By: UHCL Admin3rd Oct 2017 1:42PMIn response to the post below (13th August 2015) about "the cat lady who lived in a caravan down one of these streets" John Collier has sent the Library a note disputing some of the information provided here. He identifies "Mrs Kitney" as residing instead at 5 John Street and names "the cat lady" as Miss Baxter of 14 Tawai Street. He says that after this house was condemned Miss Baxter went to live at 57B (?) Main Road North, Te Marua.

By: Rachel Sonius31st Aug 2015 9:16AMThe following comment about this image was posted on the Upper Hutt Heritage Facebook page by Ian James Cook on 29.8.2015, in response to a comment by Ray Blackley asking if "Anyone remember[ed] the cat lady who lived in a caravan down one of these streets":

"Mrs Kitney... My father worked for the Council and came home one day to describe the inside of the house where the cats lived... If my memory is correct she lived in the caravan while the cats took over the house. The cats messed in the house so each day a new layer of newspaper was placed over it until it the stacks of newspaper and cat faeces were higher than the windows and filled every room of the house. Council workers had to remove it. This may have been after the lady passed away or went into care, or it may have been that the house was condemned."

By: Rachel Sonius31st Aug 2015 9:14AMThe following comment about this image was posted on the Upper Hutt Heritage Facebook page by Lesley Fisk on 29.8.2015:

"I grew up at number 18 Tawai St, halfway down on the left, about the 2nd group of trees slightly back from the road. Mum and Dad (Win & Arthur Estall) had the house built after WWII with a rehab loan. They bought two 1/4 acre sections pre war and cycled up from Petone on push bikes to clear the section of gorse. They bred them tough back then."