Places

Date: nd

By: Denne, Archibald, Harry, 1900-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-10887

Description: Includes reference to his teaching at Taihape and Oxford, experiences in Maori schools in the Northland and on the East Coast, relations with Sir Apirana Ngata and others, and experiences in Fijian and Chatham Island schools. Includes some sketch maps of the areas mentioned Denne was an inspector of Maori schools 1933-1937, inspector of schools 1938-1947 and senior inspector of schools in Hawke Bay 1947-1948 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (85 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One cartoon entitled `AHD inspects the sewing'.

Date: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: 1956-1961

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/02D

Description: Correspondence, Maori waiata and research papers relating to Maori performing arts, song lists and photographic prints. Includes a copy of a letter from Leo Fowler to the publisher Collins relating to the manuscript for his novel "Brown Conflict" which was published in 1959, also a copy of a letter to P Panapa in Tokoroa from Fowler, and a copy of a letter from H Te Kani Te Ua relating to an upcoming hui and the marae committee giving Fowler special rights in regards to recording the event [details unknown as to which event]. Also includes a copy of a poem "He Maoritanga" and the lyrics and research notes relating to the patere "Whangaramai-i-Tawhiti" and the dust jacket for "Ancient voyagers in the Pacific" by Andrew Sharp. Photographic prints include one of an unidentified baby and unidentified woman outside a suburban house ca. 1950s, and one of Leo Fowler sitting on a couch with two unidentified women and an unidentified man ca. 1960s, a small colour print of a group [possibly military] lined up on an unidentified field with a crowd present, and a black and white print of two boys in swimming costumes and sunhats bathing outside a suburban house in Beatty Bros metal washtubs [possibly Fowler's children?]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Photographic prints (3 black and white, 1 colour)

Date: 1955-1974

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-4/14

Description: Correspondence, notes on articles, articles on Maori place names, photos, maps, newspaper clippings and abstracts of radio programmes based on Maori whaling on the East Coast and Te Kaha history. Correspondence includes letters relating to Fowler's writing and publications, including some correspondence in French relating to an article that Fowler wrote in Landfall that was being translated into French for inclusion in the Ethno-psychologie journal. Correspondence also from Eric Ramsden and Charles Brasch. Language - Two letters in French Language - Some notes relating to Maori phrases Quantity: 1 folder(s). One black and white photographic print of a kapa haka group taken from above.

Date: ca1910, 6 November 1928

By: Gallagher, D (Dr), active 1969

Reference: PAColl-4797

Description: One photo shows Sir Apirana Ngata and party on arrival at the Lake Hotel on 6 November 1928, for the presentation of the Humane Society's medal Arrangement: Negatives ctatlogued at 1/2-032005, 032006 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1972

By: Hooker, Garry, 1939-2022

Reference: MS-Papers-1030

Description: Notes on songs in Sir Apirana Ngata's "Nga Moteatea", based on whakapapa book compiled by Piipi Tiopira and Maori Land Court records. Other Titles - Nga Moteatea Quantity: 1 folder(s) (15 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1841-1928

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-01

Description: Contains photographic file prints from the Turnbull Pictures collection and photocopies of Maori images with some supporting correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1965-1967

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-2/13

Description: Papers relating to the Waihirere Maori Club [of Gisborne] tour to the the South Island in 1967. Includes correspondence, administrative papers and ephemera, including a programme which lists waiata and information about the club as well as some quotes from Sir Apirana Ngata [E tipu e rea and A scene from the past], also some information about the sponsor Waihirere Wines. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 19 Apr 1982-3 Feb 1983 - 19 Apr 1982 - 03 Feb 1983

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Cooper, Whina (Dame), 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0514/1

