Nursing

By: Burgess, Marie Eda, 1944-

Reference: OHColl-0138

Description: Interviews with seven women between sixty and eighty years old who have been nurses or midwives. Records the life histories of these women who have contributed a working lifetime to the community through their service in health and nursing and in the education of others. Five of the seven are single women so these interviews contribute to the body of knowledge of a group who can appear `invisible' in a `married' society. Interviewer(s) - Marie Burgess Quantity: 7 Interview(s).

Date: 1989-2000

By: Langridge, Yvonne, active 2000; New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation

Reference: OHColl-0502

Description: Interviews Mary Duignan, Sister Galvin, Vivien Spanton, Anne McDonald and Lexino van der Hoek about their nursing careers Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 5 printed abstract(s). 5 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Black and white photographs of Mary Duignan

Date: 1945-1982

From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history

Reference: MSZ-1470

Description: Scrapbook containing certificates, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings of New Zealand UNRRA Nurses - Mrs Catherine E Armstrong, Mrs Nellie Rauti Duncan, Miss Joyce Mary Horner, Mrs Melva May Junge and Miss Lily Elizabeth Taylor. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed material

Date: 1997

From: Massey University. School of Design :Photographs

By: Auld, Caroline, active 1997

Reference: PA1-o-871

Description: Photographs of the nurses and their patients of Rimutaka Prison, Trentham. The photographs illustrate a fairly long text and both cover one of the nurse's involvement on a Government committee. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Margaret Duirs, 1900-2001

Reference: MS-Papers-3838

Description: Contains her experiences in Napier following the earthquake Source of title - Supplied Miss McNab, then a nurse, travelled from Wanganui to Napier to assist with nursing following the earthquake Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [ca 197-?]

By: Lilburne, Anne (Sister), 1910-1998

Reference: MS-Papers-3937

Description: Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1997-1998

By: Massey University. School of Design

Reference: PA-Group-00622

Description: Photographs taken by students of the Wellington Polytechnic School of Design, as part of the Wellington Polytechnic Archive of Contemporary Culture project. Includes negatives of HIV/Aids nurse Eric Lloyd, Wellington Public Hospital, taken in 1998 by Kinstry Smythe, a student at the College of Design, Fine Arts and Music, Massey University, Wellington Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - Photocopies of consent forms in Photographic Archive back file Quantity: 25 album(s). 94 colour original transparency/ies. 114 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 775 b&w original negative(s) comprising 3902 images. 59 colour original negative(s) comprising 258 images. Physical Description: Photographs, film negatives, transparencies

Date: 1945 - 1952

From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history

Reference: MSZ-1469

Description: Scrapbook of papers relating to Nurse Miss Lily Elizabeth Taylor. Comprises correspondence, copies of the UNRRA Team News' newspaper, certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs and other material. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed material

Date: 1960

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to nurses, nursing training and education, the nursing profession]

By: Burwood Hospital (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-NURSING-1960-01

Description: Pamphlet outlining the course of training for male nurses at Burwood Hospital, job prospects, accomodation, duties, salary, and instructions for applying to join the course. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 222 x 267 mm, folded to 222 x 92 mm Provenance: Donated from the papers of Marianne Bos, 2010. Transfers: Collection received in Published and transfers made from there..

Date: 1930-1955, 1957-1963

By: Smith, Elsie, 1881-1968

Reference: MS-Papers-1017

Description: Letters describing work as Nurse Missionary at Koriniti Mission, Koriniti, 1930-1955, brief journal notes, 1957-1963, biographical notes, newspaper clippings and a photograph of the Koriniti Mission Quantity: 1 folder(s) (67 leaves and 1 photograph). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 6 July 1993 - 06 Jul 1993

From: National Council of Women: Narratives from a century - oral history project

