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Tararua Range (About 1965 in the Tararua ranges.)

Tony on the bridge. (On way to Nettle Creek Hut. Oronorongo Range. 1960's.)

John Tait Hut (Bruce Brierley.)

John Tait Hut (1960's)

Hunting the river flats (Tony, Paul Sadlier, Bruce Brierly. 1960's. Otaki Forks.)

River Flats (Tararuas in the 1960's)

Photo stop below the snow line. (1960's. Tony in the middle. Tararua ranges on the way to Field Hut.)

Andrew Phillips (Nelson early 1960's
Motorbike trip with Murray, Dave (Bear) Mazey and I.)

Ollie Olsen (Ollie and his sluice box on the track of a gold find. Between Picton and Nelson off the Link Road. Near Mt Cullen)

Tony (Deer stalking, Tararuas late 1960's)

Deer Cullers camp. Near Mt Cullen. (Met the cullers going out of camp for the long weekend and they invited us to stay while they were away. Camp sitting while Ollie looked for gold.. Lower Richmond Range, South Island)

Harry Day and Ollie Olsen (Red Rocks. Island Bay, Wellington)

Andrew Phillips (Needed the brolly?)

Dave Mazey (aka The Bear). (Sign was specially put up for Daves' visit.)

Dave Mazey (Dave and Gavin Wilson and I had the job of clearing the wiring out from the defunct Ngauranga Meatworks. First job out of college and self employed.)

Andy Phillips and Murray Olsen (South Island Motorbike trip.)

Murray, his auntie Pat (?) and cousins. (Protesting the Vietnam War. Kilbirnie, Wellington)

Gail Harvey (Gail, my first 'proper' girlfriend and Murray 'dated' Gail's sister. Two sweet little girls who turned in to screaming nutters when we took them to a P J Proby concert. I recall a guy sitting behind us (at the Wellington Opera House), offered us money to shut them up. We couldn't.)

Andrew and Murray (Murrays 'flat'.)

Dianne Paul (At a Ball, Majestic Cabaret)

Diane and me. (South Island hitch hiking. Haast Bridge.)

South Sydney Junior Leagues Club (Feb 1971. Pam Olsen and Richard, Lin and I. Boozy night out.)

Murray and Marianne. (Sydney. Murray moved in with Wendy and I on his way back to NZ from the UK.)

Tony (Australia about 1969)

Wendy (Wendy and I started dating almost as soon as she arrived in Sydney. Great times. My super hot Chrysler Valiant.)

Wendy (Soon after her arrival in Sydney. Taken on the roof of Holyoak. Our home for about 12 months.)

Murray (And Jenny Whitlaw, and her brother. Wendy and I had moved out of Holyoak and got a flat together up the road in Cremorne. Murray arrived and stayed on his way back to NZ from England. Our flat was subsequently raided by Jennys husband accompanied by armed bailiffs looking to cite Murray in their divorce. Murray took off for NZ the next day.)

Murray and Jenny Whitelaws brother. (Our flat in Cremorne)

Brian Baigent (Brian was Commodore of the City of Sydney Coastal Cruising Club. I stayed on his launch, 'Leisure Lady' as caretaker for about 3 months. Great days. Moored at Rushcutter Bay, Sydney Harbour.)

On board Leisure Lady (Heading in to Rushcutter Bay mooring. Sydney Harbour.)

Brian on board. (Rushcutter Bay, Sydney.)

MV Leisure Lady. (Rushcutter Bay, Sydney.)

Warren Berry, Wendy and friends (Wendy arrived in Sydney to see a friend from Christchurch who was 'dating' Warren. Warren (my friend) was a playboy, gambler, his father ( a wealthy Bookie) owned 'Holyoak' the old stately private hotel that was converted into flatting. This is us picking Wendy up from Sydney Airport.)

The view from my 'flat'. (This is the view from my balcony at Holyoak. Australia Square, Opera House and the Harbour Bridge (just out of pic)..)

Dianne and I (On a bus while 'hitch hiking around the South Island.)

Holyoak (In its earlier heydays before being converted into single units for flatters. The bay windows had tables where we used to gather and play cards and talk into the early hours.)

Murray and Jenny Whitelaw (At Wendys and my Flat, Sydney)

Pam Olsen (Ball photo, Wellington.)

Julian and Murray (Murray teaching Julian to ride. Lyall Bay, by the airport factories.)

The Freezer Truck. Not! (The only non refrigerated Freezer Truck on the road in Sydney. I drove this for 12 months delivering food to lunch bars until, overloaded, i crashed on Paramatta Rd. Breaks failed.)

