Places

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-044/064

Description: Political cartoons. The Todd Panel on superannuation threaten to silence Winston Peters with a 'no vote'. News - Bogus psychiatrist practised in the Hutt. Jim Bolger's leadership of the National Party is under threat. New Zealand Police face a major retention of recruits problem. Jim Bolger and Winston Peters present a united front in an effort to attain harmony between arguing MP's Bill English and Neil Kirton. Winston Peters axes Neil Kirton without any decent excuse - it seemed for being a competent MP. All Blacks victory in a game that saw a lot of blood spilt. Ethical dileamas doctors face over sex with patients. The conditions on which Neil Kirton is allowed to stay in the NZ First caucus. Mental Health services abdicate responsibility and release suicidal people back into the care of their distressed families. Winston Peters considers apologising to officials he smeared in the Winebox Inquiry but thinks better of it. Super 12 win at what price to the bodies of the players. Words the public would like to hear the Minister of Health, Bill English, to say. Loss-making mental health services to become standalone business centres. A pictorial explanation of the Winebox Inquiry saga. Neil Kirton irritates Winston Peters again by making comments on the vehicle speedo scam. With the country in an increasing economic crisis Jim Bolger's political leadership fails. Chemists seek a consultancy fee for providing their expertise to the public. Perhaps petrol station attendants will try it next. The Police form a road block in an attempt to halt the RCD virus. Lotto makes their priorities known - wheelchairs for elite athletes but not for children with muscular dystrophy. Farmers take a laid-back some would say irresponsible attitude to the illegal introduction of the rabbit RCD virus into New Zealand and its possible consequences. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 2003

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

Reference: H-701-001/023

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Topics include ACT list member of Parliament Donna Awatere-Huata's alleged misuse of funds for a stomach stapling operation and her refusal to resign from her party, Maori activist Titewhai Harawira and Waitangi Day, an artist painting a portrait of the 'painted' apple noth, govenrment negotiations with Tranz Rail and derailment, heat affecting railway lines, bush fires in Australia and United States threats to attack Iraq, United Nations attempts to slow down American policy on Iraq, American threats of sanctions against North Korea and their nuclear programme, President Bush's State of the Union address, the Black Caps fear of terrorism when on tour, the overburdening of the health system with administrators, President Bush's record of capital punishment and Saddam Hussein's of genocide, Israel's refusal to comply with United Nations resolutions to withdraw from occuppied territory, the arrival of pit ball dogs on Noah's Ark being the signal for all the other animals to burst out of it and away, racial bickering in New Zealand and the remoteness of the establishment of Maori TV channel. Quantity: 23 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 1961-1974

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-181/Pt1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1915-1970]

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-03

Description: Personal and business correspondence and papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926

From: [Ephemera relating to plumbers, plumbing supplies, drainage, plumbing companies. 1910-1949]

By: G Methven & Company

Reference: Eph-A-PLUMBING-1926-01

Description: Sales catalogue for a Dunedin manufacturer of plumbing and bathroom accessories. Shows (Page 3c) a photograph of Methven's stand at the NZ & South Seas Exhibition. An illustrated list of merchandise including: taps, stop cocks, sewerage fittings, ball cocks, grease cups, plugs and washers, bunsen burners, gas cookers, gas fires and radiators, califonts, gas water heaters, enamel baths, bathroom and toilet requisites, glass shelves, wash basins, showers, mirrors, towel rails, soap dishes, toilets, toilet rolls, urinals, primus stoves, boilers and coppers, furnaces, copper circulators, electric circulators (circulating hot water from the hot water cistern to towel rails, etc), tools, die stocks, sewerage fittings, rabbit exterminators (which pump bisulphide into rabbit holes) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 100 pages, 225 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by C W Martin, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1939.

