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Date: 13 Aug 2004 - 20 Oct 2006 - 13 Aug 2004 - 20 Oct 2006

By: Brehaut, Loreen, active 2006-2014; Seahorse World Science Heritage and Education Trust

Reference: OHColl-0856

Description: Interviews with eighteen former whalers who were based in Tory Channel, Cook Strait. Recorded are their experiences, attitudes and lifestyles when involved in whaling and their experiences and attitudes, including whale watching after the whaling industry ceased being active. Interviewees are Tim Barnes, John Bunt, Noel Davis, Geoff Godsiff, Bob Hansen, Joseph Heberley, Neil Henderson, Stuart Howden, Mana Huntley, Waru Huntley, Basil Jones, Noel Mears, John Norton, Tom Norton, Adrian Perano, Ted Perano, Peter Perano and Ron Perano. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Relationship complexity - Tory Strait Whalers' Families & Whekenui School oral history project (OHColl-0860) Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-001387 to OHDL-001422 Tape numbers - OHC-015994 to OHC-016032 Quantity: 39 C60 cassette(s). 18 printed abstract(s). 36 Electronic document(s) - abstracts. 18 digital photograph(s). 18 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Abstracts contain a photograph of each interviewee

Date: 15 Jul, 3 Aug 2009 - 15 Jul 2009 - 03 Aug 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Flyger, Noel Plummer, 1919-

Reference: OHInt-0979-03

Description: Interview with Noel Plummer Flyger, born in Wanganui in 1919. Describes family circumstances when he was born: father was working on a difficult, uneconomic rehab block, two hours drive from Eltham, Taranaki. Refers to hardships, but also the benefits of a self-sufficient, isolated life. Explains family's shift to a farm owned by his paternal grandfather, at Mata, south of Whangarei. Talks about evidence of earlier Maori occupation of the land which had two pa sites on it. Describes challenges of the run-down dairy farm, and outlines the mechanics of milking cows before electricity came to the district. Mentions the importance of the horse - as a means of transport, and for preparing pasture - and also pigs, which consumed the skimmed milk and subsidised the income from the farm. Talks about the acquisition of the first tractor in the village, and the subsequent opportunities for jobs on other farms. Discusses situation in World War II when many of his mates left to serve overseas, while he was manpowered to keep the farm going. Talks about his marriage to Draja Radich, from a Yugoslav family, and their early years living in a cottage on his father's farm. Describes the different rocks of the the Mata area, quarrying for road metal, and also explains the different types of drains, and techniques used to bring clay soils into productive pasture. Discusses the range of contract work he did after he stopped milking cows, and gives details of the families and farms in the Mata community where he lived from 1936 until the mid 1970s. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001252 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 1.33 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7481, OHDL-001260. Scanned B&W photographs of: Wedding, Noel and Draga Flyger (1943); Flyfer farm; White quarry, Flyger farm Search dates: 1919 - 2009

Date: 29 Apr, 6 May 2009 - 29 Apr 2009 - 06 May 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Sloane, Alice Annie, 1918-2012

Reference: OHInt-0979-06

Description: Interview with Alice Annie Sloane (nee Smith), born in Maungaturoto in 1918. Talks about the family situation at the time of her birth (when her parents lived on a farm at Kaukapaka), and their shift to a railways house at Puriri on the Hauraki Plains, when her father took a job there during the Depression. Descibes taking a job in the post office at Mata, south of Whangarei, at 18, community life there, and her close friendship with Erin Sloane, whose brother Ray she would later marry. Talks about working at various jobs in Auckland, where she met Ray at wartime dances. Describes the Sloane family's farm at Mata, where they settled, working relationships, domestic matters, land clearing and pasture development. Discusses life in the Mata community including the growth in population as farms were being cut into smaller units, school, Country Women's Institute and rural entertainments. Talks about religious differences in her family - she was a Catholic in a mainly non-Catholic community. Describes visits to Ruakaka, and to Whangarei - lists the businesses they frequented and refers to the delivery of meat and bread to the farm at Mata. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001255 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 1.46 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7484, OHDL-001266. Scanned B&W photographs of: Alice Smith and Erin Sloane at wedding of Alice's sister, Helen (1947); Alice and Ray Sloane's wedding 1947; Erin and her horse.. Scanned colour photographs of: House at Mata in late 1960s/early 1970s; Alice at bowls (on right) Search dates: 1918 - 2009

Date: 15, 20 July 2009 - 15 Jul 2009 - 20 Jul 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Edwards, Mavis Kathleen, 1916-2016

Reference: OHInt-0979-01

Description: Interview with Mavis (May) Kathleen Edwards (nee Keith), born in Auckland in 1916. Outlines her family background, growing up in a family of 10 in Waiuku and on a farm at Ngongotaha, travelling to school on horseback, and milking cows by hand after she left school. Mentions travelling by horse-drawn wagon to Makatu beach for family holidays. Talks about the history of the Edwards family at Waikaraka where they were boat builders and farmers. Refers to Randall Edwards working at her parents' farm for a period and marrying him in 1937. Describes living in a one room cottage without power at Waikaraka when they first married. Discusses the Edwards family homestead and changes to it over the years. Refers to the family clearing bush for timber and firewood. Comments on the Edwards family travelling by boat to Whangarei before there was a road. Mentions keeping pigs as well as milking cows on their farm, and milking by hand until they had a tractor to run a machine. Comments that her husband was not called up for active service during World War II but their trucks were taken for the military. Recalls the sinking of the 'Niagara' by a German mine off Whangarei. Mentions the Labour Day Pataua horse races, dances in a hall at Parua Bay, and the church at Onerahi. Refers to picture theatres (in Whangarei?) Describes a trip to the South Island the family made in a truck after the War, camping, and Randall getting a job picking and processing tobacco. Talks about her children when they were young. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Accompanying material - Notes about the Edwards family of Waikaraka (2 p; scanned, Jpeg files, with digital abstract) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001250 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (2 are scanned typescript). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 2.02 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7479, OHDL-001256. Scanned B&W photographs of: Randal and May Edwards in rowing boat built by Edwards family; Edwards Family Home at Waikaraka built 1909. Search dates: 1916 - 2009

Date: 27 Apr 2009, 15 Feb 2010 - 27 Apr 2009 - 15 Feb 2010

From: MOTAT 1950s life oral history project

By: Greig, Ian, 1942-

Reference: OHInt-1005-01

Description: Interview with Ian Greig, born in Hataitai in 1942. Outlines his family background and growing up in Miramar. Describes his parents' house and helping his father build a wooden fence and lay concrete. Recalls what was grown in the family vegetable garden and digging over the garden. Refers to food they ate, his mother baking, and where she kept food before they had a refrigerator. Mentions that the home was teetotal. Talks about his mother working and her salary paying for the fridge and television. Recalls putting on the dinner when he got home from college. Talks about carrying bread home from the baker, and that there were a greengrocer and a butcher nearby. Comments that his mother did not sew but knitted jerseys. Recalls spending time in the shed making trolleys. Talks about having a job delivering groceries by bike as well as bagging sugar and bottling vinegar in the shop. Mentions mowing lawns for pocket money, a paper run and holiday jobs. Comments on discipline at home. Reflects on the role of his bicycle in his teenage life. Discusses attending Miramar Central School, the classrooms and the teachers. Mentions swimming lessons in the school pool, the school fair and his parents' involvement with the school committee. Recalls hearing that King George [VI] had died. Remembers the Tangawai disaster and listening to the names of those killed on the radio. Refers to the whole school seeing the Queen at Athletic Park. Mentions attending Rongotai College, a boys' school. Recalls discipline and strapping at school. Talks about learning to drive when he was 15. Comments on attending the Presbyterian church in Miramar and making friends through the bible class. Mentions the Capitol picture theatre in Miramar. Comments on going on camping holidays with friends, family holidays at Otaki, and holidays with relations. Discusses getting a job as a drafting assistant with the Ministry of Works, attending night school for five years and becoming a civil engineer. Recalls developing an interest in earthmoving, and working on initial planning of the Mangere Airport, Porirua state housing and town centre and the Wellington motorway project. Mentions he got his heavy traffic license when he turned 18, bus license at 21, and drove buses for the airport at night to supplement his income. Recalls drinking at the Royal Oak hotel on Fridays at the time of six o'clock closing. Comments on meeting his wife at a dancing studio where he went for lessons. Refers to living at home until his marriage. Interviewer(s) - Megan Wishart Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023037 - OHC-023039 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 1.48 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7525, OHDL-001729. Scanned black and white photograph of Ian Greig as a schoolboy (1953) Search dates: 1942 - 2010

Date: 14 Jun 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Spencer, Shona, 1937-2017

