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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: 21 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hewett, Neale Brind Stuart, 1906-2005

Reference: OHInt-0562/01

Description: Neale Hewett talks about his birth in Burma in 1906. Mentions that many generations of his father and mother's side of the family served in the military in India. Details great grandfather's service and the family tradition. Describes himself and his father as Cape Horners. Mentions Dartmouth and Royal Navy. Talks about father's service in Burma and describes the influences of the King and Queen on their subjects. Details being sent to a home in Cheltenham, England at 4 years of age and school in Eastbourne until 13 holidays included, and not recognising his parents. Describes growing up without parents. Describes attending Pangbourne College aged 12, the Royal Naval Reserves and outlines his work including HMS Winchelsea testing poison gas. Outlines voyages with P&O to obtain his 2nd mate's ticket, enters the Royal Indian Marines. Describes the relief given at the 1923 Japanese earthquake.Talks about moving from ship to ship, having royalty as passengers, later surveying the coastline of India on the Investigator. Describes copying charts during the monsoon season. Talks about the closure of the Indian Navy and finding work with Bombay Burma Trading Company while continuing as a reserve officer with the Frontier Force Cavalry. At the outbreak of war describes re-entering the Navy. Describes his jobs and escorting the First NZ Echelon: taking a gunnery course, wanting to return to sea but having to train gunners. Describes the situation at the changeover in 1947 and gives reasons for retiring from the navy and leaving India. Talks about his parents, wife and children and his father wanting to retire to New Zealand. Mentions living in Australia with his children. Gives reason for moving to New Zealand, applying for citizenship, discovering that his father was a New Zealander and his mother's family were here also. Talks about his employment in commercial fishing and NZ Forest Products.. Relates his United Nations job in 1950's in various countries, describes the way he organised his work and staff. Describes the changes when a political element joined the UN, and his resignation. Compares the African independence with that of India. Describes wartime atrocities by the Japanese. Talks about his nationality and religion, and as it was in India. Talks about his accomodation, furnishings and places he called home, his servants who travelled with him, the meals, lifestyle and languages spoken. Relates meeting his wife, Thecla Edana Davis, and describes her background. Talks about his children's schools and education and family health. Mentions snake encounters. Details the clubs they belonged to in India, multiculturism and integration of races, talks of Anglo-Indians. Talks of partition. Mentions his impressions on his return to India. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Includes 2 leaves of notes about conversations held with Neale Hewett. One clarifies various subjects and the second conversation was over lunch with a neighbour. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008510, OHA-008511 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2644.

Date: 21 Feb 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Barlow, Wilfred Ainslie, 1929-2004

Reference: OHInt-0562/02

Description: Wilfred Ainslie Barlow, known as Bill, was born in Calcutta on 24.10.1929, an only child. Talks about Indian, British and New Zealand passports and arrival in New Zealand, October 1971. Mentions grandfathers. Talks of father's job in Licence Measures Dept. in shipping, while mother was a stenographer. Grew up with servants, brought up by friend with three children. Talks of father, a catholic until he became a Freemason, and mother was Anglican. Mentions that he was not compelled to go to church, but attended Victoria School, Kurseong, which was Anglican with other denominations present. Talks of uniform, religions and standard of education, attaining Senior Cambridge. Describes being an apprentice engineer and training opportunities, also the five years as an A Grade apprentice in Kharagpur with mainly Anglo-Indians, then going to sea. Discusses the loyalties of Anglo-Indians. Talks about his parents' families in India, his parents' illnesses and early deaths and the whereabouts of the friend which brought him up. Talks of rented accommodation in Calcutta. Describes other Anglo-Indian communities, jobs and social life. Describes railway employee socials, dances and sports. Describes the family's accommodation, mentions western style clothing. Talks about childhood fun, food and related customs, languages including Hindi, Telagu. Mentions his accommodation and bearer. Talks about gaining his engineering ticket in England on completion of his apprenticeship, then working as a junior engineer in shipping. Describes tenants in his accommodation, the loss of his possessions. Mentions meeting his UK wife, his friends who left India and attitudes of Indians. Talks of the book 'Bhowani Junction' portraying Anglo-Indians and how they treated women. Talks of Raj wives and orphanages, club membership, class distinction and differences in races. Describes Calcutta at the time of partition. Mentions his jobs with freighters and applying to emigrate to New Zealand with his family. Talks of job with Union Steamship Co.and conditions. Gives reasons for going to Auckland and Lyttelton. Mentions conditions in India when he returned, settling in other countries, the colour issue and people's attitudes to Anglo-Indians. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008501, OHC-008502 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2639.

