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Date: 1995 - 2007

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to botany, botanical species and specimens, in New Zealand]

By: Christchurch (N.Z.). Water Services Unit

Reference: Eph-B-BOTANY-1990s-01

Description: Pamphlet shows photographs of flax, and parts of the flax plant, its habitat, and the kete and other products that can be made from flax. Acknowledgements are made to Cath Brown, Ngai Tahu, for assistance with the text. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 13.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 297 x 625 mm, folded to 297 x 208 mm.

Date: [ca 1930-1980, 2004-2007]

By: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014

Reference: ATL-Group-00331

Description: Research notes, drafts, clippings, photographs, and other material relating to shipping, especially vessels belonging to the Union Steam Ship Company, those associated with Wellington Harbour and with coastal shipping. There is also material on Auckland Harbour, research notes and material on Wanganui river steamers, and on Wellington Harbour reclamations, the harbour ferries and the Wellington tramway system. Research notes, clippings and drafts relating to `Early New Zealand steamers, Vol II' (unpublished). Source of title - Supplied Mr Wilkinson, a journalist for the Wellington Evening Post, served as shipping reporter. He was also a marine photographer and had an interest in Wellington history. He wrote on Wellington tramways, Wellington Harbour and the Wanganui river steamers. Quantity: 113 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. 279 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr J D Wilkinson, 2001; Mrs M Wilkinson, Wellington, July 2007; Mrs M Wilkinson, Nov 2009 Transfers: To Serials Collection - Copies of Wellington Harbour Board Beacon.

Date: 1989 - 2007

By: Huggard, Dennis Owen, 1928-2017

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Huggard

Description: Includes posters as follows: 1989: Let's do it again!! Taranaki's Danceland. Dance to Colin King and the Harmonisers, plus ... Lew Pryme, plus Robin Ruakere, NP's Alex Smith and Monty Julian, drummer Dennis Taylor from Wellington. Stratford Memorial Hall, 8 April [1989]. 1992: Traditional jazz festival, 7 & 8 March 1992. Centreplace, Hamilton, New Zealand Tauranga Jazz Society (Inc) presents 30th National Jazz Festival. Trust Hotel Otumoetai Tauranga, 17-19 April 1992. 1998: 36th Tauranga National Jazz Festival. Easter Weekend, 10-12 April 1998 (With Rodger Fox Big Band, Basin Street Ramblers, J & P Jazz, Dave Feehan Band, Bay Big Band, First Ladies of Jazz, Village Jazz Quartet, The In Crowd, Taste the Groove, Dr Jaz, A Dear Little Band. Performances at Baycourt Theatre and Downtown Tauranga) 2000: Montana 38th National Jazz Festival. Downtown Tauranga & Baycourt. Easter weekend, 21-23 April 2000 (2 copies) 2000s: Wellington Polytechnic. Conservatorium of Music. A degree with performance; make it music. Bachelor of Music (Performance). [2000s] 2007: 45th National Jazz Festival, Tauranga. Easter 5-9 April 2007. [Poster illustration by Timo Rannali] Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Other material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-0954..

Date: 1936, 2007

By: Ward, Marion Wybourn (Dr), active 1993-2008

Reference: MS-Papers-8993

Description: Collection comprises a brief sketch of Eliza Joan Wybourn, photocopies of inward correspondence to Wybourn (1936) and a memoir as recorded by her friends. Material compiled by Dr Marion Ward and Annette Solly (2007). Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - A commemoration of Eliza Joan Wybourn as recorded by her friends in Johnsonville and other places at her death in 1936 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript & photographs (photocopies) Provenance: Material deposited by granddaughter of Eliza Joan Wybourn.

