Social problems

Date: 1953-1954

By: New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents

Reference: MS-Papers-2384

Description: Comprises transcripts of hearings Aug-Sep 1954, correspondence, submissions, reports, memoranda, articles, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings relating to the work of the Committee Other Titles - Mazengarb Report Committee was set up in 1954 (Chairman: Oswald Chettle Mazengarb) to enquire into the state of morality among young people and to investigate influences undermining moral standards. Report tabled in Parliament in Sep 1954. Report was printed in AJHR, 1954, H-47. It was also published and delivered to households in New Zealand at the time (NZ&P, 364.36 NZ SPE). Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Records were collected by Mr F N Stace, a member of the Committee

Date: 1997-2001

By: Hutt Community Law Centre

Reference: MS-Papers-9126

Description: Correspondence, financial projections, legal opinions and discussion papers relating to the setting up of the Centre Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 31 Aug 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Miller, Jenny, active 1989-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/21

Description: Jenny Miller recalls being employed as co-ordinator of the Nelson Unemployed Workers Trust in 1989. Talks about Advocacy work, DSW problems, eg Work focus interviews, young people's problems, and need for acknowledgement of existence of unemployment in Nelson. Refers to Nelson Unemployed Union and support from CTU, Te Roopu Rawakore, TUEA, Clerical Workers Union and PSA. Talks about Trust members, Colin Gunn and Hilary Mitchell. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010389 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s) (side one). 1 printed abstract(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3534.

Date: 1990

By: Marie, Gillian, active 1980-1990s

Reference: Eph-E-SOCIAL-1990-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text with figures acting out violent scenes within the boundaries of the word "Violence". Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, coloured, 635 x 900 mm. Provenance: Donated by Gillian Marie in 1999.

Date: 06-09-1995 - 26-09-1995 - 27-10-1995

From: Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa / New Zealand Drama School oral history project

By: Harcourt, Miranda Catherine Millais, 1962-; Gaitanos, Sarah, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0400-03

Description: Recalls growing up in Wellington and influence of actor parents Peter and Kate Harcourt. Describes family background and existence of Harcourt and Millais families in Wellington since early days of city. Mentions Harcourts Real Estate. Explains connection with Katherine Mansfield. Describes attending Canterbury University for a year, going to Australia and returning to attend Drama School (1983-1984). Did a two year `apprenticeship' at Fortune Theatre in Dunedin. Studied Drama at The Central School for Speech and Drama (London). Refers to work with Rudolf Laban. Mentions Erica Stephenson, a teacher who worked closely with Rona Bailey and a strong influence at drama school. Talks about theatre awards and studying singing with Laughton Pattrick. Describes working with deaf, disabled, prisoners and prostitutes. Has sign language skills and talks about the culture round this. Talks about the response to the solo show Kaz - A Working girl - by Leah Poulter. Mentions she is married to film-maker, Stuart McKenzie and both are involved in films and collecting fine art. Abstracted by - Sarah Gaitanos Awards/funding - Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Sarah Gaitanos Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006588-006590 & OHLC-002365-002367 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1548. A photograph of Miranda Harcourt

Date: 10 Sep 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Cornwell, Irene Eva, 1924-2007

Reference: OHInt-0314/07

Description: Gives her family background, details about her education and the family's life which revolved round the Methodist Church. Notes that her father owned the drapery shop in Masterton. Talks about the family's social life, church and Bible Class, attitudes to drinking, dancing and World War II. Describes herself as a Wairarapa basketball representative who also did lifesaving. Talks about her desire to work with Maori and learning the language. Describes nursing training at Masterton, nursing the Japanese prisoners of war after the riot at the Featherston camp, tuberculosis nursing and maternity nursing. Describes Plunket training in 1947, marriage in 1948 and being a Plunket nurse in Auckland. Comments on the Plunket nurse community and general practitioners. Talks about her wedding, her husband going to Theological College and a brief period in Masterton before her husband's appointment to the Methodist Mission in New Guinea. Notes that they lived on the island of Buka in Northern Bougainville and stayed in New Guinea from 1949-1963. Describes a high infant mortality and the prevalence of disease. Talks about unpaid work at the hospital. Gives details of local birth habits, infanticide, sexual diseases and sexuality. Describes the birth of her children in New Guinea, her knowledge of four local languages and translation of the New Testament. Talks about returning to New Zealand, settling in Taranaki and the difficulties of readjusting. Notes that she still finds NZ ways difficult. Describes her move to Kaikohe, obstetric nursing and a move to Auckland. Talks about various Plunket jobs in Auckland including Principal Plunket nurse on the North Shore and Plunket tutor at Otahuhu. Comments on solo mothers, incest, adoption, child abuse, the need for parenting skills, the importance of the Plunket family units and the need for the Plunket nurse to be trained as a counsellor and social worker. Describes work in her retirement with the Church and as a Lifeline counsellor. Venue - Auckland : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Sarah Dalton Venue - Mt Albert, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004808; OHC-004809; OHC-004810 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 864. Search dates: 1992

