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Date: 24 Aug 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Bateman, Clarence Thomas, 1912-1996; Bateman, Jean Ysobelle, 1918-1991

Reference: OHInt-0185/12

Description: Clarence Bateman was born at Totara Flat near Greymouth in 1912. Describes how his father remarried after his mother's death and he lived for two or three years at the Glendinning Home in Andersons Bay, Dunedin. Recalls that his father was in and out of work. Describes the family's move to Christchurch when his father remarried and Clarence Bateman's involvement in helping bring up the family. Describes doing well at school. Talks about his first job at the Aulsebrooks biscuit and sweet factory. Talks about his family's move to the Waitaki Hydro Scheme village where he and his father got jobs. Describes involvement in local sport, living in the single men's huts and meeting Jean Dakers. Describes the single men being put off during the Depression, returning to Christchurch and marrying Jean. Jean Bateman (nee Dakers) was born and spent her early years at Crown Terrace near Arrowtown and Frankton. Talks about the role of music in her family and her father's (John Dakers) writing. Notes that he had poems published in the Otago Daily Times. Describes the family's move to the Waitaki Hydro Scheme village about 1925. Recalls meeting and later marrying Clarence Bateman. Describes a number of places they lived in Christchurch during the Depression. Talks about Clarence Bateman's work with C.S. Lunnery. Recalls balloting for the house at 24 Beanland Ave (originally 24 McCombs Street) which was the second state house to be occupied in Christchurch. Notes that they were the first tenants of this house. Comments that when they arrived there were no neighbours, streets, footpaths, fences, carpets, blinds or curtains. Describes the opening of the house which was attended by M.J. (Micky) Savage and many MPs. Describes the house as well built in brick with a concrete tiled roof and wooden window frames. Notes that the rent was high but the house was well built. Describes regular visits by State Advances inspectors. Talks about house maintenance, purchasing the house in 1950 under the scheme which allowed tenants to capitalise their family benefit and buy their state house, and their occupation of the house for fifty years. Describes Jean Bateman's activities which include voluntary work at the Spreydon Public Library, membership of a choir and the Townswomen's Guild. Venue - Christchurch : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Clarence & Jean Bateman's home at Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002242; OHC-002243 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 413. Photo of Clarence and Jean Bateman and their home about 1980; photo of their home about 1950

Date: 12 May-28 Jul 1998 - 12 May 1998 - 28 Jul 1998

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

By: Harison, Christopher Stratford, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0131/20

Description: Christopher Harison was born and raised in South Africa where he trained as a doctor. Describes working in hospitals as an obstetrician in Great Britain and South Africa, including time in a mission hospital in South Africa. Also describes being in private practice there. Recalls his feelings about Sharpeville. Describes the decision to come to New Zealand and his work as the first obstetrician in Thames. Discusses his attitudes to home birth and abortion and involvement with SPUC. Talks about National Women's Hospital and the `unfortunate experiment'. Describes appearing before the Medical Council. Comments that his career has encompassed major developments in obstetrics and midwifery, the growth of the home birth movement and feminism and the restructuring of the health services. Discusses his approach to teamwork in obstetrics, the development of screening tests in pregnancy, the identification of high risk, the reorganisation of obstetric services on the Coromandel, medical and midwifery education and changes in nursing education. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - in 3 folders. 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1742, OHDL-000833.

Date: 03 Apr 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Pitt, Alison Thomas Waipa, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0020/17

Description: Alison Pitt recalls Pukemiro School; getting medical help; entertainment at Pukemiro; the tennis courts being built; the swimming pool; horses; fishing and kids' play; looking through the Pukemiro School Jubilee Book; the doctor; shops; brother delivering groceries for local store; early roads and railways around Pukemiro and Glen Afton; delivering food to mine houses; icecream from Mr Dun; early movies and dances; 'kitchen teas' for girls about to be married; putting in roads for cars; their house at Pukemiro; lighting; heating; outhouses; water supply; first radio; house at mine; washing clothes. Describes coal delivery and power at mine; changing points on railway as kids; bonfires; the miners' picnic; comparison of the town then and now; going to Huntly; entertainment; chores; employment for women; going to school on horseback; crime in area; local Maori; compulsory education; the Depression (1930s) in Pukemiro and Auckland; contact with Rotowaro; visiting carbonisation works; the Waingaro hot springs; going underground with father and school; the Glen Afton disaster; the 1951 strike at Rotowaro; refusing to sell meths; doctors at Rotowaro; Glen Afton; tallies and cavels. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 8 Glasgow Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004406 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 737 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Date: 9 Dec 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Graham, Myra, 1924-2013

