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Title: ALEC GARDINER


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  • ALEC GARDINER!

BY TIMOTHY
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  • Alec Gardiner was born in the Gisborne hospital
    in 1935.

3
SCHOOL
  • Alec started school at St. Brigids Catholic
    Primary School in Gisborne at the age six in 1941
    with his brother Peter and best mates Leo and
    Arthur.

4
THE PRIEST!
The priest at the time was Father John Gibbons
(an Irish man).
5
  • From Monday to Friday Alec walked to and from
    school. School began at 900 am and concluded at
    330pm with a fifty minute lunch break at 1200
    noon.

6
  • Alec attended school in the small timber building
    with fourteen other students in different year
    levels.

7
THE TEACHER!
  • The teacher and Principal at the time was Miss
    Mary Slattery, a dedicated teacher who spent many
    years at St. Brigids Primary School.

8
So what did you learn?
  • Miss Slattery taught all the lesson herself. Alec
    remembers having to learn his tables off by
    heart, using a copy book for writing, spelling
    from the blackboard, learning to read from
    readers and basic music and science lessons. A
    school paper came out once a week.

9
  • Alec used to live not far from school in the old
    house that was recently knocked down that stood
    next to the Telegraph Office.

10
  • Alec had two brothers, Peter (18 months between),
    and Eddie (four years younger).
  • He also had one sister Imelda (seven years
    younger).

11
  • Alecs parents did not attend St. Brigids Primary
    School. Alecs father, also named Alec went to
    the local state school, and his mother, Norah O
    Sullivan, attended a school in Melbourne.

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  • Alecs parents met when Norah became a teacher at
    the state school and met Alec.

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WHAT NOW?
  • Alec currently lives in Gisborne and works at
    Gardiner's Garage three times a week.
  • He is now seventy-one years of age and came from
    a family which has had a long connection to St.
    Brigids Primary School.
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