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Interview with Merle Hyland
Date: 7 Jul 1992 - 07 Nov 1992
From: Women in World War II Part III
By: Hyland, Merle, 1921-; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017
Reference: OHInt-0072/04
Description: Merle Hyland was born on 27 August 1921 in Wanganui and grew up on the West Coast and in Nelson. Gives details about the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Describes her family's attitude to religion and alcohol. Comments on leaving school at the age of thirteen, after proficiency, to start work as a home help. Describes working for Sir and Lady Easterfield in Nelson. Recalls working planting tobacco and in a jewellery shop. Talks about boarding and working for Harry Utting, a Methodist minister, and his wife Gladys. Describes joining the Methodist Church and becoming a Christian Pacifist. Describes meeting and marrying Manson (Bub) Hyland and working together at Holdaway's Orchard. Talks about the outbreak of World War II, Bub's decision to become a conscientious objector, responses to this, appearing before the Appeal Board and being imprisoned in various North Island camps during the war. Mentions Strathmore, near Rotorua, Shannon and Wi Tako. Recalls starting to consider the conception of Riverside Community. Describes Bub Hyland's return at the end of the war and becoming founding members of Riiverside in 1946. Talks about the expectation of the Community and the hard work and debt. Describes decision-making as democratic and talks about difficulties in adjusting to communal life. Notes her involvement in activities outside the Community and friendship with Sonja Davies. Talks about the Peace Caravan which travelled the country in 1953 with herself, Dave Sylvester and Arch Barrington promoting peace. Comments on the variety of public reaction. Describes the Community's ongoing role in peace protest and education. Talks about her husband's death at the age of forty-six and her resignation from the community, although she still lives there. Comments on the community's attitude towards individual need, particularly in terms of education and superannuation. Venue - Nelson : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005775-005778; OHLC-002805-002808 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1206. photograph of Merle and Brian Hyland about 1953; photograph of the Peace Caravan; photograph of Merle Hyland about 1991
Members of the Jerusalem commune established by James K Baxter
Date: 29 March 1971
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Social-Communes-01
Description: Members of the Jerusalem commune set up by James K Baxter, on the veranda of one of the settlement's houses. Barbara plays the guitar. Photographed by a Wanganui Chronicle staff photographer in March 1971. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.9 x 16.5 cm