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Date: Sep 1990 - Sep - Nov 1995 - Nov 2002 - 01 Sep 1990 - 01 Nov 2002

By: Khan, Jean Monica, 1931-

Reference: OHColl-0675

Description: Jean M. Khan reads her autobiography which includes details of her family, wartime rationing, fighter planes, the blackout and her father's wartime Air Force experiences in England. Talks of her Fijian husband, their children, becoming a Muslim. Describes living in Fiji and New Zealand, finding work. Includes poems about her lifetime experiences. 'The challenge of a lifetime' comprises poems on the nature of her Islamic faith with some interpretation. Explains her names of Cindy K. Meadows and Sister Yasmin. 'Empathy' elaborates details of, and reinforces, Islamic faith. Describes a visit to Mecca. Includes the introduction to the gospel of Barnabas Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 8 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) 1 photocopied volume of the typewritten manuscript of 'The challenge of a lifetime'. Complete work. 1 printed abstract(s) 1 printed typescript of 'The one who cares'. Complete work. 1 printed abstract(s) 1 handwritten transcript of 'The one who cares' in four volumes. Complete work. 1 printed abstract(s) 15 articles entitled 'Empathy' bound individually. 1 event(s). 22 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Photocopied photographs of Jean M. Khan mounted in the books Search dates: 1939 - 2002

Date: 8 Oct 1993 - 08 Oct 1993

By: Clunie, Fergus, active 1985-1994

Reference: OHColl-0155/1

Description: Fergus Clunie was Director of the Fiji Museum until the mid 1980s when he came to New Zealand and worked on a King Country farm. He became curator of Pompallier House, which was in dire structural trouble, in early 1988. The Trust (Historic Places Trust) wanted to resolve problems with the building. Refers to Alan Nixon, chief engineer for the Works Consultancy, Ruth Ross, Pompallier House historian, Mr Wilson, project manager, and Jeremy Salmond, conservation architect. Gives details of restoration and describes the goal of achieving a self-generating income for the building compatible with the building's history. Interviewer(s) - Gerry Brackenbury Venue - Russell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005462 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1. 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Transcript - Ab 1081.

Date: 08 Mar 1985

From: NZ News Ltd: Sound recordings

By: Upton, Geoffrey Thomson, 1912-1989

Reference: OHInt-0135-01

Description: Geoffrey Upton gives details of the amalgamation of the 'Lyttelton times' and 'Taranaki daily news' into NZ Newspapers Ltd in 1925. Discusses the Leys family, experiences as a student at Cambridge University in England and as a reporter in Glasgow, Christchurch and Auckland, mentions fellow students and newspaper staff. Describes his military experiences before, during and after World War II in Fiji, Auckland and the Solomon Islands with reference to the sinking of the 'Niagara'. Explains history of the acquisition of 'Waikato times', Hilton Keys' involvement, 'Northern advocate', 'Southland times', 'Hawkes bay herald-tribune' and Hawkes Bay Newspapers Ltd, 'Napier daily telegraph', Brierley involvement, 'Eve magazine', 'NZ home journal', 'NZ pictorial', details of editorial policy with reference to Korean war and Suez affair, editors Eric Dumbleton and others. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Ross Sayers Venue - Auckland Accompanying material - Copies of newspaper articles from the Auckland star about the passenger ship Niagara which was sunk by a mine. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002462 - OHC002463A Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 429. Search dates: 1912 - 1985

Date: 14 September 2011 - 14 Sep 2011

From: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Engineering New Zealand oral history project

By: La Roche, John Charles, 1937-; La Roche, Sue, active 1940s-2011; Robinson, Winsbury James, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0965-09

Description: Interview with Jim Robinson, conducted 14 September 2011. Interviewee discusses his childhood, education, and his service in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the second world war and training as a pilot. The interview also discusses university study, working on a transmission line from Bunnythorpe to Haywards, and working at the Auckland Electric Power Board (AEPB), and various projects, such as the reticulation of Waiheke Island. Also discusses his work for the Fiji Electrical Authority in the early 1970s. Abstracted by - John La Roche Interviewer(s) - John La Roche Interviewer(s) - Sue La Roche Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 digital photograph(s) Jpeg file. 1 printed abstract(s). 1.59 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - Wave files; textual files - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1900 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 26 Jun 2000

From: Pacific War Stories oral history project

By: Dunlop, Robert Gordon, 1920-2010

Reference: OHInt-0921-01

Description: Interview with Robert (Bob) Gordon Dunlop, born in Hawera in 1920. Talks about his family's background in Scotland and New Zealand. Comments on his father serving in the mounted rifles in Egypt and the south of France during World War I. Talks about the hardships growing up on a dairy farm in the 1920s, living in a two-bedroom house with a family of nine and milking cows in the early morning. Discusses food, clothing, family holidays, haymaking and his schooling. Comments on Maori land issues, politics and the Depression. Refers to working for stock and station agents after leaving school, first as an office boy, then as an auctioneer's clerk and later a junior agent with a car. Talks about Hawera Aerodrome being built on part of his grandfather's farm. Recalls hearing about war being declared in Europe but not joining the army until he was 21. Talks about being assigned to serve in the Pacific after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, and being sent to Fiji. Comments on doing construction work there, and later being sent to Norfolk Island. Refers to having Jack Marshall as Company commander. Talks about going to New Caledonia and then to Guadalcanal on American destroyers, and the devastation they found at Lunga Beach. Describes the taking of Mono Island by New Zealand troops, being in the first lot ashore, and some New Zealanders being killed by American shells. Refers to their 1914 Enfield rifles, dealing with fear and stress, and how officers dealt with the situation. Comments on the attitudes of veterans from Europe to Pacific theatre veterans after the war, and on the effects of his experiences on his life. Talks about being invalided out of the Army after returning to New Zealand and working on Alec Corrigan's farm for a time. Discusses returning to work for a stock and station agent, meeting and marrying Gladys, and their children. Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDV-0024 - OHDV-0027 Quantity: 4 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5094, OHDL-000789. Search dates: 1920 - 1939 - 2000 - 1945

Date: 11 Sep 1995, 18 Sep 1995, 26 Sep 1995 - 11 Sep 1995 - 26 Sep 1995

From: YWCA (Wgtn) Oral History Project

By: Cotterill, Margaret Hazel, 1910-2005

Reference: OHInt-0351-04

Description: Margaret Hazel Cotterill (nee Williamson) was born in 1910 in Waimate. Talks about family, childhood memories, the Influenza Epidemic and boarding at Timaru Girls High School from 1924. Outlines training as kindergarten teacher and association with Girl Guides. Talks about Girl Guide badges and camps with Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) members. Provides early memories of the YWCA, position as secretary from 1936 and life in a hostel. Describes recreational activities including dances with servicement during World War II. Discusses sports, millinery and cookery classes, sex education during the War, the thrift club and move from Christchurch to Hamilton as YWCA General Secretary 1940. Outlines relationship between the YWCA and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Details work in Hamilton, Palmerston North in 1945 and Dunedin. Talks about staffing, training, wages and conferences. Describes 1948 visit to Canada, education at Toronto University, work for the Children's Aid Society in Ottawa, visit to England, and YWCA's refugee budget and work. Outlines return to New Zealand as Wellington General Secretary. Recounts building new YWCA residence through fundraising and grants. Touches on move to San Francisco 1958, marriage and years spent in England. Discusses work with World YWCA in Fiji in depth. Describes Christian and political elements within the YWCA. Recounts election as New Zealand National President 1973. Provides history of the Wellington YWCA and invovlement with women's liberation. Talks about her 1977 Her Majesty's Commemorative Medal and 1979 CBE. Discusses the current and future role of the YWCA. Interviewer(s) - Judith Byrne Accompanying material - Abstract also contains a range of newspaper articles 1940's-1970's focusing on Margaret Cotterill or the YWCA, YWCA newsletter Herstory article by Margaret Cotterill and notification of her life membership with the YWCA. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013865, OHC-013866, OHC-013867, OHC-013868 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4945. Photograph of Margaret Williamson c.1930's. Photograph of Margaret Cotterill receiving CBE award 1979

Date: 03 Jun 1996

From: Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project

By: Marino, David Wi Pauro, active 1940s-1990s

Reference: OHInt-0610-3

Description: David Wi Pauro Marino talks about his extended family and connection to the Silbery family. Provides memories of World War II. Discusses local personalities and names in Te Horo and Manakau. Talks about catching and cooking eels and other kaimoana including whitebait. Also describes pig hunting and collecting puha, blind eels, freshwater crayfish and mussels. Touches on local history including pre-European Maori wars. Outlines work after leaving school as an airforce engineer and time spent based in Fiji. Compares Fijian and Maori forms of cooking. Discusses New Zealand racial issues including the 1949 All Black tour, and Maori in the airforce. Talks about career change to railways and move to live and work in Australia. Details changes in Te Horo since childhood and memories of the Otaki kaumatua, Patete Nopera, his wedding, the death of his father and the local Chinese families. Interviewer(s) - Michael Walsh Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013211, OHC-013212 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4609.

