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Interview with Barry Phibbs
Date: 2 Aug 2006 - 02 Aug 2006
From: Mackenzie Centre Community Trust: Hydro oral history interviews
By: Phibbs, Barry Matthew, 1935-
Reference: OHInt-0829-05
Description: Interview with Barry Phipps, born Westport in 1935. Mentions his schooling, and his apprenteship with the Ministry of Works first at the North Beach Workshops in Westport and later in the Plant Repair Depot in Christchurch. Discusses going to Benmore in 1959 to work as a site maintenance fitter, later working at the Aviemore dam and then moving to Twizel to work on the Upper Waitaki Hydro Scheme. Talks about activities and working conditions on the sites, the machine workshops and work colleagues. Mentions being mechanical superintendent by the time he left in 1978. Discusses the role of Max Smith, particularly at Twizel. Refers to joining the fire brigade in 1960 and describes work with fires and accidents, including the loss of the main workshops at Otematata in February 1963. Interviewer(s) - Jacqui Foley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015896 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5715. Search dates: 1935 - 2006
Interview with Gerald Carr
Date: 19 Sep 1992
From: Rawene Public Library oral history project
By: Carr, Arnold Gerald, 1903-2000
Reference: OHInt-0641/03
Description: Arnold Gerald Carr born Inglewood, Taranaki 1903. Gives family background and talks about parents' early married life on dairy farm in Taranaki. Recalls marriage and move to Rawene where they spent twenty years. Discusses employment, driving ferries for Cyril Williams, mainly on the `Lister' which towed the car-ferry barge. Refers to `Sierra' and Harry Sharland. Other ferries mentioned include: `Malaita', `Kiwi' `Buttercup' and `Dairymaid'. Refers to Joe Slade. Recalls story of lighthouse during World War II. Explains that Cyril Williams sold to Subritsky Brothers. Discusses involvement with Rawene Fire Brigade and building the first fire station in 1952. Recalls being given the first Landrover fire engine brought out from England and refers to Fire Chief Varley from Wellington who visited and approved their enterprise. Mentions Tanner Chaston, Peter Williams and local builder, Arthur Bridge. Describes first call out to fire in shop at Kohukohu. Recalls other fires including Opononi Hotel which was destroyed. Recalls Rawene's Christmas parades and refers to Andrewes' decorated truck. Recalls that Rawene in the 1950s was a busy place with plenty of dances and social life. List players in the band from Kaikohe - Barry & Lionel Andrewes, Eric Harnett and his brother-in-law on accordions. Interviewer(s) - Vilia Chisholm Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010751 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3805.
Piha oral history project
Date: Mar-Nov 1999
By: Cagwin, Tina, active 1960s-2000s; Trubuhovich, Marilyn, active 1999; Northey, Glenda, active 1999
Reference: OHColl-0534
Description: Interviews with members of the surf beach community in west Auckland. They are Margaret and Peter Byers, Clifford Holt, Mervyn Alloway, Jack de Bazin, Pat Slane and Lane Abel and Bruce and Janet Murray. Interviewer(s) - Kristine (Tina) Grenville Interviewer(s) - Marilyn Trubuhovich Interviewer(s) - Glenda Northey Accompanying material - Listing of Fire Brigade members from 1974 to 1999; log of Fire Brigade callouts (including to car accidents, drownings and search and rescue) 1977-1991 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Photographs - colour and black and white
News. After a truck crash last week firefighters battled liquid yeast flowing towards L...
Date: 2004
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0004180
Description: Shows two tankers, one labelled 'hops' and the other 'malt' which are backed onto Lake Taupo. Hoses from the two tankers are emptying their contents into the lake with the result that the lake has turned into good frothy beer that the firefighters who were called to the tanker crash decided to take advantage of. Published in Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'SG' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Nothing in the manual on how to put out an inflamed drunken mob..." 19 October 2010
Date: 2010
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015827
Description: Two firemen hold a hose and worry because there is 'Nothing in the manual on how to put out an inflamed drunken mob...' Refers to an incident when a drunken mob attacked four volunteer firefighters on a Havelock street after an 18th birthday party got out of control. The crew of four volunteer firefighters responded to a report of a single-vehicle car crash on Mahakipawa Rd in Havelock. Police slammed the episode early yesterday as a "deplorable act of humanity", saying the troublemakers were in their 30s and 40s. (The Marlborough Express - 18 October 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :'How to cure tagging? Show 'em how to really spray!' 14 March ...
Date: 2013
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Reference: DCDL-0024250
Description: Shows a group of fire fighters using a hose to spray a group of taggers who are painting graffiti on a wall. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).