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Date: 26 Apr 2001 - 30 Jul 2001

By: Abigail, Jill, 1939?-

Reference: OHColl-0579

Description: Volunteers of the Otaki Citizens Advice Bureau talk about its role in the community and its management. Includes recollections of their training, colleagues and experiences. Includes some history of Otaki area. Other - Copies also held by the Otaki Citizens Advice Bureau and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux Arrangement: Files arranged as OHDL-000990 - OHDL-000997 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 8 Electronic document(s) - digital abstracts. 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 15 Jan 2001 to 6 Sep 2001 - 15 Jan 2001 - 06 Sep 2001

By: Pihema, Joseph, active 2001

Reference: OHColl-0879

Description: Interviews in Maori and English to investigate the early development and changes over time in kapa haka in the Gisborne and East coast districts. The interviewees are John Coleman, Temple and Olive Isaacs, Wiremu Kerekere, Bob and Katarina Paenga, Eru Smith, Henare Swann, Turuhira Tatare, Hone Taumaunu, Rawinie Te Kani, Bishop Brown Turei, Paora Whaanga and Barney and Parekowhai Whaitiri. Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Joseph Pihema Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015782 to OHC-015796 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 12 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available biographical information forms only OHA-5660 to OHA-5671.

Date: 05 Apr 2001

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-; Women's Studies Association (N.Z.)

Reference: OHInt-0556-02

Description: Ellen Ellis was born in Westport in 1944. Describes family life, her father (a diplomat), and a family posting to Canada in 1949. Recalls returning to Wellington and secondary school. Talks about her mother's health and treatment. Mentions university study. Describes teacher training college, and work at Victoria University Library, Wellington. Discusses sexuality and relationships. Talks about working at Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Library School, working for Alister Taylor, and the challenges of being a sole parent in full time work. Talks about co-ordinating music for Harry Seresin's The Settlement restaurant, Willis St, Wellington. Talks about the development of her feminist consciousness. Comments on her mother's life. Discusses encounter groups, Bert Potter and Centrepoint. Discusses housing and discriminatory attitudes towards women. Mentions the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Describes Wilderland Commune, Coromandel, New Zealand. Talks about her involvement in the Hecate Women's Health Collective and alternative health groups in Wellington. Describes National Archives work, the feminist librarians' group, teaching on the Women's Studies course, involvement with Women's Studies Association, working as a research consultant, and researching Sandra Coney's book 'Standing in the sunshine'. Talks about TV documentary research on abortion, and various writing projects. Mentions researching Boer War concentration camps. Reflects on feminism in her life, in relationships, housework, emotional equity, and feminist gains. Mentions that child care is still a critical issue. Other - Note: Part of interview was lost. During the recording, a completed tape was reused to record the next part of the interview by mistake. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, photo, biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2650, OHDL-000999.

Date: 08 July 1999 to 02 June 2001 - 08 Jul 1990 - 02 Jun 2001

Reference: OHColl-0841

Description: Interviews from residents of Governors Bay, Banks Peninsular, talking about their lives and events and history of the area. Includes a recording of excerpts from the 75th Annual General Meeting of the Cholmondeley Children's Home Board 18 March 2000. Interviewees are John Allan, Lachlan Griffen, Hillary Hawes and Coyla Radcliffe-Olliver. Interviewer(s) - Michael White, Lyn Wright Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Arrangement: Abstracts: OHA-5683 - OHA-5687 Original recordings: OHC-015828 - OHC-015833 Quantity: 6 C90 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 5 interview(s) (Two interviews 1999 and 2001 with Lachie Griffen). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 13 Aug 2001

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: Boyle, Raye Elizabeth, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0601/02

