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Date: 1894 - 1994

By: Maguire, Bruce, active 1993; Maguire, Ivy, active 1993

Reference: OHColl-0078

Description: Awards/funding - Part of the Awards in Oral History collection of 1992 administered by Internal Affairs Quantity: 9. Search dates: 1894 - 1994

Date: 29 Dec 1999

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Raymond Rodney, 1925-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-05

Description: Raymond Moffatt, known as Ray, was born at home in Otaki in 1925. Mentions great grandfather Moffatt, a missionary, settling in Otaki in 1868, and family living there ever since. Worked with Dr Livingstone. Recalls that family farmed beside the Waitohu Stream from 1925 until ca 1990. Mentions family butcher shop, pig farming, dairy farming, milking, Rahui Dairy Factory, hay press, Otaki Railway Station, local shops, food, school, school boys helping to build a classroom, entertainment. Mentions mother, related to Ngati Raukawa, dying in the flu epidemic after World War I. Talks about father helping restore Rangiatea Church, build wall at Raukawa Marae, and do work for Catholic Church. Mentions his father's concrete making process. Mentions dances, married life, farming. Mentions buying two acres of land for 180 pounds sterling and a cow, and building home. Refers to rectifying purina moth problem, local families, involvement in clubs, including Lions, Citizens Advice Bureau and the Friendship Force. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11061 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3869. Photos include Ray & Joan's 50th wedding anniversary; Moffatt family; Rita and Edwin Moffatt (Ray's parents). Search dates: 1868 - 1974

Date: October 1988 - 01 Oct 1998

By: Harris, Elsie, 1901-1989; Jones, Jennifer, active 1988-2003

Reference: OHColl-0721/1

Description: Elsie Harris was born in 1901 in Pauatahanui, Wellington. Talks about her grandparents, her grandfather Jones, a whaler who bought land from the New Zealand Company. Recalls Jones farm in Pauatahanui in 1848, the 1855 earthquake, and an interaction with Maori. Mentions her grandfather's reception visiting family in England, family history, allocation of family wills, the Galloways, the Stewart family (from Ireland), the Taylor family (from Scotland) who owned the Johnsonville Hotel, and the Pauatahanui Hotel owned by her grandfather. Mentions first settler child who came ashore at Petone Beach. Mentions houses, orchard and transport by horse and car. Mentions Mr Plimmerton's influence when land was surveyed for the railway line. Mentions people walked to Wellington for work before Cobb's Coach existed. Recalls a child kidnapped from her grandparents by parents, 14 years after being left with them. Mentions work done by children, and recalls death of four year old sent to herd cows. Mentions school, trains, and the building of roads. Recalls grandfathers whiskey distillery, and talks about the naming of Moonshine Valley. Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - Jennifer Jones Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011373 ; OHLC-005688 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 35 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3950. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Jennifer Jones and H Spencer Harris Search dates: 1840 - 1940

Date: 11 Nov to 3 Dec 1987 - 11 Nov 1987 - 03 Dec 1987

From: Presbyterian Support Otago Community History Programme oral history collection

By: Allen, Greeba Edith, 1897-1994

Reference: OHInt-0952-04

Description: Interview with Greeba Allen, born in Dunedin in 1897. Talks in detail about her childhood at the turn of the century, growing up first in Dundas Street and then in Maori Hill. Comments on domestic life, relationships, interests, leisure, holidays, and transport. Discusses the Dunedin community and attending Maori Hill School followed by Otago Girls High School. Refers to becoming a teacher, spending time as a pupil teacher at the High Street School before entering training college during World War I. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018688-018690 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6472 and OHDL-000763. Search dates: 1897 - 1987

Date: 18, 19, 20 May 1987 - 18 May 1987 - 20 May 1987

From: Presbyterian Support Otago Community History Programme oral history collection

