Places

Date: 1992-1996

By: Apatu, Marei, active 1992-1996

Reference: OHColl-0347

Description: Waipatu marae kaumatua talk about their memories of early life in the Heretaunga region of the Hawkes Bay. Primary topics discussed are iwi and hapu links, the Waipatu Marae, local beaches and food sources. Interviewer(s) - Marei Apatu Accompanying material - OHA-4569 and OHA-4570 are in one folder and also contain accompanying information called Background to "Te Kotahitanga - First Maori Parliament" a Chronological Timeline, Glossary and Poroporoake. Quantity: 4 C90 cassette(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 1 folder(s) - Accompanying materials. 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: [ca 1 Feb 1985]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Ramson, Stuart, active 1985

Reference: EP/1985/0619-F

Description: Mrs Raewyn Te Patu diving for paua and kina at Pukerua bay. Photographs taken circa 1 February 1985 by Evening Post staff photographer Stuart Ramson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-020-033

Description: The left half of the page shows a wooden dwelling house thatched with raupo with a fence, a gateway, and an unusually long ridgepole. Below it is the end of another house (a cooking house) made of wood with a tekoteko (carved figurehead) at the top of its ridgepole. Both buildings are at Tu Kaitohe or Kaitoke Pa, Te Wherowhero's pa at the foot of Taupiri Mountain, Waikato The right side of the page shows at the top, two figures seated opposite one another and crying (the tangi or crying match). Below they are 'pressing noses' (hongi) and at the bottom of the page, they are hugging. Beside them is a sketch of a pole, three feet long, with white feathers 'wound into scarlet things'. The groups of people are copied from drawings by J. J. Merrett. Other Titles - Hongi. Pataka Quantity: 8 drawing(s) (on folded sheet). Physical Description: Pencil, 334 x 207 mm

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 17 Sep 1993

From: Taonga Tuku Iho (Wairarapa)

By: Paku, Ellen Huiarei, 1918-1994

Reference: OHInt-0401-05

Description: Interview with Ellen Huiarei Paku about her early life at Karori then Homewood (Wairarapa coast), with information about the food collection practices, games and amusements and social relations among people of that area; also contains information about Ellen's adult life, her family and her interaction with the Maori community at Te Ore Ore, Masterton. Interviewer(s) - Bernard Manaena Venue - Ellen Paku's home at 52c Montgomery Crescent, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006679-006681; OHLC-002452-002454 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1622.

Date: 11 Aug 1993

From: Taonga Tuku Iho (Wairarapa)

By: Reiri, Flora Mei, 1916-2003

Reference: OHInt-0401-06

Description: Interview with Flora Mei Reiri about her family, childhood and youth at Moeraki, Otago, and about the education, food collection techniques and social life of that community, and the art of weaving; Flora also talks about her marriage to Te Aroha Hami Reiri and their life at Te Whiti, near Masterton; she also talks about her receipt of various honours (QSM etc). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Bernard Manaena Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006682-006683; OHLC-002455-002456 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1623.

Date: 13 July 1991 - Jan, April 1992 - 13 Jun 1991 - 01 Jan 1992

By: Madgwick, Paul, active 1992

Reference: OHColl-0073

Description: Interviews with four Kaumatua of Kati Mahaki from the Bruce Bay and Jacobs River area. Interviews deal mainly with describing methods of food gathering, gardening and food preparation, history of the main families of the area, canoe making, the pa and cemeteries. Interviewer(s) - Paul Madgwick Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 4 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010 - 23 Jun 2010 - 16 Aug 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Ngan, Jeanette, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0984-13

Description: Interview with Jean (Jeanette) Ngan (nee Wong), born in Taihape in 1933. Interviewer's summary: Talks about being one of 5 children of New Zealand Chinese parents who ran the General Store at Utiku near Taihape and were actively involved in the local community. When Jean's older brother drowned the family moved away to the Hutt Valley and established a new business in which Jean worked until she was released by her father to pursue her ambition to become a nurse. Discusses her marriage to Guy Ngan, then an architect but for the greater part of their married life a self employed artist and sculptor, the couple moving to Stokes Valley where over a period of years Guy built their home. Talks about raising 2 children there and, during her years at home with the children, doing a considerable amount of weaving, exhibiting and selling her work, and was a member of Port Nicholson Weavers. Discusses in detail domestic life, housekeeping and food in her parents' and her own home. Describes family photographs. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001497 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001469, OHA-7393. Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden (OHDL-001470) Search dates: 1933 - 2010