Date: 19 06 00 - 19 Jun 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Levett, Vera Schlesinger, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0590-7

Description: Vera Levett was born in Trencin, Czechoslovakia in 1935. Mentions Jewish origin, and talks about her mother who was a seamstress and her father who was a doctor. Talks about escaping Czechoslovakia during World War II, cousins who died in concentration camps, the impact of the Holocaust, bombing, air raids in England, and emigrating to the United States. Talks about girlhood, school, university and her doctorate in clinical psychology. Mentions marriage, moving to New Zealand, two children. Talks about interest in feminism, joining National Organisation of Women (NOW), feminist literature on mental health. Mentions work as guidance counsellor and at the Wellington School of Medicine. Describes helping establish Hecate Women's Health Collective in 1979, and involvement in a television documentary on mental health that was critical of doctors. Mentions Hecate referring women to Levett for counselling, and mentions the Women's Resource Centre. Talks about friendship with Elizabeth Sewell, National Director of YWCA, who recruited feminists. Talks about tension between Sewell and YWCA's non-feminist lobby, and being a YWCA board member. Mentions collegues Faith Gibbons, Audrey Reynolds, Mary-Jane Rivers and Gail Powell. Describes self defence courses, sexual abuse discussions, board meetings. Comments on YWCA as a traditional organisation and feminists' impact on it. Mentions Hecate's closure by the end of the 1980s. Talks about decision to leave YWCA to work at Child and Family service, Hutt Valley Health and her private practice. Talks about feminism's impact on her children, and mentions adoption. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9070-9072 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2875. Photocopy (coloured) mid shot of Vera Levett.

Date: 15 07 1995 - 15 Jul 1995

From: Interviews about Denis Glover by Gordon Ogilvie

By: Glover, Brian Guinness, 1914-2004

Reference: OHInt-0576-10

Description: Brian Glover was the youngest brother of Denis Glover. Brian Glover describes his family who, like his parents, went in different directions. Describes his sister Coreen, who married Douglas Neele in England and his brother Lawrence who joined the Royal Air Force (RAF). Describes in depth his work during World War II on RAF missions with the Pathfinders over Hanover, and flying an irreparable plane. Comments that the war upset Denis more than many people realised. Describes his parent's relationship, separation, and remarriage, and the minimal contact he had with his father. Describes looking after his father at the end of his life, mentions his father's second wife. Talks about Denis and Khura Glover caring for his mother during the last days of her life. Talks about Denis Glover being a sickly child but bright like his mother; his first marriage to Mary Glover and their son Rupert. Describes advice he gave to Lyn Glover about being Denis Glover's minder. Talks about his feelings towards his sister Coreen, talks about his mother and how she managed financially. Describes his mother's mother and his maternal aunt. Describes his lack of interest in his father's family history. Interviewer(s) - Gordon Ogilvie Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8792a Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2805.

Date: 29 Aug 1998

From: Owhiro Bay oral history project

By: Hoy, Roberta Ellen, 1911-2000; Hoy, Stanley George, 1908-1999

Reference: OHInt-0429-2

Description: Roberta Ellen Hoy, born 1911 in Thunder Bay, Canada. Talks about her early life in Canada, and her parents Alice Maud Sheppard and Robert Newstead. Describes trans-Atlantic travel, including avoiding the fateful last voyage of the RMS Lusitania. Describes life under the class system in London, subsequent emigration to Owhiro Bay, Wellington, New Zealand in 1950, and talks about the helpfulness of New Zealanders compared to class distinctions in England. Talks about women's fashion in New Zealand in the 1950s, and social life and development in Owhiro Bay. Talks about her artistic work, including oil paintings and watercolours of Owhiro Bay, Maori, and locations around New Zealand. Stanley George Hoy, known as Stan, born 1908 in London. Describes his life in England and his later life in New Zealand. Talks about his parents Florence Ethermay Stanbridge and Henry Thomas James Hoy. Describes childhood, education, trade training and early employment in the gas industry, and military service in World War Two. Describes impressions of low quality of housing in Owhiro Bay and Wellington, and describes renovations to family house in Owhiro Bay. Interviewer(s) - Ann Barrie Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 2 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3969. Search dates: 1908 - 1911 - 1998

Date: 31 May 2004

From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project

By: Mackley, Winston Brooke, 1915-2005

Reference: OHInt-0767-08

Description: Interview with Captain William Mackley, born in Lower Hutt in 1915. Describes starting his training as a pilot with the Auckland Aero Club in 1937, in DH60 Moths, Tiger Moths and Miles Magisters. Refers to joining the Air Force when war broke out and leaving for England in May 1940. Talks about flying Wellingtons from Hywell, then transferring to Abingdon and flying Whitleys. Mentions taking an instructors course in Canada, then returning to Nelson and flying Hudsons. Discusses moving to Catalinas which he flew through the Pacific, then to Sunderlands. Mentions the roles of Sunderlands in the Air Force after the war for moving troops, and how two were transferred to NAC (National Airways Corporation) and modified for passenger transport. Talks about joining NAC after World War II and flying Sunderlands and DC3s on its Pacific service, a service that had been set up by the Air Force to transport public servants and officials. Comments on the animosity between NAC and TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways) over the Pacific service and the politics of aviation development in New Zealand. Talks about the basic conditions at the airfields and the social aspects of overnight stays in Samoa and Rarotonga. Describes navigation by dead reckoning using a sextant for sun shots and mentions there was little night flying at the time. Comments on the services to Norfolk Island and the Chatham Islands. Refers to being a copilot and wireless operator on Lockheed 10As and to pilots being interchangeable between aircraft until they became specialised. Comments that navigation procedures within New Zealand were not very precise but improved gradually with better equipment. Discusses transferring to TEAL to fly Electras and becoming a training captain on the Electra. Outlines aviation safety issues today, commenting that less experience is needed to fly planes now, computerised controls, and flight time limitations being "the curse of the business". Talks about getting a job in the Air New Zealand office after he retired as a pilot, and becoming involved in the Flight Safety Foundation, an international organisation. Reflects on changes in the airline industry in 1986 and the Air Safety League of New Zealand. Explains how human factors have become a dominant issue in air safety and mentions accidents that have happened because of difficulties between crew members. Abstracted by - Karen Linauskas Interviewer(s) - Bill Rayner Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014162, OHC-014163 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (50 Kilobytes). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (824 Kilobytes, jpeg). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5123, OHDL-000234. Digital scan of black and white print of photograph of Captain "Dan" Arthur Carlaw and Captain Bill Mackley (interviewee) on flight deck of Sunderland ZK-AMK. NZNAC Regional Service prior to last flight 1/6/1950 to Hobsonville for layup and eventual breakup. (Image includes details written on the back of the photograph) Photographer unknown. Captain Mackleys collection Search dates: 1915 - 2004

Date: 12 Sept 1988 - 12 Sep 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Wiggins, William Robert, 1899-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/83

Description: Describes in detail family background (father at Chelsea Sugar Refinery), education, employment, and life in Auckland pre war (selling 'Truth' newspapers, warehouse work), apprenticeship as a blacksmith and details of work. Recalls enlistment, guarding ammunition factory in Normanby Road, ceremonial duties, military funerals, the Mount Eden Guards. Transfer to being a guard at Motuihe Island, details of guard duty, relations with German internees, anti German feeling in Auckland, living conditions of internees, various anecdotes, Count von Luckner Kircheiss, his escape from Motuihe in detail, Dr Schultz. Transport overseas with the 41st Reinforcements, morale among conscripts, death of "Taffy" Herbert Lloyd Dash. Describes ports of call, especially Capetown, submarine attacks. Recalls arrival at Sling Camp, training and discipline, military burials at Tidworth Cemetery in detail, and being accidentally gassed, describes sensation, Tidworth Hospital, being transported back to New Zealand as an invalid. Describes first marriage, children, Moerewa freezing works, then a slaughterman, his career with various freezing works in detail, involvement with RSA at Kawakawa and other places, Anzac Day parades, effect of gassing on his life, being a freezing worker during the 1930 Depression, the bobby calf scheme and calf pools. Recalls venereal disease prevention, relations with British, hobbies, deep sea fishing, views on present RSA, and government. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Ranfurly War Veterans' Home, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002790 - OHC-002792 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) in two parts. 3 Electronic document(s) - transcript, summary. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB 525/1 - 2, OHDL-000362. Black and white photographs:-. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins and striped marlin, ca 1960s. Bill Wiggins and second wife, Dorothy, 1948. Bill Wiggins, his daughters, and brother, during World War Two. Bill Wiggins, fishing trip, 1921. Bill Wiggins and daughters, 1941. Bill Wiggins and Dave Whitehead, undated. Bill Wiggins, 1915

Date: 12 - 25 Jul 1994 - 12 Jul 1994 - 25 Jul 1994

From: Harold Wellman oral history project

By: Wellman, Harold William (Professor), 1909-1999; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0016-01

