Soup kitchens

Date: 1 Dec 1994 - 01 Dec 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Fox, John Frederick, 1922-2008

Reference: OHInt-0616/14

Description: John (Jack) Frederick Fox born Dunedin 1922. Mentions details of parent's birthplace, their marriage and mother's early death when he was aged three years. Remembers 1929 as a bad year, with floods in Dunedin, unemployment because of Depression, soup kitchens in Cargill Street and Hillside Road and riots in Dunedin when Wardell's windows were broken. Describes Forbury corner, with reference to New Zealand Vesta Company. Recalls father was a lay preacher at Cargill Road Methodist Church and home life being based around church. Outlines working career, commencing as a message boy with New Zealand Typewriter Company in 1937, moving to Post and Telegraphs as a telegram delivery boy in 1939 and World War II service. Recounts own part in the Stanley Graham manhunt on the West coast as part of the army signals group sent to Koiterangi. Discusses the effect that the entry of Japan into the war in December 1941 had on training and describes posting to Ashburton as a result. Talks about transfer to the Air Force, preparation for service in the Pacific and working in the signal office in Suva. Refers to the arrival of Australian RAF Lancaster which now graces the Canberra War Museum. Speaks of working in the United States Navy communications station in Espirito Santos in the New Hebrides. Recalls returning to Dunedin after Peace was declared, travelling by train and being `packed like sardines'. Recounts return to work as a post man, marriage in 1949 and move to Concord where, with the help of a rehabilitation loan, purchased a section in the Burnside area. Recalls becoming interested in the Green Island Community and was involved in the setting up of the Concord Improvement Society. Mentions Jim Crawford who was responsible for shifting stock from holding paddocks to the Burnside Freezing works. Describes problems caused by occasional stock stampedes in the growing residential area of Concord and explains how the problem was resolved. Other topics include: involvement with Concord School; visit of HMS Concord in 1958; Road safety; fundraising; Concord Improvement Society which started to handle matters such as roading; move to Mosgiel early 1963; excellent train service - suburban trains known as `the subbies'; Community fundraising drive for Green Island swimming pool; fire early 1950s at Hunterville Homestead, a home for handicapped children; Green Island Picture Theatre and Civic Centre. Backgrounds interest in journalism and becoming a Green Island reporter for Otago Daily Times in 1953. Also wrote for New Zealand Truth, Weekly News and New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Talks about involvement in the Greater Green Island News with its first issue in July 1959 and its demise in 1973. Recalls starting the Mosgiel Taieri Herald. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Grant Rule Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010080-010082 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3364. Search dates: 1929

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001

Reference: A-369-088/098

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross which mainly relate to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies, as well as the New Zealand forces that were sent to Japan after its deafeat in World War II. Also contains cartoons that are specific to the Wellington region with particular reference to mayor William Appleton and the prison on Mt Crawford. International issues are also adressed; especially those relating to Britain's class sysyem and the social problems that the nation faced in the aftermath of World War II. Quantity: 11.

Date: 27 Aug, 16 Nov 1998 - 27 Aug 1998 - 16 Nov 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Thorn, Molly Patricia, 1921-2005