Date: 17, 24 Jul 2010 - 17 Jul 2010 - 24 Jul 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Luke, Hina Lucy, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0984-10

Description: Interview with Hina Luke (nee Puketapu), born in Lower Hutt in 1932. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered in the recording include: Mother's family: farming background in Taranaki; maternal grandparents' English ancestry; values, visits to grandparents' home; grandmother lived with family. Mother: previous marriage and children; appearance; domestic life; sale of produce; preserving; budgeting; views about health; leisure. Father: education with Te Whiti and Tohu Te Raukura; Maori language; previous marriage and children; self-education; friendship with Walter Nash; community relationships; quest to build Marae after loss of land; public and private life; working life; leisure; dress; gardening; extent of domestic role. Maori language: attitude to and experience of in childhood and since beginning of Kohanga Reo movement. Childhood homes: Whites Line East house and garden; Puketapu Grove house and garden; rooms and facilities; father's design requirements for new homes in Puketapu Grove; water and bathing; gardens and crops. Childhood: education; chores; visitors; meals; food; offal; meat bones; cooking; gardening; keeping chooks; evening activities; education; gender roles; special occasions; Christmas; childhood illnesses; mother's health remedies; dances in Wellington; discipline; parents attitudes to alcohol. Sewing and dressmaking; dresses for dances; apprenticeship at Regent Gowns; taking in sewing; making quilts, cushions; mending clothes. Marriage: meeting husband; first pregnancy before marriage; wedding dress; wedding day; wedding presents; budgeting; husband's role in domestic and family life. Husband Richard Luke: employment; Maori language; role at Waiwhetu. Living with husband's family in Manaia, Taranaki: food; laundry; fish and meat offal; return to Waiwhetu. Living with parents in Puketapu Grove: furnishing room; children; domestic work. Family home at Porirua East: furniture and appliances; garden; shops; making friends. Children: preparation of layette; wool and fabric; preparations for birth; equipment; hospital stay; treatment of eczema and asthma; daily routine; clothing; meals; chores; weekend activities. Food, cooking and meals: kitchen and cooking equipment; use of fat; meat and offal; vegetables; fish and shellfish; food storage; keeping fowls; freezing and preserving; saying Grace; catering; making bread at Marae; changes since stomach stapling operation. Recipes and recipe books: manuscript book for catering information; basic muffin recipe; mother's dumplings; healthy apricot snack; macaroni pudding; instant pudding. Laundry: separate wash house at Puketapu Grove; washing by hand; drying clothes; ironing; stains; washing machine; washing at Manaia. Waiwhetu Marae: fundraising for; opening; catering at opening; role of food on marae; self's current role; daily routine; food for Kohanga Reo; food for Marae visitors; special dietary requirements; food brought for tangi; healthy food; health clinic; smoking. 28th Maori Battalion: return to Wellington; meal for returned servicemen. Current living arrangements: family home with extended family. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001494 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 digital photograph(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 4.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001463, OHA-7390. Colour photographs of: Hina Luke in her kitchen (2010); Hina Luke in marae kitchen (2010); handwritten recipes and cover of recipe book (2010). Scanned colour photographs of: Hina with Waiwhetu Health Centre banner; Hina and others outside Waiwhetu Marae; Hina sewing quilt; Hina sewing; Hina in Waiwhetu kitchen; Rewena baking bread; montage of photographs of Hina and Richard Luke. Scanned B&W photographs of: Hina as a child; Hina aged 17; Hina with her high school basketball team; Hina with other staff of Regent Gowns; wedding photograph with her parents; grandparents Caroline and Algenon Yeates; house at Puketapu Grove (OHDL-001464) Search dates: 1932 - 2010

Date: 26 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Murphy, Francis Richard, 1948-; Murphy, Bronwyn Gay, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0569/06

