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Interview with Elsie Harris
Date: October 1988 - 01 Oct 1998
By: Harris, Elsie, 1901-1989; Jones, Jennifer, active 1988-2003
Reference: OHColl-0721/1
Description: Elsie Harris was born in 1901 in Pauatahanui, Wellington. Talks about her grandparents, her grandfather Jones, a whaler who bought land from the New Zealand Company. Recalls Jones farm in Pauatahanui in 1848, the 1855 earthquake, and an interaction with Maori. Mentions her grandfather's reception visiting family in England, family history, allocation of family wills, the Galloways, the Stewart family (from Ireland), the Taylor family (from Scotland) who owned the Johnsonville Hotel, and the Pauatahanui Hotel owned by her grandfather. Mentions first settler child who came ashore at Petone Beach. Mentions houses, orchard and transport by horse and car. Mentions Mr Plimmerton's influence when land was surveyed for the railway line. Mentions people walked to Wellington for work before Cobb's Coach existed. Recalls a child kidnapped from her grandparents by parents, 14 years after being left with them. Mentions work done by children, and recalls death of four year old sent to herd cows. Mentions school, trains, and the building of roads. Recalls grandfathers whiskey distillery, and talks about the naming of Moonshine Valley. Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - Jennifer Jones Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011373 ; OHLC-005688 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 35 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3950. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Jennifer Jones and H Spencer Harris Search dates: 1840 - 1940
Interview with Helen Waugh
Date: 12 Jan 2007
From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project
By: Waugh, Helen Mary, 1940-
Reference: OHInt-0830-14
Description: Interview with Helen Waugh (nee Gordon), born Ashburton, 1940. Describes spending all her school holidays in Wellington with her grandmother and aunt in Wilton after her father died in 1947. Recalls visits to the old Wilton homestead, and roaming the bush with local children. Describes her aunt Ethel's love of the bush and the timelessness of the Wilton bush. Describes training as a secondary school teacher, marrying and having three children, and living in various places until she returned to Wellington in 1990 to care for her aunt. Discusses researching the Wilton family history and outlines the history from their arrival in Wellington in 1841. Describes how the Wiltons decided to leave the steepest 17 acres of their farm in bush, and how the bush was used for large picnics. Explains that the Wilton farm bush block was sold to Wellington lawyer Martin Chapman. Discusses the history of Wadestown and Wilton and the development of roads and subdivisions in the area. Mentions Job Wilton and local mayors campaigned to make Otari Native Reserve a scenic reserve, and how this happened in 1906. Refers to Wilton's Bush passing to City Council ownership in 1925 after Martin Chapman died, and its being incorporated in the reserve. Discusses the name of the reserve and mentions that it was changed to Otari Native Botanic Garden and Wilton's Bush Reserve in 1999. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 58 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5574. Search dates: 1940 - 1840 - 1990 - 2007
Interviews about the history of Pirongia
Date: 3 Oct 1993 - 1 Jun 1994 - 03 Oct 1993 - 01 Jun 1994
By: Edmonds, Sue, active 1995; Te Awamutu Historical Society
Reference: OHColl-1122
Description: Five interviews with people who lived in Pirongia, mainly in the first half of the 20th century. Specific topics include country life, dairy farming, Pirongia School, Mangapiko School, church life and social events, local people and businesses, impact of WWI and WWII on families. The interviewees are: Flora Monrath Coster, Marian (Molly) Scott Dawson, Edwin Rayner (Ray) Johnson, Noel Ormsby, Margaret Sherwin. Awards/funding - the project received an Award in Oral History grant, 1993 Title supplied by Library Interviewer(s) - Sue Edmonds Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-12455 - OHC-12463 Abstracts: OHA-4403 - OHA-4407 Quantity: 5 interview(s). 9 C60 cassette(s). 5 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Te Awamutu Historical Society, 1994 Search dates: 1840 - 1992 Number of interviews/events: 5