Date: 1970 - 2007

From: [Ephemera concerning individual schools, with names beginning with C. 1870-2009]

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-Chartwell

Description: Fliers and pamphlets for Matsuri, fairs, and 25th anniversary 1995. Mainly dating from 1990-2007 In 2008, the school changed its name to Crofton Downs Primary School to better reflect its surrounding community, which had become more widely known as Crofton Downs. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-06

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Douglas George Irwin; land documents; `The Corner, a history of the Smith-Irwin farm' compiled in 2007 by Robyn Irwin (nee Pollock) wife of Douglas. Original owner was John Smith who acquired the property 3 km from Mataura in 1903 from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company. He named the corner block of land `The Corner'; it was later renamed Paramount. The property passed to his daughter-in-law Ellen Irwin and her husband George in 1911; then to their son George William Douglas Irwin in 1946, and to the present owner, their son Douglas George Irwin, in 1990. In 2007 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs, maps (photocopies) Transfers: A digital version of some or all of these papers is available at MSDL-0421.

Date: 1995 - 2007

Reference: Eph-A-MODELS-1990s-01

Description: Pamphlet promoting a model village built by model maker Helen Pratt. It recreates an early 20th century town. The pamphlet includes several photographs of the buildings of the town. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded to 210 x 100 mm.

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: 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

Date: 30 May 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Symons, Sydney Osburne, 1918-

Reference: OHInt-0920-18

Description: Interview with Sydney Osbourne (Ossie) Symons. Born in Balclutha in 1918 to Helen Symons and Herbert Symons. Backgrounds parental grandparents and siblings. Recalls the impact of The Depression, how the family broke up and how he lived with relatives. Says he went to six different schools and two of them twice. Lists Henley Primary school, Taieri Plains, Kaikorai Valley Primary school, Green Island Primary school, Mornington Primary school, Dunedin, Woodside Primary school, near Outram, Menzies Ferry Primary school near Edendale, Southland. Talks about milking cows around Edendale district, being a cowboy at Castle Rock Station, Lumsden, and working as a shepherd. Says he worked as hotel porter in Kaikoura, then moved to Christchurch. Describes work at New Brighton Cafe and Coronation Hospital with returned World War One soldiers with TB, and at Flemings Flour Mill tipping wheat. Mentions dancing at the Caledonian Hall three nights a week. Recalls volunteering for World War Two and training at Burnham Camp for field ambulance work in 3rd Echleon. Describes voyage on 'Orchades' in 1940 to Bombay India. Details leave at Freemantle, Perth, Bombay and Deolali during the trip. Talks about leaving Bombay on the French boat 'Felix Roussel' in a convoy which was bombed by Italian warship in the Red Sea and Port Sudan. Says the HMNZS 'Leander' and HMS 'Kimberley' chased the warship off. Says they arrived at Port Said, Egypt and took train to Maadi Camp. Describes camp, rail car, marches and leave in Cairo. Remembers being at Amaryia camping area in a sand storm. says went to Alexandria, embarked on a Greek boat 'Bar Peter' to travel to Greece. Mentions air raid. Says they arrived at Piraeus Harbour, camped at Hymatis Park, New Athens, then travelled by train to Katerini. Details number of men in field ambulance A and B companies, headquarters and ASC (Army Service Corps). Recalls going up over Mount Olympus to Vale of Tempia and B Company set up on hillside. Describes seeing action when Germans broke through and being strafed by Messerschmidt aircraft. Says they came to Katerini which had been bombed and saw unexploded bombs on the road. Talks about going to Marathon Beach, boarding the 'Glengyle' ship for Souda Bay, Crete. Talks about rations, catching squid and buying oranges with Occupation money. Says the British warship 'York' was bombed daily. Talks about German Junker Ju 52 aircraft arriving, gliders with troops and paratroopers landing with coloured parachutes. Says they began to round us up. Mentions they took their tin hats off and raised their arms for overhead aeroplanes to indicate they were prisoners of war. Mentions English speakers were Austrians. Describes the last paratrooper being disarmed before sundown. Refers to moving to Daratsos village. Says his job was carting water and stretcher bearer. Refers to infantry being tired. Talks about the retreat, getting to Souda Bay and leaving at night on board the destroyer 'Phoebe'. Talks about arriving at Alexandria, Egypt and going to Helwan Camp. Mentions 60 of their company got back from Crete. Refers to Baggush, Western Desert and getting reinforcements. Mentions underground canteen selling Canadian beer, Black Horse and Stella Beer. Talks about Battle at Sidi Rezegh and the number of wounded. Refers to Rommell's Panzer columns. Talks about being handed over to Italian as prisoner of war. Mentions International Red Cross and escape plan. Expands on leaving camp in great rattle of shots. Explains what Brigadier Kippenberger did. Recalls going to Maadi, then Baggush and reuniting with unit. Talks about going to Lebanon, to Bekka valley for training at the Free French army barracks and arrival of Indian company with mules. Refers to going across the plains to Aleppo, Syria. Discusses the fighting during Battles of El Alamein, the artillery barrage and casualties. Mentions those with metal detectors clearing track through for trucks. Refers to 'The Box' (fortified defensive position) and servicing the wounded of the British Green Howards Regiment. Talks about seeing Hurricane fighter bombers running into a trap set by Messerschmidt fighters and being shot down. refers to Hurribombers (Hawker Hurricanes) and squadron of Spitfires fighting German tanks. Details equipment used by units at Sidi Rezegh, two pounder guns, honey tanks (British Stuart light tanks). Discusses General Grant tanks, Sherman tanks, anti tank guns with six pounder guns (pheasants) and 17 pounder guns. Refers to digging a slitty (slit trench) and Kittyhawk strafing by Canadian pilot. Recalls going to Medenine Aerodrome, Tunisia. Talks about biscuit and water rations at El Alamein. Refers to working with Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah Witness and Bretheran men in the medical corp. Refers to end of active service and going home on 'New Amsterdam' via Freemantle and Hobart. Says he went to England and worked with 2NZEF prisoners of war in isolation ward and laboratory at a hospital in Haine, Kent. Says he worked his way home on the 'Oranges' Dutch hospital ship. Refers to going to Sheffield, Canterbury where wife Miriam Lucy (nee Thompson) had a cottage. Says they married in 1943. Recalls working on farms, grubbing gorse and shearing. Says four children were born before they bought farm at Alford Forest, and two more children afterwards. Talks about learning about mustering from neighbours at Heron Lake and Mount Somers station. Refers to working for others farms while he had his own. Says he lived 32 years at Alford Forest, and has been retired 22 years in Ashburton. Abstracted by - Nicola Roberston Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016780 - OHC-016781 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6040, OHDL-001835. Search dates: 1918 - 2007

