We spent a couple weeks in April visiting friends in NZ between OZ and Rarotonga. We spent a weekend at Hanmer with the Stokes, went to Nelson to see Jock and Rosemary Braithwaite, and John and Linda Dow,(John worked for me in NZ in 1969-70 and just retired as President of Newmont Australia, Jock was our business partner then.) Then we returned to Christchurch for more time with the Stokes. There we visited Mary Taylor, wife of the boy's music teacher at Medbury, Topsy Deans and Kate, who lives in Queenstown and is a skier/ landscaper, Claire Richards, and John and Olwyn Musgrove. We were in and out of Auckland going back and forth, visited the Leigh area, drove out to Piha west of Auckland, and had dinner with Padget and Stella Milsom, and on the last night met up with Mike and Mary Stokes and Jonathan and Anna Stokes and their kids for dinner. It was a real reunion trip! Kiwis are such great hosts and friends!
Here are some pics.
New Zealand Visits
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New Zealand Visits
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- In Hanmer we had a visit from Trevor and Sandra (Turnbull) Knight. Sandra was our Chch neighbor.
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- This is the view from the Stokes' Hanmer house.
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- Brian had to give Judy a ride on his new scooter!
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- On our way to Nelson we stopped at the falls on the Wiarea River
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- This is the Braithwaites on the Boulder Bar which forms the harbour at Nelson. The City behind us.
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- We had some wonderful times with the stokes in Chch.
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- Clare Richards joind us for drinks. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the Musgroves.
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- We paid a token visit to the surfing beach at Piha for our surfer, Russ.
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- Mike and Mary, Jonathan and Anna. Each have two little ones! Anna's second is still on the way!
Russ & Judy