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Date: 29 Apr - 30 Jun 1998 - 29 Apr 1998 - 30 Jun 1998

By: White, Bruce, 1933-2004

Reference: OHColl-0420/1

Description: Talks about his childhood, schooling, university education, army service, courtship, marriage and fatherhood. Focuses on his long service at Western Heights High School in Rotorua. Notes that this school was Rotorua West High School until 1961. Describes his teaching of mathematics, different principals while at the school and his own position as Deputy Principal. Interviewer(s) - Kay Edwards Accompanying material - Western Heights High School silver jubilee magazine 1985 and Western Heights High School 1996 magazine Quantity: 7 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1938.

Date: Nov 2000-Jun 2001

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-0551

Description: Interviews with a number of people who spent their childhood in this rural district north west of Auckland City during the 1910s and 1920s. The area was long used as a portage by Maori between the Kaipara and Waitemata harbours. Pakeha initially settled during the mid to late 1800s and, after forest and gum clearance, the area was slowly developed into dairy farms. In 1915 nearly 5000 acres of scrubland at Kumeu North (renamed Huapai) were subdivided as orchards, mixed farms and weekend homes. There was an influx of new residents (including weekend only residents) following this. Huapai School opened in 1919. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 27 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 26 Apr 2001 - 30 Jul 2001

By: Abigail, Jill, 1939?-

Reference: OHColl-0579

Description: Volunteers of the Otaki Citizens Advice Bureau talk about its role in the community and its management. Includes recollections of their training, colleagues and experiences. Includes some history of Otaki area. Other - Copies also held by the Otaki Citizens Advice Bureau and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux Arrangement: Files arranged as OHDL-000990 - OHDL-000997 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 8 Electronic document(s) - digital abstracts. 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). 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: 27 May 2005

By: Young, David Christopher, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-0768-1

Description: A recording made at the Wellington Memorial Service for Owen Wilkes, a prominent international peace activist and peace movement supporter who died 12 May 2005. The service was held at the Taraua Tramping Club Hall, Moncrief Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington, 27 May 2005. Speakers on side one of the tapes are George Boraman and Nicky Hager. Speakers on side two of the tapes are Nicky Hager, May Baas, David Young, Bob Rigg, Desmonde Cooper, David Kapper, Carrick Lewis, Ian Prior, Ann Evans, Sylvia Bagnall and Chris King. Speakers on side 3 are Keith Locke, Katherine ?, Kevin Hackwell, Stephanie Mills, Steve Dixon, Lynn Holland, Mark Roach, Chris Manson, Fay Tudor? and Wayne Hennessey. Venue - Tararua Tramping Club Hall, Mt Victoria, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010487; OHC-010488 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 27 April 2005 - 27 Apr 2005

By: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010; Rainey, Humphrey Barton, 1926-2015

Reference: OHColl-0763-1

Description: Jock Malcolm McEwen born 17 February 1917 in Feilding. Recalls the formation and development of the Mawai-Hakona Cultural Association in Upper Hutt. Topics talked about include the reason the club was started, its relationship to the Maori Education Foundation, Mawai-Hakona being the Maori name for Trentham, the significance of Ned Nathan of Nga Puhi to the club, moving to new premises from Trentham Army Camp, old members of Ngati Poneke, and other Maori clubs in the Wellington area. Club activites mentioned include composing their own action songs, teaching old Maori chants, oriori (lullabies), winning the Kingi Tahiwi Memorial Cup, discussions about a national competition, performing at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1976, teaching the use of the taiaha at Witako Prison now Rimutaka Prison, hosting overseas visitors including North American Native Indians and composers Tua Delamere, Ted Pomare and Mata Warena. Mentions members Humphrey Rainey, Ramona Mercer, Ned Nathan, Harriet Daspers, Dovey Katene Horvath. Interviewer(s) - Humphrey Rainey Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014078 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-5046.

Date: 05 Apr 2001

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-; Women's Studies Association (N.Z.)

Reference: OHInt-0556-02

Description: Ellen Ellis was born in Westport in 1944. Describes family life, her father (a diplomat), and a family posting to Canada in 1949. Recalls returning to Wellington and secondary school. Talks about her mother's health and treatment. Mentions university study. Describes teacher training college, and work at Victoria University Library, Wellington. Discusses sexuality and relationships. Talks about working at Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Library School, working for Alister Taylor, and the challenges of being a sole parent in full time work. Talks about co-ordinating music for Harry Seresin's The Settlement restaurant, Willis St, Wellington. Talks about the development of her feminist consciousness. Comments on her mother's life. Discusses encounter groups, Bert Potter and Centrepoint. Discusses housing and discriminatory attitudes towards women. Mentions the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Describes Wilderland Commune, Coromandel, New Zealand. Talks about her involvement in the Hecate Women's Health Collective and alternative health groups in Wellington. Describes National Archives work, the feminist librarians' group, teaching on the Women's Studies course, involvement with Women's Studies Association, working as a research consultant, and researching Sandra Coney's book 'Standing in the sunshine'. Talks about TV documentary research on abortion, and various writing projects. Mentions researching Boer War concentration camps. Reflects on feminism in her life, in relationships, housework, emotional equity, and feminist gains. Mentions that child care is still a critical issue. Other - Note: Part of interview was lost. During the recording, a completed tape was reused to record the next part of the interview by mistake. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, photo, biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2650, OHDL-000999.

Date: 10 Oct 2002

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: Simpson, Clare Suzanne, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0783-13

Description: Interview with Clare Simpson born 1958 in Dunedin. Describes her interest in cycling and her PhD research on the history of women in sports (1985). Explains how her interest in cycling was rekindled in a cycle tour of the West Coast in 1983. Discusses her PhD research which she started at Victoria University of Wellington. Recalls interviewing Lousie Sutherland, a New Zealand woman who rode around the world on her bicycle, and meeting the granddaughter of cyclist Blanche Lough. Refers to depositing the papers of Louise Sutherland at the Hocken Library in Dunedin. Talks about studying in Birmingham and researching at various libraries and museums in England. Describes how she limited her research to a specific time frame (1900-1910) and found most of the information she wanted in New Zealand. Recalls researching at various libraries in New Zealand. Mentions that her research took 10 years to complete. Talks about the conclusions of her PhD, and the rationalisation of women's clothing in the late 19th century in relationship to women cycling in New Zealand. Describes the history of women cycling in New Zealand, England and the United States. Refers to the differences in cycling over the years, the future of cycling and the challenges in researching cycling history. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4161. Colour photograph of Clare Simpson Search dates: 2002 Processing information: Description updated 13 November 2023 following information from interviewee.

Date: 18 Oct 2006 to 24 Jan 2007 - 18 Oct 2006 - 24 Jan 2007

By: Kennett, Jonathan Peter, 1967-; Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust

Reference: OHColl-0830

Description: The project covers the history of the 100 hectare, publicly owned Orari-Wilton's Bush Reserve which celebrated the centenary of its inception as a botanical reserve as August 2006. The content of the interviews includes information about the history of the area, the development of the reserve, including design, rock gardens, the neglect after the Second World War, collection of plants, plant propagation and conservation, activities designed for public participation and enjoyment and the work by volunteers. The interviewees are, Janet Braggins and Barbara Anderson Jarnell, Robert Brockie, Sandra Clarke, John Dawson, Rewi Elliot, Robert Fantl, Ian Fleming, Barbara Hampton, Margaret Mole, Michael Oates, David Bidgood and Tim O'Leary, Alick Poole, John Riseborough, Helen Waugh, John Waugh. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 15 printed abstract(s). 15 interview(s) 2 are joint interviews. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

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: 04 Jun - 17 Sep 1993 - 04 Jun 1993 - 17 Sep 1993

By: Manaena, Bernard, active 1970s-1990s

Reference: OHColl-0401

Description: Interviews with Wairarapa kaumatua about their life histories and hapu traditions Interviewer(s) - Bernard Manaena Quantity: 32 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 2002 - 2005 - 01 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2005

From: Nga Morehu oral history project

By: Apiti, John Whatu, 1915-2007

Reference: OHInt-0776-01

Description: Interview with Hone Apiti (Aged 89) born 1915 in Aotea. Sixth child of Te Whatu a Apiti and Raiha Paki, he was brought up by his grandparents. Refers to his grandmother being blind and knowledgeable in Maori herbal medicine. Mentions his original name Hone Paki, the ferntree house he grew up in, and the subsistance lifestyle of collecting seafood, growing vegetables and milking cows. Discusses his grandparents not speaking English and teaching them as he learnt the language at school. Describes his education including gaining a proficiency certificate and attending Maori Agricultural College. Recalls the Napier and Hastings earthquake and how it destroyed his school. Describes working in a flax mill in the Hauraki Plains. Mentions first meeting his first wife when she was 8 years old, and his second wife who was Pakeha. Discusses his disbelief in the supernatural world and taniwha and his religious beliefs. Talks about a serious accident, the operations he underwent, and his desire to complete certain jobs. Quantity: 2 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available in English OHA-5102.

Date: 13 Aug 2001

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: Boyle, Raye Elizabeth, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0601/02

Description: Raye Elizabeth Boyle, later Sister Bernard, born Taumaranui 1940, after six months moved with parents to Wellsford, North Auckland. Discusses schooling at Wellsford State School and Sacred Heart Convent Wanganui as a boarder; on leaving school, training as a Karitane nurse at Stewart (Stuart?) Home in Wanganui and move to work at Calvary Hospital, Christchurch, 1960. Entered the Little Company of Mary in 1961 and recalls assisting with the babies in the Maternity wing at Calvary Hospital. Discusses postulancy, Novitiate, first vows, types of prayer in religious life, and learning acceptance and tolerance for other members of community. Mentions commencement of Nursing Training school in 1963. Talks about experience in theatres while training and training experience at Wellington hospital with children and casualty and infectious diseases. Describes Recovery unit and recovery nursing. Recalls, with the assistance of Sister Francis, Sister Kathleen, Wellington Hospital and Home of Compassion, setting up the first Theatre Sisters Group now known as Operating Room Nurses Association under the umbrella of the Registered Nurses Association. Reflects on the sale of Calvary Hospital, Christchurch, Wellington and Hawera and explains how the grief and loss was harder each time. Backgrounds move to smaller community, renting a house in Daniell Street [Newtown] and later buying a house in Rintoul Street. Discusses involvement with Sisters, Priests and Brothers for Justice in Newtown; district nursing in Newtown; voluntary district nursing in the Newtown Park flats under the umbrella of Wellington Hospital district nursing; involvement through City Council in setting up `Pennytouch' equivalent to Neighbourhood Watch, getting pensioners to keep an eye out for each other; experience as Rental Arrears Officer for City Council; involvement on Advisory Committee in the Homecare programme set up by Wesleycare, becoming Community Care manager in 1993. Describes the development of the programme for the elderly - making sure their voices are heard etc and also addressing loneliness. Mentions involvement with Age Concern and Women's Night shelter for women who are homeless. Backgrounds the establishment of Catholic Health Care Facilities of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2001. Mentions Vatican II and the changes over the years since. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009387-009390 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3038.

Date: 7 January 2004 - 07 Jan 2004

From: Art Taranaki oral history project

By: Copeland, Dale Devereux, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0769-03

Description: Born in Midhirst, 1943. Discusses childhood - was Dux of New Plymouth Girls High School. Talks of attending university to become nuclear physicist, before leaving to become a teacher, then an artist. Recalls her O.E to Australia and the United Kingdom. Discusses being a member of the Taranaki Artists Co-Operative (TACO) and their exhibitions - mentions setting up the Real Tart Gallery and working with the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki. Discusses using different media in her art - refers to assemblage art as working with treasures. Talks about contemporary digital interests - talks about developing the Virtual Tart website - describes as collaboration with partner and fellow artist Paul Hutchinson. Talks of her past and upcoming exhibitions in Canada, United States, Paris and Bulgaria. Discusses past and upcoming exhibitions and tours in New Zealand. Mentions Michael Smither, Tom Mutch, Rene Lambert, Dave Brown, Dave James, Wayne Morris, Marianne Muggeridge, Batch Collins, Peggy Earl, Joseph Cornell, Don Driver, John Middleditch Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Mary Donald Accompanying material - 4 colour photographs, 15 x 10 cm, [dates unknown]; copies of published articles from newspapers and exhibition catalogues Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014372, OHC-014373 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5148. 4 colour photographs, 15 x 10 cm, 1 of Dale Copeland, 2 of Dale Copeland in her studio, and 1 of the studio [dates unknown]. Photocopied articles include copies of photographs of Dale Copeland and her work. Search dates: 1943 - 2004

Date: 5 Jun 2008 - 05 Jun 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Gould, Susan Deborah, 1959-

Reference: OHInt-0975-13

Description: Interview with Sue (Susan) Gould, born in Timaru in 1959. Refers to her family background and schooling in Timaru. Comments on working in a nursery for a year, doing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln College, then travelling and working in various jobs until she was old enough to join the Port Agriculture Service in Christchurch in 1981. Described her first weeks on the job, sitting entrance exams in an Auckland wharf shed, and year's probation. Refers to the roster system, on-the-job training, and there being only one other female on the Christchurch staff when she started. Describes work at Lyttelton rummaging through freight and inspecting chests of household effects. Talks about later boarding vessels before they berthed, meeting the captain, the paperwork involved, going through cabins and galleys, sealing meat lockers, and checking fish holds on trawlers for hidden meat. Refers to learning some Japanese and Russian at night classes, and also kickboxing. Mentions the changes that came with containerisation, with cargo being inspected in unpacking areas or importers' premises. Refers to working at the airport, the 'pecking order' of the staff there, passenger risk criteria for bringing in food (ethnic groups) or animal diseases (horse breeders, vets), and a drug runner with a suitcase of hashish. Refers to boarding American, Italian and New Zealand military aircraft to spray for insects. Comments on the change to using residual insecticides on surfaces in planes and air bridges which reduced the need for spraying on arrival. Mentions garbage collection from aircraft and spraying left over food with dye before disposal. Refers to the transporting of horses, cats, dogs and other animals on aircraft, aircraft preparation, and arrival checking. Talks about crew searches, and the importance of passenger profiling before x-rays. Mentions starting to use dogs in the late 1990s to help with cruise ships. Describes post office duty, the numbers of foreign university students in Canterbury and knowing the seasons to expect food items in parcels. Discusses the beginning of importing off season fruit and vegetables, which became a massive part of the job. Talks about doing pre-clearance of grapes in Australia. Comments on her current work arranging and carrying out pre-clearance inspection of grapes in Mexico, the U.S. and Australia. Explains setting up the inspection process in Mexico. Outlines the fumigation process with ethyl dibromide or methyl bromide, the training given, having little safety gear in the early days, and problems in cold weather. Refers to taking a full time job at Lyttelton after 15 years on general roster. Mentions moving to Wellington in 2003 as Site Manager for the Wellington Quarantine Service. Talks about relations with the port and airport companies, and procedures for VIPs. Discusses becoming Manager Offshore after a restructuring in 2005, and her work finding suitable staff to send overseas, arranging service agreements and managing staff at a distance. Describes current work with the military doing pre-clearance overseas for returning personnel. Outlines the process of passenger pre-clearance on cruise ships and the job's popularity. Comments on struggling to find staff to go to Japan for vehicle inspection. Refers to her other administrative work, and to never wanting to lose sight of the border. Comments on the introduction of charging for service, the TV programme Border Patrol, and their relationship with Customs. Refers to working with the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, and work in the Pacific improving quarantine standards. Mentions their relationship with the United States Department of Agriculture. Reflects on various restructurings during her career and refers to how unsettling they were for staff. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Interviewee's curriculum vitae, with printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001100 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) biographical form. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7308. Search dates: 1959 - 2008

Date: 19 Jul - 14 Sep 1993 - 19 Jul 1993 - 14 Sep 1993

From: Taonga Tuku Iho (Wairarapa)

By: Carter, Samuel Mita Hami Tuhokairangi, 1913-1998

Reference: OHInt-0401-02

Description: Interview with Wairarapa kaumatua Mita Carter; Mita discusses the local Maori history of the South Wairarapa district at length, identifing various hapu and pa sites and recounting associated incidents; he also provides information about his family and about his life history; he also discusses his recollections of recent Maori history in the Pirinoa area and at Mangakino. Venue - Pirinoa Interviewer(s) - Bernard Manaena Venue - Mita Carter's home at Kainga Pai, RD2, Pirinoa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006665-006671; OHLC-002438-002444 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s) over three separate days. 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1619.

Date: 21 and 27 Aug; 8 Oct 1986; 24 Mar 1988 - 21 Aug 1986 - 24 Mar 1988

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Gillies, Ellensleigh Denny Gordon (Dr), 1902-1989

Reference: OHInt-0019/04

Description: Dr Denny Gillies talks about her family background, her childhood, her reason for choosing medicine as a career, university education, Otago Medical School, Dr Fitchett, holidays and social life, tuberculosis, hydatids, time as house surgeon at Palmerston North, Napier Earthquake, reasons for going to England and not into private practice, post graduate study at Cambridge University studying radiology, return to New Zealand as radiologist at Palmerston North Hospital and then move into private practice in Wellington, type of work, attitudes of patients. Accompanying material - Attached to printed abstract are a number of copies of newspaper articles about Dr Denny Gillies, unsourced; a copy of article entitled 'The Rita Gillies Gardner Memorial Fund' from NZ Medical Journal, vol 62 no 372, August 1963, pp. 383-384 Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Venue - 12 Newman Court, 16 Tinakori Road, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001782 - OHC-001785 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 279.

Date: 4, 7 Dec 2007 - 04 Dec 2007 - 07 Dec 2007

From: Studio La Gonda - a large format legacy oral history project

By: Adams, Mark Bentley, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-1002-01

Description: Interview with Mark Adams, born in Linwood in 1949. Talks about his family background and both his father and grandfather being photographers. Reminisces on growing up in the beach suburb of Brighton, disliking school, and his high school art teacher Digby Graham who "saved his life". Comments on attending Ilam art school (University of Canterbury) where his teachers included Tom Taylor, Don Peebles, Doris Lusk and Eileen Mayo, and deciding he wanted to do photography. Mentions the pop culture, art scene, drug use and counter culture in Christchurch at the time. Describes his first cameras, a box brownie (1966-1968) and then a Kodak Retina. Refers to using a 35mm Pentax at university, as well as a 4x5 inch Linhof plate camera from 1968. Mentions going to Sydney in 1973 and buying his own 4x5 Linhof camera, Schneier lens and Kinderman 4/5 enlarger. Comments on meeting Theo Schoon in Sydney. Talks about moving to Northland in late 1974 and photographing Kaipara sites that were clearly cross cultural. Refers to starting photographing at Waitangi in 1980 and participating in land marches. Talks about moving to Auckland in 1978, being asked to photograph a man with Samoan tattooing, and finding it a "key moment" in his development. Discusses his work photographing Samoan tattooing and tattoo artist Paulo Suluape at work, and using the images in an exhibition and book. Refers to other projects he worked on including Northland 1977-1978, Ngai Tahu histories starting 1978 and Rotorua photographs starting 1979. Recalls his first solo exhibition at the Real Pictures Gallery in 1982. Comments that the Real Pictures studio was a model for Studio La Gonda as a resource base for photographers. Discusses setting up the business Sharp Black & White in September 1982, people involved, and its work. Talks about financial support mechanisms, the ethics of representation and sale of images. Describes Studio La Gonda (SLG), division of labour at the studio, his working methodology, and social life at SLG. Talks about photographers who used the studio including John Miller, Fiona Pardington, Davina Monds and Greg Semu. Explains his approach to teaching art and photography and his passion for large format photography. Describes the physical challenges of working with large format photography, the way the view camera works and his own self taught approach. Comments on the importance of scale with the process of enlargement. Details equipment used at SLG and describes it as "a museum of analogue". Speculates on digital photography and the future of the photographic industry. Lists influences on his work, particularly Ansel Adams, and mentions the Burton Brothers and George Valentine. Interviewer(s) - Hanna Scott Accompanying material - List of selected solo exhibitions by Mark Adams and selected bibliography (3 p.) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023021 - OHC-023024 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7505. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - four large format photographic negatives. Photograph of Mark Adams in his studio? (photographer Haruhiko Sameshima; 2007 or 2008) Search dates: 1949 - 2007

