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Thames musical items; Thames gold mining boom
Date: 1947
From: Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Mobile Unit sound recordings
Reference: OHC-007622
Description: Items by the Thames choristers, Thames High School Girls Choir and the Herb Walkers Dance Band. Mr McCulloch describes the gold mining boom in the area. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Dot Costar
Date: 17 Jun 1997
By: Costar, Dorothy Christina, 1942-; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. Department of Corrections
Reference: OHColl-0549/1
Description: Dorothy Christina Costar born Thames. Outlines family background - father, a miner, later worked for A & G Price, Thames. Mother was dental receptionist for [Mr] Shaw, the dentist, Thames. Describes: Thames which had a population of five and a half thousand people; schools - Thames South and Thames Central, with reference to Miss Baker; school uniforms; Church of Christ Sunday School and picnics in the Kauaeranga Valley. Refers to six o clock closing and recalls a fatal accident when friend was killed and comments on the $50 fine driver received. Mentions different attitude towards drinking and driving in those days. Recalls various jobs - Jamesfield clothing factory and Hutton the jewellers before joining the WRNZAF at Wigram, 1961 ending up as Flight Sergeant in charge of the joint services telephone exchange in Wellington. Recalls amalgamation of services, with reference to Ministry of Defence. Backgrounds circumstances leading to career with Prison Service and refers to Rev Hoddinutt. Commenced at Mt Eden prison October 1966 as assistant matron. Refers to Miss Molloy (Molly), chief matron who wore a veil. Describes process of training, with reference to examination subjects, psychology, penology, criminology and Acts and Regulations. Refers to the old Raven's Matrice test - psychological test. Discusses Arohata, the women's borstal: its daily routine; uniforms; punishment, with reference to deprivation of privacy; recreation; transportation of prisoners between Arohata and Dunedin women's prison. Talks about the integration of Mt Eden Prison and preparation for women prisoners and choosing staff. Discusses changes to the system and notes there is now more emphasis on rehabilitation - people have case management and are assessed to see what their needs are. Mentions the introduction of computers and health and safety courses, with reference to AIT [Auckland Institute of Technology]. Refers to Alternatives to Violence Programme, started by Quakers (Society of Friends) and mentions PARS (Prisoners' Aid & Rehabilitation Society). Other topics discussed include: split of the Justice Department into Corrections and Courts, with reference to Penal Division; numbers of Maori and Pacific Island offenders; glue sniffing; drug addiction; policy for mothers and children; change in hierarchical structure; child abuse, with reference to Women's Refuge; and the rebuilding of Mt Eden which commenced 1986, with reference to the Mason Clinic. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Venue - Mt Eden Prison Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008078-008080 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2235.
Thames Group discussion
Date: 20 Feb 1987
From: Sound recordings about the Values Party by Stephen Rainbow
Reference: OHInt-0648/16
Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Stephen Rainbow Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010872 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
Interview with Christopher Harison
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.
Interviews with Mrs Janet Chan (nee Jiang) and Yvonne Rose Wong (nee Chan)
Date: 08 May 2004
From: Tung Jung oral history project
By: Chan, Janet Lay Jung, 1915-2014; Wong, Yvonne, 1936-
Reference: OHInt-0747-01
Description: (i) Interview with Mrs Janet Chan born in Sarng Seng, Guangzhou (Canton), China, in 1929. Describes growing up in China and meeting her husband, Stanley Young Chan who emigrated to New Zealand from China at age of seven and had returned to China to study Chinese. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1939 and helped her husband run his fruit and vegetable shop in Mt Albert, Auckland for 12 years. She describes living among the Chinese community and learning English. In 1945 she moved to Thames where her husband had aquired what became known as SYC Vineyards where they produced wine and table grapes. In the 1970s they retired to Auckland. Mrs Chan describes her life in Thames and retirement in Auckland and compares life in New Zealand with China. (ii) Interview with Mrs Yvonne Wong (daughter of Janet Chan) Yvonne Wong was born in Harkee Village, Canton, 1936 and came to New ealand with her parents in 1939. She describes life living in her parents fruit and vegetable shop in Mt Eden, Auckland and from 1945 working on her parent's vineyard in Thames. In 1960 she married Fred Wong who owned a fruit and vegetable shop in Taihape. She describes her life in Taihape and her sons becoming managers of New World supermarkets in Taihape and Palmerston North. Language - Interview with Janet Chan conducted in Cantonese; interview with Yvonne Wong in Cantonese and English Interviewer(s) - Chang, Kitty Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014089 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). 1.18 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5059. Colour photograph of Yvonne and Janet; B&W [sepia?] photographs of Janet with her family prior to coming to New Zealand, Chan family menfolk and Janet, Stan and family Search dates: 1915 - 2004
