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Interview with Polly Teki
Date: 15 April 2000
From: Riverboat stories from the Whanganui River oral history project
By: Teki, Polly, 1908-2002
Reference: OHInt-0490-09
Description: Polly Teki talks about her birth in 1908, attending Turakina Maori Girls' College in 1924 and being taken from school to live in Ranana by her father, who died in 1932 from pneumonic influenza. Speaks of her large family, doing a man's job and hard farm work. Mentions the riverboat Whakapai, its bar and items sold on board, the passengers. Refers to land being 'dry' - alcohol free. Talks of deckhands, Temo Ponga, Captains Anderson and Robinson, the riverboat accidents when Bob Gray and Captain Anderson died. Describes Pipiriki House, its dinners, concerts and why it burnt down. Mentions Ranana Post Office, the telephone exchange and mail transported by riverboat. Mentions the catholic nuns' work. Topics discussed include the opening of the road and the cessation of the boat service with some unemployment as a result. Refers to Pipiriki and Gurneys Store, the Waimarie restoration, the voyages up the length of the river and timtables. Recalls bus drivers. Talks of Maori spoken in Ranana and her use of the language. Mentions Mrs. Jack Reweti, the Governor-General, James K. Baxter's Jerusalem commune and Julie Felix's visit. Mentions the transportation of cream and milk by river in 1930's, talks of 27 farmers in the area. Describes milking by hand and later machine with a diesel engine not electricity in 1932. Describes Sir Apirana Ngata's development scheme. Refers to church attendance, social life, dances and concerts with the nuns. Recalls Mr. Marumaru's advice to her about the house and farm. Interviewer(s) - David Charteris Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008401 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1. 1.30 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2617.
Maori at Jerusalem
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0072-F
Description: Maori at Jerusalem in 1961. Shows a girl with a guitar; a mother breastfeeding; a group sitting outside the post office; groups of children. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Gravestone and horseriding at Parikino Pa, also Jerusalem Post Office
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0071-F
Description: Gravestone of Haimona Hiriti Te Aoterangi, and Maori group horseriding, at Parakino Pa area. Also 2 photographs of a Maori group outside the Jerusalem Post Office. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1961. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Maori at Jerusalem
Date: 1961
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0077-F
Description: Maori at Jerusalem in 1961. 2 images of girls playing guitars; 4 of groups outside the post office; 4 of children playing on a car; 2 close-up images of a young girl. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Interviews for Jessie Munro's biography of Suzanne Aubert
Date: 01 Aug 1992 - 05 Aug 2003 - 01 Aug 1992 - 05 Aug 2003
By: Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion; Munro, Jessie, active 1990-2008; Wrack, Bernadette Mary (Sister), active 1992
Reference: OHColl-1186
Description: Comprises interviews that formed part of the research for Jessie Munro's biography of Suzanne Aubert (later Mary Joseph Aubert) entitled 'The Story of Suzanne Aubert', published 1996. Interviewees who lived in Ranana or farther north in Hiruharama (Jerusalem) on the Wanganui River, the site of Suzanne Aubert's mission, recall relatives talking frequently about Aubert. They add Maori often referred to her as Meri. A few remember seeing Aubert herself but most recall the nuns, who remained after Aubert left. Topics discussed include Aubert's fluency in Maori, her competence in natural healing, doctoring by horseback, the mission's nursing and teaching work, particularly among Maori, the Maori Mass, and the farm's gardens and fruit trees. Sisters mentioned include Sr Bridget, Sr Claver, Sr Damian, Sr Isidore, Sr Mark, Sr Melchior, Sr Veronica. Fathers Soulas and Caulfield are also mentioned. Nuns who worked in Jerusalem recall the hard work required under Aubert's firm but motivational leadership. They describe her physical appearance and strong French accent, as well as her humour and rapport with local and visiting priests. Other interviewees talk about her inspirational social work in Wellington, first visiting the invalid poor around Te Aro before setting up a soup kitchen and day nursery in Buckle St. Aubert and her sisters were a familiar sight in the area. They also discuss Aubert's establishment, in 1900, of St Joseph's Home for Incurables, also in Buckle St, which provided care for the old, terminally ill and disabled. Interviewees discuss the opening in April 1907 of Our Lady's Home of Compassion at Island Bay, Wellington, where Aubert remained, apart from a visit to Rome, 1913 to 1919. Former medical registrars at the Home of Compassion recall the quality of the nursing and the ongoing care of severely disabled children. The institution also took convalescing children, foundlings and some school-age children from Jerusalem. Former residents, then children, recall Aubert as a small and elderly woman who could sometimes be strict. A number of interviewees mention Mother Aubert's large funeral at St Mary of the Angels in downtown Wellington in 1926. Interviewees are: Reverend John Aiken, Sophie Albert, Sarah Ashby, Harry Ashworth, Hazel Beazley, Patricia Charlton, Dr C.T. Collins and Sister Anne, Sister Dorothea Meade, Ivan Emia, Sister Eustace Congalen, Jessie Munrol, Dr Elsie Gibbons, Ron Hough, Sister Veronica O'Brien, Lacie Pauro, Pestall Pauro, Patrick Parsons, Sister Philippine, Solange Poulet, Bessie Poumoa, Billy Robinson, Reverend Rozier, Erina Scanlon, Ngati Tawhiril, Peter and Stacia Moutairil, James Walker, Thomas and Nohi Wanihi. Interviewer(s) - Jessie Munro, Sister Bernadette Wrack, Dominique Santini Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019187B - OHC-019224 Abstracts: OHA-6673 - OHA-6701 Quantity: 38 audiocassette(s). 26 interview(s). 6 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available for some interviews. Processing information: Individual interviews not yet described