Places

Date: 1995 - 1997

By: Hubbard, James, 1949-

Reference: B-154-009/014

Description: Includes cartoons about: The New Zealand cricket team's bad batting performances; New Zealand cricket team versus the West Indies; Wellington stadium; Military input on unemployment; Australia plans 2 year delay on Kiwi dole; Streakers in cricket. Quantity: 6 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, various sizes.

Date: 07 Jan 1992

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Warren, Frances Benny Watson, active 1935-1991; Grace, Patricia Frances, 1937-; Ramsden, Irihapeti Merenia, 1946-2003

Reference: OHInt-0600-05

Description: Frances Warren was born in Westport. Mentions her father's death from the influenza epidemic on return from World War II. Discusses tribal links with Ngai Tahu, Ngati Apa, Rangitane, how her mother was a Mahuweka, and her father Rihari Watson and grandmother Heni Turoa. Mentions that at home the adults spoke Maori, but English to the children. Mentions writing to a Maori trust board on land rent issues for her mother. Mentions her whanau in the McDonald, Watson, Matai, Fitzgerald, and Te Awiawi whanau. Describes moving to Wellington, work at Levy's tailoring, poor pay, and a Newtown boarding house. Mentions Mrs Grey, Lady Pomare, Henry Ngata, Jock McEwan, Bill Parker, the Sinclairs and her friend Lucy Gunson. Recalls meeting people and whanau at Poneke Club nights. Mentions Club elders and leaders such as Mrs Heketea, Dovey Katene, Kingi, the Bennetts. Talks about singing lessons with Mrs Potiki, and monthly church services. Mentions Apriana Ngata, Pakeha interest in the Club, and talks about Ngati Raukawa predominence. Recalls Tahiwi family, Bella Winiata, and Sammy Tahiwi, and playing hockey for the Club. Mentions the Club's original name, 'Poneke' and the original committee members, costumes and fund raising. Mentions entertaining the troops in World War II songs, action songs and poi, and being the first group to use electric light bulbs on the long fishing poi. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Grace Interviewer(s) - Irihapeti Ramsden Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3651; MSDL-0153 (files Warren.doc, Warren2.doc).

Date: 24 July 2002 - 24 Jul 2002

By: Hassett, Ronald Douglas Patrick (Major General), 1923-2004; Allen, Sherryl, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0618/1

Description: An interview with Major General Ronald (Ron) Douglas Patrick Hassett, describing his military career. Mentions his childhood, education and role models. Talks about his military training at the Royal Military College of Duntroon in Canberra, involvement during World War II with the artillery in New Zealand, New Guinea, Egypt, Italy (describes battles including Cassino). Recalls time in Palestine, mentions holocaust survivors. Talks about administration at the end of the war. Mentions training school in Austria and Larkhill, and returning to New Zealand in 1951. Talks about war brides. Mentions various business projects and selling ideas to firms in South East Asia. Describes various training posts in New Zealand including Linton, as Brigade Major of Divisional Artillery during compulsory military training, and as chief instructor at Waiouru School of Artillery. Recalls spending time at the Australian Staff College, Queenscliff, Melbourne. Talks about nine months in Korea, Malaysia as Brigade Major of the Commonwealth Brigade, (mentions Brigadier Frank Hassett). Recalls making reconnaissance arrangements for equipment for troops in Vietnam. Discusses his role in the establishment of the Waiouru Army Museum which opened in 1978. Talks about his role as Chief of General Staff 1976 until his retirement in 1978. Interviewer(s) - Sherryl Allen Accompanying material - One colour copy of Major General Hassett in his uniform (midshot) - note printed onto paper - the printer was out of yellow ink. Four black and white copies on paper of the same photo. Accompanying material - Includes Agreement & biographical information form. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10769 - 70 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3821. Search dates: 1939 - 1990

Date: 21 Apr 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Wesley, Tatane Alex Tarewai, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0478/03

