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Interview with Alison Pitt
Date: 03 Apr 1992
From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project
By: Pitt, Alison Thomas Waipa, 1916-
Reference: OHInt-0020/17
Description: Alison Pitt recalls Pukemiro School; getting medical help; entertainment at Pukemiro; the tennis courts being built; the swimming pool; horses; fishing and kids' play; looking through the Pukemiro School Jubilee Book; the doctor; shops; brother delivering groceries for local store; early roads and railways around Pukemiro and Glen Afton; delivering food to mine houses; icecream from Mr Dun; early movies and dances; 'kitchen teas' for girls about to be married; putting in roads for cars; their house at Pukemiro; lighting; heating; outhouses; water supply; first radio; house at mine; washing clothes. Describes coal delivery and power at mine; changing points on railway as kids; bonfires; the miners' picnic; comparison of the town then and now; going to Huntly; entertainment; chores; employment for women; going to school on horseback; crime in area; local Maori; compulsory education; the Depression (1930s) in Pukemiro and Auckland; contact with Rotowaro; visiting carbonisation works; the Waingaro hot springs; going underground with father and school; the Glen Afton disaster; the 1951 strike at Rotowaro; refusing to sell meths; doctors at Rotowaro; Glen Afton; tallies and cavels. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 8 Glasgow Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004406 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 737 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.
Maori children playing on a see-saw
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0069-F
Description: Maori children at a playground, playing on a see-saw. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1961, possibly in Huntly. 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. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Maori and Pakeha children playing on a slide and see-saw
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0068-F
Description: Maori and Pakeha children at a playground, playing on a slide and a see-saw. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1961, possibly in Huntly. 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. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Annual Coronation hui, Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia
Date: October 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0029-F
Description: Scenes at the annual Coronation hui, Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia, photographed in October 1961 by Ans Westra. Shows Maori children; Maori women; group of elders singing etc 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.
Maori children playing on a slide
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0067-F
Description: Maori children at a playground, playing on a slide. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1961, possibly in Huntly. 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. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.