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Date: Sep 1996 to Jul 1997

By: Gough, Elaine, active 1997; Morgan, Janis, active 1997

Reference: OHColl-0446

Description: Talks to people who have lived and worked in the area, near Alexandra, for a long period of time. Orcharding families associated with the area include the Iversens, Taylors and Dawsons. Comments on changes in stone fruit growing and orcharding. Interviewees are Mon McGinnis, Howard Hinton, Dick McArthur, John Campbell, Anne Duncan, Gary Iversen, Eric Hawkins, Mary Ormandy, Gill McLaren, Margaret Matheson, John Taylor, Earnscy Weaver, Pat Ferris and Stan Hanning Interviewer(s) - Elaine Gough Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 14 transcript(s). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: Oct 1983

By: Chalmers, Jocelyn Margaret, 1951-; Smith, Ann Gladys, 1905-1996

Reference: OHColl-0695/1

Description: Ann Gladys Smith was born in West Otago in 1905. Describes her childhood, family and moving from Glenkenich to Tapanui when she was five. Recalls schooling and attending Sunday School. Describes being housekeeper at the age of twelve, returning to high school, becoming a student teacher at the Glenkenich School and then going to Dunedin to work at the Nisbet Home for children in Andersons Bay. Talks about her decision to become a deaconess and training before going to St Andrew's Church in Hastings in 1932. Comments on the effect of the 1931 Napier earthquake on local people. Recalls her time at Auckland at St David's Church during World War II. Discusses the Emergency Precautions Services (EPS) for civilians in the event of a Japanese attack. Describes going to Inglenook Home for children in Gore in 1948 and then to Knox Church in Dunedin. Discusses her work as a deaconess particularly at Knox Church in Dunedin. Publication - Entry in 'Southern people : a dictionary of Otago Southland biography' Interviewer(s) - Jocelyn Chalmers Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come.

Date: 21 and 27 Aug; 8 Oct 1986; 24 Mar 1988 - 21 Aug 1986 - 24 Mar 1988

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Gillies, Ellensleigh Denny Gordon (Dr), 1902-1989

Reference: OHInt-0019/04

Description: Dr Denny Gillies talks about her family background, her childhood, her reason for choosing medicine as a career, university education, Otago Medical School, Dr Fitchett, holidays and social life, tuberculosis, hydatids, time as house surgeon at Palmerston North, Napier Earthquake, reasons for going to England and not into private practice, post graduate study at Cambridge University studying radiology, return to New Zealand as radiologist at Palmerston North Hospital and then move into private practice in Wellington, type of work, attitudes of patients. Accompanying material - Attached to printed abstract are a number of copies of newspaper articles about Dr Denny Gillies, unsourced; a copy of article entitled 'The Rita Gillies Gardner Memorial Fund' from NZ Medical Journal, vol 62 no 372, August 1963, pp. 383-384 Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Venue - 12 Newman Court, 16 Tinakori Road, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001782 - OHC-001785 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 279.

