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Date: Nov 1988

By: Wells, Stanley Peter, 1920?-; McAlpine, Rachel Phyllis, 1940-

Reference: OHColl-0277/1

Description: Stan Wells recalls being sent by Ada Wells to a Salvation Army orphanage for boys in Temuka when he was six. Describes the few privilages, the starvation diet, no play and the work. Explains having his name changed. Recalls corporal punishments. Talks of his sister Alice known as Bim, sister Edna, also the few women who sheltered him. Talks of money provided by the Masons' Lodge for upkeep of this once grand home and its deterioration. Recalls having top marks in drawing and talks of his inability to play cricket or rugby at school later. Describes memorable days when the boys were allowed out of the orphanage. Explains about his holidays in Oamaru, meeting the Fergusons with whom he went to live, the servant - master relationship with Mr. Ferguson. Discusses similarities in the personalities of Harry Wells and Mr. Ferguson, an organist, and talks about their purchase of an organ. Discusses differenes in attitudes between Hazel Armstrong, who took an interest in him, and Mrs Ferguson. Talks about his work as a 15 year old on a farm at Wanganui, his work on a poultry farm with poor pay, and the cost of meals. Describes his jobs as a gardener. Explains that Bim's work was as a masseuse, also a compiler for Stone's Directory, and relates that she cycled to the West Coast during the Depression. Recalls his schooling, going to war in Egypt in artillery and infantry units, his treatment as a prisoner of war when he worked in coalmine and on a railway. Explains that he was sent to a nursery garden in Temuka on his return. Describes his psychiatric treatment after the war, spending time at Hanmer and names Dr. Bevan Brown, Frank Cook, Len Booth. Talks about religion. Describes visiting Ratana Pa, Wanganui and mentions successful health treatments there. Explains about his love of native bush. Recalls Frank Milner of Waitaki School. Talks of cycling, piano playing and his appreciation of music. Relates about girlfriends, his wife and children. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - Rachel McAlpine Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002857; 002858; 002859 Quantity: 3 C90 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3852. Search dates: 1920 - 1960

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1602

Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1943-2000

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: Series-2328

Description: Quantity: 41 folder(s).

Date: [1943]

Reference: MS-Papers-9360

Description: Autograph book owned by an unidentified New Zealand Guard at the Prisoner of War Camp, Featherston during World War Two. Volume contains signatures by New Zealand guards at the camp; signaturers accompanied by illustations from Japanese prisoners of war; and signatures from American soldiers based in Hawera (1943). Language - Signatures and comments by prisoners are mainly in their own language Source of title - Supplied by Library The Featerston Military Camp was established during World War One. At the request of the USA the camp was re-established as a Prisoner of War Camp for Japanese soldiers in September 1942. Approximately 800 Japanese soldiers were imprisoned there (captured during the the Battle of Guadalcanal). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss with line drawings Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Dundar Sloane, Auckland, Apr 2009 Many pages contain line drawings in pencil, ink and crayon.

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-5723

Description: These photographs are part of a collection held in Manuscripts. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995-1997

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2001-008-011

Description: Drafts of articles, `The Personal identities of the 48 Japanese dead of the Featherston incident of 25 Feb 1943'; `The Japanese who came to New Zealand in the war'; `The Japanese attitude to being a prisoner of war'; `New Zealand and the world wars' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 3 Jul 2007 - 03 Jul 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Beech, Marian, 1917-2015

Reference: OHInt-0980-01

Description: Interview with Marion Beech (nee Harvey), born in Newcastle, England, in 1917. Talks about her musical family including her father's "glorious tenor voice", and emigrating to New Zealand in 1928. Refers to leaving school young and working at Smith and Caughey. Mentions her brother Edgar starting a jazz club in Auckland. Comments that life had been carefree until war came, boys started to leave, and her brother joined up. Talks about seeing Edgar off three times, and mixed feelings about soldiers marching down Queen Street. Refers to the courage of conscientious objectors. Comments on rationing, not recalling being short of food, vegetable gardening, and passing on unused coupons. Explains they received all war news from the radio, and were lucky not to have television coverage. Talks about meeting her husband Rev Walter Beech when they were best man and chief bridemaid at a wedding. Refers to marrying and moving to the Bay of Islands where Walter, who had failed a Services medical, worked with many bereft people. Mentions Walter's extra petrol coupons. Comments on the vicarage being an open house to doctors and nurses, not being concerned about New Zealand being invaded, and making parcels to send to New Zealand forces overseas. Talks about letters from her brother and the slow postal service. Describes how her brother died when his plane crashed during take-off, just after his honeymoon, the family reaction, and his widow Josephine spending two years in New Zealand after the war. Comments on the community spirit among church members and that everyone had the understanding of being in it together. Recalls being thrilled by the end of the war, and hearing about Hiroshima. Comments that her husband knew he would be dealing with damaged men returning. Mentions moving to a parish in Papakura where Walter gave services at the army camp. Talks about 300 English Tommies coming to the camp to recover from a Japanese torture camp, and the vicarage being open to the soldiers day and night as they were starved of home life. Calls her relationship with the soldiers "one of the most rewarding and exciting experiences" of her life. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022524 - OHC-022525 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7324. Prinouts of colour photograph of Marion Beech (2007), and a (scanned?) black and white photograph of Marion Beech with her husband Walter, possibly on their wedding day (1940) Search dates: 1917 - 2007

