Places

Date: Sep 1996 to Jul 1997

By: Gough, Elaine, active 1997; Morgan, Janis, active 1997

Reference: OHColl-0446

Description: Talks to people who have lived and worked in the area, near Alexandra, for a long period of time. Orcharding families associated with the area include the Iversens, Taylors and Dawsons. Comments on changes in stone fruit growing and orcharding. Interviewees are Mon McGinnis, Howard Hinton, Dick McArthur, John Campbell, Anne Duncan, Gary Iversen, Eric Hawkins, Mary Ormandy, Gill McLaren, Margaret Matheson, John Taylor, Earnscy Weaver, Pat Ferris and Stan Hanning Interviewer(s) - Elaine Gough Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 14 transcript(s). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: 2 November 1992; 14 December 1992; 14 January 1993; 6, 13 February 1993 - 02 Nov 1992 - 13 Feb 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Jones, Adele, active 1992; Symons, Isabella Margaret, 1908-1997

Reference: OHInt-0148/28

Description: Isabel Margaret Symons, nee Noble, was born and has lived in Alexandra all her life. The youngest of a family of four, she attended Alexandra Primary School until aged 14. Isabel then worked at home assisting with the housework, fruit picking and catering for shearers. In 1935 she married James (Toddy) Symons who worked for the Ministry of Works and later on became a well known poet. Isabel's main focus was managing the home and raising two boys and two girls. Even though times were hard Isabel managed the household finances with skill. She has a great interest in hockey, representing Alexandra and for many years was chaperone for the Central Otago team. Over the years Isabel has used her abilities as a cook to do voluntary work - catering for a number of organisations. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Adele Jones Venue - Alexandra Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018551-018555; OHLC-009990-09994 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6427 and OHDL-000761. Photographs of Noble family; Isabel outside her flat in 1994; outside the house she was raised in Galloway in 1994

Date: 20 October 1993; 13, 14 November 1993 - 20 Oct 1993 - 14 Nov 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Jones, Adele, active 1992; Wilkinson, Ellen Mary, 1909-1995

Reference: OHInt-0148/29

Description: Ellen Mary Wilkinson, nee Lillicrapp (nicknamed Paddy) was born in Oamaru. She was a member of a family of 17, 5 brothers and 11 sisters. She spent her early working life at Bruce Woollen Mills at Milton and became very efficient on the Toer machine. She worked as a kitchen hand, waitress, shopkeeper, shop assistant and dressmaker at Roslyn Woollen Mills. She worked hard and learnt many skills over her lifetime. She married William Urwin Wilkinson in 1929 and helped him with his printing work. They had one daughter who died, and 3 sons. Later in life she was mother to a state boy for 10 years. Paddy explains that she accepted her life as it came. Feels that her greatest achievements were excelling at golf. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Adele Jones Venue - Alexandra Accompanying material - Employee register showing Lillicrapps working at the mill Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018575-018577; OHLC-010014-010016 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6432 and OHDL-000762. Photographs of Paddy as an elderly woman; with Fetival Queen and Princesses in September 1993; working on a hoisery machine

Date: 23, 26, 29 March 1993; 3 April 1993 - 23 Mar 1993 - 03 Apr 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Randle, Daphne, active 1993; Haydock, Irene Myrtle, 1898-1994

Reference: OHInt-0148/15

Description: Irene Myrtle Haydock, nee Fraser, born in Christchurch and lived in Christchurch, Dunedin, Alexandra, Rakaia and Wellington. She was the eldest of 9 children but lost track of her brothers and sisters because she was raised by her aunt, Jean Patrick and cousin Dr Clifford Patrick. She was one of the first girls taken on by the Post Office to train as a Telegraphist. She worked in Post Offices in Rakaia, Government House (Wellington) and Sydenham. She married in 1925 to Philip Haydock and had one daughter. She took boarders into her home and later ran a boarding house, Haeremai, in Alexandra. Irene's great interests were Bridge and Croquet Club. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Daphne Randle Venue - Alexandra Accompanying material - Marriage certificate of Irene Myrtle Fraser to Philip Cecil Haycock in 1925; Acceptance letter of resignation from Post Office in 1925; Birth certificate of Irene Myrtle Fraser in 1898; Trinity College of Music certificate for pianoforte playing in 1922. Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-018543-018546; OHLC-009982-009985 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6424 and OHDL-00749. Photograph of Mrs Haydock at Ranui Home in 1993