Description: Raye Elizabeth Boyle, later Sister Bernard, born Taumaranui 1940, after six months moved with parents to Wellsford, North Auckland. Discusses schooling at Wellsford State School and Sacred Heart Convent Wanganui as a boarder; on leaving school, training as a Karitane nurse at Stewart (Stuart?) Home in Wanganui and move to work at Calvary Hospital, Christchurch, 1960. Entered the Little Company of Mary in 1961 and recalls assisting with the babies in the Maternity wing at Calvary Hospital. Discusses postulancy, Novitiate, first vows, types of prayer in religious life, and learning acceptance and tolerance for other members of community. Mentions commencement of Nursing Training school in 1963. Talks about experience in theatres while training and training experience at Wellington hospital with children and casualty and infectious diseases. Describes Recovery unit and recovery nursing. Recalls, with the assistance of Sister Francis, Sister Kathleen, Wellington Hospital and Home of Compassion, setting up the first Theatre Sisters Group now known as Operating Room Nurses Association under the umbrella of the Registered Nurses Association. Reflects on the sale of Calvary Hospital, Christchurch, Wellington and Hawera and explains how the grief and loss was harder each time. Backgrounds move to smaller community, renting a house in Daniell Street [Newtown] and later buying a house in Rintoul Street. Discusses involvement with Sisters, Priests and Brothers for Justice in Newtown; district nursing in Newtown; voluntary district nursing in the Newtown Park flats under the umbrella of Wellington Hospital district nursing; involvement through City Council in setting up `Pennytouch' equivalent to Neighbourhood Watch, getting pensioners to keep an eye out for each other; experience as Rental Arrears Officer for City Council; involvement on Advisory Committee in the Homecare programme set up by Wesleycare, becoming Community Care manager in 1993. Describes the development of the programme for the elderly - making sure their voices are heard etc and also addressing loneliness. Mentions involvement with Age Concern and Women's Night shelter for women who are homeless. Backgrounds the establishment of Catholic Health Care Facilities of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2001. Mentions Vatican II and the changes over the years since. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009387-009390 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3038.

Date: 2 December 2001 - 02 Dec 2001

From: Sewn pictures - Tivaevae stories oral history project

By: Musgrove, Tana, 1954-

Reference: OHInt-0933-2

Description: Venue - Otara Interviewer(s) - Grace Hutton Venue - Otara Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017136; OHLC-009537 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) OHA-6161 and OHDL-000780. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available edited.

Date: 20 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Norcliffe, Billy, active 1950-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-04

Description: Interview with Billy Norcliffe about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Mentions he was living in Kaimata near Greymouth with his wife and two young children, building their house and working for the Electricity Department, when he developed TB. Talks about being in an isolation unit in Grey Hospital for about a month, then being sent to Cashmere for treatment. Refers to complete bedrest for several months and having a lung collapsed. Discusses how patients spent their time, and occupational therapy in the middle unit when he was recovering. Refers to being sent home after a few months, and continuing to have X-rays, tests for reinfection and management of the collapsded lung for a long time. Comments on the people who had rallied round to help his wife while he was sick. Discusses trying for a long time to get another job, always mentioning in his applications that the had had TB, and eventually getting a job at Addington which allowed him to move to a drier climate. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012726 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4266, OHDL-000898. Search dates: 1950 - 2001

Date: 29 May 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Rich, Marina Joan, 1935-2011

Reference: OHInt-0837-07

Description: Interview with Marina Rich (nee Hill) about her experiences as a teenage tuberculosis (TB) patient and the two periods she spent in Coronation Hospital. Refers to first being admitted in 1947 when she was 14 and had just started high school, and having complete bed rest for three months. Refers to Dr MacIntyre who made a fuss of her. Mentions most of the patients were adults and she grew up quickly. Comments on gradually being allowed out of bed as she improved. Talks about the useful skills she learnt doing occupational therapy while recouperating in the "middle san". Talks about her schooling having ended when she was admitted to hospital, and working after she had recouperated after leaving hospital. Discusses haemorrhaging two years later and being readmitted to hospital where she was treated with the new drug streptomycin. Comments that she was frightened the second time but not the first time she was in hospital. Reflects that she now worries about all the X-rays she had. Mentions she worried about a recurrence, and was not allowed to breast feed her five children. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012729 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4269, OHDL-000901. Search dates: 1947 - 2001