Date: 14, 19 May 2007 - 14 May 2007 - 19 May 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Kelly, George David, 1916-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-08

Description: Interview with George Kelly, born in Ashburton in 1916. Refers to growing up on a North Canterbury farm until his father sold it. Talks about his primary schooling, and boarding with his grandfather to attend Christchurch Boys High School. Mentions playing rugby and running. Discusses working for his father as a team driver with a four horse team ploughing for wheat crops. Talks about stacking sheaves to make stooks and stacking the dray. Recalls an electric tractor and traction engines. Refers to going shearing aroung Methven and Highbank for a time and buying a car. Talks about being a member of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry in the 1930s, training camps, and providing his own horse. Comments on working for several years as an attendant at Sunnyside Hospital and learning "a thing or two about people". Mentions marrying his wife Hilary in 1939, and joining the Police force. Comments that he could not serve overseas in the army during the War because he was a policeman. Refers to resigning from the police when his father had a heart attack [ca. 1948/49] and running the farm for a year. Discusses the difficulty he had buying his own farm Spring Lynne and having help to pay off the mortgage. Talks about arable farming, growing tama grass, peas and clover for seed, wheat and barley, and selling wool during the Korean War. Comments on his Romney flock, number of ewes, and drafting lambs. Discusses the arrival of the Lyndhurst irrigation scheme. Comments on the Springfield water supply and water rates. Mentions giving up irrigating and getting a well drilled for water. Refers to the Winchmore Research Station and fertilizer trials. Recalls his farm staff over the years. Refers to the Lauriston Farm Club and farm advisors. Mentions the vet club. Talks about the Methvyn Trotting Club and horses that he and his father bred. Outlines his involvement with the Canterbury A & P Association over three decades including being Association president. Mentions judging horses and ponies at shows and presenting trophies. Discusses the Springfield Pony Club and other pony clubs in Canterbury. Reflects on farming in the Methven district and welcomes the arrival of dairying in the area. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016752 - OHC-016754 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6030, OHDL-001825. Search dates: 1916 - 2007

