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Date: 31 Mar-20 Jul 1999 - 13 Aug 1999 - 20 Jul 1999

From: Southland oral history project

By: Donaldson, Emily Stirling, 1917-2007

Reference: OHInt-0464/06

Description: Betty Donaldson was born in Dunedin in 1917. Recalls seeing an aeroplane and hearing the radio for the first time. Describes attending St George School and playing basketball (netball) for the Southland Primary School team and the Kiwi Basketball Club. Recalls activities including kite flying, bird nesting and going to the beach, estuary and frog pond. Discusses transport, including trains and trams, the South Invercargill shopping centre, home deliveries of milk, bread and newspaper, trips to Riverton, Colac Bay, Te Wae Wae Bay and Monkey Island. Describes in detail the township of Orepuki in the 1920s and 1930s. Recalls her grandparents. Summarises her sporting career including being a member of the Southland Basketball (Netball) Team from 1936-1942, being a referee, coach and Southland selector, starting a cricket club and being in the New Zealand Women's Cricket Team. Describes attending the Empire Games in 1938. Gives some details of New Zealand representatives at this event. Describes being in the Womens War Service Auxiliary during the war, applying for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, being posted to Taieri, nightflying duties and training at Levin. Recalls flying in Tiger Moths and in an Oxford. Talks about meeting Harry Donaldson and marrying him in 1950. Describes the effect of two wars on her mother. Mentions having four sons. Describes her introduction to local body affairs, doing research on South Invercargill, working to upgrade the area in the 1970s, zoning changes and ninety nine year leases. Discusses opposing the use of reclaimed land in the Invercargill Estuary for industry. Talks about public meetings and the people involved. Describes the passing of a resolution changing the Invercargill District Scheme and the effect on housing. Discusses the schemes of the National Housing Improvement Area (NIA), working with Town Planning Officers, endowment funds and urban renewal. Mentions the involvement of Warren Cooper, Eve Poole, Mark Peck and Tim Shadbolt. Discusses the appointment of a Council Committee for the South Invercargill Rejuvenation Project. Talks about the Invercargill District Plan and the Resource Managment Act (RMA). Discusses her submission on the proposed District Plan and a second submission accepted by the Council . Comments on the hearing of submissions. Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008607 - OHC-008611 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2683.

Date: 12 May-28 Jul 1998 - 12 May 1998 - 28 Jul 1998

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

By: Harison, Christopher Stratford, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0131/20

Description: Christopher Harison was born and raised in South Africa where he trained as a doctor. Describes working in hospitals as an obstetrician in Great Britain and South Africa, including time in a mission hospital in South Africa. Also describes being in private practice there. Recalls his feelings about Sharpeville. Describes the decision to come to New Zealand and his work as the first obstetrician in Thames. Discusses his attitudes to home birth and abortion and involvement with SPUC. Talks about National Women's Hospital and the `unfortunate experiment'. Describes appearing before the Medical Council. Comments that his career has encompassed major developments in obstetrics and midwifery, the growth of the home birth movement and feminism and the restructuring of the health services. Discusses his approach to teamwork in obstetrics, the development of screening tests in pregnancy, the identification of high risk, the reorganisation of obstetric services on the Coromandel, medical and midwifery education and changes in nursing education. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - in 3 folders. 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1742, OHDL-000833.

Date: 6 Apr-23 May 2000

By: Charteris, David, active 2000

Reference: OHColl-0490

Description: Records the stories of those who had associations with the riverboats of the Whanganui River during the first half of the twentieth century. Interviewees are May Hodder, Joan Rogers, David Emmett, Kathryn Swan, Mrs Flower and Pam Kitson, Graham Cathro, Fred Cleverly, Jim Tasker and Polly Teki. Interviewer(s) - David Charteris Quantity: 9 C90 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/16

Description: George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days. Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence. Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee. Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.

Date: 29 Jun-3 Jul 1992 - 29 Jun 1992 - 03 Jul 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Crisp, Enid Elizabeth, 1919-2009

Reference: OHInt-0064/12

Description: Enid Crisp was born in Greytown on 28 March 1919. Her father was a barrister and solicitor who also stood as a National Party candidate. Her mother was Plunket Society president and a founding member of the Little Theatre. Describes their home life, her schooling and teenage activites such as Bible Class dances, ping pong and going to movies. Talks about living next door to Maata Asher, a good friend of Katherine Mansfield's, and describes Maata's style. Talks about doing a secretarial course at Masterton Technical College, boarding at Masterton, working at Wright Stephensons and then with an accountant's firm. Describes her first date with husband to be John (Jack) Crisp and a group of friends socialising in `jalopies' with some alcohol. Notes that Masterton was a `dry' area. Describes Jack joining up at the start of the war, being sent to Burnham and as an officer sent overseas on long range desert campaigns. Focuses on her wartime involvement with patriotic activities including playing the piano at the Anzac Club and organising dance performances. Recalls soldiers camps at Solway showgrounds, Tauherenikau and other locations, which became tent cities. Talks about the American troops. Describes her involvement in the Emergency Precautions Scheme (EPS) and talks at length about the 1942 Masterton earthquake. Notes that Jack Crisp was invalided home from the war. Venue - Greytown : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Dr Cathy Casey Venue - Greytown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004768; OHC-004769; OHC-004770 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 851.

Date: 24 Apr-8 May 1996 - 24 Apr 1996 - 08 May 1996

By: Shorland, Francis Brian (Dr), 1909-1999

Reference: OHColl-0450/1

Description: Dr Brian Shorland was born in Wellington on 14 July 1909. Describes his father's career as a builder and architect and also a city councillor. Talks about his uncle, the cyclist Frank Shorland, and the family connection with Jerome K Jerome. Describes growing up in Island Bay and attending school there early in the century. Talks about going to Wellington College from 1921-1925 and graduating from Victoria University College with a chemistry degree in 1932. Recalls some of the women science students of the time including Thea Marwick and Eileen Pigget. Discusses Sir Ernest Rutherford, Karl Popper and his protege Eccles, religion and philosophy and proving scientific theories. Focuses on his scientific career and research largely into fats looking at animal and fish oils. Describes working with the Department of Agriculture from 1927 to 1946, study for a doctorate at the University of Liverpool and being director of Fats Research, later the Food Chemistry Division, of the DSIR. Talks about Sir Ernest Marsden, R A Falla, Ian Robertson and Bill Hamilton. Describes awards received including the Hector Medal, the Marsden Medal and the Order of Merit. Talks about being a lecturer in the Biochemistry Department of Victoria University from 1969 to 1987. Comments on solar energy and the windmill he installed at his own home. Describes editing the magazine `New Zealand science review' from 1985 to 1999. Comments on management systems and user pays and its effect on creativity. Talks about New Zealand scientists and how to achieve good science. Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007130 - OHC-007133 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1745.