Social history

Date: 1917

By: Helmore, Heathcote George, 1894-1965

Reference: MSX-4222

Description: Helmore has recorded the duties and appointments kept by the Governor-General during 1917 with each entry giving the time and place, and a brief description of the occasion and the people involved. Guests staying at Government House are noted; some leisure activities are mentioned, eg tennis, riding or shooting and he lists the people involved, but there are no personal observations or comments by the diarist. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - A 1916 diary, attributed to Helmore, is at MS-0989 Accompanying material - Rough listing of people mentioned in the diary; Who's who entry for Liverpool; photocopied pages of NZ government officials Helmore is the attributed diarist; the Library has a similar diary for 1916 which is attributed to him. It is noted he was an aide-de-camp to Liverpool, the Governor-General. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (case folder) Provenance: Purchased from The Studio Press, Norfolk, May 1996

Date: 1982-1995

By: Paton, Robert, 1929-1995; Paton, Margaret Joyce, 1930-; Crocket, Alexander McIntyre, 1920-2014; Lockhart, Pamela Mary, 1930-; Cowan, Robert Hector, 1930-

Reference: OHColl-0438

Description: Project initiated by Robert Paton who died before its completion. His wife Joyce Paton finished the project. Interviews with sixteen residents of the region who reflect on their lives and local society since the 1960s. Interviewees are Dianne Cowan, Robert Cowan, Alex Crocket, Roy Evans, Doreen Greene, Pearl Growden, John Hayes, Tom Johnson, Pam Lockhart, Joyce Paton, Robert Paton, Alasdair Shaw, Ronald Sinclair, Barbara Wells, Mike Watkins and Robin van der Meek Some of the interviews form a diary project. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton, Joyce Paton, Alex Crocket, Pamela Lockhart and Bob Cowan Quantity: 54 C60 cassette(s). 14 printed abstract(s). 16 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete No abstracts for Mike Watkins and Robin van der Meek.

Date: 1999-2000 - 29 Oct 1999 - 20 May 2002

By: Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-; Richmond, Joanna Mary, 1946-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHColl-0673

Description: Maori and Pakeha were interviewed for this project, which looks at the history of Otaki and the lives of ten of its community. Language - mainly English but possibly some Maori within interviews by Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Jan Richmond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011052 - 011064 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s) and accompanying photos and material. 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Several photocopies of photos accompany documentation Search dates: 1930 - 2000

Date: 10 Oct 2002

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: Simpson, Clare Suzanne, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0783-13

Description: Interview with Clare Simpson born 1958 in Dunedin. Describes her interest in cycling and her PhD research on the history of women in sports (1985). Explains how her interest in cycling was rekindled in a cycle tour of the West Coast in 1983. Discusses her PhD research which she started at Victoria University of Wellington. Recalls interviewing Lousie Sutherland, a New Zealand woman who rode around the world on her bicycle, and meeting the granddaughter of cyclist Blanche Lough. Refers to depositing the papers of Louise Sutherland at the Hocken Library in Dunedin. Talks about studying in Birmingham and researching at various libraries and museums in England. Describes how she limited her research to a specific time frame (1900-1910) and found most of the information she wanted in New Zealand. Recalls researching at various libraries in New Zealand. Mentions that her research took 10 years to complete. Talks about the conclusions of her PhD, and the rationalisation of women's clothing in the late 19th century in relationship to women cycling in New Zealand. Describes the history of women cycling in New Zealand, England and the United States. Refers to the differences in cycling over the years, the future of cycling and the challenges in researching cycling history. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4161. Colour photograph of Clare Simpson Search dates: 2002 Processing information: Description updated 13 November 2023 following information from interviewee.

Date: 1904, 1999

By: McDonald, Alexander, 1829-1905

Reference: MS-Papers-6628

Description: Transcription of MacDonald's reminiscences of life and times in New Zealand from his arrival at Wellington in 1840 on the `Blenheim' until 1904 when he recorded `My story'. He focuses particularly on relations with Maori, Maori-European land dealings, the politics and politicians of the times and related matters. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - Another typescript copy at MS-1167 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (one volume, spiral bound). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: Jun-Jul 1972

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1312

Description: Bound set of some 80 papers presented by various speakers: Section 1 The Anglican, Lutheran, United and Catholic churches in PNG and the Solomon Islands; Section 2 Melanesian pre-history, culture and indigenous religious and millenarian movements; Section 3 Theology, missions, morality, rites and training of catechists and pastors; urbanisation in Melanesia; Section 4 Liberation and development theology, developmental programmes, race relations, education, medicine, agriculture, land tenure and anthropological fieldwork Source of title - Transcribed from item The Mission Orientation Course was convened by the Melanesian Institute and Xavier Institute of Mission in 1972 at Alexishaven, Madang Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2009

Date: 23 March 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1978/1138-F

Description: Six and seven-year-old pupils at Karori West School learn how a butter churn works from teacher Vivienne Lowe. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 23 March 1978. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1854-1892, 1930s

