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Date: 24 Feb 1995 - 4 May 1995 - 22 Nov 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Sinclair, Ronald Yelverton, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0438-13

Description: Ron Sinclair was born in Eltham in 1930. His early life was spent in Taranaki where his father was a school teacher. Recalls being keen on sport, being dux, going to Ardmore Teachers College and teaching at Inglewood. Talks about when his mother died, his father broke his neck, his brother and sister were in hospital and he went to work on his sick uncle's dairy and cropping farm near Dannveirke. Recalls that this was 1952 and he stayed on the farm for twenty years. Mentions marrying in 1954 and having three children. Comments on his interest and involvement in church life. Recalls being a lay reader, being encouraged to go into the church and being ordained a priest in 1976. Mention his withdrawal from the Masonic Lodge and giving up divining water. Recalls working in the Anglican ministry at the hospital, putting a share-milker on the farm and becoming minister at Porangahau. Discusses the challenge of getting to know Maori, attending tangi, services on the marae and baptism of Maori. Describes a move to New Plymouth, family discussions and chaplaincy at the Taranaki Base Hospital. Recalls returning to Hawkes Bay to care more for his father. Mentions industrial chaplaincy and being minister at Hastings. Talks about his children's occupations. Comments on boundary changes in the new electorates, local body politics, art deco buildings and Jeremy Dwyer, Mayor of Hastings. Comments on parochialism between Napier and Hastings, the need to combine sewerage systems, the Hastings hospital and the proposed motorway. Mentions the growth of the local polytechnic and the move to degree courses. Discusses the Maori occupation of Moutoa Gardens, Maori sovereignty, the need for more consultation, the proposed Maori Council and Ken Mair. Discusses the first MMP election, the wait for the coalition, the power of Maori and New Zealand First. Comments on being retired but continuing with church work. Mentions Lions. Talks about the integration of girls into Te Aute College. Recalls training with the first women to be ordained in the Church, Cherie Baker and Bishop Penny (Jamieson). Talks about communion and the Church. Interviewer(s) - Pamela Lockhart Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2144. Search dates: 1930 - 1996

Date: 11 Aug 1999 - 18 Aug 1999 - 26 Aug 1999

From: NZ CCS Otago Inc oral history project

By: Ford, Christopher John, 1970-

Reference: OHInt-0468/03

Description: Chris Ford was born in Balclutha in 1970. He was born with cerebral palsy which has affected his mobility and ability to work without support. Describes several operations to improve his mobility. Recalls primary school years at Paretai where there was a lot of community support and parents and teachers encouraged his learning. Mentions Peter Renshaw Centre where he had contact with other children with disabilitites. Describes moving to Dunedin as a result of the 1978 Paretai floods, living with his grandmother and attending the Matariki unit at Forbury primary school. Recalls attending physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions. Describes living at the CCS Hostel between 1981 and 1984. Talks about conflict and emotional abuse, the failure of field officers to act as advocates and the absence of grievance and complaints procedures. Mentions attitudes to people with disabilitites, under resourcing and lack of training. Describes media attention and charges being laid against staff as a result of accusations of abuse. Mentions the closure of the hostel in 1992. Comments that these events led to his politicisation about disability rights. Mentions the 1983 Assembly of People with Disabilitites (DPA), thinking in terms of people with disabilitites rather than disabled people and the role of Anne Hawker in promoting these rights. Mentions returning to live with his family in Momona, attending Taieri High School and then Otago University. Mentions the importance of CCS social worker Grant Clelland as a role model. Comments that there were few support groups for people with disabilities in his early days at university. Mentions depression, living at home and then going flatting. Describes his involvement in student politics and left wing politics. Discusses being New Labour candidate for the Clutha electorate in the 1990 election. Comments on the importance of the 1993 Human Rights Act. Discusses the Disabilities Action Group (DAG). Describes involvement in CCS including memebership of the PHAB (Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied) Group, the CAG (Consumer Advisory Group) and being on the CCS Board. Describes resigning from the Board, Board mistakes and a period of disillusionment with CCS before returning to the organisation. Comments on the national structure put in position in 1997 and the involvement of stakeholders by Graham Hambeton. Mentions Helen Burnip, Jenny Newstead, Leah Galvin, Grant Clelland and Donna-Rose McKay. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Diary of Chris Ford's progress from 1970-1976; copy of newspaper cuttings`Paretai School makes a big contribution', `Want to be a Santa?' `My W-3adventure', `Disabled children meet', `Election'90', `Students with disabilities pave way', `Advocates call for action over athletes' and `Work testing for benefits criticised'. Copy of photograph of Chris Ford at his graduation in 1997 Arrangement: The Interview audio recording comprises eight parts. The Interview is recorded on both sides of tapes one, two, and three, and on side two only on tape four, and on side one only of tape five. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2569.

