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vote at our meetings, and to receive mailed copies of the Point Chevalier Times. Send cheques to: Pt Chevalier Historical Society, C/ - 119C Hutchinson Avenue

New Lynn, Auckland 0600

Your membership fees mean that we can keep publishing the Point Chevalier Tim es.Your support would be appreciated.

SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE NOW DUE

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2016

196 -202 Pt Chevalier Rd(former Walker Road Tram stop,

now Jessica’s Wig Salon)

Farmer William Hill and his wife Ellen Charlotte

Hedges (nee Paice) purchased the land includingthe site of this shop in 1910, and called their home“Chelsea View”. The property was apparently inEllen Hill’s name; when she died in February 1921,the Hill family subdivided and sold the farm.

Storekeeper Francis James Steward purchased thefuture site of 196 -202 Pt Chevalier Road at the endof 1926. He commissioned architect Ernest ThomasHawkes to design a double shop and dwelling,worth £1360. This was completed in 1927, with anadditional shop completed to the north in 1931, alsodesigned by Hawkes.

Up until the early 1940s the main shop was a gro-cers/confectioners, and then became a beauty salonwith tobacconists next door. Workers trams wereknown to have terminated at Walker Road near theshops before returning to town.

Ernest Hawkes (1883 -1969) is interesting, consider-ing the current attention on the centenary years ofthe First World War. He was born in Russell, in theBay of Islands, to Rev. John Henry Hawkes andRebecca Temperance Hawkes. He was working fora Wellington architects’ firm named Crighton &McKay, and in his own name, just before enlistingin September 1915 to serve as a sergeant, later sec-ond lieutenant in the NZ Rifle Brigade. Hawkesserved in Egypt, France and Belgium from 1916 -1918, was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s des-

patches in 1917, and wounded in the arm (shot bythe enemy) in 1918.

He returned to New Zealand on the Remuera inOctober 1918, and was discharged from service onChristmas Eve that year, but not demobilised untilthe following year, during which time he worked asforeman of works for the construction of the King

George V orthopaedic military hospital buildings inRotorua, and also worked at Pukeora Sanitorium.

After the war, he started up in business again as anarchitect in Auckland, working from 1920 until theearly 1940s, mainly designing residential homes inthe eastern part of the isthmus, parts of the NorthShore, and the Coromandel district.

The Pt Chevalier Road building is at least one ofthe only surviving commercial premises known tohave been designed by him. He died in 1969, hav-ing retired to Milford on the North Shore.

DON’T FORGET!!

Point Chevalier Get Together2015

Saturday, 27 June, from 1 pm

Always a wonderful afternoon, and anopportunity to catch up with your

friends.

Contact Ray Patterson,ptchevreunion@gmail.com