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Photograph of the Alexandra Barracks (Mount Cook Prison) When the New Zealand Socialist Party held its annual conference in Christchurch in March 1910, Fred Cooke and his wife Ida were among the delegates… James or Jim Vallance came from a farm at Coopers Creek, near Oxford. He belonged to a small, evangelistic, non-denominational church, which sent him…Alexandra Barracks (Mount Cook Prison) and buildings on Buckle Street, Wellington
New Zealand Socialist Party Conference, 1910
James Vallance in later life