Date: 2 Nov 2007 - 02 Nov 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Henderson, Graham Bruce, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0920-06

Description: Interview with Bruce Henderson, born in Ashburton in 1929. Outlines his family background in Canterbury, and his father and six uncles all serving in World War I. Refers to his father farming on a soldier settlement block of 260 acres at Lyndhurst from 1920. Refers to his schooling, playing rugby, and cycling everywhere. Talks about the food they ate at home, having their own hens and pigs and meat from the farm. Comments that his father had a tractor by the time he was born so that he did not work with horses. Talks about not having irrigation on the farm during the dry 1930s. Mentions wet years in the 1940s, a heavy snowfall in 1945 and a massive hail storm in 1946. Refers to getting irrigation in 1948 and having to make the border dykes to avoid flooding. Describes manual watering from the ditches using canvas sheets in the early years until they could afford to install automated watering systems. Mentions having to build up the fertility of the soil to grow white clover and breed sheep successfully. Refers to marrying in 1954 and taking over the farm from his father in 1955. Discusses arable farming and using contractors to harvest. Talks about using direct drilling rather than ploughing from the late 1970s. Mentions crops he grew including white clover, sunflowers, linseed, dill and parsley for seeds as well as wheat and barley. Refers to having two thirds of the land in pasture for sheep. Talks about buying more land until he had 3,000 acres. Comments that each of his four sons now farms 700 to 800 acres, and he and his wife look after 140 acres. Refers to setting up a partnership with his sons when they were young, to reduce taxation. Mentions the contribution of his wife to the farm and business over the years. Discusses farming in recent years becoming harder and the influx of dairying into Canterbury. Outlines his community and social activities during his life - playing rugby when he was young, being in a pipe band for a period, and 35 years active in the Methven Presbyterian Church. Refers to being active in the Methven Young Farmers Club, Federated Farmers and the Lyndhurst Home and School. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016747- OHC-016749 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.53 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6028, OHDL-001823. Search dates: 1929 - 2007

Date: 05, 12 Nov 2007 - 05 Nov 2007 - 12 Nov 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Lill, Gordon Thomas, 1921-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-10

