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Interview with Richard Leckey
Date: 18 May 2001
From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project
By: Leckey, Richard Edward, 1937-
Reference: OHInt-0562/07
Description: Richard Leckey was born in Gazaiabad in 1937. Explains that his father worked for the railways, talks about his transfers and recalls memories of Kotri, railway houses and servants. Mentions his brothers and step-sisters, his own schooling at Lawrence College. Recalls his experiences of partition. Talks of his sister living in New Zealand, followed by the rest of the family, and his father's money in India. Talks of his carpentry apprenticeship in Auckland and describes his various jobs with hydro schemes. Mentions his wife's work on a psychiatric ward, his work in the same hospital and at a freezing works. Mentions his returned serviceman's loan, wanting to buy land. Talks of Maori associations, his genealogy, the SAS in New Zealand and why he left it. Explains the changes in his religions and mentions Indian religions. Talks of his family in Australia, Pakistan and England, school uniform, western clothes, mealtimes and games played and mixing with Muslim children. Mentions club membership and cultural differences. Talks of his drinking habit, settling in New Zealand and outlines the differences in lifestyle. Talks about his property in Karamea, and interest in forestry, his carpentry and building. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008512, OHC-008513 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2645.
Wilson family :Album of Auckland in the 1880s
Date: 1880s
By: Wilson family
Reference: PA1-o-767
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donor is direct descendant of Wilson family
Scott, Tom, 1947- :85 cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post between 2 February...
Date: 2000
By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-
Reference: H-648-001/085
Description: 85 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include cricketers, PM's avoidance of Waitangi Day protests, Treaty of Waitangi signing 1840, Maori sovereignty, Israel's hard line on Palestine, perils of being a child in NZ, Rugby sevens, Fiji's lack of moral fibre, genetic relationship between humans and slugs, corporate savaging of small shareholders, dairy farmers play down record returns, farmer reaction to vet strike, People's Bank documents leaked, Anderton looks for way to get rid of Phillida Bunkle, cricket rules questioned, possible beaurocracy of Kiwi Bank, NZ Post attempts to gag Richard Prebble, Bunkle and Hobbs on political scrap-heap, NZ rich list, possum damage Australian tax payer responsibility, cricket match-fixing, Bunkle unlikely to get back into Cabinet, extended rugby season not cricket, Kiwi Bank customers may bring their debt with them, Super-12 referees, census forms, British border control officials under fire, NZ scenery blocked by pine trees, ACT conservation policy - eat Kiwis, Germans announce NZ sheep have scrapies, Winstone Peters argues against opinion polls, RCD farmers support border control of foot-and-mouth, TVNZ presenters fight amongst themselves, Helen Clark and her husband communicate via e-mail, Clark defends and attacks her husband, CNN broadcasts incorrect information about NZ cases of foot-and-mouth disease, skyhawks put out to pasture, Clark and Shipley fight it out, MIR space station breaks up, Hobbs on the rack, Air Force apologise to Clark, Clark wins 'scariest skirt' award, George W Bush's stance on carbon dioxide emissions, Jonathon Hunt fails to name drunken MP's, Milosovich faces punishment, Clark and Anderton negotiate deal to get rid of Bunkle, Bush's foreign policy stance escalates world tensions, women in leadership roles - men ponder their choices, Bush questions the colour of 'red China', Tiger Woods - king of the golf world, Clark hot and cold on America, Shipley faces political crisis, schizophrenic flatmates, Ansett NZ maintenance, Anderton farmers' favourite, schizophrenic flatmates, cervical screening and justice, Rankin missed by bomb on WINZ building, message from Qantas NZ, airline collapses while owner plays golf, dawn parade 2030, Saturn TV, Bush armwrestles Chinese dragon, King and budget decisions, air ticket competition, US impose tariffs on NZ farmers, white house and star wars, Hurricanes fans pray for victory, Clark axes skyhawks, Hitler and Hirohito and Clark, female, sex and animals, arms race history, TVNZ internal affairs, Clark and Blair campaigns, McVeigh dies in Oklahoma, Clark out of touch, Peters makes a come-back, burning effigies, global warming, Dairy Board merger, Maori Party, taxing home ownership, soya sauce scare, Bob Dylan on Radio NZ, importance of appearance in the public service. 85 H-648-033 misrecorded as a Tom Scott cartoon when it is in fact a Garrick Tremain. Refiled H-645 series. Quantity: 85 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 bromides
Tremain, Garrick 1941-:49 cartoon photocopies published in the Otago Daily Times betwee...
Date: 2001
By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: H-645-001/049
Description: 49 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Quantity: 49 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies
Walsh album 1
Date: 1882-1890
From: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :Photograph albums
By: Foy Brothers (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Pulman (Firm); Scowen, Charles T, active 1870s-1890s
Reference: PA1-q-255
Description: Album of views in Auckland, Thames, Coromandel and Papanui (all New Zealand), Norfolk Island, Egypt (including the Suez Canal), Aden, Bombay, Ceylon (including Colombo), Victoria (including Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne), Kilkenny, Paris, Bordeaux and London. The photographs were collected by Philip Walsh, and include photographic copies by Josiah Martin of paintings by Walsh himself. The photographers include Josiah Martin (Auckland), Foy Brothers (Thames), Pulman (Auckland), and Charles T Scowen (Colombo). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album, impressed with black and gold pattern; 35 x 27 cm
Mundy album 1
Date: Between 1860 and 1870
By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881
Reference: PA1-f-039
Description: Photographs of New Zealand, both North and South Islands, taken by Daniel Mundy between 1860 and 1870. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p. 51). The views include a number in the Thames goldfields, with scenes of gold batteries, miners' huts, and a tramway. Mundy includes two rivers which are now differently named, the Tekihe River [i.e. Taheke River], and Tiremakau River [i.e. Taramakau River]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; spine title "New Zealand scenery, 1860-80. Mundy. 4638-4685"
"New Zealand Views, 1881"
Date: 1881
From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums
By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Smith, John Stace, active 1880
Reference: PA1-f-186
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).