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-902

Description: An attached clipping reports on a petition in Lower Hutt against the use of gin traps for possums; they often trapped cats as well. Outside a shop door a woman signs the petition and says, 'I'll be glad to sign if it'll keep my husband out of the cats' bar of the local hotel.' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, black and yellow letratone, crayon and pencil, 318 x 424 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1918-1924

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: qMS-1644

Description: Mainly typescript, with many ms corrections and additions, of letters and articles on a wide variety of topics submitted to newspapers Source of title - Transcribed Phillips founded the Auckland and Fiji Banking Company 1874 and was prominent in local affairs in the Wairarapa Quantity: 1 volume(s) (81 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript (34 cm; blue linen)

Date: 1963

From: Henderson, George Duncan, 1911?-1985:[Collection of cartoons by George Henderson (Hen). 1961-1984]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-445-013

Description: Shows a battalion of soldiers carrying guns marching along the road from Hawera to New Plymouth. A couple of rabbits look on anxiously. Refers to an increase in the rabbit bounty by Hawera County Council. Caption in pencil on verso reads 'It looks like open war, chaps!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 150 x 200 mm

Date: 19 Oct 1998

From: Shear History Trust life in the sheds oral history project

By: McSkimming, Murray, 1931-2017; Keats, Ian Laurie, active 1948-2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-17

Description: Interview with Murray McSkimming, born in Ranfurly in 1931. Talks about growing up on a farm at Blackstone Hill in Central Otago where they survived by selling rabbit skins. Discusses shearing after World War II, initially with blade shears, shearers he worked with, and off-season work. Refers to compulsory military training in 1950 and then returning to shearing. Mentions an influx of Australian shearers and the contract system. Comments on the changes in sheep farming once rabbit control and aerial topdressing were introduced. Talks about problems with drugs in shearing gangs from the mid 1970s. Refers to shearing in Australia. Discusses shearing competitions in New Zealand and Australia including the Golden Shears, which set the standard for quality of work. Refers to Godfrey Bowen touring to demonstrate his technique. Talks about living conditions for shearers including accommodation, food, the long hours, and the strain on relationships. Refers to retiring in 1984, and talks about notable shearers including Snow Quinn, Ian Rutherford, Ken Pike, David Fagan and Alan Donaldson. Mentions the McSkimming Trophy named after his father Frederick. Reflects on recent changes in sheep farming and shearing. Interviewer(s) - Laurie Keats Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012554 - OHC-012555 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 1.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4330, OHDL-000724. Search dates: 1931 - 1998

Date: 1 May 2008 - 01 May 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Higgins, Gary James, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0975-14

Description: Interview with Gary Higgins, born in Tauranga in 1948. Refers to his family background, growing up by the sea in Mt Maunganui where his father had a caravan park, and studying marine biology at Auckland University but not completing his degree. Talks about becoming a Port Agricultural Officer in 1974, the work involved in the port in the early days, and manager Les Barber. Describes inspecting passenger and cargo vessels, the operation manual, the bag of tools for inspecting ships, and the radios they used. Mentions checking private yachts, language difficulties, and dealing with animals on vessels. Talks about inspecting incoming produce and vehicles in the early days, and mentions that procedures and permitted imports have changed significantly. Talks about a fruit fly outbreak in Auckland and how it was dealt with. Mentions a painted apple moth outbreak and the controversial aerial spraying used to control it. Refers to the problem of gypsy moth coming in with Japanese cars. Talks about work at the Post Office checking parcels and some interesting finds. Describes spraying ships and aircraft with DDT, and later treatments used on aircraft. Mentions the roster system which meant relearning jobs every few weeks, and becoming a shipping officer in the early 1990s when MAF decided more expertise was needed for the work. Discusses working offshore doing pre-clearance jobs including on cruise ships, and comments on dealing with difficult passengers. Mentions pre-clearance of grapes in Australia and the need to be able to identify common pests. Comments on providing training in the Solomon Islands with Neil Hyde. Discusses working at the airport as a Senior Quarantine Officer with rostered staff. Talks about the difference made by the introduction of containers, difficulties with fumigating and venting them, the system of off wharf inspection and opposition to it. Mentions a snake catching course in Australia and having snake catching kits at all ports. Comments on the TV programme Border Patrol, and the importance of public awareness. Mentions that the Service "didn't really deal with didymo and sea squirt". Refers to checking ballast water on ships and on the Australian service being much stricter. Discusses an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom, visiting there at the time, and the impact of the outbreak on New Zealand. Mentions changes in their relationship with Customs over the years, and the need a close liaison with the drug squad and Customs. Refers to starting a newsletter and collecting MAF uniforms, newletters and other items which were sent to the airport for a possible museum. Recalls colleagues including Julian Brown, Don Possin, Charlie Cooper, and Travis Flint. Reflects on receiving a plaque in 2004 for 30 years service, and on his role as a quarantine officer. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Interviewee's curriculum vitae (3 p.); a form (2 p.); QuarantineWorks Sept-Oct 2002 and April 2007, and Biosecurity issue 82 (Mar. 2008) which contain articles about Gary Higgins). All with the printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001101 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7309. Search dates: 1948 - 2008