Description: This interview took place over a number of months to provide material for Michael King to write the biography of Whina Cooper at her request. Discusses her family background, her father Heremia Te Wake, a Native Land Court assessor and her mother, Kare Pauro Kawatihi. Notes that she was the first child of her father's second marriage. Discusses her father and his attitude to Pakeha,land and mana. Mentions his friend Sir James Carroll and Sir Maui Pomare. Recalls childhood and schooling at Whakarapa Native School and St Joseph's Maori Girls' College in Napier. Describes working in the local store, becoming a teacher trainee at the Pawarenga Native School and then housekeeper at the Catholic presbytery. Recalls considering becoming a nun but changing her mind over a nun's treatment of a child. Talks about her role in fighting for the preservation of the Whakarapa mudflats, being drained by a Pakeha farmer, at the age of eighteen. Describes her interest in land surveyor Richard Gilbert, marriage to him in 1917, living at her parents' home and the birth of a daughter. Describes both parents' deaths and the need for her young family to move. Recalls living on family land at Te Karaka, the birth of another child and assistance from a priest to buy Heremia Te Wake's home and farm and the local store. Describes paying off the loan and building a new shop, post office, community centre and health clinic while husband Richard Gilbert ran the farm and later bought a second farm. Mentions becoming president of a Panguru branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and her role in land development in the Hokianga. Comments on Sir Apirana Ngata and legislation enabling Maori to borrow money to clear, drain, grass and fence land. Mentions the establishment of a programme dividing the Hokianga into development schemes and her supervision of the Panguru and Waihou schemes. Talks about the role of senior land consolidation officer William Cooper and the growth of her relationship with him. Talks about the death of husband Richard Gilbert and her intention to marry William Cooper on his divorce. Comments on reaction to this, moving to Kamo with William Cooper and having four more children. Recalls her fund-raising efforts during the war. Describes the return to Panguru of Whina and Bill Cooper after their marriage. Mentions the attempt to organise the building of a meeting house in Panguru. Talks about the death of husband Bill Cooper and going to Auckland. Discusses the beginning of the Maori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) in 1951, her election as President and travelling the country to establish branches. Discusses the work of the League and her role in it. Talks about the establishment of an Auckland urban marae, Te Unga Waka, in 1966. Talks about her health and attitude to medicines. Discusses her involvement in leading the Maori Land March in 1975 and the organisation Te Ropu o te Matakite. Talks about Kupe's discovery of Hokianga harbour. Discusses Father Becker, Archbishop Liston and other Catholic clergy. Talks about custom, carvings and fishing. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 14 Nov 1992

From: Hiruharama Oral History Project

By: Hughes, Ivan, active 1988-1992; Hughes, Stephanie, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0099-13

Description: Stephanie and Ivan Hughes discuss how they came to write a book `Port to Pasture' about the history of Port Awanui and the process they went through compiling information for the book. Outline how they interviewed people in the area, how they used postal records and photographs from police, school and postal records, how they found shipping and other records. Noted that Apirana Ngata left written records of Akuaku. Talked about the Akuaku schoolmaster, the Boyd, Hirtzell and Ellison families, Mentions Akuaku school, Pahou Marae. Venue - Gisborne Interviewer(s) - Monty Soutar Venue - Ivan and Stephanie Hughes' home in Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-OO5805b, OHC-005806 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1216b. Search dates: 1992

Reference: PAColl-0239

Description: One photograph of of Peter Buck, Bishop Bennet and Apirana Ngata, One of the Otaki meeting house `Raukawa' and, one of the church `Rangiatea', Otaki. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950 - 1954

