Ray Jollie and Barry Surton, from Kotuku , outside Molloy's Garage. ca.1948.

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DescriptionThis photo was taken at Kotuku in about 1948 outside Molloy's Garage and the Molloy Home. The truck is Molloy Bros No 3 and the timber is most likely from the Bell Hill Sawmill to be unloaded at the Kotuku Railway Siding. The two boys are Ray Jollie and Barry Surton, from Kotuku. The Surton boys had it tough when they were young and the Molloy family saw that they didn't go without.Date of Photo1948Map^[1]ContributorGeoffrey Bell

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Location (city or town)Kotuku PersonMolloyBarry SurtonRay Jollie

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Date Created26th July 2025CommentsWhere did the photo come from. Great photo. K
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Malcolm Kym Campbell
Lindsay Gail Grant is this uncle Ray?

Lindsay Gail Grant
Malcolm Kym Campbell yes

Lyn N Moe
Good Photo Geoffrey Bell. How the West was won.

Robert Davidson
Wot a great photo ?

Lesley Parker Butland
You look out for your neighbours on the Coast

Noeline Pinn
I remember the Surton boys at school. From memory they lived for a time at Marshall’s . I could be wrong. I had an idea their mother was a Marshall.

Malcolm Kym Campbell
Lindsay Gail Grant is this uncle Ray?

Lindsay Gail Grant
Malcolm Kym Campbell yes

Vivianne Nisbet
Malcolm Kym Campbell is that Loma’s brother

Noeline Pinn
I remember the Surton boys at school. From memory they lived for a time at Marshall’s . I could be wrong. I had an idea their mother was a Marshall.George Ware
Where did the photo come from. Great photo. K
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Malcolm Kym Campbell
Lindsay Gail Grant is this uncle Ray?
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Lyn N Moe
Good Photo Geoffrey Bell. How the West was won.

Robert Davidson
Wot a great photo ?

Lesley Parker Butland
You look out for your neighbours on the Coast

Noeline Pinn
I remember the Surton boys at school. From memory they lived for a time at Marshall’s . I could be wrong. I had an idea their mother was a Marshall.
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Noeline Pinn
Thanks for putting me right. . It was Cash’s where they stayed. I had left primary school in 1946 so no idea how I remember the boys. So glad you filled me in on Duncan as I remembered Barry’s name but Duncan’s eluded me . It is so good you have all the correct info. as my memory is not as good these days I remembered that the boy’s father had disappeared . They were lucky to end up in Kotuku for a time.

Geoffrey Bell
Noeline Pinn The Surton boys' mother's maiden name was Mary Wells, and she went to the Kotuku School. Mary's mother was Isabella Campbell and she married John Wells in 1912. John died in 1939 and Isabella remarried Martin Cash in 1941 and they lived in a house on the Molloy farm. Mary Wells married Carnival Richard Surton Rangi in 1938, after which Barry and Duncan were born. The boys' father disappeared shortly after, and Mary left them for a time with their grandmother, Isabella, and Martin Cash.

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Ray Jollie and Barry Surton, from Kotuku , outside Molloy's Garage. ca.1948.

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