Reference: OHInt-0984-17

Description: Interview with Shona Spencer (nee Dalglish, formerly Brown), born in Lower Hutt in 1937. Interviewer's summary: Shona Spencer born 1937, lived in Lower Hutt until she left home, aged 17, to go to Canterbury University where she studied arts and music, graduating BA 1957. She qualified as a teacher and taught music at Marsden School, Wellington before marrying. Material recorded includes family background and domestic life of the Dalglish family in Lower Hutt. She had little cooking experience until she went flatting as her mother had actively kept her and her sister out of the kitchen. Her domestic life started in her early twenties when she married a farmer in 1960 and lived on a farm 'Waihi' fourteen miles out of Masterton. She prepared meals for the family (three children) as well as farm employees for over twenty years before the marriage ended and she moved to live in Wellington. She re-married in the 1990s and continues to hold a number of voluntary positions particularly with music groups. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001501 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.01 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001477, OHA-7397. Colour photographs of: Shona in her kitchen; recipes in her recipe book (2010). Scanned B&W photograph of Shona as child (OHDL-001478) Search dates: 1937 - 2010

Date: 19 Feb 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: McBride, Alison Mary, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0984-11

Description: Interview with Alison (Ally) McBride (nee Coxhead), born in Napier in 1955. Interviewer's summary: Ally was born in Napier, one of six children. She spent her childhood in Taradale and Dunedin where her family moved in 1961. This interview was recorded to complete the interview recorded with her mother, Marian Coxhead (OHInt-0984-03). It focuses on Ally's childhood and teenage years and Marian's domestic life from 1955-70. Topics explored include: grandparent's domestic lives; parents' relationship and roles in home; kitchen and laundry facilities and upgrades; kitchen equipment; daily domestic routine; domestic help; meals, mealtimes and table manners; impact of week of television (hired for Landing on the Moon); chores, learning to cook, baking; food supplies, shopping and food storage; sources of recipes and core menu; food for celebrations, social occasions and picnics; food trends and signature dish; preserving and home brewing; mother's attitudes to money, housework and role; Other aspects of mothers life: work, volunteer and business activities, interests. Recipes from Marian's handwritten recipe book are referred to during interview. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001495 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form, image captions). 3 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001465, OHA-7391. Colour photographs of: Ally McBride (19 Feb 2010); Marion Coxhead's recipe book cover and facing pages of handwritten recipes. Scanned B&W photograph of Gillian, Ally and Rachel Coxhead as young children cleaning the family car (OHDL-001466) Search dates: 1955 - 2010

Date: 3 Aug 2010 - 03 Aug 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Prangnell, Irihapeti, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0984-14

Description: Interview with Irihapeti (Betty) Prangnell (nee Te Moana), born in Waihau Bay in 1932. Talks about her family background, being raised initially by her grandparents and then by her aunt Hariata Turei in a predominanly Maori community at Cape Runaway. Describes food and meals, daily life, and social activities. Refers to her schooling, and to the impact of the young men leaving in World War II. Talks about her aunt's decision that she become a nurse and training in Hamilton. Refers to meeting and marrying her pakeha husband Alfred Prangnell, a mechanic, and continuing working. Discusses her first recipe book (Aunt Daisy Cookbook), shopping and food preparation with her husband. Refers to adopting a daughter, having a son, and the family returning to Cape Runaway for a year. Mentions moving to Christchurch, returning to nursing, and her husband dying suddenly in 1965. Comments on food preparation and meals for the children. Refers to meeting her biological parents and sisters. Talks about leaving nursing, training as a teacher, and teaching Maori in Christchurch schools. Mentions being matron at Hukarere Maori Girls College in Hawkes Bay for several years. Discusses living with her son, caring for grandchildren, doing home care nursing, and activities at the Waikanae Senior Citizens' Centre. Reflects on the different stages of her life. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001498 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 9 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 2.52 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001471, OHA-7394. Colour photographs of: Betty Pragnell; recipe book and recipes; B&W photograph of two young children with Maori man. Scanned colour photograph of Betty and a class at Hukarere (1992). Scanned B&W photographs of: Betty after qualifying as a nurse; a Maori couple; Betty and husband Alfred on their wedding day (OHDL-001472) Search dates: 1932 - 2010

Date: 27 Nov 2009

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Stewart, Jocelyn Claire, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0984-18

Description: Interview with Jocelyn Stewart (nee Smith), born in Auckalnd in 1928. Talks about her family background, and domestic life during her childhood. Mentions to her schooling, and life during World War II including Red Cross training and the death of her father. Refers to making things for her glory box. Discusses meeting her husband Clyde (Snow) Stewart after the War, their marriage, and building their house. Talks about furnishing their house, and wedding presents helping to set up the house. Refers to their vegetable and flower gardens, bottling fruit, and baking. Comments on using the Edmond's recipe book, and collecting recipes in her handwritten recipe book. Mentions eating out occasionally, and making clothes for the children. Refers to laundry facilities. Talks about the births of her children and Plunket visits. Discusss Christmas celebrations, children's birthday parties and holidays. Comments on getting television and a stereo. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001502 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 1.56 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001479, OHA-7398. Colour photographs of Jocelyn's recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of Jocelyn Stewart, Jocelyn with her mother on her wedding day, and the bridal party; Jocelyn and Snow Stewart (OHDL-001480) Search dates: 1928 - 2009

Date: 19 Feb 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Mills, Nance Cameron, 1926-2012

Reference: OHInt-0984-12

Description: Interview with Nance Mills (nee MacDonald), born in Palmerston North in 1926. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered include: Family background: father's family from Pohangina Valley, mother's family from Rangitikei; Farm property at Pohangina; buildings on property, interior layout of homes especially kitchen and laundry, garden; golf course and school on property. Matriarch paternal aunt: involvement in affairs of farm; exchange of houses; relationship with interviewee's mother and father. Birth of younger sister. Visits to maternal grandmother in New Plymouth. Grandmother's knowledge of Maori language; family connection with Te Ruaparaha. Nance's friendship with Pomare family. Family interest in horse racing. Primary schooling - discipline, Maori action songs. Secondary schooling: weekly boarding; food; subjects studied -career options. Nance and mother's domestic life; farm catering; washing. Leisure activities (golf, horse racing, social activities). Meat: butcher in Ashurst; farm killing; offal; wild turkeys; rabbits. Sunday routine; Church; socialising after church - local pub open; home for Sunday roast. Fruit, vegetables, herbs; growing; cooking and preserving. Puddings: recipes, especially milk and fruit; milk; milking; making butter; afternoon teas. Weekly trip to 'town' [Palmerston North]; lunch out; father at the Club. Getting provisions; groceries, bread etc. Home help. Meeting husband: decision to leave farm and father; adjusting to life in the city; return visits to the farm. Having children: hospital stays after birth; routines for bathing and sleeps; milk and food; after school activities of grandchildren compared with own children. Homes at Wadestown and Karehana Bay especially kitchen and laundry. Recipes in handwritten recipe book; ingredients; method; favourites; sources of recipes. Overseas travel to London; Cordon Bleu cooking course; foreign food. Cooking new dishes for father and brother on farm; cooking at time of interview. Spring cleaning. Also mentioned: Napier Earthquake, polio epidemic. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001496 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 10 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001467, OHA-7392. Colour photographs of: Nance Mills (15 Feb 2010); Jonathan White painting mentioned in the interview; family dining table; details of leg of dining table; Quinnane with path to bungalow in foreground; view of bungalow with main house, Quinnane, in background; Nance's and grandmother Macdonald's recipe books. Scanned B&W photograph of Nance and Hector MacDonald with grandmother Macdonald (OHDL-001468) Search dates: 1926 - 2010

Date: 19 Apr 2010

From: MOTAT 1950s life oral history project

By: White, Shirley Catherine Blanche, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-1005-04

Description: Interview with Shirley White (nee Black), born in Christchurch in 1935. Talks about growing up in Herne Bay, Auckland from the age of five, their neighbours, having a vegetable garden at the back of their section, and playing in the street and in a local park. Recalls her mother worked outside the home until she was 70 as well as cooking and tending the vegetable garden. Discusses her family's artistic and musical talents, learning to play the piano, and having opera playing 'all the time'. Comments on her mother bringing her up as a Catholic but rebelling when she was 12. Mentions spending holidays with relations in Taranaki. Talks about her schooling at Ponsonby Primary School and Auckland Girls' Grammar School, mentioning teachers, discipline and class sizes. Refers to her memories of the War and the fears of a Japanese invasion. Comments on her father leaving home and the attitude of others to her parents' divorce. Talks about leaving school at 15 after her father left home, and buying a bicycle on time payment once she started working. Comments that her father arranged a job for her at the Chief Post Office in Auckland, where she hated the routine working in the telephone exchange. Discusses getting a live-in job at a private boarding school in Albany, working as matron for kindergarten age children and helping in classes. Mentions that the school was run on Quaker principles and served vegetarian meals of food grown organically on site. Refers to being trained as a preschool teacher in the job and getting her driver's license to drive the school van. Talks about meeting her husband Bruce White at the Leys Institute library while she was working in Auckland and he was still at school, how their friendship developed, and communicating by telephone and mail while she was living at Albany. Mentions attending balls together including the royal ball during the 1953-1954 royal tour. Comments on his family and how he helped her mother with her finances. Refers to marrying in 1959 after a long engagement while Bruce attended university and trained as a teacher. Describes their wedding in an Anglican church, the reception, and honeymoon in a hired Morris Minor car. Talks about living in rented accommodation and housekeeping. Recalls the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and walking across it on opening day. Mentions moving to Rotorua later for her husband's work. Interviewer(s) - Megan Wishart Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023042 - OHC-023044 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 3.03 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7528, OHDL-001734. Search dates: 1935 - 2010

