Billie Chote, Part 2. Primary school teaching - Manawatu Conversations

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Description: Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 14th November 2023, Part 2 of 5. At age 16 strikes up a friendship with Emma in Wanganui. She went to Wellington Teachers College and he went to Christchurch so they parted ways. Romance resumed 12 years later when they both settled back in the Wanganui area. Married a year later. Both got a job in Blenheim at different schools. Shifted to Taikorea school. School damaged during the Wahine storm (10th April 1968) and a new one was built. Became principal at Opiki school. Obtained a Commonwealth exchange scholarship and went to Birmingham for a year. After return to New Zealand Emma taught junior classes at Hokowhitu school and Billie was deputy principal at Awapuni school. Relates experiences at a school camp at Brown House, in Kahuterawa Valley.