

He had been admitted to hospital for an operation, but caught pneumonia and died.

This family lived on the pioneer farm and in the family homestead "Roseneath" - Jimmy owned the farm and later sold it (prior to 1930) ,then lived at Kanohi not far away, but the farm went back to him during the depression , when the purchasers could not keep up the mortgage repayments. . Jimmy was the last of the SHANKS family to live in the original pioneer property. There was no electric power or phone in the house, and no radio until Jean (Heather's mother) later had a battery set installed..

Heather attended Kaukapakapa School where her cousin Ernie Shanks was the headmaster for 16 years. He died aged 46.in 1941 She finished her schooling at Helensville District High School and later her mother bought a farm with orchard at Taha Rd Waimauku about 1945 Recollections I have been given of Jimmy are from his second family Heather & Earl, who were aged 15 and nearly 9 respectively when he died. Heather remembers him as "a kind man and loving husband and father, we spent a lot of happy times together especially outdoors on the farm. Dad was very good-looking, olive complexion, dark brown hair and eyes, 5"10" tall ,fine featured and of slight build. A very tidy person who loved ball-room dancing, he took me to my first dance shortly before he died. He was a dairy farmer, enjoyed fishing and played outdoor bowls. A great sense of humour and very quick witted. He was a lot of fun to be with."

ROSENEATH in the 1880s Earl, recalls his father "milked about 12 cows by hand, felled trees for posts and battens, wife Jean helped with this by taking one end of the cross-cut saw. He trapped opossums and dug a bit of gum (kauri) - sold the opossum skins, and in a room set apart as the "scraping room" gum was scraped ready for market" and for recreation " he played bowls at the KKK Bowling Club and enjoyed attending the races. We quite often went fishing, probably on a Sunday. We went from home by Gig to the Makarau River where he line fished from ~` the Rock' and also 'Peach Island ' further down the river towards Jordan's Island."

1940 Jimmy died on 8th July 1940, a month before his 65th birthday, of a heart attack at the roadside as he was returning from doing the morning rounds of his opossum traps, and is buried in the Methodist Churchyard, Kaukapakapa . Plot 237.

Cedric Jordan in 2001 recalled having been on the school bus the morning that the bus stopped to see if any help could be given, to Jimmy Shanks laying at the side of the road, unfortunately it was too late. Cedric considered it appropriate that when he staked his claim at the KKK Methodist Churchyard, for his own burial, when the time comes, found that his plot was adjacent to that of Jimmy. Who is buried in Plot 237 .

Jean died on 20th April 1979 in her 90th year . She had moved to Taha Rd Waimauku about 1945 and farmed a small dairy farm there .

1938 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23103, 30 July 1938, Page 8 Heather joined the Herald Circles Childrens pages HEATHER SHANKS. —Yes, Heather, you may send in any items you wish, so long as you mark them "copied" or "original." Your little sketches were not quite good enough for publication. Better luck next time.

20 August 1938, Page 8 '"HEATHER SHANKS. -Goodncss me, you have a number of pets, Heather. f lovely to have those baby kids. They must be darlings. I think your names are very good. I can certainly see you have tried harder with vour sketches this time. The field mouse was quite a good attempt

10 December 1938, Page 8 HEATHER SHANKS. —Your little bunny must be very mischievous. Heather, but I am sure he is a darling.

It was indeed lucky you found him before Tubby caught him. No, silkworms are one of the few things I have not collected. They must be most interesting.

14 January 1939, Page 8 WHAT AM I My first is in hill, but not in mound, My second is in earth, but not in ground.

My third is in dog, but not in cat, My fourth is in gown, but not in hat.

My fifth is in elf, but not in gnome, My sixth is in brush, but not in comb.

My seventh is in open, but not in close, My eighth is in gaiter, but not in hose.

My whole is an animal, which eats bread and milk, And its clothes do by no means feel like silk.

Answer: A hedgehog. —Original by Heather Shanks (13).

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23293, 11 March 1939, Page 8 QUESTION TIME It Mrs. and Mr. Bigger had a baby, which would be the biggest?— The baby, because it would be a little Bigger. How many twigs go to make a crow's nest? None. They have to bo carried there. —Copied by Heather Shanks ( New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23387, 1 July 1939, Page 9 KAIPARA HARBOUR We send our best wishes and hopes for a quick recovery to the writer of this little letter. Heather has been in bed for the past two months with rheumatic fever and I am sure readers will join with me in sending her many kind thoughts.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23387, 1 July 1939, Page 9 Penfriends Corner HEATHER SHANKS. Roseneath, Kaukapakapa, is 14 years old, and would like a boy or girl pen-friend, living anywhere North from Auckland, 11-17 years, who are interested in horses and farm life New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23393, 8 July 1939, Page 8

DEAR ANNE SHIRLEY.—Aren't ducks comical creatures? Always quacking and making muffled noises to one another. If one fortunate duck finds an apple-core, or some other tasty morsel, she, instead of eating it quietly and trying not to attract the other ducks, picks it up, and makes off, flapping her wings and making noisy quacks, as she goes. Of course this brings all the other ducks on the scene and then begins a chase. The duck with the titbit waddles off with a line of greedy ducks trailing behind her, all with the same idea in their heads, to try to snatch the food from its owner's bill. At last, however, the unfortunate duck drops the tasty piece and another picks it up. This will go on for quite a while, until at last, 'some duck manages to swallow the captured morsel and so ends that chase. But it is not long before another begins, and they go through the whole thing again. When I go to feed the ducks they all come running; to moot mo, and at once start to run round and round me, bowing their heads and all talking at once. Sometimes they run across my feet and make dirty muddy marks on my shoes with their flat pigeon-toed feet. However, I forgive them, for if I were to scold them, or not feed them for punishment, I would not get that lovely duck egg for my breakfast in the morning. Wishing the page every success and best wishes to you from Heather Shanks (14), Kaukapakapa.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23417, 5 August 1939, Page 8 A CONTEST 1. A person who produces rabbits from a hat is a con 2. Something which is joined together is a con 3. A muddle is a con 4. Something which is given for the benefit of others is a con 5. A girl's name is Con 6. Something which is finished is con 7. A Roman Catholic school is a con 8. A competition is a con 9. An entertainment is a con 10. Paths are often made of con 11. Coloured pieces of paper used at weddings is con 12. If you are worried about something you are c0n......

13. If you are in charge of something you have con 14. An infectious disease is con Answers. —Conjurer, connected, confusion, contribution, Constance, concluded, convent, contest, concert, concrete, confetti, concerned, control, contagious. —From Heather Shanks (14).

