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Date: 20 Feb 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Whiteman, Coral May, 1907-2008

Reference: OHInt-0593/52

Description: Coral Whiteman was born in Wanganui in 1907 and mentions that she has just had her 94th birthday. Mentions that she went to Sunday School as a child. Explains why her son was baptised in the maternity home by Reverend Mr. Rowe. while her other five sons were baptised in the United Church. Talks of family links with Mangaroa and Whiteman's Valley, mentioning her father-in-law's farm. Describes the burial places of his wives and daughter after she fell off a horse. Relates that she has a history of the Whiteman family in England, mentioning farmers and smugglers. Explains about the brothers Spencer and Miller Whitemen sent to Botany Bay, Tasmania. States the relationship with Henry Avery, Sir Francis Renouf and Frances Underwood. Explains that the Whiteman's were a founding family who arrived on the 'Gertrude' in 1841. Mentions John Plimmer. Recalls the wonder of turning on an electric light compared with trimming wicks on oil lamps. Coral Whiteman describes the comfort of prayer during her 35 years as a widow. Recognises the friends who help at afternoons for Blind people, Care and Craft, the providers of sandwiches and baking, Red Cross. Discusses the number of donation envelopes received for the Red Cross, Salvation Army, IHC, Cancer Society, Wellington City Mission. Talks of Beth Gillon and home communion. Discusses changes in use of individual glasses rather than receiving the communion cup, mentions the linen purificator and challice. Talks of relationships with family members. Describes her birthday party. Talks of presents of creams and lotions. Explains about her youngest son's property in Whiteman's Valley, mentioning children, dogs and sheep. Describes the purchase of horse manure, a good vegetable garden. Compares Sunday lunch with deliveries of hospital meals. Talks of hospital equipment, mentioning a walking stick and handles in the bathroom, the convenience of a stool in the shower. Relates a telephone assessment by the Foundation for the Blind about Braille, access to a computer and talking books. Explains her sister's use of a talking books machine, mentioning magazines. Discusses her abilty to read the newspaper and to do crosswords after her eye surgery. Mentions that she has glaucoma and cataract. Describes having a blood clot. Talks of hospital visitors, mentioning Edna, her daughter-in-law, and her journey home by taxi. Recalls that Edna and her father were treated for TB at Wellington and Otaki Sanatoriums respectively. Explains that Edna had Rhesus Negative blood group and descibes the effect on her children. Relate that her son Bryan built his own house. Talks of Roy Triplow, a property developer. Mentions that her son Peter was pallbearer at Sir David Beattie's funeral. Talks of her grandchildren continuing the Whiteman name. Relates her experiences of catholicism and gives reasons for her parents-in-law's burial in different churchyards. Recalls a family reunion at St. John's where members of the Whiteman family are buried, and the donation of a stained glass window. Mentions Simnel cake. Talks of family members, Ivan, Anna and Ben McColl and other family members. Mentions reading James Hay Conway's obituary in Crosslink. Recalls the influence of the Reverend Frank Parker and his wife. Gives reasons for her weekly visits to the hairdresser. Recalls the thrill of receiving life membership of the evening fellowship group having been their first treasurer. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009313, OHC-009314 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3015, OHDL-000970. Portrait photograph taken at time of interview

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-675-016/033

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on New Zealands cancer treatment compared to Australia. Verbal sparring between Helen Clark and Bill English. Helen Clark looking forward to Bill English being plastered in the boxing ring and he referring to her art fraud incident. Comment on rural doctor shortage. Rural famlies resort to taking their children to the local vet. Shows Labour Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, fishing (electioneering) with a tin of fat worms (budget). Shows small boy asking his father to borrow his gun for the nativity scene at school. Cartoonist Tom Scott receives a Doctorate from Massey University. The agitated voice of Rob Muldoon comes from the sky. Shows National Party President, Michael Boag in a box. Bill English asks National Party Divisional Conference delegates to form an orderly queue to try the magic trick of cutting her in half. Comment on Jeff Wilson's retirement from international rugby. Shows Helen Clark and Peter Davis in trenchcoats, hats and sun glasses with an umbrella. Passersby wonder if she's worried about the hole in the ozone layer or the holes in the Kyoto Protocol. Comment on the perceived waste of money within the Maori Television Service. Shows Helen Clark having cut free the Employments Contract Act now has a large cat (wildcat strikes) on her back. Comment on teachers anger and frustration with Labour's Education Minister, Trevor Mallard's dealings throughout the teacher contract negotiations. Shows Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis in the kitchen, Peter is preparing a picnic as he heard Helen say that once Michael Cullen had presented his budget they would go to the country - i.e. set the date for the election. Comment on so-called 'Maori bashing' of Derek Fox for his handling of the Maori Television Service engagement of Cheif Executive, John Davy. Shows a shearing shed scene. Comment on the popularity of Jim Anderton in the Wigram Seat, one shearer suggests the voters are like sheep in their blind acceptance of him. Shows two older people opening their front door to Bill English who is dressed up as a police officer in boxing gloves carrying his drawn truncheon (law and order). Comment on the clash of traditional Indian past-times of snake charming and lying on beds of nails to intensify the practitioners mental state, with the new order of nuclear weapons. Shows three tables in a restaurant and how they are divided to accommodate smokers, non-smokers and passive-smokers. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size horizontal photocopies