Diane . (At the girls (Diane, Marianne, Rosemary, Stephanie) flat, Haitatai.)

Stephanie (Flatmate of Diane Paul (Tonys friend), Marianne Fountaine and Rosemary Lay (Married Dennis Chapman).)

Dianne and I (Departure day. Dianne and I hitch hiked and bused around the South Island. About 1971)

Marilyn Peters (At the Firemans Ball. Majestic Cabaret, Wellington)

Mum and Dad (Dress up for the Ball. Wellington, Majestic cabaret.)

Marilyn Peters (Paraparaumu.)

Gavin Wilson (Friend from Scots College. Here we were on the job. Labour. Removing the wiring from the deserted Ngauranga Meatworks. Wellington. About 1965)

Mum and Tony and Nana (Grand Mother, Minnie Woods. About 1950)

Mum (At home. Kelburn. Wellington.)

Tony and Sister Suzanne

Grand Mother. Elsie Polglase. (With son Garth, Tonys father.)

Tony and sister Suzanne (Street photographers were out everyday working the shoppers in Wellington. Outside Evans Drapers, Cuba St., Wellington.)

Fiji (Tony and a 'local'.)

Grand Mother. (Dads mother, Elsie. Christchurch.)

Pam Olsen (Murrays cousin while living with the Olsens' at Coutts St, Wellington. About 1960)

Gwen and Harry Polglase (Tonys mother and Harry Polglase. My grand father on my fathers side. Remembered as a lovely man with a great sense of humour.)

Off to camp. (Tony as a boy scout. Colway St., Ngaio.)

Tony (1953. 'Street' photographer. Wellington.)

Alistair Heasley (Good mate at Scots College secondary school years. Kept in touch for a few years after college. Great gymnast and all round sportsman.)

Pam Olsen and Gay Berquist (Kilbirnie about 1962)

School Cricket (Back left: Chris Parton and; Phillip Tse. Front: Craig McIndoe, Tony, Gavin Wilson and Sean Moyner)

Mum (Wedding photo. 1941)

Mums wedding Day (With her father, Bert Woods.)

Brother John (1967?)

Tony with Anita Olsen (Holiday in Fiji with the Olsen family.
About 1970.)

Dib, dib dob. (October 1957. At this time we were living in Ngaio.)

Me at Wellington Zoo (Sept 1950)

Mum. Me and Mums' mother, Minnie Woods. (Taken at a wedding (M Wakely) June 1950.)

My Plunket Book

My Plunket Book (Seems like I was a perfect baby. The 'hospital I was born in, 3/4 the way up Willis St, Wellington, became the Red Cross Centre. Today I think its probably under a motorway.)

Tony and Sister Sue (Me at 3 yrs 11 mth, Sue at 11 mths. Sept 1951.
Back of photo says very strong sun, Tony squinting. (I knew that wasn't my usual look).)

Mum and I (Having a day in town in Queen St, Auckland.)

Me, 2 months old (From what I gather, Mum and Dad were living at Sutherland Rd, Melrose, Wellington when I was born.)

Me again (2 years 1 month, Nov 1949)

Me with an 'een'. (Melrose Nov 1949. Apparently I craved ice cream (een) from a young age. Still do. Esp Tip Top orange choc chip ice. Helped that Dad was the Company Secretary at Tip Top.)

Me (At Nana and GrandPops home. 22 Crawford Rd, Kilbirnie.)

Me, 2 months old (New Years Day,1948. Melrose, Wellington.)

Me, yet again (Nov 1949)

Me (Lyall Bay? Wellington.)

Me (Lyall Bay? Wellington)

Me with an 'een' (1949)

Me (Taken by Christopher Bede Studios. Auckland)

Me (An early start as a grass farmer.)

Dads Father, Harry Polglase (1920's?)

Dads Mother. Elsie Polglase (1920's)

Me (5 years old, Wellington)

Me, Santa and cousin Jeff Brown (Jeff is Mums sisters' (Audrey) son.)

Sue and Mum. Me and Nana. (Cuba St Wellington. Note Evans Drapery in background. In those days shopping was wrapped in brown paper and tied with string. (See Sues parcel). Mum used to haunt Evanses for the bargains. Always a photographer in the vicinity.)

Me and Sue (1955)

I should know . . . (Who this is. I think she was a friend of Nana and Mum as she is in a few pics of both.)

Me off to tennis (Me in Pram at the Lyall Bay Tennis Club. Dad was an A grade player.)

Dad and Mum (During WW2. On Leave.)

Elsie Polglase and a baby Garth (1920. Dad at 11 weeks.)

Auntie Pauline (left) (Dads sister, Pauline with Judith Stanley. Oamaru, 1920's.)

The Falloon sisters (Alice, Fanny and Florrie)

Uncle Ron (Brown) Mum and Dad (Raumati, 1945 Anniversary weekend.)

Honeymoon (Mum on her honeymoon in Hastings Dec 1941.)

At the Office (Harry Polglase worked for the Income Tax Dept. 2nd from right.)

Harry Polglase (Dads father, Oamaru. Keen tennis player, as was Dad, as was I. In our younger years only.)

Harry Polglase (Wharf St, Oamaru. 1929-30)

Ngaio School Photo (Me, Top row, 2nd from left)

Lyall Bay School (Me, 2nd row, center.)

Me (2nd row, far right. Lyall Bay School 1959.)

Kite Flying (Ngaio School. Me top row, 2nd from right.)

Christchurch 1960 (Elsie and Harry Polglase (Dads parents) Pauline and Jack Devine (Dads sister and husband), Dad. Sue front and two Devine boys. My Mum always hated this photo (I took it on a vest pocket Kodak) as she thought the men looked like animals!)

John, Sue and Jenny (My bro and sisters, Paraparaumu, White St., bach.)

Graeme, Ross and David Devine, with sister Sue. (The boys are dads sisters (Pauline and Jack Devine) children. 1960.)

John and Dad (Taupo Hotel Baths. Jan 1963. John embarrassed everyone!)

Christchurch Cathedral (1960)

Mum with Patty Dimes and Alistair Gunn. (Patty's husband Bill was Dads best friend. Alistair was a South African 'playboy' who lived in Paraparaumu and hung out with Dad and Bill. (Never liked him!))

Brother John and Dad. (Devonport, Auckland)

John (Mums Morris Minor that eventually became mine for the princely sum of 100 pounds.)

'Wards' daughter. (Sept 1964. Lynette, decorating my old Morris Minor. Next door neighbor of the Olsens in Bay Rd, Kilbirnie)

Murray Olsen (Kilbirnie. June 1964)

Me, Bruce Brierley and friend. (And friends, Tararua's. 1960's)

Jenny and friend Anne. (Murrays cousin. J Compton.)

Max Kerr and Jim Barr (Scots College hockey bus trip. 1964)

Sue and I (1958. Colway St, Ngaio.)

Wynn Jones, Scots College Master. (Geography lesson. Known as Buck, behind his back.)

Fastdraw John. (My brother.)

Mums Family (Me, Jeff Brown, Mums father (hidden), Aunti Audrey (Mums sister) Dad, Mums mother and Mum. Sue, cousin Leonie Brown and my sister Jenny.)

Me and Ross Cook. (Murray, Andy and Ross owned Suzukis. I was just a pillion passenger in those days.)

Murray, Andrew Phillips, Ross Cook (Bike trip.)

Ross Cook (And his 6 speed Suzuki T20. Very fast and advanced for the time.)

Murray, Andrew and John Abernathy (Makara coast. Wellington.)

Andrew, Murray and I. (1966, Picton bush camp with Murrays father, Ollie.)

Me, Andrew and Murray (1966, Picton bush camp with Murrays father, Ollie.)

Murray (Auckland for skating 1967.)

Murray and Andrew (sleeping) (Auckland for skating 1967.)

Murray (Auckland for skating 1967.)

Keith Cederman (School friend. Scots College.)

Christine Compton (Murrays cousin.)

Happy Days (Cousin Jeff Brown, me and Sue. 1958. Dads Pontiac. Note the doors opening. Sue eventually opened the door while we were travelling and was dragged out into the slip stream. Many months in hospital but healed without a scar, as far as I know.)

Ross Cook and Murrays cousin, John Compton.

Roller Hockey 1967 (Brruce Gibson 2nd left, Goalie Andrew, Murray, me far right (next to the dolly bird))

Roller Hockey 1968 (Murray Olsen far left, Tony far right.)

Tony and Murray (Glide skating rink, Kilbirnie, Wellington)

Murray, Andrew, Paul and Murrays sister Kathy. (Pauls Morris Minor.)

Kathy Olsen (Otaki skating Rink)

Kathy Olsen (Otaki skating Rink)

Speed skating finals, Australasian (Our guys in black. Over, Britt and Birchall.)

Girls 1966 Roller Skating team. (Beside the Glide Rink, Kilbirnie.)

Andy Phillips (Outside the Glide Rink, Kilbirnie, Wellington. 1966)

Roller Hockey (Tony, Bruce Gibson (striped). Glide Skating Rink. Wellington)

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