Reference: OHInt-0314/03

Description: Talks about her background, birth, childhood and education in Christchurch including attending Christchurch Girls High School and Commercial College. Describes her interest in politics and belief in National Party philosophy. Talks about meeting and marrying her husband and her life on the farm 'Ahuriri' in detail. Notes that it was like a small village with seven married couples on the farm. Recalls her early involvement in Plunket when her children were born and the role Plunket played in the community. Comments on the animosity towards Plunket and David Geddis over the closure of the Karitane Hospitals. Focuses on her involvement with Plunket while President. Includes comments on her relationships with Health Ministers Frank Gill, George Gair, Tom McGuigan and Aussie Malcolm. Talks about the conflict between public heatlh nurses and Plunket nurses and the Health Department and the Plunket Society. Venue - Christchurch : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Christchurch Quantity: 2 DAT tape(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 868. Colour portrait photograph of Myra Graham and colour portrait photograph of Myra and Douglas Graham, 1992

Date: 3 Sep 1992 - 03 Sep 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Rout, Pauline Mae, 1917-2001

Reference: OHInt-0314/16

Description: Describes being born in Greymouth and living there till the age of four when she shifted with her family to Ashburton and then Invercargill. Talks about attending Southland Girls High before working as a law clerk for seven years and for her accountant husband. Describes running his business with the assistance of manpower help in the home and supportive office staff while he was away at World War II. Talks about being at home with her invalided husband and children after the war, returning to the workforce, childcare arrangements and combining home and work. Describes being approached by Plunket to be Secretary-Treasurer because she was a female accountant who had used Plunket for her children. Recalls clearing the Karitane hospital of its overdraft. Explains the Government's subsidy system for Plunket nurses, its implications for Karitane and Plunket's decision to close the Karitane hospitals in 1979. Explains the popularity of the Karitane hospitals. Notes that the local Karitane hospital was in excellent shape and well supported but that the decision was a national issue for Plunket. Explains negotiations between the Government and Plunket over financing Plunket nurses. Describes the closure meeting where Southlanders expressed their dissatisfaction with Plunket's reasons for the closure of the Invercargill Karitane Hospital. Talks about the sale of the hospital and the Invercargill Family Centre. Discusses fundraising and the organisation of the Southland branch. Venue - Invercargill : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Invercargill Accompanying material - Letter from Pauline Rout to Jim Sullivan clarifying information about the Southland Karitane Hospital Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004826; OHC-004827 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 876. Colour portrait photograph of Pauline Rout in 1992; photocopy of portrait photograph of Pauline Rout in the 1940s

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017447

Description: Text across the top of the cartoon reads 'Meanwhile, in the Wakitipu Basin... A couple of American tourists are overwhelmed by the scenery and the woman says 'It's gorgeous!.. Living here I bet you never want to go anywhere else'. The driver of the limousine nearby says 'True Madam only when when we need medical care do we travel at all. Context - There will be no hospital in Queenstown. Queenstown's Remarkables Park Ltd and the Queenstown Medical Centre have announced they are going ahead with multimillion-dollar plans for an integrated medical services facility on a site at Remarkables Park zoned for Hospitals and Healthcare Services. The move was in line with a Government policy of providing better, quicker and more convenient healthcare, and was supported by Health Minister Tony Ryall according to Mr Rousseau, chair of the Southern District Health Board. Hospital grade care would be available at the medical centre but urgent cases would be stabilised then sent on to larger regional hospitals - which is the system in place at the moment. (Southland Times 4 March 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0002898

Description: The Minister of Health, Pete Hodgson, sits behind his desk holding onto the original Paritutu dioxin study with a long handled pincer. He states that peer reviews have found the original study to be valid. Refers to the errors that were found in the original study being found not to have effected the main findings of the study. It was found that people living in the vicinity of the the former Ivon Watkins Dow agrochemical plant, in particular for at least 15 years between 1962 and 1987 had been exposed to high levels of dioxin, a contaminant that is a by-product of 245T. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014976

Description: The cartoon shows a huge bomb representing 'neurosurgery' with a fizzing fuse. A couple of men, one of them a policeman peer at it from behind a brick wall. The policeman says that 'IED is the new buzzword... Improvised Explosive Device.' This is about the controversial topic of neurosurgery units in the South Island. Currently both Christchurch and Dunedin provide neurosurgical services, but with the five South Island district health boards (DHBs) agreeing the South Island would be best served by having one hospital providing them, one will be forced to give up. There have been large protests led by the mayors of Dunedin and Invercargill. A report on the issue is due to be presented to Health Minister Tony Ryall in October. An 'IED' is an improvised explosive device like that which killed Kiwi soldier Tim O'Donnell in Afghanistan. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DX-022-073