Description: Frank Murphy was born in Palmerston, Otago in 1948. Describes his father's work on Bluecliffs Station and his mother's as station cook. Talks about the Bluecliffs area, the ownership of Bluecliffs Station by the Rhodes Estate and its management by Dr Woodhouse. Explains father's work on the farm and going away to boarding school. Discusses his relationship with his parents, attitudes to table manners, discipline, alcohol and smoking. Describes riding a horse to school, mustering on the station and his interest in rugby, cricket and race meetings. Lists a variety of jobs before going to work at Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Mentions getting used to office work and doing extra mural study at Otago University. Explains reasons for not completing study, for leaving his job and the receivership of Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Backgrounds a venture in woolscouring. Bronwyn Murphy was born in Mosgiel in 1948. Mentions the Bisset family farm was at Momona and part of it is where the Dunedin airport is now located. Describes the fanily home, helping with cooking and chores, the childhood family routine and going to Sunday School. Comments on enjoying the open spaces as a child. Describes her schooling followed by working in a lawyer's office. Explains how she met Frank, dates, their decision to marry and their wedding day in 1970. Describes living in Dunedin and on the Taieri before buying the Beaumont Hotel in 1982. Refers to its run down appearance, its physical layout, guest accommodation, clientele, hours of work, the area covered by the hotel, the financial help of the previous owners and their first winter there. Describes customers including forestry workers. Refers to farming and orchards. Describes the Beaumont community and local characters. Talks about music at the hotel. Discusses the attitude ot the locals to outsiders. Details their aims and goals when they first took over the hotel and the introduction of food for casual diners to minimise the effect of alcohol for motorists. Lists important local events including the Beaumont races, the Paradise Fishing Club competition, other activities on the river, and a pig hunting competition. Refers to the decline of the Beaumont Races in the context of drink driving. Explains the shift of the race to Wingatui and its impact. Describes the closure of the community hall, church and school. Mentions fund raising and Bob Woods. Describes the dam project public meeting at Beaumont in 1989 and the destructive effect on the community. Explains his belief that ECNZ has been deliberately vague about the proposal. Discusses the second public meeting in 1991. Talks about the treatment of people selling to ECNZ, their absence from the hotel and a lack of farewells. Describes concerns about the environmental impact. Summarises the impact on the locals particularly in terms of uncertainty. Refers to ECNZ personnel and how they should have operated. Discusses interest groups Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the national campaign run by musician Graeme Collins and local attitudes to him. Explains their decision to sell the hotel in the context of the break up of the community and the decline in the hotel's turnover. Describes reluctance to sell to ECNZ and breaking the news to the local community. Describes their farewell, its emotional impact and new lessees Ray and Margaret Pankhurst. Describes the circumstances which led to them leasing the Fairfield Hotel. Talks about retaining links with the Beaumont community, continuing uncertainty in Beaumont and the stress suffered by locals. Explains their hopes for future of Beaumont. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2630. Photo of Frank Murphy as a child; phot of Bronym Bisset in 1959; photo of Frank and Bronwyn Murphy in 1995

Date: 20-21 May 1998 - 20 May 1998 - 21 May 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Ashby, Ronald William, 1937-; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHInt-0428/01

Description: Ron Ashby was born in Gore in 1937. Gives details of his family background, his parents' meeting and moving to Mandeville where his father was a rabbiter, farm labourer and seed dresser. Describes how rabbits were a source of income and part of the family diet. Describes a family of ten children and their move to Gore to work at the Fleming and Company factory in 1950. Describes Fleming's products Creamoata, rolled oats and oatmeal and the Fleming's symbol Sergeant Dan. Recalls family relationships, discipline, going to the pictures and music being a large part of their lives. Mentions pipe bands and playing in a dance band. Recalls going to Sunday School and leaving school to make a financial contribution to the family. Recalls getting a labouring job with Flemings in 1952 and then being offered an engineering job. Comments on limited employment in Gore, the predominantly male workforce at the time and the fewer jobs now available at Flemings. Discusses improved hygiene, occupational safety and health and standards. Refers to ISO 9001. Mentions the elimination of the dust problem. Outlines his career path at Flemings including training as an engine driver, getting certificates and becoming an adult apprentice electrician. Describes his current role as technical milling engineer. Comments on the role of the Flemings Company in helping staff undertake training. Discusses the challenge of keeping Flemings in Gore when the main market for the product is in Auckland. Comments on the role of technology. Discusses the importance of quality oats and how the local area is good for growing oats. Mentions the diversification in breakfast cereals from 1973. Mentions flaked oats and muesli. Describes the remodelling of the mill in 1978/1979 as the highlight of his working career. Comments on the importance of good management and the relationship between staff and management at Flemings. Mentions Gordon Glennie, John Fotheringham, Stan Adams, Malcolm Cole, Stan Staton and Dawn Brocks. Discusses the sale of Flemings to Northern Roller Milling Company and then Watties. Mentions the marketing is done by Bluebird. Describes redundancies after the loss of the Australian oat bran market. Discusses legislation affecting Flemings including the Resource Management Act. Talks about the factory's contribution to the local economy. Mentions the firm has been in business for 120 years and comments on Flemings as a `heritage brand'. Mentions his imminent retirement to Kaka Point. Talks about the influence of Doug Robins, Frank Clark, Jack Tutty and Les Main. Mentions his wife Margaret Ashby and children Ronald, Anthony and Christoper. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2592.

