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Date: 1993-1994

By: Haami, Bradford Joseph Te Apatuoterangi Maaka, 1966-

Reference: OHColl-0453

Description: These recordings were made as source material for the written biography `Dr Golan Maaka : Maori doctor' (1995). Dr Maaka practised medicine in the Whakatāne district for 35 years and combined Pākehā and traditional Māori medical practices. He also did medical rounds in the Ureweras. Interviews are with Tangi Maaka, Maanu Paul, Willie Aarons, Bill Davis, Helen Draper, Ted and Pauline Butt, Jumbo Chadwick, Dr Staverley, Roger Maaka, Ching Tutua, Florence Maaka, Puti O'Brien, Derek Asher, Bob Burgess, Jock Young and Graeme Howard, Leslie Stewart, Inia and June Maaka, Rowena Paku, Koa Murdoch and Manurere Dimitrof. Interviewer(s) - Brad Haami Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 10 C90 cassette(s). 20 interview(s). 28 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 23 Nov 1982

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Turner, Charles Frederick, 1892-

Reference: OHInt-0470/20

Description: Fred Turner came to Te Pu near Rotorua in 1903 when his father took up land, having previously farmed near Christchurch and Bluff. Describes `bush sickness', a cobalt deficiency in the soil, which damaged the animals. Mentions he was living at Pongakawa breaking in land for his father Charley. Talks about his seven brothers and sisters. Describes leaving school before the age of twelve and cooking for a gang of roadmen working in the area in 1904. Describes walking off the Te Pu property in 1931 having been sued for uncontrollable ragwort. Discusses how it was not explained that the land was on a fifty two year lease and he could have bought it back. Describes how most farmers at Te Pu were given land as part of the World War I rehabilitation scheme. Notes that this was land that farmers had previously walked off. Describes unsuccessful attempts to get compensation from the Government for the land. Talks about land at Hamurana and settlers Jack Catley, Harry Ward and the Dittmers. Talks about marrying Miss Dittmer. Talks about breaking in land for Major Herald in Paradise Valley and then buying and farming land in the Valley. Discusses land at Kaharoa. Mentions that people from Te Pu attended school at Kaharoa. Recalls attending tangi at Awahou village. Comments that many Maori were on the gumfields during this period. Talks about Fred Leonard. Describes working for Walter Steele in the bush at Mamaku in 1908 and working for the Mountain Rimu Timber Company. Recalls a fairly large community at Mamaku and describes living conditions at the camp. Describes going to the pictures in Rotorua at Kings Theatre, which was owned by Duncan Steele. Describes being the first farmer in the area to make ensilage and have his herd tested. Comments on successful potato growing. Talks about farm animals, milking cows, separating milk from cream and the dairy factory at Ngongotaha. Talks about Charlie and Bill Karl. Describes difficulties getting water on his property and digging a well to the depth of one hundred and seventy five feet. Discusses a financial scheme local farmers paid into to see them through hard times and describes how the money for the scheme was taken by Walter Nash. Comments on having to give up on farming because of his legs and gangrene. Mentions Dick Garlick driving coaches. Describes working on the road gang near Pongakawa. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2869.

