Community life

Date: 01 Jan 2000

By: Isaac, Maud Makuini, 1927-2010; Rasalingam, Nagalingam (Dr), active 1999; Warnock, Hope, active 1999; Smith, Bob, active 1999; Abrahams, Valerie, active 1999; Senior Achievers Charitable Trust

Reference: OHColl-0710/1

Description: Video produced to celebrate 'International Year of Older Persons' and the 5th anniversary of the 'Tower Senior Achievers Awards'. Interviews six seniors and shows the results of their voluntary work in local communities and organisations, helping to improve the lives of others. Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). 1 folder(s) notes. 6 interview(s). 9 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-3879 - biographical notes on interviewees.. Provenance: Trust closing down in 2001 after 5 years operation. Found it hard to marry corporate sponsorship with its social role. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-365 - To Oral History Collection -. Search dates: 1980 - 2000

Date: 1993-1995

Reference: OHColl-0329

Description: Residents of Merivale discuss their community, changes in population and urbanisation since their settlement. Access Contact - see Oral History Librarian Publication - Merivale, Tauranga: proud of it/ researched and compiled by Belinda Leckie, with the assistance of Helen Unsworth. Merivale Community Inc: 2000. Interviewer(s) - Merewahia Rogers and Helen Unsworth Quantity: 12 printed abstract(s) and transcripts. 12 C60 cassette(s). 12 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete all interviews have abstracts and transcripts. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Merivale Community Inc

Date: 5 May 1996 to 22 Jan 1998 - 05 May 1996 - 03 Sep 1998

By: Dawber, Carol, 1951-; McLellan, Carolyn, active 1997

Reference: OHColl-0417

Description: This project was initiated to mark the centenary of the naming of the settlement of Bainham, northwest of Nelson in Golden Bay. Talks to the longtime postmistress and storekeeper, Lorna Langford, and local residents and former residents Wal Prentice, Nancy Nalder and Bill Hadfield about the history and life of this community. Talks about mining and the Heaphy Track. Interviewer(s) - Carol Dawber Interviewer(s) - Carolyn McLellan Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 4 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: Oct 1995-Jul 1996

By: Jones, Vicki, active 1991

Reference: OHColl-0635

Description: Life history interviews with long term residents of Ngahinepouri, a farming area south of Hamilton. Examines changes in farming and social conditions. Interviewer(s) - Vicki Jones Quantity: 92 C60 cassette(s). 21 printed abstract(s). 21 interview(s) 21. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1999-2000 - 29 Oct 1999 - 20 May 2002

By: Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-; Richmond, Joanna Mary, 1946-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHColl-0673

Description: Maori and Pakeha were interviewed for this project, which looks at the history of Otaki and the lives of ten of its community. Language - mainly English but possibly some Maori within interviews by Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Jan Richmond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011052 - 011064 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s) and accompanying photos and material. 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Several photocopies of photos accompany documentation Search dates: 1930 - 2000

Date: [ca 1930-1986]

By: Riverside Community (Tasman District, N.Z.)

Reference: 89-169

Description: Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further records relating to Riverside Community and A C Barrington Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Some photographs with the collection (need to be transferred when A & D completed) Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 2000

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-643-001/025

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Politicians response to digital television, matchfixing in cricket, community responsibility for child abuse, Maori support of disgraced Maori MP and lack of support for abused Maori children, Fiji - banana dictatorship, Middle East peace process, concern over disparity between NZ and Australian defence forces reimbursement for serving in East Timor, Queen Mother celebrates her 100th birthday, space exploration, world opinion swings againsgt Israel's heavy-handed tactics, ACC payouts in Australia, cost cutting measures in the NZ Police Force, silencing Dover Samuels and social policy critics, high cost of yachting's Viaduct Basin, state-owned enterprises over-spend on conferences, British royals have a go at the tabloid press, Mark Todd's chances of selection damaged following sex and drug scandal, South Africa's reluctance to comment on Zimbabwe, terrorism in NZ? or just plain violence, Human genetic secrets uncovered, 'closing the gaps' policy, May Day and workers' rights, Fiji embroiled in racism, the price of the American Presidential election and recounts, Prime Minister announces she not going to attend Waitangi on Waitangi Day. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies photocopies of computer print-outs, A4 size.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of computer print-outs.