Date: 22 Jan 1998

From: Bainham Reunion oral history project

By: Hadfield, William Rogers, 1913-2004; Dawber, Carol, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0417/1

Description: Bill Hadfield was born in Nelson in 1913. Discusses life at Little River, Awaroa throughout the twentieth century. Talks about food including wild and domestic pigs, salting and curing their own meat, catching herring and snapper and eating kiekie flowers and nikau hearts. Mentions selling meat to settlers, growing tobacco and hops and sawmills in the bay. Notes there was a daily boat to Takaka and weekly boats to Wellington. Mentions boats the `Kaspar', `Morning light' and the`Lily'. Describes riding the mail over the hill to Wainui on his motorbike. Talks about work wiring houses for electricity. Notes the house of his grandfather, William Hadfield, was prefabricated in totara and white pine and came from Bretts' Colonists Guide. Talks about his father Fred Hadfield. Mentions Fred Gibbs, Ray Fry, Mr Avery, Jim Perrot, Christiana Winter, Newton Nalder and Mr Spanton. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2674. Search dates: 1998

Date: 15 Nov 1991

From: Maori Women's Welfare League: Interviews

By: Renata, Taumata Myra Christina, 1914-1998; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0602-21

Description: Taumata Renata nee Kereama, born 1913 in Shannon. Refers to mother Te Waitauhi Emere, Ngati Pikiao and Ngati Maniapoto; father Kereama Te Ngako, Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Tuwharetoa; whangai mother Taumata Te Ono, related to the Herangi whanau; whangai father Teia Te Tuahu Reweti, Ngati Porou. Describes childhood with whangai mother: living in Pirongia, Purikiriki, Te Reu Reu; attending school in Kakariki and Kopua; speaking only Maori until the age of nine. Mentions Karena Tamaki. Talks in detail about traditional food including poaka kunekune, poha kereru using pigeons gathered from Pirongia Mountain, kamokamo, inanga, kakahi, hue, riwai, eels known as tuna. Describes mother baking in camp ovens. Recalls adjusting to Pakeha cooking. Talks about contact with Te Puea and her family, and refers to local man Pouhera. Recalls picking potatoes in Rata, farm work, later running a farm with her husband. Describes setting up the Pikiahu-Waewae branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League with sister Kararaina. Mentions involvement in the Parewahawaha branch and the Raukawa District Council of the League. Describes branch activities including millinery demonstrations, crochet, baking and weaving. Mentions Lucy Jacobs, Maora Tamihana, Polly Royal. Recalls marriage in 1933, children and grandchildren. Refers to traditional methods of disciplining children. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1991

Date: 12 Nov 1991

From: Maori Women's Welfare League: Interviews

By: Hutchinson, Mere, 1913-; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0602-09

Description: Mere Hutcheson nee Te Kuru born 1913 in Wairarapa. Describes being adopted by uncle and auntie Hoani and Makere Te Kura. Refers to birth parents Wi Hanita and Whateri, who was a Tutaki. Mentions that birth parents were both Kahungunu. Recalls being brought up in Porangahau, attending the local primary school, leaving after standard one. Describes learning kete-making and taniko from foster mother, speaking Maori at home and being strapped at school for speaking Maori. Mentions working as a rouseabout after leaving school. Talks in detail about local families living off the land and sea: different kinds of seafood collected, preparation of tahu meat, swapping kai moana for other food at Wairoa. Discusses betrothal to first husband, meeting and marriage to second husband, four children. Talks about being taken by Kuini Te Tau to Wellington for work. Describes involvement in Maori Women's Welfare League: joining the Porangahau branch; actvities of the branch including running competitions, sewing, cooking and weaving; other branch members including Tina Tipene, Irene Tutaki and Ema Otene; formation of Mangamaere branch of the League. Mentions involvement of daughter in the League. Discusses support of husband and desire to see him given an honourary League badge. Other topics discussed include dancing, health, loneliness, faith, church and the importance of family. At the end of the interview Mere and the interviewer recite the Lord's Prayer in english Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1991