Date: 15 Sep 1988

From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III

By: Wise, Henry Robert, 1899-1991

Reference: OHInt-0003/31

Description: Bob Wise describes family background; childhood; practical work at railway workshops during electrical engineering course; overcoming childhood stammer; struggle completing engineering degree at Canterbury; mentions 5-6 months at School of Mines; early interest in electricity and hydraulics; joining Asburton Electric Power Board as assistant engineer; basic training from Peter Kemp; meetings informing public of electric reticulation; meeting Christina Isabel Taylor in 1929 and marriage; background to getting position of engineer at Waitaki Electric Power Board, 1926-1933; reference Ken Spooner, Ike Dalmer, Norman Davidson; effect of influenza epidemic, 1918; differences between urban and rural reticulation; salary; recruiting people from Ashburton Electric Power Board; reference Paul Frebury. Discusses training linesmen; reference Clarrie Sullivan, Jack Merrick, Charlie Butcher; erecting poles; wiring poles; dispute with Robert Milligan, Chairman Waitaki Power Board; reasons for leaving and working for G T Gillies Limited, in Oamaru as engineer and later consulting engineer; backgrounds Gillies' personality and work; role as Deputy Chief Inspector of Munitions in army during World War II; the filling (munitions) factory at the Ford plant; reference Alan McClelland, first lieutenant; story relating to the high rejection rate of 11,000 volt insulators by National Electric in Temuka. Recalls work as consultant for rural water schemes for the Waitaki County Council, late 1950s; community scheme for improving irrigation at Oamaru; work as consultant engineer at the West Coast Power Schemes, 1955-1974; scheme for Harihari to produce own power; similar scheme for Whataroa; reference to Amethyst Power Co; worked with New Zealand Electricity Department to organise power for Haast; relationship with G T Gillies and consultancy work; work of the Rural Electricity Reticulation Council; put case to government for National Grid to be extended from Hokitika to Harihari; formation of Amethyst Electric Power Board. Describes work as member then chairman of the Waitaki Electric Power Board; moving from an operational role to a policy role; role of power board; politics involved; relationship between board and government; power cuts after World War II; advantages of having an engineering background on board; the fascination of electricity; alternating current versus direct current; future of electric power generation in New Zealand; nuclear power; reference to Duffill, Watt and King of Dunedin; enjoyment of work. Accompanying material - Copy of entry from 'Who's who' - 1979 (?), p 291 Venue - Oamaru Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Wise's home at 8a Lune Street, Oamaru Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 292. Search dates: 1988

Date: 01 Aug 2011-02 Aug 2011 - 23 Sept 2011-24 Sept 2011 - 01 Aug 2011 - 23 Sep 2011

From: Wanaka Station oral history project

By: Blennerhassett, Jill Stewart, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-1011-01

