The Wellington Football Club celebrates its 150th Anniversary in 2020 and a new book, “Give ‘Em The Axe’ has been published to mark the milestone. Written by club President and leading rugby commentator Keith Quinn, the nearly 200-page book is not your typical dry club history. Containing a photograph on almost every page the chapters...
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‘Mrs Martin was one of the oldest residents in Wellington, and was highly esteemed for her plain unostentatious kindness of disposition’. Marion Baird was born in Fountainhall, a hamlet southeast...
Jacob was the sixth child of James ‘Worser’ Heberley and his wife Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James and...
Thomas was born in Oxford, England and trained as an engineer, working on the Great Northern Railway and at University College, London. He came to New Zealand in 1873 and...
