About Us

Olive Redmond

I am a British-born New Zealander. I was born near London, in the middle of the worst war in history, with 2 brothers, a sister and 2 half-sisters. Our parents encouraged us to have the best education available to us, and insisted that each of us trained for a career on leaving school. In those days most girls could choose from only about 5 occupations - office, shop, factory, school teacher or nurse. I couldn't decide, so followed my friends to secretarial college.