Description: Interview with Jill Stewart Blennerhassett, born at Prospect House, Dunedin in 1933, younger of two daughters of Stewart Dalrymple MacPherson and Gulielma (Billy) MacPherson, nee Sargood. Backgrounds paternal grandparents Jeannie Sinclair MacPherson, nee Trotter, and John MacPherson, Surveyor and manager of Totara Estate, and their children Bill, Sheila and Eva. Talks about maternal family background in Melbourne, Australia, and her great grandfather Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, Mayor of Prahran 1856-1858, and her great great grandfather Frederick James Sargood, Chairman Prahran Municipal Council 1856-1858. Talks about her close knit family childhood in Dunedin with older half brother Rolfe Sargood Mills at their home Piccadilly, Maori Hill, and at Marinoto, home of maternal grandparents philanthropists Sir Percy Sargood and Lady Lucy Sargood, nee Ormond, who bought Wanaka Station in 1912. Talks about growing up as a boy, gardening, horse riding, shooting. Refers to parties, fetes and dances held at Piccadilly, Marinoto and Wanaka Station. Talks about Ukrainian immigrant workers at home and on Wanaka Station farm, and the family relationships with the nanny and house staff. Talks about her mother's first marriage to Lesley Pilkington Mills, her strong character, artistic abilities, being a socialite and a crack shot. Discusses her father's service in World War One, her own relationship with him, cleaning tools together and visiting the Dunedin Club and Dunedin factories with him as director of Sargood Son and Ewen business. Refers to her parents' service in World War Two in the Home Guard and Women's Army Auxiliary Corp, her brother Rolfe Mills being in the Navy, and hosting their British cousins and nanny at home during wartime. Discusses school holidays at Kartitane crib. Details her holidays on Wanaka Station in mid 1940s to 1950s, doing farmwork and attending local dances, Upper Clutha A&P shows, and going water-skiing. Talks about the Station homesteads which burnt down in 1913 and 1931, and living in the renovated stables. Talks about contact with relatives the MacKillops and MacPhersons. Refers to Sir Percy Sargood and uncle Bill MacPherson, who became farm manager in 1946, generating their own power supply and establishing farm and flood irrigation systems near Ripponvale, Cromwell Flats and Kawarau River. Mentions Wanaka Station shifting from running mainly cattle to sheep. Says her parents and Bill MacPherson managed the farm well together. Details life on the farm, food preservation, accidents, haymaking, horse riding, the farm managers and farm workers, the rabbit problems, shearing, the fruit orchards, crop growing. Mentions that James K Baxter worked on the farm. Talks about small town life of Wanaka in 1940s to 1950s. Says after her father died in 1965, her mother took responsibility for the farm, selling land blocks to the Gordons family. Talks about attending St Hilda's Collegiate, Dunedin and Nga Tawa Diocesan boarding school, being keen on sports and later studying physical education at University of Otago. Refers to socialising at university and meeting her husband Doctor John Blennerhassett whom she married in 1956. Discusses raising a family of four, including twins, in Wellington. Talks about John Blennerhassett winning a BNZ Bank scholarship to train and study medicine in United States where they had two more children. Discusses making networks and raising her family in Boston and in Montreal, Canada during the forment of the 1960s. Talks about a 9000 mile camping trip with her children in North America before they returned to Dunedin, so John Blennerhassett could take up his appointment as Head of Pathology at Otago University School of Medicine. Discusses formation of Wanaka Station Trust in 1970s to look after the farm and development of Rippon Lea subdivision. Refers to splitting the Station land with Rolfe Mills after Bill MacPherson died in 1970s, donating land to the community in 1977, and site of original homestead to be Wanaka Station Park in 1997, and giving farmland to be the lakefront and golf course. Refers to development of Rippon Vineyard by Rolfe Mills. Mentions subdividing her farmland between her children. Talks about retiring in 2003 to Barn Pinch Farm, part of the Station, and her interest in photography, 70th birthday present of a tractor, and her involvement with tennis and rowing clubs. Refers to putting land into QEII Trust as Blennerhassett Kanuka Reserve. Refers to land inheritance going down female line, mentioning maternal great great grandmother Emma Rippon who married Frederick James Sargood, and her paternal great aunt suffragette Learmonth White Dalrymple. Talks about her ten years chairing the Sargood Bequest, growth of its charitable work, wise investments and sponsoring Te Kakano Aotearoa Trust, and her continuing interest in the management of Wanaka Station Park. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Three printouts of website biographies of Sir Percy Sargood and John MacPherson, scanned photographs with captions, scanned letter by John MacPherson from 1918 about Stewart MacPherson and Bill (Willy) MacPherson's service in World War One, and newspapers clippings on Wanaka Station and Barn Pinch Farm. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001810 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract and forms). 2 digital photograph(s). 27 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (incl. scanned letter). 6 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 13.23 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft Word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7626, OHDL-001808. Printed scans of black and white photographs of family, friends and the second Wanaka Station homestead, scan of homestead floor plan, scans of colour photographs of the Station woolshed and Jill Blennerhassett at Barn Pinch Farm. Search dates: 1933 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 3 October 2011 - 03 Oct 2011

From: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Engineering New Zealand oral history project

By: Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; Butcher, Barry John, 1930-2020

Reference: OHInt-0965-08

Description: Interview with Barry Butcher, conducted 3 October 2011. Interview discusses family history, education, and his professional career as an engineer, including his experiences at a Ministry of Works camp at Lake Hawea. Also discusses Roxburgh hydro project, Benmore dam, Rarotonga airport in the Cook Islands, and other work projects. Abstracted by - Megan Hutching Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 interview(s). 3 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.42 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1900 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 14 Jul 1995

