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Date: 19 Feb 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: McCallum, Doug, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0662/20

Description: Doug McCallum recalls working at Otahuhu Railway Workshops and involvement with trade unions. Describes formation of Auckland Unemployed Workers Union and gives reasons for forming the group. Mentions some of the original members - Graham Wimp, Simon Wallis, Doreen Suttons and Billy Baines. Talks about Advocacy service and drop-in centres at Glen Innes and Otahuhu. Mentions alternative Economic Document. Gives impressions of differences between AUWU and AUWRC. Discusses role of Federation of Labour; Scheme Workers' strikes; attacks on Domestic Purposes Beneficiaries by [Sir Robert] Muldoon; influence of Socialist Unity Party in AUWU; involvement of other factions such as Labour Party and Communist Party; manipulation of unemployment figures by the government; demonstration outside St James Theatre during meeting of Rob Muldoon; Membership stucture of AUWU and `Out of Work' newspaper. Other people mentioned include: Syd Pilkington, Gail Arnott Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Venue - TUC Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010388 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3533.

Date: 22 Mar 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Ross, Donald, active 1968-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/24

Description: Don Ross recalls unemployment struggles in Whangarei in 1968 when Marsden construction was winding down and involvement, with Tom Cluny, in the formation of the Unemployed Workers Committee. Lists work of the committee: Social Welfare, hire purchase and six week standdown period. Backgrounds establishment of Whangarei Unemployed Workers and Beneficiaries Union (WUWBU), with reference to David James (Polytech Staff Association) and Jim Cottrell (Trades Council representative). Describes daily work of WUWBU: finding by government; volunteers; Worker-Farmer alliance; pickets of banks in Whangarei and Dargaville; involvement in national unemployed movement (1984-1985); participation in Te Roopu Rawakore NPCS; March Against Unemployment 1988, with reference to Gary Mace. Gives views on future of the unemployed movement and role of women in the movement. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010392 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3537.

Date: 10 Dec 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Corkery, Neville, active 1987-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/13

Description: Neville Corkery recalls the setting up of Southland Unemployed Rights Centre in 1987. Refers to Federation of Labour and Robert Irvine. Talks about Benefit cuts, Employment Contract Act, relationship with trade union movement and the impact of closures of meatworks. Mentions 1980 Business Roundtable protest. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010381 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3526.

Date: 19 Apr 1982-3 Feb 1983 - 19 Apr 1982 - 03 Feb 1983

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Cooper, Whina (Dame), 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0514/1

Description: This interview took place over a number of months to provide material for Michael King to write the biography of Whina Cooper at her request. Discusses her family background, her father Heremia Te Wake, a Native Land Court assessor and her mother, Kare Pauro Kawatihi. Notes that she was the first child of her father's second marriage. Discusses her father and his attitude to Pakeha,land and mana. Mentions his friend Sir James Carroll and Sir Maui Pomare. Recalls childhood and schooling at Whakarapa Native School and St Joseph's Maori Girls' College in Napier. Describes working in the local store, becoming a teacher trainee at the Pawarenga Native School and then housekeeper at the Catholic presbytery. Recalls considering becoming a nun but changing her mind over a nun's treatment of a child. Talks about her role in fighting for the preservation of the Whakarapa mudflats, being drained by a Pakeha farmer, at the age of eighteen. Describes her interest in land surveyor Richard Gilbert, marriage to him in 1917, living at her parents' home and the birth of a daughter. Describes both parents' deaths and the need for her young family to move. Recalls living on family land at Te Karaka, the birth of another child and assistance from a priest to buy Heremia Te Wake's home and farm and the local store. Describes paying off the loan and building a new shop, post office, community centre and health clinic while husband Richard Gilbert ran the farm and later bought a second farm. Mentions becoming president of a Panguru branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and her role in land development in the Hokianga. Comments on Sir Apirana Ngata and legislation enabling Maori to borrow money to clear, drain, grass and fence land. Mentions the establishment of a programme dividing the Hokianga into development schemes and her supervision of the Panguru and Waihou schemes. Talks about the role of senior land consolidation officer William Cooper and the growth of her relationship with him. Talks about the death of husband Richard Gilbert and her intention to marry William Cooper on his divorce. Comments on reaction to this, moving to Kamo with William Cooper and having four more children. Recalls her fund-raising efforts during the war. Describes the return to Panguru of Whina and Bill Cooper after their marriage. Mentions the attempt to organise the building of a meeting house in Panguru. Talks about the death of husband Bill Cooper and going to Auckland. Discusses the beginning of the Maori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) in 1951, her election as President and travelling the country to establish branches. Discusses the work of the League and her role in it. Talks about the establishment of an Auckland urban marae, Te Unga Waka, in 1966. Talks about her health and attitude to medicines. Discusses her involvement in leading the Maori Land March in 1975 and the organisation Te Ropu o te Matakite. Talks about Kupe's discovery of Hokianga harbour. Discusses Father Becker, Archbishop Liston and other Catholic clergy. Talks about custom, carvings and fishing. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1 May 1993 - 01 May 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Lamberton, Vera, active 1981-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/17