Description: Tatane Wesley was born in Christchurch in 1934. Describes his father Harold Tarewai Wetere Te Kahu. Explains his grandfather was a tohunga from Otakou. Discusses biculturalism in the family. Describes his mother's opposition to his father being in the army, his father being lifted out of the army and farming the family land at Otakou. Recalls his father being manpowered to the freezing works where he became secretary of the Burnside Freezing Workers Union. Describes how eighteen people from Otakou, including his father and relatives were blacklisted from freezing works. Discusses his father's supplying of meat and potatoes to locked out watersiders in 1951 and his work for Maori education. Recalls pa in which he lived (Tuahiwi, Ruapake, Port Levy, Little River, Lake Ellesmere, Temuka, Glenavy, Moeraki, Huirapa, Otakou and Bluff) and discusses Kai Tahu. Describes working at Burnside freezing works before joining the army, training at Waiouru and doing a tour in Borneo and Vietnam. Recalls working in Australia where he joined the Drivers Union. Describes coming back to NZ, working at Burnside, on the railways and at Wrightsons Wool and Grain. Recalls membership of the Storemen and Packers Union. Reassesses his father's contribution to the union movement. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1796. Photographs of Tatane Wesley

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-558-001/020

Description: Political cartoons. Paralells between the Nazi ethnic cleansing of the Jews in the 1940's and the ethnic cleansing in Europe in the 1990's. Shows Milosevic soaking in a blood bath to take his mind off the Nato bombing raids. A Serbian soldier explains to the West via a reporter the reasons behind their present actions. The electricity reforms continue to cost the consumer more. The military invite refugees from Kosovo to return to their destroyed homes. Milosevic is prepared to destroy Kosovo in order to save it. Shows India testing a long-range nuclear missile off the back of a cow. Shows Nato commander explaining their strategy of punishing Milosevic by bombing Serbia. This resulted in mass destruction of property and life but no direct harm to Milosevic. New Zealand yachties receive large slaries but are not prepared to pay for weather data from Government Agencies. Serbs use human shields to protect their forward tank movement. Following sex scandals, the Scouts tighten up their screening of adult supervisors. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley fight over their respective attributes. They agree that women bring poise to politics even in an arguement. Max Bradford gets the country into trouble over electricity reforms. Minister of Tourism, Murray McCully, objects but does not intervene in large, secret and tax-free payouts to directors he forced to resign. Comment on Anzac Day commemorations. Shows two men in their respective backyards burning their Hurricanes supporters rugby gear, comment on another year where the Hurricanes have not played well. Comment on Tau Henare's behaviour of holding onto his Cabinet position when his party, NZ First, pulled out of the National coalition government. Minister of Tourism, Murray McCully, is encouraged to resign after a tourism related row adversely affects National's position in the polls. A new flag for America with a hand holding a smoking gun. Hillary Commission recommends 10 minutes of physical activity, three times a day for couch potatoes. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [ca 1912-1945]

By: Cowan, Erica, active 1978-2001; Ginders, C A, active 1940s; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Mitchell, Trevor Vernon, -1942

Reference: PAColl-0324

Description: The collection includes two different sets of photographs. The first is the photographs from the collection of Thomas Vernon Mitchell taken while he was serving in the army in the Middle East in the Second World War. They include tourist scenes of the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane; the city of the dead in Cairo; street scenes in Jerusalem, Tiberias and Aleppo; tombs of the caliphs in Cairo; the Dead Sea; the tower of King David, Jerusalem; the Hotel Yarkon, Tel Aviv; the citadel entrance, Aleppo; and Tiberias Hot Springs. Other images are a 24th Battalion chuch parade in February 1941, two views of Mitchell's grave, the effects of a sandstorm on a military camp in the desert, Mitchell and his friends on rickshaws, Papakura infantry at Trentham in October 1940, and the 24th Battalion party at Cairo 1941. Most of the photographs are captioned and names given are: Warren, Abbott, Coleman, Braser, Wright, Scott, Hargreaves, Walton, Jamieson, Morpeth, Christianson, Battesby, Bullen, Ready, Procter, Pryde, Brash, Naismith, Steel, Shaw, Bush, Banks, Seavill, Allen, McCowan, Buckingham, Boyce, Hawke, Logie, Trubshaw, Olsen, Conder, Horrocks, Rawson, Gilfilan, Bradley, Pratt, Dow, Bremner, Ker, Stark, James and Cutler. The second set of photographs is of a trip by George Philips to the Rotorua area in May 1912. They include Philips and others at Tutea Falls, Okere; in front of Maori carvings and Ohinemutu; in a punt at Hamurana Spring; and on Hinemoa Step, Okere Falls. The photographer of this is Marsh of Rotorua. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s) loose. 18 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted.

Date: ca 1910

Reference: PAColl-4432

Description: Photograph of Sir Walter Buller's grave in Fleet, Hampshire; a Maori woman seated and a girl standing against a photographer's backdrop wearing European dress; an elderly Maori woman seated outside a whare also in European dress; copy negative of a card depicting Lt Col C A Ward and the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles; and a postcard of Whangarei Heads by Radcliffe. Arrangement: One print at PAColl-5584-41. Negative at 1/2-003588-F Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1900

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Hutt, Fay, active 1985

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-SA-1900-02

Description: Contains the Christchurch programme and the Lyttelton programme for this event, and explains the Marine procession on the back cover. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on pamphlet 225 x 143 mm (folded) Provenance: Donated by Fay Hutt in 1985.

Date: 1999 - 2000

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: H-637-001/009

Description: Topics inlude the high price of whitebait, the effect of the 1999 election on business confidence, the public image of the Inland Revenue Department, shortcomings in the equipment of the New Zealand peace-keepers in East Timor, attitudes towards the millenium, the non-event of the Y2K bug, the high cost of funding the national museum, Te Papa, the cost of buying frigates, the exorbiant pay paid to television newsreaders as a news item, control of the varroa bee mite. Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: A4 size colour prints

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Boyer, Charles Percy Samuel, 1902-1973

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-141

Description: Series of official and non-official photographs. Most contain captions. Women's War Auxillary members replacing men at Auckland Central Fire Station; women on duty at Headquarters Unit of E.P.S. organisation; members of Women's Auxillary Army Corps at Auckland Anti-Aircraft Station; nurses embarking on a hospital ship bound for the Middle East; nurses and soldiers on parade outside entrance to the Auckland Domain; nurses and soldiers marching in the grounds of Parliament, Wellington; group photograph, 12 Sep 1945 (not identified); members of the first party of WAAFs to leave NZ for overseas service with Minister of Defence, Mr F Jones and Group Captain Bannerman, in the grounds of the WAAF hostel at Wellington; group of returning WAACs on disembarkation at Wellington (C P S Boyer, photographer) Miss E M Nutsey, Matron-in-Chief, 2NZEF, inspects V.A.D.s on their arrival in the Middle East; Governor General speaking to Miss McClure (OC WAACs) in Pacific Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 10 Aug 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Row, Basil Stewart Amos, 1921-2005

Reference: OHInt-0185/09

Description: Basil Row was born in Sumner in 1921 and grew up there. Describes how his father remained in the Army after World War I. Talks about the importance of music and religion in his family. Describes moving to Wellington and attending Rongotai College. Recalls joining State Advances Corporation as a cadet in 1938 and becoming involved in lending for housing. Describes State Advances as close knit and social particularly after World War II. Talks about training intakes for Home Defence Units after the war. Describes becoming a clerk in the Nelson branch from 1943-1947 and processing housing loans applications. Comments on work pressure as a result of staff shortages and rehabilitation work. Talks about marrying Cynthia Ellis in 1949. Describes working in Invercargill, Wanganui, Blenheim, Wellington, Hamilton, New Plymouth and Dunedin. Notes that he was Manager in Dunedin. Discusses dealing with disappointed prospective tenants. Recalls Pat Allardyce, Fred Mitchell, Kan Caverhill, Johnny Wood, George Hopkinson, Jack Ashton, Ron Millard, Bill Aubrey and Ted Babe. Talks about Ministers of Housing John (Jack) Marshall, John Rae, Bill Fraser, Bill Fox, Tom Shand, Derek Quigley and Prime Minister Norman Kirk. Discusses working on the Commission of Inquiry into Housing chaired by Robin Cooke. Notes that his role was to provide contact with State Advances Corporation and the Public Service. Describes how the Housing Corporation arose partly from their report. Talks about the Construction Division of the Ministry of Works. Discusses the formation of the Rural Bank as a result of a recommendation by the Public Inquiry into Rural Finance. Notes how the Rural Bank and Housing Corporation ran side by side for a time. Comments on restructuring by the Corporation. Discusses being Manager of the Auckland branch and how housing was a lively topic in Auckland. Refers to Bastion Point. Venue - Auckland : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Mr Row's home at Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002231; OHC-002232; OHC-002233 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 410.