Description: Interview with Gordon Lill. Born in 1921 in Ashburton. Backgrounds paternal family, parents Wilfred Thomas Lill, mother Edith Francis Caroline Lill (nee Watson), grandfather William Thomas Lill, farmer in Ashburton, and grandmother Clara Lill (nee Taylor), who was involved in temperance union movement. Mentions maternal grandparents Joseph Watson, headmaster of Willowby primary school and Emily Watson (nee Hight) from Brookside. Says he went to Westerfield primary school and Ashburton High School. Refers to taking agricultural course and having John Bell scholarship. Describes growing up on 'Lone Pine' farm, Westerfield, cooking on coal range, pitting root vegetables for winter, milking, using Clydesdale horses. Details growing oats and grass seed, turnips, giant rape, reaping oats, working the chaff cutter. Mentions family had thrashing mill and traction engine. Talks about impact of 1928 slump and 1930s Depression and mortgagee sales. Says father sold Westerfield farm to clear debt and bought small farm at Eiffelton with money from maternal grandfather's estate. Explains crops grown were wheat, ryegrass and barley. Talks about being called up for army training at Burnham, then being manpowered out in 1940 to work at Mesopotamia sheep station and Inverary station. Describes autumn muster, and blade shearing. Mentions manpower shortage during World War two. Recalls marriage to Doris Joan Davison and big snow of 1945. Says bought sheep farm at Montalto with his parents. Describes developing the farm, stone picking, having the house divided into two flats. Purchased farm at Springburn, and another block where he farmed sheep and cattle. Bought property at Carew to farm sheep. Details border dyke irrigation process. Talks about water allocation, changing from government to private ownership as Hinds Mayfield Irrigation Scheme. Refers to building new house at Carew. Explains purchase of 'Whenuapai' farm at Cairnbrae, Methven, in 1962 or 1963 which was a mixed cropping farm with wheat, barley, peas, grass seed and Border Romney or Coopworth sheep. Refers to International Agricultural Exchange Association students on the farm. Discusses soil, wind, rainfall and a typical year. Mentions soil fertility, use of lentils and getting bigger farm machinery. Talks about role of farm advisors. Explains process of changing farm to all cropping farm in 1968, selling stock to grow wheat, peas and ryegrass. Refers to getting bigger plough, tractor and grain silo, building a seed cleaning plant and shed. Explains direct heading wheat and peas with Roundup. Talks about soil testing, inputs of nitrogen, urea, sulphate of ammonia, always using fertilisers and chemicals. Says diesel prices forced direct drilling. Discusses wind erosion, putting in shelter belts subsidised by South Canterbury catchment board. Talks about wife's role on farm, all their sons going farming and Graeme Lill working at Lincoln College. Refers to moisture and soil testing. Reflects on mechanisation making farming easier. Talks about droving and now trucking sheep to sale yards. Mentions Lyndhurst Barrhill scheme pumping water from Rakaia River back to the RDR (Rangitata Diversion race). Refers to getting Dry Creek closed for grazing for nine years. Discusses community activites, nine years on South Canterbury Catchment Board, Mayfield A&P Association President in 1959, being on Monalto School committee, Hinds School committee, Hinds Rugby Football Club, Chairperson of Methven Lions, Chairman of Methven Aged Persons Welfare Association, Chairman of Methven House home committee, and involvment in Federated Farmers and United Wheatgrowers. Details his purchase of maternity hospital and turning it into Methven House aged persons home. Mentions being involved in St Davids Church, Allenton, Ashburton and Methodist Synod Timaru. Says retired to Methven for four to five years, then moved to Ashburton. Refers to son Colin Lill taking over the farm. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016757 - OHC-016759 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6032, OHDL-001827. Search dates: 1921 - 2007

Date: 5 Jun 2007 - 05 Jun 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Maclean, Joyce Martha, 1909-2015

Reference: OHInt-0980-12

Description: Interview with Joyce Maclean (nee Hardham), born in Newtown, Wellington in 1909. Talks about her family background, her tailor father and seamstress mother working hard, and recalls seeing men marching off to World War I. Mentions the family moving to a farm at Paraparaumu and her father organising the building of the Farmers Co-op cheese factory and store at Paraparaumu. Refers to attending Wellington Girls College for three years, boarding with an aunt, and working in the dairy company store until she married Gilbert Maclean in 1930. Mentions he worked on the family dairy farm from 4am to 6pm each day until they moved to the farm in 1935. Recalls the buildup to war, Gilbert's call up, but his family appealing his conscription and winning. Mentions she was delighted but he was not. Comments that his assistant went to war and he had to make do with unsatisfactory workers who were unfit for service. Refers to having extra workers for hay making and providing morning and afternoon teas for them. Mentions helping in the milking shed while she had two young children. Talks about producing much of their own food during the War, but not being allowed to make butter. Refers to making and mending their own clothing, and riding her bicycle with her small daughter in the basket. Mentions doing a car maintenance course to learn how to change truck tyres. Comments on blackouts, the Home Guard, news from overseas and some Paraparaumu men being killed. Talks about her brother William being sent to Bougainville, and her brother-in-law Alan Bailey being shot down and killed over Rabaul. Recalls Country Women's Institute members sending parcels to men overseas. Comments that life on the farm was dreary until the American marines arrived. Talks about having four marines home for Christmas and having contact with some of them later. Refers to the marines using the farm for manoeuvres, and building an airport in the sheep paddock without any warning. Reflects on the impact of the war years on her and Gilbert's lives, the constant anxiety about a possible Japanese invasion, but having family around them throughout. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022556 - OHC-022557 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7335. Printout of a scanned tinted photograph photograph of Joyce McLean on her wedding day (1930); printout of a colour photograph of Joyce (2007) Search dates: 1909 - 2007

Date: 28 Jun 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Harrison, Joyce Margaret, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0980-07

Description: Interview with Joyce Harrison (nee Morton), born in Wellington in 1927. Talks about her family background, growing up in Karori as an only child with older parents, and being very self reliant. Refers to starting school at six, going to Samuel Marsden school when she was 10 and being 'knocked into shape'. Comments on the headmistress's narrow vision of careers available for women. Mentions the family's bach at Paekakariki. Talks about the buildup to war when she was 13, 'ripples in the family' from World War I, and her father being called up for air raid warden service. Describes him spending nights on duty on a government building with his tin hat, bucket of sand and gas mask. Mentions her mother had worked in the War Office during World War I. Describes attitudes to England and Empire. Comments on the family's financial situation during the war, her mother sewing clothes and her parents' vegetable garden. Refers to shortages at school and air raid practice. Talks about fear for those leaving and not knowing when it would end. Recalls the departure of the Second Echelon in 1941, watching alone from a hill and sketching. Reflects that adults took the war work of children seriously and this brought home to them the seriousness of the situation. Mentions blackouts, seeing search lights from Wrights Hill, and feeling more protected in Wellington than at Paekakariki. Discusses the American Marines at Parkakariki and a gun emplacement (without gun) being built on their section there. Recalls the sadness and guilt when word came that so many marines had died. Talks about listening to the BBC news at Paekakariki but not following the progress of the war closely in newspapers, and the effects of lists of names. Refers to war news at the cinema and its patriotic tone. Recalls VJ Day, people celebrating in town, cold bitter weather and church bells ringing. Comments on wartime perceptions of the Japanese. Reflects on the effects of war on her as a teenager with restrictions and shortages, and her realisation that with men being killed she might not be able to get married. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022541 - OHC-022542 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7330. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Joyce Harrison (c 1940); printout of a colour photograph of Joyce (2007) Search dates: 1927 - 2007

Date: 26 Sep 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Gillespie, Nancy Millard, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0980-06

Description: Interview with Nancy Gillespie (nee Sheat), born in Christchurch in 1925. Talks about her family background, her father and uncles having fought in World War I and the long-term effects on them. Describes life on the family farm at Dunsandel during the Depression, using draught horses, producing their own food, hand-me-down clothes, swaggers, the arrival of electricity and their first car. Refers to her schooling and being a weekly boarder at Christchurch Girls High School from age 14 (1939). Describes her school uniform, school food, going to the 1940 Exhibition in Wellington, and blackouts and air raid drills. Comments that the war became more serious after Japan entered it. Talks about leaving school in 1942, the year her brother Doug was called up in the territorials. Mentions their father, who was running two farms, appealed to keep Doug at home and he was manpowered. Comments that their father was probably thinking of his own war experience but Doug was "furious", and both father and brother were in the Home Guard. Refers to working domestically at home throughout the war years to help her mother who was unwell, her father not believeing in women being in the paddocks, and not being manpowered. Explains their diet did not change much during the war years after rationing was introduced in 1943, making butter at home, having a home orchard and bottled fruit. Refers to having dressmaking and cooking classes in 1943. Mentions farewell dances and speeches for local boys, her mother baking fruit cakes to send overseas, and letters to and from friends and cousins. Describes forming a young women's club in Dunsandel and organising a dance with an outside band. Talks about movies on Saturday nights in Dunsandel. Refers to getting their war news from radio and The Press, and mainly following the Pacific war after she left school. Comments on reading casualty lists, and the death of a cousin's fiance in India. Refers to an American Marine who was billeted with an aunt and visited local farms. Cannot recall VE or VJ days but mentions welcome home dances, change happening slowly after the war and continuing shortages of imported goods. Emphasises the real fear of a Japanese invasion during the war, having had nightmares about Japanese, and not being able to watch the TV series 'Tenko'. Reflects that she would most like people to know the futility and waste, pain and suffering on both sides. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022538 - OHC-022540 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7329. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Nancy Gillespie (c 1943-44); printout of a colour photograph of Nancy (2007) Search dates: 1925 - 2007

Date: 23 Feb 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Raymond, Nancy, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0980-14