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23447, 9 September 1939, Page 8 HEATHER SHANKS. —The winter certainly has been very miserable, Heather. But we all look forward to the sunnier days. I am ever so glad you are feeling better now. Mickie must bo a dear little lamb. What a time you will have teaching those calves to drink. They can be such mischievous little monkeys. Thank you for all the items you enclosed with the letter.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23577, 10 February 1940, Page 6 DUCKS (5), Young Khaki Campbell, competition strain: 5/6 each. Orpington Cockerels, Wesley Collego strain, 7/06each. Mrs. Shanks (Roseneath), Kaukapakapa New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24087, 4 October 1941, Page 4 DUCKS, Muscovy, young, 3 , unrelated Drake, :30/- -Jno. Shanks, Roseneath, Kaukapakapa ( ? Jno ) 13 July 1940

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23867, 18 January 1941, Page 3 About Opossums Original, by HEATHER SHANKS (I 5) HP The opossum is perhaps, one of the most mysterious of .small animals in New Zealand. At night it is often heard and seen, making its way cleverly through the branches of the trees; every now and then uttering shrill hissing sounds or frog-like croaking noises. In the dav-time these little night animals are nowhere to be found. One may travel through hush, fern, and scrub, which ÂŤas only the night, before, alive with opossums; and not see or even hear one. You may hunt in all likely, or seemingly likely places; in the bush or orchard, and very, very, rarely ever discover one. When an opossum is found easily, it is generally a sick or disabled one. It is a mystery where the opossum sleeps iu the day-time. When taken from the mother's pouch, and hand reared, the baby opossums become very tame, and will follow their owner around, just like a. cat or dog. They make lovely pets when they are small, but when they become three parts grown, they object to being handled, and sometimes become vicious.

The opossum, when fully-grown, is the size of a large cat. Although very numerous in some parts of New Zealand, the opossum, is a native of Australia, and carries its young in its pouch, like a kangaroo. Opossums live mostly on the leaves, flowers, and fruits of bush trees, including taraire berries, karaka berries, kohekohe. kiki berries, and almost all other bush plants, and foliage. They are also very fond of orchard fruits, therefore they become pests in orcharding districts, by eating the fruit, and also young shoots and buds of apple, pear, and peach trees. Opossums also like bread, cake, biscuits, and are particularly fond of sweet food, including toffees and chocolate. They will occasionally eat raw meat, and kill young birds in their nests. The opossum has beautiful fur. which often brings high prices on the market. If it were not for opossum-trappers, this country would be almost over-run with these little animals. An opossum is very much like a monkey in its way of eating, for it holds its food in its hands. win u it eats. The colour of opossum's fur is mostly a bluish-grey, but there are also browns, and rusty coloured ones.

Amelia Jane (Jean) Shanks nee Morgan 1977 At the Shanks Family Reunion [1977] Jean was especially called to the dais as the pioneer couple's only surviving child or spouse , her son Earl replied on behalf of this second branch of Jimmy's Family.

Earl Campbell Shanks

Plot 306 PERRY Donald John 1938 - 1969 Entry from Burial Register:- 31 years, Wainui Rd. block 5 plot 306 10.2.1969. Accidently killed.

Plot 307 Reginald PERRY

Entry from Burial Register:- Waitoki - block 5 plot 307 -10.2.1967 -R.S.A. -"entered in Public Cemetery register p. 23"

Gwendoline PERRY Gwendoline Perry in 2010

Plot 308 TUCKER Clarence Edward Entry from Burial Register:- late of Kaukapakapa, -block 5 plot 308 - 2.1.1978

Plot 309 DRINNAN Howie Edwin (Tuffy) 1890-1966

Entry from Burial Register:- 75 years Kaukapakapa - block 5 plot 309 - 14.8.1967 (75 years -14.8.1966 - grave 309 -"entered in Public Cemetery register p. 23"

Parents Robert 1856-1936 and Sarah Drinnan nee Smith 1866-1904 Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 18 November 1915, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS KAUKAPAKAPA [OWN CORRESPONDENTS A Church welcome-home was given to Private Howie-Drinnan in the Kaukapakapa Methodist Church on the Sunday morning after his arrival. Mr and Mrs Robert Drinnan, Miss Drinnan, Corporal W. A. Drinnan, Howie, and his younger brother occupied a front seat, and there was a large attendance. Mrs Bellini sang "Abide with Me." Speaking on the -words, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble," the Rev. J. A. Lamond said:—" The soldiers on the battle-field to-day are still strong, ready, and hopeful. But it is a hard battle for our men at the front. We know it is hard for our New Zealand men at the Dardanelles; many of them, have been killed, wounded, or are missing or sick; but they have been true and faithful to the best ideals of their race; their hearts have beat loyal and true every step of 'the way. And although the mighty ocean rolled between them and home, yet for love of home and love of right, they stayed on and fought, so that we might live and be safe from the enemy. And they are there in discomfort and danger they have no home, nor the' comforts of home, but we have all these blessings still. Good men they are, brave and true: we'll thank them, and will be glad when we've done our best for them. Some have "come home, sick or wounded, but only to return again.

But some are NOT, because they have loved us to the very death their blood has been spilt, and their life given for us. What more could they do And all the Nation whispers her appreciation in heartfelt tears. They gave their life and did their best. And in this have followed Jesus closely they loved Him most, because they have loved us most. Their death in Europe is a protest against mistakes of men in Europe. Having heard their Nation's righteous call to protect the weak and. downtrodden, and to safeguard the peace of all the world, they went forth in the true Christian spirit of self-sacrifice. The best comfort for all who mourn their loss is the fact that these brave men died as Christians —fearless of death and hopeful of a bright future. God is now their refuge and strength. May God grant them to know the joys of Heaven, and the life eternal in Christ, for the life that they have lost."

IN LOVING MEMORY OF HOWIE EDWIN (TUFFY) DRINNAN REG NO 51226 1ST W.W. PASSED AWAY AUGUST 14TH 1966 AGED 76 YEARS

5/226 Driver DRINNAN Howard Edward (sic) Fifth Field Artillery S Kaipara Line R.Drinnan Father Kaipara Line.

Plot 310 DRINNAN James Percy (Copper) 1891-1974 Entry from Burial Register:- 83 years, Kaukapakapa -block 6 plot 310 - 11.5.1974, died 9.5.1974

James Percy (Copper) DRINNAN 1891-1974 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11979, 30 May 1902, Page 5 A young man named James Drinnan has been admitted to the hospital suffering from an injured foot. It seems that he was out; shooting -at- Kaukapakapa, and was; about 300 yds away from some others; when a bullet struck him in the foot, having apparently struck some object and ricocheted.