Date: Mar 1963 or 1964

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Wilson, Arthur, 1868-

Reference: OHInt-0470/21

Description: Arthur Wilson was born in Auckland in 1868. Describes how his father, a builder by trade, went to Rotorua in 1872. Recalls being educated in an old whare on the side of Pukeroa Hill overlooking Ohinemutu. Talks about some of his fellow pupils. Mentions the Morrisons who ran the Rotorua Hotel and Dr Hope Lewis who owned the first home in Rotorua. Describes the stores at Ohinemutu which belonged to Thomas Wrigley, Harry Taylor, William Kelly and Charley and Willie Rogers. Describes how the Post Office and police station were built on the government reserve. Describes some schooling at Te Wairoa with Mr Haszard and at Tauranga District High School in 1883. Talks about his brothers and sisters Mary Jane, Kate, Eliza, William, Millie and Ellen Hinemoa. Mentions that William lived only a week and Ellen Hinemoa died at the age of two from falling into a hogshead of boiling water. Describes the boats that crossed Lake Tarawera and Harry Taylor's boats. Mentions Mokoia Island. Recalls Bishop Bennett at the mission at Te Mu, Te Wairoa. Mentions Ngati Hinemihi and Tuhourangi at Te Wairoa. Talks about the family owning the Terrace Hotel which had to be in the name of the brother in law, William Menzies. Mentions Arikatara's pa and Taumataherea Pa, Hiwawa and the Maori policeman Hare Takerei and Kiwi Amohau. Talks about Maori settlements Galatea, Whakarewarewa, Rotoiti, Taheke, Rotoma, Rotoehu and Awahou. Recalls veterinary surgeon Fred Allom; surveyors Bigham, Dalton, Stubbs, Harding and Alf and Charlie Clayton; school teacher Mr Webber; Mr Dansey the postmaster; Captain Gilbert Mair and Father Reignier and Dr Stewart, the Bishop of Waiapu. Talks about the cemetery and people buried there. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2870. Search dates: 1963 - 1964

Date: May 1996-May 1997 - 01 May 1996 - 31 May 1997

By: Berghan, Norm, active 1997

Reference: OHColl-0605

Description: Life history interviews with a focus on activities in the Paroa Rugby and Sports Club. Interviewees are William Te Weu Hall (Ngati Awa and Te Arawa), Maaka Harawira (Nga Potiki and Ngai Te Rangi), William Raumanga Maunsell (Ngati Awa) and Robert Cleland. Interviews were recorded as part of the 75th anniversary of the Paroa Rugby and Sports Club. Access Contact - oral history librarian Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Norm Berghan Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 4 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 14 July - 2 Oct 1993

Reference: OHColl-0619/1

Description: E korero ana a Bubbles mo nga ahuatanga noho i te wa i a ia e tipu ake ana i Whakarewarewa, te reo pakeha, mo tetahi pakiwaitara o Te Arawa me tetahi ano e pa ana ki te putake o nga wahi ngawha. E whakamarama ana ia mo tana mahi kaiarahi, mo te mana whakahaere o nga kaiarahi i tona wa me mua atu o te tau 1938, mo nga ture me nga tikanga raupapa mo nga kaiarahi, e korero ana hoki mo te 'hinengaro' Maori, mo o ratau kakaku mahi, te whakaingoatanga i nga ngawha me nga puna me te nehu tupapaku i nga wahi pera i a Whakarewarewa. E maumahara ake ana ki tetahi kohimuhimu 'not much of a guide is she', mo wetahi ahuatanga o te arahi turuhi, mo te rahuitanga i te rohe potae o nga ngawha o Whakarewarewa me te tuwheratanga i te kura whakairo. Nga korero mo Millie, Sophia, Bella, Maggie Papakura, Alf Warbrick, Dick Tom, me Mike Moore. Nga turuhi i haramai ma runga tima, te wa e nui ana te mahi, te whakatipu rakau, te tiaki tamariki, nga wahine ki te tiaki i nga kainga. Sophia me te wa i pahu ai a Tarawera, he whakamarama mo te hanga piupiu, ana whakatau kia ratau e ahei ana ki te arahi turuhi. Bubbles talks about life in Whakarewarewa, learning English, Te Arawa waka region and a legend about how the thermal regions came to be. Discusses how she became a guide, management of guiding 1938 and prior, 'native intelligence' from mentors, uniforms, male guides, naming of geysers and hot pools. Describes burials in the geothermal area. Recalls experiences with tourists, describes tour tracks and time it took to take a group, group numbers per guide. Talks about their uniforms and payment, rules, discipline and regulations, the government and private reserves, the Carving School. Mentions guides Millie and Bella, Guide Sophia, Maggie Papakura, Mike Moore, Alf Warbrick and Dick Tom and the tourists from cruise ships. Refers to time of no unemployment, forestry, childcare and women keeping the home fires burning. Talks about Guide Sophia and the Tarawera eruption, some of the processes for making piupiu and a message to those considering guiding as a vocation. Interviewer(s) - Dr Keith Dewar Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s).

