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Working with the community for Thorndon's heritage since 1973 NEWSLETTER 175, ISSN 1179-9501 | online ISSN 2463-476X, November 2018 Contents BABIES AT PREMIER HOUSE, 260 TINAKORI ROAD .............................. 2 SERGEANT SAMUEL FORSYTH VC ................................................................ 4 DISTRICT PLAN REVIEW AND THE FUTURE OF THORNDON........ 7 YESTERDAY AND TODAY .................................................................................. 8 THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN THORNDON - NOVEMBER 1918 ... 9 THE THORNDON SOCIETY ............................................................................ 15 Drawing – Allan Morse Architect -1974 THORNDON NEWS | NEWSLETTER 175, ISSN 1179-9501| online ISSN 2463-476X | Page 1 of 16 ` BABIES AT PREMIER HOUSE, 260 TINAKORI ROAD When the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived back in Wellington on 4 August 2018 after the birth of her daughter Neve, she faced the waiting media at the airport and commented that the weekend would be spent getting Premier House ready for the new baby. She also mentioned that it was probably the first time that there had been a baby at Premier House. The Prime Minister was wise to be a little cautious about claiming a first for Premier House because research has revealed that three former Premiers or Prime Ministers have lived at Premier House with new or young babies. In mid-1872 Sir Julius Vogel, as Colonial Treasurer occupied the house which was then a ministerial residence. A few months later on 25 November his wife Mary gave birth to a son. He was the youngest of the Vogel’s five children and was named Julius Leonard Fox Vogel. It is not entirely certain that the birth was at the house although the evidence points in this direction. Three months before the birth Mary had advertised for a respectable young woman to be a nurse and needle woman at Tinakori Road and she was at the house until traveling to Australia with young Julius in the New Year. Given the predilection for home births in those days it is highly likely that young Julius was born at the house. Sir Julius became Premier in April 1873 when his son was five months old so could claim the distinction of being the first baby of a Head of State at what was to be called Premier House. As a young boy Julius left New Zealand to be educated at Charterhouse in England and it appears that he never returned. Like his father who studied chemistry and metallurgy young Julius went on to have a successful career as a chemical and metallurgical engineer, specialising in the manufacture of high- speed steel alloys. He died aged 70 at his home in Bedfordshire, England in 1943. THORNDON NEWS | NEWSLETTER 175, ISSN 1179-9501| online ISSN 2463-476X | Page 2 of 16 ` The second baby at Premier House or ‘Awarua House’ as it was called at the time was Awarua Patrick Joseph George Ward, the fifth child and youngest son of Sir Joseph and Theresa Ward. He was born at the house on 14 January 1901. As a Minister in the Seddon Government, Sir Joseph Ward had occupied Awarua house as a ministerial residence in 1900 and was named by him after his electorate. He also had a horse called ‘Awarua’ so it was obviously a favourite name that he used to celebrate the birth of his new son. The Ward family still occupied Awarua House when Sir Joseph became Prime Minister in 1906. At this time little Awarua Pat as he was called, was 5 years old. In 1913 at age 13 Awarua Pat travelled to London with his father to begin a public-school education and did not return home until 1918. Pat, as he was more commonly called in later life, married an American in 1930 and the couple moved to the USA. It is known from the U S census of 1940 that Pat was living with his wife and mother in law in a fashionable district in Detroit, Michigan. His occupation was listed as a cosmetic supplies salesman. By the 1950’s Pat was back in New Zealand running a beauty salon/hairdressing business in a shopping centre at Herne Bay in Auckland. He died aged 60 at his residence above his shop on 7 December 1961. The third baby to live at Premier House was Josephine Gwendoline Coates born in Auckland on 13 September 1924 to the Rt. Hon Joseph Gordon Coates and his wife Marguerite (better known as Marjorie). She was the youngest of five daughters. Coates became Prime Minister in May 1925 and the family moved into Premier House at this time. Josephine was eight months old. Educated at Marsden Girls School, Josephine became a stenographer and worked at the U S THORNDON NEWS | NEWSLETTER 175, ISSN 1179-9501| online ISSN 2463-476X | Page 3 of 