Kalimpong Kids | A Gallery from Nine To Noon | RNZ National

Jane McCabe is a Dunedin PhD candidate who has uncovered a little-known part of New Zeakand's history, when 130 mixed race children were brought here from India in the early 1900s by Dr John Graham, a Scottish Presbyterian missionary. Jane's grandmother was one of the young people who was brought to Dunedin as part of the scheme – she never talked to her family about it.

Kalimpong c.1920s. Girls on the school grounds,

Kalimpong c.1920s. A cottage group with the housemother and auntie (the children were housed in cottages of 30-40 children).

Kalimpong c.1920s. Dr Graham in Kalimpong with two of his students.

The first large group to be sent to NZ (Dunedin) in 1912.

Group of 1925 enroute to NZ on the SS Janus.

Wellington reunion - from Dr Graham's tour of 1937 meeting former students.

July 1966 - the 'OGBs' (old girls and boys) were invited to Government House to have afternoon tea with Sir Bernard and Lady Fergusson.

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