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Interview with Min Stuart

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Date

4 Dec 1984 - 04 Dec 1984

By

Stuart, Wilhelmina Magdalene, 1895-1985

Reference

OHInt-0070/17

Description

Min Stuart recalls family background, childhood, education, early job as dressmaker at Brown Ewings in 1911, working conditions, hours, wages, going to Post Office Girls' Telegraph School in Dunedin during World War I, colleague Vera Pringle, morse training, need for good hearing and writing, styles of sending, work in the main office in Dunedin, being only woman in telegraph room, the multiplex system, clothing, discipline, working hours, mistakes, secrecy, telegrams, teleprinters, women prohibited from becoming supervisors, the influenza epidemic of 1918, the night shift, attitude of men to women in telegraph job, Post and Telegraph Association, her appeal for equal pay which she won in 1944 and its effect, retirement in 1951, Knox Church, entertainment, reasons for not marrying.

Venue - Dunedin

Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe

Venue - Min Stuart's home at David Street, Dunedin

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000752 - OHC-000753

Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.52 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 128.

Search dates: 1895 - 1984

Additional description

Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLC-006667 - OHLC-006668; OHLCD-1425 - OHLCD-1426

Use/Reproduction

Public use requires the written permission of the interviewee and the donor Copyright: Held by the donor

Access restrictions

Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Access requires written permission of the donor

Part of

New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

Format

2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1.52 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Equipment used: Marantz Superscope Cassette Recorder ; Shure SM58 microphones

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