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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

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Young people at Point Chevalier, Auckland, and Maori Affairs houses under construction,...

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0667-F

Description: Photographs of teenagers at Point Chevalier beach, Auckland, and Maori Affairs houses under construction in Northland, taken 1963 by Ans Westra. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Film negatives

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Okahu Bay, and church near upper Queen Street, Auckland

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0675-F

Description: Scenes from Okahu Bay, and upper Queen Street, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show parents with an infant playing on the sand at Okahu Bay Beach and young children swimming in the sea. Also includes church (largely obscured) in Upper Queen Street, Auckland. Frames 11 and 12 show young man, identified as Peter Witehira, wearing a collarless 'Beatle' jacket. His hair is combed forward. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Meeting about land ownership, and Okahu Bay

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0674-F

Description: Scenes from a meeting about land ownership, and views of Okahu Bay, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show people gathered in a living room to discuss land ownership, and views over hills to a distant bay (possibly the land in question). Also include scenes of parents with an infant playing on the sand at Okahu Bay Beach. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

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Milford oral history project

Date: 2011-2012

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-1017

Description: Interviews with fifteen people who grew up in Milford, North Shore City, or visited Milford as an entertainment destination during the 1920s - 1940s. The interviews describe beach life, activities in Milford, life during the depression and World War II, and reflections on Milford generally. The interviewees are Nancy Ballard and Lloyd Bell-Booth, Jo Gladwell, Warren Hutchinson, Ben Marychurch, Maurice McGreal, Harry Puckey, Elena Sanders, Daphne Savage, Glenn Shaw and Leslie Truscott, Squire Speedy, Jack Urlic, Jeanette Walker, and Ron Wareham. Abstracted by - Deborah Dunsford Awards/funding - Project received a New Zealand Oral History Award Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 13 printed abstract(s). 13 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 13 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Deborah Dunsford, Auckland, Nov 2012 Search dates: 1920 - 1950

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