Description: Interview with Nancy Raymond (nee Fleming), born in Dunedin in 1924. Talks about growing up in South Dunedin and later in Richmond, Christchurch where her father had grocery shops. Refers to her father having been gassed during World War I, and drinking at weekends. Talks about her Christian mother who did not have a happy marriage. Recalls the Depression years and not having food problems. Refers to working in the shop for her pocket money. Comments on loving primary school, leaving technical college before she turned 14, and having to help her mother at home for a period even though she wanted to be a teacher or nurse. Describes being manpowered [in 1942] to a rubber factory, being transferred to office work at the Farmers Co-op because of a 'fairly useless' left arm, and the lack of men in the workplace. Discusses home life during the war, listening to the 9pm news on the radio, and the pages of deaths in the newspapers. Comments that the Movie Time news was very explicit. Recalls hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbour which increased fears of an invasion in New Zealand but brought the Americans into the war. Refers to blackouts, her father being in the Home Guard and a brother in training. Describes preparing food parcels for men they knew and for the Red Cross. Talks about transport difficulties when the family did not have a car and winter power cuts during the war. Comments on having a vegetable garden, making rations last and making herself very friendly to the grocery department at the Farmers Co-Op. Refers to courteous and generous American servicemen, the effect of war on relationships between men and women, and men wanting the security of an engagement before they went away. Talks about dances to raise money for the services, cycling in a long dress to them, and smuggling beer in for the boys. Mentions her 'young man' Dick Cobden-Cox, reading his death notice, and receiving a letter from him a week later. Talks about a cousin Jimmy Beattie who died when HMS Leander was bombed, and the grief when there was no body or grave here. Recalls the VE and VJ parades where she played in the Christchurch Ladies Pipe Band. Comments on the support the pipe band members gave each other during and after the war. Reflects on a visit to a war cemetry in Manilla in 1971. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022561 - OHC-022564 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7337. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of June Fleming (aka Nancy Raymond) (1942); printout of a colour photograph of Nancy (2007) Search dates: 1924 - 2007

Date: 20 Feb 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Hume, Derek Martyn, 1925-2016

Reference: OHInt-0980-09

Description: Interview with Derek Hume, born in Auckland in 1925. Outlines his family history. Mentions his solicitor father, who had served in World War I, had a stroke on the day World War II was declared. Recalls the large family home in Gillies Avenue was subdivided into flats during the Depression. Mentions they had an orchard and kept poultry on their large section. Talks about his childhood and schooling, and being able to attend Kings College only because his father had been on the governing board. Refers to talk of war and singing patriotic songs at school. Talks about his brother Larry joining up, being sent to Australia to train as a commando, but being killed in 1942 on his first day in action. Mentions cousins who were killed in action. Describes the casualty lists in the newspapers and the reactions of parents and other adults. Explains that once the Japanese entered the war people felt it would go on for years. Talks about getting most of their news from newspapers rather than radio, and comments that victory in the Battle of the River Plate gave people a boost. Mentions the Battle of the Coral Sea was a turning point, but they did not know about the bombing of Darwin. Describes digging trenches at school, air raid practice and a plane crashing near the school. Recalls training with the Kings College school cadets including first aid, morse code and bomb disposal training. Talks about having to leave school at 17 as his mother was unwell and his father had died. Discusses working for Firestone after he left school, the wartime tyre permit system, and bartering excess permits for other goods and food. Describes joining the Navy when he was 18 and being sent to England in January 1945 after basic training. Refers to sailing in a convoy of 86 ships across the Atlantic where one ship was torpedoed and six were lost in a storm on the way. Comments on damage in London and Plymouth and seeing the last doodlebug over London. Recalls VJ Day, having had submarine training and expecting to go east until the atomic bomb was dropped. Reflects on the impact of the war, and his brother's death not having the effect 'it should have' because of their age difference. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022547 - OHC-022549 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7332. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Derek Hume (1942); printout of a colour photograph of Derek (2007) Search dates: 1925 - 2007

Date: 22 Feb 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Prain, Margaret Elizabeth, 1923-2015

