Slide: MV COLVILLE departs Mokohinau Island to return to Auckland; Murray Willis...
Slide: MV COLVILLE departs Mokohinau Island to return to Auckland
About this object
Photographer's caption: "MV COLVILLE departs Moko Hinau to return to Auckland; skipper Bunty Brown. The COLVILLE came every two weeks with stores. A very obliging crew. When Charlie Mellows arrived with his family and chooks Bunty let the chooks out in the hold and Charlie's chooks enjoyed the trip on improvised perch's from broom and mop handles."
Murray Williscroft was a lighthouse keeper, who, along with his wife Ventris worked on a number of stations around New Zealand in the 1950s-60s.
MOKO 14, Annotation, Hand-written
Measurements
HxW (2D objects YxX): H 50 W 50mm (H 1 15/16 W 1 15/16in)
Mokohinau Islands/Hauraki Gulf/Auckland Region/New Zealand
Medium and Materials
35mm Slide/Film/Photographic, Audio and Visual, 0 - Whole, plastic
Murray Williscroft
Credit LineGift of Rae MacGregor, reproduced courtesy of Ventris Williscroft.
Object number2015.152.12
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