The new car had to be taken for a drive and then photographed.

Note the "Stubbies" style shorts.

At Ferrymead Historic Park.

At the Sign of the Kiwi 1948.

Betty and Maureen in the Square.

My mother (centre) and grandmother at the Canterbury A & P show ...

Dad, Mum, Gloria, Kevin and Maureen off to the show in 1951.

Eileen, Betty, Betty, Gloria, Kevin & Maureen (in front) ...

Five year old girl on a day out with Nana in Cathedral Square. ...

People were invited to walk through the tunnel on opening day.

Maureen and Gloria in Cathedral Square.

Mum with Dad's firm's car at 44 Moreland Avenue, Christchurch.

Easter Parade heading down Oxford Terrace toward the Catholic ...

Showing the Citizens War memorial with Warners Hotel and the ...

My mother on South Brighton Beach.

Anne Kelly and John (Mungo) Tamaira socialising in a ...

Kevin and his mum and dad.

At Christchurch Botanical Gardens

Centennial of Canterbury celebrated in the St Bede's College ...

The Cathedral choristers, 1952 Back: Kelvin Strong, John Shaw, ...

Boy and family friend at the A & P show, Christchurch.

My sister and brother respectively their wolf cub and Girls Life ...