Date: 2 May 2008 - 02 May 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Williams, Harcourt Daniel Macey, 1921-2016

Reference: OHInt-0975-21

Description: Interview with Harry (Harcourt) Williams, born in Blenheim in 1921. Talks about his family background, growing up on a farm at Kaiuma Bay, Pelorus Sound, his schooling, and studying at Massey Agricultural College 1939-1940. Comments on joining the Territorials just before war was declared but not being mobilised because he was working on a farm. Refers to joining the Navy in 1944, training in Auckland and New York, and then sailing to Scotland on the Il de France. Mentions the war was over before he saw active service. Discusses going into forestry after he was demobbed, working as a leading hand in the Waipoua and Tairua forests, and then working in the last kauri timber mill in Auckland after he married in 1948. Refers to taking a job assembling trolley buses after the mill closed, and then trying carpentry. Discusses joining the Forest Service in 1959 as a timber inspector. Describes work on the wharves checking for insects on incoming timber, particularly Australian hardwood poles, and refers to the difficulty of finding insects before their damage was visible. Outlines the treatment used when signs of termites and other pests were found. Mentions the insect specimen collection in the Forestry huts on the Kings Wharf, and the inspection notebooks they used. Refers to checking incoming poles and timber at Northland ports although Port Agriculture officers sometimes did it for them. Describes inspecting wood in general cargo, cases and dunnage. Comments that when he started cargo was packed in wood with infested bark on the inside of the crates, and cable drums were another hazard. Refers to the change to pallet cargo and then container shipping. Mentions ship fumigation with methyl bromide and the danger of gas in the holds. Recalls getting calls from members of the public about insect infestations and checking them. Talks about inspecting export timber at mills and problems with rot in damp timber. Explains how they worked with Port Agricultural Officers inspecting ships. Criticises the process of returning service personnel having their gear pre-cleared overseas. Reflects on relationships with importers, watersiders and others on the wharves. Mentions they became sampling officers for the Timber Preservation Authority and the work involved. Comments on contributing to training courses for new staff. Talks about retiring in 1986 but being called back fill in while permanent staff went to Rotorua for training after the Forest Service was disbanded in 1987. Recalls Len Greaves, Mike Lay, Wally Barber and Travis Flint. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Handwritten notes based on Mr Williams' work notebooks (3 p.); photocopy of other handwritten notes about aspects of his work as a timber inspector (6 p.), with printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001112 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 2.41 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Image file - jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7316. Digital photograph of Harry Williams taken on the day of the interview Search dates: 1921 - 2008

Date: 21 May 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Brown, Peter Dennis, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0975-05