In th1 1951 Wises Post Office Directory he is listed as a butcher.

James Percy (Copper or Percy) DRINNAN 1891-1974

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JAMES PERCY (COPPER) DRINNAN DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF QUEENIE PASSED AWAY 9TH MAY 1974 AGED 84 YEARS LOVED BY HIS FAMILY OF 8 SONS 5 DAUGHTERS 36 GRANDCHILDREN 44 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 1 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILD ALSO HIS BELOVED WIFE QUEENIE PASSED AWAY 13TH OCTOBER 1980 AGED 85 YEARS VERY MUCH LOVED BY HER ABOVE FAMILY

DRINNAN

Plot 311 DRINNAN Harriet Hannah (Queenie) nee BRUNTON 1895-1980

DRINNAN Harriet Hannah (Queenie) nee BRUNTON 1895-1980

1962

QUEENIE DRINNAN (nee Brunton) 1895-1980 My mother. Queenie Brunton, was the eldest of fourteen children from the Wade. Silverdale- She married Percy Drinnan of Kaukapakapa at the age of seventeen years on 1 July 1912 and settled on part of the Drinnan land. Their home was built of kauri felled and milled on the site.

We were a family of eight sons and six daughters (one daughter died in infancy). Mum had a hard life but never complained. She helped milk the cows by hand and worked breaking in the land with Percy. The first eight children were born at home, the next five at Helensville, usually having only twelve to eighteen months between each. The nurse would arrive on horse back to help with the delivery. Mum suffered many hours of pain with her first childbirth. She was so innocent and asked when her tummy would open for the baby to come out.

The hot water was heated on the wood range in kettles and pots, with only candles for light. Once she had an abscess in the breast and the doctor arrived to operate on the kitchen table at home. Doing the washing was an all day job. Boiling the copper, washing. scrubbing and wringing all by hand, then on to the line stretching a quarter of a mile out into the paddock using ti-tree props to hold it up. Her hands would be wrinkled for hours from working in the water.

Making jam meant going to the orchard. filling two 4gallon drums with plums then boiling them in the copper.

We would use beer bottles with their tops cut off for jam jars. We'd do this by tying burning kerosene-soaked wool around the necks. They were dipped in cold water and off they came. Rubbing a stone around the sharp edge made them smooth. Mum would be picking the plum stones out while it was boiling and making sure it never burnt. It was an all day job. Oh, how busy she must have been.

Making the bread meant getting the wood stove really hot and using her yeast mixture made from potatoes and sugar. As the family grew so did her bread making- The treadle sewing machine was always ready to use, making all the baby and school clothes with carrying bags made from sugar-bags. we loved to wear our new clothes to school to show our friends what our mother had made.

Mum could handle the horse and gig and would put the babies in camphor baskets and set off to see her mother and father until the day came when there were too many babies to look after.

After all these years my parents, Queenie and Percy, celebrated their Diamond Wedding in the Kaukapakapa Hall on 1 July 1972. They have now passed on and their thirteen children are all living, aged sixty-two to eighty. There are now many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Meryle Wilson, (daughter) 1999

Plot 312 FOX Peter Charles 1959-1977

Entry from Burial Register:- 18 years Donnelly's Crossing - block 6 plot 312 - 27.11.1977 -son of F Fox, grandson of O E Jordan

PETER CHARLES FOX LOVED SON OF BETH AND FRANK AND GRANDSON OF WYN AND OWEN JORDAN DIED 27TH NOVEMBER 1977 AGED 18 YEARS ------------------WE WILL REMEMBER THE HAPPY TIMES.

Peter Charles Fox: 26-5-1959 t0 27-11-1977. The second son of Frank and Beth Fox (nee Jordan) and brother of Roger, Graham and Janet Fox. When he died at the early age of 18 years, his maternal grandparents, Winifred and Owen Jordan, requested that he be buried near their home. His grave lies near that of his uncle, James Robert Jordan.

Plot 313 WILSON Harry 1920-1980 Son of James Thompson WILSON (Plot 275) and Alice nee Denness. (Plot 274) brother of John Thompson Wilson (Plot 284) Died May 28 1980

2ND NZEF 68197 PTE H WILSON NZ INFANTRY DIED AGED 28.5.1980 60 YRS .

ALWAYS REMEMBERED HARRY WILSON LOVED HUSBAND OF HELEN AND LOVED FATHER OF CAROL, DIANE, CHRIS, AND RALPH R.I.P.

Plot 314 WATSON Phyllis 1921 - 1993 Daughter of James Thompson Wilson and Alice nee Denness Born 7 Apr 1921 and died 6 Aug 1993 in Auckland NZ. buried on 10 Aug 1993

Plot 315 FURNISS Murray I 1922-1992 #47045 LAC RNZAF 1939-1945

Plot 316 Reserved D FURNISS

Plot 317

Reserved Mrs Dawn WILSON

Plot 318 Reserved Colin WILSON

Plot 319 WILSON Richard McDonald 1963 - 1979

IN LOVING MEMORY OF RICHARD McDONALD WILSON MUCH LOVED SON OF DAWN & COLIN AND LOVED BROTHER OF EMMA BORN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ENGLAND 6.9.1963 DIED 2.12.1979 AS A RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT. A LOVING AND THOUGHTFUL BOY HE WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

This was a result of a tragic accident 16 year of St Kentigern's student, was out shooting goats when he accidentally shot himself.

His parents set up a Literary Scholarship at St Kentigern's College, in his memory.

Richard McDonald Wilson Memorial Literature Contest October 01, 2013 at 8:48 AM This is the 30th year of our annual Literature Contest, which commemorates a former student, Richard Wilson, who was tragically killed in 1979 at the end of his 5th Form year at the College. The prizes for this competition were endowed by Richard’s parents in memory of their son.

Richard is remembered as a happy-go-lucky young man with exuberance and joy for life. Like so many before and since, he had particularly enjoyed Field Centre during his 4th Form year and at the conclusion of that year, he wrote this poem for the 1978 school magazine.

A Challenge Richard M Wilson, 4B1, 1978 A mountain is useless Some people say Just a mass of stone That gets in the way Of progress, roads And even dawn That starts the day.

But that is the reason That God put it there To serve as a challenge And raise up the hair Of those who think they ought And those who think they dare.

