Author · New Zealand
Avis Acres
Died in 1994
Thyra Avis Mary McNeill was born in Wellington on 26 March 1910, the eldest of four children. Her family moved to Auckland in 1913. A pupil at St Cuthbert's College, she had to look for work in 1924, when her father's business failed: she painted signs for shops, copied architects' drawings, then learned pen drawing at evening classes. Married in 1935 to Bob Acres, she raised poultry near Hamilton, settled in Taupō in 1950 and died in Tauranga on 15 October 1994.
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- TaleThe Adventures of Hutu and KawaAvis Acres · 1955Literature