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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: 2 Mar 2000 - 02 Mar 2000

From: Government House oral history project Stage II

By: Reeves, Paul Alfred (Right Rev Hon Sir), 1932-2011

Reference: OHInt-0642/5

Description: Sir Paul Reeves was born in Wellington in 1932. Mentions the friendship of his grandparents with the Freyberg family and his uncle Alfred Reeves being in the Maori Pioneer Battalion in World War I. Talks about his Maori maternal grandmother Roka Te Hei Marama and the links kept with Waikawa marae, Taranaki. Recalls racism at school, dealing with his Maori background and his mother's attitude. Discusses the effects of the world wars on his father and brother. Describes how his father did shift work on the tramways in Wellington. Recalls the family's Newtown home and neighbours. Describes the family's support of the Labour Party. Comments on returning to Newtown as Governor-General. Recalls going to church with his grandmother and the importance in his life of St Thomas' Church in Newtown. Gives details of his education at South Wellington School and Wellington College. Mentions his feelings of class awareness and the difficulty of being Maori at Wellington College. Describes attending Victoria University of Wellington and its socialist, radical tradition at Victoria. Recalls J C Beaglehole, Ian Gordon, James Bertram, James K Baxter, Anton Vogt and Louis Johnson. Gives details leading to his going to St Johns College, the training there and going to the Tokoroa parish. Mentions applying for and getting the Sir Apirana Ngata Memorial Scholarhip and marrying Beverley Watkins before going to Oxford, England on the scholarship. Describes life as a student there, being ordained at Christchurch Cathedral in Oxford and being in parishes in Lowestoft and London. Recalls returning to New Zealand and a parish at Okato, Taranaki in 1964. Comments on the growing Maori consciousness in New Zealand. Describes teaching at St Johns in 1966, becoming Director of Christian Education and being elected Bishop of Waiapu in 1971. Comments on his relationship with the clergy. Discusses involvement in the Citizens for Rowling campaign and the response to his political stance. Discusses the nature of poverty. Gives a background to his appointment as Archbishop. Discusses his attitude to the Springbok Tour. Recalls his decision to go on the 1984 hikoi to Waitangi and the role of Governor General Sir David Beattie. Describes the unexpectedness of being offered the position of Governor-General. Comments on the Maori perspective and awkward situations which arose during his term. Mentions lessons in Maori from Huirangi Waikerepuru. Comments on divisions within New Zealand society and his desire to help bridge them as Governor-General. Recalls his relationship with Sir Robert Muldoon. Describes travelling widely, trying to attend Maori events and preparing speeches with relevance. Mentions Cindy Beavis. Mentions open days and Maori staying at Government House. Discusses Government House staff including Paul Canham, Official Secretary and Norm Richardson, the Comptroller. Recalls meetings of the Executive Council and the gradual lack of cohesion of David Lange's Labour government. Discusses assistance from Solicitor General John McGrath. Comments on Michael Bassett, Richard Prebble and Roger Douglas and the inability of David Lange to stop the development of a market driven free-fall economy. Mentions reaction to an article he wrote in the `Listener' on the economy. Mentions other incidents including trouble from the Malaysian government after comments about Lorraine and Aaron Cohen and the pig-killing ritual in Vanuatu. Talks about discussions with Sir Tipene O'Regan, Georgina Kirby and Sir James Henare. Discusses the Treaty of Waitangi and claims. Gives his impressions of visiting the Queen and encouraging her involvement in the 1990 Treaty celebrations. Comments on his agenda and aims as Governor-General and on earlier Governors-General. Mentions his work in New York on leaving Government House. Comments on the Church as an institution and the trend towards it being conservative, charismatic and evangelical. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3406.

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: 8 Mar 2000 - 08 Mar 2000

From: Government House oral history project Stage II

By: Brown, James, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0642/1

Description: Jim Brown was born in Christchurch in 1925. Gives details of his family background and childhood home on a farm at Russells Flat in Canterbury. Recalls being taught to shoot, fish and box by his father. Mentions that he was in the Army for World War II and the Korean War. Talks about attending school in Fendalton, boarding with his aunties and being an altar boy. Describes getting prizes for boxing at Christchurch Boys' High School and mentions being a welterweight in the Army. Recalls being in army cadets at school and the feeling of responsibility. Describes winning a scholarship to Duntroon and being there from 1945 to 1947. Discusses being posted to Japan in 1948 for the occupation. Talks about his hearing loss from years of working in tanks and with gunfire. Describes being aide de camp for Keith Stewart in 1948 and going to Government House. Describes being in Korea in 1951 and 1952 and his feelings about battle. Recalls returning to New Zealand and marrying Patricia Sutton. Talks about becoming Comptroller at Government House in 1961. Mentions General McKinnon. Describes how Lord Cobham was the Governor-General at the time. Discusses forms of address and his duties including financial duties. Discusses being the first New Zealand born Comptroller. Comments on the relationship between Lord Cobham and the Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake. Mentions that David Williams was the Official Secretary. Recalls the visit of the King and Queen of Thailand. Describes the controversy over the Cobhams' cars. Mentions Mac the chauffeur. Describes becoming an instructor at Duntroon from 1962 to 1965 then going to Waiouru and Linton with the Army. Mentions being Commissioner of Civil Defence from 1971 to 1977 before becoming Official Secretary at Government House in 1977. Recalls interviews with both Sir Denis Blundell, Governor-General when he first arrived, and his replacement Sir Keith Holyoake. Recalls escorting Sir Keith Holyoake to London to get his commission. Describes talking to the Queen. Discusses his daily routine as Official Secretary, the Governor-General's diary and the hierarchy at Government House. Comments on the relationship between Robert Muldoon and Governors-General Sir Keith Holyoake and Sir David Beattie. Mentions Holyoake's health. Discusses the redecoration of Government House by Lady Beattie and the committee she convened, Friends of the House (FROTH). Discusses the 1984 snap election, a media party being held at the time of its announcement and the reaction of journalists. Gives details regarding the proroguing of Parliament. Discusses the 1981 Waitangi Day protests and the 1985 Waitangi Day standoff when Sir David Beattie was kept waiting. Talks about the relationship of David Lange with the Governor-General, the Official Secretary's relationship with the Secretary to the Cabinet and communication with the secretary at Buckingham Palace. Discusses family at Government House mentioning the mother of Sir David Beattie and family weddings. 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-3403.

