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CENTENARY on the counter of the Molesworth Street tuckshop [still there in 2017], when I was allowed a stop during the weekend outing. An outing was usually arranged for the afternoon, and girls might make their way down to the wharves or across the terrifying swing bridge that spanned the gully to Tinakori Road (now a motorway), or sometimes they went further afield for a swim in the Te Aro salt- QMC Boarding House dormitory cubicles 1942. Queen Margaret House bedroom 2019. Left to right: Clare Mazengarb and (the Orange sisters) in 1949. Left to right: Alex Shirtcliffe (Clare Mazengarb’s grandaughter), Issbella Pennington and Giuliana Barnett in 2019. water baths at Oriental Bay. One afternoon, we hosted a group of children from a nearby orphanage for afternoon tea and games in the assembly hall and once the quad was enlivened for a few hours by the visit of a fat bottle-fed lamb, courtesy of a local farming family. On Sunday morning, we passed the old Beauchamp house and home of Katherine Mansfield on the Crescent to church at St. Andrew’s on The Terrace. 100 YEARS Then & now 8 Queen Margaret Calling :: ISSUE 63 :: May 2019