Gaze History: NSG Mmoir
Family Dispersing
In 1955 and 1956 Franklin was Editor of the
Bible Class Magazine Contact, and Graham Bond, working with Noel as we
have seen, was Treasurer for that project.
As well as his work for the church, and his
membership of the council of the Mission to Lepers, Noel was at this stage
elected to the Board of the British and Foreign Bible Society in New
Zealand. He also took part in a project
which has had long-lasting effects in New Zealand: the formation of the first
Marriage Guidance Council, of which he was Treasurer. The modern network of
Relationship Services, which makes such a contribution to the smooth
functioning of our communities, owes its beginnings to this group of workers in
Auckland in the fifties.
In September 1957, Franklin and Audrey were
married at the Epsom Church and returned to Hamilton to spend the last term of
their life in New Zealand. In January of
1958 the family all waved goodbye to the young people leaving on the Wanganella
for Sydney and Bombay. Olwyn at that
time was just finishing her nursing course and starting her work as a staff
nurse in the Cardiothoracic Ward at Green Lane Hospital. In the latter half of
1958 she moved to the Pukekohe Hospital to do her maternity training. In February of 1959 she left for Melbourne to
train in midwifery at The Womens Hospital, Crown Street.
So in August Noel, Mary and Stuart travelled to
Melbourne to see Olwyn, and to Sydney and Adelaide by train. Noel and Mary were
keen to see more but Stuart wanted to get back to New Zealand to see the All
Blacks play the Lions, and to see Catherine.
Olwyn returned to New Zealand at the end of the year, also travelling in
the Wanganella.
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