Reference: OHInt-0441-14

Description: Molly Patricia (Pat) Thorn outlines family background - maternal grandfather, C J Thorn was undertaker at Caversham. Recalls: family home `Traquair' on Brunswick Terrace, changed to Bangor Terrace after World War One; picnics in Ford Tourer car; day parents separated (aged 5 or 6 years); Sunday School programme and social life, with reference to Miss Watkins; Jubilee Hall; route from school with reference to Frances Hodgkins home; Depression; Rossbottoms Commercial College and Browns Commercial College; singing lessons with Mida Payne, and work experience. Discusses involvement in Congregational Church activities. Refers to Dr Saunders and Rev Albert Mead, who ran soup kitchen during Depression (Moray Hall). Mentions Ross Home. Describes the typical Congregationalist. Talks about merge with First Church December 1966 and sale of Congregational Church. Recalls being convenor of organ committee and gives details of the Allen organ and arguments against maintenance of pipe organ. Mentions Syd Smale; Cameron Centre; Evan Sherrard; Rev Enere Wichman and Rev Arthur Templeton. Discusses funeral of Rev Lloyd Gammon who died 11th Nov 1998. Refers to Society of Women Musicians. Other people mentioned include: Ian Cairns; Denzil Brown; Dr Hugh Stevely; Walter Cate; Marget Brown and Isobel Allan. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Joanne Aitken Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007745-007748 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2037. Photocopies of 10 b&w photographs: (i) Pat Thorn and her sister Loma in Taupo, February 10th, 1995; (ii) The family home 30 years after Pat lived there (showing an auction sign); (iii) Pat Thorn's mother, Mary, on the verandah of the family home, 9 Brunswick Terrace, Kew (renamed Bangor Terrace, World War I). Miss Thorn lived there until 1968; (iv) A Federation of Congregational Women (FCW) gathering at Doctor's Point, Otago, ca 1951. Front row left, Joan Meffan, X, Mrs Bloxham, Olive Morrison. Far right of frame, Mary Thorn (mother); (v) Moray Place Congregational Church concert, held in Jubilee Hall, ca 1932. Left to right: X, Peter Thorn (brother), XXX, Dorothy Leffly, Joan Meffan, Ken Morrison, Rata Irving? Cooper, Walter Lowther, Alice Arthur, Vernon Smith, Olive Morrison; (vi) Pat Thorn, age 21, 1942; (vii) Staff of Wood's Bakery, Rattray Street ca 1910. Andy, Pat's mother, Mary Bennet, Mfrs King, Mfrs Wood, Mrs Loan, Katie, Mrs Ness; (viii) Alexander Bennett, d 1904 (Pat Thorn's maternal grandfather); (ix) Grandma (Mary) Bennett d 4.7.1936, maternal grandmother; (x) Mother, Mary Thorn, Isabella Andrews "Andy" October 1939. Search dates: 1921 - 1998

Date: 12 Sep 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Wratten, Paul, active 1985-

Reference: OHInt-0662/33

Description: Paul Wratten gives reasons for involvement in Christchurch Unemployed Rights Centre in 1985, working as a volunteer until he moved to Wellington in 1987. Describes work at Centre and problems with trade unions. Mentions Peter Elliot. Talks about Wellington Unemployed Workers Union (WUWU); soup kitchen; squat; street kids; advocacy and attending 1987 Porirua hui. Mentions Ana Meihana, Barney Taitapanui (Rutene Priestly), Steve Delahunty, Sue Bradford, Dave MacPherson and Jane Stevens. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Venue - Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010402 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3546.

Date: 1984

Reference: Eph-C-LABOUR-1984

Description: Includes: Canterbury Trade Unions. He has abused us too much; let's stop the rot on 14 July 1984 The Unemployed Workers Rights Centre and 1ZM present Doleday Afternoon Festival. Albert Park, 6th December, 12 noon - 6.30 pm. Herbs, Jive Bombers, Topp Twins, Freudian Slips, Peking Man, Ahurangi, Ghetto & more! / Shaun Waugh '84 [1984] One months notice. SACK THE PIG. Unemployed workers groups (2 copies) One months notice. SACK THE PIG. July 6th Pigeon Park, 11am Soup kitchen. Unemployed workers' groups' national day of action [1984] (2 copies) Combined State Unions. Remember remember the 10th of November (1981, that is). That was the last time the law allowed you and your union to negotiate your wages and conditions. CSU election issues 1984 (2 copies) Combined State Unions. An invitation from Sir Robert Muldoon ... RSVP 14 July 1984. Use your judgement for a fair deal at work (2 copies) Combined State Unions. The unequal freeze. It's time for a thaw (2 copies) NZ Public Service Association. The State Services Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill is an attack on the wages of all state workers [cartoon by Scott]. Act now; oppose the bill (one b&w copy, one green & white) Public Service Association. Election '84. Discuss the issues at workplace meetings: wage freeze, state pay fixing, attacks on public service, urban transport, health/education cuts [1984] (2 copies) Public Service Association. The public service is the public's service. Defend it on 14 July [1984] (2 copies) PSA journal; election special, 2 July 1984 Quantity: 13 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying around 420 mm.

