Life Is Happy At Avoca
Girls who competed in the Red Cross Tennis Tournament.
This sort of thing helps to keep the boys of the State School fit.
Up for lunch, miners of Hogg’s Reef “show” leave the shaft.
Mr Theo Leanord, manager of Hogg’s Reef mine, weighs gold in his office.
A bit of bending by the State School girls.
Present at this monthly meeting of the Girls’ Patriotic Guild are (left to right), Misses Grace Saw (secretary), Mary Chapman (President), Belle Dwyer, Betty Mitchell, Stella Wade, Isla Chapman, Viccie McDonald, Jean McDonald, Helen Storrar and Rene Davies.
At the Bush Nursing Hospital we meet (left to right). Dr. M. C. Davies, Sister J. Fraser and Miss Joyce Yates
Miss Edna Wardlaw watches her brother George shear one of his father’s Corriedale lambs at “Braeside,” Avoca.
Below: Mrs J. J. McDonald (centre left) makes a presentation to the President (Mrs Lew Summers) after her three years of office in the Avoca Golf Club.
Wikitree profiles of some of those mentioned:
- Theophilus Leonard (1875-1968)
- Grace Mary Saw (1918-2001)
- Isla Constance Chapman (1912-1992)
- Maurice Charles Davies (1883-1942)
- Joyce Marjorie (Yates) Miller (1920-1995)
- Edna May (Wardlaw) Neil (1920-1987)
- Lindsay George Wardlaw (1925-1999)
- Clara May (Vining) Summers (1893-1967) : Mrs Lew Summers