Interview with Alexander Mill
Date: 12 Feb 1987
From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III
By: Mill, Alexander, 1905-2003
Reference: OHInt-0003/07
Description: Gives some family background and early childhood information including early memories of Kelburn, the cable car, parents' religion and personalities, their attitudes to alcohol, smoking, discipline and politics. Describes early education, the gaining of a junior free place to go to Wellington College (unusual for a son of a tradesman), some of the teachers at the College, discipline at school. Mentions the minimal impact of World War I on family life and explains call up system, the flu epidemic of 1918 with the funeral corteges and trip to U.K. with mother in 1919. Describes apprenticeship with Harry Moult & Co. Ltd - a lift installer, state of lift industry at time. Outlines history of electrical supply in Wellington and mentions the Ford Motor Co. building in Courtenay Place and the building of Model T Ford cars. Recalls working for A.S. Paterson & Co, late 1920s, as estimating clerk then as registered electrician and refers to Mahakipawa Gold Mine, Marlborough Power Board and Blenheim Power Board. Describes working for father's electrical business during the depression in 1930s, living standards, payment, riots, problems with local electrical authorities. Describes joining ASEA Electric NZ Limited as a junior engineer, Miss Ethel Ford - book-keeper, and advising the Whakatane Paper Mills on electrical equipment. Outlines work as Borough Engineer at Thames Borough Council, refers to F.T.M. Kissel (Chief Engineer, Hydro Electric Branch), the problems of being in charge of blackouts in Thames (World War II), rationing of electricity. Refers to work as Consumer Engineer, Electrical Branch, Wellington City Council and recalls power restrictions, the relationship between local supply authorities and New Zealand Electricity Department, the Government takeover of all generating sources, the reticulation system in 1949, trams and trolley buses; mentions various personalities i.e. Leslie B. Hutton, General Manager; R.S. Maunder, City Electrical Engineer; J.K. Hooker, General Manager. Mentions religious discrimination at the Wellington City Council in 1940s and impact of city councillors on the Department (Stewart Hardy). Describes role as Director of the Electrical Development Association in late 1960s, the background to the setting up of the Association, relationship with supply authorities, information supply. Recalls post retirement years as Editor of Live Lines, attending various boards and conferences. Refers to background to the introduction of New Zealand wiring regulations in 1967. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Tauranga Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Mill's home at 32 Freyberg Street, Otumoetai, Tauranga Accompanying material - Copy of "Retiring from industry - Alec Mill", from Live Lines, April 10, 1971 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001443 - OHC-001445 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0222. Black and white photograph:-. Alec Mill, c1932. Copies of black and white photographs:-. Dorothy and Alec Mill, Golden Wedding, 1982. Alec Mill, 1971. Alec Mill, 1912 Search dates: 1905 - 1987
Interview with Grant Milne
Date: 7 and 11 Dec 1984; 25 Feb 1985 - 07 Dec 1984 - 25 Feb 1985
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
By: Milne, Grant Raglan, 1904-1994
Reference: OHInt-0070/27
Description: Grant Milne describes family background, immigration of family to New Zealand, father's attitude to alcohol, childhood in Thames pre 1920, industry in Thames, his primary education, the influenza epidemic, his first interest in radio. Details being employed by Post Office as an engineering trainee while at Auckland University, importance of morse to the Post Office installing telegraph and telephone systems, carrier systems, opening of the Marton Exchange in 1931, long working hours, Arthur Gibbs - Chief Engineer Auckland, salary, installing telephone systems in Dannevirke, special problems with New Zealand telephone system. Discusses rural party lines and New Zealand developments in this field, O'Leary and introduction of the 'Phantom System', relationship with Head Office, investigations in United Kingdom into distant dialling in 1944 (New Zealand already ahead in trunk dialling), costs of equipment, telephone developments in New Zealand, the newness of New Zealand equipment, Post Office exams, laboratory testing in Wellington in 1933, the Murray Multiplex System, and new equipment in Auckland in 1935. Discusses effects on family of moves within Post Office, belief that Post Office had low priority in Cabinet, various Postmasters General - Sir Joseph Ward, Sir James Parr, W Nosworthy, J B Donald, Adam Hamilton, Fred Jones, P C Webb, Fred Hackett, W J Broadfoot, Tom Shand, Mike Moohan, T L Hayman, A E Kinsella, and Directors General - A T Markman, George McNamara, J G Young, H M Patrict, Phil Cryer, Charles McFarlane, Dawson Donaldson, over the years with various anecdotes, effect of World War II on Post Office staff, the rural automatic service, broadcasting service, shortages of engineers, the distant toll dialling, the future of the Post Office. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Clark Street, Khandallah, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000754 - OHC-000757; OHC-000759; OHC-000770 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.52 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 121. Black and white photographs as follows:. Grant Milne, ca 1961. Grant Milne, 1970 Search dates: 1904 - 1985