16 ` Military decoding headquarters in Auckland during World War II. After the war she travelled to the USA and helped open the NZ Embassy in Washington DC. Here she met her future husband John Thornton, married and became an American citizen. Jo, as she was called, was a successful business woman in her own right and had a wide range of interests. She retired to Hawaii and died in Honolulu on 17 March 2010. As for baby Neve who is now at Premier House (on occasions), we can only wonder what the future will hold for her. If she is to follow the path of her predecessors she will be one of five siblings and leave New Zealand to make a career for herself overseas so we will have to wait and see. Brett McKay SERGEANT SAMUEL FORSYTH VC As the WW1 centenary commemorations come to an end, it is time to pay tribute to one of Thorndon’s forgotten sons, Samuel Forsyth VC. Portait of Samuel Forsyth On 24 August 1918 at the age of 26, Samuel was killed in action in the second battle of Bapaume on the Western Front. For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on attack, he later received a posthumous award of the Victoria Cross. As Samuel was buried in France and his medal passed to his Scottish wife, his exploits seem to have drifted from our collective memory. His name is included on a plaque in Parliament grounds honouring New Zealand VC recipients in WW1 but that is about the only public acknowledgement you will find in Thorndon. After the war the Government commissioned a portrait of Samuel which was painted by a master from the Canterbury School of Art but today this resides in the basement of Archives New Zealand in Mulgrave Street. THORNDON NEWS | NEWSLETTER 175, ISSN 1179-9501| online ISSN 2463-476X | Page 4 of 16 ` Samuel was born in Newtown on 3 April 1892 but at an early age the family moved to 26 Cottleville Terrace in Thorndon. He was educated at both the Thorndon School and the Terrace School on Clifton Terrace but he may also have attended the Wadestown School. His name appears on the Wadestown School’s Roll of Honour but there is no record to substantiate his enrolment there. A view looking down Cottleville Terrace from Frandi Street in 1968 showing the cottages built by Charles Cottle in the late nineteenth century to provide affordable accommodation for workers. The Forsyth cottage at No 26 is arrowed. The cottages were later demolished to make way for the Mansfield Towers apartment block (Photo WCC Archive Ref: 00158-10-15). After leaving school Samuel went into the cabinet-making trade but at the time of his enlistment in 1914 he was working as a gold amalgamator for the Monowai Gold Mining Company in Thames. It has been said that Samuel was a man of high Christian qualities and gave much of his time to the welfare of seamen. His father, Thomas Forsyth was a seaman employed by the Union Steamship Company and it was probably for this reason that Samuel became an enthusiastic worker for the Sailors’ Friend Society otherwise known as the Missions to Seamen. In Samuel’s day the Society was based in the Missions to Seamen’s building on the corner of Stout and Whitmore Streets. This building still stands but it has since been converted to residential use. In 1919, before a large gathering, a brass tablet in memory of Samuel was unveiled at the building. A search has recently been made for the tablet but it appears to have been lost. THORNDON NEWS | NEWSLETTER 175, ISSN 1179-9501| online ISSN 2463-476X | Page 5 of 16 ` When WW1 broke out Samuel was one of the first to enlist and sailed with the Main Body of the NZ Expeditionary Force in 1914. He survived the Gallipoli campaign, although wounded twice, and then served continuously on the Western Front where he was gassed twice on the Somme. He was killed by a sniper only 79 days from the end of the war as he led the advance which won him the Victoria Cross. In January 1917 Samuel was married in Scotland and it was his wife Mary who travelled to Buckingham Palace the following year to receive Samuel’s Victoria Cross from the King. The medal was later inherited by a nephew and then sold to a collector in Australia. In 1992 it was purchased by Lord Ashcroft who has a large collection of Victoria Crosses which are housed in the Imperial War Museum in London. Forsyth’s medal is now part of the Ashcroft collection. Samuel’s medals including his VC (left). Photo from the Imperial War Museum, London It is interesting to note that the house site at 26 Cottleville Terrace where Samuel Forsyth was raised is located only 80 metres or so from the house at 10 Tinakori where another VC winner, Sir Charles Heaphy lived.
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