Date: 1993

From: Greenall, Frank :Cartoons published in The Dominion Sunday Times. Mar 1993 to Jan 1994

Reference: A-300-003

Description: Politician Mike Moore as Oliver, holding out a bowl to a chef ladelling out soup from a barrel marked 'centrist parties'. The chef is reacting in horror to Moore's presence and to his wish to be part of a centrist party. Helen Clark, Jim Bolger and Winston Peters sit at a table in the background eating their soup together and scowling at Moore Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 296 x 433 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-014

Description: William Massey as Oliver Twist, pleading for more soup in his bowl, to the shock of his fellow pupils (other Members of Parliament) and the two men standing by the stove labelled Hard knocks. George Cruikshank illustrated a number of books by Dickens Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 498 x 408 mm

Date: 1930s

From: Richmond family : Papers

Reference: 77-173-69/05

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-133

Description: Photographs related to social welfare, social issues, trade and commerce, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Images related to social issues are arranged alphabetically from WO to Y. Images related to trade and commerce are arranged alphabetically from A to EX. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-8646-1/2-G

Description: Group of men queueing at a soup kitchen in the Wellington area, ca 1932, photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 2009

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0010426

Description: A man, a woman and a child sit in the cold on a park bench near a soup kitchen. The woman comments that Prime Minister, John Key a called on a freeze on MPs' pay. The man says the PM hopes people will follow suit and make a few sacrifices themselves. Straitened circumstances due to the recession. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: ca 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-8645B-1/2-F

Description: Soup kitchen in Wellington, circa 1932. Exact location unknown. Shows an unidentified group by a building made of wood and corrugated iron. Women stand by food containers and a queue of men stand alongside holding enamel mugs. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post newspaper. Other images taken at the soup kitchen are at EP-8643, EP-8646, 1/2-084148, 1/2-084150, 1/2-084151, 1/2-084152, 1/2-084154. File prints of all items held at Turnbull Library Pictures at 331. Labour conditions. 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 20 September 2002-21 September 2002

From: Wellington Photographic Society Inc :Photographs

By: Peace, Christopher, active 2002

Reference: PADL-000056

Description: Photographs of a newsagent in Victoria Street, a couple dancing in Cuba Mall, a customer in Fish Eye Discs, Salvation Army soup kitchen, flower stall in Cable Street, a dance group at the Central Library, a Nepalese food stand in Wakefield Market, Helipro Base at Queens Wharf, and a car dealer at Pacific Motors on Riddiford Street, taken 20-21 September 2002 by Christopher Peace for the Wellington Photographic Society event '24 Hours in Wellington'. Other Titles - 49 Peace Christopher Quantity: 10 digital photograph(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: List of photographs available.

Date: 2002

From: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-:[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post and other newspapers]

Reference: DX-012-005

Description: Prison kitchens are told to reduce food costs further. Shows prisoner asking what the soup of the day is, he's told by the chef that it's water. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-8643A-1/2-G

Description: Soup kitchen in Wellington, circa 1932. Exact location unknown. Shows a building made of wood and corrugated iron. Women stand by food containers and a queue of men stand alongside holding enamel mugs. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post newspaper. Other - EP-8643B-1/2 is a film negative Other images taken at this soup kitchen are at EP-8645, EP-8646, 1/2-084148, 1/2-084150, 1/2-084151, 1/2-084152, 1/2-084154. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 20 September 2002-21 September 2002

From: Wellington Photographic Society Inc :Photographs

By: Rider, Mark, active 2002

Reference: PADL-000059

Description: Photographs of a Salvation Army soup kitchen in Manners Mall, scenes around Queens Wharf and Civic Square, and people on board the East-West ferry, taken 20-21 September 2002 by Mark Rider for the Wellington Photographic Society event '24 Hours in Wellington'. Other Titles - 53 Rider Mark Quantity: 10 digital photograph(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: List of photographs available.

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084152-G

Description: Scene taken during the 1930s depression, Wellington, probably at a soup kitchen. Shows a woman speaking to a group. Photograph taken circa 1932 by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Source of descriptive information - Date and occasion estimated by cataloguer from information and image at EP-8646-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084150-G

Description: Scene taken during the 1930s depression, Wellington, probably at a soup kitchen. Shows a man speaking to a group. Photograph taken circa 1932 by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Source of descriptive information - Date and occasion estimated by cataloguer from information and image at EP-8646-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative