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Date: 16, 27 January 1993; 4, 9, 16 February 1993 - 16 Jan 1993 - 16 Feb 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Marsh, Cath, active 1993; Paskell, Henrietta, 1898-1997

Reference: OHInt-0148/21

Description: Henrietta Paskell, born in Gore 1898, is the youngest child of Frederick and Mary Henke. She attended primary school at Waipahi and Arthurton schools leaving to work as a domestic and cow-milker for a number of people. At about age 16 Hettie began work as a waitress at the Commercial Hotel and then later worked in the Club Hotel. After her marriage to Fleming Paskell, they went to work as married couple in Waikaka Valley. They moved to Manuka Creek and then to Milton where Hettie bought and ran a store for a number of years. She remained living in Milton until she moved to Holmdene where she resides now. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Balclutha Interviewer(s) - Cath Marsh Venue - Balclutha Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018562-018566; OHLC-010001-010005 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6429 and OHDL-000755.

Date: 9 Nov 1948

From: Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Mobile Unit sound recordings

Reference: OHC-007631

Description: Items performed by the Milton Pipe Band. James Armstrong Stewart and James Bridgeman Gray of Milton discuss place names, buildings, businesses, the flour mill and other aspects of Milton's history. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).

Date: 22 September 1999 - 22 Sep 1999

From: Race Relations Conciliators Oral History Project

By: Hirsh, Walter, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0751-02

Description: New Zealand Race Relations Conciliator from 1986 to 1989. Born in Munchen-Gladbach, Germany, in 1936. Mentions family's arrival in New Zealand and their settlement in Milton - discusses family members left behind in Germany. Mentions fathers involvment in Dunedin's Jewish community - describes the barriers his family experienced in practicing their religion - compares Jewish experience of assimilation in New Zealand and Australia. Recalls attending Macandrew Intermediate and Otago Boys School in Dunedin, before travelling overseas in 1955 - gives reasons for visiting Israel. Discusses attending Wellington Teachers' College and graduating in 1959 before teaching in Wellington - mentions marriage to wife Adele in 1959. Talks about receiving the 1975 Fulbright Fellowship - describes the areas of research undertaken and visiting various bilingual programmes with the Navaho and Mohawk Indians in the United States and Canada. Discusses how he put the ideas developed through the Fellowship into practice during time as principal of Karori West Normal School and Mount Cook School. Describes how he was appointed Race Relations Conciliator in 1985 - mentions Geoffrey Palmer, Hiwi Tauroa and Hone Turei. Discusses the Race Relations Act 1972. Mentions the need for sensitivity in the Conciliator's role, previous Conciliators and the public expectations regarding the ethnicity of the Conciliator. Defines the role of the Conciliator - describes the climate of Maori-Pakeha relations in New Zealand in the mid 1980s. Discusses various Waitangi Tribunal claims. Talks about the different groups of staff who worked in the Office of the Race Relations Conciliator - mentions the establishment of the Christchurch and Wellington offices. Describes the implementation of the Secondary School Students Cultural Exchange programme, youth forums, Marae Experience programmes and the inclusion of taha Maori into the New Zealand school curriculum. Talks about the establishment of the Educator of Racism at Auckland Hospital, a high-profile case at the Auckland University Marae, and the role the Office played in these cases. Recalls the Office's involvement in the planning of the 1990 Sesquicentennial - discusses his feelings about the commemorations. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from books, magazines, and newspapers Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012708, OHC-012709, OHC-012710 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5442 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Photocopied articles include copies of photographs of Walter Hirsh Search dates: 1936 - 1999

Date: 26 Jul 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Ashton, Courtney John, 1909-

Reference: OHInt-0185/04

Description: Jack Ashton was born in Dunedin in 1909. Talks about his family's move to Tautuku when he was three and his father's employment scutching at a flax mill. Notes that the family lived in a tent for eighteen months. Describes his childhood near Balclutha and in Milton. Talks about passing the Public Service Entrance exam in 1925 and becoming a cadet with the State Advances Corporation. Discusses some of the Corporation staff. Notes that between 1925 and 1939 he boarded in 26 places. Talks about doing accountancy at night school. Explains his office work. Discusses the effect of the Depression on public service salaries and comments on the abandonment of Corporation properties during the Depression. Describes the establishment of the Mortgage Corporation in 1935 with T.N. Smallwood and A.D.Park as directors. Talks about moves to Napier, Invercargill and Hamilton with the Corporation as Accountant. Discusses the Rehabilitation Loans Committee, the Housing Allocation Committee, the Mortgagors' and Lessees' Rehabilitation Act 1936, the group housing scheme, capitalisation of family benefit and the sale of state houses to tenants. Describes being Branch Mananger in Invercargill and Nelson. Comments on Ministers of Housing J.R. Hanan, William Fox and John Rae. Describes a difficult position as Inspector at Head Office of the Corporation. Talks about becoming Managing Director in 1969 and the satisfaction of going from cadet to this position. Comments on the Corporation's relationship with the State Services Commission and Sir Robert Muldoon's opinion of the State Advances Corporation. Notes the difficulties of combining urban and rural lending. Venue - Lower Hutt : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Jack Ashton's home at Lower Hutt Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 407.

Date: 04 Jan 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/291

Description: Letter to Jim Henderson from Alfred Herring, outlining his life. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Copy of letter at MS-Papers-1239, folder 89 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0299 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 13 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.