“Break-Up Ceremony 1951.”
Girls’ culture group dressed in gymfrock, white shirt and tie, perform action songs, the double, single, long and short poi, for families and guests attending the ceremony.
A gymnastic display follows.
One of the girls pins a corsage onto lady’s suit lapel.
Maori gentleman speaker; several women wearing corsages.
“A MWMU Project - Kurahuna 21st Birthday 1952.”
A billboard advertises the Hostel’s sporting events on the 29th March Sports Day”1952.
003:05 Girls of all ages take part in sporting events; later there is time to relax.
People run for cover from the rain; view of Hostel and surrounding buildings; girls relaxing in the sun; view inside recreation room.
The Union supported Deaconess House and the women who trained there, it created a Box Department for sending goods to the Solomon Islands and the Maori mission fields, and a Stamp Department for collecting, cleaning and selling used stamps. A Maori Girls' School (later a hostel), "Kurahuna”, was established at Onehunga. Annual Special Objectives raised thousands of pounds to provide an extraordinary range of facilities, including a substantial share in a specially built medical boat (Cecily II) for the Solomon Islands, and cars for deaconesses in New Zealand. Several dormitories for schoolgirls were built in the Solomon Islands and money donated to Rangiatea Maori Girls' Hostel, New Plymouth, and Te Rahui Maori Girls' Hostel, Hamilton.
http://www.dunedinmethodist.org.nz/archive/meth/mwmu.html
School was called Onehunga Primary. Boarded at the Kurahuna Maori Girls Hostel at Grey Street Onehunga and we were all great friends with the guys from the boys home.
http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/Memories.aspx?id=199252&page=3