By: Sandford, Gladys Anne, 1909-2002

Reference: OHInt-0387/22

Description: Gladys Anne Sandford (Sandy) born Napier. Gives details of her parents who were South Islanders, her father's jewellery shop which burnt down and the family farm in Taranaki. Was only member of family to have secondary education - refers to Government financial assistance. Describes Manaia School, the large Maori roll, sport and the curriculum. Recalls soup kitchens, general unemployment and being out of work herself for a year during the Depression. Mentions New Zealand Wars with reference to Ernie Betts, a neighbour, who fought. Describes her family, the Manaia community and leisure including birthdays and picnics. Discusses nursing career and training in both theatre and maternity nursing. Worked for Army Base Hospital, taking her to Fiji, Cairo and Bari, Italy (3 years). Recalls introduction to penicillin. Describes typhoid outbreak in Cairo and gives details of nursing in Cairo. On returning to civilian life took job in charge of Maternity Annex in Lower Hutt for nineteen years. Comments on nurses' pay. Talks about working for Plunket and helping set up the nursing degree. Talks about involvement with the National Council of Women in the Hutt and her experience as President of the Hutt Branch. Describes input into health issues in NCW. Gives reasons for the setting up of the Polynesian Festival. People mentioned include: Mary Dowse, Hilda Burke, Mrs Murphy and Marion Akroyd. Discusses importance of women's demands for Equal Rights. Mentions looking after her mother from 1946 to 1970. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Howick Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Venue - Howick Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1458.

Date: 14 Oct 2011

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Walker, Jeanette Anne, 1940-2012

Reference: OHInt-1017-12

Description: Interview with Jeanette Anne Walker, born January 1940 in Auckland. Provides family background. Describes her parents' courtship, and social scene in Milford at the time. Describes home on Frater Avenue, shopping, and neighbours in Milford. Describes the family's harberdasher shop and its relationship to other fabric suppliers in the area. Describes schooling at Belmont School, and why she didn't attend school in Milford. Describes teachers, classes, and sports activities at Belmont. Discusses being a student at Takapuna Grammar School, and describes school dances and socials. Mentions activities at Ye Olde Pirate Shippe, and swimming. Describes holiday homes and being told to avoid the Milford campground. Describes working as a nurses aide at the Wilson Home for Crippled Children in Takapuna. Discusses nurses training and working at Green Lane Hospital in 1958. Describes her work and explains that she left after 2 years when she got married. Recounts meeting her husband, Alistair Langlands Walker at church. Comments on age difference between them and her husband's death. Describes Milford beach and her time at the beach as a child. Describes swimming at the beach, swimsuits, and birthday parties. Describes boating and explains that people had their regular spots at the beach. Mentions surf life saving club and recalls strong current and brother getting swept out one time. Recalls going to Urlic's dairy and having spiders and milkshakes. Describes playing miniature golf for fun and tennis at school. Describes land around the Pirate Shippe, and socials and dances at church halls. Describes transport to dances, taking a plate, and music. Tells of going to the Milford Picturedrome on Saturday afternoons and describes routine of the picture show. Reflects on differences between Milford and Takapuna, and on her "wonderful childhood" in Milford. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.05 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 2 Nov 1998 - 5 Nov 1998

