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Date: 1939-1942

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-192

Description: Photographs published in New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1942 to illustrate the British war effort in general and participation of women Includes group of women working on an aircraft at Wigram, Jul 1941 Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8196

Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: [1980-1990]

By: Morris, Peter Gillard, 1922-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-5565

Description: Comprises recollections of Morris who lived in Karori, Wellington; he describes his family, education, games, friends, social activities, discusses religious and racial differences and other matters. He describes briefly his time in the army and the narrative ends shortly after the end of World War II. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - fMS-176-179 also by Gillard is described as Notes for a thesis on unemployed organisations in NZ; and letters from him are in MS-Papers-5201-117 Morris responded to an advertisement of Ann Gluckman's for reminiscences of people brought up in the NZ in the 1920s and 1930s for a planned publication which never eventuated Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P G Morris, Auckland, 1996

Date: 1924-ca1980

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-0639

Description: Most of the black and white photographs date from the late 1920s to ca 1950. Of these there are quite a large number of early prints from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. Most of these have not been "pictorialised" in the soft focus style Searle used for his later finished work. They are small snapshot sized and sharp and clear in detail. The general range of their subject matter sums up Searle's range of interests, photographically speaking, throughout his life. This general subject range is as follows - Railways, family friends and weddings (women and children predominate), Wellington city, Ships, Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington Zoo (mainly animal studies), ANZAC Days, Some sports, aircraft, some other New Zealand towns, military training Second World War, some overseas trips of which those to New Caledonia during the Second World War and later were the most significant, and landscape studies. This last category makes up the largest group of photographs in the collection, especially in the later "pictorial" prints. Though the majority are unlabeled, most have at least one with identification written on the back - though to find these would require looking through some thousands of prints. Most of the pictorialised photographs have been printed on a pale creamy - brown paper which gives them an antique and arty appearence. Most have been manipulated to soften the focus, at times creating a painterly effect or the effect of some lithographs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. A few have been treated to look like pencil drawings. Though most are landscapes there are also a fair number of architectural shots and flower studies, and some Māori subjects and portraits. Landscapes are predominantly attempts to emulate the sublime and classical/romantic traditions. Mountains and glaciers, humanised landscapes, with or without sheep, reminiscent of the creations of the 18th century English landscape designers, are most common. A fair number of the latter have been taken in some of our larger public parks and gardens. Humans very seldom feature in them. There are several essays of the Pinnacles at Palliser Bay. Many of the same images have been used over and over again. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-096421 to 096718 and 098069 to 099110; 1/2-178222 to 178231 Quantity: 7320 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 214 b&w original negative(s) of which 204 are 35mm strips comprising 632 images. 162 colour original photographic print(s). 3100 colour original transparency/ies. 33 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1942]

By: Cooper, Charles, active 1940-2010

Reference: MS-Papers-9588

Description: Notebook recording the activities of the JMC Society (Jackie, Michael and Charles). First 11 pages are written in pencil by Jackie and then overwritten in ink by Charles. Also contains pencil listing of pupils in `Std III'; words, possibly a spelling test; a note entitled The Piano continued; rough drawings. The activities occurred in the Cooper home at 20 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North Source of title - Supplied by Library The JMC Society, consisting of Jackie Sturm, Charles Cooper and his brother, Michael Cooper, flourished in the early 1940s, when the children involved were living in Palmerston North. The Society probably disappeared when the Sturm family left for Napier in 1942 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 21 Jul 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Hopkinson, George William, 1908-1990

Reference: OHInt-0185/03

Description: George Hopkinson was born in Temuka in 1908. Gives details of his family background. Describes the threshing mill and sawmill business owned and operated by his father. Notes that his family were the local scholars and members of the Presbyterian Church and comments on the Catholic/Protestant division in Temuka. Describes contact with local Maori. Talks about his childhood interests including reading and sport, his milk round and sitting next to Jack Lovelock at school. Describes passing the Public Service Examination and being offered a job in the Land Transfer Office. Discusses transferring to State Advances Corporation in 1937. Describes achieving his LLB and his professional accountants exam. Discusses the Mortgage Corporation name change to State Advances Corporation in 1935 when the Labour Government paid out private shareholders and notes that the Corporation took over the mortgage work of Lands and Survey. Mentions T.N. Smallwood and others. Refers to the first state house in Miramar in 1937. Discusses the relationship between State Advances Corporation and Treasury. Comments on the Royal Commission on State Services. Discusses the impact of World War II on the Corporation and the increase of rural work when the rehabilitation scheme for soldiers began. Describes overseeing a lot of the Porirua state housing. Talks about the grading of applicants by the Housing Allocation Committee. Comments on Ministers of Housing including Bill Fox, Bill Sullivan and John Rae and Prime Ministers Norman Kirk, Sir Keith Holyoake and Sir Walter Nash. Describes time in Invercargill and Nelson as Branch Mananger before returning to Wellington in a variety of jobs culminating in Deputy Managing Director. Venue - Lower Hutt : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Mr Hopkinson's home in Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002221; OHC-002222; OHC-002223 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 406.

Date: 7 Sep 2009 - 07 Sep 2009

From: From memory oral history project

By: Beams, Peter Derek, 1929-2010

Reference: OHInt-0981-05

Description: Interview with Peter Beams, born in Clapham, London in 1929. Talks about his family background, early life and schooling in Glasgow and weekends at Loch Lomond. Recalls his father built an Anderson air raid shelter in their back garden. Comments on being evacuated to New Zealand with his two older brothers in 1940, and not bringing any personal items with them. Refers to sailing on the SS Ruahine and suffering from sea sickness. Recalls the ship being visited in Wellington by prime minister Peter Fraser. Talks about being taken with his brothers to a magnificant house (Tudor House) in Park Road, Belmont to stay with George and Ethel Seers. Mentions the history of the house which was owned by General Motors at the time. Describes their accomodation and mentions the cook Betty Verity and parlour maid Jean Hyde. Talks about food, eating mostly in the servants' quarters, tennis, billiards, entertainment and discipline. Comments on spending a lot of time walking the hills, walking the dog and playing war games with friends. Refers to being taught to wait on table. Reflects that he and his brothers were fairly self-sufficient because they were not used to closeness in their family. Refers to attending Hutt Central School and later Nelson College, and talks about life there as a boarder. Mentions that he was not really concerned with news of the war but kept up with it. Recalls hearing of Pearl Harbour, submarine sightings around New Zealand, and the Americans having ammunition dumps in the Western Hutt Hills. Recalls the 1942 earthquake. Comments that he was required to return to Britain at the end of the war but having "nowhere to go home for". Refers to sailing with one brother on the SS Rangitata via the Suez Canal and being met by their father who was a stranger to them. Comments that their parents were separated and he met his mother later. Refers to working on a farm until he was called up for National Service in 1947. Comments on serving in Egypt and Malaya, being demobbed in Sydney and returning to New Zealand in 1950 after recovering from malaria. Talks about going back to live with the Seers whom he had kept in contact with. Discusses working for Wright Stephenson & Co (stock and station agents) and his subsequent career including working at General Motors and finally starting his own sign company. Mentions marrying his wife Mona Cadwallader in 1953 and building their house. Refers to meeting his mother and brother Tony in England in 1985, and also meeting his father again once they located him. Comments on a memoir he was writing about his own experiences. Reflects being grateful for the experiences and opportunities he has had that would not otherwise have been available to him, but regrets the lack of a family life when young. Accompanying material - Partial memoir by Peter Beams written for his children, covering his life up to the 1970s (OHDL-001383) Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001380 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s) - Tiff file. 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) - Tiff files. 1 Electronic document(s) - word document (partial memoir). 1 interview(s). 3.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7242. Search dates: 1929 - 1939 - 2009 - 1945

Date: 29 May 2001

From: Tawa women oral history project

By: Amey, Margaret Emma, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0596/01