Date: 14 February 2000 - 14 Feb 2000

From: Race Relations Conciliators Oral History Project

By: Laidlaw, Christopher Robert, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0751-03

Description: New Zealand Race Relations Conciliator from 1989 to 1992. Born in Dunedin, 1943. Discusses attending school in Dunedin at Macandrew Intermediate then Kings High School. Talks about attending Otago University between 1962 and 1967 - mentions studying towards his Masters in Geography. Talks about being offered the Rhodes Scholarship and his time studying at Oxford between 1968 and 1970. Mentions his rugby career with the All Blacks. Talks about beginning work for the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972 and being posted to Suva and then Paris. Recalls working for the International Energy Agency from 1978 to 1979 before working at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London until 1984 - mentions Sridath Ramphal. Discusses returning to New Zealand to work in the Prime Minister's Department before accepting a position as the New Zealand High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania. Discusses appointment as Race Relations Conciliator - mentions the legislative framework, the complaints proccess and the 'working style' of the Office of the Race Relations Conciliator. Describes the bicultural structure of the Office and their part in the 1990 Sesquicentennial celebrations. Recalls reactions to his appointment from certain politicians and Maori groups - mentions Jim Bolger and Winston Peters. Discusses Judy Cunningham's report on the media treatment of race relations. Talks about Maori-Pakeha relations with regard to Doug Graham. Discusses the concept of conciliation - mentions the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Talks about Matui Rata's concept of 'a nation within a nation'- discusses the importance of developing both Maori and Pakeha identities. Recalls reasons for parliamentary select committee enquiry in 1994. Discusses the difference between racism and racial prjudice Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from newspapers and magazines Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012711, OHC-012712 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.18 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5443 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Photocopied articles includes copies of photographs of Chris Laidlaw Search dates: 1943 - 2000

Date: 8 Jun 1988 - 08 Jun 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Highet, Henry Ashton, 1892-1989

Reference: OHInt-0006/36

Description: Describes family background, early interest in sailing and yachts, education, first jobs, Public Works Department, enlistment in infantry, gaining a commission, transport by 'Ulimaroa', to United Kingdom with 16th Reinforcements, Sling Camp, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, artillery and mud, casualty rate among officers, under sniper fire, wounded, evacuated to Boulogne, officers rest home in Brighton, profiteers, career of brothers in army, how he won military cross. Recalls the Second Somme, following German retreat, curious story of prostitute at Boulogne, relations with French and Belgium civilians, leave in Paris, venereal disease, Ettie Rout, morale after Passchendaele, relations with American troops, Etaples, the 'Silent Division'. Discusses post war emotional problems, career with Public Works since the war, rehabilitation, describes bridge construction around Napier and Gisbourne, marriage, coal rope-ways, recalls trips back to Europe to see battlefields, RSA, institutionalization in RSA home. Describes his invention of the P-class yacht, describes yachting days as a teenager in Wellington, and building of yachts from prewar to 1934 (first P-class?), building yachts and sailing at Whangarei, the 'Tauranga Class' yachts, winning Yachtsman of the Year in 1963, Bernard Fergusson Trophy, describes in detail various regattas, recalls supervising relief camp at Dannevirke during 1930s, other public work projects, building bridges in Fiji during World War II. Venue - Levin Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Levin War Veterans' Home, Levin Accompanying material - Copy of newspaper article - '96 years celebrated', undated, unknown source; Obituaries:- 'Designer's legacy a yachting classic', Dominion Sunday Times, 5/2/89; Dominion 4/2/89; typewritten notes by Harry Highet about Passchendaele; handwritten notes entitled 'Approximate movements and work after retiring'. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0478, OHDL-000326. Black and white photograph of Harry Highet, 1988

Date: 31 01 1995 - 31 Jan 1995

From: A history of Indian women in Aotearoa

By: Soni, Kantha (Dr), active 1951-1995

Reference: OHInt-0063/08

Description: Kantha Soni details how she was born in Fiji, speaks Hindu, Gujarati and English, that her religion is Hindu and how she came to New Zealand in 1951 to study to become a doctor. Notes that she is the first New Zealand Indian woman doctor. Talks about her life in Fiji, her schooling at a Methodist school, her hard years of study, the struggle of her family to send her to New Zealand to study, her career, living in Wellington, her divorce and being on her own for 22 years. Talks about living with her mother and her daughter in Auckland. Discusses how everything she has done is untraditional; leaving home, having a career, getting a divorce and bringing up a child on her own. Talks about not feeling that she is radical but rather that she just did it because it was important to her. Explains that the caste system is not important to her, that the indigenous peoples of India were conquered, not born into the caste system. Talks about being a feminist and what this means to her. talks about setting up the first Maori women's health collective on the North Shore and what an achievement this has been for her. Discusses her involvement with the Indian community and her plans for the future. Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006137 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - summary notes. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-1380.