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1950/1954

Description: Includes: 1950s: Aotearoa; greetings from New Zealand. Kia ora Katoa. Regal greeting card 2OX3-9W [1950s?] Hot pool cooking, N.Z. [Postcard. 1950s?] New Zealand tattoed Maori. Produced by G B Scott, photographer, Auckland H26-12 [Greeting card. 1950s?] Real photographs for your snapshot album. Maori. Published by Tanner Bros. Ltd [1950s?] NZ Post Office. Public relations Division. Who first discovered New Zealand? [1950s?] Pamphlet 1950: Micromodels Ltd (London) :Three dimensional volumetric micromodels. Maori war canoe. Set S.XV [ca 1950] Ngati Poneke Maori Association. Dance at Ngati Poneke Hall, 2 August 1950. With the Royal Hawaiians Dance Band. Invitation card Rangiatea Centennial Celebration. Service of thanksgiving & benediction for the centenary & restoration of Rangiatea. Otaki, 18 March 1950. Order of service (2 copies) Rangiatea Church Otaki. Centennial celebrations, 18 March 1950. Invitation card to the Evening Post Representative and Photographer Rangiatea Centennial Celebration. Souvenir programme [for various events]. March 1950. Tainui Canoe sexcentennial celebrations 1350-1950. Turangawaewae Pa, Ngaruawahia, 5-10 October 1950. Souvenir programme 1951: Pukekaraka Hui Aranga Katorika 1951 (the annual Easter hui of the Federated Catholic Maori Clubs of the Archdicoese of Wellington). 22-26 March 1951 at Pukekaraka, Otaki. Souvenir programme. 1952: The Maori as he was, by Elsdon Best. Pamphlet / order form [1952?] Valedictory dinner tendered by the staff of the Maori Affairs Department to Robert Preshaw Dykes, esq, Judge of the Maori Land Court, on his retirement. wanganui, 21 November 1952. Menu 1953: Te Hinota Maori (Maori Presbyterian Synod), "Te Maungarongo", Ohope, 16 May 1953. Service of dedication. Maori and English on alternate pages. 1954-1857: A traditionally carved Maori meeting house; a new amenity for Wellington and the Hutt Valley. 7000 [pounds] already raised. Will you help? Pamphlet [1954-1957] (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1958-1972

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/02C

Description: Maori song lists and lyrics, correspondence, programmes and notes. Includes notes about the peruperu "Kia kutia! Au! Au!", a copy of an article for the Waitangi souvenir programme on the occasion of the 1963 Royal visit, part of the programme for the Aki Cakobau School [Fijian girls' school] to New Zealand [1961-62], a letter from Hugh S McCully of Timaru and a copy of Leo Fowler's reply both written in 1958 relating to charcoal from an oven from the moa-hunting period near Waitaki. Also includes correspondence relating to the Young Maori leaders conference at Poho-o-Rawiri pa [1960]. Waiata [songs] include those composed by Sir Apirana Ngata, Mr and Mrs Henare Waitoa, and Alfred Hill. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1928

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-219

Description: Contains correspondence, accounts, and minutes of meetings, about the renovation of Papawai Pa, near Greytown, in the late 1920s