Date: 16 May 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

Reference: OHInt-0837-02

Description: Interview with John about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in Otago in the 1940s. Talks about developing pleurisy as an eleven-year-old when he was in hospital with appendicitis, and then having TB diagnosed. Describes being in the TB hospital in Dunedin [Waikari], not being allowed out of bed for six months, the windows being open all weathers, and patients dying. Mentions needing physiotherapy to help him walk again. Refers to learning to play cards, not having any schooling in the hospital, later being transferred to another facility at Pleasant Valley south of Palmerston when he was more mobile, and being enrolled for Correspondence School once he was there. Comments on his family travelling by bus from Mosgiel to visit when they could, often during his six-monthly visits to Dunedin for Xrays. Mentions treatment with streptomycin. Comments on having an operation at Dunedin Hospital to collapse a lung, where the TB patients were put in the same ward as schizophrenics. Refers to a visit by cabinet minister Mabel Howard. Talks about being sent home to recouperate, and his father having to build a semi-enclosed room on the verandah for him to live in. Describes a major operation he had in 1948 to remove part of a lung. Comments on the effects of his missed schooling, and on getting emphysema later because he smoked. Reflects on his experiences and their impact on his life. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012724 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4264, OHDL-000896. Search dates: 1940 - 2001

Date: 24 Aug 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Thomas, David, active 1950-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-05

Description: Interview with David Thomas about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the 1960s. Talks about his mother having TB when he was a young child, and having trouble with his chest throughout his childhood. Discusses having a shadow found on a lung in 1960, being admitted to Coronation Hospital and treated with drugs for TB. Comments on being on an open balcony ward. Refers to Dr Endicott who was also his mother's doctor. Describes how he tested negative for TB although he was not told at the time, and it was not until the 1980s that he was found to have pulmonary aspergillosis ("farmers' lung"). Mentions he was working in the grain industry and had been helping on a uncle's farm during school holidays, where he would have been exposed to aspergillis. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012727 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4267, OHDL-000899. Search dates: 1960 - 2001

Date: 29 Apr 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Quinlan, Frances, active 1940-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-01

Description: Interview with Frances Quinlan. Talks about being diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) during World War II when she was 21, and contacts she had had with people whom she learnt later had the disease. Refers to her family all being x-rayed and their home fumigated. Discusses going to Coronation Hospital in Cashmere, thinking at first that she had gone there to die, and refers to Dr MacIntyre. Talks about being in a ward with the beds all facing an open balcony regardless of the weather. Comments on keeping warm, the food, how patients passed time, longterm friendships they developed, and patients dying. Mentions her first treatment was having a lung collapsed, and that treatments were not explained to her. Discusses being bedridden for many months until she began to recover and could gradually spend time out of bed. Mentions life in the middle sanitorium which she was moved to after a year, sleeping in small huts, scrubbing the floors, being weighed once a week, and getting more privileges as they gained weight. Refers to air raid practices in 1943. Comments on having visitors allowed twice a week, some friends not visiting, and being conscious of being contageous. Talks about attitudes to TB at the time and the numbers of people who had scars on their lungs from it. Reflects on the impact of her experiences on her life and feeling that her health would always be a problem. Mentions marrying and going to live in the country, playing golf for many years but not being able to take up tennis again. Describes a serious chest infection she had while she was pregnant. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012723 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4263, OHDL-000895. Search dates: 1940 - 2001

Date: 24 Oct 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Piper, Leslie Walter, 1907-2002