Description: Interview with Peter Brown, born in Takapuna in 1938. Refers to growing up in Takapuna and Devonport, and attending Mt Albert Grammar School to study agriculture. Talks about his early interest in farming and outlines his early career in farming, as an ambulance driver, and having a milk run. Discusses becoming a Port Agriculture Officer in 1966 and the long hours worked between airport, town office and shipping duties. Describes their uniforms. Refers to staff training through short training courses at research stations around the country as well as in-house training. Comments that the people initially employed had a horticultural or agricultural background, and later people with higher education levels were hired. Talks about Mary Middleton, the first woman Agricultural Officer in Auckland, and how her presence changed the atmosphere at work. Describes post office mail inspection. Talks about inspecting ships and sealing any foreign meat while ships were in port. Mentions the early practice of dumping ships' rubbish beyond Rangitoto, and naval garbage going to a pig farm until an incinerator was built after an outbreak of swine fever. Comments on procedures for inspecting produce ships from the Islands, and on the risk of fruit fly introduction with the freeing up of trade. Refers to procedures when (potential) pests were found in incoming produce. Mentions training at the fumigation centre in Tinley Street, and writing a manual on resuscitation and first aid which was added to the staff procedures manual. Comments on checking imported cars and machinery, teaching Army personnel in Singapore how to clean their vehicles before bringing them back to New Zealand, and checking Australian Army vessels during joint exercises at Great Barrier Island. Discusses the shift work meeting international flights during the night, processing incoming passengers, the different types of food various nationalities would try to bring in, and the advent of amnesty bins. Refers to the introduction of dogs, and mentions special treatment for VIPs. Talks about disinfection of aircraft (including Air Force One), changes in procedures over the years, and passengers not liking being sprayed. Comments on disposal of food and garbage from incoming planes. Refers to the setting up of an office at the Mangere Airport cargo terminal as air freight increased, and the process for clearing cargo. Mentions dealing with race horses arriving by air, as well as their owners, trainers and drugs. Refers to zoo animals coming in and the Auckland zoo being a quarantine zoo. Discusses checking export produce and issuing phytosanitary certificates, the need to keep up to date with the requirements of importing countries, and manager Travis Flint's ability to find pests. Remembers co-workers Alf Davis, Charlie Cooper, Neil Hyde, Don Possin, Albert Tolliday and others. Explains that he left the Service in 1989 because of the bureaucracy and the difficult rosters and hours worked. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Photocopies of handwritted roster schemes for Port Agriculture Officers at Auckland International Airport, 1966, 1968, 1988 (4 p.), with printed abstract Accompanying material - Scanned images of: job advertisement for Port Agricultural Officers and letter Peter Brown received in response to his application asking for more information; Peter Brown's fumigation operator's certificate; Peter Brown's qualification to issue phytosanitary certificates; letter Peter Brown received in 1988 agreeing to his early retirement when MAF was restructured. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001098 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) - scans of documents. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001099, OHA-7300. Search dates: 1938 - 2008

Date: 28 Mar 2009

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Burton, John Leslie, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0975-06

Description: Interview with John Burton, born in Manchester, England in 1946. Refers to his parents' wartime service and to growing up at Whitley Bay, Northumberland. Talks about attending an agricultural boarding school, working on a farm, realising he did not want to be a tenant farmer in Britain, and attending an agricultural college for two years. Describes flying to New Zealand as an assisted immigrant in 1965, having some of his belongings fumigated at the airport, being met by his employer, and living "in a hut at the end of the garden". Refers to milking cows for the next year and then becoming a sharemilker. Discusses becoming a Port Agriculture Officer in 1970, a lack of structured training then apart from entomology and botany, on the job training and the Standard Instructions Manual gradually making sense. Refers to initial absence of cultural training, and the need to have empathy. Describes parcel inspection at the post office as a good training area, having to check everything from some countries, and procedures when prohibited goods were found. Comments that x-rays now help a lot with this work. Talks about the Service's fumigation service at Tinley Street, and spending three months there being trained. Comments that Mangere Airport was new at the time, staff of different services had to learn to work together, and aircraft arrivals were spasmodic. Refers to meeting aircraft at Air Force bases. Discusses duties at the port, boarding ships before they berthed to inspect their stores and pets and to gather information about cargo that needed inspecting, especially fruit from the Pacific Islands. Refers to garbage disposal from ships. Comments on meeting naval vessels after tours of duty overseas as well as Australian and American ships visiting for naval exercises. Mentions checking incoming yachts especially for pets and infested foodstuffs. Talks about inspecting produce for export, and having an Export Book that gave requirements for different countries. Describes becoming a Senior Port Agriculture Officer in 1975, supervising teams, training staff and sorting out queries. Comments on the paperwork involved. Recalls other senior officers including Nick Emery, Peter Brown, Les Barber and Jim McCaughan, their supervisor Neil Hyde, and regional supervisor Travis Flint. Talks about moving to Christchurch as Supervising Port Agriculture Officer in 1981, his district extending to the West Coast, and having to overcome poor practices in the Christchurch office. Refers to insisting that Operation Deep Freeze personnel follow proper procedures. Discusses restructurings in MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries/Forestry) in the 1980s, with MAF Quality Management and a separate Agricultural Quarantine Service taking over the roles of the Port Agriculture Service. Refers to the introduction of user pays and to starting pre-import checking of used cars in Japan. Comments that pre-clearance checking is now used for produce such as apples, grapes and mangos. Mentions officers who went to Pacific Island countries, working mainly in emergency response. Describes the establishment of emergency response teams for handling plant and animal emergencies in New Zealand, the training of headquarters controllers, and the response during the 1996 fruit fly outbreak in Mt Roskill and the painted apple moth infestation. Comments that x-ray machines and sniffer dogs started to be used after the fruit fly infestation and that airport Customs and Agriculture officers improved communication. Reflects on surviving about five restructurings, and comments on difficulties when the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry merged in 1997. Refers to resigning in 2002 rather than move to a senior position in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-002000 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.38 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-002001, OHA-7301. Search dates: 1946 - 2009

Date: 18 Dec 2008 - 11 Feb 2009

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Cross, James Edward, 1942-

Reference: OHInt-0975-08

Description: Interview with Jim (James) Cross, born in Lincolnshire, England in 1942. Refers to growing up in West Bridgeford, his mother dying when he was 14, working on a farm after he left school and then attending a farming college. Talks about coming to New Zealand with a friend in 1964, meeting his wife on the ship, and working as a herd tester. Describes joining the Port Agriculture Service in Auckland in 1966. Refers to being given the operations manual and inspection equipment, training on the job and through courses, and the uniform. Talks about duties including ship clearance, cargo inspection, airport baggage inspection, and produce inspection for import and export. Refers to mail inspection at the main post office. Mentions the rostered work at Mangere Airport and sometimes long hours. Reflects on the working environment with a great variety of places, industries and people. Comments on returning to England in 1967 for a period, and then going to Wellington to work in the Service. Discusses joining the New Zealand Forest Service in Auckland in 1971 as a timber inspector. Talks about the work inspecting any wood coming in on ships, checking all wooden material in wharf sheds and bond stores for signs of insect damage, and ordering fumigation or destruction of infested materials. Mentions inspection of ships' dunnage for infestation, fumigation by commercial firms, and that he introduced a method of testing for successful fumigation. Refers to accidental introduction of the burnt pine longhorn beetle and it becoming necessary to fumigate all timber exported to Australia in the summer. Refers to the Timber Import and Export Regulations 1966 which governed their work, and the forms and certificates it specified. Comments that timber inspection originally started after termites arrived in telephone poles from Australia. Explains containerisation changed the job dramatically as shipping companies had to provide ship's manifests and access to specified containers. Mentions Australia requiring any timber component of a container be treated, but external coding of containers was often inaccurate. Refers to streamlining of container inspection processes to reduce congestion on the wharf. Describes doing the same sort of checking of freight at Mangere Airport, and Onehunga and Whangarei ports. Discusses responding to reports received from the public about insect pests, usually Australian termites. Comments on disputes over treatment chemicals for timber, the establishment of the Timber Preservation Authority, the registration of treatment plants, and travelling to inspect them. Mentions becoming senior timber inspector in Hawkes Bay in 1980 in a two-person operation, and becoming District Timber Inspector and Area Timber Preservation Officer in Nelson in 1983. Mentions this was a hands-on job as well as administrative, and dealing with infested dunnage being an important part of the work. Refers to inspecting fishing trawlers, with Russian trawlers being a great source of insects. Talks about quarantine services carrying on unchanged when the Ministry of Forestry was established in 1997, becoming manager of port operations, and praises his manager Alan Flux. Recalls trainees being employed to balance their aging workforce. Describes a trip to Vladivostok in 1997 to audit the Russian quarantine service after Asian gypsy moth had spread to Canada and Auckland. Comments on retaining his job when the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry merged in 1998, with the import and export functions split between the MAF Quarantine Service and AgriQuality, and chosing to work with the former. Describes having to learn new procedures in the MAF manual, and the increase in computerisation. Reflects on the use of audits rather than checking everything and questions relying on the people unpacking containers instead of trained officers checking imports. Mentions his retirement and current contract work for AgriQuality travelling to other countries to audit imports from New Zealand. Recalls colleagues Harry Williams, Albert Cutree, Les Brunton, Len Greaves and Bruce Hanley and their diverse backgrounds. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - List of Forest Service timber inspection staff by port compiled by Jim Cross in 2007 (2 p.), with printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-002003 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract, form. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 3.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-002004, OHA-7303. Search dates: 1942 - 2009