Description: Harold Wellman outlines family background in England. Recalls early interest in rocks and fossils. Mentions coming out to New Zealand on the 'MS Timui' and first impression of Wellington. Describes work as a surveyor at Ninety Mile Beach; surveying in Napier with Felix Kelly after the 1931 earthquake; explains different land tenure systems. Went gold mining with Eugene O'Reilly; elaborates on life on the West Coast; reference Dr Marsden and his use of geophysics to find gold; reference to Harry Evans, goldmining in Ross. Describes crevassing, blacksanders and sluicing claim; mentions Cameron Creek and learning to use explosives to break up boulders; reference to Rodney Nugget; recalls Darky Whitehead (part Indian), hanged at Reefton; Chinese on goldfields; Maori on Greymouth goldfields; fights, Catholics versus non-Catholics; Jock Thompson; reference to BBC film, 'The Man who moved mountains', based on gold mining experiences. Refers to Alpine Fault; Southern Alps; Dick Willett, Director of Geological Survey. Met Charlie Smith, incidents with telegraph poles; recalls gold mining with people from all over the world including a Lithuanian at Haast Beach. Talks about steel industry and bituminous coal in Greymouth and Westport; reference Horace Fyfe (geologist in charge); first paper published with Horace Fyfe on Blackburn Coalfield. Recalls Dr Marsden: had worked with Rutherford on splitting atom, set up DSIR; describes growth of science in New Zealand; invention of seismograph, explains; reference to book on life of Hayes. Describes surveying in Papua New Guinea; began surveying in Sago Swamp with the help of some indigenous indentured labourers; reference to slavery. Discusses differences between Maori and Aborigines; problem of keeping alive in Papua New Guinea. Describes returning to New Zealand to a permanent job with Geological Survey; going to Lake Whakatipu to look for scheelite (needed for hardening steel for guns for World War II); describes mapping techniques; explains incident of disagreement between McKay and Haast; marriage to Joan Butler; effect of war on career; during war worked finding radio location stations for radar in New Zealand. Recalls looking for sheet mica in Southern Alps with Dick Willett; reference to P G Morgan; Gregory Valley; Big Wanganui River; crucial steps in finding Alpine Fault. Refers to move to Greymouth to find coal; writing paper, 'Open cast coal prospects on the West Coast'; describes 'board and pillar method' of coalmining; compares coalmining methods in England and United States; explains 'long haul method'. Mentions oil geologists; reference Taranaki Basin, explains a basin. Recalls Max Gage; reasons for leaving Geological Survey; origin of Taranaki oil; reference to E O MacPherson; explains weathering rind; conclusions about Maruia River; significance of schist and marble in river; recalls Dr Trechmann's visit to New Zealand; mentions appearance of Monotis Fossil in New Zealand; reference to Bill Munden. Talks about importance of being a Fellow of the Royal Society; mentions Bob Clark and paper, 'The Alpine fault from Lake McKerrow to Milford Sound, 1959'. Recalls reasons for return to Wellington in 1952; Dr Grange, Director of Soil Bureau; discovery of relationship between bush sickness and geology of area; reaction of Department of Agriculture to establishment of Soil Bureau; importance of Soil Bureau to farmers; reasons for personality conflicts in Bureau; soil discoveries; end of Bureau. Recalls reason Alpine Fault important to theory of plate tectonics; importance of plate tectonics to geology; describes process of faulting; effect of faulting on New Zealand; compared to England; theory on origin of loess soil; importance of rate of horizontal displacement in determining age of Wairarapa 'surface'; reaction of Pat Suggate and Gerald Lensen on his own theory on date; Alan Pullar; role of personality in how organisations run; describes possible shape of New Zealand in future; explains why Northland is a 'mess'. Explains about the magnetic belt in the North Island; magnetic bearing of mountains at Lake Rotoroa; disagreement about explanation of magnetic anomalies in North Island; reasons for measurement of level of Southern Lakes; explains reasons for lack of contact with geologists around the world; problems with geological research in New Zealand; feelings about teaching; recalls last student, Jiu Yang; outlines the reasons there are few earthquakes along Alpine Fault in New Zealand. Compares religion in England and New Zealand; discusses people's attitudes to work; reason for lack of general interest in geology. Venue - Wellington Abstracted by - Paula Martin and Megan Hutching Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Harold Wellman's home at 24 Highbury Crescent, Wellington Accompanying material - (AB 1370/2) Typewritten autobiographical notes by Harold Wellman, 2 1/2 pages; biographical entry, unknown source; photocopy of fault lines, single page, unknown source; 'Foreward' and 'Emeritus Professor Harold William Wellman, D.Sc., FRSNZ: a biographical appreciation', P Vella, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1990, Vol. 33, pp 159-162; Index of unknown material (biographical), 12 pages; 'Short life history'. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006109 - OHC-006115 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 6.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1370. Search dates: 1909 - 1994