Reference: OHInt-0837-06

Description: Interview with Leslie Piper about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the late 1920s. Mentions that he had been working in a bakery where he got flour on the lungs. Talks about being admitted to the "upper san" (Cashmere Sanitorium?) at Coronation Hospital in 1927 where many of the patients were returned soldiers from the 1914-1918 war. Refers to life in the sanatorium and a severe winter when they had snow on the ends of their beds in their open ward. Refers to a nurse "Gunboat" Smith who insisted the patients made their beds correctly. Talks about good times with the other patients, and occupational therapy making cane chairs, stools and basketwork. Mentions the ambulatory patients helping in Dr Blackmore's garden, building crystal sets and improvising speakers for them. Mentions he was in hospital for 16 months, leaving shortly after his 21th birthday. Comments that he was turned down for service during World War II. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012728 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4268, OHDL-000900. Search dates: 1927 - 2001

Date: 3 Sep 2001 - 03 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Ohlsen, Barrie Thomas Frederick, 1931-; Ohlsen, Zoe Lyle, active 1950-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-14

Description: Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen about their experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) orphan (Barrie) and as tuberculosis (TB) patients in the 1940s and 1950s. Barrie talks about his parents dying of TB when he was a child and having no recollection of them. Refers to living in the the Fresh Air Home for children of TB patients at Cashmere with his sister, and later being moved to the Methodist Orphanage and Children's Home while his sister was taken in by an aunt. Discusses his life in the orphanage, food, discipline, and occasional visits to relatives. Barrie refers to leaving the orphanage when he was 15 and being admitted to the sanatorium in 1949 after coughing blood. Comments that he had trouble getting a job after he was discharged. Talks about being admitted to Coronation Hospital a second time, by which stage there were drug treatments for TB, and meeting Zoe there. Zoe talks about her experience as a TB patient - the shock of the diagnosis, bed rest, mass x-rays and other patients dying. She discusses visitors, and recreation and entertainment for the patients. They talk about romances in the "san", gambling, occupational therapy, food, Dr MacIntyre and the nursing staff. Barrie refers to staying with Zoe's mother when he was discharged and getting married in 1956. He talks about a recurrence of TB when it migrated from one lung to the other, and having surgery. Discuss starting their married life with very little money, gradually getting established and having children. Barrie reflects on talking to service clubs about his experiences as a TB patient. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012738 - OHC-012739 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4276, OHDL-000908. Search dates: 1931 - 2001

Date: 1 Oct 2001 - 01 Oct 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Reeve, Betty Margaret, active 1947-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-13

Description: Interview with Betty Reeve about her experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the late 1940s. Refers to being diagnosed with TB in 1947 when she was eighteen years old, and being admitted to Cashmere Sanatorium. Comments on being devastated at being cut off from the outside world for 12 months with the first two months as total bed rest. Talks about the friendly patients in the women's ward who helped her forget her self pity. Mentions patients came from as far away as Wellington and the West Coast. Comments that she was not allowed to knit while on bed rest but could read magazines, and that she had few visitors. Mentions the relief she felt when she was allowed to get up for an hour a day. Refers to having a lung collapse or pneumothorax, and needing follow-up treatment for it for three years. Discusses moving to the "top san" where she had a single room and patients could socialise during the day and do knitting or needlework. Comments she was moved down to the "middle san" where patients "hardened off" in huts with doors always open. Refers to being discharged from hospital after a year, and having to reconnect with friends whose lives had moved on. Talks about having regular check-ups until she was declared fit to work again, and going back to Coronation Hospital to train as a nurse. Describes an occasion when a patient haemhorraged badly when she was on night duty, and another patient haemhorraging and dying before any other staff arrived. Talks about leaving after two years to get married and getting pregnant shortly afterwards. Refers to needing regular check-ups during her first pregnancy and being advised not to breastfeed. Reflects on how she matured during her time as a patient and a nurse. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012737 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4275, OHDL-000907. Search dates: 1947 - 2001

Date: 18 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Rowley, Olive Joyce, 1921-2004