Date: 18 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Sisley, Matekitawhiti Eliza, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0106-04

Description: Mate Sisley was born at Otakiri on 4 March 1950. She grew up in a large extended family in Otakiri and was largely raised by her maternal grandparents after her father had an accident. Describes her schooling, going to secretarial college and working at Tasman Pulp and Paper. Talks about what her siblings are doing now. Describes her marriage and moving to Wellington with her husband. Recalls working for Robert Muldoon, socialising with him and being the only Maori working for the National Party. Describes having her children, the death of her husband in a car accident and its effect on her. Talks about the day of the earthquake and her job as secretary to the Mayor and Council at the time of the earthquake. Notes that the Council was meeting at the time. Describes the Council buildings being set up as Civil Defence headquarters. Comments on the role of Wira Gardiner. Talks about returning home and going to see her children at a relative's house. Describes taking the children to Rotorua and cleaning the mess at her house. Describes disorganisation and alienation and recalls that it took a few days before people developed a community spirit. Describes the work of the army and recalls elderly people being taken to the marae. Talks about working at the Disaster Recovery Centre at Edgecumbe. Comments on the work of Elsie Walker, the lack of involvement of politicians and difficulties with insurance. Describes her children as still frightened. Venue - Whakatane : 1950 Interviewer(s) - Fyfe, Judith Venue - At 12 Kauri Street, Edgecumbe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002889; OHC-002890; OHC-002891 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 555. Photograph of Mate Sisley in February 1990; photograph of Mate Sisley and others about 1980; photograph of Mate Sisley and Judith Tangitu about 1953 Search dates: 1990

Date: 17 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Sisley, Albert William, 1915-2007; Sisley, Sonja, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0106-05

Description: Bert Sisley was born at Mahia on 3 August 1915. He describes going to Te Teko School and always being treated as Maori though Pakeha. Talks about working on a farm at Manawahe before being in the 25th Battalion during World War II. Describes being a bushman and working for Tasman Pulp and Paper on his return. Sonja Sisley was born at Te Teko on 14 May 1925, one of eighteen children. She describes her family's home, attending Te Teko Native School and meeting Bert Sisley after the war. Talks about their family of twelve children, living on bush food including venison and wild pork and using Maori medicine. Describes the township of Te Teko before the earthquake. Talks about what they were doing at the time of the earthquake, furniture flying, getting outside, worrying about their family and the fear that the Matahina dam would burst. Comments that Maori and Pakeha became closer after the earthquake. Talks about the use of the Hahuru Pa as a shelter and the help of the Red Cross and the Army. Describes assistance given with food, clothing, crockery and money. Comments that many Maori did not have their homes insured. Venue - Te Teko, Bay of Plenty : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Manson, Hugo Venue - At Mr and Mrs Sisley's home at Te Teko Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002892 - OHC-002894 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 556. Photograph of Bert and Sonja Sisley in February 1990 Search dates: 1990

Date: 16 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Hahipene, Winifred Margaret, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0106-02

Description: Wini Hahipene was born in Whakatane on 29 November 1955. Talks about growing up in Te Teko and being educated there, in Auckland and in Edgecumbe. Describes qualifying and being employed as a data processor and secretary in Auckland, Wellington and other parts of the country. Recalls returning to live in Te Teko in 1984 and being employed as Office Clerk/Secretary for the Rangitaiki Skills Centre at the time of the earthquake in 1987. Gives details of the actual earthquake. Talks about her involvement in the evacuation of Te Teko to the marae and being a member of the Earthquake Recovery Team. Comments on the involvement of the Mongrel Mob. Talks about post earthquake feelings, some abuse of the welfare system after the earthquake and changes, particularly in Te Teko, since the earhquake. Venue - Edgecumbe : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - At Wini's home at Edgecumbe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002898; OHC-002899; OHC-002900 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 558. Search dates: 1990

Date: 04 Dec 1986 - 04 Feb 1986

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Walker, Toma Kite Moana, 1916-1992

