Little Kaye gets on a plane: Picturing Canterbury

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Kaye Neely from Wellington leaving from Christchurch Airport with an NAC air hostess.
Kaye Neely leaving from Christchurch with an NAC air hostess. Entry by Jill Blacklock in the 2015 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt. CCL-PH15-055. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 NZ

Kaye Neely from Miramar Wellington, departing at Christchurch Airport with an NAC air hostess. Kaye had come down for a holiday with her older cousins. As she was only four at the time she’d had to tell a “little white lie” saying she was five (the minimum age to travel unaccompanied. She was beautifully dressed in the new dress her mum had made for the occasion and wearing a hat and matching bag. Date: 1974.

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