Reference: OHInt-0837-15

Description: Interview with Joyce Rowley about her experience as a tuberculosis (TB) patients in the 1940s and 1950s. Talks about the shock of her diagnosis and being admitted to Coronation Hospital on May 10th 1946, at a time when she had been married for three years. Comments on having full bed rest on an open balcony, the comparative luxury of the "upper san" once she was transferred there for a few weeks, and the strict and spartan "middle san" that was the final recovery section. Mentions patients dying, and mothers not seeing their children. Discusses the staff, friendships with other patients, and patients' chores in the middle san. Talks about having one day a fortnight out of hospital when she was in the middle san, and being discharged after 13 months. Refers to having a pneumothorax, and needing continued treatment after discharge. Refers to having a lung removed later, a few months after having a baby prematurely. Comments on not seeing her baby for many months, and on the contribution and attention of her husband while she was in hospital. Refers to finding out years later that her mother had had TB when she was born. Reflects on TB having taken ten years out of her life. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012740 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4277, OHDL-000909. Search dates: 1946 - 2001

Date: 31 Oct 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Chisnall, Peter Charles, active 1952-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-12

Description: Interview with Peter Chisnell about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the 1950s. Talks about having health problems when he was doing his compulsory military service in 1953 but being accused of malingering. Mentions he started haemmorhaging after he left the army, was diagnosed with TB and admitted to Coronation Hospital. Refers to Dr McLeod, Dr Enticott, and Dr MacIntyre who arranged for him to get a war pension because the Army doctors had failed to diagnose his TB. Comments on treatment with paramycin and having a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). Discusses other patients including a prisoner from Paparoa, a bookmaker who took bets from patients, and another who had his girlfriend sneak into his hut at night. Comments on the amount of sexual activity among the recovering patients. Tells of patients sneaking out to the pub, taxi drivers sneaking beer in for them, and how he supplied tots of spirits to chronic patients. Mentions patients who were expected to die were put in the observation ward with a bottle of beer or stout on their cabinet. Describes how he discharged himself when he was about to be kicked out of the hospital after 15 months for misconduct. Refers to having 12 months at home under medical supervision before going back to work. Reflects that his fitness from participation in sports had contributed to his recovery. Comments on deciding never to marry because of the prejudice he experienced after he recovered. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012735 - OHC-012736 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4274, OHDL-000906. Search dates: 1953 - 2001

Date: 12 Jul 2001

By: Dalzell, D'Arcy, active 2001; Shaw, Reginald Jeffrey, 1904-2001

Reference: OHColl-0563/1

Description: Reg Shaw was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1904. Recalls his parents and the family's emigration to New Zealand in 1908. Describes his father's work as a builder, employment with Walter Graham and Sons in Christchurch and move to Wanganui in 1917. Recalls that this was to enable his father, Ben Shaw, to supervise the construction of the Sarjeant Gallery on behalf of Walter Graham. Describes living at 48 Somme Parade since 1917. Discusses early plans for a harbour in Wanganui and the transporting of frozen meat from the freezing works to ships. Discusses the Sarjeant Gallery and its construction from Oamaru stone. Recalls the opening of the Gallery and his father's role as a stonemason. Explains the history and construction of the Durie Hill Tower and the transporting of stones for it on a togo up the river. Describes the Tower's construction with a trammel and the fact that the construction was not finished as originally planned. Explains his interest in the motor mechanic industry in Wanganui, apprenticeship at Chevannes Garage and partnership with Ozzie Allen. Recalls his time in the Army. Describes becoming an insurance assessor, playing `too much sport' and Lodge involvement. Talks about marrying Connie Carvell in 1933, his children Peter, Brian and Graham and his father living with them for 23 years. Notes that he has his licence at the age of 98. Describes Victoria Avenue in 1917 including trams, cars and early engineering businesses. Mentions being one of the first A Grade mechanics in the country. Interviewer(s) - D'Arcy Dalzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008321 - OHC-008322 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2566. Two photographs of Reg Shaw

Date: 18 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Leckey, Richard Edward, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0562/07