Date: 1999

By: West Coast Regional Council; Carnegie Library (Greymouth, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-LOCAL-Greymouth-1999

Description: Includes: Greymouth Junior High School leaflet 9-12 August 1999; Greymouth High School community classes leaflet term 2, 1999; Creating opportunities - an advertorial of Karoro Learning 1999; St Patrick's Parish Greymouth. Thanksgiving 1999; Increase in Greymouth floodwall rate / West Coast Regional Council July 1999; Who is TrustPower and why do people want to buy from us? Quantity: 6 pamphlets and newsletters. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying

Date: 1999

By: Thames Public Library

Reference: Eph-B-LOCAL-Thames-1999

Description: Includes small poster for "Moving women", NZ Labour Party leaflet, Thames Valley Philatelic Society stamp exhibition poster 31 July 1999; Thames La Leche League flyer; Nick Smith Minister of Conservation public meeting on the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill 12th August 1999 - flyer; Flier advertising an evening workshop by John Mckenzie about teenage books 12th August 1999; Flier about public meeting with Sir William Birch on Producer Board reform, 19 August 1999; A healthy democracy needs wise citizenship - political services available from the constituency office of Jeanette Fitzsimons, MP; Thames Budgetting Service / Thames Baptist Community Ministries flier; Thames-Hauraki Parents Centre poster for coffee morning 24 August 1999. Quantity: 10 printed pamphlets and leaflets. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying.

Date: Nov 1981 - Feb 1982

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0005

Description: Structured life history interviews with longterm residents of the Wairarapa town of Martinborough. The object of the project was to gather first hand accounts of living in a small rural town in NZ in the first part of the twentieth century. Awards/funding - Funded by a grant from the Department of Internal Affairs Abstracted by - Judith Fyfe, Hugo Manson and Jean Harton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - Notes to accompany the project, an index to the contents of the interviews (49 pages), a report on the pilot project, the interview guide and a catalogue of interviewee names and NZOHA tape numbers. This was a pilot project as research and preparation for establishing a national oral history archive. Martinborough was selected for a number of reasons including the interviewers' personal association with the town, its size - population 1357, and the celebration of its centenary in 1982. Quantity: 181 5" reel(s). 97 C60 cassette(s) working copies. 36 printed abstract(s). 36 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: The collection was initially held by the Department of Internal Affairs Search dates: 1981 - 1982

Date: [ca 1926-1939] 1931, 1933, 1934

By: McArthur, Thora Sophia, 1914-1998

Reference: PA-Group-00903

Description: Group portraits of people involved with Brooklyn and Vogeltown, Wellington, in the 1920s -1930s, taken by unidentified photographers and collected by Thora Staples. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donor is the son of Thora Sophia McArthur (née Staples) and William McArthur, and the grandson of Robert Staples.

Date: 2 Nov 1998 - 02 Nov 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: McGilvray, Madeline, active 1998; Lindsay, Edna Jane Smith, 1923-2014

Reference: OHInt-0464/13

Description: Edna Lindsay was born in Myross Bush in 1923. Gives details about her parents. Discusses school, punishment, going to town (Invercargill), first Pakeha settlers, the Fergusons, Reverend Bethune, sports days at John Kerr's, the Post Office at Mrs Baird's, church and Sunday School, the bus service and food supplies. Talks about draft horses, ploughing matches, harvesting, rabbits, card evenings, the community ball, building the Memorial Hall, the family farm today and activities of her children and grandchildren. Interviewer(s) - Madeline McGilvray Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHMD-0057 Quantity: 1 MiniDisc(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2690. Two photos of Edna Lindsay

Date: 30 Nov 2000

From: Childhood in the Kumeu-Huapai district oral history project

By: Moors, Ivy Nisbet, 1917-2006

Reference: OHInt-0551/6

Description: Ivy Nisbet Moors (nee Leslie) born Hamilton, New Zealand, 1917. Recalls living in Frankton and Parau, Waitakere Ranges until move to Taupaki in 1927. Describes aspects of childhood and growing up in a large rural family at Taupaki in the 1920s and 1930s. Refers to first earth dam at Huia and gumdigging on property. Mentions Aperaha Nathan, Billy Aperaha and Lizzie Williams. Other topics discussed include: Taupaki school picnics; clothing; chores; changes to farm over the years, with reference to petrol driven milking machine; games and activities; roads in the 1920s; illnesses - measles and mumps etc and refers to Dr Harris, Kumeu. Describes differences between Saturdays and Sundays and mentions Sunday School. Refers to Mrs Wright. Recalls aftermath of Queen Street riot in 1930s (Depression). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Debbie Dunsford Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008874-008877 ; OHLC-004514-004517 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2750.

