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In fact, she is pleased people are wanting to preserve items from bygone eras. “There are dealers buying this stuff and then there are people who are buying because they’re interested in it,” Goldsmith said. “When we went on holidays, we’d go to all the second hand shops between here and Christchurch.” She is retaining some of her collectables as she plans to relocate to Dunedin. “I’ve still got books.” Some have been donated to museums, libraries and schools. Goldsmith is thinking of donating more to a large fundraising book sale in Dunedin in December. Books and photos collected by the couple have helped people with genealogy and school projects and school jubilee displays. ....
Jamie Searle/Stuff Rodney Crack, left, was pleased to return the first aid kit and diary of World War II soldier Ernest Kennedy to his daughter Pam Wild and her husband Graham at Otautau on Saturday. Crack bought both items at an auction recently. Rodney Crack’s search to find relatives of a World War II soldier, so he could return the serviceman’s diary and first aid kit to them, ended in Otautau on Saturday. Pam Wild, the daughter of serviceman Ernest William Kennedy #378052, 2/NZEF, 1939-45; and her husband Graham Wild drove from their home in Queenstown to meet Crack and be given the items on Saturday. ....
The first aid kit has a World War II soldier’s name on it, E Kennedy #378052, but the diary does not. Ernest William Kennedy was from Southland. ”If I can’t find them, I’ll give them to an RSA or a museum,” he said. Kennedy died on October 1, 1992, at age 71. He shares a grave with his wife Dulcie and son Ronald at Eastern Cemetery in Invercargill. The online cenotaph Auckland War Memorial records showed Kennedy was a carpenter s apprentice in Invercargill before enlisting with the army. His next of kin was Mrs J Kennedy, of Mary St, Otautau. Jamie Searle/Stuff ....
Kavinda Herath/Stuff Auctioneer Bill Todd inspects some of the memorabilia being auctioned for Janice Goldsmith at Mabel Bush on Saturday. Janice Goldsmith and her family are keeping some pieces as she prepares to move to Dunedin. Asked if she was sad to sell most of the collection, Goldsmith said: “No, there’s no point in being sad, it doesn’t get you anywhere.” She and her late husband collected memorabilia from a variety of industries during the past 70 years, including farming and Southland businesses. Furniture from the colonial era and numerous signs including one from David Strang Coffee and Spice Works, which operated in Esk St, Invercargill, from 1872 to 1966. ....