Date: 1, 8, 17 June 1993 - 01 Jun 1993 - 17 Jun 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Randle, Daphne, active 1993; Jamie, Marie Joyce, 1916-2009

Reference: OHInt-0148/17

Description: Joyce Jamie was the eldest of six children of John and Nora Holden. She spent her childhood and attended primary school in Central Otago and then moved to Lumsden to live with an aunt so she could attend Gore High School. When she left school she wanted to study Home Science but due to lack of finance was unable to. Joyce trained as a hairdresser in Dunedin and then moved to Alexandra. There she met her future husband John Jamie. She continued working until her first child was born in 1940. The family then moved to Christchurch for a short period because of her husband's Air Force work during the war. After the war Joyce and her family moved to Alexandra where she and her husband opened a jewellery business which they ran together. After her husband's death in 1962 Joyce continued working in the business. Apart from the business her interests included the church and gardening. Now retired Joyce continues to live in Alexandra. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Daphne Randle Venue - Alexandra Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018572-018574; OHLC-010011-010013 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6431 and OHDL-000751. Photograph of Joyce Jamie as a young woman

Date: 17 Apr 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Flint, Travis Nonnet, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0975-11

Description: Interview with Travis Flint, born in Invercargill in 1924. Talks about growing up in a farming family, his schooling, and the family moving to Tauranga ca 1939/1940. Refers to working in the family citrus orchard until his call up by the Territorials aged 18, being transferred for a period to the Air Force, and travelling to Egypt in 1945. Discusses serving briefly at Forley in Italy, before being based in Trieste. Recalls hearing about the atom bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, returning to New Zealand before going to Japan in Jayforce. Discusses returning to New Zealand in late 1946, and studying at Lincoln College on a Department of Agriculture bursary. Talks about working for the Department of Agriculture as a horticultural field officer in Alexandra. Mentions taking a Plant Quarantine Officer course while in Alexandra, and then transferring to Palmerston North as a horticultural and agricultural quarantine officer. Mentions his work inspecting imported plants and incoming international mail and handling hunters' trophies. Talks about staff training at Palmerston North covering entomology, plant pathology, animal health, jurisprudence, fish identification and fumigation. Mentions treating aircraft at Ohakea. Refers to the Palmerston North seed testing station and intercepting cannabis seed. Discusses a promotion to deputy in the Port Agricultural Inspection Service in Auckland in 1963, and later becoming Regional Office Manager. Talks about the work involving boarding ships, checking larders, clearance of passengers, and control of transfer of goods between vessels. Comments on problems in the organisation three years after its establishment, and the lack of office space as the staff increased after the opening of Mangere airport. Reflects on the difficulties finding qualified staff in the early years of the Service, the number of university graduates with suitable training increasing but their need to be practical. Mentions that the staff was male and mainly Pakeha at the beginning. Comments that the Auckland office was responsible for the area from the far north to Taupo. Mentions checking food and pets on yachts in Northland, and checking mail for food at Taupo during the Tongariro hydro development project. Mentions the problem of bird smuggling on wheat ships from Australia, fish smuggling, and the dangers from meat imports. Refers to staff travelling to clear exports and their need to know the standards of importing countries. Mentions boarding the Royal Yacht Britannia, and President Lyndon Johnson wanting to bring his dog with him. Talks about the Auckland fumigation centre which lacked a training programme in 1963. Refers to cargo inspection in wharf sheds or in the holds before containerisation, and having to get shipping people to accept that ship sweepings and garbage could contain pests. Discusses the changes in treating cargo after the introduction of container shipping and air cargo, the problems with moving cargo off wharf to approved areas, and his preference for pre-treatment of goods. Describes airport processes for spraying insecticide in incoming aeroplanes and checking disembarking passengers. Comments on the development of risk passenger profiles to target passengers likely to try to bring in food, language difficulties, amnesty bins and Beagle sniffer dogs. Refers to being sent to the Islands to check practices with crops and exports. Describes relations with head office, time spent in Wellington, and meetings of regional managers. Talks about their relationship with the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, interchange of staff between Australia and New Zealand, and development of pre- and post-clearance systems for produce and vehicles. Describes the effects of the restructuring of MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) in the 1980s on his situation, retiring in 1987, and setting up a company Horticultural Quality Services. Recalls other managers he worked with in the Service including Julian Brown, Gordon Halson, Don Possin and Neil Hyde. Reflects that his role was to improve the agriculture quarantine service of New Zealand and that educating the public is one of the most important aspects of the work. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-002011 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) 1 of black and white cartoon. 1 interview(s). 2.33 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7306. Two digital photographs of Travis Flint (17 April 2008). Scanned B&W photographs of: Travis Flint with confiscated stuffed animals; Travis Flint in a display room of confiscated items?; scanned Lonsdale cartoon about a new type of ant found in a ship's hold Search dates: 1924 - 2008