Date: 16, 30 Sep 1996 - 16 Sep 1996 - 30 Sep 1996

From: A taste of gold oral history project

By: Weaver, Earnscy, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0446-13

Description: Earnscy Weaver was born in Clyde in 1950. His parents were Charles Earnscy (Earnc) Weaver and Doreen Craig. Describes how his grandfather dredged and sluiced gold and then in the early 1900s began growing cherries, pears, apricots, apples, plums, greengages, walnuts and almonds. Talks about how his grandfather built the original home out of schist. Recalls how his father and his brothers were all involved in fruit growing. Mentions how his father sold half his property in the 1960s because of poor health. Describes going into a partnership with Fay Richwhite and Co which took over his orchard and included it in a development of another one hundred acres of orchard known as Summerfruit Orchards Ltd. Describes how the water rights were taken from mining rights. Comments on the huge importance of water and disputes caused by it. Comments on changes in planting and pruning technique, frost protection and spraying. Mentions hydraulic ladders. Discusses a new style of spraying known as Integrated Fruit Protection (IFP) which involves the use of softer chemicals and targeted rather than blanket spraying. Discusses the use of air freight for transporting fruit. Mentions that his father was a progressive grower. Discusses the role of women in the orchard business. Describes how his grandmother had home help and his mother worked very hard at feeding staff and family several times a day but was not involved in decision-making. Discusses the work of his wife, Irene Weaver, in orchard office administration. Mentions her involvement in decision-making until they both became employees of the company. Describes working on the orchard as a child and the work of some of his own family on the orchard. Comments on his discouraging their orchard work as it is a hard life. Recalls doing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln and working in Hawkes Bay orchards for a year before returning to the family property. Describes working closely with Hort Research. Talks about the Earnscleugh community since World War II and changes in it as orcharding becomes more business minded and competitive. Comments that the planned mining venture will provide an exit from orcharding for those who want to get out. Mentions that mining at Island Block has shown that land impact can be minimal. Discusses in detail varieties of fruit currently grown particularly cherries, apricots and apples. Mentions the limited flexibility in selecting apple varieties because of the control of the Apple and Pear Board. Comments that growers can respond to market demand within four years. Describes networking with growers about varieties they can offer. Discusses the use of brokers who market fruit internationally. Mentions new and developing markets in Asia particularly Bangkok and Taiwan. Talks about the Clutha Valley Export Company (CVE) which markets stone fruit and the Clutha Valley Marketing Group (CVM) marketing pip fruit. Discusses the use of eight permanent staff and two hundred casual workers during the picking season. Mentions payment by piece rates. Talks about diversification into nuts, peonies and other produce. Comments on the importance of the weather. Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008572 - OHC-008574 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2672.

Date: 15 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Mackey, Ann Patricia, 1920-2004

Reference: OHInt-0419/10

Description: Ann Mackey was born in Hokitika in 1920. Describes growing up at Okuru where her father would be away on cattle drives for several weeks. Talks about her mother's ability at operating the ferry across the Okuru River. Describes carrying water from the river for household use. Talks about whitebaiting and using sugar bags to make whitebait nets. Recalls Grandfather Eggeling who stuffed native birds. Mentions Arawata Bill. Describes going to school at Dinny Nolan's house and later to the Okuru School. Mentions riding bareback to school, the other children, and teachers Hector Brown and Mr Gillan. Recalls corporal punishment. Describes leaving school at the age of twelve. Comments on her cousins, the Nolan boys, going to boarding school at Oamaru. Talks about Christmas, picnics and the Easter races at Mussel Point. Recalls first leaving Okuru at the age of five and going over the cattle track. Describes her next trip at the age of fourteen and having all her teeth removed. Mentions that Dinny Nolan pulled teeth out and also made coffins. Describes deaths by appendicitis, accidents in the area and trips out by stretcher. Talks about the McPherson and Harris families and card parties. Describes her mother's cooking including goslings, whitebait and scones. Mentions visitors and cooking for workmen. Discusses doing the laundry including heating the copper. Recalls being lonely and having a pretend friend. Describes how the phone could be cut off for weeks. Describes swimming, tramping and helping with mustering and haymaking. Talks about how shy she was when she left the area and not being able to play sport. Discusses her husband Harold Mackey, who worked for the Public Works Department, and their taking over his father's farm at Kowhitirangi after World War II. Alan and Eunice Cron participate in part of the interview Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2904.

Date: 25 Apr 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Cowan, Myra Edith, 1921-2015

Reference: OHInt-0419/05

Description: Myra Cowan was born in Christchurch in 1921. Describes schooling at St Margaret's College, becoming a dental assistant and meeting Bernie Cowan from Okuru in Christchurch. Talks about visiting Okuru before they married, moving down there, the old family home, being `tin kettled' by the neighbours and being homesick. Mentions sandflies and no electricity. Discusses the coal range, getting a diesel generator and some conveniences. Describes being thought of as a snob and concessions she made to this. Mentions enjoying the company of new arrivals such as the Ministry of Works people. Discusses getting some supplies from the Jacksons Bay shop, growing vegetables and some food being flown in. Describes the dance in the old hall that followed the arrival of alcohol supplies by boat. Mentions local musicians and making the supper. Discusses the whitebaiters ball which went on until daylight. Describes having her children in Greymouth or Christchurch and leaving for hospital a month before the birth. Talks about the death of one of her children from cancer. Discusses learning to drive the truck and getting a car when the road went in. Talks about the family whitebaiting and fishing. Mentions the impact of the opening of Carter's Mill near Haast. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2899.