Date: 16, 19, 22 Mar 2011 - 16 Mar 2011 - 22 Mar 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Hodges, James Carroll, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0991-01

Description: James Carroll Hodges, born at Invercargill in 1929. Backgrounds family history of immigrant great grandparents, grandparents and parents, their occupations, education, accidents and familial connection to local Maori Ngati Mamoe tribe at Colac Bay, Southland. Tells of muttonbirding season activities on the islands, personal links to Maori community, and childhood memories of his mother and maternal grandmother and siblings. Talks about family routines at home in his childhood, games and adventures with siblings and lack of material wealth. Recalls schooling with his Commonwealth medallist headmaster Jim Leckie, and impact of World War Two in the classroom and on local men, plus the family move to Invercargill where he was apprenticed for five years as a cabinetmaker. Talks about working on an Oamaru sheep farm and in Pukeuri freezing works before going to Wellington to take a ship to Australia at the time of the 1951 waterfront lock out. Describes voyage and initial experiences on arrival in Newcastle, working in Sydney as an egg checker and moving north to Leeton, New South Wales. Talks of work life there on a fruit farm, rice farm and at the Letona cannery. Recounts various adventures in the sun, heat, dust storms and flies of the harsh Australian outback climate. Comments on his first impression of Aboriginal people and attitudes of Australians to aborigines and immigrants. He reflects on his desire to assimilate as an average Australian, and his lack of homesickness and communication with home. Talks of seeking work in Broken Hill and Whyalla, where he worked as an engine fireman, life in boarding houses, and his first aeroplane trip to Adelaide and Melbourne. Describes his return to work in the Letona cannery where he met his wife and future brother-in-law. Talks about his wedding and the move to New Zealand in 1952, and how he missed his Australian mates. Describes pressure of renovating their home at the same time as working at a building firm and sheep station, thus missing the birth of his first child. Tells of their trips back to Australia and encouraging Australian friends to emigrate to New Zealand. Talks about his work as a builder and joiner until his lung condition forced him to take a job as a school groundsman and maintence man. Describes his life after retirement at 60, the end of his marriage, selling his home and living in a motor camp. Reflects on the importance in his life of his travel to Australia and the close friendships he made there. Interviewer(s) - Linda Hepburn Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001604 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 6.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7448, OHDL-001605. Scanned B&W photograph of Jim Hodges in Australia in the 1950s; photograph of Jim Hodges taken at the time of his interview in March 2011

Date: 5, 6 Aug 2010 - 05 Aug 2010 - 06 Aug 2010

From: New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association: Oral history project

By: Norton, Owen Nicholson, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0990-02

Description: Interview with Owen Norton, born in Greymouth in 1931. Has lived whole life at Coal Creek, West Coast, next door to the Norton family's Westland Snowflake Ice Cream Company factory. Left school to work in the factory aged 15. Took over and ran the business from 1955 until it was sold in 2008. Interview covers career in the ice cream industry and allied refrigeration and transport activities, and recollections of life on the West Coast from the 1930s. (Interviewer's summary) Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001596 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 4 Electronic document(s) (word, Adobe pdf). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 4.43 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7446, OHDL-001598. 2 digital photographs of Owen Norton; 9 scanned B&W photographs and 5 scanned colour photographs of Owen Norton and the ice cream factory. Accompanied by 2 appendices (pdf files) with information about the photographs (OHDL-001599) Search dates: 1931 - 2010

Date: 28 Sep 2010

From: MOTAT Photography oral history project

By: Hoggard, Rodney Angus Augustus George, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-1003-02

Description: Interview with Rodney (Rod) Hoggard, born in Grafton, Auckland, in 1926. Outlines his family background, and growing up in Onehunga and and Grey Lynn during the Depression. Talks about his father being a keen amateur photographer who had a quarter plate Klito camera and a darkroom at home. Mentions leaving school when his father died and working as a grocer's delivery boy. Comments on an apprentiship with instrument maker L.T. Hyman (owned by the family of Dove Meyer Robinson). Recalls joining the Air Force when he turned 18, pilot training at Ohakea and Taieri air bases, but not serving overseas. Talks about being a street and beach photographer for Peter Pan Studios in Karangahape Road, using a Leica 3C camera he had bought. Describes how the camera's range finder worked. Recalls developing films after each day's work. Describes joining Emanuel Robinson in a camera business, later coming to own the business and changing the name to Civic Cameras. Explains having difficulties getting supplies for the shop because of the import licensing system. Mentions stocking mostly German cameras and imported the first Asahiflex [later Pentax] cameras. Discusses other cameras he had New Zealand agencies for including Leicaflex and Linhof Technika. Explains why he set up Pacific Cameras as a camera wholesaler. Refers to people who worked there, agencies he had, and manufacturers of film. Comments on brands of colour film and the dye transfer colour printing process. Mentions that his colour photographic prints are fading. Talks about his last professional photography job visiting Niue for the Niue Tourist Board and for the Education Department. Explains ending his involvement in business when he became a Baptist minister. Reflects on his favourite cameras, the Leicaflex and Leica. Accompanying material - Photocopy of: 'The realism is... a biography of Rodney Angus Hoggard' written by Ailsa Hoggard (12 p.; with printed abstract) Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 1.26 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001726, OHA-7517. Search dates: 1926 - 2010

Date: 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010 - 23 Jun 2010 - 16 Aug 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Ngan, Jeanette, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0984-13

Description: Interview with Jean (Jeanette) Ngan (nee Wong), born in Taihape in 1933. Interviewer's summary: Talks about being one of 5 children of New Zealand Chinese parents who ran the General Store at Utiku near Taihape and were actively involved in the local community. When Jean's older brother drowned the family moved away to the Hutt Valley and established a new business in which Jean worked until she was released by her father to pursue her ambition to become a nurse. Discusses her marriage to Guy Ngan, then an architect but for the greater part of their married life a self employed artist and sculptor, the couple moving to Stokes Valley where over a period of years Guy built their home. Talks about raising 2 children there and, during her years at home with the children, doing a considerable amount of weaving, exhibiting and selling her work, and was a member of Port Nicholson Weavers. Discusses in detail domestic life, housekeeping and food in her parents' and her own home. Describes family photographs. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001497 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001469, OHA-7393. Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden (OHDL-001470) Search dates: 1933 - 2010

Date: 12, 19 April 2010 - 12 Apr 2010 - 19 Apr 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Toebes, Heather Bethune, 1928-2020

Reference: OHInt-0984-20

Description: Interview with Heather Toebes (nee Thomson), born in New Plymouth in 1928. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered in the recording include: father's family background, upbringing, medical studies, war service (including Gallipoli, prisoner of war in WWII). Mother's upbringing: female teachers and role models, acquisition of domestic skills and knowledge, use of a spurkle (spurdle). Her father George Thomson's medical practice in New Plymouth and the family home: layout, hygiene, laundry, mother's role in practice, care of babies, encouraging Maori into maternity nursing, goods in lieu of fees in the Depression. Family life in wartime: household chores, power cuts, mother's social life, learning manners and table manners, fear of Japanese. Childhood: attitude to parents, discipline and punishment, treatment of domestic workers, food, ironing, use of starch, personal cleanliness, mother's care of babies, learning the facts of life, schooling, manual training, saving and swapping. Food and meals: mealtimes, puddings, supplies, healthy food, examples of meals, keeping food fresh, sterilising milk and water, preserving. Kitchen and laundry layout and appliances. Garden: vegetable crops. Mother: friendships, sources of support during husband's war service, attitude to community service, support of female patients and friends. Siblings: adoption of elder brother, younger brother's loss of hearing following measles, role during mother's trips away. Mother's old age. Recipes and recipe books: Olive Bone's Fudge, "The Nothing Succeeds like Excess Cookbook", mince, curry, marmalade, gravy. Heather's working life: Victoria University Law Library, Chen and Palmer, secondary teaching, scientific translation. Marriage to Dutchman Kees Toebes: preparations for marriage, wedding presents, learning to cook Dutch and Indonesian food, learning Dutch pronunciation and language, husband's work. Family life: first home at Onerahi, meals and supplies, keeping food fresh, fishing, swapping food with neighbour, growing fruit and vegetables, drinking wine, daily and weekend routines, sewing, domestic furniture, ceramics and china, drinking coffee, kitchen utensils. Current living arrangements: buying house, kitchen, shopping, washing, housework, garden, grandchildren, change in manners and table manners, teaching law students. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001504 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 digital photograph(s). 13 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4.49 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001483, OHA-7400. Colour photographs of: Heather Toebes in her kitchen; recipe book and spurtle; recipe book (all 29 April 2010). Scanned colour photographs of: Toebes' home at Onerahi; Annie Thompson with children (1939); Kees Toebes in the house; Heather's children Quentin and Harriet at Manakau with a Christmas Crown (c.1970); Heather Toebes at her farewell from the Law Commission (1995). Scanned B&W photographs of: Major George Thomson in uniform, and verso with handwritten details; George Thompson; Heather's mother Annie with her school hockey team; Annie Thomson with Heather (c.1929); Toebes' home at Onerahi; Heather with her mother, brothers and sister (1939); Heather's mother Annie as a your woman; Heather Toebes (1951); Heather's wedding party (1954) (OHDL-001484) Search dates: 1928 - 2010

Date: Aug-Sept 2011

By: Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-; Sargood Bequest (Trust)

Reference: OHColl-1011

Description: Life history of Jill Blennerhassett with particular focus on Wanaka Station which was purchased by Jill's grandparents Sir Percy and Lady Lucy Sargood in 1912. Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-001808 to OHDL-001811 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 27 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (incl. scanned letter). 6 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 01 Aug 2011-02 Aug 2011 - 23 Sept 2011-24 Sept 2011 - 01 Aug 2011 - 23 Sep 2011

From: Wanaka Station oral history project

By: Blennerhassett, Jill Stewart, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-1011-01

Description: Interview with Jill Stewart Blennerhassett, born at Prospect House, Dunedin in 1933, younger of two daughters of Stewart Dalrymple MacPherson and Gulielma (Billy) MacPherson, nee Sargood. Backgrounds paternal grandparents Jeannie Sinclair MacPherson, nee Trotter, and John MacPherson, Surveyor and manager of Totara Estate, and their children Bill, Sheila and Eva. Talks about maternal family background in Melbourne, Australia, and her great grandfather Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, Mayor of Prahran 1856-1858, and her great great grandfather Frederick James Sargood, Chairman Prahran Municipal Council 1856-1858. Talks about her close knit family childhood in Dunedin with older half brother Rolfe Sargood Mills at their home Piccadilly, Maori Hill, and at Marinoto, home of maternal grandparents philanthropists Sir Percy Sargood and Lady Lucy Sargood, nee Ormond, who bought Wanaka Station in 1912. Talks about growing up as a boy, gardening, horse riding, shooting. Refers to parties, fetes and dances held at Piccadilly, Marinoto and Wanaka Station. Talks about Ukrainian immigrant workers at home and on Wanaka Station farm, and the family relationships with the nanny and house staff. Talks about her mother's first marriage to Lesley Pilkington Mills, her strong character, artistic abilities, being a socialite and a crack shot. Discusses her father's service in World War One, her own relationship with him, cleaning tools together and visiting the Dunedin Club and Dunedin factories with him as director of Sargood Son and Ewen business. Refers to her parents' service in World War Two in the Home Guard and Women's Army Auxiliary Corp, her brother Rolfe Mills being in the Navy, and hosting their British cousins and nanny at home during wartime. Discusses school holidays at Kartitane crib. Details her holidays on Wanaka Station in mid 1940s to 1950s, doing farmwork and attending local dances, Upper Clutha A&P shows, and going water-skiing. Talks about the Station homesteads which burnt down in 1913 and 1931, and living in the renovated stables. Talks about contact with relatives the MacKillops and MacPhersons. Refers to Sir Percy Sargood and uncle Bill MacPherson, who became farm manager in 1946, generating their own power supply and establishing farm and flood irrigation systems near Ripponvale, Cromwell Flats and Kawarau River. Mentions Wanaka Station shifting from running mainly cattle to sheep. Says her parents and Bill MacPherson managed the farm well together. Details life on the farm, food preservation, accidents, haymaking, horse riding, the farm managers and farm workers, the rabbit problems, shearing, the fruit orchards, crop growing. Mentions that James K Baxter worked on the farm. Talks about small town life of Wanaka in 1940s to 1950s. Says after her father died in 1965, her mother took responsibility for the farm, selling land blocks to the Gordons family. Talks about attending St Hilda's Collegiate, Dunedin and Nga Tawa Diocesan boarding school, being keen on sports and later studying physical education at University of Otago. Refers to socialising at university and meeting her husband Doctor John Blennerhassett whom she married in 1956. Discusses raising a family of four, including twins, in Wellington. Talks about John Blennerhassett winning a BNZ Bank scholarship to train and study medicine in United States where they had two more children. Discusses making networks and raising her family in Boston and in Montreal, Canada during the forment of the 1960s. Talks about a 9000 mile camping trip with her children in North America before they returned to Dunedin, so John Blennerhassett could take up his appointment as Head of Pathology at Otago University School of Medicine. Discusses formation of Wanaka Station Trust in 1970s to look after the farm and development of Rippon Lea subdivision. Refers to splitting the Station land with Rolfe Mills after Bill MacPherson died in 1970s, donating land to the community in 1977, and site of original homestead to be Wanaka Station Park in 1997, and giving farmland to be the lakefront and golf course. Refers to development of Rippon Vineyard by Rolfe Mills. Mentions subdividing her farmland between her children. Talks about retiring in 2003 to Barn Pinch Farm, part of the Station, and her interest in photography, 70th birthday present of a tractor, and her involvement with tennis and rowing clubs. Refers to putting land into QEII Trust as Blennerhassett Kanuka Reserve. Refers to land inheritance going down female line, mentioning maternal great great grandmother Emma Rippon who married Frederick James Sargood, and her paternal great aunt suffragette Learmonth White Dalrymple. Talks about her ten years chairing the Sargood Bequest, growth of its charitable work, wise investments and sponsoring Te Kakano Aotearoa Trust, and her continuing interest in the management of Wanaka Station Park. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Three printouts of website biographies of Sir Percy Sargood and John MacPherson, scanned photographs with captions, scanned letter by John MacPherson from 1918 about Stewart MacPherson and Bill (Willy) MacPherson's service in World War One, and newspapers clippings on Wanaka Station and Barn Pinch Farm. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001810 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract and forms). 2 digital photograph(s). 27 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (incl. scanned letter). 6 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 13.23 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft Word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7626, OHDL-001808. Printed scans of black and white photographs of family, friends and the second Wanaka Station homestead, scan of homestead floor plan, scans of colour photographs of the Station woolshed and Jill Blennerhassett at Barn Pinch Farm. Search dates: 1933 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 7 Nov 2009 - 07 Nov 2009

