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Date: Oct 1990

From: Nelson Hospital Board oral history project

By: Ovens, C, active 1945-1990

Reference: OHInt-0997-04

Description: Interview with Kitty Ovens, District Nurse at Motueka 1945-1963. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Helman Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 transcript(s) (printed). 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-001662, OHA-7488.

Date: 19 Apr 1991

From: Maori Women's Welfare League: Interviews

By: Waenga, Te Rina Te-mai-awhitia, 1929-1996; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0602-07

Description: Te Rina Waenga nee Pene born 1930 at Ratana Pa. Father Henare Pene, Ngati Kuri iwi, Pohotiare hapu, Kurahaupo and Tinana waka; mother Pipi Huntley, Ngati Moe, Ngai Tahu. Mentions being the eldest of nine children and attending school at Waikawa Pa, near Picton. Describes early life and recalls working with harakeke as part of a fundraising project. Talks about enjoyment of dancing, mother making new ballgowns, going to balls and parties, singing and going to the pictures. Talks about leaving school and working as a cook in various places - mentions Anikiwa Boys Home and Whakarewa Boys Home. Talks about meeting Te Kiato Riwai in Motueka, working together caring for runaways from 1952 until 1956. Mentions moving to Mangakino with husband Harman Waenga. Discusses their two children and many whangai children. Describes joining the Waikawa branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League in 1951, encouraged by Runa Keepa. Talks about the work of the branch, own role as branch president and comments on the positive work of the Maori Women's Welfare League. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 55 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1991

Date: 2 Mar 1995 - 02 Mar 1995

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Scott, Hughie, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0444-07

Description: Hughie Scott born Clydevale, near Balclutha in South Otago, 1929. At the age of six shifted with family to a farm near Invercargill. Recalls joining his brother-in-law in the fishing trawler, `Janie Seddon' fishing from Motueka. Discusses life working in the galley where he started his sea career; problems experienced due to regulations, limiting where the vessel could fish and people aboard the vessel; accommodation and working conditions. Talks about the wreck and salvage of the Janie Seddon near Wellington. Talks about his brother-in-law, Ivan Talley, founder of Talley's Fisheries Ltd which is the largest family owned fishing company in New Zealand, how he set up the business at Motueka and problems encountered. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - Mr Scott's home Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010228-010229 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3416.

Date: 24 Jan 1965

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/083

Description: `The Frightened eyes' by E. M. Trotter from Palmerston, Otago (no script); Poor Bob by farmer Jim Hargreaves from Karamea Settlement - a story of a 'faithful horse called Bob'. In Pakety by D. I. Llewellyn of Ngatimoti, near Motueka recalls a pretty good old packhorse he knew once down south. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Some scripts at MS-Papers-1239, folder 24 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0087 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script for The Frightened eyes.

Date: 14 Dec 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Manoy, May Marie, 1913-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/07

Description: May Manoy was born 7 December 1913. Discusses the family business in Motueka, A. Manoy and Son Drapery Store. Talks about her father, a successful merchant, his garden and the home she grew up in in Motueka. Describes her Polish and German heritage on her paternal side. Describes her mother May Newman, her education and death after childbirth. Discusses her memories of the Jewish community in the Motueka and Nelson area and her experience of being Jewish in small town New Zealand. Recalls her own interests as a child and family recreation. Discusses her father's second marriage to an artist from London, Mina Arndt, who took on the role of mother and also taught May art. Recalls Mina Arndt's death from influenza and their move to Karori. Talks about her education at Samuel Marsden School, her favourite teacher Nell Clere and her sex education. Talks about the birth of brother John and living with Mina's sister and brother-in-law Jenny and Philip Nathan. Discusses her love of music and classical education which included learning to dance with Estelle Beere and studying to be a singer with Mrs Gibb. Discusses her Karitane nursing training in depth and the Truby King home in Melrose. Discusses Plunket nurses and the types of milk used for babies. Talks about Karitane nursing in 1930-1931, her registered nursing training at Fulham Hospital in Charing Cross in England, nursing in England during the Blitz, serving in the British Liberation Army in the 108 British General Hospital in France and Brussells and being the sister in charge in the Queen Alexandria Nursing Service. Describes blackouts in Paris and London and travel experiences in Europe during the war. Talks about Karitane nursing in France. Describes returning to New Zealand on the troop ship `Athlone Castle' and her subsequent hospitalisation due to injury during the war. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004129-OHC-004132 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1631 and OHDL-000570.