Description: Shows a couple watching the Olympics on television while eating pizza, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023798

Description: Shows the minister tells his aide that they will no longer fund glue ear operations as a little bit of deafness never hurt anyone. He adds that 'In fact, for politicians, a certain amount of deafness can be quite useful'. Refers to the National-led government wanting to cut the budget for surgery to install grommets, a technique for glue ear (especially in children). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013775

Description: The cartoon shows a grave stone engraved with the words 'District Health Boards - RIP - up the budget!' Refers to the approval of the merger of the Southland and Otago district health boards. It will take the boards' combined forecast deficit to almost $20 million. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-006-124

Description: The long arm of the government reaches over the beggars labelled "Health Relief" and "Education Relief" and gives a lot of money to "Tsunami Relief", who struggles to hold all it has been given. Refers to the 10 million dollars that the New Zealand government gave to those countries affected by the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Extended Title - Government Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2002

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

Reference: DX-003-067

Description: Doctors and a nurse from Whangarei Hospital consider the latest patient from Kaitaia Hospital, a severed, bleeding head. Other Titles - Whangarei Hospital. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DX-022-074

Description: Shows a man and a woman ordering a meal at a restaurant. The waitress objects to their choice and insists that they will eat something healthy. May relate to calls by health campaigners to introduce a tax on unhealthy food. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2005

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

Reference: DX-022-229

Description: Two well-heeled men are being served drinks by a waiter. They are celebrating because they have been allocated funds that will enable them to assure New Zealanders that they will be enjoying the world's best health service. Naturally the waiter assumes that they are health professionals but it turns out that they are handling the government's election advertising. Refers to pre-election spin. Other Titles - "Great!..So you're health professionals?" "Good God, no!..We handle their election year advertising!.. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015367

Description: 'Somewhere... in a galaxy* far, far away...' a scruffy man searching a dump for useful stuff comes across a large document labelled 'Experts'. He realises that he has stumbled across the 'National Health Board Southern Neurological Services Review Panel' and thinks that this 'missing panel of experts...' might be worth sticking on ebay... The asterisk in the heading links to a note nelow that reads 'Auckland - it's the same thing'. The second version has larger text and the third version lacks the words 'might be worth sticking on ebay' and also lacks the 'Auckland' note. Refers to the controversial topic of neurosurgery units in the South Island. Currently both Christchurch and Dunedin provide neurosurgical services, but with the five South Island district health boards (DHBs) agreeing the South Island would be best served by having one hospital providing them, one will be forced to give up. There have been large protests led by the mayors of Dunedin and Invercargill. A report on the issue is due to be presented to Health Minister Tony Ryall in October. The comment about Auckland being a galaxy 'far far away' is a reference about how far away fro Southland, Auckland seems to be. Three versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017645

Description: A small boy is investigating the contents of his father's liquor cabinet and says 'There's already a health warning on these bottles... "Harm will come to anyone who even TOUCHES this"! I think it's from Dad'.Two smaller children and the cay are lining up for drinks. Context - the Law Commission's review on how to reduce alcohol abuse, and the blood alcohol content for drivers. One of the suggestions is adding a health warning label to alcohol. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016173

Description: In the top frame voices coming from a pub in the evening discuss something that happened to Ted - apparently someone whacked him because he complemented someone on a moustache grown for Mo-vember. In the lower frame a bruised and bandaged Ted has a lonely drink in the pub. The conversation started above continues with the bartender telling a patron that it was Ted's wife who whacked him - justifiably too in my opinion! 'Movember' is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds for and awareness of men's health issues. Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017615

Description: The scene is the A & P Society's cookery competitions. A woman reads a newspaper with a heading that reads 'Crack-down on food not made in licensed kitchens'. A health inspector has condemned as unsafe the jam and pickles of all the contestants and one of the has jammed a bucket over his head. Another contestant tells her neighbour that 'the danger-to-your-health in Aunt Mildred's jam, isn't in the eating of it - but the telling her'. Published in Whangarei Report Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017077

Description: Dr Dolly welcomes 'all you lucky GPs' aboard for election year and gives advice about how to escape the results of being made a political football by adopting the brace position. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).