Date: 20 Jun 2000

From: Vintage years - the wine industry in New Zealand

By: Dunleavy, Terence John, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0535/4

Description: Terry Dunleavy was born in Te Awamutu in 1928. Describes his family's moves to Hamilton and Auckland. Talks about his father working in hotels and running the Dominion Breweries shop. Describes attending Sacred Heart College in Auckland, a welding apprenticeship at Ellis Hardy Symington, a cadetship at State Advances Corporation and joining the Air Force before getting a job at the North Wairarapa Herald in Pahiatua. Talks about the editor Sandy Powell, local stories covered and becoming editor and manager himself. Mentions Keith Holyoake. Describes meeting and marrying kindergarten teacher Margaret Eising, his interest in sports journalism and getting a job with the `New Zealand Sportsman'. Mentions journalists and sports people at the Commercial Hotel. Describes an offer to run a small newspaper and printing business in Apia, Samoa, leaving Auckland in 1951 and spending seven years there. Talks about the birth of five of their children there, the newspaper's coverage and businessman Eugene Paul. Recalls a role in a Hollywood movie with Gary Cooper,` Return to paradise', while in Samoa. Refers to Aggie's Hotel. Recalls returning to New Zealand for the childrens' education. Discusses involvement in the National Party as chair of the Island Bay electorate. Describes moving to Napier to work for the Martin Printing Company and standing unsuccessfully as a candidate in the Napier electorate in 1969. Recalls printing labels for the wine industry and beginning to work for Montana. Discusses the three wine organisations in existence, including the Wine Council and lobbying the government for the Wine Institute. Mentions Frank Yukich, George Mazuran, Alex Corban, Tom McDonald and Mate Brajkovich. Recalls the wines Bernkaisler, Pearl and Cold duck and Montana's move towards making varietal table wines. Talks about Tom McDonald of McWilliams' experimentation with cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. Comments on the emergence of wine writers, wine tasting in London and the idenitification of a New Zealand style by London tasters. Recalls the purchase of land by Montana in Marlborough and planting of muller thurgau, riesling, cabernet, pinotage and chardonnay grapes. Recalls lobbying the government about taxes on the wine industry. Mentions Robert Muldoon, George Green, Bernie Galvin and Lance Adams Schenider. Discusses the change in winemaking regulations in 1982. Describes becoming the chief executive of the Wine Institute. Discusses the 1986 grape pull. Mentions Brierleys, Bruce Hancox, Roger Douglas, David Lange and McWilliams. Recalls the involvement of corporates including DFC, the breweries and Brierleys in the industry. Mentions mergers. Discusses his role in arranging export activities. Refers to the Labour Government, Mike Moore, Tradenz and the formation of the New Zealand Wine Guild. Discusses the founding of the Food and Beverage Exporters Council and New Zealand participation in the London Wine Trade Fair in 1987. Discusses the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act and wine in supermarkets. Mentions Bryan Moggridge and Philip Gregan. Describes setting up his own vineyard, Te Motu, on Waiheke Island and the first vintage in 1993. Mentions his sons. Discusses setting up the industry magazine `New Zealand grapegrower and winemaker'. Talks about the lowering of the drinking age to eighteen and the Wine Institute support for ALAC in its advisory role. Interviewer(s) - Janice Aplin Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3117.

Date: 2010

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0015868

Description: Caricature of Len Brown the new Mayor of Auckland Council, elected in the October 2010 local body elections, and the first mayor to head the new supercity. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

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

Reference: DX-014-013

Description: The New Zealand Green Party on a raft flying a 'G.E. stance' banner, are bypassed by a ship labelled Coalition. The Green Party were not asked to join the Coalition government because of their unwillingness to back down over their stance on genetic engineering. Extended Title - Coalition. GE stance. Greens. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2008

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0005184

Description: Shows Prime Minister, Helen Clark, approaching with a lighted match, a member of the Ratana Church, who carries a French horn and is shackled by his ankle to a huge bomb. She says that she is here to celebrate his birthday and historic links with the Labour Party. Behind him National leader, John Key approaches with a cake that National has made and in which is embedded a file. Refers to the visit made by both leaders, to the Ratana Pa annual celebrations marking the birth of Ratana's founder, with the intention of wooing the Maori vote in the run up to the 2008 election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-514

Description: Caricature of Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, former CEO of Women's Refuge, stood unsuccessfully for the Christian Heritage Party in the 2002 General Election. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2005

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0000199

Description: There are two scenes. In the first we see a reporter with a hand-held vieo-recorder interviewing three black people, presumably refugees from New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The father is saying cynically that after ten days the water looked so much like oil that President Bush got interested. This refers to his rather slow response to the disaster. In the second scene we see Winston Peters throwing mud, (presumably at an unseen Bob Clarkson). This refers to his falling behind National candidate, Bob Clarkson, in the polls, and slinging an old sexual harrassment accusation at him. The link between the two cartoons is Other Titles - "After ten days the water looked so much like oil Mr Bush got interested." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-002-080

Description: Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0015779

Description: Prime Minister John Key is dressed as a groom; his bride (new Mayor of Auckland Len Brown) is anxious because he looks so pale but he reassures her it is nothing, that she just looks different from the bride he ordered from the mail-order catalogue; in his hand he holds the catalogue which has an image of John Banks who has been defeated by Len Brown in the mayoral race for Auckland supercity. The suggestion is that John Banks as a right wing candidate was very much John Key's preferred choice for mayor; but Auckland now has a left wing mayor, backed by a majority left wing council. 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-012-017

Description: Shows Helen Clark standing up to her knees in a 'political quick-sand' bog, she holds her dress up so as not to wet it. Two bamboo sticks poke up through the surface of the quick-sand. One held by National Party leader, Bill English who delights in Helen Clarks slow sinking into the bog. The other unidentified person warns Bill that he might get more than he bargained for if Helen sinks any lower as his stick is very close to the hem of her frock. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DX-014-573

Description: In the first of these two scenes the leader of the National Party, Don Brash, is shown in a meeting discussing strategy for the 2005 national elections. His advisor suggests he should follow a similar strategy to the recently re-elected Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard. In the Australian federal election the Labour Party lost at least 3 seats because of their anti-logging stance. In the second scene, Brash is delivering a speech in which he gives National Party support to logging in Tasmania. Extended Title - 'Rather than talk about the Rotorua lakes- perhaps we should focus of the lessons learned from John Howard's successful campaign' 'The National Party is very much in favour of logging in Tasmania...' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016781

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister is very pleased with the new campaign slogan for the next election - it is 'Choose a brighter future'. His aide points out that it is very similar to the opposition's campaign slogan which is 'Choose a brighter government'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011539

Description: A doctor holds four samples in little bottles of material that might cause a feverish reaction and he recommends staying calm and keeping away from those who are coughing and spluttering; the items in the bottles are 'swine flu', 'Bain saga', 'Mt Albert by-election', and the 'rugby test'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0011464

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key and Melissa Lee, the National candidate for the Mount Albert by-election held in June 2009. John Key continues to be positive in an ironical way about Melissa Lee in spite of the embarrassing gaffes made by National's inexperienced candidate. In the event Melissa Lee's vote tally was poor and the Labour candidate, David Shearer, won with an increased majority. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

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

Reference: DX-014-005

Description: A grim pathologist carrying a chainsaw and large axe heads towards a door labelled 'National Party Election post-morten'. The National Party had performed badly at the last election. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2002

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

By: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-

Reference: DX-012-011

Description: Shows a newspaper headline with some if Bill Englishs policies aimed at winning the next election. When asked what her strategies were, Helen Clark says that she's happy to let English do all the talking, implying that his own policies will work against him. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2002

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-002-079

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark's head is shown as the cliffs of Young Nick's Head, Gisborne, with Peter Dunne of the United Future party and Ron Donald of the Green Party trying to stake claims in her hair. Double reference is made, firstly to local protests led by Maori over the sale of Young Nicks Head, a historic land mark, to an American buyer purchasing the farm of which it is part, and secondly to the coalition cum minority government negotiations taking place between the Labour Party and the United Future party, and the Labour Party and the Greens. Extended Title - United Future. Greens. Things are running quiet with no one in charge. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2002

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-069

Description: Shows the key political leaders of the 2002 general election competing in an Extreme Sports final. There are many injuries. Other Titles - Green. N. Quantity: 1 digital image(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-012-018

Description: Shows the National Party as a headless chook having had it's head severed on the wood-block of 'credibility'. The headless chook is meanwhile calling for the head of the Diector of the Serious Fraud Squad, who is investigating a suspect complaint into election donations to the National Party. Extended Title - Credibility. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).