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: 2 Aug 1994 - 02 Aug 1994

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Corcoran, Rachel, 1897-1996

Reference: OHInt-0430/03

Description: Rachel Corcoran was born in 1897. Describes the arrival in New Zealand of her great grandfather Isaac Merrick and his residence on Waiheke Island. Talks about her father leaving the island, going to Auckland and meeting her mother Ann Burns. Mentions she was the youngest of thirteen children. Recalls their first home which was a nikau thatch and their move to Peak Hills near Kaukapakapa. Describes how her father was a bushman who acquired a land lease in the Ararimu Valley. Mentions the death of a baby in the family. Details the purchase of stores from Kaukapakapa. Mentions access via a wire bridge over the creek, no electricity, candles or kerosene lamps. Recalls an open fire, camp oven, iron kettle and washing in kerosene tins. Describes walking barefoot to school, the school building, school teachers and the proficiency exam. Mentions gumdigging and the landscape which was largely fern and ti-tree. Describes how the family were Mormons. Talks about turning sixteen and going to work for the family of Dr Meinhold in Helensville. Mentions he had previously operated on her on the kitchen table. Describes how the doctor travelled by horse and gig. Recalls moving to Auckland and working at the hospital for returned soldiers in Domett Avenue and then for the Upton family of Remuera. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3325.

Date: 26 March 1995 - 23 Mar 1995

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi Parewahaika, 1906-2007; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: OHInt-0600-07

Description: Witarina Harris was born at Ohinemutu, Rotorua in 1906. Talks about whanau, mother Matareia (Ngati Whakaue rangatira), mother's father Rautoko Haupapa, father James Whelan Mitchell, grandfather Henry Walter Mitchell and father's mother Whakarato. Talks about returning to family marae with Ngati Poneke and upsetting her family by staying on the tauiwi side with Ngati Poneke instead of on her family's side. Mentions two families hospitable to young Maori in Wellington, the Ngahanas and the Irihateras. Mentions collecting kaimoana from different Wellington bays, and cooking paua. Talks about Wellington's Granny Raukara. Mentions brothers and sisters, many of whom died young from whooping cough. Talks about growing up with her grandparents. Mentions getting the cane at her convent school for speaking Maori, and then being caned again on returning home as punishment. Mentions that children were not involved in important occasions at the Ngati Whakaue marae. Interviewer(s) - Jonathon Dennis Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) only. 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3658; MSDL-0153 (file Witarina.doc). Search dates: 1920 - 1950

Date: 2001

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-673-068/089

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Comment about a biased referee during the Wellington vs Canterbury Ranfurly Shield match. Jenny Shipley threatens to deal ruthlessly with anyone in her caucus who plots against her. All Black selectors search for new talent in war zones. All Black coach looks to recruit referee Steve Walsh for the next All Black tour as he has shown he can single handedly alter the course of a game. Michael Cullen gifts Helen Clark and Jim Anderton the National Airline, Air New Zealand. Osama bin Laden speaks from the security of the Afghanistan mountain cave. Jenny Shipley steps down from National Party leadership, Bill English is nervous about what this means for him. Helen Clark's big moment - she is about to speak to the President of the United States but she's in bed, and he makes the toll call collect. Gary Toomy is paid out by taxpayer money to leave the Air New Zealand Board. The public try and understand why the Muslim world hasn't retaliated against bin Laden for causing the deaths of over 300 Pakistanis in the twin towers attack. President Bush tries to reassure the American public following the Sept. 11 attacks. Damage is assesses in Kabul following a series of wars, the last attacks being from the United States led forces. Comment on the daily and new dangers facing United States representatives. The Pentagon announces they are now dropping more food into Afghanistan than they are blowing up. Comment on the world wide fear of anthrax. Shows the Lions team, winners of the 2000 rugby tournament are in 2001 the pussycats of the competition. Rod Donald stands up to Jim Anderton on their reasons for choosing GE as their bottom-line issue when considering whether to support the coalition or not. Shows the political double-talk and deals being made over the growing refugee crisis. Shows that military force is no respecter of any religion. Shows Auckland Mayor, John Banks walking on water. Shows the hit and miss nature of American airstrikes in Afghanistan where innocent targets are frequently hit by accident. Wayne Mason's song 'Nature Enter Me' wins best NZ song at the same time NZ is divided over Genetic Engineering. Shows everyday genetic engineering in action when an unattractive but wealthy man asks a young and attractive woman to have children with him. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [ca 8 Jan 1979]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1979/0120-F

Description: Group collecting sea eggs in Wellington Harbour. Shows two Maori children. Photographs taken on circa 8 January 1979 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Other - One of these images (EP/1979/0120/14a) images illustrated an article on water pollution published in the Evening Post 8 January 1979 Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm