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John Reece Cole and Christine Cole Catley

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John Reece Cole and Christine Cole Catley

John Reece Cole and Christine Bull were married in Wellington in 1948. The couple were part of the lively Wellington literary scene of the 1950s, when Christine was working as a journalist and John as a librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library. They separated in 1967, after John suffered serious brain damage in two road accidents.

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Tim Shoebridge. 'Cole Catley, Christine McKelvie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2019, whakahou January 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47199/john-reece-cole-and-christine-cole-catley (accessed 4 June 2026).