Date: Jul-Sep 1995

By: Sampson, Carol, active 1995; Edmonds, Sue, active 1995

Reference: OHColl-0626

Description: Local residents recall the end of World War II in their community Recalls the circumstances at the end of World War II for those people left in the rural communities of New Zealand. Includes memories of the circumstances under which the proclamation of the end of the war was heard, whether people celebrated the end of the war and how that celebration may have differed from that in urban New Zealand. Interviewer(s) - Carol Sampson Interviewer(s) - Sue Edmonds Arrangement: Te Awamutu District Museum Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 26 Sep 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Davidson, Edna Marie, 1910-2000

Reference: OHInt-0430/04

Description: Edna Davidson was born in Herne Bay in 1910. Her father was Charles Ravenhall and her mother Mary Rashleigh, a tailoress. Describes how her parents met, married in Auckland in 1907 and lived in Herne Bay. Recalls boating and fishing as a child and attending plays and concerts at His Majesty's Theatre where her father was first violinist. Describes education at Bayfield and Meadowbank Primary Schools. Recalls the 1918 flu epidemic and having `gas stuff' blown down their throats as a preventative. Discusses how her father did not believe in higher education for girls so she left school at the age of twelve and worked at Smith and Caughey's lace department. Talks about a subsequent job with Remuera draper Amy Moore. Describes learning to drive and meeting her future husband, W T Davidson who she married in 1929. Gives details of her wedding dress. Talks about her husband's contract to dig soil for the waterfront road, his work excavating for the Civic Theatre and their financial sacrifice to purchase a navvy (motor shovel). Describes taking this machine down to Napier for work after the 1931 earthquake and subsequent work at Galatea. Describes moving to Kaukapakapa and sometimes living from their Dodge truck. Talks about moving to Woodhill in 1935, getting a farm which was part of the Casement Aickin estate and her husband continuing to do some contracting. Describes building a house in 1944 and building up a dairy herd. Talks about the war effort at Woodhill, the school, the Country Womens Institute (CWI) and their social life. Describes how there was a forestry settlement at Woodhill but it has since closed. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3326.

Date: 1994-1995

By: Whittington, Glenys, active 1995; Rule, Grant, active 1995; Green Island Oral History Memory Bank

Reference: OHColl-0616

Description: Interviews with elderly residents of the Green Island area in Dunedin. The area includes the suburbs of Concord, Burnside, Green Island, Abbotsford, Fairfield, Waldronville, Ocean View and Brighton. Noteworthy aspects of the area are the strong Scots Presbyterian background and the large amount of industry carried out in the area at one time. Accompanying material - `The green and the gold : the story of greater Green Island' volumes one and two by Kathleen Healey Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington, Grant Rule Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010048 to 010149 Quantity: 102 C60 cassette(s). 44 printed abstract(s). 1 videotape(s) Videocassette. 44 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 17 Jun 1995

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Smith, Norman V, active 1995

Reference: OHInt-0430/12

Description: Discusses his work experiences until 1962 when he joined the Woodhill State Forest. Describes how his job was under the Fire Service which serviced all the State Forests in the area. Discusses fire equipment and training. Talks about the need to stop sand from covering farms and railway tracks. Gives a historical background to this mentioning the Public Works Act in the 1930s. Recalls gangs and camps in the Muriwai area and headquarters at Woodhill. Describes a number of inventions including a lupin seed sower, marram grass planter, a machine which traversed sand to get kauri logs and a submersible pump to utilise sea water and put out fires. Discusses toheroa digging, community life, the generations of families at Woodhill and the consequences of the forests being sold by the Government. Mentions Dan Young, Ned and Charlie Fenton and Arthur Terlesk. Talks about the tree nurseries, the effect of poisons on the bird life, and whale strandings and shipwrecks on Muriwai Beach. Mentions the `Warkworth'. Talks about the release of fallow deer by Alfred Buckland, deer farming by John Harmer and deer hunting at South Head. Discusses pre European sites, middens, battlegrounds and obsidian. His son Greg sat in on the interview Interviewer(s) - Bernadette Malizia Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3333.