More Info →Keith Clark, Part 2, Early years, 1930s-40s - Manawatu Conversations

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 29th September 2020. Part 2 of 5.  Wartime, Kokatahi Band dances. Getting home late at night. To Christchurch Teachers College. Sport, athletics, bowling to Murray Chapple. Teaching, getting a strap for discipline. Bonding system. To Bulls as a reliever, then sole charge at Kaitieke, near Raurimu. Pupils going to school by horse. An injured kiwi. Meeting up with future wife. To West End School, Palmerston North and marriage (on 5th January 1952). Lesley teaching in a school at Ohakea. An Austin 7 car. Found a flat in Longburn. Lesley taught for 27 years in total.