Date: 3 Mar 1995 - 03 Mar 1995

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Kaminski, Edwin, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0444-04

Description: Edwin Kaminski born in Poland 1921. Talks about his early life in Poland. Recalls attempting to escape from Poland after the outbreak of World War II, being captured and sent to work in the coal mines in Russia from where he eventually escaped and made his way to England. Talks about the beginning of his seafaring career as a marine engineer and the shipping companies he worked for. Recalls emigrating to New Zealand with his wife and working in Haast for five months before joining P Ferons & Son Ltd, who owned fishing vessesls. Describes his work, maintaining the company's vessels which, directly or indirectly, numbered 80. Recalls a nine month period living aboard a converted naval fairmile which was anchored in Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island and was used, as an interim measure, as a floating refrigeration plant to service some of the local fleet, until a freezer could be built ashore. Talks about fishing in the Chatham Islands and describes his involvement in the setting up of a processing plant at the Chathams by Ferons Ltd during the tail end of the crayfish boom which occurred there from 1965 to 1971. Discusses crayfish processing and his experiences with the locals on the Chathams. Recalls being an engineer on a number of Chatham Island convoys which travelled between the Chathams and Lyttelton. Mentions the vessel `La Paloma' which was lost with all hands during one of the convoys. Talks about the salvage of the fishing vessel `Rosaleen' which he nursed to Lyttelton. Joined the Marine Department in the early 1970s as chief engineer of their new fisheries research ship `James Cook' and discusses the problems in preparing the vessel for her new role. Recalls later working on the department's new vessel the `Kaharoa' which was built in Whangarei during the early 1980s. Retired from MAF in the late 1980s and talks about his occasional work as chief engineer on a variety of vessels being delivered to or from New Zealand. Ends the interview with his view of the present fishing industry in New Zealand and comments on some of the policies. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 73b Tahunanui Drive, Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010221-010223 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3413.

Date: [ca 1943-1945]

By: Beale, Gilbert Marsden, 1897-1972

Reference: PAColl-9991

Description: Photographs originally inside a journal written by Gilbert Marsden Beale while working as a tailor at the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Featherston, Wairarapa, between circa 1943-1945, during World War II. Photographer unidentified, possibly Beale. Descriptions are written on the backs of the prints by Beale. Images are taken at three places just outside the camp's barbed wire fence. One is taken by No 2 gate and shows the hospital buildings in the distance. Another is taken outside the main gate. Another looks though the fence towards the mechanical workshop. No persons are visible. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Purchase, 2012 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSX-8931: Beale, Gilbert Marsden, 1897-1972: Journal of his time at the Featherston Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

Date: 1976

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1763-2

Description: Photocopy of corrected typescript of chapters 7-12, appendices and notes of Shinya's `The Path from Guadalcanal', translated by Thompson from Japanese into English. A Japanese naval officer describes his experiences in Pacific Island prison camps and at Featherston. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1866 - 1956 - 1868 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-013

Description: Six-panelled account of Te Kooti's resistance to European incursions onto his land, his capture, transportation to the Chatham Islands, his revenge killing of the families of Major Biggs and Captain Wilson and Paratene at Poverty Bay in 1868, and his ultimate pardon in 1883 These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1934-1986

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-332

Description: Photographs of the prisoner-of-war camp Featherston, 1942-1945. These include views of the buildings, New Zealand military personel, and groups of Japanese pows, some of them identified. Many of the photographs were taken by John Pascoe. The rest of the album relates to Eric Thompson's connection with ex Japanese pows from the early 1970s to 1986. These include visits to New Zealand by some of the ex prisoners of war. One of the outcomes of this interaction was the presentation of a bronze memorial plaque by Japanese veterans which was set in the Featherston military camp memorial park. The plaque commemorated, particularly those Japanese prisoners of war killed by new Zealand guards on 25 February 1943. This was followed in 1986 by an Ireisai, a ceremony for the consolation of the spirits of the dead, which was performed at Featherston by a Japanese priest, Mr Adachi. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1945-1999

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9958

Description: Includes - Visits of ex Japanese prisoners of war to New Zealand from 1974 to 1999. Two photographs of of Japanese prisoners of war embarking on an American ship for their return to Japan, 30 December 1945. One group of photographs records people gathered for an Ireisai, a memorial ceremony for the consolation of the spirits of the dead, performed at the Featherston Military Camp memorial park by a japanese priest, 15 December 1986. Eric Thompson, his wife Isobel, and other New Zealanders associated with the prisoner of war camp at Featherston, also feature in the photographs. There are also photographs taken in Japan and sent to Eric Thompson. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 77 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943-1947, 2011

By: Kirk, James, 1904-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-11361

