Latest From: David Verran

Substandard housing on the North Shore in the late 1930s

NORTH SHORE HISTORY with David Verran

Under the Housing Survey Act of October 1935, boroughs and some other local authorities were required to survey...

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issue 109 may 2020

Transit housing in Devonport 1947-1963

Local History with David Verran

Following the war effort from 1940 to 1945, there continued to be restrictions on house building due to shortages...

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issue 109 may 2020

Karl Wolfskehl and Anna Kavan on the North Shore

In the September 2019 issue of ‘Channel’ I wrote about Greville Texidor, about whom a biography had...

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issue 107 march 2020

Community buildings in Takapuna from 1953 to 1986

The first Takapuna War Memorial Hall was opened in October 1953, as a joint venture between the Takapuna Borough...

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issue 106 february 2020

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