Household appliances

Date: 5 Oct 1993 - 05 Oct 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Rider, Philip Dennis, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0403-06

Description: Philip Rider was born in London in 1923. Describes family background - father Reginald Rider and mother Nellie Rider, nee Watt. Gives details of family coming to New Zealand in 1927 - father a furrier on contract to Fur Trading Company of New Zealand and mother also worked in fur trade - and buying the house in Kilbirnie that he still lives in at the time of the interview. Describes father and mother. Recalls going fishing with father. Describes the family home - the layout and the use of rooms, the kitchen, bathroom and dining room, furniture made by father, the use of the dining room for entertaining. Comments on the use of gas, including the gas califont, electricity, open fires for heating and not having a telephone. Mentions telephone box. Comments on house colours and roofs in the area. Describes school lunches. Mentions Mr and Mrs Hoy. Gives details of the development of the airport and land reclamation. Recalls there were many children in the street and playing in the street and at each other's places. Mentions billiards and cards and describes a kitset radio. Mentions the family cat. Recalls corporal punishment at home and at school. Talks about reading, mother knitting and darning and discussing problems with mother. Briefly describes the garden and talks about neighbours Alex Gowan and the Billman, Scott, Anderson and Wright families. Discusses older brother Len Rider. Recalls services such as the milkman, the postman delivering twice a day, the drain cleaner and trams. Gives details of the shops and who ran them - the grocery, drapery, butcher and hardware shops. Mother mainly shopped at Self Help - describes Self Help shops. Recalls attitudes to illness and refers to tonsils and olive oil. Talks about the dentist and tooth removal. Discusses education at Lyall Bay Primary School - route walked to school, teachers and subjects. Describes the effect of the Depression. Mentions relief workers shifting sandhills for the airport. Mentions door to door salesmen. Describes going to hear Bob Semple speak before the 1935 Election. Briefly recalls starting work in the fur trade in 1937. Describes joining the army signal unit in 1941 and serving in New Zealand, life as a signaller, army radios and other equipment. Comments on the effect of war on the street. Mentions the Home Guard. Describes setting up Rider and Company, a manufacturing furrier business, with father after war while brother worked for Quality Furriers in the Hutt Valley, operating the business from home and also living at home, learning skills from father, drafting patterns, taking over business after father retired in 1950s. Details involvement in Forest and Bird Society, interest in conservation, meeting Ruth Scull and marrying in 1966. Refers to renovating the kitchen after marriage and getting the telephone in the early 1950s - otherwise no major changes to the house. Describes buying first car ca. 1948 and building a garage at the front of the house. Refers to being the only one of his generation still living in the street. Lists reasons for staying in family home. Talks about working for Interlock Ltd in Miramar after retirement and compares working with fur to working with metals. Discusses the Kilbirnie Speedway, the 1940 Centennial Exhibition buildings and the flying boats. Explains his objections to the airport extension plans. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 20 Salek Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006618 Tape numbers - OHC-006619 Tape numbers - OHC-006620 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1523. Photocopies of two photos of Philip Rider with abstract Search dates: 1923 - 1993

Date: 1952

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-FTC-1952-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the Famers' Trading Company shows men's and women's clothing, books, shoes, fabrics, blankets and towels, household linens, tennis racquets, grain and produce, tents, deckchairs, camping equipment (including thermette), glasshouses and garden sheds, toiletries, radios, appliances, cameras, movie projectors, toys, kitchenware, cleaning equipment, tools, gardening equipment, stoves, motorboats, paints, motor cycles, kitchen cupboard units, bedroom and lounge furniture. Coloured cover illustrations are of women's dresses, Monarch bicycles, Monarch sewing machines. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 98 pages, 237 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: 1955

By: North Shore Printers Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1955-02

Description: Booklet listing products for sale, at Roberts Electrical Ltd, 47 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna: Whiteway wringer washing machines, Bendix automatic washing machines, Kelvinator refrigerators and home freezers, Shacklock electrical ranges, Goblin 'Ace' vacuum cleaners, PYE radios and record players, Philips radios and radioplayers. The back cover shows a photograph of the "modern workshop" for the servicing of electrical apparatus. Other Titles - Ten thousand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 215 x 141 mm.

Date: 26 May 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Dawson, Ailsa, active 1998; McDonald, Ruth Lilian, 1911-2005

Reference: OHInt-0464/14

Description: Ruth McDonald was born in Hawera in 1911. Gives details of her father's family, the Dews. Recalls schooling at Ruawai, moving as a result of her father's occupation as cheese factory manager and living at Kakapuku (near Te Awamutu). Describes marrying William McDonald in 1930 and driving from the King Country to Southland to live. Recalls living at Wrights Bush cheese factory and then at Lochiel, managing the Northope dairy factory. Describes the closing of these factories during World War II and the processing of milk into sweetened condensed milk. Describes cheese making routines at Northope, the use of steam heat, the farmers supplying milk and her husband becoming a herd tester after the closure of the factory. Discusses rationing of food and clothing during World War II, the absence of labour-saving devices and family health. Recalls living in Wyndham after the war and moving to Invercargill when husband Bill McDonald's health deteriorated. Talks about the death of her son Keith, her other children Ailsa and Ian, grandchildren and hobbies. Interviewer(s) - Ailsa Dawson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHMD-0056 Quantity: 1 MiniDisc(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2691. Photo of Northope cheese factory approximately 1936; William and Ruth McDonald family at Northope in 1935; Ruth McDonald in 1997

Date: 14 Jun 1994

From: Merivale-Tauranga Oral History Project

By: Richmond, Zeta, active 1955-1994

Reference: OHInt-0329-11

Description: Zeta Richmond settled in Merivale in 1955. Outlines early household including knitting machine, new indoor appliances, and raising children. Talks about neighbours and children's entertainment in the area, including birthday parties. Discusses other forms of entertainment for adults: St Enoch's Church, Merivale School annual fair and the PTA Indoor Bowling Club. Recounts employment for Parkvale Post Office. Interviewer(s) - Merewahia Rogers Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012822 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) transcript and map. 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4432.

Date: 27-30 August 2001 - 27 Aug 2001 - 30 Aug 2001

By: Lawler, Cicely Margaret, 1930-; West, Maureen Rosalind, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0637/1

Description: Cicely Margaret Lawler was born in Whitburn, County Durham, England in 1930. Talks about being a child of divorced parents, growing up with her father, an estate manager in Highcroft. Mentions being evacuated during World War II; rationing, and transport during the war. Mentions father's remarriage, her stepmother Dora, and stepbrothers. Mentions her mother Hilda, who worked in the ambulance service during the war. Mentions her sister dying of whooping cough. Talks about her education, her goal to become an obstetrician, and attending University of Durham Medical School. Talks about medical training and work as a house surgeon and registrar in the 1950's, working shifts of up to 36 hours. Mentions hospital lifestyle, parties, National Health Service, attitudes of male doctors to women. Describes the difficulties involved, as an English protestant, in marrying her Irish catholic husband, Derry Lawler, whom she met in 1956-7. Talks about resistance from family and the Catholic Church. Mentions difficulty with the instruction course on marriage to a catholic. Talks about working part-time as a polio vaccinator, describes feelings about giving up work to raise five children. Describes emigrating to New Zealand, by ship, while pregnant. Compares household appliances in England and New Zealand in the 1960's. Talks about her children, and her husband's career as an anaesthetist in Auckland. Describes having single mothers in her home, via an arrangement with Presbyterian Social Services; mentions Bethany Hospital. Talks about journeys back to England and Ireland, family visits, her mother-in-law, and what she misses about England. Mentions New Zealand's standard of living, attitudes to sport, politics, Maori, immigrants. Talks about friends, housekeeping and housework, her chronic back problem, feelings towards Catholic Church and influence of religion on her life. Mentions husband's illness and death. Talks about her voluntary work with Care and Craft group, and the Mater Hospital, since the 1970's. Interviewer(s) - Maureen West Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10827 - 10833 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3829. Search dates: 1939 - 1950 - 1945 - 2000

Date: 1949

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-FTC-1949-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the Famers' Trading Company shows English twill sheets on the front cover. Inside are advertisements for men's women's and children's clothing, manchester, shoes, the "Starkie" washer boiler, the "Guyro" dryer, furniture, tableware, watches and clocks, Mullard radios, electric water heater, Goblin de luxe vacuum cleaner, "Jiffy" electrical appliances, leatherware, saddlery, cow covers, Swing "Safety" rocking horse, grain and produce, and "Buncle" green feed cutters. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 24 pages, 235 x 184 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maree Pavletich, Papakura, in 2017.

Date: 1970

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1970

Description: Includes: Cook St Market. Cook St. - opposite Town Hall [Auckland. 1970s] Corner Village Market Place [Auckland]. One dollar bank note [1970s] (2 copies) Facts about L V Martin & Son, your Fisher & Paykel dealer [1970s?] Farmers' Santa Parade [double-sided flier. 1970s] Home Appliance news; sales and servicing. 1970 trade-in handbook [1970] How to get the most from your GSW Coronet Stainless Steel Cookware. Booklet [1970s?] McKenzies make big Christmas parties easier to organise [1970s]. Flier The nicest way to send a gift to Great Britain and most of Europe, for Christmas and all those special occasions throughout the year [1970s?] Wright Stephenson. We enclose your credit identification card. This pamphlet explains what it will do for you [1960-1970s?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1925 - 1935

Reference: Eph-B-TOOLS-1930-01

Description: Includes descriptions and illustrations of products: all manner of carpentry tools (drills, gauges, levels, calipers, rulers and measuring tapes, planes, screwdrivers, pliers, saws, spanners, vices), bricklaying and plastering tools (trowels, jointers, etc), horseshoers' and blacksmiths' tools (farriers' knives, hoof parers, forging tongs), anvils, forges, grinders (pedal powered), razor hones, screwing tackle, taps, pipes, dies, pumps, spray pumps, agricultural tools (spades, shovels, forks, rakes, clippers, shears, scythes, picks, cultivators and seeders), scales and balances, household ironmongery (irons, wringers, churns, carpet sweepers, bread maker, mangles, primus stoves, kerosene stoves, kitchen utensils and cookware, baking tins, graters, enamel dishes and jugs, suacepans, teapots, kives, scissors, clocks, door handles, sporting goods (croquet, tennis, cricket, bowls). Dated by the vendor. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 86 pages, 280 x 220 mm. Provenance: Purchased from South Sea Books in 2001.

Date: 1966 - 1967

By: William Nees & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FURNITURE-1967-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue with coloured photgraphic cover and central pages. The booklet includes illustrations of bedroom suites, lounge suites, dining room suites, bedding, floor coverings, Riccarton and Knightsbridge carpets, Vono foamspring mattresses, Mexicana bedspread by Erincraft, home appliances (including heaters, televisions, lawnmowers, fridges, washing machines), manchester and soft furnishings, bedroom furniture, wardrobes, chairs and divans, bookcases ansd china cabinets, nursery furniture, outdoor furniture. Other Titles - Furniture review vol. 66 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 135 x 217 mm.

Date: 1955

From: Farmers' Trading Company :[Sales catalogues of A3 size. 1950-1961]

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-Farmers-1955-01

Description: Shows products available, including men's and women's clothing and accessories, bedding, manchester, furniture, radios, washing machines, appliances, tools, sewing machines, lawnmowers, clocks & watches, billiard tables, saddles, crockery garden supplies. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on 24 pages, 370 x 240 mm.

Date: 29 Sep 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: O'Malley, Ethnee Louisa Ann, 1917-2002

Reference: OHInt-0403-04

Description: Ethnee (Bud) O'Malley was born in 1917 in the Lyall Bay house where this interview took place and has never lived away from the house. Explains nickname. Describes her family background including great grandfather Edward Wentworth Lamb, a remittance man, and paternal grandparents Louisa and Charles Reeves from Blenheim. Talks about her maternal grandfather who had a flax mill in Pelorus Sound and her maternal grandmother Anna Gould, a nurse and midwife who emigrated from Waterford in Ireland and read cups and cards. Describes parents Leonard and Ellen Reeves (nee Gould) who came to Lyall Bay during World War I after running a hotel in Ohakune. Details mother's work nursing and laying out people, especially during the 1918 flu epidemic. Discusses parents' marriage - mother catholic, father non-catholic. Talks about family reaction to mixed marriage and also to cousin marrying a Maori woman. Gives details of own birth and discusses education at St Catherine's School. Describes Lyall Bay during childhood as a holiday place, mentioning going to the beach and surf lifesaving clubs and carnivals. Outlines parents' activities during the Depression. Gives details of car trips and other family outings. Describes house in detail during childhood and now; it was built in 1917 to mother's design, some alterations since but little changed. Talks about home heating, gas, electricity and califont. Describes large garden during childhood. Talks about house built for grandmother where garden was while another grandmother lived with the family. Recalls own reaction to suggestion of building townhouses on the section. Recalls Centennial Exhibition and relations staying. Talks about sister Gladys Barrett who was a singer and her husband Laddie Barrett. Gives details of playing with brother Tom Reeves and being a tomboy. Discusses his later work as the owner of butchers shops. Refers to Graeme Reeves, MP. Describes family routines - bathing and hygiene, Christmas, father and mother cooking, home help Mrs Hunter. Talks about being the first in Lyall Bay to get a Beattie washing machine. Describes active social life, lack of education about sex and menstruation. Discusses religion, reaction to corporal punishment at school and discipline at home. Details family's interest in rugby and involvement in other sports. Mentions Majestic wireless. Talks about reading, listening to the radio and family musical evenings and games evenings - mentions euchre, 500 and crown and anchor, sometimes fundraising for school or church. Discusses alcohol and betting on horse races. Mentions marae on Queen's Drive. Talks about mother's heart condition. Lists neighbours and talks about Williamson family. Discusses childhood friends, especially Joan Dudley. Describes rivalry between state and catholic schools. Discusses her own and parents' smoking - refers to Pioneer Association. Describes meeting husband Brian O'Malley in 1934. Talks about continuing to live at home with parents after marriage in 1939 and after husband returned from World War II. Recalls working for Lee Brothers from 1934-1943 and friendship with Noreen and Olly Lee. Gives details of local shops and deliveries. Recalls Mrs Pie's shop. Talks about Hope Gibbons and Martindale families. Comments that the main changes in the street have been the conversion of houses with big sections to townhouses or flats. Talks about the effect of her husband's death, mentioning his war injury. Outlines her continued involvement with St Catherine's College where she is the chief supervisor for school certificate and trade exams. Talks about her children and family gatherings. Gives reasons for liking living in the house. Mentions daily attendance at mass. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 5 Freyberg Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006612 Tape numbers - OHC-006613 Tape numbers - OHC-006614 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.45 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 Electronic document(s). 1 digital photograph(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1521. Search dates: 1917 - 1993

Date: 21 August 1991

From: Dinsdale Community Oral History Project, Part I

By: Elliott, Owen Charles, 1916-1993

Reference: OHInt-0088/10

Description: Owen and Marie Elliott in a joint interview talk about life and history of Dinsdale. Owen has been a resident for 75 years and gives early recollections of: unsealed roads, sandy and very narrow; gardens of George Toy (Chinese); gorse stumps; fencing materials made from Manawa stumps from the peat bogs; horses in teams for work on land; advent of tractors with reference to Allis Chalmers; grocery delivery by truck; Floods / Tornado 1947 / 1948; Trading post run by Mr W H Haggard; peat fires and how they combat these with a tractor supplied by the Mormon College. They both talk about family farm bought 1932; domestic life with reference to copper and wash board for laundry and advent of modern appliances. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Hamilton Abstracted by - Evelyn Wright / Vicki Jones Interviewer(s) - Geoff Lewis Venue - 3 Leyton Place, Hamilton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004514 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0786. Search dates: 1991

Date: 1952-1962

From: Retail NZ: Records

Reference: MSZ-1833

Description: Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 28 Jun 2001

From: Tawa women oral history project

By: Clare, Mavis Winifred, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0596/03

Description: Mavis Winifred Clare (nee Topham) born Takapau, Hawkes Bay 1923 where she lived for 2 years before moving to Auckland and to Tawa in 1927. Describes first house in Tawa; pets and animals; preserving eggs; making own soap and domestic facilities. Recalls father working as traveller for John Raine Ltd, a china importing firm owned by mother's family. Talks about Tawa stream which used to flood. Describes involvement with Methodist Church Tawa and refers to Sunday School and picnics etc. Lists shops in Tawa. Recalls the war years and refers to the Americans and social life with special Tawa farewells and welcome homes for soldiers. Mentions balls at Majestic Theatre. Refers to the Mexted family who owned a lot of land in Tawa. Describes Tawa's progress after the war. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Barbara Adams Venue - Duncan St, Tawa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009352 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3022. 1 coloured photograph of Mavis Clare, 28.6.01 and photocopies of 4 b&w photographs: (1) Ken and Mavis Topham at back Alison and Howard Topham at front; (ii) Howard Topham (with lamb) on Main Road, Tawa Property; (iii) From left: Mavis, Shirley and Alison Topham.

Date: 22 May 2001

From: Tawa women oral history project

By: Turner, Enid Kathleen, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0596/12

Description: Enid Kathleen Turner (nee Cunningham) born Hastings 1936. Describes family villa at Napier Road, Havelock North, mentioning toilet arrangements, heating, cooking on coal range and model T Ford car. Recalls primary and secondary school in Hastings; learning evacuation procedures at primary school; involvement in school sports; musicals and school plays; war years - Americans visiting area and giving children chewing gum and candies. Gives reasons for moving to Wellington at the age of 18 years. Talks about meeting husband, Cliff Turner at a dance at Rainbow Hall, Hataitai, courting period and buying land at McLelan Street [Linden]. Refers to Dennis Whooley, builder. Describes home appliances and refers to Tawa telephone system, with reference to party line. Mentions building of Tawa College and early flooding due to blocked drains. Personalities in Tawa mentioned include: Brian Mexted (local carrier), Bruce Drummond (chemist), Dr Brian Webb (family doctor) and Dr Jim Kelly, Elsa Dunlop; Mr Flaws (headmaster, Tawa College); Mrs Bonallack's (craft shop) and Mrs Sutton (supervisor with mother helpers and transport to Play Centre). Describes own children's activities at Tawa. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Barbara Adams Venue - Beauchamp Street, Linden Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009369-009370 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3031.

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1980-01

Description: Booklet advertising the products sold by L V Martin & Son, including battery chargers, toys, calculators, cameras, car stereos, cassette players, clock radios, cookware, electric blankets, fans, food processors, go-karts, hairdryers, headphones, health lamps, heaters, irons, jewellery, jugs, watches, microwave ovens, musical instruments, power tools, pressure cookers, range hoods, saucepans, shavers, stereos, toasters, vacuum cleaners, Weedeaters. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 76 pages, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-1982-01

Description: Booklet advertising the products sold by L V Martin & Son, including batteries, television, blowdryers, children's toys, calculators, cameras, car stereos, cassette players, clock radios, coffee makers, crockpots, cookware, digital clocks, electric blankets, fans, food processors, game calculators, hairdryers, headphones, health lamps, heated rollers, heaters, irons, jugs, juice extractors, watches, lawnmowers, microwave ovens, mixers, multicookers, musical instruments, portable stoves, range hoods, sandwich makers, saucepans, shavers, solariums, stereos, toasters, torches, vacuum cleaners, video games, wall clocks, Weedeaters. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 68 pages, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1955

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1950-01

Description: Pamphlet advertising a thermostatically controlled fruit steriliser. The front cover shows an illustration of a woman looking at the cylindrical machine with lid and draw-off tap, and with a dial to set the temperature. From the dial extends an electric cord and 3-pin plug. The inside of the pamphlet gives instructions for the operation of the machine. Other Titles - Steriliser Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet, folded to 185 x 115 mm.

Date: 1955

By: General Electric Company

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1955-03

Description: Pamphlet shows a photograph of the nightstor heater, a cut-away diagram of its construction, and a graph showing temperature over a 24-hour period. Text gives further detail of the advantages of the system. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 212 x 140 mm.