Date: 10 Feb 1995 - 17 Mar 1995 - 2 May 1995 - 02 May 1995

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Evans, Royston, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0438-04

Description: Royston Evans was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Recalls his youth and attending the University of Manchester where he studied science and technology. Describes being in the Army and also wanting to be a professional cricketer. Talks about his social life, particularly dancing, lecturing at the Post Office training school, getting married in 1960 and deciding to emigrate to New Zealand. Recalls working for Plessey in Auckland in 1967 and then going to Wellington. Describes joining the New Zealand Post Office where the technological revolution was starting. Mentions privatisation of the Post Office and changes in staff numbers. Describes going to Gisborne in 1985 to look after exchanges and replacement in 1990 by computer controlled equipment. Discusses Post Office redundancies and morale. Comments on a recent return visit to Britain and his feeling that there is more of a class system in New Zealand. Discusses provincialism in New Zealand, parochialism in Hawkes Bay, the issue of the location of the hospital and the existence of three local authorities in a small area. Discusses his early retirement, joining the Friends of the Turnbull Library and the Historic Places Trust, being a library volunteer and taking up cricket umpiring. Talks about his children and time spent helping his son and daughter-in-law run the Tarawera Tavern. Comments on the lack of European news in New Zealand and the importance to him of The Guardian weekly. Discusses the horror of world events and their depiction on television. Comments on the fiscal envelope, MMP, local body elections, violence and the Cave Creek disaster. Discussses involvement on committees and the large number of immigrants involved. Talks about European tourists in New Zealand. Discusses the decline in attendance at church, decreasing spirituality and increasing materialism. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Interviewer(s) - Dianne Cowan Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2135. Search dates: 1936 - 1995

Date: 7 Mar 1995 - 3 Apr 1995 - 13 Jun 1995 - 15 Aug 1995 - 30 Jul 1997 - 07 Mar 1995

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Greene, Doreen, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0438-05

Description: Doreen Greene was born in Hastings in 1932. Recalls a childhood where the family moved around a lot and her father drank increasingly. Talks about sometimes living in tents or caravans. Talks about the excitement of settling in Hastings. Recalls leaving school the day she was fifteen. Describes her first job ticket writing, a job waitressing at a tearooms and working in a lingerie shop. Recalls her uncles and aunts, family gatherings, Christmases at Hastings, her grandfather becoming a Brethren and her grandmother remaining Anglican. Describes marrying in 1953 and having five children in under seven years. Describes moving to Otorohanga for husband Ray's first teaching position. Talks about returning to Hastings, the Easter Festival and the A and P show. Describes their lives and mentions that many of them are teachers. Recalls attending the official welcome for one of her sons as Headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate. Comments on her work with youth groups, particularly disadvantaged young people. Comments on MMP, the need for more women in Parliament, and testing at Moruroa Atoll. Discusses the issue of the Hawkes Bay hospital. Talks about de facto relationships, relationship problems, the romantic view of marriage, and the need for men to be more involved in the home. Comments on changes in the church. Discusses the Treaty of Waitangi and unemployment. Interviewer(s) - Robert Cowan Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2136.

Date: 1961-1996

By: New Zealand Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux

Reference: MS-Group-0774

Description: Comprises minutes, correspondence, reports, submissions, national annual conference papers, regional annual conference papers, statistics, publicity material, financial material, constitutional papers and manuals, subject files, case files, newsletters, administration handbooks, funding material, press statements, questionnaires, General Committee reports and papers and other related material. Includes material from North, Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Central and South regions. Quantity: 19 box(es). 18.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: Nov 1997 to May 1998

By: Dougherty, Ian Murray, 1955?-; New Zealand Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux

Reference: OHColl-0443

Description: Project commissioned to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the NZ Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux in 1998. Interviews are with people who have had early and long-term association with CABs. A history by Ian Dougherty has also been published. Interviewees are Adrienne Delahunty, John Fry, Peter Harwood, Olivia James, Joan Mattingley, Phyllis Ross, Jill van Angeren, Elsie Walker, Wendy Fletcher, Trish Hanlen, Jan Hooker, Jill Martin, John Riminton, Ngaire and John Tunnicliff, Leonie van der Sluis and (Margaret) Wensley Willcox. Interviewer(s) - Ian Dougherty, Helen Humphries, Margot Hart, Barbara Phair and Fran O'Keefe-Jones Quantity: 16 C60 cassette(s). 3 C90 cassette(s). 16 transcript(s). 16 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: 1920 - 1929

By: Bruce herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-SOCIAL-1920s

Description: Includes: Workers' Compensation Amendment; the new act explained, by P J O'Regan. Bruce Herald Print [1920] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed sheets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by the Hocken Library, Dunedin, in 1975.

