Women in agriculture

Date: 1815-1970

By: Adams, Martha, 1815-1906

Reference: qMS-0026

Description: Reminiscences of early days in Marlborough written in 1857; copies of verse and satire by the family; copy of letter and verse by Henry Harper on Martha Adam's death, plan of family home, Redwood; biographical details from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand and newspaper clippings concerning her husband and eldest son; and sketches she made as a girl in England. Describes her English childhood, marriage to William Adams in 1840 and emigration to Nelson 1850. She describes the `mud hovel' in which the Adams family first lived when taking up a Marlborough run in 1852, and recalls the islolated life which at times found her coping alone with house and farm work, sick children, food shortages and vagrants. Her account ends with the family's move to a new property `Langley Dale', on the Wairau River. Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - Cyclopaedia of New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s) (51 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter (photocopy) (37 cm, red buckram) Includes sketches of Salop, England

Date: 1981

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-

Reference: H-670-001/003

Description: Cartoons showing farming life for Edna, topics cover; Edna's sacrifice for a prize bull, Edna trims the farm trees using a chainsaw and a trampoline, Edna assists with sheep dipping. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopies

Date: 2008

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Women's Division

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2008-02

Description: Calendar, each monthly page featuring one or two women carrying out a rural farm task, unclothed except for a string of pearls, but posed in a concealing manner. All sales proceeds from the calendar were to be donated to the Cancer Society. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, 212 x 297 mm.

Date: ca 1935

By: Maidment, J (Mrs), active 2002

Reference: PAColl-4358

Description: Photographs of George Chaffey & Co trucks laden with wool bales, at Huiarua Station, East Coast. Photograph taken ca 1935 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1981

From: Evans, Malcolm, 1945- :["Edna" cartoons published] 1989.

Reference: H-670-003

Description: Shows Edna making life easier for the sheep following sheep dipping. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 size photocopy

Date: 1981

From: Evans, Malcolm, 1945- :["Edna" cartoons published] 1989.

Reference: H-670-001

Description: Shows Edna's husband rowing a dinghy with a prize bull in it over flooded paddocks, while Edna is made to swim along side the boat. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. The first Edna cartoon ever published. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 photocopy

Date: 1983

From: Evans, Malcolm 1945-:17 photocopies of "Edna" cartoons published bewteen 1981 and 1987.

Reference: H-721-020

Description: Shows Edna working on top of a hay-stack while her farmer husband uses a plank to somersault her up a cup of tea. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 size photocopy

Date: 1979

By: Airey, Elisabeth Farrant, 1934-

Reference: MS-Papers-2015

Description: Ms of book published by author. History of the family of Dr Thomas Renwick and his first wife, Adeline Absolon, and second wife Anne Smith. Adeline came alone to New Zealand in 1843. However, she found life in the colony dull and some time in the late 1850's or early 1860's returned to London. A year after her death in 1870, Thomas married Anne Smith. Born in 1844 Anne came to New Zealand with her elderly mother. After Thomas's death in 1877 she continued to run their farm, and a substantial part of the history relates to financial problems she had to deal with in order to keep it in production. Other Titles - Renwick; the story of a pioneer family Quantity: 1 folder(s) (93 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1981

From: Evans, Malcolm, 1945- :["Edna" cartoons published] 1989.

Reference: H-670-002

Description: Shows Edna pruning farm trees using a chainsaw and a trampoline towed behind the tractor. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 size photocopy

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-021

Description: James and Elizabeth Rowbotham of Cheshire arrived in Nelson in 1842 on `Martha Ridgway'. Elizabeth's parents, brother and two sisters were fellow passengers. The families faced considerable difficulties in early Nelson. James bought land at Stoke and brought up three children. Charlotte, the eldest, married Jabez Hill in 1865. They bought land at Brightwater and built a home for their 14 children. Charlotte was widowed in 1890 and struggled to provide for her family. She became a farmer, educated her children, ran an efficient household and though autocratic, established a happy family atmosphere Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Indexed. Includes photographs and map

Date: 4, 11, 18, 28 August 1993; 1, 4, 9 September 1993 - 04 Aug 1993 - 09 Sep 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clouston, Denise, active 1994; Stevenson, Janet Elsie, 1907-1995

Reference: OHInt-0148/27

Description: Elsie Stevenson, born and grew up in a close knit rural community in Omakau, Central Otago. Her parents were farmers. Elsie left school with Proficiency, not wanting to go to High School. She worked on the farm for a number of years but didn't want to be a farmer. In 1929 she married a railway worker and moved to Southland. However as a result of her husband's accident on the railway they eventually returned to Omakau and took up farming. Both Elsie and her husband (and later second husband) ran the farm. They had two children Shirley and Don. After retiring from farming Elsie looked after her parents for a number of years until the passed away - she then moved to Omakau. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Omakau Interviewer(s) - Denise Clouston Venue - Omakau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018523-018529; OHLC-009962-009968 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6421 and OHDL-000760. Photographs of Elsie hanging out washing; in springcart; Elsie in 1989.

