WSBHS Magazines

We are delighted to say that our latest magazine – Ngā Ākau ki te tonga – Southern Bays is available. Copies are available for sale for $20 at the White Room Gallery – thanks Fran!

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Our magazines are sorted by date oldest to newest below. - Unfortunately not all resources are available online so feel free to pop in and have a look. (Click here to see our opening times)

Magazine 1 - 2005

Article

Prologue

I te timantaga (In the beginning – the Māori on the Southern Coast)

Bill Pettersson’s Memories as told to his daughter Linda Chronis

Band Rotunda – Island Bay

Colonel Hughes, CMG, DSO (1866 – 1954)

Italians in Island Bay

Island Bay in the Thirties

An Island Bay in the Thirties War Time Memories

Author

Sheila Natusch

Anthony Powell

Bill Pettersson

Patricia Hutchison QSM

Paul Elenio

Patricia Hutchison QSM

Pendreigh Brown

Page No.

2

3 - 11

12 - 21

22

23 - 26

27 - 37

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44 - 47

Magazine 2 - 2006

Article

Island Bay Racecourse (adapt)

The Boer War: The Second Contingent, Island Bay

Empire Theatre

Ōwhiro Bay Shipwrecks

The Shetland Islanders & their Contribution to the Fishing Industry in Island Bay

The Natusch Family at Island Bay

Rise and Fall of Methodism in Island Bay

Island Bay & the ‘Spanish Influenza’ Epidemic

Houghton Bay

The Battles of Tapu te Ranga

Living Among Plants and Animals on the South Coast of Wellington

Author

Peter Beckett

Pat Hutchison QSM

Ifor Owen

Ken Scadden

Rose & Jim Coutts

Gilbert Natusch

Pendreigh Brown

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

C F Underwood

John Robinson

Sheila Natusch

Page Number

1 - 3

4 - 6

7 - 9

10 - 14

15 - 20

21 - 24

25 - 28

29 - 33

34 - 36

37 - 39

40 - 43

Magazine 3 - 2007

Article

The Salvation Army in Island Bay

Children’s Residential Homes in Island Bay

Boy's Hostel, 167 Clyde Street

The Great Depression and the Fishing Community of Island Bay

Suzanne Aubert in Island Bay – Saintliness and Celery

A French Nun & Chinese Market Gardens in Island Bay

The Home of Compassion Reservoir

Problems of Transport in Early Island Bay

Shopping in Island Bay in the early 1940's

Island Bay Shops as Listed in Wise’s Directory in 1942

Recollections of 10 April 1968

Postcard Pretty: Island Bay in the Early 1900’s

Not Really the Town Hall – a Humber Street Story

Island Bay in 1839: Brief and Tantalising References

Chilton House School

Author

David Youngmeyer

Pendreigh Brown

Joseph Zawada

Jane Haskell

Pat Hutchison QSM

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Pat Hutchison QSM

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Page Number

1 - 2

3 - 6

7 - 10

11 - 15

16

17

18

20 - 23

21 - 28

28 - 30

31 - 35

36 - 39

40 - 42

43 - 44

44 - 45

Magazine 4 - 2008 / 2009

Article

Island Bay’s Heritage Area: 121 – 155 The Parade

The Island Bay Dog Poisoner

Memories of Island Bay - the Watts Family

Masterly Embroidery at Erskine

General Practioners in Island Bay 1910-1990

St Hilda's Anglican Parish, Island Bay (adapt)