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: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0006995

Description: Shows enormous columns of traffic logged in a traffic grid as they try to get into the Auckland central city. Someone asks if the reason for the jam is the truck drivers protest and his companion relies that he thinks that is tomorrow. Refers to the truckies' protest about road user charges that occurred on July 4th, 2008. The comment made in this cartoon is that the truck drivers' protest would make little difference to traffic congestion in Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0007082

Description: Shows two satellite domes at the Waihopai spy base with a gigantic wonderbra on them. Refers to the invasion of the spy base by the protest group Waihopai Anzac Ploughshares in April, 2008. The protest was organised because it was believed that the base was providing information to assist the Americans waging war on Iraq. They managed to deflate one of the satellite covers. The cartoon suggests a way of repairing the damage. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-005-349

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013268

Description: Shows three images of 'Great Kiwi Oxymorons Part I' events that have occured during the week. First image is of the drinking culture in which a drunk driver has hit a tree and is brandishing a broken bottle, looking for a fight. The second is of Anti-Israel protests against Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer at the Auckland Classic Tennis competition. The third is of two sharks. One looks frightened as the other says that it is a media beat-up and that his chances of being attacked by a Great White curator are really very low. Refers to the capture of a great white shark for captivity. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005347

Description: Shows a couple sitting in a car that is caught in a traffic jam as hikoi marchers cross the Auckland harbour bridge. The man compares the hikoi to spam clogging up the network. Refers to Maori protest over the controversial foreshore and seabed legislation. Published in The Press, 28 April 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "QANTAS2004" Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2008

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0006378

Description: Shows an agressive-looking American eagle reprimanding a dismayed kiwi as they stand on either side of a nest which contains two eggs, one of which has collapsed and the other of which bears the name 'Waihopai'. Refers to the deflating of one of Waihopai spy base's domes with sickles by three peace activists on April 30th, 2008. The men were part of a group called Anzac Ploughshares which aims to spread the message of disarmament by disabling warplanes and military equipment. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0012323

Description: In the first of two frames a policeman asks two students who are throwing a bottle and an armchair respectively what is wrong with them because they seem to be rioting without a cause. In the second frame he explains that an example of a cause they might demonstrate over would be the war in Afghanistan. One of the students is amazed to hear that there is a war in Afghanistan and the other has never heard of Afghanistan. Refers to the 'Undie 500 car rally which has received much negative publicity due to rioting students and others associated with the event. The Undie 500 is an annual student-run car rally between Christchurch and Dunedin, New Zealand. The event has run since the early 1980s, organised by the University of Canterbury Engineering Society Inc. (ENSOC). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

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

Reference: DX-002-079

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark's head is shown as the cliffs of Young Nick's Head, Gisborne, with Peter Dunne of the United Future party and Ron Donald of the Green Party trying to stake claims in her hair. Double reference is made, firstly to local protests led by Maori over the sale of Young Nicks Head, a historic land mark, to an American buyer purchasing the farm of which it is part, and secondly to the coalition cum minority government negotiations taking place between the Labour Party and the United Future party, and the Labour Party and the Greens. Extended Title - United Future. Greens. Things are running quiet with no one in charge. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011458

Description: 'The Simpsons march grimly along a road in Springfield, the town where they live. Father bears aloft a huge pink doughnut with a bite out of it. Someone off shouts that 'the hikoi's begun'. Refers to a spoof hikoi in the Canty town of Springfield protesting at the need for a resource consent to have a large doughnut at the side of the road originally placed there due to the Simpsons' Springfield connection. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012191

Description: Cartoon shows a huge street demonstration at the front of which is Pita Sharples, Co-leader of the Maori Party, carrying a banner reading 'Maori demand dedicated council seats. Many other people also carry banners which demand seats for Asians, Pasifika, one-legged lesbians etc. Refers to the controversy over whether the new Auckland 'super-city' should have dedicated Maori seats. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0010296

Description: Former Prime Minister, Helen Clark, sits on a couch relaxing with a glass of wine as she watches footage of the attack at Waitangi on Prime Minister, John Key. She is scornful of the attack and thinks that the protesters should have put more weight into it and perhaps worked on his broken arm. Refers to the traditional protests against prime ministers who attend the Waitangi Day celebrations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).