Date: 6, 8 October 1992 - 06 Oct 1992 - 08 Oct 1992

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Grant, Rose Frances, 1905-2004; Reid, Becky, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0148/13

Description: Rose speaks of her isolated rural upbringing near the small community of Glenorchy at the head of Lake Wakatipu. She has spent her whole life in this area and still lives in the family home that her parents moved to when she was about 10 years old. her working life has focused on farming. Unpaid jobs involved mainly rabbiting, milking and feeding the stock. She recalls the history of tourism, mining and timber milling in the Glenorchy area. Speaks of farming today and of raising 140 sheep and 20 cattle not to mention her main friends - 20 cats. Single handedly she keeps the family property running and thrives on life, simply living off the land, with a grand respect for nature. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Glenorchy Interviewer(s) - Becky Reid Venue - Glenorchy Accompanying material - Photographs of house at Turners Creek, Kinloch (father on white horse and mill in background); house at Glenorchy; Rose at races ca 1990/1; Rose and brother Bill ca 1917. Newspaper article "Meet Rosy; Battler from Glenorchy" Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018547-018549; OHLC-00986-009988 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6425 and OHDL-000747.

Date: 6, 15, 26, 29 October 1992; 1 November 1992 - 06 Oct 1992 - 01 Nov 1992

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Harrex, Robyn, active 1992; Rutherford, Helen Elizabeth, 1908-1997

Reference: OHInt-0148/25

Description: Mrs Helen Rutherford, born and spent childhood in Dunedin. Parents worked for the Post Office, mother also taught music. Family moved to Napier because of father's ill health. Helen excelled at secondary school particularly in music, passing her ATCL and LRSM. Music also played important role in family life. Although her mother and grandmother were keen for her to attend university, Helen took up an offer of office work in Wanaka - over the next few years she continued as an office worker for family businesses and a number of other employers. During the war she moved to Poolburn having married a farmer. In addition to raising 5 children Helen has been very involved in community organisation, in particular adult education, plunket and WDFF - the latter two of which she is a life member. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Central Otago Interviewer(s) - Robyn Harrex Venue - Central Otago Accompanying material - Photographs of Helen Rutherford 1992 and various documents. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018530-018539; OHLC-009969-009978 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 9.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6422 and OHDL-00758.

Date: 25 April 1994; 3, 9, 25 May 1994 - 25 Apr 1994 - 25 May 1994

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clouston, Denise, active 1994; Sinnamon, Gladys Margaret, 1913-2013

Reference: OHInt-0148/26

Description: Gladys Sinnamon (nee Mee) was born and grew up in the close knit rural community of Becks, Central Otago. Her parents were publicans - they owned the Becks Hotel - and farmers. All the family assisted with running the hotel. After one year at secondary school in Dunedin, Gladys returned home. Although she wanted to train as a nurse she was needed at home to assist with running the hotel which she did until she married local farmer William Sinnamon in 1936. Once married Gladys shifted with her husband to Poolburn where they farmed for many years and raised two children. Music had been one of Gladys' great interests - she played the piano for many years in a band and the church organ which she still plays on occasion. She also had a long association with the Women's Division and is a Life Member. Though they have retired from farming Gladys and her husband continue to live in the house they moved to when married. Gladys contines to be involved in the local community and has in recent years taken up bowls. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Oturehua Interviewer(s) - Denise Clouston Venue - Oturehua Accompanying material - Newspaper article "Historical society hard at work on old Becks Hotel". Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018595-018598; OHLC-010034-010037 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6437 and OHDL-00759. Photographs of Gladys aged nine with sisters; Gladys and son playing for a dance; Gladys in 1993.

Date: 24, 29 October 1990; 5 November 1990 - 24 Oct 1990 - 05 Nov 1990

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Hart, Trudy, active 1990; Ross, Elizabeth Sutherland, 1897-1991

Reference: OHInt-0148/24

Description: Elizabeth Ross was the second eldest child of William and Anne Ross. The family owned a farm outside Balclutha. In this interview she recalls her childhood and growing up in a small rural community and the impact of national and international events - eg. World War I and II, and the 1930s Depression - on both her own family and the local community. Elizabeth survived her parents and older brother, remaining in Warepa to manage the farm with her younger brother and sister until their retirement in Dunedin. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Trudy Hart Venue - Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHc-018431-018433; OHLC-009939-009941 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6417 and OHDL-000776.