By: Short, Rachael Ellen Scott, 1890-1987; Short, Francis Jane Ann, 1885-1988

Reference: OHInt-0952-02

Description: Interview with Fanny (Frances) Short, born in Bannockburn in 1885, and her sister Rachael, born in Bannockburn in 1890. Talk about their parents - their father John Short, a Scottish miner, and their Irish mother Margaret. Recall memories of their childhoods in Bannockburn where they have spent most of their lives, and of their later occupations: Fanny was head waitress at Knox College, Dunedin for a short time, and Rachael was Bannockburn post mistress for 35 years. Comment on continuing to live in the family home, a "pug" (sod) cottage. The abstract is accompanied by a transcript of an earlier interview in September 1983 (no audio tapes). Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - transcript of an interview with Rachael and Fanny Short in September 1983; photocopy of an article about the death of Fanny Short (Otago Daily Times 1.3.1988) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-018670 - OHA-018673 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6470. Colour photographs of Fanny and Rachael Short (1987), front and side views of the Short family home, and the Bannockburn Post Office. Search dates: 1885 - 1987

Date: 24 Mar 2001

From: Appointment with ... Roger Flury (radio programme)

By: Flury, Roger, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0581/2

Description: Roger Flury is interviewed by Des Wilson on the Concert FM radio programme "Appointment with...', where he talks about the composer Pietro Mascagni and discusses how he came to write a biography about him. The book was called 'Pietro Mascagni, a bio-bibliography', Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 2001. Interviewer(s) - Des Wilson Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1863 - 1945

Date: Aug 1973 - 01 Aug 1973

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Gasparich, Joseph George, 1890-1985

Reference: OHInt-0105-04

Description: Joe Gasparich recalls his memories of Northern Wairoa Venue - Napier Interviewer(s) - Pamela Strange Venue - Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000369B; OHC-000370A; OHC-000371A Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1890 - 1973

Date: Jan 1979 - 01 Jan 1979

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Lulich, Nikola, 1896-1981

Reference: OHInt-0105-13

Description: Nickola Lulich describes his experiences in the Austrian Army during World War I, information on the two Dargaville Yugoslav clubs, gum digging at Aranga. Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000367B; OHC-000386B; OHC-000379A Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1896 - 1979

Date: 12 Jan 2007

From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project

By: Waugh, Helen Mary, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0830-14

Description: Interview with Helen Waugh (nee Gordon), born Ashburton, 1940. Describes spending all her school holidays in Wellington with her grandmother and aunt in Wilton after her father died in 1947. Recalls visits to the old Wilton homestead, and roaming the bush with local children. Describes her aunt Ethel's love of the bush and the timelessness of the Wilton bush. Describes training as a secondary school teacher, marrying and having three children, and living in various places until she returned to Wellington in 1990 to care for her aunt. Discusses researching the Wilton family history and outlines the history from their arrival in Wellington in 1841. Describes how the Wiltons decided to leave the steepest 17 acres of their farm in bush, and how the bush was used for large picnics. Explains that the Wilton farm bush block was sold to Wellington lawyer Martin Chapman. Discusses the history of Wadestown and Wilton and the development of roads and subdivisions in the area. Mentions Job Wilton and local mayors campaigned to make Otari Native Reserve a scenic reserve, and how this happened in 1906. Refers to Wilton's Bush passing to City Council ownership in 1925 after Martin Chapman died, and its being incorporated in the reserve. Discusses the name of the reserve and mentions that it was changed to Otari Native Botanic Garden and Wilton's Bush Reserve in 1999. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 58 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5574. Search dates: 1940 - 1840 - 1990 - 2007

Date: 27 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Te Tau, Katarina, 1899-1998

