Places

Date: April 1988

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive

Reference: OHColl-0236

Description: Interviews a member from each of four generations of two families from the Wanganui region - the Stoneman family and the Mete Kingi family. Focuses on parent-child relationships, marriages, attitudes to alcohol and drugs and other social behaviour in the Stoneman family. Members of the Stoneman family interviewed are Cristal Stoneman, Sharon Stoneman, Ian Stoneman and Olive Olsen. Members of the Mete Kingi family talk about Maori culture, traditional life, loss of language and the relearning of it in the current generation, land disputes, attitudes to sex and Maori-Pakeha relations. Those interviewed are Aneka Erueti, Karen Erueti, Rangipo Mete Kingi and Wikitoria Mete Kingi. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 4 Mar 1995-13 Jun 1996 - 04 Mar 1995 - 13 Jun 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Cowan, Dianne Lee, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0438-01

Description: Dianne Cowan was born in Wellington in 1958. Recalls the family's move to Marton. Describes leaving school at the age of fifteen, short-term office jobs, falling in love and getting engaged. Talks about her parent's background including time spent by her father, Brian Furness, as a child in institutional care. Mentions family history research being done. Describes the childhood of her mother, Anita Hill, and how her mother left school to help in the family milkbar. Describes how her mother met her father while he was married, her birth and their marriage. Recalls the day of the `Wahine' storm in detail. Describes her son's autism and work to help his development. Discusses `Tomorrow's schools' and its effect on communities. Comments on issues between the towns of Napier and Hastings including location of the hospital. Talks about parochialism and attitudes in the area to feminism and gender issues. Discusses class and racism. Talks about the economic situation and being a one income family. Mentions the Employment Contracts Act (ECA). Discusses politics in Hawkes Bay. Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2132. Search dates: 1958 - 1996

Date: 31 Jan 1999

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Potae, George William, 1936-; Williams, Des, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0509/12

Description: Interview begins with greeting in Maori. George Potae refers to New Zealand Broadcasting tapes with his grandfather in 1947. George Potae was born in Kennedy Bay in 1936. Notes his father shore in the area and on Great Mercury Island. Recalls education at St Stephen's College and Coromandel High School before joining his brother Mac Potae shearing in the Wairarapa. Discusses working on stations on the Wairarapa coast including Huiaurau, Whakapirau and Te Awaite. Mentions people he shore with and recalls brothers Eric, Mac, Bill and Colin also shearing. Describes developing a shearing contract in Milton from 1960. Compares the northern and southern shearing season. Mentions dairying in the north between seasons. Discusses operating twenty five gangs in the Milton area. Mentions having Snow Quinn on the staff and the old shearers' quarters he established, `The Ranch'. Recalls entering the Golden Shears in 1961, making the finals in 1965, 1966, 1967 and winning in 1969. Discusses other shearers in the 1969 final including Danny Holland, Kerry Johnstone, Tony O'Reilly, Brian Waterson and Eddy Reidy. Discusses strategies of competition shearing and Maori versus Pakeha competition. Describes winning a trip to England to the Bath and West Show, returning to New Zealand and being a finalist in three more Golden Shears. Mentions Bill Meech, Samson Te Whata and `beating the (Snow) Quinn'. Comments on being responsible for changing the face of shearing in the south. Talks about setting up the New Zealand Woolhandler of the Year competition in Balclutha. Discusses the Balclutha Show and the Young Farmers Club (YFC) movement. Recalls buying Maori land in Coromandel in 1970, developing a kiwi fruit orchard and a mussel farm. Discusses the impact of 1984 government change on this business and returning to the Coromandel from Milton. Discusses the mussel industry and employing local people. Mentions the number of young people he employed in Milton. Recalls the 1997 reunion of previous Golden Shears champions. Interviewer(s) - Des Williams Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2522. Photo of George Potae, Golden Shears champion 1969

Date: 2 Apr 1998 - 28 Jan 2001 - 02 Apr 1998

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Donaldson, Alan George, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0509/18

