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Date: 2007-2008

Reference: OHColl-1018

Description: Interviewer(s) - Pataka Moore Quantity: 15 interview(s). Number of interviews/events: 15

Date: 10, 12 February 1978 - 10 Feb 1978 - 12 Feb 1978

From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings.

Reference: OHInt-0296/17

Description: Whata Winiata talks about his whakapapa o Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa, me te Atiawa Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Otaki Interviewer(s) - Piripi Walker (Dubber) Venue - Raukawa Marae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-0490 Quantity: 1 7" reel(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 12 Aug 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Solomon, Harata Ria Te Uira, 1925-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/09

Description: Harata Solomon was born 22 January 1925 in Otaki, one of eleven children, and was brought up in Waikanae. Discusses her name and whakapapa on both parent's sides. Discusses her paternal grandfather, Kaka Kura Wi Parata, a chief of Ngati Te Kowhai, Ngati Toa and Te Atiawa and his wife who was of Ngati Raukawa descent. Talks about arranged marriages, communal living and sharing in Maori society. Discusses Waikanae, living off the land and traditional diet. Talks about her memories of her mother and being looked after by her maternal grandmother after her mother's death. Discusses her father and his involvement with the Ratana religion and her family marae, Whakarongotai, in Waikanae. Talks of her cultural identity, modernity and assimilating into Pakeha culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Recalls her childhood pastimes, memories of the Depression and the number of people the family had staying. Discusses her grandmother's death, the division of labour in Maori society, her bicultural life and Maoritanga. Talks about her education at Waikanae, Hukarere Boarding School and Wellington Teachers' Training College. Talks about Ratana and Mormon teachings and lack of sexual instruction. Discusses her own faith as a member of the the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and a Mormon. Recalls the Waikanae community and poi, haka, taiaha and mere activities. Discusses women clearing tapu on the marae and her aunts and their passing down of knowlege and the place of Maori women. Talks about her commitment to teaching, the impact of World War II on her whanau, her marriage after the war and her husband and children. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Sound Centre, National Library, Wellington Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-4150-4151 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1637 and OHDL-000576.

Date: 10 Dec 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Whiley, Te Kahurangi, 1907-1992

Reference: OHInt-0060/08

Description: Te Kahurangi Whiley was born on 27 June 1907 at Poroutawhao. Talks about her family and the origins of some of their Christian names. Describes education at Levin Central School where children were strapped for speaking Maori. Talks about missing out on Maoritanga when she worked locally as a domestic. Recalls meeting Lloyd Whiley, marrying in 1936 and living at Kuku Beach. Describes her husband's work at the Kimberly air base till the end of the war and after the war leasing land and growing flowers for the Wellington market. Talks in detail about living at Ohau for thirty two years, the family's daily routine there, family values, involvement with St. John's Anglican Church at Ohau and Rangiatea. Recalls the absence of hot water and coping with war rationing by conserving coupons. Talks about her brother Te Wireti in the Maori Battalion, fundraising for the troops, dances at Levin and the American troops around the Ohau area. Notes that her husband was not interested in tikanga Maori. Talks about her involvement at the marae since his death including beginning to karanga as a kuia aged seventy. Describes the occupations of her children and granchildren. Language - English and Maori Venue - Levin : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Venue - Levin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004699; OHC-004700; OHC-004701 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 829. photograph of Rangi Whiley aged about 13; photograph of Whiley family in 1940

Date: 10-12 February 1978 - 10 Feb 1978 - 12 Feb 1978

From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings

Reference: OHInt-0225/15

Description: Wor Cassette tape 10. Professor Whata Winiata discussing whakapapa of Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Toa, Te Ati Awa Raukawa Marae, Otaki Access Contact - see oral history librarian Language - English and Maori Venue - Otaki Recorded by - Tara Werner Venue - Raukawa Marae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004058 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 10-12 February 1978 - 10 Feb 1978 - 12 Feb 1978

From: Te Wānanga o Raukawa sound recordings

Reference: OHInt-0225/17

Description: Cassette No. 18. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Otaki Recorded by - Tara Werner Venue - Raukawa Marae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004066 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.