Man needs something to live for Just out of reach For man needs to learn What God wants to teach – That life is too easy Down on Earth’s vast floor So go on if you dare Take up the challenge And see how you fare; Go climb to the summit But when you reach the top Promise Him to keep going Promise Him you’ll never stop.

2013 Literature Contest Results The literature competition is open to all students to submit an original poem or short piece of prose.

Congratulations to this year’s winning students: Prose

Year 7-10 Prose: 1st - Erin Meek, Year 9, Inferno 2nd - Laura Wyeth, Year 9, Damon 3rd - Jessica Hill, Year 9, Parents Don't Realise Year 11-13 Prose: 1st - Sian Seeley, Year 12, Wanderer 2nd - Rosemary Longstaff, Year 13, Asylum 3rd - Hamish Clark, Year 12, Crackers Poetry Year 7-10 Poetry: 1st - Laura Wyeth, Year 9, Blessedly Innocent 2nd - Chava Arymowicz, Year 10, Coming of Age 3rd - Eleanor Buttle, Year 9, I'm Only Afraid of One Thing Year 11-13 Poetry: 1st - Hamish Clark, Year 12, Ode to Generation Y 2nd - Taylor McDonald, Year 12, Taniwha Street

Plot 320 DRINNAN Bruce Trevor 1921-1986

Son of Leslie Gavin Howie Drinnan (Plot 21) and Lily (Birdie) Bell nee ARMSTRONG (Plot 22) Grandson of James DRINNAN (Plot 190) and Agnes nee SHANKS (Plot 190) Husband of Margaret (Esma ) WRIGHT daughter of James Byrne Wright ( Plot 63C) and Elizabeth Leckie nee Shanks (Plot 63B) whom he married in St Cuthberts Presbyterian Church Kaukapakapa, 21 February 1948 . (Making them first cousins once removed ) In the 1950 Wises Post Office Directory he is listed as Farmer

Plot 321 Margaret Esma DRINNAN nee WRIGHT 1924-2013

Margaret Esma (Esma). DRINNAN, nee WRIGHT 1924-2013 DRINNAN, Margaret Esma (Esma). On the 5 th February 2013, at Matariki Hospital, Te Awamutu (formerly of Waitoki, Kaukapakapa) passed away peacefully in her 89th year with family at her side, now with her much loved late husband Bruce. Wonderful mother and mother-in-law of Susan and Bruce Barton, Terry and Sue, Wendy and Grant Jordan. Cherished Nana of Mark and Suzie Barton, Coralie and Dylan Farrell, Heather and David Hill; Emma and Olivia Jordan. Step Nana of Sharlene, Darren, Julieanne and Adrienne. Loving Great Nana of Liam, Ella and Mitchell; Noah and Elijah: Valentina, Matteo and Luciano. Step Great Nana of Rose.

Special thanks to all those who supported Mum with visits and communications. Thank you for Mum's thoughtful care by Dr Janion Heywood and staff at Matariki Hospital. A service to celebrate Esma's life will be held at St Cuthberts Presbyterian Church, North Crescent, Kaukapakapa on Tuesday, the 12th of February 2013 at 1:00 PM followed by interment at Kaukapakapa Cemetery (Cnr Peak Road and SH16). All Communications to: Terry Drinnan, 1286 Kahikatea Flat Road, R D 1, Kaukapakapa

Plot 322 DRINNAN Kenneth Clyde 1907-1994 & Grace Evelyn nee McCARDLE 1909-2000

Plot 323 Mrs Christine OSBORNE nee DEARLOVE 1922-2015 Died 24 October 2015 Aged 93 years.

Plot 324 OSBORNE Allen James

Allen James Osborne

Mr Osborne’s Recollections of the Hall From Kaukapakapa Through the Children's eyes 1917-1982 (Kaukapakapa 125th Jubilee ) I was a building contractor at the time.. The hall committee asked me if I would undertake alteration on the hall in a more or less supervising capacity. Broadly speaking, the committee would pay the two carpenters I employed, but any work I did would be on a voluntary basis, as my own contribution. I agreed to do this providing Owen Jordon (Plot 221 ) took the responsibility of having the voluntary labour there on the job, which he did.

Most of the force were Kaukapakapa farmers and had an all round knowledge of how things were done or should be done, and were good keen men and said so as well. The construction part of the work was all plain sailing with the more skilled men doing the cutting out and plenty of hammer hands to do the nailing up.

Handling the men was no problem because Owen knew them all pretty well and how they got on or didn't get on together. He would work out his daily labour force on that basis. To my knowledge we never had a carpenters’ union man on the job maybe because we had an undercover arrangement that when they came on the job the boss wasn't there.

The construction part was well on the way when some ladies turned up on the job to check it out. I was approached by Mrs Violet Osbaldiston (Plot 201 ). Owen had told her to see me.

"Where are you starting the stage" she asked?

“Oh! I said “Is this something to do with the stage?"

“It is!" she said “The Women's Division have made and sold things for years to pay for this stage."

“Don't you like the depth of it?" I said She measured off 7 inches or so.

"There, that's to come off”, she said and added that the proscenium (surround) of the stage up to the ceiling had to be shifted back as well.

“Have you got the paint to do the job yet"?

“No." "Don't put it on until we pass the colour either", she said Owen Jordan was discreetly smiling from the discussion. When the danger of her presence had disappeared we discussed the paint job and decided to get it so we'd have a job for wet days. It arrived, so did a rainy day, and we put on a second coat. We thought it looked good, until the ladies saw it and turned it down.

“Miles too dark. That's not the colour we picked", they said.

We all agreed.

“We'll give you a call when we have got the right colour." It rained again and the labour were there to paint.

What to do? Bang another coat on, so on it went. But we did have a plan.

We'll meet them at the door and assure them they were right the first time, it was too dark, but you'll love this lighter shade when you see it", we all said. Sure enough they did and said so!

Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder and of course this incident proved it.

We weren't short of painters provided you didn't require them for a scaffold.

The ceiling of the hall is pretty well up. We made a gantry scaffold with wheels on two of the legs. Now! Who would get up there? “Not me" said one and all. We had it already for the next day and when we got to work, here was Owen Jordan (Plot 221) and he had Parkinsons disease at that stage. He was up there slapping it on.

The paint was kept well mixed with his shaking a lot.

So far most of what has been said, concerns the men folk and not much about the local women, so I'll put a little time now on the fair sex.