Description: Alan Donaldson was born in Taumaranui in 1958. Discusses his family's history in the area and the family farm at Kaitieke. Talks about his education, decision to go shearing, shearing class at Benneydale and a Massey course. Discusses shearing gear, clothing, shed routines, shearing gang jobs such as `sheepo' and `rousie', atmosphere in the sheds, wages and shearing in Central Otago. Mentions Murray McSkimming. Talks about differences between crossbred and merino shearing. Explains his 1980 season's tally of over 70,000 sheep. Discusses shearing in Australia, England and Norway and being in competitions in England and Scotland. Talks about records and competitions in New Zealand and controversy over a particular record which was wiped. Discusses the development of his own contract run including hiring staff, hierarchies, accommodation, food, the contract, ACC, wage rates, the trade union, workplace hazards, shearers employed and relationships between farmers, contractors and shearers. Discusses evening entertainment, `getting along', race relations, group tolerance, substance abuse and sexual behaviour. Mentions bad conditions encountered and the Employment Contracts Act. Discusses the Australian Union, the wide comb debate of the early 1980s and the test match at Euroa. Mentions team members. Discusses New Zealand shearers in Australia. Talks about wool handling, wool classing and competition shearing. Discusses the development of his own shearing technique. Mentions Roger Cox and the Te Whara (Te Whata) family. Discusses the financial viability of shearing and his own goals. Mentions the Tarrant family. Talks about the impact of shearing on his family and their move to a farm near Kikikau. Mentions wife Cathy Donaldson and children Samuel, Thomas and Jessica. Describes farm management, employees, opinions on the future of the wool and shearing industries and influences on his own life. Interviewer(s) - Nikki Dalziell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2514. Photographs of Alan Donaldson, 1983 Golden Shears champion

Date: 3 Jul 1998 - 03 Jul 1998

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Fagan, John Feltrim, 1950-; Vallance, Nikki, 1968?-

Reference: OHInt-0509/06

Description: John Fagan was born in Te Kuiti in 1950. Describes the family farm in Mairoa, west of Te Kuiti. Gives details of the history of the Fagan family. Describes primary and secondary schooling at Piopio. Discusses being in a shearing gang and beginning shearing at the age of sixteen. Discusses the length of the shearing day. Describes the occupations of his brothers Robin, Ken and Geoff. Recalls entering his first show at Kaikohe. Describes buying and developing his first block of land. Talks about meeting and marrying Cheryl Ann Carruthers in 1972 and the birth of their children. Mentions fencing and winning the Golden Pliers competition four times. Describes attending the Golden Shears in 1976 and competing every year since. Mentions Roger Cox, Samson Te Whata, Martin Ngataki, Ivan Rosandich and Adrian Cox. Discusses lamb shearing record attempts with Samson Te Whata and the physical preparation and mental aptitude required to attempt records and enter competitions. Recalls the 1984 Golden Shears final which he won and the World Championships in Britain in 1984. Discusses shearing in Australia and the New Zealand team to Perth. Comments on Australian attitiudes to New Zealanders. Recalls working with brother David Fagan and Ricky Pivac. Describes changes in methods, personnel and focus of the competition in his twenty one years of competitive involvement with the Golden Shears. Discusses the shearing achievement of his sons and other family members. Discusses ewe shearing records and the controversy surrounding the 1995 record. Mentions the credibility of judges. Describes preparation of gear and diet. Discusses the contracting and financial viability of shearing. Comments on the acceptance by the Hillary Commission of shearing as a sport. Discusses the identity of a shearing gang, food, shed protocol, shearers' quarters, toilet facilites and leisure time. Mentions alcohol and marijuana. Comments on racial tolerance. Mentions health and safety issues and the seasonal nature of the work. Comments on the future of the wool industry and shearing shows. Mentions other awards received including the Australian award the Golden Handpiece. Describes Te Kuiti as the shearing capital of the world and compares it with Masterton . Interviewer(s) - Nikki Dalziell Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2516. Photographs of John Fagan, Golden shears champion 1984, shearing

Date: 1981 - 01 Jan 1981

By: Wineera, Ria Moheko, 1899-1995; Baylis, Margaret E, l926-

Reference: OHColl-0573-01

Description: Leah Wineera was interviewed by Margaret Baylis on behalf of Margaret's brother Murray Patterson who was researching material for a book about his his great-grandparents and settlers of Lakeside, Sedgemere and Taumutu Districts near Lake Ellesmere. Margaret Baylis talks about the research and asks Leah Wineera about her memories of people and places of the Districts. Publication - Interview by sister of Murray Patterson, as preparation for his book 'In sight of the lake & sound of the sea : a narrative of the life and times of my great grandparents, James and Agnes McIlaith, David and Ann Marshall, John and Margaret Patterson, and the other pioneer settlers of the lakeside Sedgemere Taumutu Districts, to whom the present generation owe so much.' Christchurch, M. Patterson, 1998. Interviewer(s) - Margaret Baylis Accompanying material - 2 photos, one marriage notice in the Ellersmere Guardian. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s) - accompanying materials. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-2696 (folder). 2 photos: One of Margaret Baylis and Leah Wineera, taken at 19a South Belt, Lincoln, 8152 on the 18 June 1981. One of Auntie Leah Wineera of Porirua beside Auntie Magie (?) nee Taiaroa of Wanganui, at the opening of the dining room at Rehua Marae, Christchurch.