Date: 7 Jan 1991-13 Aug 1998

From: National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges : Records

Reference: 2001-162-004

Description: File relating to business between New Zealand Citizens Advice Bureau and NCIWR; includes correspondence, CAB annual reports and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950-1978

By: Blincoe, Viola Emily, 1900-1994

Reference: MS-Papers-2266

Description: Papers include a copy of the Coucil's constitution, minutes of Council meetings, special and annual meetings, annual reports, statements of Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry, general reports, submissions to government, and correspondence with Blincoe as a committee member. Blicoe's annotations appear throughout the collection Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Minute books of the New Zealand Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs (see MS-Group-0017) and minute book of the Women's Auxiliary subcommittee see qMS-1478 Arrangement: Papers are arranged in chronological files Lt Col Blincoe was Salvation Army representative on the Council of NZ Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs, a body concerned with such issues as refugees, alcoholism, violence, etc. She was on the Women's Auxiliary sub-committee of the Council. Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (annotated) (cylcostyled) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1940-1969]

By: New Zealand. National Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penalty

Reference: 84-081

Description: Records are incomplete but include submissions on crime bills, statistics, printed matter, including newspaper clippings and pamphlets, book lists, correspondence, and some financial records. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 16 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.

Date: 1966

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-133-420

Description: It is New Year's eve and 1966 in the form of Father Time, scythe in hand, standing with Baby New Year, a toddler in nappies, labelled 1967. The year ahead is seen as dark clouds of terrorism, oppression, poverty, racism, etc, with a mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The child says his first word, 'Yuk!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil, 287 x 370 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1948

By: Wylde, Harry Brookhouse, active 1948-1967

Reference: MS-2542

Description: Outline of Wylde's social and political theories and suggested social reforms 'paralleled by Extensive Field Investigations and Personal Experiences', in the form of a petition to the House of Representatives of New Zealand Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (75 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations (28cm, green buckram) Provenance: Author's typescript deposited in the Copyright Office

Date: 1952-1957

By: New Zealand Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs. Women's Auxiliary

Reference: qMS-1478

Description: The minute book covers period February 1952 to July 1957. It contains a copy of the constitution of the Women's Auxiliary and a report on the discussions that led to the decision to disband it. The Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs was set up in 1941 as a result of wartime needs. Since World War II immigrant welfare, prison reform, film censorship and care of the aged have become major concerns for the Council. The Women's Auxiliary of the Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs was set up in 1952 because of a feeling that women's points of view were not receiving sufficient attention in the Council. It was wound up in 1957 due to a lack of support from some of the member churches and a feeling in the parent body that it was undesirable to have a separate women's grouping. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (58 pages & 10 leaves). Physical Description: Typescripts (copy) (35 cm; brown rexine)

Date: 1981 - 1989

By: Rowan, Jennifer Daphne, 1949-

Reference: Eph-C-TELETHONS-1980s

Description: A series of posters each containing one photograph plus text. Includes: "His parents couldn't understand him" (body in a morgue) "What are your kids up to when they say they're at the movies?" (smoking and drinking in a car) "It's not the dark she's afraid of" (Small girl fears her father's good night kiss) "Successful businessman, loving father, respected member of the community, wife basher" (man poses by his car and an office building) "There's no such thin as a bouncing baby" (crying baby lying in a corner on a hard floor) "How does your child view the world?" (child draws pictue of violent family life) "Will you take this hand in marriage?" (man offers a fist to the viewer) "One of these children will be scarred for life" (four infants lying in a row - one in four girls will be sexually abused before the age of 18) "It couldn't happen to a nicer couple" (a smashed wedding photo reflecting the divorce rate) "When her mother turns on her, who can she turn to?" (a girl sits alone in her room) "His parents love him. Almost to death" (a boy with a bruised face holds his teddy) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - HKM TEL [three digit number] Quantity: 11 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on posters 351 x 276 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Jenny Rowan in 1998.

Date: 1950

By: Wylde, Harry Brookhouse, active 1948-1967

Reference: MS-2543

Description: Account of grievances against the New Zealand Social Security Department in the form of a long letter addressed to the Registrar of the Wellington Branch Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (159 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28cm, green buckram) Provenance: Author's copy deposited in the Copyright Office

Date: [ca 1983-1989]

From: Dell, Miriam Patricia (Dame), 1924-2022: Collection

Reference: 99-007-1/2

Description: Files relating to the Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs including financial statements and minutes of final meeting and function (1985-1988); the Provincial Public and Social Affairs Committee of the Anglican Church minutes and papers (1983-1988); and National Council of Women in New Zealand conference minutes, correspondence between Dell and NCW and circulars (1987-1989) Other Titles - Enquiry into the status of women in the church (Women's Committee of the National Council of Churches in New Zealand) Other Titles - Rancderson, Richard. Christian ethics and the New Zealand economy; a resource and study guide Quantity: 1 box(es) (file box).