Date: 24 May 1998

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Foley, Jacqueline, 1951-; Quinn, Brian Patrick, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0509/13

Description: Brian Quinn was born at New Plymouth in 1941. Describes moving to Otorohanga, Rangiatea, South Waikato, King Country and Aria because of his father's work on stations (farming). Talks about the family Pontiac, a Fordson tractor, their home, the importance of music in the home and his sister being in a band. Describes going to Otorohanga school, `wagging' and going to Aria School. Comments on his father's frustration at not being able to go to World War II. Mentions the impact of his parent's getting land though it was `hard country'. Describes driving cows from Otorohanga to Aria. Discusses childhood activities including Christmas. Mentions his mother's relatives. Describes leaving school at the age of fifteen, going shearing, the challenge of shearing, working with Stuart and Hilton Cheeseman, open and contract shearing, the atmosphere in the shed, the second shear, shearing Romneys and Border Leicesters, attitudes to the farmers, the relationship between shearers and shed hands, wages and wet weather. Mentions Tom and John Brough, Murray McSkimming, Bing Macdonald and Malcolm Barclay. Refers to his physique for shearing and conserving energy. Discusses entering local shearing competitions. Comments on the career highlight of winning the 1962 senior Golden Shears then the open championship in 1965. Talks about preparing for the Golden Shears by shearing round Masterton and Pahiatua. Discusses shearing gear. Comments on not being able to go on the overseas trips which were part of the prize. Talks about not entering the Golden Shears in 1969 and helping George Potae. Describes meeting his wife Lyn. Discusses dances and the pictures at Te Kuiti and Piopio. Recalls going for a trip to Gore and Alexandra, staying at Alexandra and getting a job with Murray McSkimming. Comments on the Shearers' Union in the south and how contractors looked after shearers. Talks about the role of the woolclasser. Discusses improvements in shearing technology including safety features the worm drive and spline drive. Talks about his contracting business with wife Lyn Quinn and having 50 to 60 employees. Discusses sorting out staffing difficulties. Mentions shearers' use of alcohol, changes in shearers over the years and having been a shearer for forty one years despite his original intention to shear to make money to buy a farm. Describes his move to Clyde. Details his children and their ages. Mentions the importance of family support at competitions particularly at the 1980 World Championship at Masterton where he won. Describes finding winning the Golden Shears emotional and not liking the limelight. Comments on Maori shearing style and the absence of racial discrimination. Talks about female shearer Michelle Harrex. Comments that he is known as `Snow' Quinn. Interviewer(s) - Jacqueline Foley Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2523. Photos of Brian Quinn, Golden Shears champion in 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971 and 1972 competing in competitions. Photo of Brian Quinn in 1998.

