New Plymouth Girls High School Prefects

Production date
Jul 1978
 Description
Copy negative of New Plymouth Girls' High school prefects from 1929: G. Neilson, Margaret Matangi, J. Tichbon, T. Balharry, M. Allen, D. Anderson.
Margaret Matangi (knonw as Aunty Meg) represented Victoria, Auckland and New Zealand Universities in basketball (now known as netball) as well as playing in Taranaki, Wellington and Auckland provincial teams before being selected to captain the first ever New Zealand basketball team to tour Australia in 1938.
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Artist/Maker
Production role
Photographer
Production date
Jul 1978
Production place
New Zealand/Taranaki/New Plymouth
Production period
1920s
Subject person
Classification
Photograph/Original Art/Art Object
Collection
Swainson/Woods Collection
Credit line
'Swainson/Woods Collection, Puke Ariki and District Libraries'
Accession number
WD.032416
Collection type
Photographs
Material
Black and White 120 Roll Film
Black and White Negative
Photographic Negative

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Margaret Matangi (Aunty Meg) was a Prefect at New Plymouth Girls' High School. In basketball, now known as Netball, she represented Victoria, Auckland and NZ Universities as well as Taranaki, Wellington and Auckland provincial teams before being selected to captain the first ever New Zealand Basketball team to tour Australia in 1938.

- Dorothy Elgar posted one month ago.

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