Women, Māori - Health and hygiene

Date: 1993-1994

By: Haami, Bradford Joseph Te Apatuoterangi Maaka, 1966-

Reference: OHColl-0453

Description: These recordings were made as source material for the written biography `Dr Golan Maaka : Maori doctor' (1995). Dr Maaka practised medicine in the Whakatāne district for 35 years and combined Pākehā and traditional Māori medical practices. He also did medical rounds in the Ureweras. Interviews are with Tangi Maaka, Maanu Paul, Willie Aarons, Bill Davis, Helen Draper, Ted and Pauline Butt, Jumbo Chadwick, Dr Staverley, Roger Maaka, Ching Tutua, Florence Maaka, Puti O'Brien, Derek Asher, Bob Burgess, Jock Young and Graeme Howard, Leslie Stewart, Inia and June Maaka, Rowena Paku, Koa Murdoch and Manurere Dimitrof. Interviewer(s) - Brad Haami Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 10 C90 cassette(s). 20 interview(s). 28 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 19 Apr 1982-3 Feb 1983 - 19 Apr 1982 - 03 Feb 1983

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Cooper, Whina (Dame), 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0514/1

Description: This interview took place over a number of months to provide material for Michael King to write the biography of Whina Cooper at her request. Discusses her family background, her father Heremia Te Wake, a Native Land Court assessor and her mother, Kare Pauro Kawatihi. Notes that she was the first child of her father's second marriage. Discusses her father and his attitude to Pakeha,land and mana. Mentions his friend Sir James Carroll and Sir Maui Pomare. Recalls childhood and schooling at Whakarapa Native School and St Joseph's Maori Girls' College in Napier. Describes working in the local store, becoming a teacher trainee at the Pawarenga Native School and then housekeeper at the Catholic presbytery. Recalls considering becoming a nun but changing her mind over a nun's treatment of a child. Talks about her role in fighting for the preservation of the Whakarapa mudflats, being drained by a Pakeha farmer, at the age of eighteen. Describes her interest in land surveyor Richard Gilbert, marriage to him in 1917, living at her parents' home and the birth of a daughter. Describes both parents' deaths and the need for her young family to move. Recalls living on family land at Te Karaka, the birth of another child and assistance from a priest to buy Heremia Te Wake's home and farm and the local store. Describes paying off the loan and building a new shop, post office, community centre and health clinic while husband Richard Gilbert ran the farm and later bought a second farm. Mentions becoming president of a Panguru branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and her role in land development in the Hokianga. Comments on Sir Apirana Ngata and legislation enabling Maori to borrow money to clear, drain, grass and fence land. Mentions the establishment of a programme dividing the Hokianga into development schemes and her supervision of the Panguru and Waihou schemes. Talks about the role of senior land consolidation officer William Cooper and the growth of her relationship with him. Talks about the death of husband Richard Gilbert and her intention to marry William Cooper on his divorce. Comments on reaction to this, moving to Kamo with William Cooper and having four more children. Recalls her fund-raising efforts during the war. Describes the return to Panguru of Whina and Bill Cooper after their marriage. Mentions the attempt to organise the building of a meeting house in Panguru. Talks about the death of husband Bill Cooper and going to Auckland. Discusses the beginning of the Maori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) in 1951, her election as President and travelling the country to establish branches. Discusses the work of the League and her role in it. Talks about the establishment of an Auckland urban marae, Te Unga Waka, in 1966. Talks about her health and attitude to medicines. Discusses her involvement in leading the Maori Land March in 1975 and the organisation Te Ropu o te Matakite. Talks about Kupe's discovery of Hokianga harbour. Discusses Father Becker, Archbishop Liston and other Catholic clergy. Talks about custom, carvings and fishing. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1994-1999

By: Harte, Helen Mountain, active 1999

Reference: OHColl-0471

Description: Interviews women from the Bay of Islands area about their childbirth experiences. Interviews Miria Shortland, Taurangi Clendon, Wainu Hoori, Ida Packer, Florence Pita, Mihiterena Wells, Ngareta Wharerau and Harriet Brown Simeon, Atareiria Haika, Morini Katene, Hera Paratene, Erana Prime, Mabel Waititi, Akanihi Tiatoa and Lucy De Thierry Kiwikiwi. Interviewer(s) - Helen Harte Quantity: 14 C90 cassette(s). 14 printed abstract(s) (Summaries and 4 transcripts). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Short summaries and 4 transcripts.