Reference: OHInt-0070/24

Description: Toma Walker recalls family background, childhood home in Omaio, effect of tuberculosis on family, a drowning tragedy in 1900 at Motu River, learning English in school, childhood memories, Maori land ownership, secondary education at St Joseph's Maori Girls' College, Napier 1925-1932, the Napier Earthquake in 1931, the Houpoto Station Post Office, Maraenui Post Office, work as an assistant at Houpoto Post Office in 1937, post office duties at Te Kaha during World War II, telegrams, news of casualties, hours of work, access of people to telephones, mail, community work, working full time with children, Post Office as career, compares whanau today with the past, electricity, telephone exchange cutover in 1969 to automatic. Accompanying material - Copies of newspaper articles 'Cut-over to automatic telephones at Te Kaha' and 'Residents regret loss of human touch with automatic exchange' both in Opotiki news, 27 May 1969. Venue - Te Kaha Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Mrs Walker's home, Te Kaha Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001259 - OHC-001260; OHC-001245 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.27 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 166. Search dates: 1916 - 1986

Date: 26 Apr 1993

From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.

By: Waaka, Kuru, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0086/03

Description: Kuru Waaka talks about his mother, Ani Pareraututu Waaka, born 29 April 1874 and twelve years old at the time of the Tarawera eruption. Describes offers of help made to the survivors and their acceptance of an offer from the Ngati Maru people of Thames. Notes they lived in Thames for about ten years, making a living off kauri gum, before returning to Whakarewarewa and Tuhourangi who were a subtribe of Arawa. Ani married Te Rohu Waaka, also from Tarawera, who became a minister. Kuru Waaka talks about his twelve brothers and sisters, all born at the Whakarewarewa meeting house, between 1892 and 1924. Recalls the deaths of many from tuberculosis and describes himself as the youngest of the family. Describes Ani Waaka's role in starting off organisations in the village which saw to the welfare of the people. Describes how money paid by tourists into a trust fund was used to pay the rates and to improve housing. Talks about her awareness of the importance of the tourist industry economically, particularly during the Depression. Discusses her role in the Health League, later the Maori Women's Welfare League, of which she was the first President. Mentions Janet Fraser and Nurse Cameron. Recalls her involvement in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Komiti Wahine and the Arawa Maori Trust Board. Talks about his sister, Nini Naera, a mission worker attached to the mission house at Ruatoki who had also been a teacher at Te Wai Pounamu Maori Girls College. Describes her importance in the Maori Women's Welfare League. Mentions Rangi Royal, the first Maori welfare officer in the Arawa district. Venue - Rotorua : 1993 Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Venue - Whakarewarewa Village Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006385; OHC-006386 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1482.

Date: 31 Mar-1 Apr 1993

By: New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade; Bennett, Charles Moihi Te Arawaka (Sir), 1913-1998

