Advert for Carlsen's Fashions 1964
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From the Daily Post Supplement Issue November 1964
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by Mrs Carlsen was also appointed representative of the world prime body ---The World Irish Wool Board ;such was her expertise.You can see web pages of top fashions by typing in Irish Wool Board . About this this time she also took on the task of being President of the Business and Professional Womans Association of Rotorua. .
The period of most intensity was the cold war period of 1958 until the Cuban crisis and subsequent slight quietning. This was a period of very nearly world destruction and included the Starlight H Bomb experiment of 1962 seeing that artistic American H Bomb glow and which shifted the earths magnetic field from Hawaii to New Zealand. The consequence of this and related events -behaviours - saw in the very busy tourist place of Rotorua and nearby , recieve peoples of crossed beliefs. Mr and mrs Carlsen sometimes travelled and sometimes it was noted that persons travalled to the then hostile eastern block countries. As well Rotorua recieved persons who had been a part of WW2 or had been displaced by the Cold War. Mrs Carlsen was asked in these cold war times to officially , as she was trained to do, look after and oversee a very lovely person who was in charge of all early childrens schools caring places, [as parents worked whilst children stayed nearby] --- for the whole of the Soviet Union. -- in this period. The lady from Soviet Russia appreciated her treatment and was was able to see much of the local world due to Monicas training and business sense.
Monicas closest friend was Mrs Louis Pyman who lived at Lake Okareka ,. Her handsome son Desmond Pyman had attended Rotorua Boys High School. He was shot down over Germany. He and his very beautiful wife Pam would come down from St Heliers in Auckland at regular interval to see Louise, Louises partner Mr Walker and very often the visiting Mr and Mrs Carlsen were there to welcome Desmond and family . Desmonds son John was alter boy at the funeral of Mrs Carlsen at meadowbank, which was attended by another military figure , Monicas neighbour and friend at Meadowbank Auckland Commander Puggy Thiew. The home backing onto the Anglican theological college .
Commander Thiew had the first ship sunk in WW2 by the Japanese , being the Jupiter or Neptune. He was captured and tortured . He carried out business from Auckland with the Japanese after WW2. .
Pymans neighbours at lake Okareka shifted to Lake Tarawera and Ronald and Mrs Gerry Millar and son Quentin [who attended St Kentigerns College in Aucklsnand, then decidedin England} built their home on what they named Millars Road and Millars Point. the Road then having to be maintained by Ronald all the way back to the Buried Village. Ronald would sell lakeside sections from time to time. Mrs Millar would visit Carlsens at their home in her Allard car and accompanied by her daschund Becky, also being at the opening of Carlsens new coffee shop with many others at the rear of the jewellery , stockings, and behind the closed coresterie, Family members of the Carlsens stayed and technically lived both at Pymans and Millars for short periods for reasons of business.. The Millars son Quentin, a very fine person, attended St Kentigerns Auckland and then despite about to recieve a very large inheritance in Europe decided to complete a building apprenticeship in Rotorua , staying at the Maori Hostel founded by Guide Rangi on Ranolf St
Among visitors to the Carlsens home were formally Senators of the United States Government, and also directors of Paramount Studios.. Across the Road Mr Bill haydn was always on duty to allow the seasonal visitors to the Ranolf Camping grounds, with a camp store to the front or what is left of the beginning of Carlton St and the older Aiselbe family store Sylvania with all its stock of USA material for cooking and supplies being on the corner of Wylie and ranolf St with a fallout shelter next door. So good was the cooking goods utensils that hamburgers and mea pies were made from it until near to the 1970,s. This provided for a father of a high school boy to tun a very succesful burger bar on wheels at celebration times. At he top of ranolf St the Mackies built a modernistic steam geothermal laundry . They were american . Upon being told to close because of locality to houses Mr mackie and his two lovely children Michelle and Patrick saw their fatheir father introduce ice cream machines as in New York. The American influence was ever present with two other families within hoiuses having rekatives from USA visit yearly. .
Mr Haydn the camping ground overseer was a close friend with Mr Carlsen and Mr carlsen would always stop and say helllo. Mr haydn ensured provision of ground for those who by circumstance were homeless eg just arrived as a family from Australia and no rights to a State House, or elderley and in need. he was a conscientous objector, probably having sen much from the first WW. Soon Streets like carlton St would tear through the grounds of the tents and the people singing at Christmas all in one voice. . The Cold war was going through a high and low phase and now change -- modernity. The largest paper mill in the world had been just built at Kawerau and in the year 2017 the Mayor is fighting to keep the town alive.
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said History Monica Carlsen
Mrs Carlsen had given a lot by way of fashion , training in fashion and business, social good such as fashion parades to packed audiences (some of which included the involvement of her blind friend Tai Paul of the famous Tama Band , he having lost his sight at the Battle of Monte Casino). Mrs Carlsen dressed in the worlds best fashions in which she was highly trained such personages as her friend the famous Guide Rangi (the photo of Guide Rangi on the back of the book about her shows Guide Rangi wearing a scarf as she boards the BOAC plane, the scarf being a Libbys of London scarf dressed onto her by Monica ); Rua Morrison the famous world tennis player; the Maori lady who was Miss New Zealand. Monica would give of her skills and free time to to go one step further to give only the best and ensure the customer could afford and would wear an item , such as Christian Dior of France . Such an ideal and belief saw her dressing Tina in a dress for ballroom dancing . The dress or dresses were today worth tens of thousands. This dressing ensured Tinas success in her Ballroom competition where she danced with Mr Cumming of Rotorua taking out national titles. Tina was a beautiful girl of island origin and she worked for Mrs Carlsens friend Verona Tuart of the Grand Hotel. Mrs Carlsen was asked to come to Rotorua and give up her opportunities of France and New York at a time when she alone earned seven times the income of the New Zealand Prime Minister . This being in New York based furs and the like. She and her husband were asked to help lift Rotorua which then had a putting course on its main St and the Farmsers Co op opposite were warned for having flour and food all over the footpath. The Carlsens built a number of businesses incorporating work and good wages for many along with training.
The advert for Steeles corsets is a minuscule of those available to the local newspaper and to whom she gave over her own Citroen to the sub editor. All the other adverts would be of High fashion or community paper fashion parade photos. . Steeles was a vexed and difficult concern and was at a time Mrs Carlsen was known to be critically ill . She passed away four years later in 1968 after a long slow illness.
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