Description: Folder comprises original military documents in German relating to Kirk, and photocopies of application materials for the War Service Gratuity. Also includes research notes on Kirk compiled by Malcolm Goggin. Source of title - Title supplied by Library. Served as a medic in the 22nd Battalion, 2nd NZEF from 1940-1945. Was captured as a prisoner of war in Crete, and returned to New Zealand in 1945. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Malcolm Goggin, Upper Hutt, Aug 2012

Date: 24 Sept 1987 - 24 Sep 1987

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

By: Webb, Norman David, 1913-2005

Reference: OHInt-0003/20

Description: Norman Webb describes family background; father, Herbert Webb as pioneer in the early electrical industry; childhood; early education; life as an electrical apprentice at W B Alexander, Wanganui; details of staff; rudimentary power system in houses; umbrella aerial installations for early radio; electrical wiring regulations; standards; accidents; development of the Wanganui domestic electricity supply; staff at W B Alexander, Stan Terry, Roy Blewitt; education at Canterbury University studying for an electrical engineering (civil) degree; lecturers, J E L (Jelly) Cole, Percy Powell, Billy Darwin. Recalls work as a cadet for Hydro Electric Branch, Public Works Department, Addington; construction of sub station; function of sub station; as assistant engineer work on transmission supply of Highbank Power Station; wiring at Burnham Camp during World War II; the domestic wiring process; electrical hazards and safety; live line testing; reference to distribution engineer, John Stevens and assistant, Jack Fazackerley; restricted occupation during war; training as pilot in Tiger Moths; service for Royal Airforce 61 Squadron in Lancasters and Wellington Bombers; attitudes to survival and wartime lifestyle; parachuting after being hit by night fighters; capture; internment at Sagan as prisoner of war; transition to civil life. Describes construction work at Methven; construction village; details of erecting poles and running power lines; relations with farmers; isolation and social problems in the construction villages; roles as engineer at head office, Wellington from 1948; in purchasing section; fifteen years in sub station design work; attitude to head office; layout of Department; period of rapid change post war; rapid growth; personality of F T M Kissell; reference Bob Semple; personality of A E Davenport; social structure at head office; details of design of sub station; heavy post war demand; relationship with district engineers; background to promotion to maintenance engineer; role as inspection engineer, 1966-1968; travel involved; reference to Johnny Lough and Jerry Meredith. Discusses role as commercial engineer; work with the supply authorities; reference to Alec Heir, E B McKenzie, Phil Blakeley; relationship between the Electrical Supply Authorities Association and the New Zealand Electricity Department; rationing of power before the Cook Strait cable; power blackouts; recalls ministers of electricity, Tom Shand, Les Gandar, Brian Talboys, Lance Adams-Schneider; future of power generation in New Zealand; work at the Electric Supply Authorities Association after retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Webb's home at 11 Corlett Road, Plimmerton, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001702 - OHC-001704 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 270. Search dates: 1913 - 1987

Date: 1916

From: Howard, B J : Chiefly photographs of Somes Island during World War I

Reference: 1/2-091247-F

Description: German prisoners af war at exercise on Somes Island Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000767-F

Description: Japanese prisoners of war returning to camp in Featherston by truck, after a days work. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Original caption reads: "Note that the prisoners on this lorry have with them a bunch of Broom. They are very fond of flowers, and treasure the flowering plants that to New Zealanders would be noxious weeds." Note on back of file print reads: "Note the bunch of broom. The prisoners are very fond of flowers, and treasure the flowering plants that to New Zealanders would be noxious weeds." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1882

By: Graphic (London, England); Sherriff, George, 1846-1930

Reference: B-033-006

Description: 10 vignettes from drawings by George Sherriff, showing the Rutland Stockade, a portrait of Major Noake, Mount Egmont with the remains of the Maori fortification at Turoturomokai, Rahotu stockade and camp, Opunake Redoubt, scene in a pa with Maori standing guard by a hut, Te Whiti and Tohu, 'the murderer Hiroki and his guard', the military camp at Pungarehu and Parihaka Published in The Graphic, London, 8 April 1882 The Graphic attributes the drawings to George Sherriff. Some are signed with an engraver's monogram, either H. J. or J. H. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 305 x 228 mm

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000770-F

Description: Japanese prisoners of war at work on the roads in the Wairarapa area. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1871 - 1936

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936

Reference: MapColl-832.1291/1871/Acc.6954

Description: Survey plan of the Auckland Albert Barracks, showing the boundaries of the barracks extending out to what later became Wellesley St, Kitchener St, Symonds St, Princes St and Alfred St. The barracks are enclosed by a stone wall (annotated note indicates part of the wall still in existence). Within the barracks is the armoury, a school, sergeant's quarters, military prison, Major Tisdall's house, the 'Dead House', large garden, the magazine, store and drill shed. Shows the Military Road, next to Government grounds, on what became Princes St. The 'Northern Club' is indicated on the corner of Waterloo Rd. Indicates building materials. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher, M.Sc. for the Lands Department, Auckland, 1936. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:2 000], 90 x 70 cm.