Date: 8 Jun 2000 - 08 Jun 2000

From: Quaker Oral History Project

By: Hughes, Helen Hannah, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0427-28

Description: Helen Hannah Hughes born Nelson (a home birth). Describes childhood in Tahunanui; move to Nelson; schooling; Quaker household; Presbyterian Sunday School; University College, Canterbury and study at Vasser (USA). Recalls meeting David Crowther Hughes and describes wedding in drawing room at home; honeymoon at Kina, in ancient Austin 7; setting up home in Christchurch and having three children in three years and three months. Mentions return to teaching, relieving at Te Wai Pounamu and later at Onslow College. Describes move to Suva and work with Fiji Department of Agriculture. Gives details of work with weeds on Rewa river. Recalls return to New Zealand and describes Ian Baumgart, Commissioner for Environment and move to DSIR as Environmental Co-ordinator with reference to New Zealand Conservation Strategy. Discusses influence of Strategy and refers to Sir Frank Holmes and Ken Piddington. Continues to outline career, government restructuring following 1984 Election and appointment as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Discusses rabbit control, subsidies on pest control and refers to `1080 poison dropped on McKenzie Basin and import of Spanish Flu - Rabbit Caliceo Virus Disease. Discusses threads through career: Toxic Chemicals, ICI Fire in Auckland; system to deal with hazardous chemicals; Mapua waste; Resource Management Act 1991; Hazardous substance and new organisms legislation. Lists committements since retirement in 1996; On Cawthorne Institute Trust Board; Worldwide Fund for Nature Board; UNESCO Science Commission; Council of Wellington Branch of Royal Society and served on New Zealand Academic Board Unit. Discusses involvement as Quaker: Wellington Meeting Children's Committee. Accompanying material - Photocopy of Reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment January 1987-May 1997 Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007462-007464 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.25 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 Interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1886, OHDL-000612.

Date: 20 Oct 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Smith, Kevin David, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-0425/8

Description: Kevin Smith was born in Taumarunui in 1953. Describes going to Owhango Primary School and Taumarunui High School. Mentions his father, Bluey Smith, worked as a bushman and bush boss for Dominion Timber Company from the 1920s to the 1950s. Recalls exploring the forest as a child, working there with his father and deer hunting as a teenager. Talks about his early interest in conservation as the result of a road being built through Ohinetonga Reserve. Describes studying botany and then forestry at university, beginning his PhD on the West Coast and deciding to campaign to protect the native forest instead of finishing his thesis. Describes living in Harihari for fourteen years and working for Native Forests Action Council with Gerry McSweeney and Guy Salmon. Discusses damage to the Tongariro Forest. Mentions goats, other pests and the creation of poor farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey in the southern part of the forest. Comments on the use of red beech for fence posts. Describes writing an ecological report for Forest and Bird. Talks about community support for saving the Tongariro Forest and involvement from the Outdoor Pursuits Centre and Mangatepopo School. Comments on unique forest communities and mentions Waimarino Plateau. Explains the difference in attitude between communities in south Westland and Owhango in terms of their local forests. Discusses the start of the Tokaanu Power Scheme and the destruction of the headwaters of the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Mentions damage to the blue duck and the wider ecosystem. Discusses mountain biking and the need for wider recreational use in the Forest. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2962. Black and white colour photo of Kevin Smith Search dates: 1998

Date: 8 Oct 1998 - 08 Oct 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Green, Paul Montague, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0425/5