We had just come through five to six years of war, and the women not physically involved in the Services had organised themselves into groups to sew, knit, cook etc, and as well as make up food parcels, pack them securely and send them off. Seeing that the work on hall included memorial pillars at the front entrance these enthusiastic women did their bit towards the whole hall project. Many of them were from pioneer stock, not afraid of hard work, and born innovators as well. The lady (Mrs Bell Henley Plot 26A) who lived across the road in the two-storeyed house was the caretaker for the hall at that time and she took the job very, very seriously. She was there part of every day keeping stock of hall property. She was very proud of the twelve tables that the hall had possessed at the time, which was both a good thing and a bad thing, because we had to account for them daily. There came the time when the committee planned for an opening service. Owen Jordan rang me late one night and told me he had forgotten that we had to have a hall sign made, painted and ready to send off to a sign marker on the transport truck to Auckland the next morning. This of course meant I would have to go down to the hall and make it. This was unexpected but there was no way out, so I went down to do it. There wasn't much durable dressed timber there at this stage of the job, but by chance my eyes spotted the kauri tables. They were the right size, durable timber and already made. I was tired (remember!), so I took the legs off painted them, and put them out in front ready for the trip to town. I came home and before going to bed rang Owen.

“Owen, the sign board for the hall is all done and painted and I've put it up on the front of the hall" I said.

The Opening Service came and went without a hitch, that is until the next day.

My phone rang, a voice enquired, “Are you going down to the hall today?"

“Yes I'll come if you need me" I replied.

"Can you come at 10.30?" she asked “Yes I'll see you there" We met and went inside.

“I've counted the tables, and one is missing. You count them", she said I did and she was right, of course, one was missing “Where is it?" she said “l know for sure, they are all at the hall”, I replied. So we counted them again and there were only eleven tables.

“One is missing", she kept saying .

"No, its not", I replied “They are all here at the hall “Where is it then?" We walked outside to the centre of the road and turned and looked at the hall, and I pointed to the new sign.

“There it is!"

I think she was overcome by emotion, because she couldn't speak for a time. That’s not an unusual reaction in those who feel things as our pioneering for-bears did.

This is an honest report of things that I recall as they happened during the restoration of the Kaukapakapa Hall as a memorial to Service men and women from this and surrounding districts.

Plot 325 SHANKS Thomas William 1904 - 1987 And Memorial plaque for their Son Philip Leslie Thomas William was born at his parents property "Muirhead"

Thomas William was born at his parents property "Muirhead"

about 1 Km beyond the end of Shanks Rd at the Peak Kaukapakapa. The house was demolished about 2010.

He was born the fourth child and third son of John Leckie Shanks and Mary Eleanor nee Russell .

For many years he was in charge of transport at Kaipara Dairy following a period of Wartime service training soldiers for WW2 at Wellsford . He had been a member of Shanks Bros carriers of Kaukapakapa with his brothers Bob and Charles. till WW2 interrupted with transport being passed to Railways, and fuel restrictions , and the advent of Kaipara Dairy making it no longer viable for transport to KKK from Auckland. Shanks Bros operated 3 trips a week to and from Auckland via the vehicular ferry and the Northshore. Collecting, cream and of bobby calves up through Makarau Glorit Puhoi, Kanohi etc. They ran a school bus, and also ferried Manure from the KKK railway station to Bell block and other areas of the lower Kaipara.

Tom was a keen Bowler, a member of the AOF (Ancient Order of Foresters) and the Masonic Order. He served on the Board of Governors of Helensville District High School in the early 1950s where his daughter Ruth, and eldest Son John, had the distinction in their years to be Head Boy and . or Girl respectively.

At Bowling Green 1930s Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette , 23 September 1931, Page 2 LOCAL AND GENERAL Amongst recent promotions in military ranks are the following: Captain J. C. E. Wyatt, "A" Squadron, Auckland Mounted Rifles, of Leigh, has been promoted to the rank of Major; Second-Lieut. M. Birdsall, of Whangateau, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed second in command of "A" Squadron, Auckland Mounted Rifles; Second-Lieutenant A. Morrison, of Warkworth, and Second- Lieutenant T. W. Shanks, of Helensville (A.M.R.) have been promoted to Lieutenant,

Lieutenant Thomas William Shanks

Thomas William Shanks 1904 - 1987 Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 3 PERSONAL. Second-Lieutenants G. M. Birdsall, W. W Buttimore, A. Morrison, T W. Shanks and H.. N. Waddington, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 13 Court Pride of Kaukapakapa A.O.F., had a very good attendance at its meeting on quarter night, one of the chief attractions being the presentation of trophies won during the past indoor bowling season. The handicap singles were won by Bro. F. Scurrah., with Bro R. G. Shanks (Plot 330) as runner-up. Bros. A. J. Dye (Plot 230 ) and C. L. Shanks took the handicap pairs. A great deal of the success of the past season was due to the hard work put in by the bowling committee, consisting of Bros. T. W. Shanks, (Plot 325) Len Drinnan, and F. Scurrah.

The coming season is being eagerly anticipated, and some splendid times are expected.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 284, 30 November 1935, Page 23 Court Pride of Kaukapakapa, A.O.F., had an extra large attendance at their last meeting, the attraction being the election and installation of officers for the new term. Among those present were a number of officers and members of Court Star of Helensville, who received a warm welcome. The installing officers were Bros.

Dwerryhouse and Farrcll, who carried out their duties in a very impressive manner. Bro. C. Earle has been chosen as the new C.K., while Bro. T. Shanks occupies the chair of I.P.C.R. When the ceremony was concluded the company sat down to supper, a very happy time being spent.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 150, 28 June 1933, Page 5 transport notices . TRANSPORT LICENSING ACT, 1931 (GOODS SERVICES).

PUBLIC SITTING OF CENTRAL (TRANSPORT) LICENSING AUTHORITY. It is hereby notified that applications for goods-service licenses have been received by the Central Licensing Authority as follows and a public sitting of the Authority will commence in the Consultation Commissioners Rooms, Government Building Auckland, on the 5th day of July 1933...,, at 9.30 a.m., for the purpose of receiving evidence and representations in favour of or against the granting of the applications. Any person wishing to give or make such evidence or representations should immediately notify the Secretary, quoting particulars of the relative application as given below. including the reference number.

Name of Applicant Address (or Nearest Town). ApplicationNo. . T Morris, Ltd. Auckland 24/1/2 L R Collings Leigh 24/1/12 P. V. Thomas K'kapakapa 24/1/11 Hardie Bros. Whangarei 21/1/21 Northern Transport Auckland 24/1/21 (B V Merton White Star Horse Transport Co., Ltd. Auckland 24/1/2!)