From: Oral history interviews for the Archive of New Zealand Music

By: Platt, Peter (Sir), 1924-2000; Halton, Rosalind, active 1995-2006

Reference: OHInt-0134-11

Description: Interview with Sir Peter Platt, born in Sheffield, England, in 1924. Talks about his family background, and his parents meeting when they were medical students. Refers to his father being awarded a Baronetcy for services as president of the Royal College of Physicians, and his reasons for not using the title in academic life. Discusses his father's political views, and his own view of the importance of research. Describes his musical awakening at the age of 13. Mentions studying at the Royal College of Music, London, and his service on torpedo boats in the English Channel during World War II that interrupted his studies. Talks about deciding to become an academic, studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the character of his Oxford education. Refers to teaching at Sydney University before his appointment as Professor of Music at the University of Otago. Comments on the impact his predecessor Victor Galway had in establishing music as an intellectual and rigorous discipline within the university. Explains how he came to teach medieval music, its strength and its role in the origins of Western music. Refers to his first sabbatical leave from Otago, performances attended in Germany and England, and musicology visits in the United States. Comments on how his interest in musical exploration had developed at the University of Sydney, and discusses the interdependence of musical disciplines and the arts in general. Outline how his teaching of harmony and counterpoint was modeled on the 16th century practice of counterpoint. Discusses restructuring the harmony course at Otago in 1970 in conjunction with Jack Spiers, opening the way to ethnomusicology as well as pop music and composition. Mentions the introduction of performance into the university course in the 1960s. Reflects on his lecturing style, his ideas on linking all branches of music, and the importance to him of the process of renewal. Talks about the character of Dunedin as a music centre, and the disadvantage to the city of the establishment of the National Orchestra just before he arrived. Comments on the establishment of the Dunedin Civic Orchestra ca.1960, and on his work as musical director of the Dunedin Opera Company. Recalls conducting classical and contemporary music, and playing the oboe in performances. Refers to his busy schedule of rehearsals and performances with various choral, opera and instrumental groups in Dunedin. Talks about visits by notable musicians to Dunedin including Julius Katachen and Istvan Nadas. Discusses his work as the first chairman of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. Abstracted by - Rosalind Halton Interviewer(s) - Rosalind Halton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-020284 - OHC-020286 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7115. Search dates: 1924 - 1995

Date: 19 Oct 1998

From: Shear History Trust life in the sheds oral history project

By: McSkimming, Murray, 1931-2017; Keats, Ian Laurie, active 1948-2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-17

Description: Interview with Murray McSkimming, born in Ranfurly in 1931. Talks about growing up on a farm at Blackstone Hill in Central Otago where they survived by selling rabbit skins. Discusses shearing after World War II, initially with blade shears, shearers he worked with, and off-season work. Refers to compulsory military training in 1950 and then returning to shearing. Mentions an influx of Australian shearers and the contract system. Comments on the changes in sheep farming once rabbit control and aerial topdressing were introduced. Talks about problems with drugs in shearing gangs from the mid 1970s. Refers to shearing in Australia. Discusses shearing competitions in New Zealand and Australia including the Golden Shears, which set the standard for quality of work. Refers to Godfrey Bowen touring to demonstrate his technique. Talks about living conditions for shearers including accommodation, food, the long hours, and the strain on relationships. Refers to retiring in 1984, and talks about notable shearers including Snow Quinn, Ian Rutherford, Ken Pike, David Fagan and Alan Donaldson. Mentions the McSkimming Trophy named after his father Frederick. Reflects on recent changes in sheep farming and shearing. Interviewer(s) - Laurie Keats Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012554 - OHC-012555 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 1.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4330, OHDL-000724. Search dates: 1931 - 1998

Date: 4 Jun 2003 - 04 Jun 2003

From: Shear History Trust life in the sheds oral history project

By: Paterson, Bruce John, 1926-; Cundy, Judy, active 2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-21