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Webb, Margaret, 1914-2001

Reference: OHColl-0552-1

Description: Margaret Webb was born in Christchurch in 1914, the daughter of photographer Steffano Webb and Beatrice Webb (nee Buss). Describes her mother as very musical. Talks about her father's photographic studio and the nature of his photography which included portraits, wedding, debutante and school photos. Describes his huge camera. Recalls attending St. Margaret's College and Rangi Ruru. Describes social events where she was usually chaperoned. Talks about her decision to become a nurse, her desire to travel and her nursing training. Recalls going to Sydney on the `Wanganella' in May 1939 and then on to London on the `Ormond'. Notes that she travelled with her architect friend Margaret Munro. Describes her impressions of London and first nursing job at Kensington. Recalls concerns about the likelihood of war, its outbreak and the change in London. Describes signing up for Queen Alexandra's nursing service, being called up immediately, going to Aldershot and then France. Describes her feelings about this, loneliness, discomfort and fever from injections. Recalls being lectured on running a ward, setting it up and nursing for some months before action. Describes air raid warnings and being shifted to a tented hospital just before their station and hospital ship were bombed. Talks about refugees everywhere, going to another hospital, wearing tin hats and gas masks and tracer bullets while going down to the wharf and leaving France. Mentions arriving in Liverpool and some brief leave before being called up again and going on the troopship `Empress of Canada' which carried Scottish soldiers. Describes sailing to Egypt and going to the Sudan. Discusses wearing a white uniform and topee in incredible heat and going across the desert in army trucks. Notes that this was the Eritrean campaign and her hospital was the 32nd General Hospital. Recalls the hero of the campaign was Brigadier Slim who became a patient. Describes the social life in Khartoum including dancing on the banks of the Nile. Recalls British ships coming up the Nile carrying tanks and the arrival of General Montgomery. Describes being posted to Palestine, Gaza and then the hospital ship `Oranje' to South Africa. Talks about being posted to No. 1 General Hospital on the Nile, returning to England as a theatre nurse in Dorset, and being en route to a new posting in Lahore on VE Day. Notes that she had become a Captain. Recalls being posted to Assam and then Gauhati for the rest of the war and treating emaciated soldiers from the Burma Road. Comments on leave while nursing and lifelong friends made as a result of the war. Recalls returning to New Zealand in 1946 and the difficulties of settling down. Describes working in the plastics unit at Burwood. Mentions Dr. Manchester. Talks about studying maternity nursing and going to Gisborne before doing Plunket training in Dunedin and nursing in Ashburton and Christchurch. Interviewer(s) - Susan Foster Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2492.

Date: 21 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Rishworth, Margaret Joyce, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0569/08

Description: Joyce Rishworth was born in Seacliff in 1921. Describes family and growing up in the area until the age of fifteen. Mentions father was a psychiatric nurse. Mentions the closure of Seacliff Hospital. Describes attending Seacliff Primary School, going by train daily to high school in Dunedin and attending Browns Commercial College. Describes meeting Harold Rishworth and becoming engaged before he went to war. Talks about his capture at El Alamein and his being a prisoner of war. Describes nursing training, but not sitting final exams, and nursing returned soldiers. Describes frequent church attendance. Talks about Harold Rishworth's appearance, rehabilitation and their marriage when he returned from war. Mentions his work at a fellmongery, the birth of their daughter and their move to Milton where they worked on a sheep farm. Describes applying for rehabilitation farms and a move to Lawrence. Discusses the rabbit problem, skinning and selling rabbits and improving land covered in gorse and manuka. Mentions the birth of other children and the difficulty of travelling on poor roads from Tuapeka West to the Lawrence maternity home. Discusses what her children are doing now. Describes having no telephone or electricity until the 1950s, initially no water, cooking on a wood stove and a mail delivery every three days. Discusses isolation as a result of snow and being unable to get home from Dunedin for a week. Mentions flooding and the influence of the Clutha River on farming. Describes increasing the farm size. Talks about recreational use of the river and the role of the punt as a tourist attraction. Details puntmen. Discusses the role of the church in her life. Recalls her husband's death in 1975. Describes membership of Associated Presbyterian Women (APW), Red Cross and Country Women's Institute(CWI). Notes Tuapeka West is also known as Kononi. Discusses involvement with the Clutha Valley High School. Notes the closure of the Tuapeka West School in 1991 and other services which have closed. Mentions the Greenfield pub and local events including the Shearers Jamboree, the punt dance and Tuapeka Mouth cattle sales. Describes disappointment on hearing about the dam and the potential loss of part of their property but comments philosophically on the need for electricity. Discusses being consulted by ECNZ and meetings at Tuapeka Mouth. Talks about sadness at the planned flooding of Beaumont and notes that her daughter and son in Beaumont have sold their orchard to ECNZ. Comments on the uncertainty created by the dam issue. Describes how her home is a base for the family and the dam has an impact on the whole family. Comments on the activities of Friends of Beaumont (FOB) who tried to disrupt punt celebrations. Interviewer(s) - Jerome Cvitanovich Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 2632. Photo of Joyce and Harold Rishworth; Joyce Rishworth and others; Joyce Rishworth and son

Date: 2 Feb 2003 - 02 Feb 2003

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: Williams, Jean Caradus, 1910-2007; Price, Katharine Margaret Huia, 1914-2009