Date: 05 and 06 Dec 1989 - 05 Dec 1989 - 06 Dec 1989

From: New Zealand Police Association Oral History Project

By: Morrow, Keith James, 1940-2001

Reference: OHInt-0095/4

Description: Keith Morrow recalls teaching and seafaring career, reasons for joining police, training, conditions and discipline at Trentham Police College. Describes the dual recruiting policy (cadets and direct entrants), the cadetship system, use of practical experience as a cadet when an instructor at police college, further aspects of training and need for change, other instructors: Ted Trappitt, Bill Overton, posting to Auckland, Jollymount Police Barracks, policing in Auckland, introduction of mobile patrols, the first communications room, Ken Thompson, pay and leave, experience of walking the beat, Auckland trouble spots, promotion to sergeant, innovation of women police, duties as a sergeant, slygrogging in Freemans Bay, closure of suburban stations and failure of mobile patrols, change in crime, relationships between criminals and police. Discusses policing in Whangarei, contact with Maori, transfer to police college and police work in Gisborne, J Teams, policing in Alexandra, differences in policing at all of above places, need for community involvement, involvement in Police Association as national councillor when in Gisborne, Rob Butler, effect of Bob Moodie, failure of the remit system, reorganization of the Association, Credit Union and Welfare Fund, the 1980 agreement on conditions of work, the early retirement clause and oppostion to it, dealing with Ann Hercus, Moodie's actions, Moodie's style: the kaftan, Ron Walton, Ken Thompson in detail, the cancellation of the Hamilton match (1981 Springbok rugby tour). Describes circumstances of Bob Moodie's resignation, Moodie's achievements, the post of industrial advocate, the 1985 salary claim, possibility of industrial action, relationship of Ann Hercus with Police Association, involvement in 1981 Springbok Tour, effect of tour on police and Association, role of Moodie and Alan Monk, Monk's resignation and Keith Morrow's decision to stand for president, the need to become full-time president in Wellington, political problems over secondment to Wellington, the 'Chatham Islands incident' of 1987, the issue of an independant police examiner, the decision for the Association to 'user pays' government, operation blueprint, involvement in the Erebus disaster victim identification team in detail, reasons for retirement as president in 1989. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Geoffrey Terpstra Venue - New Zealand Police Association offices, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002908 - OHC-002913 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 561.

Date: 11, 15 September 1992 - 11 Sep 1992 - 15 Sep 1992

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Cooney, Helen Sadie, 1913-1992; Jones, Adele, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0148/02

Description: Helen Sadie Cooney (nee Cameron) born Alexandra. Outlines family background - maternal and paternal grandparents were early settlers in Alexandra. Maternal grandfather, Thomas Brown a stonemason, worked on the Alexandra Bridge (1879-1882 designed by County Engineer, L D Maggeorge and built by Jeremiah Drummey). Describes childhood, area of orchard and packing shed, domestic duties, recreation, holidays in Dunedin, first radio, telephone party line and social life. Accompanying material - Obituary - Helen (Sadie) Cooney "A well known identity and winner of the first ladies' figure skating championship in New Zealand" Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Adele Jones Venue - Alexandra Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004963-004964; OHLC-003798-003799 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 6. 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0957 and OHDL-000736.

Date: Sep 2007 - Nov 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000271

Description: Photographs of Dunedin, Oamaru, Roxburgh, St Bathans, Alexandra, Milton, Lawrence, Wedderburn, and Ranfurly buildings, 2007-2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folders called "Buildings Dec 2007 to Jan 2008" and "Buildings September to November 2007" Quantity: 146 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001314

Description: The scene is a field in which a rabbit reading the newspaper comments to another rabbit that the Alexandra bunny hunt has bagged 12,000 rabbits. He adds that they shouldn't be surprised if there are no eggs next Easter. In the background two rabbits carry a stretcher on which lies a dead friend. This cartoon has 'not used' in its email heading. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024444

Description: Cartoon commenting on the annual Great Alexandra Easter Bunny Hunt, which in 2013 had 432 shooters participate. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).