AVALON PUBLIC HALL
14 Mabey Road, Avalon, Lower Hutt
OUR HISTORY
HOW THE HALL CAME TO BE
Job Charley Mabey, who donated the land for the hall. At the time the area was a productive rural district, and the rural families wanted a place they could gather.
Richard Bartosh called an informal meeting on June 7, 1922. By the time an interim committee met two days later, some £500 had been pledged by local families. Read more here
MABEY ROAD HALL KINDERGARTEN 1968/69
MR AND MRS MCMURRAY
Margaret McMurray remembers going down to the hall as a three-year-old with her father Jim Hamilton, a hall committee member. "I went to dances there with my parents when I was 12 because they wouldn't leave at home alone."
At one of those dances she first met her husband-to-be Dave, was on the hall committee for more than five decades until his death.