Date: 4 Nov 1991 - 04 Nov 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Bell, Cynthia Tohe Adelaide, 1922-1997

Reference: OHInt-0060/01

Description: Cynthia Bell was born in Levin on 4 September 1922. Gives some details of her whakapapa and growing up at the accommodation house at the Otaki Maori Racing Club Race Course where her father was caretaker and her mother did the catering. Describes family life, chores, involvement in sport, religion and her mother's beliefs about bringing up children on the marae. Talks about her education at Otaki and Palmerston North. Talks about the outbreak of war and being given a position in Base Records in the War Office in 1941. Explains the work which included typing telegrams prepared from casualty lists and involved some secrecy. Recalls her involvement with Ngati Poneke and their role in entertaining troops. Talks about Peni Tahiwi and the arrival of American troops in Wellington. Recalls her clothing, hair and reading,leisure and sport involvement. Talks about her father who fought at Gallipoli and played in the Maori Pioneer Rugby Battalion which toured England and France at the end of World War I. Notes that he also played for the New Zealand Maori rugby team and was an All Black. Describes the ability of her brother Ranfurly and members of the Winiata family (her mother's side) at playing rugby. Describes meeting and marrying Benjamin Raniera Bell at Rangiatia (Rangiatea) Church on his return from war. Talks about the Maori Battalion, tikunga (tikanga), attitudes to sex, the birth of her daughter and the role of Dr Atmore (a woman doctor) in helping Maori women overcome their fear of doctors. Mentions the local sanatorium and the incidence of tuberculosis. Describes working at the tobacco factory and then as a stenographer. Talks about the RSA and her love of golf, the involvement of Ben Bell and herself in horse racing, fashion and hats at the races and meeting Governors-General Freyberg and Fergusson as a result of his role as President of the Otaki Maori Racing Club. Describes her increasing involvement with Raukawa (Te Wananga o Raukawa). Talks about her use of traditional Maori medicine, love of Maori food and her mother's support of Raukawa and Maori Women's Welfare League. Venue - Otaki : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rawinia Hyland Venue - Mill Road, Otaki Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004675; OHC-004676; OHC-004677 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 820. Photograph of Cynthia Bell in the War Records Office; photograph of Cynthia Bell in 1991

Date: 10 Dec 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Whiley, Te Kahurangi, 1907-1992

Reference: OHInt-0060/08

Description: Te Kahurangi Whiley was born on 27 June 1907 at Poroutawhao. Talks about her family and the origins of some of their Christian names. Describes education at Levin Central School where children were strapped for speaking Maori. Talks about missing out on Maoritanga when she worked locally as a domestic. Recalls meeting Lloyd Whiley, marrying in 1936 and living at Kuku Beach. Describes her husband's work at the Kimberly air base till the end of the war and after the war leasing land and growing flowers for the Wellington market. Talks in detail about living at Ohau for thirty two years, the family's daily routine there, family values, involvement with St. John's Anglican Church at Ohau and Rangiatea. Recalls the absence of hot water and coping with war rationing by conserving coupons. Talks about her brother Te Wireti in the Maori Battalion, fundraising for the troops, dances at Levin and the American troops around the Ohau area. Notes that her husband was not interested in tikanga Maori. Talks about her involvement at the marae since his death including beginning to karanga as a kuia aged seventy. Describes the occupations of her children and granchildren. Language - English and Maori Venue - Levin : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Venue - Levin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004699; OHC-004700; OHC-004701 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 829. photograph of Rangi Whiley aged about 13; photograph of Whiley family in 1940

Date: 18 Jan 1992

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Pilcher, Margaret Irene, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0060/15

Description: Meg Pilcher was born in Gisborne on 24 February 1925. Describes her childhood on a farm at Patutahi, twelve miles from Gisborne. Gives details of her parent's backgrounds. Talks about her schooling, good race relations and reasons for leaving school. Describes working in a legal office and wanting to go into the Navy. Recalls opposition from her father when she joined the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service becoming a WREN in 1943. Describes being posted to Beacon Hill which was the shipping identification and examination area for Wellington Harbour. Recalls the fear of Japanese invasion and alarms going off at Wellington Heads. Talks about signalling and working at the degaussing station at Somes Island. Describes degaussing as a system for ships to identify and repel magnetic mines. Recalls a typical work day and describes the uniform. Comments that the Navy was a great leveller and enabled women to do things they had not previously done. Mentions working at Narrow Neck. Comments on wartime morals, values, sexual behaviour and etiquette. Talks about American servicemen. Recalls working in the WRNZNS ledger office in Auckland. Describes going home to Gisborne on leave and meeting Ron Pilcher who was at Teachers College. Recalls discharge from the Navy, getting married, and living in Masterton, Te Kuiti and Tuai before moving to Wellington. Recalls doing bookwork and teaching financial planning. Comments on the impact of war. Venue - Wellington : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Venue - Interviewee's home at Paraparaumu Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004714; OHC-004715; OHC-004716 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 833.