Recollections of St Hilda's

New Life for an Old Lullaby: He Oriori Mo Towerman

Author

Celia Wade-Brown

Colin Feslier

Trish Dyson

Gill Ryrie

Pendreigh Brown

Pat Hutchison QSM

Eileen Imlach

Colin Feslier

Page Number

1 - 3

4 - 12

13 - 15

16 - 18

19 - 25

34 - 37

31 - 35

36 - 39

Magazine 5 - 2009 / 2010

Article

Island Bay on a Fine Day

The Significance of the Island Bay Heritage Area

The Properties of the Island Bay Heritage Area

The Wreck of the Penguin 12 February 1909

The USA Submariner’s Memorial Plaque Island Bay Band Rotunda

The Original Vegetation of Island Bay and Surrounds

Not in my 1909 Backyard – Edwardian Nimbyism in Island Bay

Author

Jenna Tinkle

Michael Kelly

Marion Findlay

David Ryrie & Ifor Owen

Dr Maggie Wassilieff

Colin Feslier

Page Number

1 - 5

6 - 8

8 - 18

19 - 22

23 - 24

25 - 26

27

Magazine 6 - 2010 / 2011

Article

Light Rail in Island Bay

The Robertson Street Piano – Box Houses

A House of Ill-fame at Island Bay

Building a House in Island Bay in the Early 1950’s

Rinkle! Rinkle! Rinkle! – Love at Ōwhiro Bay in 1917

The Hermit of Island Bay

St Hilda's, Island Bay

Island Bay Fish Processing in 1871

Tips and Landfills in the Southern Bays – Part One

Melrose Street 1930 - 1933

Houghton Bay Road 1950 - 1963

Melrose Tip 1963 - 1973 (also called the Buckley Road or Southgate Road Tip)

Other Tips in the Region

Twas ever Thus

Tramway Humour

Author

No author

Marion Findlay

Jenna Tinkle

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Boyce Bowden

Pat Hutchison QSM

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Letters to the Editor

FELIX Wellington

Page Number

3

4 - 6

7 - 14

15 - 17

18

19 - 24

25

26 - 27

28 - 29

29

30 - 34

35 - 37

37

38

39

Magazine 7 - 2011 / 2012

Article

The Bookends to Island Bay Beach

The Church of God Picnics at Island Bay Beach

Island Bay's Haunted House

Albert Hindmarsh of Island Bay

Tips and Landfills in the Southern Bays – Part Two

The First Commercial Passenger Trip to the Bays?

Southern Bays Historical Society Collection

Author

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Page Number

4 - 12

13 - 19

20 - 22

23 - 29

30 - 37

38 - 39

40

Magazine 8 - 2012 / 2013

Article

A 40's Boyhood in the Bay

Living History, Living Community

The Ōwhiro Bay Middens

Memories of the Masonic Hall

40 Years Ago : The Green Party Begins in Island Bay

Island Bay : Memories of a Beach

Shorland Park

The Catholic Streetscape of Island Bay

Luhrs Rock

Southern Bays Historical Society Collection

Author

Geoff Brindle

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Colin Feslier

Beverley Morris

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

David Ryrie & Ifor Owen

Marion Findlay

Page Number

5 - 9

10 - 13

14 - 15

16 - 21

22

23 - 25

26 - 33

34 - 46

47 - 48

49

Magazine 9 - 2013 / 2014

Article

A Brief History of Wellington Southern Bays Historical Society

Rampart on the Sea: The Island Bay Sea Wall

Island Bay History 1950 - 2013

Writing and Writers of the Southern Bays

A Close Look: Island Bay School Girls and their Dolls, 1919

Electorates & Politicians of the Southern Bays 1853 - 2013

Author

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Debbie Hannan

Colin Feslier

Page Number

4 - 9

10 - 14

15 - 26

27 - 38

39 - 41

42 - 51

Magazine 10 - 2014 / 2015

Article

Southern Bay Hisorical Society Collection

From the Editor

Island Bay – Wellington’s No 1 Destination

Island Bay Pre 1905

Island Bay a Heavy Rail Service?

Tramways – Wellington's No 1 Route

The Island Bay Line

When Tramways Ruled the Roads

Tramways - the End of the Road

Here is the Church - but where is the Steeple?

No 1 Mersey Street, Island Bay

The Island Bay Menorial Band Rotunda

The Band Rotunda Names

The Band Rotunda Dead of World War 1

Intriguing Photos

Island Bay Baptist Church : Some Notes on the Early Years

Author

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Ifor Owen

Kathryn Street

Colin Feslier

Page Number

2

3

(5 - 14)

5 - 6

6

7 - 8

8 - 10

11 - 12

13 - 14

15

16 - 19

20 - 24

25 - 27

28 - 29

30

31 - 35

Magazine 11 - 2015 / 2016

Article

The Battles of Island Bay

Fighting the Elements

Street Battles

Battles Won

Battles Partially Won

And Battles Lost

And Never - Ending

The Residents of Island Bay

And Their Animals

Environmental Issues

To Bring Us Up to Date

A National Security Investigation in Derwent Street - 1914

What is Wellington's "Wanganella Weather'?

