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Date: 04 Jul 2011

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Urlic, Jack Dominko, 1932-2012

Reference: OHInt-1017-11

Description: Interview with Jack Dominko Urlic. Born in Black Ridge, Mangere on 24 May 1932. Describes family history and the reasons for his father's immigration to New Zealand from Croatia. Explains that his father sent food parcels and money back to Croatia during World War Two. Describes his father's work near Dargaville gum digging and flaxmilling. Discusses how his parents met and their courtship. Describes his father's music shop in Onehunga. Discusses his family's move to Milford, where his mother's brother Arthur had a garage business. Describes the trip from Onehunga to Milford, and explains that his parents bought Stormont's Cake Shop in Takapuna but then sold it and opened a milkbar in Milford. Describes shops and life in Milford and Takapuna in the 1930s, and that his parents worked seven days a week in the shops. Describes experiences at Takapuna School and Campbell's Bay School. Describes a school trip to the Bay of Islands in the 1940s, and participating in sports. Also describes attending church and mistaking Americans arriving in amphibian boats for a Japanese invasion during the war. Describes Milford generally during World War Two and fear of invasion. Discusses schooling at Northcote High School and transportation difficulties getting there. Describes schooling, work, and apprenticeships. Describes his social life in Milford, and explains that his parents bought the Milford Mini-golf course after the war. Explains that Wolsley Avenue was the red light area of Milford, and that two houses were brothels. Describes the Milford Picturedrome, and dances at Pirate Shippe. Explains how people used to sneak in alcohol. Also describes Milford swimming pool. Discusses schooling at Northcote High School and transportation difficulties getting there. Describes schooling, work, and apprenticeships. Describes his social life in Milford, and explains that his parents bought the Milford Mini-golf course after the war. Explains that Wolsley Avenue was the red light area of Milford, and that two houses were brothels. Describes the Milford Picturedrome, and dances at Pirate Shippe. Explains how people used to sneak in alcohol. Also describes Milford swimming pool. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.05 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 5 May 2003 - 05 May 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Northey, Patricia Jean, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0872-12

Description: Interview with Pat (Patricia) Northey, born Auckland in 1941. Talks about growing up at Castor Bay, and going to St Cuthbert's College in Epsom before the Harbour Bridge was built. Refers to working in the laboratory at the Chelsea sugar works, then at the Takapuna Public Library and later at the University of Auckland library. Describes meeting and marrying her Hungarian husband, and the marriage ending after 10 years as he gambled. Refers to applying for a state house because they had little money. Talks about living in a "star" flat in Onehunga, the first time she had lived in close proximity to Maori and Polynesian people, and later finding a semi-detached house. Discusses the layout and amenities of the flat and the house. Comments on doing housework in Remuera to earn some money, and childcare arrangements. Mentions later working in two jobs in order to buy the house. Discusses societal expectations of home ownership, attitudes to working mothers in the 1970s, and the opening hours of supermarkets then. Refers to priorities being paying the rent and buying food, and the hardship when the children were little and she could not go out and work. Comments on leisure activities which were mostly free. Talks about her attitudes to state housing and the domestic purposes benefit. Discusses the lack of responsibility of state housing tenants, and the privilege of having a state house. Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015650 - OHC-015651 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.56 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5619. Search dates: 1941 - 2003

Date: January - June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000535

Description: Photographs of Auckland buildings, taken January to May 2010 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 27 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2014

By: University of Auckland

Reference: EPHDL-0307

Description: Includes digital flyers addressed to residents of each of the following Auckland suburbs. Each flyer shows a map of the suburb: Onehunga, Royal Oak, Avondale, Massey, Eden Terrace, Ellerslie, St Johns Quantity: 7 Electronic document(s).