Date: 18 Nov 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Andrews, Jean Matekitewhawhai, 1915-1994

Reference: OHInt-0060/20

Description: Jean Andrews was born in Otaki on 23 October 1914. Gives details of her family, particularly her mother, her Te Ati Awa background and childhood in Otaki. Describes use of Maori medicine and family values. Talks about shift to Paekakariki on to land that is now Queen Elizabeth Park. Describes mother's negotiations with the Government over this land and being told that if they did not sell the land it would be taken under proclamation. Talks about the Maori Battalion being based in Palmerston North during World War II and the American Marines stationed around Paekakariki. Notes that at one point there were 26,000 Marines in the area. Describes at length their family's close and ongoing association with these soldiers many of whom were welcomed in to the family home. Describes entertainment of the troops by Ngati Poneke. Relates how her mother did washing for American soldiers and family members cleaned the Liberty trains. Comments on relationships, including sexual relationships, between local women and soldiers, lack of contraception and her ongoing role in helping children find their American fathers. Recalls the collision of transport ships in a storm off Mana Island which resulted in 103 soldiers being drowned. Talks about the kindness of most of the American soldiers, the racism of a few and a brawl that broke out between members of the Maori Battalion and American soldiers. Talks about pilgrimages made back to the area by many Marines. Talk about her six daughters and one son, her involvement in kohanga reo and teaching korowai. Describes her welfare work with Social Welfare and the Probation Department and briefly mentions her QSM. Venue - Wellington : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Hyland Venue - Peakakariki Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004732; OHC-004733; OHC-004734 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 839. Colour photograph of Jean Andrews in 1991

Date: 24 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Oakey, Margaret Isabel, 1920-2006

Reference: OHInt-0064/11

Description: Margaret Oakey was born in Wellington on 20 July 1920. Describes her family background, childhood and education in Greymouth. Talks about jobs in a drapers shop, hardware shop and a cigarette packing factory before joining the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1942. Recalls training in Levin and being posted to Seagrove on the Manukau Harbour as a telephone operator. Talks about the threat of Japanese invasion and staffing the Vickers guns. Describes social life in Auckland at the Allied Service clubs. Talks about other postings to Nelson, Wellington, Ohakea and Blenheim. Recalls going to Auckland to be a hairdresser after the war and a job in Wellington. Describes meeting her husband Jack Oakey in Greytown, their wedding and family life. Talks about Greytown social life, particularly balls. Comments that life revolved round the home and family. Recalls the 1955 flood which went through their house. Talks about becoming a tea lady when her youngest child started school and later working at the Post Office as a telephone operator. Comments on the arrival of television. Describes her husband's poor health, nursing him and his death in 1976. Describes attending a WAAF reunion in Wellington in 1991 and comments on war-time WAAF and Air Force social life. Venue - Greytown : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Dr Cathy Casey Venue - Greytown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004765; OHC-004766; OHC-004767 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 850.

Date: 29 Jun-3 Jul 1992 - 29 Jun 1992 - 03 Jul 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Crisp, Enid Elizabeth, 1919-2009

Reference: OHInt-0064/12

Description: Enid Crisp was born in Greytown on 28 March 1919. Her father was a barrister and solicitor who also stood as a National Party candidate. Her mother was Plunket Society president and a founding member of the Little Theatre. Describes their home life, her schooling and teenage activites such as Bible Class dances, ping pong and going to movies. Talks about living next door to Maata Asher, a good friend of Katherine Mansfield's, and describes Maata's style. Talks about doing a secretarial course at Masterton Technical College, boarding at Masterton, working at Wright Stephensons and then with an accountant's firm. Describes her first date with husband to be John (Jack) Crisp and a group of friends socialising in `jalopies' with some alcohol. Notes that Masterton was a `dry' area. Describes Jack joining up at the start of the war, being sent to Burnham and as an officer sent overseas on long range desert campaigns. Focuses on her wartime involvement with patriotic activities including playing the piano at the Anzac Club and organising dance performances. Recalls soldiers camps at Solway showgrounds, Tauherenikau and other locations, which became tent cities. Talks about the American troops. Describes her involvement in the Emergency Precautions Scheme (EPS) and talks at length about the 1942 Masterton earthquake. Notes that Jack Crisp was invalided home from the war. Venue - Greytown : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Dr Cathy Casey Venue - Greytown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004768; OHC-004769; OHC-004770 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 851.

