More Info →Alison Mildon, Palmerston North childhood 1950s-60s - Manawatu Conversations

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4 December 2018.

Alison Mildon. Summary: Family cars. Restrictions on overseas currency. Primary school. Localised communities. World War Two and ages of children. Getting to secondary school (Freyberg). Driving to school at 15. Views on co-educational schooling. Rural community implications. Few restrictions. Teenage pregnancies. Going overseas after lower 6th. Social activities, school pools, guides and scouts. Lamb and calf days. Changing communities.