Date: 1863-1921

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1138

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1863-1921, with the majority dated 1908-1919. Also includes coverage of South Africa's Eastern Cape and England. Series include: Wilson family portraits, with Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, mother-in-law Emma Matthews, and brother Thomas. Estelle's children also feature, with some images taken in their adopted home in South Africa. Also Wilson family dogs Bruce and Nigger appear in a number of images. Street scenes and buildings in Kaiapoi are emphasised, with many taken following the July 1918 and 2 September snow storms. A number also depict World War One peace celebrations (including Kaiapoi 'tank' and parade). Interior and exterior images of Kaiapoi Woollen Mills and buildings in Hamner Springs (including Jollie's Hotel, Hamner Hall, Post Office, churches, and Public School) also feature. Events include funeral procession of trooper Nicholson (Kaiapoi) who was killed in the South African War, parade with decorated traction engine (Rangiora), celebration of coronation of Edward VII (Oxford), an unidentified shipwreck, street scene of 1908 Christchurch fire, the relocation of St Paul's Presbyterian Church (Kaiapoi), crowd at collie dog trials (Waikari), delivery of Anderson's boiler to Woollen Mills factory, railway accident at Chaimey's corner and funeral of R J Alexander, Armistice Day celebrations (Rangiora), Lord Ranfurly's visit to Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Ashley water supply project luncheon, and the relocation of assembly rooms building. Named figures include J Lang, J Perrin, and J M McGarvy; Mrs W A Parham with her flock of turkeys; J R Leithead; Chief Dinizulu (postcard from Estelle Wilson, annotated); portraits of soldiers Ralph and Leslie Feldwick (both killed in action in Dardanelles) and soldier C J Brighing; Reverend Wynter Blathwayt, Maaka Hape, and T Hape of St Stephen's Maori Church, J Murray and his three boys in Highland dress; cyanotype of Edward Devine, Miss Alice Bennett and her nieces; Mr Jeffrey; and S Johnston (Kaiapoi Postmaster). Group photographs depict [1st Wellington Battalion?] in France, the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Canterbury Rifles on Queen Victoria's 1887 jubilee, group (mainly Maori) at the Kaiapoi Bridge (1869 visit of the Duke of Edinburgh), Woodend Volunteer Rifles, unidentified Maori group outside Runanga Hall (Tuahiwi), and territorial soldiers in 1913 (Rangiora). Premiere Richard Seddon [last photograph before death?] with group at Newport Railway Workshops (Melbourne), soldiers at Trentham Military Camp (1918), Sir Apirana Ngata and the Mahaanui Maori Council, wedding party photographs from the Leech and Parsons wedding, old scholars of Kaiapoi Church School, North Canterbury Ploughing Match organisers (figures named), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills directors (1879), Captain Chaffey and Lieutenants Douglas and Grey of the Amuri Mounted Rifles, Parham family, and the Matthews family outside school house at Kaiapoi Church Day School. Buildings include Bruce Hotel (Akaroa), Hydro Grand Hotel (Timaru), Kaiapoi Parish Church, Wellington Post Office, Bank of New Zealand (Kaiapoi), Beauthorne, W J Robinson's stables and manager's house (Cheviot), Christ's College (Christchurch), South British Insurance (also Press Office, Kaiapoi), S Baldwin's home (Canada), Buckeye Hotel (with Cob and Co coach outside), Marston (Kaiapoi), J Sim's sawmill and store, Kaiapoi Parish Church, Glenmark Station homestead, Church of the Holy Innocents (Amberley), Woollen Mills Cashel Street, Maori pa formerly at site of Woollen Mills (painting), Malcolm Ross Cottage, and Glen Hoon (Hamner). Miscellaneous images include a volunteer camp in Oamaru (Easter, 1886), Akaroa monument to Captain Stanley, Dunedin (from Roslyn Hill), the construction of the Kaiapoi dredge, Rangiora War Memorial, Tikitere (Rotorua), Ashburton Domain, Wellington (from Te Aro Hill), Challenge Shield trophy (of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers), Volunteer Rifle target practice on Kaiapoi beach, Cam bridge (with unidentified family group), the ferry 'Windermere' with Coniston Lake coach on board, Gore Bay and other images from Cheviot area, Reece Valley, Shetland pony Wee Davie, Kingston-Invercargill coach (cyanotype of photo taken by American Astronomical Mission), Purau farm panorama (site for 1893 volunteer military camp), fancy dress, the ketch 'Jannet', Lyttelton Harbour, the steamer 'Kairaki', farmland at Highfield (Waiau), Amuri, Dogs Creek intake, Otira Gorge, various Blue Mountain scenes (New South Wales), Conical Hill (Hamner), Rogerson Valley, D Rutherford Bridge and upper bridge cutting (Waiau River), an original pen drawn caricature, a copy of a painting of a coach by E M Lovell-Smith, and a number of river, garden, and street scenes. Various images (some postcards) from South Africa include three men in front of a cave, St Andrew's College and St Aiden's College (Grahamstown), Prince Alfred's Guards Memorial and Port Elizabeth, Hellgate, and the road to Walmer. Also images (many postcards) of England, including Penrith, Keswick, Braithwaite, Torquay, Boscobel House and Royal Oak (Shropshire), Cumberland Church, and Christchurch Gate (Canterbury). Collected photographs include many Burton Brothers' images of various New Zealand scenes (mainly scenic, including Wanganui River, Waitakere area, Manawatu Gorge, and Lake Manapouri) and work by other unidentified photographers. Album includes cyanotypes, copies of daguerreotypes, postcards, hand coloured images as well as original and reproduced artworks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2011. The album was purchased from Mr Robin Rapley of Christchurch.