Date: 30 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Rangiihu, Myrtle Tahiti, 1918-2003

Reference: OHInt-0064/20

Description: Myrtle (Bundy) Rangiihu was born at Kohupatiki, Hastings on 29 June 1918. Gives details of her family background and growing up on the farm at Kohupatiki. Describes being selected to learn kowhaiwhai and tukutuku when she left school and being taught these in Wellington by Apirana Ngata. Recalls also learning waiata from him. Discusses his influence and also that of Kingi Tahiwi and Bishop Bennett, the first Bishop of Aotearoa. Notes that Bishop Bennett introduced her to future husband Sam Rangiihu while he was becoming a curate. Talks about the consecration of Bishop Bennett. Recalls the Napier earthquake in 1931 and the incidence of tuberculosis amongst Maori in the 1920s and 1930s. Talks about marrying and living in the Mission House and also working with her husband in the Opotiki and Hicks Bay area. Describes adopting her son Gary, and three other children, and explains the process of whangai (adoption). Talks about the outbreak of war and Sam Rangiihu becoming chaplain to the forces with Wi Huata. Mentions that he was also chaplain to K-Force (in Korea). Comments on the quality of the Maori (28) Battalion and the deaths of Maori soldiers. Discusses American servicemen, sexuality and Maori attitudes to illegitimacy. Describes how her father contracted to grow vegetables for Watties during World War II to feed American soldiers. Talks about the growth of Watties. Describes the importance of land to Maori. Details the Government Rehabilitation Schemes and land bought for soldiers in Wairoa after the war. Reflects on her husband's death. Talks about the importance of the marae. Describes her involvement with the Chadwick Family Trust who run orchards in Hastings and a project growing everlasting flowers. Venue - Napier . 1992 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana-Hyland Venue - Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004786; OHC-004787; OHC-004788 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 857. photograph of Kingi Ihaka, Bundy (Myrtle) Rangiihu, Manu Ihaka and Samuel Rangiihu about the 1950s; Myrtle and Samuel Rangiihu and family about World War II; Bundy (Myrtle) Rangiihu in 1992

Date: 9 Dec 1991 - 09 Dec 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Studholme, Janet Helen, 1910-2003

Reference: OHInt-0060/02

Description: Janet Studholme was born in Waimate on 23 August 1910. Describes the arrival of her grandfather, Michael Studholme, as the first European in the Waimate area. Talks about their property `Te Waimate' which he took in 1854 and describes the family's activity in the local community. Recalls leisure activities which included horse riding, camping in the Central Otago lakes district and shooting. Talks about serving with the VAD in Waimate before volunteering as a nurse with the WAAC. Describes training at Trentham before being shipped to Egypt. Gives details of serving in the hospital based at Maadi and also recalls off duty activities including travel to Palestine, Syria and the Turkish border. Describes being shifted to Italy in March 1944 and nursing at the Bari Base Hospital. Comments on the depressed nature of the New Zealand soldiers after Cassino and attempts at raising their morale. Recalls leave in the area. Recalls returning to New Zealand on compassionate leave in 1945 and the difficulty of settling back into civilian life. Describes returning to Britain with the Victory Contingent in 1946. Describes being the National Director of Junior Red Cross for over seventeen years. Comments on the role of the matron in hospitals during the war and the importance of discipline and leadership. Venue - Wellington : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Johanna Woods Venue - Karori, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004678; OHC-004679; OHC-004680 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 821.

Date: 24 Nov 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Pierson, Ruby Ellen, 1916-2006

Reference: OHInt-0314/18

Description: Talks about her family life in Nelson including childhood games, her strict father, her mother's housework and activities and activities at the Methodist Church. Describes secondary schooling at Nelson Polytechnic and segregation of boys and girls though the school was co-educational. Recalls the effects in Nelson of the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Talks about shifting from the Methodist Church to the Church of Christ, leaving school and trying to find work during the Depression, social life in Nelson, doing nursing training in Wellington and nursing at Ashburton and Otaki. Recalls the impact of the American forces there during World War II. Describes doing midwifery training at St. Helen's Hospital in Christchurch and Plunket training at Karitane. Comments on challenging aspects of Plunket home visits and lack of training in finance and mothercraft. Describes returning to Nelson, her relationship with the local Plunket branch, and Plunket work in country areas such as Murchison. Talks about the demand for birth control information, the role of fathers in bringing up children, her establishment of Fathercraft classes, the role of Plunket nurses in education and cot deaths. Venue - Nelson : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Nelson Quantity: 3 DAT tape(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 874.