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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: 1950 - 1955

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: A-461-015

Description: A caricature-style portrait of the civil engineer and forestry administrator, probably in his 50s. His face and features are quite complete; his body and the rest of the picture appear sketchier. He is shown wrapped around the top of a pine tree, wearing a suit and bow tie (an attire for which he was well-known), and holding a pair of binoculars. Below him are more pine trees and a logging shed, where figures are busy cutting and logging trees. The shed has the name 'Murapa' (i.e. Murupara) sketched on it, referring to the Murupara forestry scheme, which became the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company, of which Entrican was a foundation director in 1952 A descendant of the collection's donor suggested that the artist might be Peter McIntyre (1910-1995); artist confirmed as being Peter McIntyre, August 2016. A signed black & white version is held in Archives New Zealand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on card, 315 x 254 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1736 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts.

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker

Reference: 1/1-024195-G

Description: City Engineer alongside large water culverts at Miramar, circa 1930. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative