Great Britain - Emigration and immigration

Date: 26 Feb 1990

By: Sherley, Haydn Ferrars, 1924-2007; Long, Winifred Joyce, 1910-2001

Reference: OHColl-0680/1

Description: Radio interview on the programme `Take 5', Radio 2YA, Wellington. Winnie Long was from Middlesex and chaperoned children being brought out to New Zealand from Great Britain after World War II. She made the trip in 1949 possibly on the ship `Rimutaka'. Talks about the scheme, the trip and her work. Describes staying in New Zealand about a year before returning to Britain and then coming back to New Zealand on retirement. Interviewer(s) - Haydn Sherley Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1851

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-021-047-a

Description: Cruikshank's burlesque cartoon is in response to the exodus of women who took up offers of assisted passage to Australia and in so doing created a critical shortage of men in England. His dockside scene depicts a crowd of pallid & astonded-looking Englishmen who have come to greet the arrival of a ship load of smiling dark-skinned women who have responded to the call for female emigration. Throughout the first decades of settlement men outnumbered women to an extraordinary degree resulting in grave social problems. Active attempts to address the imbalance included immigration drives for women in Britain. Issued with Cruikshank's `The Comic Almanac for 1851' The Library holds a hand-coloured version of this etching at B-021-047 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 185 x 440 mm

Date: 1968 - 1992

By: Gibbard, Leslie, 1945-2010; Guardian (Manchester, England)

Reference: B-142-056/075

Description: Various examples of originals of Gibbard's published work from The Guardian. Focuses mainly on British political issues and world wide politics. All are undated but post-date 1968, the date at which he started at The Guardian aged 23. Quantity: 19 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings various sizes Provenance: Donation: Mr Les Gibbard, London 1993

Date: 1977 - 1978

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-359-305/325

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 21 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1810 - 1830

From: [Various artists] :[Illustrations of ships and naval actions]. - London [chiefly Illustrated London news, ca 1850]-1911

By: Dawe, George, 1781-1829

Reference: A-248-081

Description: A barque transporting people, possibly convicts going to Australia, with a boatload of soldiers being rowed towards it, another with a soldier, a man and a woman and another person. The transport ship is firing its guns. There is a castle on a hill in the left background, suggesting the location may be Dover Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 168 x 238 mm

Date: 4 Mar 2001 - 04 Mar 2001

From: Vintage years - the wine industry in New Zealand

By: Harris, Stanley, 1920?-

Reference: OHInt-0535/6

Description: Stanley Harris was born in Leeds. Mentions doing accountancy before fighting in World War II. Describes being part of the Normandy landing. Talks about his interest in big band music, being in a band during the war and being interested in wine. Recalls meeting his future wife Joyce, a New Zealander, in London in 1951 and emigrating. Describes the boat trip out and his impressions of Auckland. Talks about marrying in 1956 and the involvement of his wife in a retail fashion business, Regency Gowns. Discusses their Auckland shop which they sold on retirement. Recalls membership of the Auckland Food and Wine Society and their functions. Discusses the Lincoln Road wineries, Le Gourmet (the first licensed restaurant) and the Town and Country Restaurant near Oratia. Mentions Marge Harry. Talks about smuggling bottles of wine into restaurants under coats. Describes being President of the Beef and Burgundy Club and forming the New Zealand Federation of Wine and Food Societies. Describes beginning a newsletter and talks about attending conventions in Australia. Mentions the visit of Andre Simon. Discusses `wet' and `dry' regions, mentioning that Mt Eden was dry. Talks about the importance of the Wine Institute to the wine industry. Discusses Tom McDonald's wines and the process of cool fermentation initiated by Alex Corban. Considers that the revolution in winemaking in New Zealand was due to the emergence of young winemakers from Roseworthy College. Discusses winemakers including Michelle Richardson, Christine Didsbury, Bob Knappstein and Michael Brajkovich. Describes being a judge at the Easter Wine Show competitions and a competition at Chateau Tongariro. Gives his opinion that sauvignon blanc has put New Zealand on the wine map. Mentions cabernet sauvignon, riesling and chardonnay as other landmark wines. Talks about the beginning of planting grapes in Marlborough and the role of Frank Yukich of Montana. Discusses gewurtztraminer made by Denis Irwin of Matawhero, near Gisborne, and his winemaker Hatsch (Hutch) Kalberer from Switzerland. Talks about Kerry Hitchcock of Cooks winery. Describes his involvement in campaigns of quality vegetables. Discusses the takeover by Brierleys of Villa Maria. Comments on the need to review the excise tax on wine. Interviewer(s) - Janice Aplin Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3119.

Date: 4,5 Apr 1999 - 04 Apr 1999 - 05 Apr 1999

From: `Back to the drawing board' - Hamilton architects oral history project

By: Sayers, David Alan, 1931-2012; Corcoran, Fiona, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0483-15

Description: David Sayers was born in Surrey, England in 1931. Describes how his father was an interior designer and his mother was a draughtswoman. Mentions the encouragement of his art teacher and sponsorship to the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Talks about visiting lecturers including Frank Lloyd Wright. Discusses working for a New Zealand architect in England, Reg Uren, his influence and suggestion that David Sayers work in New Zealand. Mentions his marriage in 1953. Mentions that Reg Uren later returned to live in New Zealand. Describes coming to New Zealand and being met in Wellington by Public Works Department architects Jack Wight and Frank Turner. Mentions Jock Beere and Gordon Wilson. Recalls the `Tomato House', a `temporary' World War I building still used by the Ministry of Works in the 1960s. Describes living at Rongotai until the construction of the airport. Talks about going to Hamilton to work for Frank Gillman, previously in business with his father E.E. Gillman, and then in partnership with Doug Angus and Paul Marks. Describes the growth of the firm, as the result of work on the Tauranga Hospital and for the Waikato Hospital Board, which became Gillman, Garry, Clapp and Sayers on amalgamation with Peter (Ian) Garry and Rex Clapp. Mentions work for the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. Comments on the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) fixed fee structure. Mentions his role in developing a computerised coding system for contract documentation. Discusses the impact of the university on the town of Hamilton and a seminar on the development of the city. Talks about work in Rarotonga in projects funded by New Zealand aid and in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Describes a request by WHO to assist on a book on the planning of district hospitals. Mentions that the firm opened a branch in Palmerston North and later in Auckland as a result of extensive hospital work in both areas. Describes also working for Nelson, Wairau and Northland Hospital Boards. Comments on working for the Department of Health and hospital boards. Discusses current health service provision in New Zealand. Mentions work for the Waikato Polytechnic and on buildings for the kiwifruit industry. Describes going to London and hiring six architects. Comments on change in the firm as the result of rapid growth and not wanting to do management work. Mentions that there were fourteen partners in the firm which became Gillman Partners. Describes how they bought a dairy farm at Katikati. Recalls the work of Kelvin Prince who did sun frame printing for the firm. Describes retirement between 1982 and 1984 and the amalgamation of Gillman Partners with Worleys. Discusses his involvement in the kiwifruit industry and the production of organic kiwifruit under the Biogro label. Describes the decision by the Kiwifruit Authority to ban the export of organic kiwifruit, fighting this decision and the costs involved. Describes selling the orchard to DFC and his disillusionment with the planning process. Comments on planning in terms of architecture. Describes working on his family property and writing novels and poetry. Interviewer(s) - Fiona Corcoran Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3106.

Date: 3 Mar 1999 - 03 Mar 1999

From: `Back to the drawing board' - Hamilton architects oral history project

By: Smith, Christopher John Rodney, 1933-; Mardon, Heidi, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0483-16

Description: Rod Smith was born in Lancashire in 1933. Talks about his father being an architect, the family emigrating and arriving in Hamilton in 1946 where his father became architect to the Waikato Hospital Board. Describes going to Hamilton High School and Otago University, doing compulsory military training, deciding to become an architect and qualifying. Describes working for the Waikato Hospital Board then going into practice with Henry Clark. Mentions that Kelvin Grant joined their practice, Henry Clark dropped out and they became Smith, Grant and Associates. Discusses his preference for Scandanavian design. Talks about work for the Hospital Board, University of Waikato and some house designs. Mentions winning design awards. Describes less business in the early 1980s and becoming senior architect for Warren and Mahoney in Christchurch. Recalls working there for two years before returning to Hamilton, setting up a deer farm and gradually returning to architecture in his own firm Rod Smith Architects. Describes doing mainly domestic architecture and some work on pensioner housing and flats. Discusses his other activities including three trips to Antarctica. Mentions that two of the trips were to assess Scott's huts and make repairs. Describes flying helicopters and playing in a string quartet as other interests. Comments on architectural changes during his working life and discusses his philosophy on architecture. Gives his opinion on the characteristic New Zealand style of architecture. Discusses the Centreplace shopping complex, the Founders Theatre and inspirational international architects. Mentions running a home stay and planning a design for another home possibly using rammed earth. Interviewer(s) - Heidi Mardon Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3107.

Date: 6 Nov 1993 - 06 Nov 1993

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

By: Robinson, Winifred Jean, 1909-

Reference: OHInt-0430/08

Description: Jean Robinson was born in 1909. Describes how her parents were immigrants who married on their arrival in Auckland. Describes Helensville in the 1920s. Mentions Verona House and other boarding houses. Recalls primary school days including riding a horse to school, subjects taught and having one teacher. Describes high school picnics to Shelly Beach. Mentions how her brother died of infantile paralysis. Recalls that Dr Meinhold was the only doctor in the community during the 1918 flu epidemic. Describes leaving school and working on the farm and doing housework. Comments that this was what most girls did until marriage. Recalls getting their first car and having to push it on muddy unmetalled roads. Talks about family holidays at Waiuku. Describes how her husband drove his father's truck. Recalls their marriage about 1935, living in Helensville and then sharemilking for her father before buying her uncle's farm at Mairetahi. Describes how the children went to school at Waioneke. Mentions the original Waioneke school was in Lupton's woolshed. Discusses the post World War II rehabilitation settlement. Comments on the effects of World War II including rationing, transport difficulties and labour shortage. Recalls the Home Guard. Describes fundraising for the war including baby contests and knitting. Recalls the end of war party. Mentions her children attended Kaipara College. Describes her husband's death in 1962 and her involvement in Red Cross, Women's Division Federated Farmers (WDFF) and the church. Describes the voyage to New Zealand of her grandparents Isaac and Janet McLeod on the `Seagull'. Mentions difficulties on the trip and assistance given by local Maori on their arrival. Mentions John and Helen McLeod, after whom Helensville is named. Describes her father's community involvement on the Kaipara Dairy Board, the Rehabilitation Board, the Agricultural Show, the Racing Club and the Masonic Lodge. Talks about social activities including films and hearing Al Jolson. Interviewer(s) - Harriet Taylor Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3332.

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: 1901-1902 - 2023

By: Edney, Christine, active 1963-2023

Reference: ATL-Group-00828

Description: Collection relating to the emigration of John William Collin and wife Lavinia Adeline Collin on board the SS 'Ruapehu' to New Zealand in 1901-02. Comprises handwritten shipboard diary written by John William Collin between December 1901 and January 1902, along with digital files created by Christine Edney: a transcript of the diary, biographical information relating to John and Lavinia, a scanned photograph of John and Lavinia, and research material. Title supplied by Library. Christine Edney is the granddaughter of John William Collin and Lavinia Adeline Collin. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital image(s). Provenance: Christine Edney inherited the diary from her family and held it for 35 years.

Date: 1864 - 1866

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, relating to immigration to New Zealand, problems and issues of new immigrants and refugees]

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-B-IMMIGRATION-1865-01

Description: Blank form for applicant to complete and send to Mr Welch the hon. secretary. The Society was active around 1864 to 1866. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on blue sheet. Physical Description: Letterpress on blue paper, 230 x 181 mm. Provenance: Previously part of the Webster Collection - stamped as such and numbered 2579.

Date: [ca 1869]-1997

By: Arnold, Rollo Davis, 1926-1998

Reference: 99-257

Description: Note books containing research notes from various sources including archives, manuscripts, newspapers, serials and monographs compiled in the course of research for `The Farthest promised land', `New Zealand's burning', `Settler Kaponga' and articles and talks on Australia-New Zealand relations and migration, ca 1900-1910. These note books are accompanied by card indexes providing subject access to their contents; drafts, correspondence and working papers relating to the above monographs and articles; papers relating to children's literature including drafts of published and unpublished children's novels by Arnold including `Bracken block' and `The Freedom of Ariki'; papers relating to education, in particular teachers in the Wellington Education Board district in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Other Titles - The farthest promised land Other Titles - New Zealand's burning Other Titles - Settler Kaponga Other Titles - Bracken block Other Titles - The Freedom of Ariki Rollo Davis Arnold was an educationalist and historian Quantity: 27 box(es). 9 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Betty Arnold, Wellington, 1999

Date: 1842

Reference: Eph-D-IMMIGRATION-1842-01

Description: Arrangement of text, on front, with blank entry form on following page. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on folded sheet, 419 x 261 mm.

