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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: 1978 - 2015

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Egmont

Description: Includes: 95th Annual Summer Show. Hawera, 17-18 November 1978. Catalogue of entries 132nd Egmont A & P Show. Hawera, 21-22 November 2015. Leisure, treasure & pleasure schedule Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 2008

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Inangahua

Description: Includes: 98th show. Reefton Racecourse, 2 February 2008. [Schedule] Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1/11/57

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-058611-F

Description: Shelf 5 Box 3. 3/5

Date: 1991 - 2005

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Mackenzie

Description: Includes: 1991: Ninety-third annual show. Mackenzie Highland Show. Showgrounds, Fairlie, 1 April 1991. Catalogue 2005: 107th Mackenzie Highland Show; annual show of stock, agricultural produce and farm implements. Showgrounds Fairlie, 28 March 2005. Catalogue Alexander Turnbull Library Serials Collection has catalogues for 106th (2004), 110th (2008) shows Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: [18-20 January 2007]

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000180

Description: Photographs of Horowhenua A & P Show, Levin, taken ca 18-20 January 2007 by Dylan Owen. Includes photographs of amusement rides, animals, jam and cake making competitions. Quantity: 72 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0011446

Description: A man who leans over backwards tells another man that he is a wind farmer. They are chatting at the 2009 Waikato Fieldays event at Mystery Creek. Other Titles - Field days Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: February 2005

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000120

Description: Photographs of the Masterton Show, taken February 2005 by Dylan Owen. Includes views of birds, amusement rides, stalls, animals, and competition entries. Arrangement: Photographs were originally in an electronic folder titled 'A&P Show Masterton Feb 2005' Quantity: 60 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1999-2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000284

Description: Photographs of Agricultural and Pastoral (A&P) fairs and galas in West Coast Region Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Events (A&P fairs galas) Quantity: 74 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017615

Description: The scene is the A & P Society's cookery competitions. A woman reads a newspaper with a heading that reads 'Crack-down on food not made in licensed kitchens'. A health inspector has condemned as unsafe the jam and pickles of all the contestants and one of the has jammed a bucket over his head. Another contestant tells her neighbour that 'the danger-to-your-health in Aunt Mildred's jam, isn't in the eating of it - but the telling her'. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [18-20 January 2007]

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000168

Description: Photograph of two women at the Horowhenua A & P Show in Levin, taken ca 18-20 January 2007 by Dylan Owen. Shows two women looking at a pair of alpacas. Quantity: 1 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025197

Description: A couple living on a pocket-sized suburban section explain to their neighbour why they bought the immense tractor occupying most of their garden. The New Zealand National Fieldays held in June and which featured a hard sell of daunting agricultural machinery occupied much attention, especially for those living in the Waikato. Many farmers, let alone suburbanites, may have felt subsequent doubts about their purchases made in the heat of the publicity. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025195

Description: At the entrance to the Fieldays at Mystery Creek, a very small person has asked if hobbits 'pay a full price'. The New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays exhibition is held at Mystery Creek near Hamilton every June and attracts large numbers of farming visitors, especially from the Waikato region. 'Hobbiton', the outdoor screen set for Peter Jackson's Tolkein films, is in the Waikato, near Matamata, and is so much of a tourist attraction that many associate the Waikato region with fictional hobbits. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014578

Description: The cartoon shows a farmer standing outside his tractor shed very early in the morning telling his dog that he will be in sole charge while he (the farmer) is at the Fieldays Agricultural Show. He doesn't want his dog to make any decisions while he is gone. The 2010 National Agricultural Fieldays was held 16-19 June at Mystery Creek Events Centre. The New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays is the largest agribusiness exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021873

Description: A group of animals decide to put an invitation to a Fieldays party on Facebook. Context: 13-16 June 2012 was the 44th New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek in Hamilton. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021872

Description: Shows a farmer off to Fieldays with a huge credit card in the back of his truck. Context: 13-16 June 2012 was the 44th New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek in Hamilton. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: New Zealand farmers' weekly (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0028898

Description: Shows a group of farmers at the National Fieldays at Mystery Creek. They are surrounding the 'Canoes' stand while the 'Tractors' stand attracts no potential customers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).