A- Holliday Warkworth 21/1/32 Felton Waikato Transport Co. (A. S. Bailey) Auckland 21/1/39 H. T. Salter Papatoetoe 24/1/68 C R. Day Auckland 24/1/70 E. Marbeck Auckland 21/1/73 A. G. Robinson Helensvillc 24/1/79 R. Phillips Warkworth 24/1/80 M. Tolhoff & Sons Puhoi 24/1/92 Kneebone and Little Auckland 24/1/93 A Findlay & Son Maramarua 24/1/104

R C. Gelling Avondale 21/1/105 Smith and Davies Kaipara Flats 21/1/112 Dargaville Transport (LDickens and J Winter) Auckland 24/1/123 Winstone. Ltd. Auckland 21/1/137 V. Schedewy Puhoi 24/1/145 Shanks Brothers K'kapakapa 24/l/153 A Migounoff Matakana 21/l/159 Hall Pukekohe 24/1/160 C H Frankham Newmarket 21/1/167 C. L. Herbert Warkworth 24/1/172 F M. Flay Warkworth 24/1/183 R. A. Lister Mt. Eden 2 1/1/ 191 A. H. Giles K'para Flats 24/1/200 R. P. Hooper Tauhoa 24/1/208 E.L.Curnow Pukekohe 24/l/230 H. Clegg Warkworth 21/1/237 C S. Jeffs Warkwortlh 24/1/238 W C Sharp Matakana 24/1/251 R Edwards Omaha Flats 24/1/258 A. T. Roke Matakana 24/1/260 B Jones Matakana 24/1/282 W. Whiting Auckland 24/1/61 J. McComb Pukekohe 24/1/209 R. DIXON, Secretary, Central (Transport) Licensing Authority, C/o Public Works Dept., Auckland. 28

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 176, 27 July 1934, Page 8 GOODS SERVICES. APPLICATIONS GRANTED. TRANSPORT AUTHORITY. A number of applications for services were considered at a sitting of the No. 1 Transport Licensing Authority yesterday. Mr. J. A. C. Allum presided, and with him were Messrs. T. Hanna and E. C. Blomfield. Applications granted were: Renewal of continuous goods services and licenses: C. C. Holst (Rewiti), between Auckland and Helensville, and an additional route Waimauku and Helensville; A. E. Forrest (Auckland), only the portion between Auckland and Puni, via Pukekohe; C. R. A. Nairn (Waimauku), five miles radius of Waimauku; J. Trenouth (Hunua), renewal of last year's; H. H. Charlesworth (Auckland), renewal; Sickling Bros. (Papakura:), renewal; S. J. Wright (Karaka), renewal with amendments; P. Kane (Waimauku), renewal with restrictions; S. Appleby (Drury), renewal; Johnson Bros. (Papakura), renewal; W. R. Leighton and Son, Ltd. (Henderson), renewal with restrictions; C. L. Laslett (Hunua), renewal; J. E. D. Farrant (Papakura), renewal with amendments; V. S. Rogers (Papakura), [renewal with amendments; Mrs. G. F. Wilson (Waimauku), renewal with amendments; B. E.Jenkins (Otahuhu), renewal;..C. H. Frankham (Newmarket), renewal; H. Morris, Ltd. Devonport), renewal with amendments; J. J. Craig, Ltd. (Auckland), renewal with amendments; C. L. Herbert (Warkworth), Renewal with amendments and restrictions White Star Horse Transport Co., Ltd. (Auckland), renewal with amendments; Winstone, Ltd. (Auckland), renewal; J. H. M. Carpenter, Ltd., renewal with amendments; Shanks Bros.

(Kaukapakapa), renewal; N. M. Hinge (Huia), renewal.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 237, 6 October 1934, Page 13

MOTOR TRANSPORT. APPLICATIONS DEALT WITH. Amendments were granted to goods service licenses held by Shanks Brothers, Kaukapakapa, and C. C. Holst, Rewiti, and decision was reserved in the case of K. J. B. McCardle and A. Findlay and Son, Maramarua, and J. T. Perry, Miranda.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 27 The Helensville Foresters Lodge had an extra large attendance on quarter night when the election and installation of officers also took place. The presenting officers for the installation ceremony were P.C.R.'s, Bros. T. Shanks and F. Scurragh, of Court Pride of Kaukapakapa. Bro. W. Brough is the new occ ipant of the Chief Rangers chair, and Bro. T. Stinson, Sub-Chief. The business was put through as speedily as possible and then a social evening was held. The Chief Ranger welcomed the visitors and representatives from other lodges.

Bro. Stevens, I.0.0. F., replied to this welcome and spoke of the great work being done by the Friendly Societies. Bro. McLeod supported these remarks. Bro. Roger West, P.C.R., was presented with his Past Chief Rangers honours by Bro. White, who eulogised the recipient's work for the lodge. A very nice supper was served by the committee under the direction of Sister Audrey Hunter. Items were rendered bv Miss Brough.

Miss Alice Taylor, Mr. Hallwell and Bro. Watkinson.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 158, 7 July 1941, Page 8 BURGLARS BUSY HELENSVILLE RAIDS TOWN BOARD AND STORE Burglars operated in the Helensville district during the week-end, when raids were made on the office of the Helensville Town Board in Commercial Road, and on a small store at Kaukapakapa, a sum of 17/6 being taken from the Town Board and about ÂŁ15 to ÂŁ20 worth of goods from the store, which is operated by Shanks Bros.

The thieves forced a window of the Town Board's office, making an entry, it is believed, some time after midnight on Saturday. The safe door was blown open, a number of papers scattered, and the only cashbox containing any money was taken. No other damage was done.

It is believed the same burglars were responsible for the raid on the store.

Plot 326 Eleanor Alice SHANKS nee VERCOE 1910-2004

Eleanor Alice (Ella) SHANKS nee VERCOE 1910-2004

Eleanor Alice (Ella) SHANKS nee VERCOE 1910-2004 ....1994 Address:--48 Asquith Av Mt Albert 09 849 3748 e-mail from Atholea 24Jun 2004 Hello Bruce, It is a bit late for you to be working at the computer but I hope you get this message before tomorrow's Herald.

Tom has just rung from up there because they don't know your phone number and no one can find a likely-looking set of initials for you. And nobody at all knows your street address!!

So I have been seconded to e-mail you and tell you that your aunt died in her sleep early on Thursday morning She had been transferred from Selwyn to Auckland hospital because while she was not sick she was not quite well and she needed a check over.

