By: Tracey Kearns8th Feb 2024 10:18AMThe following comments were left on our Heritage FB page in January 2024

Kerry Southee
"the house past the fire station was nurse renshaws first maternity hospital"

Kerry Southee
"my mother was about to have my sister but the men were away pig hunting , my aunty who had one driving lesson jumped into the model a with mum on board took off for the hospital but when she turned into russel st. she drove on the foot path between the lamp post and the building but all ended well."

Peter Ata
"On the telephone pole is a 25 pair Cooks (Cookes?) box. A cable from the telephone exchange terminated on the box. Subscribers were connected by open wire lines. The platform on which the lineman stood or sat while working at the box can be seen. He would be in telephone communication with the worker at the main distribution frame (mdf) of the exchange."