Places

Date: [1980-1990]

By: Morris, Peter Gillard, 1922-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-5565

Description: Comprises recollections of Morris who lived in Karori, Wellington; he describes his family, education, games, friends, social activities, discusses religious and racial differences and other matters. He describes briefly his time in the army and the narrative ends shortly after the end of World War II. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - fMS-176-179 also by Gillard is described as Notes for a thesis on unemployed organisations in NZ; and letters from him are in MS-Papers-5201-117 Morris responded to an advertisement of Ann Gluckman's for reminiscences of people brought up in the NZ in the 1920s and 1930s for a planned publication which never eventuated Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P G Morris, Auckland, 1996

Date: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

Date: 1954

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 :[Christmas and greetings cards from the Fleming family, and preparatory montages and sketches. 1951-1986].

Reference: A-304-003

Description: 10 drawings of activities of the Fleming family for the year 1954. This card includes a pied stilt, a girl kayaking on the Waimeha Stream at Waikanae, the 'Phyllis' (a motor boat) stranded, with Kapiti Island behind it, a flax bush to the left, the family's holiday house at Waikanae, corner of Ngapaki and Rangihiroa Street, along with a map of Waikanae, the location marked, a pigeon 'the plague of Wadestown', whitebaiting (Charles Fleming managing a whitebaiting net), 'Paddy and topsy with the three girls', showing the three Fleming daughters on two horses, 'Mum and Skipper - busy resting', showing Peg Fleming with the family dog and 'Friday evenings' dinner' showing a large house with a board marked 'Country life - Open', and two large cabbage trees outside. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, black and white, 123 x 152 mm

Date: February 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177211-F

Description: A flat area is marked out with roads and town blocks. Accompanied by a woman a group of children walk across a pedestrian crossing. Behind them a child in a pedal car waits and other children watch. In the background children can be seen along the edges of the marked out area. Photograph taken in February 1957 by Morrie Hill. Scourse of decriptive information - A Library client has identified this event as part of the Karori School centenary in 1957. Information recieved in January 2007. This event was part of the centenary of Karori School in 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 9-10 May 1997

By: O'Regan, Catherine Lily, 1914-2002

Reference: OHColl-0465/1

Description: Catherine O'Regan was born in Wellington on 6 Apr 1914. Gives details of her family background including Irish ancestry on her mother's side. Recalls visiting her grandmother on the West Coast. Describes growing up in Island Bay with her mother, father and stepbrothers and stepsister. Describes her father's work building bridges. Recalls attending primary school at St Madeleine Sophie. Describes in detail attending Sacre Coeur (later Erskine College) where she was a boarder. Discusses attitudes towards Catholicism. Talks about working at Land and Income Tax and doing most of a Bachelor of Commerce at Victoria University before training to become a teacher. Discusses social life and entertainment including going to the pictures and balls. Describes meeting Barry O'Regan, their courtship and wedding. Recalls the Depression and World War II. Describes the birth of her children, their childhood and education. Discusses Barry O'Regan's partnership in the law firm Bell O'Regan and Dunphy and his becoming a High Court judge. Talks about her daughter Mary O'Regan and sister in law Pauline O'Regan, who is a nun. Comments on becoming Lady O'Regan. Describes nursing her husband. Interviewer(s) - Mary Varnham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007166 - OHC-007170 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1766. Photograph of Cassie O'Regan on front of abstract

Date: 1993

By: Kilbirnie/Lyall Bay Community Centre; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0403

Description: Life history interviews with long-term residents of Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay commissioned by the Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre. Participants discuss the houses they live in, often family homes; the shops and services available when they were children; changes in the two Wellington suburbs; family life, routines and relationships; their activities as children; and major events such as the Centennial Exhibition and the building of Wellington Airport at Rongotai. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Sponsored by - Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Accompanying material - Project report and short video of some of the interviewees Quantity: 19 C60 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s) Videocassette compact. 2 videocassette(s) VHS. 6 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s) 7 audio and 1 joint video interview. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete six abstracts complete, one to come. A colour photograph was taken of seven of the eight interviewees. Some abstracts also include photocopied photographs. Search dates: 1915 - 1993