Description: Vera Lamberton gives reasons for formation of Feilding Unemployed Support Centre in 1981 and describes reaction of unemployed people. Refers to advocacy work. Talks about women's experience of unemployment; contacts with Palmerston North Workers Unemployed Rights Centre, with reference to Dave MacPherson and Jane Stevens; March Against Unemployment 1988; part-time work; pay rates; closure of freezing works and trade union support for Feilding Unemployed Support Centre. Other people mentioned include Virginia Adams, Sonja Davis and Dean Wickliffe. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010385 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3530.

Date: 6-7 May 1998 - 06 May 1998 - 07 May 1998

From: Government House oral history project Stage I

By: Hawthorn, Raymond George, 1927-2007

Reference: OHInt-0636/4

Description: Ray Hawthorn was born in Wellington in 1927. Gives details of his family background. Describes spending school holidays with his maternal grandfather, a butcher, at Rongotea. Describes his work routine, killing a pig and making sausages. Recalls difficult times during the Depression and his father's unemployment. Describes time off school for infantile paralysis (polio). Talks about growing up in Owen Street in Newtown, Wellington, being a cub and a boy scout and attending Wellington South School. Describes employment as a telegram boy with Post and Telegraph. Discusses restrictions on telegrams during World War II. Talks about becoming Government House delivery boy then being transferred from the Post Office to the Internal Affairs Department. Mentions Albert Naulls. Describes the Official Secretary at Government House, David Fouhy, and comments on the formality. Mentions the Governor-General was Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall. Describes how the butler ruled one half of Government House, the Official Secretary the other. Describes lunches, etiquette, forms of address and curtseying. Discusses formalities at staff meals and explains the hierarchy. Discusses military hero Lord Freyberg who was the next Governor-General from 1946-1952. Comments on Lord and Lady Freyberg as a couple. Recalls visits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Field Marshall Montgomery and Lyndon B Johnson. Comments on politicians Sir Sidney Holland and Peter Fraser. Talks about the gardens at Government House and changes to the building before a royal tour. Discusses the 1953 Royal Tour, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mentions the Tangiwai disaster. Talks about getting married in 1956 to Shirley Goldfinch who worked at Government House. Describes his daily working routine, with reference to the mail, becoming senior orderly and later Administration Officer. Discusses the etiquette of presenting decorations. Talks about Lord Norrie, Governor-General from 1952-1957, and Lord Cobham. Mentions Lord Cobham's love of cricket. Discusses relationships between Governors-General and Prime Ministers. Mentions Walter Nash. Talks about English aides de camp before the time of Lord Porritt and changes with employment of more New Zealanders as staff. Describes the replacement of David Fouhy by David Williams as Official Secretary. Discusses the relationship between the Official Secretary and the Comptroller. Describes moving Government House to Auckland for three months each year. Talks about Sir Denis Blundell as Governor-General from 1972-1977 and then Sir Keith Holyoake. Comments on Waitangi Day and protest, Dame Whina Cooper and the 1981 Springbok Tour. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3398.

Date: Mar-Jun 1996 - 01 Mar 1996 - 01 Jun 1996

By: Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-; Cvitanovich, Jerome, active 1996; Electricity Corporation of New Zealand

Reference: OHColl-0569

Description: Documents the memories, perceptions and viewpoints of people directly affected by the possibility of a hydro-electric dam being built in the Tuapeka area. Gives insights about the wide-ranging and profound effects of the proposed dam on lives, families and communities. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Interviewer(s) - Jerome Cvitanovich Accompanying material - Hydro Investigations (Tuapeka); Lower Clutha update Issues 1-4; maps (Millers Flat and Island Block, Beaumont, Rongahere Gorge-Tuapeka Mouth); Ministry of Works report `The hydro-electric potential of the Lower Clutha'; postcard of the Tuapeka Mouth punt; Beaumont Hotel pamphlet; correspondence Quantity: 33 C60 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1981

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022096

Description: Shows a protester and a policeman sitting on the ground after a struggle while on the right an All Black is exaltant about the profits and the winning result of the tour and in the centre a gloomy 'taxpayer' holds the 'tour bill'. In the background a gorilla representing 'King Tour' (King Kong) runs off to the U.S.A. where a skyscraper (the Empire State building) burns. Context: The aftermath of the Springbok Tour which had proven to be a sore experience for the nation. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1981

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022089

Description: Shows a photographer trying to get a picture of Prince Charles and Princess Diana while behind him a rugby player and an anti-tour protester wrestle and National Party President George Chapman tries to get attention. Contest: The National party conference went almost unnoticed amidst the twin distractions of a royal tour (Prince Charles and Princess Diana) and the Springbok tour. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).