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Date: 31 Mar 2005

From: Births Deaths & Marriages oral history project

By: Amon, Danielle Renee, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0853-01

Description: Interview with Danielle Amon, born at Helensville in 1951. Refers to growing up on a dairy farm near Kaitaia, moving to Hamilton to work in 1969, marrying, and managing a poultry farm. Mentions getting a job with the Probation Service in 1980, being promoted rapidly, and becoming Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Hamilton in 1982. Talks about the job managing a staff of four and a budget, and dealing with the public. Refers to moving to the larger Auckland office with a multicultural team. Comments on reactions to her as a young manager, managing the office as a business, and the need to respect other cultures. Mentions the Registrar's Office being moved from the Department of Justice to the Department of Internal Affairs in 1995. Comments on computerisation, increasing workloads, and staff being replaced with temps. Talks about relations between Head Office in Wellington and the generally younger staff in district offices. Comments on taking redundancy in the late 1990s during restructuring, and to never having called herself a public servant. Refers to the procedures for registering births and deaths, and having the discretion to reject names. Comments on adoptions and the Adult Adoption Information Act. Explains the procedure for name changes by deed poll and difficulties for people under 20. Refers to the 1995 Births, Deaths & Marriages Act allowing birth certificates to be changed after a sex change. Describes changes in the registration books in the 1960s and 1970s, the process of indexing and searching, and the introduction of microfiche [indexes] in the 1990s. Refers to the lack of cross-referencing between births and deaths leading to some identity fraud. Mentions the introduction of electronic capture of registrations. Discusses becoming a marriage celebrant and the reasons people married at a Registry Office. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015797 - OHC-015798 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.59 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5672. Search dates: 1951 - 2005

Date: 20 May 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Purvis, Linda Christine, active 1960-2003; Purvis, William John, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-0872-17

Description: Interview with Lindy (Linda) Purvis, born in Wellington, and her husband Bill Purvis, born in Hamilton 1945. Outline their family backgrounds. Linda refers to growing up in Taumaranui, living initially in a transit camp, her parents separating, and her mother applying for a state house. Lindy discusses how the family managed, her mother working three jobs, and growing their own vegetables. Refers to her mother wanting to buy a house in the 1950s but being denied a mortgage because she was a single woman. Bill discusses the state house in Claudelands and the group house in Fairfield that he grew up in, and explains why the kitchen was the hub of the house. Talk about being baby boomers, family special occasions and holidays. Discuss the types of food their families ate and being expected to eat what they were given. Comment on the friendly communities in the streets where they lived and children playing on the street. Linda refers to not being involved the Maori cultural side of her father's family. Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015660 - OHC-015661 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) (draft). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5624 (draft). Search dates: 1945 - 2003

Date: 16, 17 September 2003 - 16 Sep 420 - 17 Sep 2004

From: Art Taranaki oral history project

By: Muggeridge, Marianne, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0769-06