Date: 1982-2013

By: Aotearoa Māori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles (Organization)

Reference: MS-Group-2282

Description: Contains the records of the Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyle Trust. Includes papers relating to the Maori Women's Welfare League, programmes from tournaments for 1988-2013, papers relating to the management of the organisation, and regional reports supplied from the regional groups of the organisation. Source of title - Supplied by Library In 1995, the Maori Netball Association became an incorporated society called the Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyle Trust (AMNOHL). The organisation has 11 regional groups: Tai Tokerau (Northland), Raki Pae Whenua (North Harbour), Tamaki-Makau-Rau (Auckland), Tainui (Waikato), Waiariki (Bay of Plenty), Aotea (Taranaki), Tai Rawhiti (East Coast/Poverty Bay), Ikaroa Ki Te Raki (Manawatu), Ikaroa Ki Te Tonga (Wellington), Te Ara Ki Te Waipounamu (top of the South Island), Te Waipounamu (the rest of the South Island). A history of the organisation was published in 2007, called `He Kohikohinga Mahara: 20 years young! 1987-2007: Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles' by Evelyn Tobin. Quantity: 57 folder(s). 1 compact disc(s). 1.40 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into manuscripts, and transferred to other sections from there. - To Photographic Archive - 1 box coloured prints, 1 album coloured prints, mainly related to Maori netball and some relating to the Maori Women's Welfare League. Transferred accession number: PH-2014-115. - To Book Collections - Maori Women's Welfare League Recipe Book 1985..

Date: 17 Feb 1995

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Tahiwi, Mairatea, 1908-1997; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: OHInt-0600-04

Description: Mairatea Tahiwi was born in Lower Hutt in 1908. Mentions nursing training in Auckland, catching Tuberculosis (TB), recuperating in a Waipawa sanitorium, and living in Otaki and Palmerston North. Mentions husband, Prim Tahiwi, his World War I service, teaching, and work as the only post-war Maori employee at Wellington hospital. Talks about volunteer work for Colonel Hempthal of Maori Welfare during World War II, signing the influx of Maori women into Wellington onto the census. Talks about visiting them in hotels, factories and restaurants and their poor working and living conditions. Talks about reports compiled by by Ngati Poneke Tribal Committee Chairman, to Hon P K Paikea, Minister in Charge of Maori War Effort, describing plight of young Wellington Maori women, that were based on her welfare work. Mentions Polly Nathan's support for her Red Cross work. Talks about the Wellington Tribal Committee, established in 1947, its welfare officers, and controller Rangi Royal. Describes Committee members, including Tom Parata, Charlie Bennett, Kingi Tahiwi, Lady Pomare, Pete Tahiwi, John Mason, Takina, Wyn Smiler, Philip Tamahore, Mrs Elsmore and herself, and recalls Kingi Tahiwi was chairman. Talks about involvement in Ngati Poneke and the concert party. Refers to the attraction of the American marines in Wellington. Talks about the Wellington Tribal Committee's role in establishing the Maori wardens, mentions warden Mrs Hina Walker and her daughter Riria. Mentions 18 years of committee work for Alexandra Homes, for pregnant single women, and involvement in Arohata prison. Recalls that Queenie Te Tau and Lord Tamihana were the first Maori Welfare Officers. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Dennis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010545 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) and 1 copy. 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA 3649; partial digital transcript at MSDL-0153 (file Maria3.doc). Search dates: 1939 - 1948

Date: 31 01 1995 - 31 Jan 1995

From: A history of Indian women in Aotearoa

By: Soni, Kantha (Dr), active 1951-1995

Reference: OHInt-0063/08

Description: Kantha Soni details how she was born in Fiji, speaks Hindu, Gujarati and English, that her religion is Hindu and how she came to New Zealand in 1951 to study to become a doctor. Notes that she is the first New Zealand Indian woman doctor. Talks about her life in Fiji, her schooling at a Methodist school, her hard years of study, the struggle of her family to send her to New Zealand to study, her career, living in Wellington, her divorce and being on her own for 22 years. Talks about living with her mother and her daughter in Auckland. Discusses how everything she has done is untraditional; leaving home, having a career, getting a divorce and bringing up a child on her own. Talks about not feeling that she is radical but rather that she just did it because it was important to her. Explains that the caste system is not important to her, that the indigenous peoples of India were conquered, not born into the caste system. Talks about being a feminist and what this means to her. talks about setting up the first Maori women's health collective on the North Shore and what an achievement this has been for her. Discusses her involvement with the Indian community and her plans for the future. Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006137 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - summary notes. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-1380.

Date: 31 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Savage, Dorothy Te Uru Manuka, 1911-1988

Reference: OHInt-0015-06

Description: Naki Savage describes her family background; her whakapapa (genealogy); early Maori cultural training at the Pa; the Wairarapa Anglican Maori Cultural Group; the Ngati Kahungunu Group; prominent Te Ore Ore families : Rimene, Kawana, Karaitiana, Waaka, Manaena, Whakamairu, Ellis, Carrol and Himona; important dignitaries of the time: Ratima Maaka, Ihaia Whakamairu, Rimene Witinitara, Albert Himona, Rose Paraone (Nanny Rose), Joe Brown; favourite childhood games; excerpts from Naki's narrative of the coming of Ratana; Potangaroa's Stone; social gatherings at Te Ore Ore; gathering food, eels, preserving meat, the gardens at Kopuranga, seafood, preserving apples and eels. Recalls childhood upbringing by Nanny Rose; custom of burying the afterbirth; swaggers (tramps); carting water from the Ruamahanga; Maori medicine and hygiene; tuberculosis; parties and alcohol; the Depression; contact with Pakeha; starting school; employment with the post office; discrimination; skills taught at school; the influenza epidemic; the Karitiana Family from Christchurch. Discusses politics and the Ratana; religion at Te Ore Ore; work available at Te Ore Ore; marriage and family; her ideas about Kohanga Reo; work for Bessie McKenzie at Mataikona; marriage to Bert Savage; The Maori Women's Welfare League; events experienced at Te Puia Springs; events at Maketu Beach, Rotorua; places regarded as tapu in New Zealand; losing her fluency of the Maori language; how the whakapapa was taught; the Owahanga (Aohanga) Management Committee; the finding of Kuini Reside's whakapapa book; her husband's businesses; life at Castlepoint; her work at the telegraph during World War II; the 1942 earthquake; early memories of Masterton; impressions of Masterton today. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 10 Cedar Wood Flats, Opaki Road, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004434, OHC-004435, OHC-004845 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0887. Search dates: 1911 - 1983

Date: [ca 1987-2013]

By: Aotearoa Māori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles (Organization); Niwa Photography; Insight Photography

Reference: PA-Group-00949

Description: Album and loose prints relating to the Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles organisation between circa 1987 and circa 2013. Chiefly group portraits of the teams (mostly women) but also netball games, tournaments, trophy presentations, informal shots of teams staying on marae and other places, and other events relating to the organisation. Teams are often named but individuals are not. Photographs in the album were taken by Niwa Photography (formerly of Waitara). Loose prints taken by a range of photographers including Eliza Tepania-Carter of Insight Photography, Avondale, Auckland. Other - See published history 'He Kohikohinga Mahara: 20 years young! 1987 - 2007: Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles' by Evelyn M. Tobin et al ([Waitakere], Te Ohu Kohikohinga Mahara Publications Team, 2007) Arrangement: The collection is arranged into four boxes of photographic prints, and one album. Quantity: 389 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 1 album(s) Album(s). 15 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album, loose prints, printed matter. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2282: Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyle Trust: Records 1982-2013. Processing information: Conservation required for some items, due to stickers placed on front of prints, and some prints stuck together.

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :Editorial cartoons. Evening Post. 2 - 30 November 1992

Reference: H-108-007

Description: Shows the head of a young Maori woman with a moko on her chin in the shape of a death's head. Refers to the high rate of lung cancer in Maori women. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1936-1937

From: Turbott, Harold Bertram, 1899-1988 : Papers

Reference: 88-059-2/09

Description: Includes photographs and plan of proposed Maori housing Quantity: 1 folder(s). 2 plan(s). 24 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- : Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards. 1992

Reference: H-223-018

Description: Shows the head of a young Maori woman with a moko on her chin in the shape of a death's head. Refers to the high rate of lung cancer in Maori women. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1990-1992

From: New Zealand Family Planning Association : Records

Reference: 97-035-26/01

Description: Clippings subject file for environment and dioxins, International Planned Parenthood Federation and INTEP, Maori health and health promotion Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1995

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Health; New Zealand. Public Health Commission

Reference: Eph-D-HEALTH-NZDH-1995-01

Description: Shows a photograph of two Maori women, young and old, wearing traditional Maori cloaks, one feathered and one woven. The border shows detail of the woven pattern. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 425 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2003.

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse, 1807-1894

Reference: PUBL-0014-19

Description: A seated Maori woman (Te Wainokenoke) wrapped in a blanket and flax cloak, to the left of Nohorua (with full moko and a grey beard). Nohorua wears a shark's tooth earring in his left ear and a greenstone pendant in his right, as well as a tiki around his neck, and is also wearing a blanket. Behind the couple is Nohorua's son, Tuarau, standing wrapped in a blanket. The group is depicted "in a potato ground, or clearing at Kahotea, between Takapuwahia and Titahi Bay - Porirua; in the distance is a cooking shed, thatched with nikau leaves. The chief is seated by the trunk of a tree-fern, and the bird [near the supplejack] is ... the fan-tailed fly catcher. E Wai, was recovering from an illness at the time of my visit, and had therefore been placed under a tapu so strict, that every spot of ground whereon she sat was rendered sacred for a certain number of days; one of these tapued places is represented ... fenced around with twigs that its sanctity may not be infringed upon." Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - Te Whatarauihi Nohorua Other Titles - Te Wainokenoke Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 2003

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Health

Reference: Eph-D-HEALTH-NZDH-2003-01

Description: Shows an illustration of two Maori women and a Maori girl, the oldest wearing a traditional Maori cloak. The left border shows a woven kete pattern. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2003.