Reference: OHInt-0015-05

Description: Kuini Te Tau describes her family background, her parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters; her tribe - Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu. She recalls her childhood at Waikouaiti in the South Island:- the story of Parihaka as told to her by her grandfather; her father as a farmer; Sir James Owen; the family house; cooking; music; meals; butter making; swaggers (tramps); the Te Whao Family; the thrashing mills; her father and the Maori Land Courts; whakapapa; speaking Maori; dances; punishment; pocket money; doctors; alcohol; the Otago Hussars; home medicines; birthdays; lollies; influenza epidemic; visiting the mental hospital; school - Waikouaiti Native School; religion; Sundays; the era that Grandfather Parata was in politics; the effect of World War I on her family; horses; attitudes to sex; 'Maori matches' - marriage between two families for land. Discusses meeting her future husband; his family background; leaving the South to live at Masterton; polo ponies; the 'old Maori' on the Pa; the homeguard; joining the Red Cross; Kitty Cameron and John Bunny; World War II; American soldiers; the Featherston Prisoner of War Camp; Maori Affairs Housing; sport; the meeting house, Nga Tau E Waru and her role; her job in the war for Manpower and becoming the first Welfare Officer for Maori Affairs based in Wellington; the elderly Maoris; meals on wheels; Maori budgeting; respect for elders; Mrs Paku who lived at Whakataki; Mrs Rimene; Rose Brian; Maori attitude towards Pakeha; the Historic Trust; school visiting; Joe Paku and his story of how Wairarapa and its rivers got their names; the Maori Anglican Church; the Depression; the Costello Family. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gordon Street, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004417 - OHC-004419 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 886. Copies of black and white photographs:-. Kuini Te Tau, undated. Rewi Tamahau Tamihana, Kuini Te Tau; Richard Tahuora Himona, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 30/10/1976. Kuini Te Tau, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 1983 Search dates: 1899 - 1983

Date: 15 Jul -29 Jul 1985 - 15 Jul 1985 - 29 Jul 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Siddall, Alice, 1884-1987

Reference: OHInt-0004/21

Description: Alice Siddall was born in Wanganui in 1884. Gives details of a working class childhood in Wanganui before World War I. Describes her mother's early death, father's disability and how the family coped. Talks about the early death of a brother and sister and living with her brother Charlie, who worked with the Railways Department, at Bell Road in Lower Hutt in the 1920s and later. Recalls travel on the Wanganui River to Pipiriki by canoe ca. 1892, living in a whare at Upokongaro, Maori women's tattoos and relationships with Maori. Talks about the Keith Street area, living conditions, the family garden, chores, running away from school and not returning, the town of Wanganui and its personalities, the 1891 flood, the Church of Christ and the Salvation Army. Recalls clothing, her dislike of trade unions, phonographs, the lamplighter before electricity, `foreigners' and the 1918 flu epidemic. Venue - Lower Hutt : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Aroha Hospital, Molesworth Street, Lower Hutt Accompanying material - Two newspaper articles - one about Alice Siddall's 100th birthday and one about her 101st birthday Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001329; OHC-001330; OHC-001331 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 183. Search dates: 1884 - 1985

Date: 15 Jun 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Bettjeman, Frederick Charles, 1884-1987

Reference: OHInt-0004/09

Description: Describes his German born father's early arrival in the Canterbury settlement about 1850. Talks about his family, relationship with his parents and childhood at Fairdown, just out of Westport, the local goldmining community including some of the `identities'`Shakespeare Jo' and `Champagne Charlie' and attitudes to alcohol. Describes the local native bird population and the sluicing process in gold mining. Talks about his schooling, lifelong interest in poetry and being a seaman from 1904-1909. Recalls working for the Westport Coal Mining Company at Denniston until World War I when he joined the 13th Canterbury Company and fought at Gallipoli. Describes his wartime experience in depth including dysentery, depression, the effects of shell fire, shell shock and the longterm effects of the war. Talks about hospitalisation in Britain and meeting nurse Agnes (Nancy) McNab who came to New Zealand and married him. Describes taking up bush land in Mangapurua, some distance up the Wanganui River from Pipiriki. Talks about the effort in breaking in the land from bush and the Government's decision to close the Mangapurua Settlement. Recalls objecting to Prime Minister William Massey about this decision. Notes their relocation on land at the Mangahoe River. Venue - Te Kuiti : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Hillview Home, Te Kuiti Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001301; OHC-001302; OHC-001303; OHC-001304 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 170. Search dates: 1884 - 1985