Date: 1903

By: Madsen, Christine E, active 2000

Reference: Eph-C-SHIP-1903-01

Description: Includes passenger lists for the first and second saloon, third class. There is also a brief log for the sailing on the back. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies on either side of sheet. Physical Description: Colour laser photocopy on both sides of sheet 412 x 227 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs C E Madsen in 2000.

Date: 1971 - 1987

By: Gibbard, Leslie, 1945-2010

Reference: B-142-076/128

Description: Cartoons done by Gibbard while in England commenting on political issues of the day, both in England and overseas from 1971-1987. Quantity: 53 photocopy/ies of cartoons. Physical Description: Photocopies of ink drawings various sizes Provenance: Donation: Mr Les Gibbard, London 1993

Date: 23 January 1970

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1970/0305-F

Description: Minister of Education Brian Talboys (standing at extreme right) speaking to a group of 85 school teachers and their families, who had arrived in Wellington from Britain aboard the "Southern Cross" on 22 January 1970. Photograph taken 20 July 1981 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 3 Aug 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Thomas, Mabel Mahala, 1881-1987

Reference: OHInt-0004/12

Description: Recalls her childhood in Great Yarmouth, England and some of the hardships. Describes how her father deserted the family when she was six and her mother nursed old ladies at night to make money. Talks about her education and occupation as a cook and housekeeper in a large London house with other servants. Describes her first husband, his death from croup and her decision to emigrate on seeing a picture of New Zealand. Recalls work as a waitress at the People's Palace in Christchurch where she met her second husband. Talks about living in Invercargill where her daughter was born, before moving to Kumara Junction on the West Coast. Describes her husband's death, local identities, meeting Prime Minister Richard Seddon and the Murchison earthquake. Venue - Christchurch : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Churchill Hospice, Christchurch Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 187. Search dates: 1985

Date: 2 Mar 1990 - 02 Mar 1990

From: Victor Robertson Oral History Project

By: Robertson, Victor, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0100-01

Description: Victor Robertson was born 10 Jul 1927 at Manchester, Lancashire. Describes Scottish family background, move from Glasgow to Manchester and then to Dagenham, education, effect of World War II on family life including bombing of home, father's employment with the Ford Motor Co. Discusses employment at Plessey Co and the Royal Air Force (Transport). Recalls reasons for emigrating in 1949, arrival in New Zealand, accommodation, factory job at Neeco, employment at the Public Service Garage. Talks about marriage to Rangi Silberry, attitudes to a mixed marriage, Maoritanga. Describes being a driver with the Public Service Garage, acquiring Chrysler Windsor cars, different coloured vehicles, personnel, other drivers, difference between van, truck and car drivers. Talks about Sir Keith Holyoake, Peter Fraser, becoming a car driver, Labour politicians. Describes rosters, daily routine, accident rate, driving heads of department, becoming a head chauffeur, anti-terrorist courses, condition of cars, effect on family and personal life, becoming a ministerial driver, social activities, sports. Mentions Sir Walter Nash, Sir Sidney Holland, Sir John Marshall, Mabel Howard, Norman Kirk, Sir Wallace Rowling, Sir Robert Mulddon, David Lange. Recalls royal tours, singer Victoria De Los Angeles, retirement in 1989, part-time work as a parliamentary messenger. Venue - Porirua Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Mr Robertson's home at Porirua Accompanying material - handwritten family biography, two papers on the Public Service Garage, list of royal visits to New Zealand from 1900-1974, paper on royal visits Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002905/002906/002907, OHLC-000939/000941/000940 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0560. Two b&w photos. At Whatcom Lake Railroad, Washington State, USA, 1988; Roxburgh Street, Wellington, 1949. Search dates: 1927 - 1990

Date: 4 Jul 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Kiernan, Annie, 1885-1986

Reference: OHInt-0004/01

Description: Talks about her family background, education in England and meeting her boyfriend, who became her husband. Describes his emigration to NZ to save for their marriage, her arrival in 1912 and reaction to New Zealand. Recalls Auckland before World War 1, working in Milne and Choyce, clothes and her social life. Describes moves to Te Kuiti, Wellington and Greytown. Other - Incomplete life history because of Mrs Kiernan's frail condition Venue - Brookleigh Home, Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Brookleigh Home, Masterton Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB173. Search dates: 1985