Te Ngawai District Memorial

       

In Memory Killed in Action 1914 - 1918

CASWELL G. A.
CASWELL W.
McVEY D.
McVEY W.
SNUSHALL E.
VINCENT S.V.
YEATES F. G.

Killed in Action 1939 - 1945

McVEY G. T.
HOWES V. C.

Looks like the entire family were known by their middle names.
SNUSHALL, HENRY ERNEST,  Trooper,  Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.,  Main Body,  Service No: 7/125, died 21 August 1915 at the age of 21. He was the son of John William and Edith Snushall, of Fairlie, Canterbury. William Percy, Henry Ernest and Daniel Maurice (known as Maurice) were the sons of John William Snushall (known as William) and Emma Edith (known as Edith) nee Kee. On the Fairlie War memorial Ernest is list as H.E. Snushall.

Name: McVEY, William Robert Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Otago Infranty Regiment, N.Z.E.F. Unit Text: 2nd Bn. 18th Reinforcements, J Company Next of Kin: J. McVey (father), Albury Embarkation Date: 11 October 1916 Place of Embarkation: Wellington, New Zealand Vessel: Tofua HMNZT 67 Destination: Plymouth, England Date of Death: 8 August 1917 Service No: 28904 S/o Mr. and Mrs. J. McVey, of Albury Cemetery: Trois Arbres Cemetery,  Steenwerck, France.

"Weekly News" 23 February 1944 Pte. Thomas George McVey, of Timaru killed in action, 28 November 1943 New Zealand Infantry - 26th Bn. Age: 45 DOD: 28/11/1943 Service No: 888 S/o John McVey and of Annie McVey (nee Morrison) Cemetery: Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy.

South Canterbury, New ZealandGenWeb Project

Photo of the Albury Tavern courtesy of Gail Woods (nee Rowland). Taken Easter 2000.  The old wooden hotel is located on 1.5 acres with private accommodation of four double / three single bedrooms situated on State Highway 8 on the way to Fairlie.  Inside the pub there are many framed old photos of the tavern and the local football representatives the the Roll of Honour for the Albury Football Club for the Great War.  Killed in Action 17 names. Wounded: 27 names. Returned: 25 names. Additional names include:
Bennett, J
Irving, C
McInnes, L???
Nelson, T
Scannell, M.J.

Evening Post, 18 August 1915, Page 8 Wounded
Caswell, Henry, 7/29, Tpr. (M. Caswell, Albury, father) ; forearm, 27th July. admitted to Hospital Ship Delta 7th to 8th August.

Grey River Argus, 10 August 1918, Page 2
Slightly Wounded, Remaining With Unit. Lance-Sergeant C. B. Baker (M.M.) Albury

Te Ngawai unlikely to be back on map
Friday, 22 August 2008 Timaru Herald
A bid to have Te Ngawai, the location, back on official maps has hit a big obstacle - a 140-year-old translation mistake. Te Ngawai (which in Maori would mean "the the water") is really Te Ana a Wai, the water cavern. The Tengawai river was incorrectly recorded in the 1860s by a surveyor and it has never been corrected.The Te Ngawai community was established in 1897, but dispersed after the Second World War. In 1963 Te Ngawai was replaced on the map by Camp Valley and Limestone Valley. Two years ago north-west Albury residents, applied to the New Zealand Geographic Board to have the Te Ngawai district return to official maps. However, the Arowhenua Runaka is reluctant to perpetuate a translation mistake and grammatical inaccuracy. Representative said place names should be correct. Why perpetuate a mistake simply because it was more than 100 years old? Te Ngawai the place and the Tengawai River should both be named correctly - Te Ana a Wai. The Runaka wanted other place names such as Tekapo - Takapo, Ohau - Ohou, Omarama - Te Ao Marama (the coming of light) to be corrected. The Runaka's argument was correct, but raised the issue of common usage versus actual name. Many of South Canterbury's Maori place names were incorrect. Mr J. Sutherland said 111 years ago a community called Te Ngawai was formed and it had a school even a district rugby team. Putting Te Ngawai back on map was recognition of that community. He felt the war memorial was a sensitive issue. "During two world wars young men and women left Te Ngawai not knowing whether they would ever return to a place named by their fathers (in good faith) after the nearby river. Most of them were educated at the Te Ngawai School, and at a time when few rural folk travelled any further than biking distance this Te Ngawai was home." The name Te Ana a Wai had a meaning. The river passed caves in the gorge through the Albury Ranges. The area and river could both be known as Te Ana a Wai.

SPRUCE UP FOR PUB.
Timaru Herald 21 June 1999
A lick of paint seems to have given the Albury pub a new lease of life. The pub is the oldest wooden pub in the South Island and opened in December 1879. It closed in a poor state of repair for 10 weeks in late 1997 when the previous owners went bankrupt - forcing locals to run their own pub in a woolshed on Friday nights. Publican Warren Laffey reopened the pub after the short closure and is now sprucing it up. Local identity Jeremy Sutherland and Mr Laffey collaborated on the colour scheme, which was finished about Easter and was still drawing comments. "We thought if we sent out colour charts to the community it would end up a shambles and if we formed a committee it would take 20 years. We thought we would be brazen and paint it the Albury rugby club colours of blue and yellow. It is not an Otago supporters building, but it does make people slow down. The brighter the colours the more attractive they think they look," Mr Sutherland said. The paint job had been good for business, Mr Sutherland said. "A lot of people did not realise the pub was open again for business. It was only when people were going past to the Fairlie show at Easter." "It had not been painted since 1984. The last time the back wall was painted was in the 1960's, so it's been long overdue. "The local trade think the place is on the improve. There was an English couple who saw the place from the road and bought an Albury rugby jersey which are on sale, so it must be doing something. He's got the place all lit up at night as well," he said. Such is the community spirit behind the pub that the Albury garden club had donated hanging baskets for the verandah. Their next project was planter boxes for around the outside of the building, Mr Sutherland said.