Date: 1942-1956

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-001

Description: Includes whakapapa from the Tairawhiti, Tainui and Te Arawa, essays on Maori poetry, the valedictory speech of Rangi Royal, the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the railway's main trunk line, 'Ngata, the Maori Statesmen', the creation of a Maori dictionary, news reports of Kingi Tawhiao drunk in Masterton, organising the play 'Pong and Puhihuia', honours list recommendations, the building of Mahinarangi at Turangawaewae and also Maori waiata, pao, ruri, patere and karakia, also includes personal correspondence, including from Michael Jones. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1864-1911

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-1128

Description: News and personal photographs taken and collected by J L Wilson featuring North Canterbury 1864-1911, predominantly dated 1905 to 1911. Named figures include Governor William Lee Plunket, M J Dixon, J O'Halloran, McLennan and Wilson, G R Hart, J Moses Willowby, Mrs Clothier and daughters, and R W Chaffey, Lewis, Hunter, and Johnson of Cust Volunteer Rifles. Group photographs include Mahaanui Maori Council [1905?], Apirana Ngata at Tuahiwi meeting, Kaiapoi Borough Council (1905), early Canterbury settlers at Pilgrim's corner, 'Glentanner' shipmates reunion, Oxford Branch of Farmers' Union (H T Cooper, J O'Halloran, J Wells, and McCormack), and Coe-Roberts Wedding. Series include: scrub (manuka) mowing machine designed by M J Dixon and land clearance; Oram family (Durban, South Africa), including Josie, Bobbie and unidentified Indian nurse; Christchurch Press, including offices, printing press, and binding room, as well as staff photograph in front of Press building; Threlkeld's farm 'Inglewood' (Flaxton); various Wilson family photographs, including [father?] W Wilson as an old man, Joseph Lowthian Wilson, his wife, daughter Estelle, son Leonard, and [son-in-law George?], and with the Christmas visit of Ms Pattinson from England featured; John O'Halloran and family and mustering scenes from Glentui Station (Oxford) including Seddon Falls; views, some panoramic, from the Ashley Gorge-Snowdale road; wheat harvest at R Evans' farm 'Clifton' (Waikari); photo-mechanical postcards of United Kingdom, Canterbury area, and New Zealand scenes (including Tongariro, Wellington Botanic Gardens, and bush scenes); and the wedding of two unidentified Maori couples (Tuahiwi). Events covered include Amberley Horse Show, Northern Agricultural & Pastoral Show (Rangiora), opening of J S White's Beehive Store, laying wreath at Queen Victoria statue, David Graham laying foundation stone at Woodend Methodist Church, and procession celebrating coronation [George V?]. Featured buildings include St Barnabas Church (Woodend), The Lodge (Hamner Springs), City Council Chambers (Christchurch), Colonel E B Milton's house 'Birch Hill', J Barton's house, and Woollen Mills, Post Office and Court buildings (Kaiapoi). Local scenes include Avonside (poplar trees), Kaiapoi (domain, bridge, wharf, regatta, swimming baths, Kai Tahu memorial), Clarkville, Ohoka, Woodend, Kairaki, Clifton, and Waikari. Farming images include turkeys, draught horses and ploughing, and cattle Miscellaneous images include M Thompson's sketching class at the School of Art, Boy Scouts doing dishes at camp, coach at Bealey, river being forded, Lees Valley Road, an unidentified African beach, Tangarakau Gorge (Stratford-Ongarue line, Taranaki), whitebaiting, sorting mail on board Antarctic ship HMS 'Discovery', HMS 'Challenger' in Lyttelton as well as harbour and port view, Upper Waiau bridge, monument to schoolmaster Charles George Chapman, [Scaitcliff?], Weka Pass, and Day's Bay (Wellington). Also includes a collage of newspaper mastheads, a photograph of the first Press newspaper editorial (1861), and a 1911 clipping from the Weekly Press 'Closer Land Settlement in the Oxford District: Some views on the Ashley Gorge-Snowdale Road' folded in the back of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [ca 1961]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/17

Description: Papers relating mainly to East Coast Maori history, place names, waiata [songs] and whakatauki. Includes a poem which begins "Ask of us. What is our Maoritanga?..." and a waiata which mentions Koroki, Tainui and Waikato. Research notes and articles about Te Kaha and waka history and place names for the East Coast and Eastern Bay of Plenty. A letter [carbon copy] from Te Kani Te Ua relating to the meeting house at Whakato Marae. A document relating to the propietors of Mangatu, nos 1,3 & 4 blocks. Some wartime waiata from World War One and World War Two including one composed by Apirana Ngata in 1916 titled Te Wiwi Nati, and an impromptu tangi chanted by a father who had lost a son in 1945. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 14 April 1993

