Home economics teachers
Interview with Tui Flower
Date: 8, 19 Apr, 5 May 2010 - 08 Apr 2010 - 05 May 2010
From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s
By: Aitken, Lucy Tui Hampden, 1925-2017
Reference: OHInt-0984-05
Description: Interview with Tui Flower, born in Matamata in 1925. Interviewer's summary: Tui Flower was born in Matamata and grew up there and in Tauranga. She studied Home Science at the University of Otago and worked as a Home Science teacher at Pukekohe High School. During this time she spent a year in the United States and a year in France, both experiences influencing her interest in, and practice of, cookery. She then worked as a home economist for Lever Brothers in Wellington, one of the few home economists employed in industry at this time, before spending 23 years as the cookery editor at the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. In the interview she talks about the influence of her grandparents and parents on her life, particularly on her interest in cookery, and talks about her time in the United States and at the hotel school in Paris (Ecole Hoteliere de Jean Drouat, Paris, 1954-55). Ms Flower also talks about her time with Lever Brothers and at the Woman's Weekly, what her role was with both organizations and how she tried to fulfil that role. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001489 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 8 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 3 days. 5.49 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001453, OHA-7385. Black and white photograph of Tui Flower taken at the time of the interview; 8 scans of B&W photographs of Tui from infancy to adulthood (OHDL-001454) Search dates: 1925 - 2010
Ann Monroe Gilchrist Strong
Date: [ca Dec 1936]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-6388-29
Description: Ann Monroe Gilchrist Strong, circa December, 1936, the year in which she was awarded an OBE. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 98 x 148 mm