Date: 14 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McLaughlin, James, 1908-1994

Reference: OHInt-0070/29

Description: Jim McLaughlin recalls family background, childhood in Westport, education, early work as message boy in Post and Telegraph Department in Westport, the postmaster W T Johnston, details of shifts, duties, salary, uniform and cleanliness, clearing post boxes, discipline, training in morse, layout of Westport Post Office, selling telephones to the farmers, peoples' reaction to telephones initially, operators listening to telephone calls, importance of wrist in sending morse, press telegrams, suicide of telegraphists, mentions work as radio inspector and signals officer in World War II, traits needed for good telegraphy. Describes earthquakes, Murchison earthquake June 1929, damage, conditions in Nelson, effect of earthquake on communications, land and forestry, relieving work at Nelson Post Office as telegraph cadet, acquaintanceship with Keith and Norma Holyoake, Motueka, transfering to Wellington radio in 1931, Depression in 1930s, work as radio operator in Chatham Islands 1930s, describes place, the post office and the radio station, the spark transmitter, death and funeral of Tommy Solomon, the Moriori, the racing club, life of the Chatham Islanders, fishing, background to becoming radio inspector in Nelson from 1936-1943, work as radio inspector at Nelson in World War II, duties, training radio operators for the Hudson bombers, work as Maori interpreter at the Chatham Islands from 1932-1936. Talks about work as senior radio inspector in Hamilton from 1943 to 1965, views on engineers, involvement in several Royal visits, reference to some notible Post Office events from 1930-1962, attitude of Head Office to his work, retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Hamilton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 60 Awatere Avenue, Hamilton Accompanying material - Copies of the following included in printed abstract: Jim McLaughlin's curriculum vitae, typed, two pages; various radiograms to Jim McLaughlin; article from the Waikato times, 24 Mar 1958 entitled 'American satellite heard in Hamilton; 'Powerful signals picked up from Soviet satellite', Waikato times, 14 October 1957; various other articles about the same subject; a letter from Alan Frame from the Old Timers' Club to Jim McLaughlin; editorial by Leo Simpson entitled 'So you think you're an engineer, mate!', Electronics Australia, August 1984. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001240 - OHC-001243 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 161. Search dates: 1908 - 1985

Date: 17 Feb 2003 - 18 Nov 2003 - 17 Feb 2003 - 18 Nov 2003

By: Coffey, Veronica, 1959-

Reference: OHColl-1170

Description: Comprises eight interviews with Nelson women by Veronica Coffey, conducted in 2003. Interviewees describe their early life, families, education, careers, health, children, and connection to Nelson region's viticulture, and hop, apple and tobacco growing industries. Some describe working as owners, growers, harvesters and pickers, dairy farmers, nurses, teachers, clerical workers and in tourism Subjects covered include tobacco harvesting and grading, the role of tobacco companies Rothmans and WD & HO Wills in Nelson, division between men's and women's jobs, seasonal and local workers, wages, effect of mechanisation, decline in tobacco industry, trials in kiwifruit growing, establishment of vineyards and winemaking, tourism in Nelson and the West Coast Interviewees are Alma Joyce Barrow, Lois Yvonne Chisnall, Elizabeth (Beth) Ellen Eggers, Betty Yvonne Fry, Anne Elizabeth McEwan, Agnes Mary Seifried, Kaye Maureen Stevens and Jill Elizabeth Williams A ninth interview with Nola Leov was completed but not deposited with the collection. The recording is held by the Nelson Provincial Museum. Abstracted by - Veronica Coffey Interviewer(s) - Veronica Coffey Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019404 - OHC-019428, OHC-019431 - OHC-019437 Abstracts: OHA-6798 - OHA-6803, OHA-6806 - OHA-6807 In 2003, Veronica Coffey (Assistant Principal, Richmond Primary School, Nelson) received a Royal Society of New Zealand Sciences, Mathematics and Technology Teaching Fellowship, which she used to pursue stories about the lives of Nelson women. With support and guidance from the Nelson Provincial Museum, she narrowed her field of interest to 'women who had a role to play in making Nelson a prosperous place now and in the past', beginning with those involved in viticulture and tobacco Quantity: 32 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). 31 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: This collection was received with two other interviews - OHColl-1172-01, Interview with Rod Clements and OHColl-1175, Interviews about Royal Society of New Zealand Teaching Fellowships 2003 Donor/Lender/Vendor - Veronica Coffey 14 colour portraits of interviewees; copies of 3 black and white family photos of Anne McEwan, 1950-1970 Search dates: 2003