Jinty Rorke and Jill Best (6 December 2007)

Date2007DescriptionTauranga historian, archivist and librarian, Jinty Rorke (QSM), arrived in New Zealand with her family on board the yacht 'Palantir' in 1976. On 6 December 2007 Jinty retired from the Tauranga City Library after 27 years of service, but continued with historical research and writing, knitting and needlepoint, as well as trying to tame her subtropical garden at Dysart Road in Ōtūmoetai. She passed away on Waitangi Day 2014. Photograph: Lee Switzer. Please note: Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Tauranga City Libraries History basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Debbie McCauley), on February 22, 2014. Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/tauranga_city_libraries_history/images/show/6556 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International. Sometimes images contributed to Tauranga Memories by the community were uploaded by a library staff member. If this has resulted in your photographs being mis-attributed to a staff member, please let us know so we can correct this.The original Tauranga Memories site also sometimes collected the following (blank where empty): First name: Jean Euphemia Finlayson Surname: Rorke Place of birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England Date of birth: 7 December 1942 City: Tauranga, New Zealand Year: 2007 Photographer/CreatorSwitzer, Lee

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