Reference: OHInt-0783-17

Description: A joint oral history interview with friends Jean Williams and Katharine Price. Jean Williams was born 1910 in Richmond, Nelson. Katharine Price was born 1914 in Merivale, Christchurch. Talk about their childhoods. Describe their nursing careers and the role that bicycling had in their lives. Katharine refers to bicycling to the St Helen's Maternity Hospital to collect surplus milk for the children's ward at the Christchurch Hospital. Jean refers to how the small wage of nursing made bicycling the most economic way to travel. Talks about the bicycles women would ride and the clothing they wore. Refer to the dress reform of women cyclists and mention Diana Durbin and Amelia Bloomers. Recall various cycling trips and tours in the Canterbury region. Jean mentions a South Island tour with her sister Mabel during the war in the early 1940s. Discusses experiences of nursing during World War II in New Zealand. Jean recalls working in a medical unit, petrol restrictions, rations, army bases and United States officers in Christchurch. Katharine recalls sightings of Japanese submarines in the Cook Strait, working on hospital ships in Aotea Quay and the United States officers in Wellington. Discusses reasons for giving up cycling. Jean mentions that she gave up when she had children. Katharine mentions she stopped when she became frightened of the increased cars on the road and had an accident 15 years ago. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4165. Colour photograph of Katharine Price and Jean Williams Search dates: 1910 - 2003

Date: [1914?-1918?]

From: Land, Mona Winifred Sarah, 1895-1971: Emergency passport and nurse's pip

Reference: Objects-0955

Description: Maker(s) not identified. Nurse's pip badge identified as belonging to Mona Land from when she was a nurse in London during World War One. The motto reads `Tria juncta in uno' (three joined in one - motto of the Order of the Bath), usually used to rank an officer's position. Address 'Dresdner Bank Depositen-Kasse E Weisser Hirsch bei Dresden Loschwitzer Str.21' printed on bag. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 curio(s) Pip housed in original jeweller's case enclosed in drawstring bag.. Physical Description: Red, green and gold enamel diamond shaped pip, 15 x 15 mm, in a black jewellery box, 55 x 55 x 24 mm, in yellow cloth drawstring bag, 98 x 78 mm. Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-051-008. Previous title: Nurse's pip - Order of the Bath.

Date: 1997

From: Massey University. School of Design :Photographs

By: Bunny, Emma, active 1997

Reference: PA1-o-870

Description: Documents the work of Katerine Nelson, nurse practitioner at the Newtown Union Health Service. In particular this album documents medical treatments being applied to children. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1970s

By: New Zealand Nurses Association

Reference: PA12-0064

Description: Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts. See MS-Group-241 - Transferred from MS-Group-0241.

Date: 1927-1991

By: Smedley, Beryl (Lady), 1922-2011

Reference: MS-Papers-4404

Description: The reminiscences are entitled `Ricky's story - the memoirs of Amy Rickman', as taken down by Beryl Smedley in September 1991. The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, maps, telegrams, invitations, drawings of Rickman in 1927 and other papers concerning her nursing career. Source of title - supplied title Amy Rickman was born in England on 24 December 1892. She came to New Zealand in 1919 as a private nurse to the Campbell family. In 1921 she trained as a nurse in Auckland and later completed her midwifery training in Christchurch. In 1926 she went back to England and undertook some private nursing jobs both there and in France. On her return to New Zealand in 1928, she continued nursing and in 1933 was posted to Houhora, in the far north where she was a district nurse for six years. In 1940 she went to Rarotonga for two years and then to Niue for two years where she became Matron in charge of the Hospital, a position she was to return to in 1946 after two years in New Zealand. In 1949 she returned to England where, after several private nursing jobs there and in America, she retired. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Lady Beryl Smedley, England, 1991 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - A number of photographs have been transferred to PA.

Date: 1960 - 1980

By: Gibbard, Leslie, 1945-2010; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); New Zealand weekly news (Newspaper); New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-142-015/030

Description: Cartoons by Gibbard that appeared in New Zealand newspapers or include New Zealand in their subject matter. Mainly refer to political issues. Most are undated; some are from the 1960s when Gibbard was working in New Zealand. Quantity: 15 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings various sizes Provenance: Donation: Mr Les Gibbard, London 1993