By good fortune Tom had gone up on Tuesday morning and spent Wednesday with her. She was in good spirits and ordered her meals for the following day, then died about 4a.m. to the surprise of the nurses dealing with her.

Peter is coming back from his brief holiday in Sydney and the funeral will be at Selwyn village at 11.30 next Wednesday, with tea and buns in one of the rooms there and then the interment at KKK cemetery at 2.30.

Tom is staying with John Saunders at the old place. Perhaps you could tell your parents - they will be philosophical about such events- but you will know if they would be better told another time. Tom and I have just come back from Invercargill and my sister-in-law's untimely death at 63, but Mrs Shanks has had a good long life and it will not be a sad funeral.

Regards Atholea.(daughter in law)

Philip Leslie Shanks 1938-2003

Phillip's ashes are with his mother.

Plot 327 Reserved Grove Family

Plot 328 GROVE Natalie Baby of Kim GROVES Entry from Burial Register:- (marker only) In God's keeping 15.3.81

Plot 329 Reserved GROVE

Plot 330 SHANKS Robert Gavin 1902-1992

Bob and Jean Shanks about 1984

As all his siblings Robert Gavin Shanks (named after both his Grandfathers Gavin Brash Shanks (Plot 51) and Robert Russell) was born at the family home "Muirhead" (the family remember it as "up home" fairly remote even by today's standards. on 22 October 1902 the 4th child and second son, of John L ( plot 244) and Mary Eleanor (Plot 243) Shanks He went to Kaukapakapa School 3 boys on a horse one day nearing their home property at the top of Shanks Rd. the horse keeled over and died. I guess it had been galloped up the hill ?

After cutting firewood on contract in and around Kaukapakapa he and his Brothers Tom and Charles moved from trucking their own firewood, into a general carrying business which expanded until war time, lack of petrol and freight conveyance being conferred to rail, they sold to Kaipara Dairy an emerging force in the South Kaipara region.

Bob married Jane known as Jean Gillies on 14 Feb 1934 at the Parakai Presbyterian Church Helensville

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21728, 17 February 1934, Page 1 SHANKS—GILLIES.- —On February 14, at Parakai Presbyterian Church, by Rev. S. L- Boot, Robert Gavin, second son of Mr and Mrs. J L. Shanks, Kaukapakapa to Jane Wilson, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.Gillies, of Wharepapa.

He ably assisted by Jean, continued to run the service station on the corner of Kahikatea Flats Rd and SH 16 until their retirement. It was commonly known within the family as "'the office" and apart from selling fuel, oil, batteries etc for the motor industry, it was an insurance agency, and depot for the Auckland Bottle Co. At one time Frank Taylor of Edenvale known as "Pop" serviced the books, and Kath Dormer was also employed there during the 1940s He was a very keen and active bowler, a School committee man, and spent his entire life living in Kaukapakapa, and serving the district, as his father and grandfather had done before him. He was a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and served in the Northern Mounted Rifle militia. In his younger day, he was noted to be a good ball room dancer. During the World War 2 years he was a Driver in the Army here in the Northern District.

They lived in South Cresc until after Bob's death in 1992 at age 90, . Jean retired to Red Beach where she lived until her 97th year.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 219, 15 September 1932, Page 12 A social evening was held in the Woodhill Hall on Saturday, as a farewell for Miss Jessie Quarrie, of Parakai, who is leaving the district to take up nursing duties at Whangarei. On behalf of the residents of the district, Mr. S. Phillips presented Miss Quarrie with a fountain pen, engraved with her initials. Two bouquets were presented

by Miss Bluebell Mackic, on behalf of the members of the Woodhill Women's Institute, and by Mrs. Ted Phillips, from friends in the district. A Monte Carlo waltz was won by Mrs. Woodbridge and Mr. Bob Shanks (Kaukapakapa). A statue waltz was won by Miss Hinds (Kaukapakapa) and Mr. A. Phillips

Shanks Bros Service Station about 1970 Shanks Bros

by Graham Jordan (Plot 236) The small building by the Stone , built and owned by Bob and Tom Shanks was a trucking depot and multibrand service station. A feature was a ‘Big Tree’ brand pump which was operated manually. This was handy during power cuts which were even more common then than they are today.

Shanks Bros also operated the first school bus which ran from Kanohi via Kaukapakapa School to Helensville High School. Two of the early drivers were Bert Cory and then George Rix.(Plot 297) On one occasion during a serious breakdown of the bus, one of their cream lorries was used as a substitute vehicle.

Shanks Bros School bus.

We arrived at High School to cheers and jeers.

When the trucking business was sold to the Kaipara Dairy Co, Tom (Plot 325) followed the trucks to become transport manager.

Bob and Jean continued to run the service station for many more years.

Bob was famous For the huge heap of bottles neatly stacked beside the office. His bottle buying business was the main provider of pocket money for many of the local kids-

With a load of Wool Shanks Brothers 3 in all Tom, Bob and Charles initially commenced a trucking business to cart firewood to the railway, eventually expanding to a fleet of trucks, and a three times a week service to Auckland, via Albany to the vehicular ferry from Birkenhead or Devonport.

Vehicular Ferry crossing Waitemata Harbour They also carried Manure from the Kaukapakapa Railway Station to local farmers including the Bell Block Station above Waikoukou. They also carried sheep and cattle, and serviced farms as far away as Buckland's of Southhead. A regular cream service collecting from Puhoi, Glorit, Makarau and Kanohi to the Kaukapakapa and Helensville factories. Bobby calf runs, school bus were other services offered. Not to forget to mention a Saturday night social trip to the cinema in Helensville, or a nearby dance the seats on the truck, planks, hay bales or manure sacks.

The Shanks Bros had garaging and a service facility for their trucks on the about 200metres the Kaukapakapa side from the corner of what is now Henley Rd. Where Charles the youngest of the three brothers effected maintenance and repairs along with his driving commitments.

Before marriage the three brothers lived together in a house, they called 'the bach' in the oak trees , often employing a male cook to oversee their culinary requirements, this was in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s.

Notes added by Bruce Shanks 2015

Bob and Charlie unloading a piano

A load of Hay

Pigs

Plot 331 Jane Wilson SHANKS nee GILLIES Jean as she was known, was born in Pukekohe on 10 May 1912 daughter of James Wilson Gillies and his wife Hughina nee Alexander. She spent some of her early years at Whakatane, before her father took over the Jersey Stud of Hutchison Bros at Wharepapa. She married Robert Gavin Shanks at the Parakai Presbyterian Church Helensville on 14 Feb 1934.