Description: Interview with Bruce Patterson, born in 1926 at Armidale homestead in Central Otago. Refers to his family background, growing up on a farm where merinos were run, and the hard years and bleak winters during World War II. Mentions being on a train that crashed at Hyde in 1943. Refers to taking over the family farm in 1952, always having more than one breed of sheep, and buying high country land for his children to farm. Comments on mustering on horseback and on foot in steep terrain. Discusses the year's programme on high country stations, rabbit control, and the characteristics of merinos. Talks about beginning shearing with blade shears and machines at age 17 and the equipment used. Comments on shearing full time for seven years, and reflects on changes in shearing over the years. Mentions Godfrey Bowen beginning the first shearing school in 1960, and organising shearing schools in Central Otago. Refers to beginning judging in competitions in 1962, and judging around the South Island, at the Golden Shears and in South Africa. Interviewer(s) - Judy Cundy Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012565 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4334, OHDL-000728. Search dates: 1926 - 2003

Date: 24, 26, 30 November 1992; 2, 5, 19, 26 April 1993; 24, 31 May 1993 - 24 Nov 1992 - 31 May 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Cunninghame, Rose, active 1992; Richmond, Irene Dorsett, 1909-1996

Reference: OHInt-0148/23

Description: Mrs Irene Richmond was brought up and went to school in North East Valley, Dunedin. First jobs as hat check girl, usherette, and with dressmaker; later as waitress in restaurants, hotels and boarding houses in Dunedin and Wellington. In Dunedin with husband living on dole during Depression, experienced health system when her new-born baby died. Then lived in poverty at Earnscleugh orchard where had a gold claim. The marriage failed, after which supported herself by waitressing in Napier, Auckland and South Island centres. In later life lived in Dunedin, nursing ailing parents and made second marriage. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Rose Cunninghame Venue - Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018508-018519; OHLC-00947-009958 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 transcript(s) partial. 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6419 and OHDL-000757. Photograph of Irene as a young woman; Irene in 1993.

Date: 6, 8 October 1992 - 06 Oct 1992 - 08 Oct 1992

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Grant, Rose Frances, 1905-2004; Reid, Becky, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0148/13

Description: Rose speaks of her isolated rural upbringing near the small community of Glenorchy at the head of Lake Wakatipu. She has spent her whole life in this area and still lives in the family home that her parents moved to when she was about 10 years old. her working life has focused on farming. Unpaid jobs involved mainly rabbiting, milking and feeding the stock. She recalls the history of tourism, mining and timber milling in the Glenorchy area. Speaks of farming today and of raising 140 sheep and 20 cattle not to mention her main friends - 20 cats. Single handedly she keeps the family property running and thrives on life, simply living off the land, with a grand respect for nature. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Glenorchy Interviewer(s) - Becky Reid Venue - Glenorchy Accompanying material - Photographs of house at Turners Creek, Kinloch (father on white horse and mill in background); house at Glenorchy; Rose at races ca 1990/1; Rose and brother Bill ca 1917. Newspaper article "Meet Rosy; Battler from Glenorchy" Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018547-018549; OHLC-00986-009988 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6425 and OHDL-000747.

Date: 16, 27 January 1993; 4, 9, 16 February 1993 - 16 Jan 1993 - 16 Feb 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Marsh, Cath, active 1993; Paskell, Henrietta, 1898-1997

Reference: OHInt-0148/21

Description: Henrietta Paskell, born in Gore 1898, is the youngest child of Frederick and Mary Henke. She attended primary school at Waipahi and Arthurton schools leaving to work as a domestic and cow-milker for a number of people. At about age 16 Hettie began work as a waitress at the Commercial Hotel and then later worked in the Club Hotel. After her marriage to Fleming Paskell, they went to work as married couple in Waikaka Valley. They moved to Manuka Creek and then to Milton where Hettie bought and ran a store for a number of years. She remained living in Milton until she moved to Holmdene where she resides now. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Balclutha Interviewer(s) - Cath Marsh Venue - Balclutha Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018562-018566; OHLC-010001-010005 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6429 and OHDL-000755.

Date: 23, 26, 29 March 1993; 3 April 1993 - 23 Mar 1993 - 03 Apr 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Randle, Daphne, active 1993; Haydock, Irene Myrtle, 1898-1994

Reference: OHInt-0148/15

Description: Irene Myrtle Haydock, nee Fraser, born in Christchurch and lived in Christchurch, Dunedin, Alexandra, Rakaia and Wellington. She was the eldest of 9 children but lost track of her brothers and sisters because she was raised by her aunt, Jean Patrick and cousin Dr Clifford Patrick. She was one of the first girls taken on by the Post Office to train as a Telegraphist. She worked in Post Offices in Rakaia, Government House (Wellington) and Sydenham. She married in 1925 to Philip Haydock and had one daughter. She took boarders into her home and later ran a boarding house, Haeremai, in Alexandra. Irene's great interests were Bridge and Croquet Club. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Daphne Randle Venue - Alexandra Accompanying material - Marriage certificate of Irene Myrtle Fraser to Philip Cecil Haycock in 1925; Acceptance letter of resignation from Post Office in 1925; Birth certificate of Irene Myrtle Fraser in 1898; Trinity College of Music certificate for pianoforte playing in 1922. Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-018543-018546; OHLC-009982-009985 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6424 and OHDL-00749. Photograph of Mrs Haydock at Ranui Home in 1993

Date: 1, 8, 17 June 1993 - 01 Jun 1993 - 17 Jun 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Randle, Daphne, active 1993; Jamie, Marie Joyce, 1916-2009

Reference: OHInt-0148/17

Description: Joyce Jamie was the eldest of six children of John and Nora Holden. She spent her childhood and attended primary school in Central Otago and then moved to Lumsden to live with an aunt so she could attend Gore High School. When she left school she wanted to study Home Science but due to lack of finance was unable to. Joyce trained as a hairdresser in Dunedin and then moved to Alexandra. There she met her future husband John Jamie. She continued working until her first child was born in 1940. The family then moved to Christchurch for a short period because of her husband's Air Force work during the war. After the war Joyce and her family moved to Alexandra where she and her husband opened a jewellery business which they ran together. After her husband's death in 1962 Joyce continued working in the business. Apart from the business her interests included the church and gardening. Now retired Joyce continues to live in Alexandra. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Daphne Randle Venue - Alexandra Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018572-018574; OHLC-010011-010013 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6431 and OHDL-000751. Photograph of Joyce Jamie as a young woman

Date: 25 April 1994; 3, 9, 25 May 1994 - 25 Apr 1994 - 25 May 1994

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clouston, Denise, active 1994; Sinnamon, Gladys Margaret, 1913-2013

Reference: OHInt-0148/26

Description: Gladys Sinnamon (nee Mee) was born and grew up in the close knit rural community of Becks, Central Otago. Her parents were publicans - they owned the Becks Hotel - and farmers. All the family assisted with running the hotel. After one year at secondary school in Dunedin, Gladys returned home. Although she wanted to train as a nurse she was needed at home to assist with running the hotel which she did until she married local farmer William Sinnamon in 1936. Once married Gladys shifted with her husband to Poolburn where they farmed for many years and raised two children. Music had been one of Gladys' great interests - she played the piano for many years in a band and the church organ which she still plays on occasion. She also had a long association with the Women's Division and is a Life Member. Though they have retired from farming Gladys and her husband continue to live in the house they moved to when married. Gladys contines to be involved in the local community and has in recent years taken up bowls. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Oturehua Interviewer(s) - Denise Clouston Venue - Oturehua Accompanying material - Newspaper article "Historical society hard at work on old Becks Hotel". Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018595-018598; OHLC-010034-010037 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6437 and OHDL-00759. Photographs of Gladys aged nine with sisters; Gladys and son playing for a dance; Gladys in 1993.

Date: 18, 25 November 1993; 2, 9 December 1993 - 18 Nov 1993 - 09 Dec 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clarke, Rosalie, active 1993; Masters, Mabel Winona, 1912-2005

Reference: OHInt-0148/19

Description: Mabel, known by all as Noni, was born in Timaru in 1912. Her father, Andrew Davidson, was a clerk in the Post Office and her mother, was a dressmaker and a busy housewife. Noni, the eldest daughter, had two brothers and a sister. During her childhood years she was a great help to her mother as they often had a large number of student boarders in their home. From an early age Noni became very interested in singing and this, along with her participation in the Central Methodist Church, became a large part of her life. She worked as a florist, while participating in the competitions and choral work whenever she could. In 1935 Noni married William Hall Masters, a Chartered Accountant, and with their two children continued to live in Dunedin. Despite her busy married life she never lost contact with her church or with singing. While her husband pursued his professional career and served overseas Noni began to join various clubs and discovered her love of committee work and people. She became involved in, and is still involved with, several organisations such as the Royal Overseas Club, the Dunedin Music Society, the Board of Management of the Central Mission and the Otago Women's Club. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Rosalie Clarke Venue - Dunedin Accompanying material - Photographs of Noni as a child; Noni aged 21 years; at Convention; Noni cutting cake at her 81st birthday. Newspaper articles "My View. On the art of getting along..." "Otago Women's Club". Chapter extract from "Women in their time; 75 years of the Otago Women's Club, 1914-1989" compiled by Brenda J. Harding. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018578-018581; OHLC-010017-010020 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 8 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6433 and OHDL-000753.

Date: 29 March 1993; 21 April 1993; 6, 10, 18, 24 May 1993 - 29 Mar 1993 - 24 May 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clarke, Rosalie, active 1993; Munro, Enid Sarah, 1903-1994

Reference: OHInt-0148/20

Description: Enid, the daughter of a lawyer and one time Mayor of Masterton was educated, along with her two sisters, at local schools. After obtaining a bursary to study dentistry she began her university education in Wellington. From there she moved to the University of Otago, Dunedin, where she graduated in 1926 with a Bachelor degree in Dental Surgery. Dedicated to her chosen career she continued to practise for the next 42 years, firstly in Wellington Hospital, then in a home-based surgery with patients from a local children's home and finally in her own city-based premises. During this time Enid married and raised four children. In 1968 she retired to Central Otago and her only son took over the Dental Surgery. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Rosalie Clarke Venue - Dunedin Accompanying material - Newspaper article "Early days of dentistry recalled" Otago Daily Times, 26 Sep 1992 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018556-018561; OHLC-009995-010000 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6428 and OHDL-000754. Photographs of Enid Pragnell at graduation; Enid the only women in a medical conference; wedding of Enid and Henry Munro in 1929; Mrs Munro in 1977.

Date: 17, 28 August 1994; 3 September 1994; 1, 22, 29 October 1994; 27 January 1995 - 17 Aug 1994 - 27 Jan 1995

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Annan, Enid Laura, 1903-1996; Jones, Adele, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0148/07

Description: Enid Laura Annan (nicknamed Nean) was born in Clyde and was the eldest daughter of a family of eight; four brothers and three sisters. She spent her early working life on the family orchard three miles up the Cromwell Gorge from Clyde. Later she trained for a year as a nurse, having to return home to care for her sick mother. She worked as a Karitane nurse in New Zealand, Australia and England. For many years Nean did voluntary work - as a Girl Guide leader, on the Clyde Centennial Committee, Dunstan Hospital Board and as curator of Clyde Museum. Nean had an intense desire to change the attitude of her day that girls should stay at home and look after the family. Her love fo the Dunstan area and its history involved her in promoting the area in every possible way. Her work for the community earned her the Queen's Service Medal in 1980. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Adele Jones Venue - Alexandra Accompanying material - Photographs of Enid in her late teens; outside Clyde Museum Cottage ca 1994; inside Clyde Museum ca 1994. Newspaper article "Township owes much to guardian of its history", Otago Daily Times, 20 Aug 1990 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004961-004962; OHLC-010038-010044 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 5.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6438 and OHDL-000741.

