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Date: 20 Oct 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Davis, Nolan Donaldson, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0856-03

Description: Interview with Noel (Nolan) Davis, born in Hastings in 1934. Mentions his mother died when he was five, and the family had a difficult time during World War 2. Talks about working as a shepherd after he left school, then going on a working holiday on a motorbike in the South Island during the summer of 1953-1954. Mentions taking various jobs before he got a job at Joe Perano's whaling station factory in 1956 through personal contacts and his freezing works butchery skills. Refers to working there for five seasons and then doing one season at Great Barrier Island. Mentions cows in calf and a protected right whale being caught. Comments that the whale meat was discarded until a meat plant was established in 1957. Talks about the work he did as a flenser as well as night shifts filling the Kvernar pressure digester with blubber. Mentions accidents at the factory and hazards such as the slippery flensing floor, and bomb shrapnel and an unexploded bomb in blubber. Discusses catching sharks that were attracted into the bay by dumped offal and calves. Reflects on the very long hours worked during the whaling season and not getting home often to see his wife and children. Talks about living conditions and the social life at the whaling station. Refers to working on a farm at Okukari Bay between seasons. Discusses recreational activities in the area including the Arapawa Rowing Club and early water skiing. Comments on moving to Picton, working in the freezing works, and later buying orchards, then a deer farm and finally a native plant nursery, as well as working as a builder. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015996 - OHC-015997 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C90 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 1.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word; Image file - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5767, OHDL-001391. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001392) Search dates: 1934 - 2006

Date: 20 Oct 2005 - 27 Oct 2005

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Jones, Basil Leslie, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0856-11

Description: Interview with Basil Jones, born in Picton in 1934. Talks about his father Harry McCall Jones managing farms in the Marlborough Sounds and working at the whaling station in Fishing Bay during the season. Discusses working for the Railways as a fireman, then in a cheese factory at Tuamarina, with off-season jobs whaling and at the freezing works. Talks about working for a plumber and getting married when he finished whaling in 1963, and taking up rowing. Describes working as a flenser at the Peranos' whaling station, the work involved and the knives used to cut up whales. Describes sharks attacking whales moored in the bay, and nelly birds and cape pigeons attracted by the waste dumped into the water. Talks about pay, living conditions, socialising in the hall, and the team spirit. Mentions also working at the Byron Bay Whaling Company's Great Barrier whaling station with other Marlborough whalers, mainly as a flenser, and talks about living and working conditions there. Refers to driving a whalechaser in his last season and the process of killing a whale. Comments that whaling ended suddenly when whale numbers collapsed. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016012 - OHC-016013 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 2 interview(s). 1.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5775, OHDL-001407. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001408) Search dates: 1934 - 2005

Date: 28 Sep 2005 - 6 Oct 2005 - 13 Oct 2005 - 20 Oct 2005

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Perano, Ronald Oscar, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0856-18

Description: Interview with Ron (Ronald Oscar) Perano, born Blenheim in 1934. Outlines his parent's family backgrounds including his mother being a descendant of an American whaler. Discusses the establishment of the Perano whaling business and the relationship between his father Charlie and Joe snr (Joseph August). Talks about starting in whaling in 1948, working first in the factory driving a steam winch. Comments on factory and living conditions, accidents and safety, processing of the whales, and disposal of factory waste into the bay. Mentions working night shifts in 1957, and later working at the Lookout. Describes the early morning preparations for whaling, manning and conditions at the lookout, and how they identified the position of whales. Comments that humpback whale numbers declined quickly over three years, and Perano Brothers bought a steam whale catcher from Tangalooma (Australia), the Orca, to hunt sperm whales. Outlines problems with the Orca's boiler, and working on it for several months. Describes hunting and catching sperm whales. Comments that whaling became uneconomic when the price of sperm whale oil dropped, and the factory is now a ruin. Outlines doing farm work and shearing in the off season for six years, and working on the scow Echo for four years. Describes starting a mobile sheep shower business in 1963 and buying a weed-spraying business in 1964. Refers to building a 42 foot steel launch, and also having interests in a mussel farm at Horseshoe Bay in Peloris Sound. Describes sailing his boat around the South Island three times, and sailing a new mussel-harvesting boat Pelorus Image from Freemantle, Western Australia. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016028 - OHC-016032 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 5 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s) over 4 days. 4.58 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5782, OHDL-001421. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001422) Search dates: 1934 - 2005

Date: 1907 - 1947 - 2005 - 1934 - 1979

By: New Zealand Brass Bands' Association; Frew, D L, active 1950-1960s; Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-NZBBA

Description: Programmes for national brass band contests held in various centres: Christchurch, Dunedin, Wanganui, Napier, Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington. Years covered are: 1907 (Cover missing) 1925 (2 copies) 1927 1934 (2 copies: 1 hardbound, one softback) 1940 1946-1952 (and including programme for Grand military Display and Quickstep at Cooks Gardens 1 March 1947; and Otago Centenary Quickstep Contest, Carisbrook Ground, 21 February 1948) 1953 (2 copies), 1954, 1955 (2 copies), 1956 (2 copies), 1957-1972, 1973 (2 copies), 1974, 1975 (2 copies), 1976-1979 1987, 1997, 2005 (2 copies) Also includes drill manuals of the New Zealand Brass Band Association for 1949, 1957, and 1969; and the complete amended rules 1953. Two copies of programmes from 1925, 1934 and 1948 Quantity: 53 album(s). 4 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes up to 24 cm

Date: [ca 1910s, 1934, 1950s-2007]

By: Campbell, Aline Margaret, 1937-2007

Reference: PAColl-10284

Description: Photographic prints relating to Alistair and Meg Campbell. The images mainly comprise group photographs of themselves and other people from the New Zealand literary world, taken circa 1950s to circa 2000s by a range of photographers. The collection also includes photographs taken by Mark Pirie of HeadworkX circa 2005-2006, and one photograph of a kereru in a tree taken by T W Collins of Warkworth, likely in the mid 1900s. Two black and white photographs from the early-mid 1900s are by Jean Taylor of the Kaikoura Star. One shows a group of boys from Glendinning Home in Dunedin, likely including Alistair Campbell, who was sent to the orphanage along with his brothers in 1933. Another photograph, likely 1910s, shows a group of children posing in front of a banner labelled, 'Hands across the sea'. The bulk of the photographs are from the 1950s - 2000s, and include images of Meg and Alistair Campbell, and members of their family and friends. Many images were taken at their home in Pukerua Bay, and some photographs show Campbell family dogs. The images are mainly snapshots and group portraits taken at parties and other events. Literary figures feature prominently in the images, as well as other artists, academics, patrons of the arts, and their relatives. Photographs include images of Sam Hunt, Lauris Edmond, Ruth McKay, Jean Watson, Hone Tuwhare, Rachel McAlpine, Caroline Macdonald, Diana Mason, Vincent O'Sullivan, John Thomson, Bill Oliver, Roger Robinson, Harry Rickets, Michael O'Leary, Yilma Tafere Tasew, Mark Pirie, and others. The collection also includes images from a lunch at Vincent O'Sullivan's house in 1989, and Sam Hunt performing on stage. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Aline Margaret Campbell (nee Andersen), better known as Meg Campbell, was a poet and writer. She and her husband, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, lived at Pukerua Bay. Quantity: 52 colour original photographic print(s). 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Originally received as part of A2014-207, Campbell, Aline Margaret Papers, described as MS-Papers-11803-01 to MS-Papers-11803-61.