Date: 2 Mar 2010 - 02 Mar 2010

From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project

By: Vause, Peggy Nita Graham, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0767-23

Description: Interview with Peggy Vause (nee Bryan), born in Onehunga in 1924. Refers to her family background and growing up at Graham's Beach, Awhitu peninsula, Mangere and Otahuhu. Mentions working in the family horticulture business, and then for Aircraft Service Ltd at Mangere Airfield - sewing Tiger Moth wings and office work. Comments that all senior staff there had been in the Air Force during the War. Talks about wearing slacks to work. Refers to development work on aerial topdressing done at Aircraft Service, including by her future husband Alan Vause. Comments on being offered a job as an air hostess in the late 1940s but turning it down. Mentions flights with Freddy Ladd. Talks about leaving Aircraft Services, and flying to Australia in 1950, landing in an electrical storm. Refers to working in Australia for a period and then returning Auckland to work at Aircraft Service Ltd again. Mentions buying and renovating a house in Mt Eden, going to dances, working as a cashier at the Crystal Palace picture theatre, and having an account at Smith and Caughey's. Recalls the 1953 Royal Tour, visiting Government House, and the Tangawai train disaster. Mentions marrying Alan Vause in 1974. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001701, OHA-7512. Search dates: 1924 - 2010

Date: 13 Dec 2007

From: Studio La Gonda - a large format legacy oral history project

By: Sameshima, Haruhiko, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-1002-03

Description: Interview with Haru (Haruhiko) Sameshima, born in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1958. Recalls his family background, coming from a line of scientists, his mother dying when he was three, and his father remarrying later. Talks about the family coming to New Zealand in 1973, first impressions, and his geologist father working as a research associate at Auckland University. Comments on the profound personal shift for him arriving in New Zealand at age 14 unable to speak English. Details his father's interest in photography and his own first camera. Refers to moving to Dunedin aged 20 as a student, dropping out of his course, and in 1979 working through a PEP scheme as a graphics technician at Otago Polytechnic. Outlines his jobs in commercial photographic studios and as a photographic technician in the the Otago University Geology Department in the 1980s. Talks about meeting his partner Moyra Elliot and buying his own studio lighting to photograph her pottery. Discussess studying at Elam School of Fine Arts [1987-1991, 1994-1995], teachers John B Turner, Megan Jenkinson and Denys Watkins, and students Gavin Hipkins, Michael Parekowhai, Giovanni Intra and Darren Glass. Talks about John Turner's interest in large format photography and his influence. Comments on his first experiences using 8x10 cameras. Recalls meeting Mark Adams in 1992 and mentions photographers Fiona Pardington, Alan McDonald and Bill Hammond. Refers to his first solo exhibition "Aesthetic Science" at Lazelle Gallery, Auckland. Describes the formation of Studio La Gonda as an antidote or alternative form of existence to an art career, the origin of the name, physical characteristics of the studio, and deposits of personal archives there. Outlines some of the equipment housed at La Gonda, and his relationship to technology. Describes the evolution of digital technology, and sketches an outline for the future of large format technology as a boutique activity. Comments on large format photography in the context of the art school curriculum, and on major 19th and 20th century influences. Mentions Rim Publishing. Reflects on difficulties in how commercial works get credited and the problem of authorship of commissioned images. Interviewer(s) - Hanna Scott Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023028 - OHC-023030 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7507. Photograph of Haruhiko Sameshima at Studio La Gonda? (photographer Mark Adams; 2008) Search dates: 1958 - 2007