Reference: OHColl-0217/1

Description: Sir Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett gives details of his family background. His father, Frederick Augustus Bennett, was the first Maori Bishop of Aotearoa. His grandfather, Jackson Bennett, was the first surveyor-general of New Zealand. Explains his father married Arihia Rangioue Hemana of Maketu, who was of prominent Te Arawa descent. Describes being raised in Maketu by his grandparents while his parents lived at Hastings. Recalls use of Maori language at Maketu School and that the headmaster, A.F. Burnett, suggested he continue education at Te Aute College. Describes attending Te Aute, getting used to the discipline and some loneliness. Talks about E.G. (Ernest Going) Loten the headmaster who instilled principles, philosophies and some religion. Discusses decision to become a teacher and training at Christchurch while studying for a BA in History at Canterbury University College. Comments that he was one of the few Maori at college or university and that while he did not meet overt prejudice he had to consciously embrace Pakeha ways. Discusses the beginning of World War II, the non-conscription of Maori and Sir Apirana Ngata's appeal to Maori to fight. Recalls viewing the War as an opportunity to see the world. Comments that of seven boys in his family, who went to war, five joined the Maori Battalion. Describes training at Trentham and Palmerston North: the discipline of training and finishing the course as an officer. Mentions George Dittmer, the Commanding Officer, the second in command George Bertrand and the Regimental Sergeant Major, Ace Woods. Describes how they were organised into tribal groups and fought as whanau. Notes that A Division was the Auckland area, B Division was Taupo, Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, C Division was Ngati Porou (East Coast) and D Division was Hawkes Bay, Taranaki and the South Island. Comments on being taught to use his talents for the betterment of Maori. Describes his career progression from platoon commander to company commander then battalion commander. Recalls going overseas and landing in England where the Maori Battalion was well received. Describes broadcasting for the BBC and the response by Lord Haw-Haw. Recalls the Maori Battalion's first active duty in the Greek mountains and the impossibility of stopping the Germans. Describes being withdrawn and going to Crete. Gives details of the mission against German airborne invasion. Discusses the plan of attack, German possession of the Maleme airfield, and accounts for the mission's ultimate failure. Describes how the Maori Battalion trekked across mountains to the other side of the island to be evacuated and how some of the troops were left behind. Recalls arriving in Egypt where reinforcements were waiting. Discusses Dittmer's wounding in Libya and successive replacements: Colonel Love, Colonel Fred Baker, Major Hart until, and in November 1942, he (Bennett) was offered the position of commanding officer of the Maori Battalion by Kippenberger. Comments on Kippenberger and General Freyberg. Recalls taking over command in the middle of El Alamein. Describes in detail the battle of Point 209 where Lieutenant Ngarimu was killed, posthumously receiving a VC. Talks about the battle of Takrouna. Venue - Te Puke : 1993 Sponsored by - Ministry of External Relations Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - edited transcript, OHA-1000. Search dates: 1993

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0558-F

Description: 9 images of 2 young Maori girls outside a house in Ruatoki; and 3 images of a Maori youth club meeting in Whakatane, showing a young man with a guitar, dancing and singing. All persons unidentified. Photographs taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.); Timaru herald (Newspaper); Manawatu standard (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025022

Description: Title reads 'NZ Police found guilty of acting unlawfully in Tuhoe raid - Hat responsible for them being there in the first place is still at large'. Below them are six caricatures of the colourful Tuhoe protester, Tame Iti, wearing a selection of hats. The cartoonist's comment is 'ID Parade'. Refers to the Independent Police Conduct Authority finding on 22 May 2013 that actions by the New Zealand Police during the Ruatoki raids were unlawful, although the operation overall was reasonable and justified. Tame Iti, one of the Tuhoe protagonists in the affair who had been released recently from prison, was noted for his tendency to wear a variety of hats. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 7 July 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000822

Description: Comprises scenes taken 7 July 2008 by Dylan Owen around Whakarewarewa Village, Rotorua. Shows Te Hokowhitu-A-Tu memorial arch, Maori guide holding corn cobs cooked in hot pool and talking to tourists, small traditional wharenui, steam rising, signs for sweet corn cooking, piupiu hanging out to dry, interior of Church of the Immaculate Conception at the village, carved gateway. Arrangement: Files delivered to library within a folder called "Protests and Social Events (3) 2007-2012/2007-2008 Events/Whakarewarewa Rotorua July 2008" Quantity: 10 digital photograph(s).

Date: 18-19 Jul 1948

From: Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Mobile Unit sound recordings

Reference: OHC-007634

Description: Maori songs, waiata, patere and haka recorded at Rotorua. Features a service in the Ohinemutu Maori Church, the Whakarewarewa School infant class reciting and thermal sound effects. Interview with Tiki Tame discussing carvings, guiding and the Tarawera eruption. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).

Date: 1970 - 01 Jan 1970

Reference: OHColl-0036/1

Description: Genealogies of the Ngati Te Rangi and Ngati Ranginui tribes of Tauranga, back to canoe arrivals, chanted by Te Hare Reohau Piahana at Tauranga. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Tauranga Interviewer(s) - Hare Piahana (Singer) Venue - Tauranga Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0753 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Processing information: Record title was updated on 7 October 202 from "Ngati Rangi and Ngati Ranginui Whakapapa" to "Ngai Te Rangi and Ngati Ranginui Whakapapa" on advice of iwi researcher.