Description: Born in Hamilton, 1952. Discusses family background - talks of grandfather's work as an entomologist at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson. Discusses immediate family - mother a speech therapist, father qualified as a lawyer, became sharemilker on grandparents' farm. Describes parents as very liberal for the time. Recalls childhood in Alton, Taranaki, talks about family moving to Opunake when Marianne was 11 - recalls this as a happy time. Discusses later move to New Plymouth - recalls time spent at Spotswood College, learning to surf, and suffering from bulimia. Talks about attending Elam Art School - discusses assignments and the influence that tutor "Mac" MacLaren had on her work. Mentions Phil Judd and Jill Winter. Discusses her bulimia and drug use during the seventies - recalls decision to go overseas in 1974. Describes travelling to Paris and living in Wales and London. Mentions commissioned work she produced for New Zealand actor Deidre Serensen. Mentions being first artist to have a Solo Show at N Z House, the Haymarket, London 1979. Describes returning to New Zealand and moving back to Auckland, then the Wilderlands commune in the Coromandel, before settling in Kapuni, Taranaki. Mentions meeting her partner and fellow artist Roger Morris and becoming pregnant with her daughters Lucy and Myfanny. Discusses finding current home in Wellington. Discusses being a member of the Taranaki Artists Co-Operative (TACO) - describes her portraiture style and teaching life drawing at community evening classes. Talks of winning the painting section of the annual National Portrait Gallery's National Portrait Competition, and the Adam/New Zealand Portrait Competition. Mentions Dick Frizzel, Don Binney, Dale Copeland, Paul Hutchinson, Pam Walker, Tom Mutch, Raewyn Mutch, Peter Lambert and Rene Lambert Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Mary Donald Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from newspapers; copies of works from www.virtual.tart.co.nz Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014382, OHC-014383, OHC-014384, OHC-014384, OHC-014386, OHC014387 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.39 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5152. 2 colour photographs, 10 x 15 cm, both taken in Marianne Muggeridge's Wellington studio, 2002. 1 shows Marianne Muggeridge with her work 'Middle Wellington' (2001), 1 shows Marianne Muggeridge with her works 'Middle Wellington' (2001) and a portrait study; copies of works from www.virtual.tart.co.nz Search dates: 1952 - 2004

Date: 12 Apr 2005

From: Office of the Auditor-General History project

By: Kemble, Laurence Bruce, 1943-; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHInt-0838-03

Description: Interview with Laurie (Laurence Bruce) Kemble, born Hamilton, 4 January 1943. Mentions his father Alfred Ashley worked for New Zealand Railways, rising from porter to Frankton yard foreman, while his mother Sybil Caroline (Cadman) was very much a homemaker who encouraged her children in all their endeavours. Refers to his mother's hospitalisation with TB. Discusses sports he has played, beach holidays, and the freedom children had then. Comments on his schooling, and initially wanting to be a carpenter when he left school. Refers to studying accountancy at night school. Describes marrying Mary Chlotilde Laurensen in 1965 and gives details of their children. Outlines his early career as an accounts clerk until he began working as an assistant auditor at the Audit Department, Hamilton. Comments on the work done and describes the office culture, the all-male staff, and on the job training. Describes the auditor's job being to certify that the accounts are materially correct. Refers to women first being employed in Audit in the 1970s and outnumbering male staff by the time he retired. Mentions becoming a district auditor (team leader) in Hamilton in 1969, sole district auditor in Tauranga in 1976, and later Regional Director (Midland). Mentions audits he has done in Pacific island countries and New Zealand embassies overseas. Discusses restructuring of the Audit Department under Jeff Chapman, with Gary Poole becoming head of Audit New Zealand, the 'working arm' of the office. Refers to the change of mindset needed when district offices had to tender for audits. Comments on Auditors-General Fred Shailes, Brian Tyler, Jeff Chapman, David Macdonald and Kevin Brady. Mentions that the most striking recent changes are the new technology and the way audits are now done. Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015396, OHC-015397, OHC-015398 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5581. Colour portrait of Laurie and Mary Kemble, ca.2000; b&w photocopy of a portrait of Laurie as a younger man. Search dates: 1943 - 1966 - 2006 - 2002

Date: 2007

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013159

Description: Shows a Hamilton gang member sitting by his mail box waiting for his mail. Beside him lies his dog. He says that during this time he can appreciate how Jenny Gibbs feels. Refers to multimillionarie Jenny Gibbs being unable to get broadband from Telecom. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0010146

Description: A group of Hamilton cilty councillors sit around a table looking perturbed at the size that the Auckland super-city could be. One of them has the bright idea that Hamilton could make a bid for the rest of the North Island. Refers to the super-city that is propsed for Auckland that will be administered by a single mayoralty. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: Feb - Apr 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000276

Description: Photographs of Hamilton, Te Anga, Marokopa and Taharoa buildings, 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Buildings Feb to April 2008" Quantity: 24 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0012881

Description: The cartoon shows a train running backwards downhill from Auckland to Hamilton. Text reads 'Estimated cost escalation' and words on the train read 'Planned commuter service'. The driver says 'We could be going backwards'. Refers to the derailing of plans to trial a commuter train service between Hamilton and Auckland after the estimated cost escalated to more than $1 million annually for three years. The Hamilton City Council's transport committee yesterday admitted defeat over plans to trial the commuter service after the latest KiwiRail proposal revealed the cost would be more than double the $450,000 figure it earlier indicated. The council was left as the main funder of the service after the NZ Transport Agency and Environment Waikato refused to chip in. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: April - July 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000251

Description: Photographs of the exterior of buildings in Hamilton, Tokoroa, Te Aroha, Frankton, Tirau, Taupo and Putaruru, taken April-July 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folder called "New Zealand Buildings April to July 2008" Quantity: 70 digital photograph(s).

Date: January - June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000539

Description: Photographs of Hamilton, Raglan, Putaruru and Taupo buildings, taken January to May 2010 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 5 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2003

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-649

Description: Caricature of Otago Highlanders and All Black rugby player, Byron Kelleher. Kelleher moved to Hamilton to play for the Waikato Chiefs at the end of 2003. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014040

Description: A man and his wife are walking along a street chatting about a petition that has been signed by 11,500 people that calls for a commuter train between Hamilton and Auckland. The woman observes that they will need a very large train. A petition has been launched for a commuter train service between Hamilton and Auckland. Some 11,500 people have signed the petition, which was presented to local MPs at the Hamilton Railway Station. The service was tried 10 years ago, but ended due to lack of patronage. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0005829

Description: In two frames shows two men chatting in the street. The first man says that he took a break from Hamilton over Easter and found the petrol bill quite manageable. The second man is nonplussed when he hears that his friend went to Horotiu which is a very small town in Hamilton. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DX-014-125

Description: Patients cancelling hospital appointments costing Waikato Hospital. Extended Title - 'Can't make it for my appointment today - the car broke down, my missus has left, the house is on fire, my Great Grandfather died and I broke my leg in three places......' 'Hi, George. Coming down the road for a drink?' 'Give me two minutes to freshen up.' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: January 2011

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000643

Description: Photographs of buildings in Hamilton, Huntly, Morrinsville and Thames taken in January 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 6 digital photograph(s).

Date: November 2011 - August 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000930

Description: Comprises views of vans, trucks, and cars taken mainly in Wellington, but also Upper Hutt, Petone, the Waikato, and Whanganui by Dylan Owen between November 2011 and August 2013. The images include vehicles decorated in protest for Aotearoa is Not for Sale, and against exclusion of Maori from the All Blacks during the 2011 World Cup, as well as business vehicles and decorated camper vans. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Transport" Quantity: 12 digital photograph(s).

Date: July - November 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000929

Description: Comprises street views and various buildings in Wellington, Petone, Hamilton, and Upper Hutt, taken by Dylan Owen from July - November 2013. Includes images of Ghuznee Street, Victoria Street, Pipitea Street, and Marjoribanks Street in Wellington; Jackson Street in Petone, and Main Street in Upper Hutt. Also includes views of Barton Street in Hamilton. See also PADL-000924 for images of individual buildings on these streets. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Street views" Quantity: 11 digital photograph(s).

Date: July - November 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000924

Description: Comprises views of various buildings in Wellington, Petone, Hamilton, Upper Hutt, and Greytown taken by Dylan Owen from July - November 2013. The photographs include images of a bouncy castle on the Petone foreshore; Brownie's Mattress Direct building on Thorndon Quay, Wellington; the General Assembly Library, Wellington; JB Hi-Fi on Barton Street, Hamilton; Miro Street Panel Beaters in Upper Hutt; the Mt Vic Chippery on Marjoribanks Street, Wellington; a paintball fort in Manor Park; the Red Rat shop on Barton Street in Hamilton; the Rockshop on Barton Street in Hamilton; Autobodies and Prop Auto on Webb Street, Wellington; The Barking Lot on Victoria Street in Wellington; and Trust House Four Square on Main Street in Greytown. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Buildings" Quantity: 13 digital photograph(s).