Places

Date: 1934-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60

Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 17, 31 Mar 1996 - 17 Mar 1996 - 31 Mar 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Nolan, Desmond Joseph, 1920-2001

Reference: OHInt-0419/01

Description: Des Nolan was born in Hokitika in 1920. Describes how his paternal grandparents arrived in Jackson's Bay from Ireland. Comments that the community was a `fiasco' and they moved to Okuru. Recalls growing up in the homestead there, his father's vegetable garden, eating wood pigeon, and his first schooling at home being taught by his cousin. Recalls fishing and playing music for entertainment. Describes high school education at St Kevin's in Oamaru. Recalls riding out to Haast on a horse and then going by bus and train to Oamaru. Mentions that prior to this he had been out of Haast once to Hokitika on the `Gael' (boat) to go to the dentist. Notes that the `Gael' came up the Okuru River about every two months. Mentions that mail was by pack horse every fortnight and the priest and minister came every few months. Comments on trips made over the Paringa Saddle when people were sick and had to leave the area. Mentions that Mrs Nolan and Mrs McPherson helped with births. Comments on the difficulty for women moving in to the area. Describes changes with the air service which meant that conditions such as appendicitis were no longer so dangerous. Mentions Dr Jean McLean. Describes meeting and marrying Eileen in Hokitika and their honeymoon in Christchurch. Mentions movies once a week at Haast and occasional dances. Describes cattle farming as their main livelihood. Discusses the cattle being driven along the Paringa Track to market. Describes mustering. Mentions cattle were originally driven to Whataroa and later to Cromwell. Mentions the butter and cheese factory, cheesemaking and their 160 cows. Describes the difficulty of weather conditions and drownings in the area. Mentions the local roadmen and swaggers during the Depression. Describes the need to be a jack of all trades. Mentions the steam engine which ran the sawmill. Discusses local settlers including the Cron family, Donald and Jimmy McPherson and the Harris family on the Turnbull River, the Nisson family, and Mrs Cowan at the Okuru store and post office. Recalls Arawata Bill. Describes the beginning of the whitebait industry and his father's purchase of canning machinery in Australia. Recalls catching 130 kerosene tins of whitebait one day in 1944. Discusses the `whitebait wars', learning to fly and flying whitebait out for a number of years. Mentions his Tiger Moth and Miles Messenger aeroplanes. Describes stopping flying in 1970 after the road went through. Mentions that his wife Eileen nursed in Hokitika, ran a whitebait buying business and a motel in Okuru after the road went through. Comments on the benefits of the road. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2905.

Date: 1911-1969, 1976-1981

By: Hoskins, Barbara, active 1941-2015

Reference: MS-Group-2222

Description: Collection comprises papers originating from Barbara Hoskins's maternal (Nimmo) and paternal (Anton) families, and from her own career and personal life. Mainly comprises papers and ephemera belonging to her father Sidney James Anton and mother Sybil Edith Anton (nee Nimmo); notably 1920s dance cards, World War One soldier's diary and wallet, All Black, Springbok and British Isles tour itinerary cards. Includes material relating to her aunt Kathleen Frances Viard Nimmo, her uncle William Henry (Bill) Nimmo, her grandmother Edith Agnes Nimmo (nee Fitzgerald). Also includes Barbara Hoskins's work books and diaries for Owhiro Bay School and Island Bay School in late 1970s to early 1980s, and ephemera items related to the religious and social etiquette for her birthdays, engagement and marriage events circa early 1950s. Accompanying material - See Manuscripts backfile for Field Librarian notes and preliminary listing. Also contains copy of genealogical newsletter for Philps descendants, and four print-outs made in 2015 of Google Map webpages which show the geographic locations and route taken by Sidney Anton during his service in World War One. Source of title - Supplied by Library See published work "Analysing a sardine box : Sid Anton's war diary, photos, notes, and ephemera / Colin Feslier for Barbara Hoskins" 2014. Barbara Hoskins lived in Island Bay, Wellington, taught at Island Bay School between 1970 and 1981, and was involved in the local St Francis de Sales church. She is a member of the Wellington Southern Bays Historical Society and has written articles on the social history of Island Bay and the 1918 influenza epidemic. Her maternal family the Nimmo family lived at Standen Street, Karori from 1907, and is related to the Philps family who emigrated in 1841. Her mother Sybil Edith worked as a telegraphist as did her aunt Kathleen Frances Viard Nimmo. Her father Sidney James Anton served in New Zealand Field Artillery on the Western Front during World War One. He travelled on the transport ship HMNZT No.4. "Tahiti" via Freetown, Sierra Leone where soldiers contracted the 1918 influenza virus. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 5 volume(s). 1.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed material, ephemera Provenance: Family papers and photographs were handed on to Mrs Hoskins after deaths of family members - her aunt Kathleen Frances Viard Nimmo, and her parents Sybil Edith and Sidney James Anton. Some material was originally stored and donated to the Library in a sardine box. Transfers: Material of the same provenance was accessioned by the Library Photographic Archive, and Drawing, Prints, & Paintings curatorial sections. See PA-Group-00867. - To Photographic Archive - Five photograph albums, one glass plate negative (broken) & large collection of original photographic prints - To Drawings & Prints Collection - drawing book belonging to Ursula Nimmo (see E-957-q)..

Date: [1970-1979]

By: Neill, Joyce Ellen, 1906-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-9990

Description: Comprises typescript articles on Isabella McAndrew Jamieson, feminist, educationist and organiser, `A Pioneer of mind and spirit'; `Our village', life at the hydro-electric power project at Horahora as told by Thelma and William Goodson; `Hokianga holidays' and `Here they come, tales of Cheltenham Beach, Auckland', both told by Florence Fulton; `Christmas comes round again'; `The Bride came on horseback'; and clippings on G L Adkin (Levin Chronicle, 1979) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with corrections Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]

By: National Council of Women of New Zealand Incorporated

Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1948-01

Description: Programme for an Otago Centennial celebration by Otago women. Speakers and performers included Miss Winifred McNaughton, Miss Meda Paine's Choir, Mrs John Harris, Mrs O Campbell, Mrs Leicester Webb. The back page contains an invitation to attend a session of speakers Mrs Leicester Webb, Mrs John Harris and Miss Winifred McNaughton on the Home, the Working Front and the Arts, at the Town Hall Concert Chamber on 9 June 1948. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on folded pamphlet, 228 x 145 mm.

Date: 1961-1998

From: Greenaway, Richard Lawrence Norman, 1948- : Papers relating to historical research

Reference: MS-Papers-6336

Description: Comprises copy of letter from Denis Glover to Greenaway with reminiscences of Ethel Hawker (1978); selection from article in `The Press' following Hawker's retirement from the Christchurch Classical Association (1950); brief extract with Miss Steven of the Classics Dept, University of Canterbury, re Hawker; report on Hawker's bequest (The Press, 8 Aug 1961); and copy of donor's letter re collecting of this material. Quantity: 1 folder(s).