Description: Margaret Emma Amey (nee Taylor) born Northland, Wellington, 1931. Describes family home in Farm Road; father's love of gardening; mother who was a great preserver and was secretary for Church Guild; wash day procedures and cooking on coal range. Recalls war years when father was in E P S (Emergency Precaution Scheme) and recalls air raid shelters and air raid practices at Northland School. Other topics covered include: college dances with Wellington East Girls' College and Wellington Boys' College and Anglican Church dances once a month; working years in Government Tourist Department, explaining career path; marriage and move to Linden 1953. Recalls neighbours in Linden, Doreen O'Hagen and Agnes Isbister and card game, 500, played on Friday nights. Refers to telephone system with most of Tawa having a party line. Describes roads in Linden and refers to local honesty with gumboots and umbrellas being left at Railway station on wet days for collection on way home. Refers to mobile deliveries - fish on Saturday and fruit deliveries to the door. Recalls rabbits being a popular meal. Recalls birth of children, with reference to Dr Findlay (Specialist) who had rooms in Willis St., Plunket Society and Dr Webb, local GP. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Barbara Adams Venue - Brasenose Place, Tawa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009348-009349 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.16 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3020.

Date: 27-30 August 2001 - 27 Aug 2001 - 30 Aug 2001

By: Lawler, Cicely Margaret, 1930-; West, Maureen Rosalind, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0637/1

Description: Cicely Margaret Lawler was born in Whitburn, County Durham, England in 1930. Talks about being a child of divorced parents, growing up with her father, an estate manager in Highcroft. Mentions being evacuated during World War II; rationing, and transport during the war. Mentions father's remarriage, her stepmother Dora, and stepbrothers. Mentions her mother Hilda, who worked in the ambulance service during the war. Mentions her sister dying of whooping cough. Talks about her education, her goal to become an obstetrician, and attending University of Durham Medical School. Talks about medical training and work as a house surgeon and registrar in the 1950's, working shifts of up to 36 hours. Mentions hospital lifestyle, parties, National Health Service, attitudes of male doctors to women. Describes the difficulties involved, as an English protestant, in marrying her Irish catholic husband, Derry Lawler, whom she met in 1956-7. Talks about resistance from family and the Catholic Church. Mentions difficulty with the instruction course on marriage to a catholic. Talks about working part-time as a polio vaccinator, describes feelings about giving up work to raise five children. Describes emigrating to New Zealand, by ship, while pregnant. Compares household appliances in England and New Zealand in the 1960's. Talks about her children, and her husband's career as an anaesthetist in Auckland. Describes having single mothers in her home, via an arrangement with Presbyterian Social Services; mentions Bethany Hospital. Talks about journeys back to England and Ireland, family visits, her mother-in-law, and what she misses about England. Mentions New Zealand's standard of living, attitudes to sport, politics, Maori, immigrants. Talks about friends, housekeeping and housework, her chronic back problem, feelings towards Catholic Church and influence of religion on her life. Mentions husband's illness and death. Talks about her voluntary work with Care and Craft group, and the Mater Hospital, since the 1970's. Interviewer(s) - Maureen West Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10827 - 10833 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3829. Search dates: 1939 - 1950 - 1945 - 2000

Date: 1944-1949

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-028

Description: Views of Polish children's camp, Pahiatua, of life in the camp, of the children and officials associated with the camp Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s).

Date: [ca 1916-1920s], [between 1942-1945]

From: Lee, Marjorie Hilda (Miss), 1921- :Photographs of Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service activities and Lee family photographs

Reference: PAColl-9852

Description: Photographs of WRNS (Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service) activities between 1942-1945 collected by WRNS member Marjorie Lee, and family photographs taken circa 1916-1920s taken by Marjorie Lee's father Percy John Lee. WRNS photographs were taken at Somes Island and Shelly Bay in Wellington, and at Long Bay and/or Torbay, Auckland. Includes publicity photographs at Point Halswell using models as WRNS; degaussing station at Shelly Bay; WRNS at the former matron's house for the Shelly Bay borstal; images relating to minesweepers at Shelly Bay; WRNS from HMNZS 'Cook' at Hinemoa Street with Colour Sergeant Brecon at left; WRNS Montague Whalers Race in Evans Bay, 19 Feb 1944; WRNS at a Easter Regatta at Evans Bay, 1944 Family photographs include images of Miss Marjorie Lee, her father Percy, her mother Ellen and siblings Reginald and Winifred. One shows them at Island Bay beach. Two others show them on the back steps of their house at Britomart Street in Berhampore. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here. - To Manuscripts & Archives - Shipboard diary of voyage to NZ on SS Corinthic Sept-Oct 1913 by Percy John Lee (1896-1963).

Date: 26 Oct 1989

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Smith, Margaret Stuart, 1912-2007

Reference: OHInt-0019/03

Description: Margaret Stuart Smith recalls childhood, early decision to enter medicine, education and study at Otago Medical School in 1932, the other students, teaching staff including Professor Fitchett, attitude to women medical students, recalls the Stevenson-Wright family and Christie families, Claudia Weston and Grace Stanley. Describes her first post at Welllington Hospital as house surgeon in 1936, and decision to study anaesthetics, travel to London in 1939 for post graduate study in anaesthesia at Guy's Hospital, Dr McGill a noted anaesthetist and her appointment to Leicester and Coventry, Buster McFarland the head resident surgeon, the layout of Leicester Infirmary, Dr John Gillies, work at Bangour Emergency Service Hospital (just outside Edinburgh), Sir Harold Gillies (plastic surgeon), Norman Dot, Henry Wade, types of operations, German prisoners. Recalls return to London in 1945, work as anaesthetist registrar at the Sick Childrens' Hospital - Great Ormond Street, operating on children, return to New Zealand in 1946 and marriage, her work as consultant anaesthetist, effect of war on acceptance of women doctors, birth of her children, child care and careers of her children, attitude to working mothers, describes changes in anaesthesia techiques during her lifetime, attitude to anaesthetists, attitude to child care and working mothers, describes interest in social issues, National Council of Women Christchurch Branch, her health, attitude of husband. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Venue - Dr Smith's home in Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002461 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 50 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 426.

Date: 13 April 1989 - 13 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Maclean, Jean Elizabeth, 1925-1999

Reference: OHInt-0058/01

Description: Elizabeth MacLean describes her family background. Discusses the illness and death of her father. Details childhood on a remote sheep farm in Whakarau district; commenting on the power and water supply, neigbours, contact with Maori, hampers coming from Country Library Service, listening to the gramophone, and the strength of National Party support in the area. Details her parents' attitudes to smoking and alcohol and mentions religion. Describes her education by correspondence school, governesses and at Puha Primary School, Whakarau School and Nga Tawa Diocesan School in Marton. Talks about the various teachers, her dislike of school and comments on reading and sport. Describes her time as a land girl during World War II and gives details about uniforms and coupons. Talks about her Karitane Nurse training in Wanganui and mentions social life and salary. Details her working holiday to England, mentions Mothercraft Centre course and subsequent job as a domestic. Recalls her return to New Zealand, Karitane nursing and her decision to change to librarianship. Describes her early years at Gisborne Library and mentions certificate training and Helen Sullivan. Talks about moving to Christchurch to become a field officer (driver) for the Country Library Service. Talks about Miss Eve Franklin, the main driver and details Franklin's driving career with the service, her retirement and her Nelson home and library of `withdrawn books'. Mentions Allan Mercer and Jean Wright. Explains the Country Library Service layout in the Press Building and then later on the courner of Peterborough Street and Madras Street. Details the people that she worked with; Jean Wright, Allan Mercer, Courtney Shearer, Margaret Hall, Gordon Macarthur and Owen Simmance and mentions some of their work habits, interests and subsequent career moves. Describes her work as a junior librarian, learning to drive the van and her time delivering to schools in Christchurch. Recalls her first trip to French Pass and gives details about the organisation of itineraries and accommodation. Notes that the itinerary normally covered 3 1/2 - 4 months with a week in Christchurch between trips. Talks about preferring to sleep in the van, carrying water for ablutions and writing reports. Comments that women drivers tended to be more self-sufficent and stayed longer than men. Gives in-depth detail of the field librarians' daily routine, explaining the way the libraries were classified and the way books were delivered and despatched, the itineraries covered by the two or three vans that covered the South Island. Comments on the meals that local people supplied, pay rates for local librarians and the differences between attitudes of local councils. Describes looking after and living in the book van. Talks about the librarians she met and social contact in the more isolated communities. Describes lighthouse service and prison and mental health hospital visits. Details the differences made when the van size increased, her experiences travelling on back country roads and minor accidents. Comments on her enjoyment of the job and having to stop for health reasons. Describes becoming a library assistant in the Country Library Service in Christchurch, then co-ordinating librarian for co-operative book buying and a library advisor for National Library of New Zealand in Christchurch. Talks about G T Alley and other staff members. Comments on the end of the book van delivery service, her retirement and her interests and activities. Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Miss MacLean's home in Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002033, OHC-002034, OHC-002035 Tape numbers - NZOHA ClS 2596, 2597, 2598, 2599, 2658, 2659 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0303. Search dates: 1925 - 1989

Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/16

Description: George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days. Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence. Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee. Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.

Date: 14 Dec 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Manoy, May Marie, 1913-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/07

Description: May Manoy was born 7 December 1913. Discusses the family business in Motueka, A. Manoy and Son Drapery Store. Talks about her father, a successful merchant, his garden and the home she grew up in in Motueka. Describes her Polish and German heritage on her paternal side. Describes her mother May Newman, her education and death after childbirth. Discusses her memories of the Jewish community in the Motueka and Nelson area and her experience of being Jewish in small town New Zealand. Recalls her own interests as a child and family recreation. Discusses her father's second marriage to an artist from London, Mina Arndt, who took on the role of mother and also taught May art. Recalls Mina Arndt's death from influenza and their move to Karori. Talks about her education at Samuel Marsden School, her favourite teacher Nell Clere and her sex education. Talks about the birth of brother John and living with Mina's sister and brother-in-law Jenny and Philip Nathan. Discusses her love of music and classical education which included learning to dance with Estelle Beere and studying to be a singer with Mrs Gibb. Discusses her Karitane nursing training in depth and the Truby King home in Melrose. Discusses Plunket nurses and the types of milk used for babies. Talks about Karitane nursing in 1930-1931, her registered nursing training at Fulham Hospital in Charing Cross in England, nursing in England during the Blitz, serving in the British Liberation Army in the 108 British General Hospital in France and Brussells and being the sister in charge in the Queen Alexandria Nursing Service. Describes blackouts in Paris and London and travel experiences in Europe during the war. Talks about Karitane nursing in France. Describes returning to New Zealand on the troop ship `Athlone Castle' and her subsequent hospitalisation due to injury during the war. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004129-OHC-004132 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1631 and OHDL-000570.

Date: 24 Nov 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Pierson, Ruby Ellen, 1916-2006

Reference: OHInt-0314/18

Description: Talks about her family life in Nelson including childhood games, her strict father, her mother's housework and activities and activities at the Methodist Church. Describes secondary schooling at Nelson Polytechnic and segregation of boys and girls though the school was co-educational. Recalls the effects in Nelson of the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Talks about shifting from the Methodist Church to the Church of Christ, leaving school and trying to find work during the Depression, social life in Nelson, doing nursing training in Wellington and nursing at Ashburton and Otaki. Recalls the impact of the American forces there during World War II. Describes doing midwifery training at St. Helen's Hospital in Christchurch and Plunket training at Karitane. Comments on challenging aspects of Plunket home visits and lack of training in finance and mothercraft. Describes returning to Nelson, her relationship with the local Plunket branch, and Plunket work in country areas such as Murchison. Talks about the demand for birth control information, the role of fathers in bringing up children, her establishment of Fathercraft classes, the role of Plunket nurses in education and cot deaths. Venue - Nelson : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Nelson Quantity: 3 DAT tape(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 874.

Date: between 1939-1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0057

Description: Devonport school pupils and teachers entering air raid shelters during World War II. Taken by an unidentified photographer for The Weekly News. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001366-F

Description: Soldier holds a young child at the camp for Polish refugees in Pahiatua. Photograph taken 1945 by John Pascoe. Caption - Original caption reads "A small establishment of New Zealand soldiers helps Polish personnel run the camp. They are all great friends with the children." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001390-F

Description: Pani Petrus and a group of young girls enter dining room number one at a Polish refugee camp in Pahiatua. Photograph taken in 1945 by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative