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Literary places of interest, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1986-2002]
From: Jones, Jenny Robin, 1947- : Research papers and transcripts
Reference: MS-Papers-11793-21
Description: Contains information regarding literary places of interest in New Zealand, including lists of shrines and plaques, locations of writers's houses, and photocopied newspaper clippings. Also contains correspondence regarding houses of Canterbury writers between Jones and Eric Beardsley, who initiated the Christchurch writers trail. The folder also contains a copy of the undated interim report, 'Survey of members on sites of national literary importance', by Lawrence Jones of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Newspaper clippings - Gisborne and Hawke's Bay
Date: 1988-2001
From: Surf Life Saving New Zealand : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-11392-11
Description: Newspaper clippings on surf lifesaving from Gisborne papers 2000-2001 and Hawke's Bay papers 1988-1994 Quantity: 1 box(es).
Hawkes Bay earthquake survivors 1931 oral history project
Date: 12 Nov 1997 - 10 Oct 2002 - 12 Nov 1997 - 10 Oct 2002
By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum
Reference: OHColl-0487
Description: Interviewees recall their experiences of the 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake. Many remember being at school (primary and secondary) or in technical training when the earthquake struck. Others describe the sensation of being inside at work (including factory, hospital, office) or at home. Those outside describe movement in the urban and rural landscapes and subsequent damage, particularly to buildings. A number mention injuries to people. The interviewees are: May Atkinson (nee Reid), Harold Beer, Mary Bennett (nee Ellingham), Monnie (Mons Mary) Devine, Lancelot Wellington Dobbinson, Tui Dunningham (nee Forsythe), Rev Thomas C. Fuohy, Alberta Lilian Gill, Edward James Greaney, Ellen Catherine (Nell) Hay, Margaret (Peggy) Higgins (nee Mayo), Elizabeth Beatrice (Harvey) Hill, Ivan Stanley Hodgkinson, Robert James Hunter Holms, Peter Digby Jeffreys, Percival James Jessep, Joseph (Joe) John King, John Robert Lister, Robert Neil Lister, Ethel Mansfield (nee Pidd), Doreen May McConaghty (nee Tyne), Dorothy Bernice McKay, Leo Noel McLaughlin, William Fred Nightingale, Teresa (Tessie Walsh) Antonia Oliver, Janet Grieg Pearse (nee West), Gwendolyn (Gwen) M. Rouse, Agnes Cara Saxby, Ronald Shakespeare, Owen Somerset Smith, Evelyn Smyth, Lawrence (Lawry) Spackman, Eugenie Frances (Melhuish) Stark, Ronald Archer Steel, Keith Swailes, Tamangaro (Tama) Te Marnumairangi Tomoana, Gordon Ernest Vogther, Frank Desmond Gordon Walker, Percy Watson. Awards/funding - The first group of interviews were funded by an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Helen McConnochie Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019024 - OHC-019052 Summaries of abstracts: OHA-6564 - OHA-6581, OHA-6582 - OHA-6602 Quantity: 29 C60 cassette(s). 39 printed abstract(s). 39 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other summaries rather than abstracts. Transfers: See backfile for three agreement forms..