She assisted her husband at the Service Station on the corner of SH 16 and Kahikatea Flats Rd , serving petrol and acting as an Insurance agency. There home was nearby in South Crescent which they had built when they were married. Bob who had been a carrier for many years, and frustrated moving furniture in and out of homes, had an extra wide passageway built in their home.

Sylvia,

Bob (Snr ) Ross

Jean

Bob (son)

Elaine 1959 Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 229, 26 September 1936, Page 19 KAUKAPAKAPA. Owing to an epidemic of influenza in the district, the attendance at the last meeting was poor. In the absence of the president, Mrs. R. Osbaldiston, Mrs. Henley presided. A motion of sympathy was passed with the family of the late Mrs. N. Nielson, of Auckland. Two new members were welcomed, Mrs. I. Cape and Mrs. Robert Shanks. Delegates were notified of the Northern group meeting, W.P.E., to be held in Helensville in October. Mrs. Mobberley and Mrs. W. V. Jones -were the hostesses. Mrs. M. Buckton produced a short one act play for the social hour. Those taking part were Mrs. M. Buckton, Mrs. Guy Shanks and Mrs. Jack Naughton.

Jane Wilson (Jean). On Tuesday 1 July 2008 (peacefully) at Fairview Care Albany. Aged 96 years. Loved wife of the late Robert Gavin and loving mother of Sylvia Bramble, Bob, Ross, and Elaine Paton; mother-in-law of Harold, Pat, Robyn and Graeme. Grandma of Andrew and Karyn Shanks, Ian, Ray, and Michael Shanks, Terry and Janice Paton, and fond great-grandmother of Luke and Daniel Shanks, Kate and Kelsey Shanks, and Owen Paton. A service for Jean will be held at The Chapel of Faithfull Funeral Services, 35 Red Beach Rd, Hibiscus Coast on Friday 4 July 2008 at 2pm followed by a private cremation. All communications to PO Box 305, Whangaparaoa, Auckland. No flowers by request. • Published Wednesday, July 02 2008 • First Published Wednesday, July 02 2008

Plot 332 COX Valerie Sybil

COX Leonard Raymond

Passed away 6th October 2007

Plot 333

RESERVED Gary & Yvonne Cox

Plot 334 Reserved Cox Famly

RESERVED

Plot 335 Doris Mabel WOOD Buried 2002.

RESERVED Mrs Y COX

Plot 336

JORDAN James Robert 1943-1985

Beth and Robin

James Robert Jordan: 22-12-43 to 24-5-85.

James Robert Jordan: 22-12-43 to 24-5-85.

Rob was a capable student, but like his father, he was a man of the land. He worked for a time as a shepherd on a large station in Gisborne, and for a time at the Island for an older brother Graham, before marrying Jennifer Mitchell.

In partnership with his eldest brother Cedric who retained an interest in the land despite being a partner in a law firm, Rob and Jenny, purchased a block of land in Oyster Point Road as a sheep and beef farm. It required a great deal of re-development due to a serious infestation of gorse. Rob and Jenny worked very hard and with financial input from Cedric, made rapid progress.

By the time their 3 children were at High School, the future was beginning to look promising. Suddenly, Rob became very ill. Less than a month after being diagnosed with acute Leukaemia, he died at 41 years of age. Rob was loved and respected by many.

Plot 337 RESERVED Mrs Jenny JORDAN widow of Rob Jordan

Plot 338 RESERVED Fiona WILLIS (Mrs Hucklesby)

Plot 338

RESERVED I & H WILLIS

Plot 339 FOTHERINGHAME Ralph 2014

New Berm 2015

Plot 1 DRUMMOND Lesley -2015 Ashes

Plot 2 OUWEJAN Jan ( John) Ashes

WOODEN PLAQUES ON FENCE BENEATH OAKS The memorial oaks were seedlings from the oaks at Eden Vale There are brass plaques to their memory in the church porch.

They were moved there some years ago as the weather was affecting them too much outside.

Spr HOWARD RICHARD NORTHEY 1904-1943

Spr Howard Richard NORTHEY 1904 - 1943 Date of birth about 1904- Died, Killed in action 28 November 1943 aged 39 Service number 259288 AWMM Force Army AWMM Last rank Sapper AWMM New Zealand Engineers, 6 Field Company AWMM

War World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM He was single and the farmer son of Howard Northey and of Constance Ellen Northey (nee Beynon), of 41 Young Street Wanganui, Wellington, New Zealand.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1943, Page 6 ROLL OF HONOUR N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES KILLED IN ACTION NORTHEY Howard, Spr. Mrs. C. Northey, 41 Young Street, Wanganui East (m.)

He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery , Italy.

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24898, 20 May 1944, Page 3 Deceased Soldier's Estate: McCORMICK-DEERING TRACTOR W.D.6, 30 h.p., 4-cyl. Diesel, power take off, rubber tyres, used only 4 months. Also: No. 1A Boothmac Power Hay Press, first-class order, used only 3 seasons. Will sell separately or together.—For further particulars apply to MRS. C. NORTHEY 41 Young Street, Wanganui East.

Sangro River War cemetery.

Robert Wyndham TAYLOR 1919-1943

Robert Wyndham TAYLOR 1919-1943 Was born 13th October 1919 in England and celebrated his 1st birthday on the ship about 2 weeks before the family arrived to settle at Eden Vale Kaukapakapa. Son of Frank Taylor and of Sophia Taylor (nee Wade), of Kaukapakapa, Auckland, New Zealand.. He was killed in action 15 December 1943, and is buried in Sangro River War Cemetery. He was a Lance Corporal in the NZ Infantry 21st Battalion, and left NZ in the 2NZEF He was listed as single and a labourer, Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 103, 3 May 1943, Page 4 N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES WOUNDED. TAYLOR Robert W., Pte. Mrs. S. Taylor, Kaukapakapa, (in.).

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24780, 31 December 1943, Page 1 TAYLOR L.-Cpl. Robert Wyndham.— Dearly-loved youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, Kaukapakapa, and loved brother of Dora (Mrs. Scurrah), Addie Wyn (Mrs. Jordan), Barbara, Margaret, Ron and Norman; aged 21 years New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24781, 3 January 1944, Page 4 Advice has been received that Lance- Corporal Robert Wyndham Taylor, of Kaukapakapa, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, of Kaukapakapa, has been killed in action. Educated at the Helensville High School, he was farming before he enlisted. He had been overseas about 12 months and had been wounded in fighting in the Middle East.

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