Agricultural prices

Date: 24 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Roughan, Wayman Patrick, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0569/10

Description: Wayman Roughan was born in Lawrence in 1951. Traces his family's history in Lawrence back to 1861. Describes his father moving to their farm in 1945. Recalls schooling at Lawrence District High School. Notes the community was bigger in the 1950s as most farms had married couples. Describes the growth in tourism and the number of cribs (baches) in the town. Discusses the size and nature of the family farm in terms of economic downturn. Describes going to Telford Farm Training School after high school. Describes the involvement of both he and his father in St Johns Ambulance. Lists services in Lawrence. Describes returning to work on the family farm after Telford. Mentions rabbit problems. Recalls his father's death and taking over the farm at the age of twenty one. Describes marrying Merle Roberts and talks about their three children and a decision to send them to boarding school. Discusses changes in farm economics and farm practices. Discusses his work on the Clutha District Council and changes since amalgamation the of local bodies. Mentions the time commitment with local body politics. Describes the background history of the Tuapeka dam and the four schemes originally proposed in 1987. Recalls the announcement of the preferred option and anger at the public meeting at Beaumont. Comments that the Tuapeka Mouth meeting was totally different. Discusses the Joint Local Authority Liaison Group and advice based on experience with ECNZ during the building of the Clyde dam. Describes the attitude of locals to his membership of the joint committee. Explains reasons for the public support of the Community Board for the Tuapeka option. Refers to some personal abuse. Explains the main local concerns and his own reservations. Refers to a split between Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the sale of land to ECNZ and ECNZ's poor public relations. Comments on media coverage of the issue. Describes meetings with ECNZ on behalf of the District Council and Residents of Beaumont. Mentions Keith Turner, John Rutherford, Sally Marx and Dianne Buchan. Discusses the acquisition of land by ECNZ and refers to the future of Beaumont if the dam does not proceed. Comments on the native bush on Birch Island. Refers to the Tuapeka Mouth punt and its anniversary celebrations. Mentions lack of involvement by the District Council. Lists Community Board members and explains the split over the Tuapeka option. Mentions his role as Community Board chairman and refers to a role on the Planning Tribunal. Comments on the effect of Council on his life. Interviewer(s) - Jerome Cvitanovich Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2633. Photograph of Wayman Roughan

Date: 16 Mar 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McDonald, Avis, active 1998; Horrell, Albert Edwin John, 1917-2001

Reference: OHInt-0428/12

Description: Bert Horrell was born in Gore in 1917. Describes how his grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in the 1880s. Talks about their farm across the Mataura River and the difficulty of crossing it to get to school. Mentions how his father, as a child, had learned how to cross the river with a horse and dray full of school children. Talks about his father buying a farm at Mandeville. Describes going to Mandeville school, conditions, teachers Alan Prentice and Miss Barclay and sitting Proficiency. Recalls that his mother was a member of the Hargest family which settled at Mandeville. Mentions John and Jim Hargest. Notes that there was no money in farming at the time and his parents operated the Mandeville store for a period. Talks about the farm house they built. Mentions that his father was religious. Recalls the vicar Hoani Parata. Talks about his father's religious convictions, Sunday School in the Mandeville Hall, Presbyterian strictness and the no dancing rule. Mentions the importance of the railway and the work of the gangers. Talks about the Mandeville Hotel. Recalls travelling by train in segregated carriages to Gore High School for two years before working on the family farm. Describes milking cows and the separator used to separate the milk from the cream. Mentions the use of lime on paddocks to increase productivity at the end of the Depression and experimenting with grass seeds. Recalls going in to military camp after the Battle of Britain and the entry of the Japanese into the war. Talks about the history of the area written by Herries Beattie. Mentions a Maori raid at Tuturau, George Meredith Bell, gold seekers, the Croydon run, the Wantwood homestead and run, Peter McLeod and the flour mill built by Mr Doull. Describes what happened to the mill. Recalls the music at dances, balls, bachelor balls and wartime farewell functions and traditions such as reserving dances, the last dance, taking your partner home and romance. Describes the alcohol consumed in cars at these events, corrugated gravel roads, curtains on cars because it was cold and the difficulty of crank starting cars. Mentions going to the pictures in Gore. Describes duck shooting with the Colett family of Invercargill. Interviewer(s) - Avis McDonald Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2604.

Date: 1967

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-577

Description: The first scene shows a man in gumboots being hit by side of meat, bale of wool and butter falling on him (falling prices) - The economy has taken some hard knocks lately - and can use something to revive it. The farmer (hole in gumboot, black eye, patched trousers, grazed arm) is being revived by a man in a suit with some smelling salts in a bottle labelled Al. Smelter Salts, while two people look on with worried expressions. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 260 x 354 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 29 Mar 1993

From: Women's suffrage centennial year project

By: Varley, Margery Mary Cameron, 1913-1995

Reference: OHInt-0402-04

Description: Margery Mary Cameron Varley (nee Baldwin) born in the Turakina Valley, had a home birth which was uncommon, in the Baldwin family homestead. Spent her life farming, going straight on to family farm after leaving Solway College, and retiring ten years ago. When husband died in 1976 Margery took over and ran the farm. Gives an account of various aspects of farming; stock sales, especially during the economic slump (1921-1923); riding to hunt, describing various kinds of horses, bred race horses. Refers to `Blue Suit' who won ten races; Romney stud; topdressing; floods and their effect on lambing; gorse fences and other aspects of farm life. Abstracted by - Karen Kitson Awards/funding - Funded through the womens' Suffrage Centennial Year Trust Other - Additional information including articles and photographs on file at WRM Archives. Interviewer(s) - Karen Kitson Venue - Te Aunui, Turakina Valley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006702 Tape numbers - OHC-006703 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1562. One photograph of Margery Varley

Date: 5 Nov 1992 - 05 Nov 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Dunne, John, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0081/01

Description: Jack Dunne was born on 25 October 1925. Recalls joining the North Otago Farmers Co-operative Association Ltd (NOFCA) after education at Waitaki Boys High School. Talks about his work as a junior and then as a ledger keeper and cashier for twelve years. Recalls different departments and personnel in the store. Focuses on his time as a stock and station agent and auctioneer. Describes learning to judge animals and draft fat sheep. Talks about mixed farms, grain and seed dressing and mortgage sales. Comments on wool prices in the 1950s. Recalls the auctioneer Jack Stevenson and other staff including George Stringer, B.B. Walton, Alec Robertson, Howard Rooney, Bob Hall, Andy Aitkenhead, Jack Black, Archie Taylor and Charlie Beattie. Talks about the takeover of Darling and McDowell and the financial viability of NOFCA after takeovers. Comments on the reduction in staff size. Venue - Weston : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005494 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1095. Photocopies of photographs of Jack Dunne auctioning sheep about 1970; on his retirement in 1985; the Farmers building about 1966; B.B. Walton; the North Otago Farmers Co-operative Assoication (NOFCA) Jubile, 1901-1951; the NOFCA building and NOFCA staff in 1951

Date: 1940

From: Various artists :Collection of photocopies, newspaper clippings and bromides of cartoons by Bromhead (A-314-1), Brockie (A-314-2) and J. C. Hill (A-314-3).

By: Hill, John Cecil, 1889-1974; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-314-3-004

Description: The New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser in the guise of a policeman is admonishing a farmer who is protesting beneath a statue of the New Zealand Minister of Finance (Walter Nash), saying "Now then, none of that! Can't you see that we have immortalised him?" The statue holds a parchment labelled 'guaranteed price' (for agricultural produce) and its inscription reads 'Walter Nash - A monument to ability, efficiency, integrity, sincerity, courage and devotion. Erected by his adoring colleagues'. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1938

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: New Zealand observer (Newspaper); Garmonsway, Alexander Edward, 1913-1961

Reference: A-313-9-006

Description: A farmer about to kill a goose (Labour Party) which has just laid a large egg (quaranteed price) is sharpening his axe (rural vote) on a grinder. Extended Title - The dairy farming vote swung decisively against the government at the recent general election. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1958

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Minhinnick (A-311-1), Mack (A-311-2) and Bird (A-311-3).

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: A-311-1-032

Description: A woman calls to her farmer husband who is standing on a barrel labelled 'guaranteed price' (for agricultural products). On his shoulders are balancing men representing 'fertilser works' and 'stock agent'. On their shoulders are balancing 'farm supplies', 'dairy factory' and 'transport'. On their shoulders in turn are 'shipping' and 'wharves'. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: A5 size newspaper clipping.

Date: 1959

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: E-549-q-13-128

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Walter Nash points out the newspaper billboards reading 'Wool up!' and 'Butter up!' to his Finance Minister, Arnold Nordmeyer. Nordmeyer's briefcase is labelled '(Our) strength through (their) misery'. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Newspaper cipping, 150 x 210 mm. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.