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Interview with Mary McLaren
Date: 14 Oct 1994
From: New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
By: McLaren, Mary, 1921-
Reference: OHInt-0330-18
Description: Mary McLaren was born in Masterton in 1921. Outlines education and early work career with New Zealand Aerial Mapping, time spent abroad in Canada, San Francisco and London, and joining the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind National Braile and Talking Book Library in Auckland 1966. Mentions position as typist for Cyril White, the library manager. Recalls dual role as assistant secretary for the Dominion Association of the Blind from 1968. Discusses staff changes in library management and the retirement of Wally Christiansen. Talks about David Sherry, the Queen Street march 1978, Focus magazine, the Electoral Act, the Foundation Board of Trustees, national conferences, the Charter for the Blind Act, the International Federation of the Blind and Gladys White. Discusses in detail Cyril White and Bill Bryan. Outlines duties in library and as Dominion Association secretary. Mentions Don McKenzie, the first blind chairman of the Foundation Board of Trustees, Frank Wright and Terry Small. Recounts retirement from Dominion Association of the Blind and new volunteer activities. Interviewer(s) - Greg Newbold Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009799 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3275.
Photographs of Wellington buildings
Date: Feb - Apr 2008
From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs
Reference: PADL-000277
Description: Photographs of Wellington, Featherston, Carterton, Greytown, Tinui, Masterton, Castlepoint buildings, 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Buildings Feb to April 2008" Quantity: 53 digital photograph(s).