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Hunter, Gretchen Mary de Visme, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0984-07

Description: Interview with Gretchen Hunter (nee Blathwayt), born in Gisborne in 1937. Interviewer's summary: Born Gisborne 1937. Family moved to the Wairarapa late 1930s. Father a barrister & solicitor. Except for 5 years primary school educated single sex girls school (boarder at Woodford House). Completed nursing training at Christchurch and married soon after qualifying NZRN. Married John Hunter, farmer, Porongahau, Central Hawkes Bay, aged 22. Raised 4 children on the coastal farm Rangitoto (nearest town Waipukurau). Early years of married life and while raising her children she provided meals for all the farm requirements as well as the family. She was actively involved with all activities in the district and on occasion relied on by the community for her nursing skills. Material recorded covers family background, domestic life in Martinborough and Masterton, nursing training in Christchurch, experiences as a Hawkes Bay farmer's wife, raising children in the country, and years of cooking for a wide range of employees, family and community. Personal recipe books were used as references during the interview. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001491 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 9 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001457, OHA-7387. Colour photographs of: Gretchen Hunter in her kitchen (Nov 2009); colour portrait of Gretchen Hunter; page in a handwritten recipe book (2006); covers of three old recipe books. Photographs of B&W photographs of: Gretchen Hunter (1950s); Gretchen and John Hunter on their wedding day; Gretchen with three young children (1964); Rangitoto Station (1950s). Scanned colour photograph of Gretchen and John Hunter with their 4 young children. Scanned B&W photograph of Gretchen with two young children (OHDL-001458) Search dates: 1937 - 2009

Date: 1, 8, 21, 29 June and 13 July 2011 - 01 Jun 2011 - 13 Jul 2011

By: Oldham, Philippa Jane, 1957-; Macaskill, Stuart Alisdair, 1931-2012; Local Government New Zealand

Reference: OHColl-1055-01

Description: Interview with Stuart Macaskill, born 1931 in Lower Hutt. Macaskill discusses his family history and Scottish heritage, childhood and education, business life, engagement with local and regional politics, and his role on national representative bodies, including the NZ Catchment Authorities, the Regional Government Association, and Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ). Abstracted by - Pip Oldham Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham The oral history project was funded by Local Government New Zealand Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7671. 34 Electronic document(s) Adobe PDF. 2 digital photograph(s). 14 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 3 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Deposited by Wayne Facer, Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), Wellington, November 2011 Search dates: 1931 - 2011