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Young people at Point Chevalier, Auckland, and Maori Affairs houses under construction,...

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0667-F

Description: Photographs of teenagers at Point Chevalier beach, Auckland, and Maori Affairs houses under construction in Northland, taken 1963 by Ans Westra. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Film negatives

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Ruatoria shop; Oriental Bay, Wellington; Noa Navalovalo and son Robert

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0496-F

Description: Images show the interior of a shop in Ruatoria, and Noa Navalovalo and son at Oriental Bay, Wellington, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images inside a Ruatoria shop show the retailer with a customer at the counter. Above to the side hangs a row of guitars. Other images show a man identified as Noa Navalovalo walking on Oriental Bay Beach with his small son Robert. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga

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East Cape beaches

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0718-F

Description: Scenes of children on a hill, and views looking down on East Cape beaches, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Okahu Bay, and church near upper Queen Street, Auckland

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0675-F

Description: Scenes from Okahu Bay, and upper Queen Street, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show parents with an infant playing on the sand at Okahu Bay Beach and young children swimming in the sea. Also includes church (largely obscured) in Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Frames 11 and 12 show young man, identified as Peter Witehira, wearing a collarless 'Beatle' jacket. His hair is combed forward. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Meeting about land ownership, and Okahu Bay

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0674-F

Description: Scenes from a meeting about land ownership, and views of Okahu Bay, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show people gathered in a living room to discuss land ownership, and views over hills to a distant bay (possibly the land in question). Also include scenes of parents with an infant playing on the sand at Okahu Bay Beach. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Beach and shops, Te Kaha

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0694-F

Description: Scenes of a woman and child gathering driftwood from the beach at Te Kaha, and scenes inside the general store there, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Men identified sitting in a shop are C. R. Hall and Barry Crawford (Frame 8) Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Wairoa, fishing at the mouth of the Wairoa River

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0740-F

Description: Scenes of men fishing at the mouth of the Wairoa River, taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Wairoa, exhibition near the beach; Wairoa River mouth - collecting pipis

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0742-F

Description: Images show scenes from an art exhibition, possibly near the beach, and Maori women and children at the Wairoa River mouth collecting pipi (kaimoana). Photographs taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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End of Ringatu New Year hui, Wairoa; Wairoa River outlet - fishing off the beach

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0739-F

Description: Scenes at the end of the Ringatu New Year hui, and fishing off the beach at the Wairoa River outlet, taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Two scenes show a woman asleep on packed up bedding after the hui, and one frame of people walking past a shop in Wairoa. The remainder of images show men fishing at the Wairoa River mouth. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Wairoa, fishing at the mouth of the Wairoa River

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0741-F

Description: Scenes of men fishing at the mouth of the Wairoa River, taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images also include scenes of women and children sitting on a sand bank nearby. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Piha oral history project

Date: Mar-Nov 1999

By: Cagwin, Tina, active 1960s-2000s; Trubuhovich, Marilyn, active 1999; Northey, Glenda, active 1999

Reference: OHColl-0534

Description: Interviews with members of the surf beach community in west Auckland. They are Margaret and Peter Byers, Clifford Holt, Mervyn Alloway, Jack de Bazin, Pat Slane and Lane Abel and Bruce and Janet Murray. Interviewer(s) - Kristine (Tina) Grenville Interviewer(s) - Marilyn Trubuhovich Interviewer(s) - Glenda Northey Accompanying material - Listing of Fire Brigade members from 1974 to 1999; log of Fire Brigade callouts (including to car accidents, drownings and search and rescue) 1977-1991 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Photographs - colour and black and white

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Milford oral history project

Date: 2011-2012

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-1017

Description: Interviews with fifteen people who grew up in Milford, North Shore City, or visited Milford as an entertainment destination during the 1920s - 1940s. The interviews describe beach life, activities in Milford, life during the depression and World War II, and reflections on Milford generally. The interviewees are Nancy Ballard and Lloyd Bell-Booth, Jo Gladwell, Warren Hutchinson, Ben Marychurch, Maurice McGreal, Harry Puckey, Elena Sanders, Daphne Savage, Glenn Shaw and Leslie Truscott, Squire Speedy, Jack Urlic, Jeanette Walker, and Ron Wareham. Abstracted by - Deborah Dunsford Awards/funding - Project received a New Zealand Oral History Award Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 13 printed abstract(s). 13 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 13 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Deborah Dunsford, Auckland, Nov 2012 Search dates: 1920 - 1950

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