Author

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Edith & Bruce Diggle

Colin Feslier

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

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Page Number

(7 - 21)

10 - 11

12 - 13

13 - 14

14

14 - 15

15

15 - 16

16 - 17

17 - 19

19 - 21

22 - 24

14 - 15

27 - 30

31 - 41

43 - 46

47 - 51

52 - 53

54 - 55

Magazine 12 - 2016 / 2017

Article

Editorial

In Hermit News - Charles Hammond 1951 Victorian State Library photo

In Hermit News

Fear, Fascists & Fantasy – Police Spy Files on Island Bay Italians

Sing for the Gold and Purple

(St Madeleine Sophie School)

Shopping in the Bay

The History of the Island Bay Park and Racecourse 1882 - 1893

Some Danube Street People

A Vessel Close to a Fisherman's Heart

Author

Colin Feslier

Colin Feslier & Suzanne Torkington

Colin Feslier

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Mary Logan

Marion Findlay

Penelope Holden

Debbie Hannan

Page Number

2

3 - 4

6 - 26

26 - 33

34 - 37

38 - 58

59 - 64

64 - 67

Magazine 13 - 2017 / 2018

Article

Editorial

In Memoriam

David Ryrie; Captain Ifor Owen

Sheila Natusch; Bruce Stewart

A Brief History Island Bay Community Resource Centre - The First 30 years 1987-2017

Island Bay : living with our history

Bowling in Early Island Bay

A Milne Terrace Tragedy

Arbor Day in Southern Suburbs

Author

Colin Feslier

-

Marion Findlay

Colin Feslier

Chris Rabey

Colin Feslier

Marion Findlay

Page Number

1

2

3

4 - 17

18 - 27

28 - 32

32 - 39

40 - 44

Magazine 14 - 2019

Article

Editorial

In Memoriam - Cynthia Comber

Through the Pines and over the Hills 1927 - 2015

Memories of John Ambulance Cadets in Island Bay

Young in the Bay

At Home in the Bay Review

Island Bay Presbyterian Church Photo ca 1906

1918 the Spanish Flu Epidemic

Loss of Built Heritage - Sometimes We Care, Sometimes We Don't

The Island Bay Cycleway 1901

The LEGO Erskine - photos

Is this the Oldest Island Bay Publication? 1888

Southern Bays Historical Society Collection 2019

Author

Colin Feslier

Maureen Gordon née O'Hagan

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

Dawn Patricia Seed

Colin Feslier

-

Gerard Hoskins

Debbie Hannan

N Z Mail

-

Page Number

2

3

4 - 5

6 - 8

9 - 38

39 - 41

41

42 - 52

53 - 55

56

57 - 58

59 - 60

61

Magazine 15 - 2020

Article

Editorial

Rats!

Island Bay's Fragmented Streets

The First Cycle Fatality in Island Bay

Our Eponymous Places and their People

Solidarity with Muslim New Zealanders in the Southern Bays

Taputeranga: Disputed Island

A note about photographer Henry Wright

Island Bay Trams c1905-1910 (photos)

The Work of the Home of Compassion in 1922

He ingoa Māori mo to tatou Rōpū? A Māori name for our society?

I Desire to Ventilate a Grievance

Author

Colin Feslier

Annette Moffatt

Chris Rabey

New Zealand Mail

Colin Feslier

-

Colin Feslier

-

Jessie Munroe

Colin Feslier

-

Page Number

4

5 - 16

17 - 19

20 - 22

23 - 33

34 - 35

36 - 40

41 - 42

43 - 44

45 - 48

49 - 50

51

Magazine 16 - 2021

Article

Robert Logan - a campaigner commemorated

A meandering walking tour of Island Bay History

The Christine Harris 'Island Bay' ceramics

The Island Bay Softball - the early years

Gingernuts - part of our history - Mrs Barnard's recipe

Author

-

Colin Feslier

Angela Belich

Chris Rabey

Colin Feslier

-

Page Number

1 - 2

3 - 29

30 - 33

34 - 40

41 - 43

Magazine 17 - 2022

Article

Editorial

In Memoriam - Patricia Hutchison QSM

Not Really the Town Hall - the Humber Street Hall Story - reprinted from 2007

Island Bay Kindergarten - a Communist plot? (adapt) from 'Working Class Son'

'Highly unsuccessful' - a failed Communist effort in Ōwhiro Bay

Shopping in Island Bay in the early 1940's reprint from 2007 Edition

An Island Bay Activist - Ken Findlay

What lies beneath? - not much?