Date: 14 Feb 1995 - 1 May 1995 - 4 Dec 1996 - 04 Dec 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Lockhart, Pamela Mary, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0438-09

Description: Pamela Lockhart was born in Auckland in 1930. Mentions her father was a surgeon and she attended Bayfield School and Woodford House. Recalls the Depression, World War II and life at boarding school. Describes her first job at a travel agency, travelling to England on a boat, her job in London and travel in Europe in 1951. Discusses being a New Zealand woman in London, being presented at Court and her return to NZ after three years. Describes working in Auckland before marriage in 1955 and being on a farm in Bombay (South Auckland) with husband John. Recalls helping on the farm, loneliness, a limited social life, having four children and being involved with the local school. Describes their move to a farm in Porangahau in 1979, her husband's illness after being there a year and the sale of the farm. Describes their move into Hastings. Talks about widowhood and her job with Red Cross for twelve years and association with Woodford House Old Girls. Comments on her preference for Single Tranferrable Vote (STV) over the MMP electoral system. Discusses the location of the Hawkes Bay Hospital and the local body elections. Talks about gardening, the local harvest, painting, a writing group and her role in Speaker Forum organising women speakers from around the country to come to speak in Hawkes Bay. Talks about her grandchildren. Discusses Jim Bolger going to the Asian Pacific Trade Organisation meeting, the health sytsem and the arrival of Canadian firm McCains in Hawkes Bay. Describes the purchase of a new car. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2140. Search dates: 1930 - 1996

Date: 16, 30 Sep 1996 - 16 Sep 1996 - 30 Sep 1996

From: A taste of gold oral history project

By: Weaver, Earnscy, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0446-13

Description: Earnscy Weaver was born in Clyde in 1950. His parents were Charles Earnscy (Earnc) Weaver and Doreen Craig. Describes how his grandfather dredged and sluiced gold and then in the early 1900s began growing cherries, pears, apricots, apples, plums, greengages, walnuts and almonds. Talks about how his grandfather built the original home out of schist. Recalls how his father and his brothers were all involved in fruit growing. Mentions how his father sold half his property in the 1960s because of poor health. Describes going into a partnership with Fay Richwhite and Co which took over his orchard and included it in a development of another one hundred acres of orchard known as Summerfruit Orchards Ltd. Describes how the water rights were taken from mining rights. Comments on the huge importance of water and disputes caused by it. Comments on changes in planting and pruning technique, frost protection and spraying. Mentions hydraulic ladders. Discusses a new style of spraying known as Integrated Fruit Protection (IFP) which involves the use of softer chemicals and targeted rather than blanket spraying. Discusses the use of air freight for transporting fruit. Mentions that his father was a progressive grower. Discusses the role of women in the orchard business. Describes how his grandmother had home help and his mother worked very hard at feeding staff and family several times a day but was not involved in decision-making. Discusses the work of his wife, Irene Weaver, in orchard office administration. Mentions her involvement in decision-making until they both became employees of the company. Describes working on the orchard as a child and the work of some of his own family on the orchard. Comments on his discouraging their orchard work as it is a hard life. Recalls doing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln and working in Hawkes Bay orchards for a year before returning to the family property. Describes working closely with Hort Research. Talks about the Earnscleugh community since World War II and changes in it as orcharding becomes more business minded and competitive. Comments that the planned mining venture will provide an exit from orcharding for those who want to get out. Mentions that mining at Island Block has shown that land impact can be minimal. Discusses in detail varieties of fruit currently grown particularly cherries, apricots and apples. Mentions the limited flexibility in selecting apple varieties because of the control of the Apple and Pear Board. Comments that growers can respond to market demand within four years. Describes networking with growers about varieties they can offer. Discusses the use of brokers who market fruit internationally. Mentions new and developing markets in Asia particularly Bangkok and Taiwan. Talks about the Clutha Valley Export Company (CVE) which markets stone fruit and the Clutha Valley Marketing Group (CVM) marketing pip fruit. Discusses the use of eight permanent staff and two hundred casual workers during the picking season. Mentions payment by piece rates. Talks about diversification into nuts, peonies and other produce. Comments on the importance of the weather. Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008572 - OHC-008574 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2672.