Date: 31 August 1995 - 31 Aug 1995

From: Netball New Zealand Inc oral history project Stage II

By: Maclean, Juanita Ina, 1921-2004

Reference: OHInt-0517/9

Description: Juanita Ina (Nita) MacLean (nee Haugh) born Owaka, Catlins, Otago 1921. Gives family background - paternal grandfather, Cameron Haugh came to New Zealand on the ship `Philip Lang' (Philip Laing), 1868. Father, George Norman Haugh, farmed at Heriot. Recalls: Township of Heriot and Heriot Primary School with 50-60 students; boarding at High School Gore (1934-1935); Depression; employment in solicitor's office, L J & O Arthur; discovery of glow worm caves at Te Anau and refers to Mr Campbell who was responsible. Recalls importance of basketball in life, playing for Heriot until knee injury necessitated a change to umpiring and coaching. Recalls decision to get umpire's badge, with reference to Sarah Foster. Discusses World War II and mentions Patriotic Committee and coupons. Other topics covered include: changes to rules of netball, with reference to Dawn Jones and Cheryl Dawson on Rules Committee; selecting; move to Tauranga and involvement in Netball Bay of Plenty; delegate system; fundraising; umpiring at tournaments; criteria for conferral of service award; sponsoships with reference to Anchor and Trustbank. Discusses name change in 1971 from Basketball to Netball. Gives views on men's netball. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Matthew Packer Interviewer(s) - Marie Burgess Accompanying material - Copy of list of Mrs MacLean's achievements and Netball committments and one extra copy of printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006658-006661; OHLC-002431-002434 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.07 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1928. Photocopies of 2 photogaphs attached to abstract: (i) Robin and Nita MacLean 1994 and (ii) Nita MacLean (nee Haugh) 1943.

Date: 24 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Roughan, Wayman Patrick, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0569/10

Description: Wayman Roughan was born in Lawrence in 1951. Traces his family's history in Lawrence back to 1861. Describes his father moving to their farm in 1945. Recalls schooling at Lawrence District High School. Notes the community was bigger in the 1950s as most farms had married couples. Describes the growth in tourism and the number of cribs (baches) in the town. Discusses the size and nature of the family farm in terms of economic downturn. Describes going to Telford Farm Training School after high school. Describes the involvement of both he and his father in St Johns Ambulance. Lists services in Lawrence. Describes returning to work on the family farm after Telford. Mentions rabbit problems. Recalls his father's death and taking over the farm at the age of twenty one. Describes marrying Merle Roberts and talks about their three children and a decision to send them to boarding school. Discusses changes in farm economics and farm practices. Discusses his work on the Clutha District Council and changes since amalgamation the of local bodies. Mentions the time commitment with local body politics. Describes the background history of the Tuapeka dam and the four schemes originally proposed in 1987. Recalls the announcement of the preferred option and anger at the public meeting at Beaumont. Comments that the Tuapeka Mouth meeting was totally different. Discusses the Joint Local Authority Liaison Group and advice based on experience with ECNZ during the building of the Clyde dam. Describes the attitude of locals to his membership of the joint committee. Explains reasons for the public support of the Community Board for the Tuapeka option. Refers to some personal abuse. Explains the main local concerns and his own reservations. Refers to a split between Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the sale of land to ECNZ and ECNZ's poor public relations. Comments on media coverage of the issue. Describes meetings with ECNZ on behalf of the District Council and Residents of Beaumont. Mentions Keith Turner, John Rutherford, Sally Marx and Dianne Buchan. Discusses the acquisition of land by ECNZ and refers to the future of Beaumont if the dam does not proceed. Comments on the native bush on Birch Island. Refers to the Tuapeka Mouth punt and its anniversary celebrations. Mentions lack of involvement by the District Council. Lists Community Board members and explains the split over the Tuapeka option. Mentions his role as Community Board chairman and refers to a role on the Planning Tribunal. Comments on the effect of Council on his life. Interviewer(s) - Jerome Cvitanovich Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2633. Photograph of Wayman Roughan