Date: 15 Jun 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Mackley, Garnet Hercules, 1883-1986

Reference: OHInt-0004/04

Description: Talks about being born in Port Chalmers and moving to Invercargill where his father owned a butcher's shop before becoming General Manager of the Southland Freezing Company (Southland Frozen Meat Company). Describes the family home at Makarewa. Notes that his father was responsible for sending off the first cargo of frozen meat in 1884. Describes his parents and schooling as strict and proper. Mentions that he was one of 13 children. Describes wagging school to spend time at the blacksmith's shop. Talks about family politics and political connections. Notes that he was not allowed to be a jockey but became a nurseryman and then a railway cadet in Otautau in 1900. Talks about meeting his wife-to-be, Isabel Robertson, while station master at Heriot and marrying her in 1914. Venue - Te Kuiti : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Te Kuiti Accompanying material - three newspaper articles about Garnet Mackley Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 178. Portrait photograph of Garnet Mackley in 1914 ; portrait photograph of Garnet Mackley about the time of the interview Search dates: 1883 - 1985

Date: 18 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Scadden, William Leslie, 1898-1995

Reference: OHInt-0070/15

Description: Les Scadden describes family background, childhood in Blenheim, education, joining the Post Office as message boy in 1912 after working on temporary staff over Christmas, details of the Christmas greetings telegram, the Blenheim Post Office in 1912, discipline, duties, hours, gas lamps in streets, transport, telegram delivery, promotion levels, wages, telegraphists held 'in high esteem', Blenheim as an important telegraph station, telegraph sounders, repeaters, information for horse racing, Cook Strait cable, faults, testing, repairs, postmaster at Blenheim - E H Northcroft, system for keeping statistical records, gender and race of employees, electric current produced on wet cell batteries, testing the circuits. Explains becoming a cadet for Engineering Branch, Dunedin in 1915, erecting new telephone lines, the telephone rating system, private lines, cadet qualifications, training overseas as infantryman, machine gunner and Signals Corps member during World War I, influenza epidemic of 1918, duties in Engineers' Office, Wellington in 1919, the new automatic exchanges, underground cables, duties as assistant supervisor at Engineers' Branch in 1929, difficulties in recruiting staff, effect of Depression in 1930s, work as paymaster, Engineering Branch, Wellington in 1920s, details of planning route for pay day, security for pay day delivery, duties as examiner at Accounts Branch, Wellington in 1931, work as accountant at Wellington District Office in the 1930s, the Power Samas machine for financial control and staffing requirements, the foreign mail system, rivalry between postal and engineers' branches, taking over the clerical organisation of the Radio Section during World War II, mention of Post Office workers in coastal watching stations killed on Tarawa by Japanese during war, changes in requirements for employees of Engineering Branches, directors general, first radio broadcast, social life at the Post Office, retirement. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Les Scadden's home at Raumati in Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000798 - OHC-000800 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.58 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 126. Black and white photographs as follows:. Les Scadden and Albert Scadden, undated. Les Scadden and two sisters, undated Search dates: 1898 - 1984

Date: 8 December 1984 - 08 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Jewiss, Israel, 1895-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/07