From: New Zealand Railways: Photographs

Reference: PA11-256

Description: Lantern slides produced in the 1930s New Zealand Railways publicity department, depicting New Zealand scenery, industry and history. Images show two periods: 1854-1892 and 1930s. Comprises 10 slides relating to railways in both periods (PA11-256-01 to 10), including locomotives ; 9 of scenes in Wellington region in both periods (PA11-256-11 to 19) including one of women's clothing at Trentham racecourse, 1892 and the Hutt Road in 1933; 14 relating to general New Zealand life in both periods including ovens, dairy farming, a school, factories, publishing, parliamentary groups (PA11-256-20 to 33). One slide is labelled 'John Swinson Company Ltd' and shows two men by a rocky shore. Quantity: 34 b&w copy transparency/ies b&W copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 1936-1978

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: 88-070-12/13

Description: Contains copies of newspapers and newspaper supplements celebrating special events, including the centenary of Greytown borough, the centenary of the settlement of Masterton by Pakeha, the Moon landing, and the Cook bicentenary Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1998

By: Stout Research Centre (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-HISTORY-SRC-1998-01

Description: Arrangement of text over and around a photograph showing a crowd of sports spectators, probably on the bank of a rugby match. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 425 x 602 mm.

Date: 1829, 1859-1907

By: Northern Ireland. Public Record Office

Reference: MS-Papers-1553

Description: Letters to relatives in Ireland from emigrant families in Australia and Wairoa, Tauranga, Taranaki, Canterbury and Otago. They include family matters, social conditions, miners' industrial troubles in Australia, Maori unrest in Taranaki. Index to Quinn family letters included. Also includes letters written by John Gilmore describing his voyage to Auckland on the `Bebington' in 1876 and Bessie Macready describing her voyage to Lyttelton on the `Pleiades' in 1877-1878. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: [17 Feb 1977]

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: 88-070-12/12

Description: Contains a newspaper supplement from the Wairarapa Times Age, celebrating the centennial of the Masterton Borough Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1930-1996]

By: McCormack, S E (Mrs), active 1996

Reference: MS-Papers-6922

Description: Address by Mrs Alison S Henry to a RYLA seminar in Sydney (1971) on women in society, motherhood, education for women etc. Also newspaper clippings on a variety of topics from a file kept by Mrs McCormack (all items are labelled with Z and a number). Topics include Firth Tower, Matamata Plains, Elizabeth Edmond, Sybil Ellen Lawrence, Nezzie Morris, Don Lockwood, Rangitoto Island, Jane Wordsworth, Phil Shone, Bruce C Adam, the Sutherland family, Peter and Jan McBrearty, Robert Ransfield, Lorna Langford and the Bainham Store, the Mankelow family, Kawau Island School, Jan and Brent Apps, Paul and Shirley Coleman, Rosita and Stephen Murray, Minginui village, Charlie Honeycombe, Rangimarie Hetet, Jessie Maria, Frank Cox and Alice Applebee, Ernie Mathews, the Jolly House or Chateau Windermere, Hamilton, Bertha Dennis, May Macdonald, Dick Voyce, Manuhiri and Mereana Davis, Sergeant Arthur Hyde, the Bolger family, Peter Martin, Vivien Harrison, Arthur Allan Thomas Also Fanny Louisa Addison, Albert Guard, Glen and Bill Johnston of Herne Bay, Florence Wilkins, Albertland re-enactment, Auckland Zoo, joint Yugoslav weddings, Jock McCabe, Arthur and Miri Boswell, `Pioneering days in New Zealand' (pt 2), Peter Newbold, Steve Ozich of Oratia Hotel, Duncan McCormack, the Campbell clan, clippings and brchures about the Treaty House, Waitangi, and the Treaty of Waitangi Source of title - Suppllied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-539-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand. Soldiers explain why it is humane to cut people's throats once they've been driven from their homes. Jenny Shipley reacts negatively to Jim Bolger's book. Jenny Shipley does a unicycle act on the high/slack wire. She can't look down for fear of falling, and she can't look up for fear of the coalition government she carries on her shoulders. Jack Elder and Tuku Morgan line-up behind Tau Henare in a new political allegiance. The American Republicans are exposed in their determination to impeach President Clinton over sex allegations no matteer what public opinion is. Jenny Shipley announces under National's new housing policy people in sub-standard housing will be assisted to buy their properties rather than rent them. Tim Shadbolt has been re-elected Mayor of Invercargill. Russia backs the bloody regime of Slobodan Milosivic against the Albanians. Jenny Shipley receives a negative reaction from the Dairy Board members over comments they should dig their own graves and make their wills. Jenny Shipley's intention of ending the Producer Board's statutory monopolies is thinnly veiled to avoid farmer backlash prior to the election. The Labour Party surges in the polls although their visibility is low. A paralell is drawn between roading reforms proposals and the manner Warriors' boss comments on players like Matthew Ridge. Commment on telephone electronic cueing messages. Canadian newspapers report that Wellington has the best views in the world. A Wellintonian watches as storms blow uprooted trees, boats, cars and other debris past his window. General Pinochet in jail being interrogated over his part in crimes of terrorism committed against Chilean critics of his Military Junta. Two contenders for the Auckland Blues Rugby coaching job are given a lesson in sportsmanship. Otago win the NPC (National Provincial Championships). Palestinian and Israeli leaders are booed by their supporters for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Met. office build an ark as an indication of the weather to come. Tuariki Delamere considers his political future. Tau Henare sums up the essence of his new Mauri Pacific Party. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [ca 1936-1960]

By: New Zealand Co-operative Women's Guild

Reference: 88-098

Description: Contains minute books 1954-1960; annual general meeting agendas; correspondence and papers 1952-1961, including branch annual reports, financial statements, and newsletters; a roll book 1956-1958; national conference rolls 1936-1957; financial records 1937-1958; branch minute books for Manawatu 1952-1958 and Dannevirke 1936-1938; copies of the "International women cooperator" 1950-1958; and 1960 material concerning the winding up of the Guild. Source of title - supplied title The Guild was formed in New Zealand about 1936 and, on a national level, disbanded in 1960, although the Taita Branch continued after this time. The Guild was concerned with cooperative shops, consumer, health, childcare and community issues, cooperation between organisations and nations and with getting women into public office. Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Box listing only. Items to be sorted and listed.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mrs R Stockbridge, Taita, 1988

Date: Nov 1981 - Feb 1982

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0005

Description: Structured life history interviews with longterm residents of the Wairarapa town of Martinborough. The object of the project was to gather first hand accounts of living in a small rural town in NZ in the first part of the twentieth century. Awards/funding - Funded by a grant from the Department of Internal Affairs Abstracted by - Judith Fyfe, Hugo Manson and Jean Harton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - Notes to accompany the project, an index to the contents of the interviews (49 pages), a report on the pilot project, the interview guide and a catalogue of interviewee names and NZOHA tape numbers. This was a pilot project as research and preparation for establishing a national oral history archive. Martinborough was selected for a number of reasons including the interviewers' personal association with the town, its size - population 1357, and the celebration of its centenary in 1982. Quantity: 181 5" reel(s). 97 C60 cassette(s) working copies. 36 printed abstract(s). 36 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: The collection was initially held by the Department of Internal Affairs Search dates: 1981 - 1982

Date: 1977-1982

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1329

Description: Comprises questionnaire returns, correspondence and reports The \"time of darkness\" project was undertaken of 1970-1982 with Emeritus Professor Jack Golson from the Australian National University. The aim was to collect oral histories and legends from people in Papua New Guinea about the \"time of darkness\", a cataclysmic volcanic eruption which occurred in Papua New Guinea more than 300 years ago. The initial archaeological investigation was at a site in the Western Highlands Province where thin layers of inorganic sediments were identified in Kuk swamp. Studies of the layers' mineralogy and stratigraphy revealed that many were volcanic ash. The uppermost tephra was the product of a volcanic eruption of considerable magnitude. The legends were edited into a journal article 'Time of darkness legends fronm Papua New Guinea' in Oral history, Vol VII, No 10, 1979, and later published in the book 'The Time of darkness, local legends and volcanic reality in Papua New Guinea, by R J Blong, Canberra, ANU, 1982. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/reels/manuscripts/PMB1329.PDF.

Date: 20 Oct 1998

From: Relative childhoods oral history project

By: Walton, Helen Mary, 1915-2011

Reference: OHInt-0433-03

Description: Recalls growing up in Waimate and gives details of family and social life. Describes boarding school life at Craighead. Talks about being more interested in sport and socialising than academic achievement. Describes going to secretarial college in Christchurch, meeting Ken Walton and becoming part of their family. Recalls working at Canterbury Frozen Meat Company and going flatting. Mentions marriage in 1942. Interviewer(s) - Hilary Stace Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006958 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1738.

Date: 15 Sept 2005 - 15 Sep 2005

From: Main Trunk Lines New Zealand Poetry exhibition events

Reference: OHInt-0781-02

Description: Poetry played a central role in the way that 19th century New Zeland thought and talked about itself and offers fascinating insights into the social attitudes and preoccupations of the time. Recorded by - Sound Conservation Venue - Recorded in the National Library Auditorium Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-000149 (BWF file) Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 0.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Digital sound recording - BWF wave audio Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 2005

Date: 1858-1860, 1961, n d

By: Olsen family

Reference: MS-Papers-6420

Description: Correspondence between members of the Olsen family resident in Christchurch, Lyttelton, Wellington and New Plymouth (1858-1860). They are Frederick and Eleanore Olsen writing from his `establishment the Welllington Coffee House Lambton Quay' to his brother and sister, Mr and Miss Chapell, and friends; Elmett H and Edward Olsen of Wellington and Lyttelton writing to their uncle and aunt; a daughter writing to her mother from Lyttelton; and Edward Olsen, New Plymouth, writing to his cousin. The correspondents write of their family situations, their experiences following immigration, the costs of living and difficulties of finding work, Wellington's terrain and frequent earthquakes, and their changing family circumstances. Also includes letter from W R Chappell of Newhaven, Sussex to Mr Keeble regarding copies of the Olsen letters sent to him and their possible value to students of pioneering days (1961) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)