From: Hiruharama Oral History Project

By: Pahau, Hinetiurangi, 1919-1999

Reference: OHInt-0099-10

Description: Hinetiurangi (Tiu) Pahau gives details of her Rongowhakaata and Ngati Maru background, noting that her mother was a granddaughter of Tamihana Ruatapu. Talks about being born and growing up at Manutuke, attending Manutuke Primary school and then being sent to Gisborne Girls High School. Describes the experience of being the first Maori from Manutuke to go to that school and being the only Maori at the school during her time there. Details her employment after school at the Department of Maori Affairs and going nursing until she had a child. Describes Gisborne at the outbreak of WWII. Gives details of her sister Hinehou Te Kani and her marriage to Parekura Tureia. Speaks at length about Parekura, his schooling, rugby playing, relationship with Apirana Ngata, his role in the Territorial force before the war and then in the Maori Battalion as the first Maori commander of C Company. Describes the farewell parade in Gisborne and dance at Poho-o-Rawiri for the main body of the C Company, noting that Tuini Ngawai sang. Details Parekura being killed, names others who died during the war and describes the tangi held for the soliders and for Parekura. Talks about meeting her husband Watene Pahau, members of his family, his being awarded a Military Medal, moving to Whakapaurangi with her son Wally, names her children with Watene and details Watene's employment. Notes that her sons were sent to Presbyterian College at Ruatahuna to get farming education. Describes living at Matahiia Station and later at Taumarunui where she worked for probation and as a prison welfare office before retiring. Gives her views on education, notes that Peter Gordon has completed her whakapapa and recounts memories of friends and growing up at Manutuke. Talks about a car accident and her present health. Venue - Gisborne Interviewer(s) - Monty Soutar Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005815, OHC-005816a Tape numbers - OHLC-002887, OHLC-002888 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1222A. Search dates: 1993

Date: 30 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Rangiihu, Myrtle Tahiti, 1918-2003

Reference: OHInt-0064/20

Description: Myrtle (Bundy) Rangiihu was born at Kohupatiki, Hastings on 29 June 1918. Gives details of her family background and growing up on the farm at Kohupatiki. Describes being selected to learn kowhaiwhai and tukutuku when she left school and being taught these in Wellington by Apirana Ngata. Recalls also learning waiata from him. Discusses his influence and also that of Kingi Tahiwi and Bishop Bennett, the first Bishop of Aotearoa. Notes that Bishop Bennett introduced her to future husband Sam Rangiihu while he was becoming a curate. Talks about the consecration of Bishop Bennett. Recalls the Napier earthquake in 1931 and the incidence of tuberculosis amongst Maori in the 1920s and 1930s. Talks about marrying and living in the Mission House and also working with her husband in the Opotiki and Hicks Bay area. Describes adopting her son Gary, and three other children, and explains the process of whangai (adoption). Talks about the outbreak of war and Sam Rangiihu becoming chaplain to the forces with Wi Huata. Mentions that he was also chaplain to K-Force (in Korea). Comments on the quality of the Maori (28) Battalion and the deaths of Maori soldiers. Discusses American servicemen, sexuality and Maori attitudes to illegitimacy. Describes how her father contracted to grow vegetables for Watties during World War II to feed American soldiers. Talks about the growth of Watties. Describes the importance of land to Maori. Details the Government Rehabilitation Schemes and land bought for soldiers in Wairoa after the war. Reflects on her husband's death. Talks about the importance of the marae. Describes her involvement with the Chadwick Family Trust who run orchards in Hastings and a project growing everlasting flowers. Venue - Napier . 1992 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana-Hyland Venue - Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004786; OHC-004787; OHC-004788 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 857. photograph of Kingi Ihaka, Bundy (Myrtle) Rangiihu, Manu Ihaka and Samuel Rangiihu about the 1950s; Myrtle and Samuel Rangiihu and family about World War II; Bundy (Myrtle) Rangiihu in 1992