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-675-001/015

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on Labour's Finance Minister, Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation Scheme. Shows an elderly Returned Serviceman being reminded by his wife via the bar man that he was coming home straight after the service, lest he forget. Comment on the Labour Governments perceived favouritism toward Maori generally but in relation to the Baby Kahu kidnapping case in particular. Shows discussion between father and son about Helen Clark's desire to build good relationships with Australia. Comment on NZ Post payouts for golden handshakes, lawyer fees and Executive salaries. Comment on increased fear and security measures New Zealanders are taking and the impact it has had on door-to-door fundraising by the Salvation Army. Comment on Maori Television Service particulary the John Davy fraud affair. National Party leader Bill English misses the 2002 Election bus. Jim Anderton sprints across a crumbling bridge (credibility). Refers to his party hopping from Alliance to the Jim Anderton Progressive Coalition. Shows Helen Clark being advised by her fairy godmother to call the election sooner rather than later to avoid her carriage (Jim Anderton) being turned into a pumpkin. Comment on the NZ Cricket team. Shows an older couple discussing the fairness of the Southern Cross increase in medical insurance premiums. Shows two men looking at the low water levels of one of the Southern lakes and discussing Jim Anderton's perceived infallibility. Shows Helen Clark training her husband, Peter Davis to box. Suggestion that he may be the mystery man who will take on National Party leader in the charity boxing match. Shows two workers looking at the new Broadcasting Charter that takes up the whole wall in the building with its list of dos and don'ts. Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0016346

Description: A man holds an ANZAC poppy and thinks sardonically that this is 'another commercial decision'. Arrows indicating 'made in China' point to all the different parts of his clothing and his glasses. Context; the controversial decision to have the poppies made in China. The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association has said that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. (Stuff 10 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-:[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post and other newspapers]

By: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: DX-012-016

Description: Shows a judge telling a wigged lawyer that his client can't plead arrogant to a charge of fraud. The lawyer sayers that the Prime Minister Helen Clark has used it as a defence in the case of her art fraud. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016318

Description: Two old soldiers walk in a soldiers' cemetery and the sight of ANZAC Day poppies 'made in China' makes them realise that the rumbling noise they hear is 'our boys turning in their graves'. The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association has reported that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0016325

Description: Text reads 'ANZAC poppies to be made overseas will cost NZ jobs'. The cartoon shows a traditional fabric ANZAC Day poppy labelled 'New Zealand Bigger Returns Services Association'; the words 'CHINA DOLE' (wordplay on China doll) appear beside the poppy. Context; the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association said yesterday that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. (Stuff 10 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016928

Description: Shows Graeme Hart as a suckling pig, naked and shiny with an apple in his mouth; he nestles amongst herbs and lemons on a silver platter. The cartoonist writes 'Time's up for the rich and their bogus intellectual persona!' Published in Business Herald Deborah Hill Cone column 28th Jan 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0021326

Description: Dr Hal has shaved his head for charity but the cat has been shaven as well. Dr Hal feels strangely 'disinhibited'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017910

Description: The cartoon shows a bishop smiling benevolently (or maybe malevolently) and holding a collection bucket. Behind him are rows and rows of state houses. Context - The wealth of the churches. There is a a charity for every 172 Kiwis. Charities enjoys tax-free status and other perks. The top 10 charities alone own $4.5 billion in assets, including $1.8 billion in investments, according to media reports. Almost all of the top ten charities involve organised religion. (Nick Smith on business 'From love of charities, spare us' NZHerald 27 May 2011) Title provided by librarian Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).