Reference: OHInt-0980-13

Description: Interview with Margaret Prain (nee Clark), born in Mokai in 1923. Talks about her family background and growing up in a timber milling area that was subject to earthquakes. Recalls playing at the mill where her father was manager, fishing for trout using tadpoles and playing in the bush. Refers to the wood/coal range in the kitchen, food sources and cooking, and learning to sew. Mentions learning to play the piano, guitar and mouth organ. Comments on going to school with Maori and Chinese children at Mokai. Talks about her father having the only car in the area and taking people to Rotorua Hospital in emergencies. Discusses boarding at Hamilton High School. Mentions she could not understand her brother Donald signing up for war and refers to his farewell party at the community hall. Outlines his war experience - being found wounded by Germans, his German captors being overtaken by British forces, joining the British Army, training as an engineer and returning to Egypt. Explains young people were encouraged to work in essential services and putting her name down for nursing. Describes her training [entry Sept 1942] at Waikato Hospital, living in, and joining the Nurses' Christian Union. Describes the shocking injuries she saw and the state of care of the New Zealand soldiers in the hospital. Explains the nurses were trained to evacuate patients in case of invasion. Recalls a polio epidemic when the hospital was overloaded and tents were erected on the lawn. Mentions the Home Guard and blackout curtains. Describes meeting Ron Knap before her nursing training, getting engaged before he went away, and his being shot down soon after. Comments on her faith helping her when she got the news and feeling a sense of purpose in her nursing. Refers to meeting her first husband Harry while she was training and he had just been cleared of TB (tuberculosis). Mentions marrying at the end of the war, buying a shop in Ngaruawahia and then a shoe shop in Remuera. Describes how Harry became very ill and died of TB in 1950. Talks about later training as an occupational nurse, meeting her cousin Peter Prain, marrying [in 1952], and stopping work after a year to start a family. Comments that after Peter's death [in 1972] she returned to working in hospitals again, becoming hostel supervisor at Christchurch Women's Hospital. Reflects on the lasting effects of the war on her feelings about life and conflict and the importance of her faith. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022558 - OHC-022560 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7336. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Margaret Prain in her nurse's uniform (1942); printout of a colour photograph of Margaret (2007) Search dates: 1923 - 2007

Date: 28 Sep 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Smith, Sheila Beatrix, 1922-2017

Reference: OHInt-0980-17

Description: Interview with Sheila Beatrix Smith (nee Greenwood), born in Rangiora in 1922. Talks about her family background and growing up on a farm at Rangiora. Refers to being lucky during the Depression to be living on a farm, growing vegetables and making things from flour bags and sugar bags. Recalls having plough horses, using a gig, and having kerosene lamps and candles. Talks about childhood recreation, reading, singing as a family, as well as attending the one-teacher Loburn School, and being strapped for writing with her left hand. Mentions getting a good general education at Rangiora High School. Refers to leaving school in 1939 when war broke out and working for a time in the orchard on the family farm, as well as attending the Canterbury Art School one day a week. Recalls her feeling of dread when hearing the news of war on the radio. Mentions patriotic attitudes towards England and Empire. Talks about local men enlisting, their leaving socials, and expecting that the war would not be long. Recalls that by 1943 the departure of troops was kept secret. Discusses being manpowered, issued with work clothes, and being a land worker for about three years in Rangiora. Mentions her father managed his orchard and also the Papanui Fruit and Storage Company where women replaced men who had gone overseas. Comments the women had to do the same heavy work as men but received only half the pay. Refers to the shortage of petrol, using a horse and wagon to pick up cases of fruit on the farm, and cycling everywhere. Talks about food during the war and comments on preserving eggs and beans. Mentions dances run by Plunket and Red Cross where men were scarce, and meeting her husband Ken at a dance. Describes getting engaged quickly, Ken going away for three years a few days later, and having to get reacquainted when he returned. Refers to the worry reading the lists of dead in the Italian campaign, several local men in the same company being killed, and the community supporting each other through losses. Talks about a celebration in the district hall for VE Day. Comments that Ken never talked about the war until the day before he died. Abstracted by - Erin Greenwood Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022568 - OHC-022569 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.08 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7340. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Sheila Smith with fiance Ken (c1943); printout of a colour photograph of Sheila (2007) Search dates: 1922 - 2007