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Biography: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

Curnow at Piha

Curnow at Piha

Allen Curnow enjoyed Auckland’s West Coast beaches and, years after this photograph was taken, owned a bach at Karekare. He is seen here (in small image, back row, left) with friends, including the poet A. R. D. Fairburn (back row, right, and image on right), at Piha in 1937.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Betty Curnow Collection

Reference: PAColl-4322-1

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Terry Sturm. 'Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/26317/curnow-at-piha (accessed 4 June 2026).