Description: Paul Green was born in Wellington in 1944. Describes education at Te Aro Primary School and Wellington College. Talks about his love of tramping and climbing and climbing in New Zealand and South America. Recalls his first day as a ranger at Ohakune. Describes working for Lands and Survey and becoming senior ranger at Whakapapa. Discusses the turning of wetlands into farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey. Comments on the beginning of involvement in managing Tongariro Forest in 1987 when boundaries were drawn. Recalls the political pressure to have the Department of Conservation (DOC) established in 1987 and the political goals in creating the Department. Talks about controlling pinus contorta and goats. Describes the land administered by DOC from Whakapapa and later from Turangi as the Tongariro Taupo Conservancy. Gives a history of Whakapapa Village. Comments on the importance of pest control, possum control by 1080 poison and trapping and efforts to increase the presence of the brown kiwi in the Tongariro Forest. Gives a history of huts in the Forest and discusses the need to balance the conflict between conservation and tourism. Discusses the cessation of trips to the Ruapehu crater lake. Mentions local iwi. Recalls the beginnings of the Outdoor Pursuit Centre and its growth. Describes involvement with Search and Rescue. Discusses the development of a Conservation Management Strategy and a Treaty of Waitangi claim against it by Ngati Tuwharetoa. Explains DOC involvement in efforts to reduce the amount of water ECNZ diverted from the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Describes recreation and conservation issues in the campaign. Comments on the relationship between DOC and ECNZ. Comments on changes in the Forest in two decades and mentions highlights including the release of kiwi in the Forest and going through the Mangatepopo Gorge. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-2959. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Colour photo of Paul Green

Date: 06 July 2001 - 06 Jul 2001

From: Raoul Island oral history project

By: McGregor, Evan Forbes, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0927-04

Description: Interview with Evan McGregor, born in New Plymouth in 1935. Recalls his father dying in 1939, leaving his mother with five children to raise. Mentions milking cows by hand from age eight during the War, his schooling in New Plymouth, and his mother dying in 1948 during his first year at college. Recalls his mentor Barney Wickstead who taught him to hunt and fish as well as life skills. Mentions working on a farm at Inglewood after he left school, learning farming skills at Flock House, and then going shearing. Talks about joining the Navy in 1960 in the radio section, being on a ship sent to evacuate a sick man from Raoul Island, and being amazed at the fishing there. Comments on marrying his wife Carol in 1962, and building a house with a State Advances loan. Mentions leaving the Navy to spend more time with his family. Discusses getting a job as a lighthouse keeper on Cuvier Island, the trip by boat with his family, and spending 18 months there with two other keepers. Refers to the wildlife on the island - goats had been removed. Mentions his next posting to Stephens Island in Cook Strait. Comments that he and the children loved the lighthouse keeping lifestyle but that it was hard on wives. Reflects on the automation of lighthouses and the lost era. Discusses getting a job on Raoul Island as officer in charge and buying a house in Auckland for his family. Mentions having six weeks hospital training before he went, to cope with injuries. Describes the team on the Island and their resourcefulness, the dawn chorus and the native trees. Mentions rats being a menace to the garden, a 7.85 magnitude earthquake on 1 January 1977 and the water supply being broken. Comments on the Island's fragile environment and the unpredictable volcanic activity. Talks about the citrus trees, pigs being fed oranges, the cow, and peaches as weeds. Refers to shooting 400 goats in his first year on Raoul Island, and that by 1976-1977 regeneration was evident in the nikau forest. Mentions graves on the Island, farmer John Weir, and the decision to close the farm in 1977. Comments on having radio contact with Wellington twice a week. Talks about alcohol rations and the drinking culture. Describes later working on Campbell Island as team leader for a period, his style of management, and dealing with finding marijuana being grown in the heated glasshouse meant for growing vegetables. Reflects on Raoul Island and Campbell Island reunions. Interviewer(s) - Kim Morton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016807 - OHC-016810 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5992, OHDL-001030. Search dates: 1935 - 2001

Date: 1925 - 1935

By: Christchurch Mechanical Works; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-C-HORTICULTURE-1930s-01

Description: Arrangement of text, listing types of fruit tree and the times and chemicals for spraying. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on either side of red sheet.. Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet, 290 x 450 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1997.

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-08

Description: An account of the life of the Doole family at Pukeokahu, a farming area 21 km from Taihape; mainly based on reminiscences of Jack Doole. Includes list of references and bibliography Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Includes original photographs; sketch map of Pukeokahu with location of farms, etc