Description: Ray Jewiss recalls family background and childhood St Bathans, Central Otago, work as message boy at St Bathans Post Office, R W Noake the postmaster, details of layout, delivery of gold through mail system, courting couples, hotel, duties of message boy, communications, Mr Hazeldine (?) the magistrate, the banks - Bank of New Zealand and Bank of New South Wales, working at Telegraph Branch Dunedin in 1913, boarding houses in Wellington, learning telegraphy at Telegraph School Wellington, work as a telegraphist at Caversham Post Office, Dunedin, uniform and clothing, salary. Discusses Mr Veitch the Chief Engineer at Dunedin, work at Roslyn Post Office Dunedin, work as junior clerk at the Engineers' Office in Dunedin, female employees in the Post Office, social life, visit by Sir Joseph Ward to the St Bathans' Post Office. Details work as a teacher at the Post and Telegraph Correspondence School, Wellington 1918-1951, various staff, H T Dawson, the standard of teaching, promotion, team spirit in the Post Office, retirement. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Ray Jewiss's home at Howick, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000792B - OHC-000794 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.29 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 117. Search dates: 1895 - 1984

Date: 19 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Norriss, Lewis Edward, 1895-1992

Reference: OHInt-0070/12

Description: Lew Norriss describes his family background, childhood, education, early work in bookbinding section of Nelson Evening Mail, the town of Nelson ca 1908, work as a message boy at the Port of Nelson in 1909, postmaster - Clem Eggleton, post office building, mail boats, the sinking of the ship 'Kowhai', duties, salary, the local policeman, the publican at the Pier Hotel, working conditions, uniform, work as postal messenger in the mailroom at Nelson Post Office ca 1911, other staff, the watersiders' strike in 1913, work as telegraph cadet at Nelson Post Office in 1913, speed of sending morse, different styles of sending which could be hard or easy to read. Recalls service in France during World War I, the scene at the Somme in 1916, being wounded and the amputation of his leg, being sent to wireless school at Wimbledon, England, becoming an instructor, return to New Zealand in 1918, Armistice Day in Nelson, work as telegraphist at Taihape Post Office 1919-1929, difficulty in settling down, marriage to Alice Woolhouse. Describes the introduction of motor registration, differences in quad and duplex sets, local identities in Taihape in the 1920s, effect of the Depression in 1930s, sealing of mail bags, work as postmaster at Paraparaumu Post Office in early 1930s, the staff, hours, mail delivery. Describes work as supervisor of telegraph at Whakatane Post Office in 1930s, details of duties, refers to Tim Cummings who was in charge of police station, post office security, in charge of signals in the Home Guard during World War II, duties as postmaster at Kilbirnie Post Office, Wellington in 1940s, relationship with inspectors, retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Raumati Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Lew Norriss's home at Raumati in Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000801 - OHC-000803 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 123. Black and white photographs as follows:. Lew Norriss, ca 1917. Lew Norriss in group photograph of staff at telegraph office, Nelson in 1919. Lew Norriss and counter staff at Kilbirnie Post Office in 1944. Lew Norriss at opening of Paraparaumu Automatic Telephone Exchange, undated Search dates: 1895 - 1984

Date: Jan 1969 - 01 Jan 1969

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Perich, Mate Ante, 1897-1991

Reference: OHInt-0105-07

Description: Mate Perich describes life on the Ahipara Hill gumfields during the 1920s and life in the Austrian army during World War I. Venue - Dargaville Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Venue - Dargaville Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000385 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1897 - 1969

Date: 14 Sep 1988

From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III

By: Nicol, Stuart Maxton, 1896-1994

Reference: OHInt-0003/28

Description: Max Nicol outlines family background; childhood; early memories of Dunedin; recalls Halley's Comet, 1910; reference to astronomy; interest in music; start to employment as electrical apprentice to Turnbull & Jones, Dunedin, 1910 - 1915; friendship with journeyman, Cyril Brandon; interest in Esperanto; recalls safety procedures, hazards, dangerous experiences, fatalities related to electricity in work experience; personalities at Turnbull & Jones; installation and operation of lifts; role as electrical journeyman, Union Steam Ship Co; role as field engineer in World War I; employment from 1918 - 1935; mention of influenza epidemic, 1918. Describes working with Thompson Houston & Co Ltd, London, United Kingdom; role as testing engineer, New Zealand Electricity Department; F T M Kissel, Chief Electrical Engineer, personality and appearance; the social conscience of the Department; reference to Bill Gregory; the system of protective relays to measure faults; reference the Hardy brothers; process of parallelling the Waikato and Mangahao systems; marriage of other systems, Waipori Falls and National Grid and West Coast system and South Island Grid; ceremony when Highbank connected to grid; characteristics of linesmen; reference to Sam Styles and Bill Sole. Recalls work as a testing engineer at Addington; recruiting for sub stations; refers to the philosophy of electricity; being on call; impact of job on family life; giving evidence at the commission of inquiry into the Ballantyne's Department Store fire; result of inquiry; promotion to regulations engineer at head office of State Hydro Electric Department in 1950s; administrative nature of role; routine nature of job; outside activities; relationship with A E Davenport; retirement. Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Nicol's home at 8 Whitfield Street, Sumner, Christchurch Accompanying material - Copy of a reply made by Max Nicol to the Royal Commission into the Ballantynes fire; Copy of a letter written by Margaret Cairns Nicol (grandmother of Max) to Scottish relatives about settling in the new colony at Otago in 1856; copy of a poem entitled 'A flat-dweller's lament' by Max Nicol; copy of a poem untitled by Max Nicol, 1956; copy of a poem entitled 'Part of the president's speech at the village flower show' by Max Nicol; a copy of a communique entitled 'To all ranks of the fourth army', signed by the commander of the Fourth Army, Nov 1918. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001866 - OHC-001869 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 289. Black and white photographs:-. Max Nicol, 1988. Stuart, Max and Olive Nicol at St Clair Beach, Dunedin, 1925. Colour photograph of Max Nicol, 90th birthday celebrations, 1986 Search dates: 1896 - 1988

Date: 27 Jan 1986

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: O'Gorman, Ellen Catherine, 1891-1992

Reference: OHInt-0070/26

Description: Ellen O'Gorman outlines family background, education, childhood at Addisons on West Coast of South Island, hotel as family business, appointment to Addisons Post Office as postmistress, need for accuracy in work, daily routine, telephone, mail routine, telegrams, salary, delivering telegrams, work as postmistress at Ngakawau Post Office in 1912, describes town, the Stockton mine, social life, salary, Ngakawau Telephone Exchange, daily routine, accidents at the mine, social life, lighting, security, pensions. Describes move to Wellington in ca 1914, work as waitress at Trocadero Private Hotel, reasons for not continuing with post office work, marriage, post office as a career in retrospect, work with St Vincent de Paul Society. Venue - Lower Hutt Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - 1A Tocker Street, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001255 - OHC-001256 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 163. Search dates: 1891 - 1986

Date: 3 Jul 1985-29 Jul 1985 - 03 Jul 1985 - 29 Jul 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Anderson, Cecelia, 1883-1986

Reference: OHInt-0004/07

Description: Describes her grandparent's arrival on the first immigrant ship to Petone, the `Aurora', in 1840. Mentions that her father, George Pitone Carter, born 22 Nov.1840, was one of the first white children born in Petone according to the family. Notes that she was the eleventh of twelve children. Talks about members of the George and Carter families, visits to her grandmother's house and who her brothers and sisters married. Recalls the family's childhood home in Newtown where her father was a builder. Gives details of sewing, laundry, mealtimes, daily routines and play. Notes that the family was Anglican and her parents were kindly but strict. Describes schooling at Newtown. Talks about the family's move to land at Reikorangi, where she met August Anderson (son of Johannes Andersen), and their move to Palmerston North. Describes her marriage to August Anderson in 1904, living in Ashurst, August's work as a farm labourer, Helen's birth in 1905 and living in Carterton and Otaki. Accompanying material - Newspaper article ; Carter family tree ; book `A pioneer family' compiled by Olive Mulinder Venue - Lower Hutt : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Woburn Home, Wait-iti Crescent, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001295; OHC-001296; OHC-001297 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 168. Search dates: 1883 - 1985