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Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project
Date: 18 Oct 2006 to 24 Jan 2007 - 18 Oct 2006 - 24 Jan 2007
By: Kennett, Jonathan Peter, 1967-; Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust
Reference: OHColl-0830
Description: The project covers the history of the 100 hectare, publicly owned Orari-Wilton's Bush Reserve which celebrated the centenary of its inception as a botanical reserve as August 2006. The content of the interviews includes information about the history of the area, the development of the reserve, including design, rock gardens, the neglect after the Second World War, collection of plants, plant propagation and conservation, activities designed for public participation and enjoyment and the work by volunteers. The interviewees are, Janet Braggins and Barbara Anderson Jarnell, Robert Brockie, Sandra Clarke, John Dawson, Rewi Elliot, Robert Fantl, Ian Fleming, Barbara Hampton, Margaret Mole, Michael Oates, David Bidgood and Tim O'Leary, Alick Poole, John Riseborough, Helen Waugh, John Waugh. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 15 printed abstract(s). 15 interview(s) 2 are joint interviews. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
The Chinese Garden. 3 February 2011
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017113
Description: A crowd of people watch a Chinese dragon parading through the new Chinese Garden in Dunedin to mark the 'Year of the Rabbit'. Someone says 'This'll be good for the gardens - they just need to hold some more regularly-occurring celebrations' and someone else suggests 'Council employee of the month'. Context - the running of the Chinese Garden is estimated at over $500,000 a year and along with the new Forsyth Barr Stadium is a burden on Dunedin rate payers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, particularly of the Christchurc...
Date: 20 Feb 2012
From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011
Reference: PADL-000725
Description: Photographs showing the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, taken 20 February 2011. Particularly of the Christchurch Arts Centre, Botanic Gardens and Cashel Mall. Includes photographs of damage to the former Cantebury College buildings (Christchurch Arts Centre), people enjoying the Botanic Gardens, the Festival of Flowers (flower arrangements and topiary), Curator's House, temporary information centre, portaloos decorated for the Festival, Cashel Mall memorial, tourists, temporary Westpac Bank in a shipping container, turret of the Canterbury Museum, Police Station (Hereford Street) and the City Art Gallery. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "Feb 20 - Aerial from WLG, Arts Centre, Bot Gardens" Quantity: 37 digital photograph(s).
Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :Pills. 05 December 2013
Date: 2013
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0026863
Description: Cartoon shows a man in a hospital bed labelled 'Dunedin' with a doctor and nurse looking over him. His progress chart is shown at the end of the bed as declining. The doctor says 'It's clear the expensive wonder drugs haven't done a thing for him!' The nurse has a thought bubble saying 'And prescribed by such confident quacks.' Beside the bed are two pill bottles labelled 'Chinese garden capsules' and 'Stadium capsules' Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).