Hello.
I have found this photo and notes in the effects of an estate. Thought it may be of interest to the families of those named in the notes. Sorry but I’m not able to vouch for those named, so they should be compared with other family photographic records.
- Alan.
Fifty three pupils at Gordonton Primary School, main road Gordonton [originally Hukanui or some times Hokunui in Waikato Times accounts.] Notes state about 1930, with teachers possibly being Horace HILL and Rona BARRY.
BACK ROW L to R.
Walter RIDDELL ?, Lionel DALBETH, Dick TAYLOR, Ian LAIDLAW, Neville (Tim) DALBETH, Harvey GOONAN, Alex THOMPSON, Noel THOMPSON, Lex RIDDELL, 10 ?, Bobby WATSON, 12 ?
SECOND ROW.
George THOMPSON, 2 ?, xx CHRISTENSON, Louis BELL, Athol CARSWELL,, Ron SHARP, Noel EDWARDS, (Billo) SLATER, Jack RIDDELL, Ross ? GOONAN, Mick HENRY, 12 ?, Ian (?) VINCENT, 14 ?
SEATED
1 ?, 2 ?, Margaret O’HERN, xx HINTZ, Verona EDWARDS ?, Muriel DALBETH, Pat SEDDON, Rosemary TAYLOR, Verna ALDERWICK, Betty RIDDELL, Shirley SEDDON, xx VINCENT, Heather WILLIAMSON, Eileen SMITH.
KNEELING
Charlotte PENE ?, Jean PENE, 3 to 5 ?, xx PENE, Dawn BELL, Peggy LAIDLAW, 9 ?, xx DALBETH [side note “cleft pallet”] Margaret RIDDELL, 12 ?, Beulah HILL.
A 600 dpi copy can be made available to family interests.