Date: 18 Sep 1985

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Hammond, Percy Greville, 1906-1997

Reference: OHInt-0470/13

Description: Percy Hammond recorded this tape himself. Recalls early days of his life in Rotorua. Describes how travellers caught the steamer to Tauranga and the all-day coach to Rotorua. Mentions there was a rail terminus at Tirau (Oxford). Describes a private hotel, Arawa House, run by his grandparents in Rotorua with the help of his parents. Mentions his parents moved to a section near Whakarewarewa and his father worked as a printer on the `Chronicle'. Recalls anti Catholic and anti German (during World War I) feeling as a child. Describes his play and activities as a child. Describes his family's move from Rotorua to his grandfather's farm at Tauranga. Recalls that the family lived in a tent for two or three years and comments on the difficulty of this for his mother. Talks about the many trees, killing pigs and making bacon, wine making, the maize crop and vegetable gardening. Describes his work on the farm, including milking cows, while still attending school. Mentions he attended high school for six months only. Recalls the town of Tauranga. Describes his wife Molly and her attitude to animals. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Accompanying material - Information (five pages) about Percy Hammond's grandparents, David and Martha Griffiths, who arrived in New Zealand in 1881 and about their descendants Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2861.

Date: 10 Nov 2005

From: New Zealand Defence Force Military oral history project

By: Morgan, Merle Joan, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0938-22

Description: Interview with Merle Morgan, born in Nuhaka in 1923. Mentions her great grandfather William Rudolph Charles Sturm had emigrated to New Zealand from Europe (Austria or Germany). Recalls being at school on the day of the Napier earthquake and being sent outside by the teacher. Describes damage to their home and the farm from the earthquake. Comments on how her older sister who was working in Napier Hospital was hit on the head by falling bricks, taken to Wellington suffering amnesia, and the family did not find her for three months. Mentions she wanted to be a nurse when she left school but her mother organised a job for her with the Post Office as a telephone exchange operator, where she was working when war broke out in 1939. Recalls an occasion in 1940 or 1941 when she had to relay a message from the operator at Gisborne to the local Home Guard that a Japanese submarine had been seen at Opoutama, and that two Wairoa women who had lived in Japan were murdered that night. Talks about her mother arranging for her to be manpowered as a land girl on the family farm for two years. Refers to milking 40 cows by hand, managing the farm while her father managed another farm, and killing goats to feed the dogs. Comments that her father was very strict about adhering to meat rationing regulations. Recalls getting news of the progress of the war overseas in newspapers and on the radio. Mentions that her family all forgot her 21st birthday. Describes how her mother got her a job in Wellington with the Radio Corporation in 1944, making transmitter and receiver sets for the Army. Talks about the luxury of having a comparatively well-paid job, living first in a hostel and then going flatting with another girl. Comments that they went dancing every night except when soldiers were on their final leave. Refers to being put on shorter hours and night shift work when Radio Corp. ran short of components because a ship had been torpedoed. Talks about being sent to work in another factory in a basement in Courtenay Place, drilling fine holes in mortar bombs. Describes her next manpowered job at Alex Harveys, making toothpaste tubes. Talks about difficult encounters with the Manpower office. Refers to spending Saturdays packing Red Cross parcels. Remembers being given the day off on VE Day and the celebrations in the streets. Refers to realising the impact of the atomic bombs on Japan when she saw newsreels and photographs in newspapers. Recalls VJ Day, heavy rain on the day and getting very muddy. Talks about moving to another factory to work after the war and doing some waitressing as well to increase her income. Mentions going to the hospital in her spare time to visit returned servicemen and write letters for them, the terrible state some were in, and in some cases their wives not wanting them back. Refers being recalled to the family farm by her mother, returning to Wellington in 1947, and meeting her husband. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017876 - OHC-017877 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). 1 transcript(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-000421, OHA-6368. Search dates: 1923 - 1939 - 2005 - 1945

Date: 10 Dec 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Watts, Mary Frances, 1910-1997

Reference: OHInt-0430/09

Description: Mary (Molly) Watts was born in Helensville in 1910. Discusses the arrival of her grandparents, Fanny and Henry Marks, in New Zealand on the `Annie Wilson' in 1861. Describes how they were allotted land at Kaukapakapa. Describes how her father had been a Boer War volunteer then came to New Zealand. Mentions her parents met at a dance, were married in 1908 and settled on a dairy farm at Waimauku. Describes travelling to England as a three year old and returning to New Zealand on the `Ionic' in 1914, the last ship back before World War I. Recalls Dr Meinhold of Helensville and the anti-German prejudice he experienced during World War I. Describes her squint which was straightened by the laying on of hands. Recalls attending Waimauku School which was held in the hall for some time. Describes helping on the farm and in the house when she left Helensville District High School. Recalls the family's move to Henderson for her father's health. Describes their sale of dairy products, eggs and flowers. Discusses joining the Women's War Service Auxiliary signals section in World War II. Recalls learning Morse code from the Home Guard. Mentions secret manoeuvres, Red Cross work, a feared Japanese invasion and the crash of a Flying Fortress. Talks about the death of her father in 1943, her mother in 1962 and moving to Kaukapakapa to look after her cousin Harry Dye. Mentions he had owned the Kaukapakapa store and she looked after him until his death in 1977. Mentions a trip to England. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3334. Search dates: 1993