Island Bay School Cadets: armed and ready

Net fishing in Cook Strait: 1910 (NZ Graphic)

On the Road to Island Bay poem, published 1897

Racecourse - Island Bay or Lower Hutt?

Southern Bays Historical Society Collection 2021

Author

Colin Feslier

-

Patricia Hutchinson QSM

Ron Smith

-

Barbara Hoskins née Anton

-

Will Lawson

Mrs Grace E Gray

Wgtn City Archives

Page Number

4

5 - 8

9 - 11

12 - 13

14 - 15

16 - 26

27 - 33

34 - 39

40 - 41

47 - 49

50

51

Magazine 18 - 2023

Article

Editorial

James Ritchie - from Medway Street to the Waikato Tainui Treaty Settlement

Southern Bays History & the new curriculum

A 1939 sensation - a bomber upside-down in Island Bay

The Bata Shoe Factory, Happy Valley research by Marion Findlay

Our bays in the 1890's

Island Bay grandparents

A War story yet to be told – Flight Lieutenant John Francis Yeatman - 2 January 1945

Author

Colin Feslier

Sharon MacIntyre

Colin Feslier

-

Sharon Macintyre

Evening Post

Jo Lewthwaite née Duncan

Evening Post

Page Number

5

6 -14

15 - 33

34 - 36

37 - 44

45

46 -53

54

Magazine 19 - 2024

Article

Editorial

A flourishing of spotties: anecdotes from more than 10 years Snorkeling In the Taputeranga Marine Reserve

Our area when Pākehā first came to settle

Notes on Port Nicholson & the Natives in 1839

The Price of Fish(ing) at Island Bay in the 1920’s

Fisherman at Island Bay - A Few Facts 17.1.1921

The Wellington Clean Water Campaign: a successful joint Māori and Pākehā campaign

He Taniwha! ‘Red are the Rocks’

The Island Bay Cod Liver Oil industry : who knew?

George Hunter and the Island Bay Estate

A visit to Mr George Hunter’s Farm 24 April 1866

Thistle Lending Library advertisement

Author

Colin Feslier

Margaret Elliot

-

Major Charles Heaphy VC

Bona Fide, Island

Ray Ahipene Mercer

Colin Feslier

Sharon Macintyre

Wgtn Independent

Page Number

4

5 - 9

10

10 - 17

18

19 - 21

22 - 32

33 - 38

39 - 43

44 - 47

48 - 54

55

Magazine 20 - 2025

Article

Editorial

In Memoriam - Barbara Hoskins 1931 - 2024

1974: The Death of a Prime Minister in Island Bay

Karaka Trees : A Living Legacy

The Norfolk Pine, 162 Derwent Street

Fire at Elverton, Grand Gentleman’s Residence at Island Bay

An Island Bay baby farmer: 1906

Red Heavens - a review

History on track

Makara? Yeah Right

Author

Colin Feslier

-

Colin Feslier

Annette Moffat

Tim Gordon

Sharon Macintyre

-

Debbie Hannan

-

Page Number

4

5 - 6

7 - 14

15 - 19

20 - 21

22 - 36

37 - 46

47 - 49

50

51

Magazine 21 - 2026

Article

"The quiet strength that shaped us all"

Shortland: a family, a park and a name

Shortland Park's contribution to New Zealand Literature

World War I ends at Island Bay School 1919

Worldwide recognition for some of our smallest residents - Holotypes of the Southern Bays

He Whakataukī mō Taputeranga? - A Proverb of Taputeranga Island?

Our oldest book?

The Mayfair Milkbar - 121 The parade, Island Bay

ZC1: an Island Bay resident's contribution to the allied World War II effort

The wreck of the Penguin: a 1909 poem

Author

Emma Amitrano

Colin Feslier

Debbie Hannan

-

Colin Feslier

-

Terry Manion and Family

-

Page Number

2 - 6

7 - 17

18 - 22

23 - 25

26 - 33

34 - 36

37 - 40

41 - 42

43 - 49

50-51

Articles not otherwise attributed can be attributed to the editor.