Description: Richard Leckey was born in Gazaiabad in 1937. Explains that his father worked for the railways, talks about his transfers and recalls memories of Kotri, railway houses and servants. Mentions his brothers and step-sisters, his own schooling at Lawrence College. Recalls his experiences of partition. Talks of his sister living in New Zealand, followed by the rest of the family, and his father's money in India. Talks of his carpentry apprenticeship in Auckland and describes his various jobs with hydro schemes. Mentions his wife's work on a psychiatric ward, his work in the same hospital and at a freezing works. Mentions his returned serviceman's loan, wanting to buy land. Talks of Maori associations, his genealogy, the SAS in New Zealand and why he left it. Explains the changes in his religions and mentions Indian religions. Talks of his family in Australia, Pakistan and England, school uniform, western clothes, mealtimes and games played and mixing with Muslim children. Mentions club membership and cultural differences. Talks of his drinking habit, settling in New Zealand and outlines the differences in lifestyle. Talks about his property in Karamea, and interest in forestry, his carpentry and building. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008512, OHC-008513 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2645.

Date: 2 Apr 1998 - 28 Jan 2001 - 02 Apr 1998

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Donaldson, Alan George, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0509/18

Description: Alan Donaldson was born in Taumaranui in 1958. Discusses his family's history in the area and the family farm at Kaitieke. Talks about his education, decision to go shearing, shearing class at Benneydale and a Massey course. Discusses shearing gear, clothing, shed routines, shearing gang jobs such as `sheepo' and `rousie', atmosphere in the sheds, wages and shearing in Central Otago. Mentions Murray McSkimming. Talks about differences between crossbred and merino shearing. Explains his 1980 season's tally of over 70,000 sheep. Discusses shearing in Australia, England and Norway and being in competitions in England and Scotland. Talks about records and competitions in New Zealand and controversy over a particular record which was wiped. Discusses the development of his own contract run including hiring staff, hierarchies, accommodation, food, the contract, ACC, wage rates, the trade union, workplace hazards, shearers employed and relationships between farmers, contractors and shearers. Discusses evening entertainment, `getting along', race relations, group tolerance, substance abuse and sexual behaviour. Mentions bad conditions encountered and the Employment Contracts Act. Discusses the Australian Union, the wide comb debate of the early 1980s and the test match at Euroa. Mentions team members. Discusses New Zealand shearers in Australia. Talks about wool handling, wool classing and competition shearing. Discusses the development of his own shearing technique. Mentions Roger Cox and the Te Whara (Te Whata) family. Discusses the financial viability of shearing and his own goals. Mentions the Tarrant family. Talks about the impact of shearing on his family and their move to a farm near Kikikau. Mentions wife Cathy Donaldson and children Samuel, Thomas and Jessica. Describes farm management, employees, opinions on the future of the wool and shearing industries and influences on his own life. Interviewer(s) - Nikki Dalziell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2514. Photographs of Alan Donaldson, 1983 Golden Shears champion

Date: 17 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hart, Renee Sylvia, 1919-

Reference: OHint-0562/06

Description: Renee Hart was born in Worthing, Sussex, England on 20 June 1919. Mentions her passports, her attitude to her nationality and the postings of her father's regiment. Talks of her parents' marriage and children. Describes her father's move to India as a bandsman and how the family travelled there. Describes the band's musical commitments. Talks of her father's change from playing brass to stringed instruments and piano. Mentions the governors of various regions in India. Relates the details of the family's return to England and their subsequent return to India. Talks of her mother's occupation in hairdressing, her sister's role in the business and her own training, the techniques used at the time, their Indian customers with reference to privacy for various races. Mentions social life in the hills and teaching dancing with her sisters. Mentions her family's religion and censoring the forces' mail in wartime. Talks of her husband's family connections with India, their meeting and living in India. Describes sports clubs, social clubs and membership, relationships, modes of transport. Explains what their accommodation was like, mentions bathrooms and toilets at home and at boarding school. Mentions servants. Talks about her children, her parents and siblings settling in New Zealand. Describes her father's work and pension husband's job situation. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral Histroy Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008508, OHC-008509 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2643.