Date: 8 Oct 1998 - 08 Oct 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Mathieson, Alexander Raymond, 1922-1999

Reference: OHInt-0425/6

Description: Ray Mathieson was born in Utiku in 1922. Mentions his family's Danish ancestry on his father' side. Describes how both his father and grandfather were forestry workers. Talks about his education at Ohingaiti, Tokoroa, Tauhei and Taihape. Recalls games played at school. Describes living in the bush and moving to Taihape with his family in 1929 when his father became a farm manager for Mr Gibbs. Describes working in the mill, on the farm and in the Army before becoming a tractor driver in the bush. Describes the mills around Owhango and working as a blacksmith at the mill with his father. Recalls felling trees before chainsaws were used and pulling logs to the skids. Describes a pulley system, a timber jack, a steam hauler and other old logging equipment. Mentions the A and G Price timber jack factory in Thames. Recalls accidents in the bush. Explains how logs were brought down from Bull Ridge. Discusses his farm he bought in 1950. Disusses his feelings towards logging the forest. Mentions uncovering a kiwi nest. Compares logging native and exotic forest. Describes what bushmen did during time off. Mentions movies, cards and drinking. Mentions the law against selling liquor to Maori. Comments on Maori Pakeha relationships in the bush. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2960. Colour photo of Ray Mathieson

Date: 1987-1991-1992-1994-1995 - 21 Sep 1987 - 09 Nov 1991

By: Templeton, Malcolm James Campbell, 1924-2017; Palmer, Geoffrey Winston Russell (Rt Hon Sir), 1942-; Marshall, Cedric Russell (Hon), 1936-; Marshall, John Ross (Rt Hon Sir), 1912-1988; Laidlaw, Christopher Robert, 1943-

Reference: OHColl-0629

Description: Interviews by Malcolm Templeton for his book on human rights and sporting contacts with South Africa. Interviews with Geoffrey Palmer, Russell Marshall, Phipps (Royalist), talks with the FFA, Sir John Marshall, Chris Laidlaw and McLean. Publication - Human rights and sporting contacts New Zealand attitudes to race relations in South Africa, 1921-94 / Malcolm Templeton. Auckland [N.Z.] : Auckland University Press, 1998 Interviewer(s) - Malcolm Templeton Quantity: 5 tape(s) microcassettes. 5 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 2 Mar 2002 - 02 Mar 2003

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Te Aomarere, Kiripuai Ngahiraka Te Otiana, 1916-2007; Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0673-08

Description: Georgina Kiripuai Te Aomarere was born in Katihiku, Otaki in 1916. Mentions two years of schooling at Saint Josephs Maori Girls College in Taradale, which ended because of the Great Depression. Recalls they were poor, living off seafood and vegetable gardens. Mentions Mr Pike allowing them into the picture theatre without paying. Talks about her first job working for Miss Grant as a housekeeper, and amount paid. Describes working for Mrs Ossian Death for five years. Refers to a trip to Napier for a camping holiday with the Death family, and the food she prepared. Mentions getting drivers licence, and working at the Otaki Sanatorium. Describes her four years of war work in the Petone cigarette factory, WD & HO Wills, working in the steamery and processing tobacco. Notes that she was called up for the army twice but her employer argued to keep her. Mentions returning to Otaki when she became hapu (pregnant). Describes working for the Amos Softgoods Ltd factory, preparing teas, lunches and baking. Refers to taking her baby to work after her mother died. Describes the factory manager Mr Hager, an alcohol-free Christmas party, benefits for longstanding workers, baking for special occasions, birthday presents, a Scottish factory worker, Maori employment in the factory, working in a factory for 33 years, smoking and work, and the impact of a zip replacing boiling water in pots. Talks about being the only Maori in Otaki who gave blood, explains why others didn't. Mentions having to retire from the factory at age 65, and working in a volunteer capacity for her iwi. Mentions her Uncle Karaha, a tohunga, and her father, Whiti Te Aomarere. Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11052/3 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3863. Photo of Kiripuai at Te Wananga-o-Raukawa graduation 2001 beside Margaret Davis. Search dates: 1930 - 1990

Date: 17 Mar 2000 - 17 Mar 2002

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Davis, Margaret Rangimakaora, 1934-; Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0673-10

Description: Margaret Rangimakaora Davis was born on the Ngatokowaru Marae, Hokio, Levin, in 1934. Mentions her six brothers, attending Horowhenua College, moving to Otaki in 1948, life on the Marae, the Jacob family, and the value placed on education. Notes that te reo Maori was not taught. Recalls her mother, Alma Winiata, delivering babies on the Marae. Mentions her father, Tamihana Winiata, was secretary of the Otaki Maori Racing Club. Mentions co-workers at the Pop Inn Dairy. Describes working in the office at Edhouses Drapery Store from 1949-1986. Recalls her mother minded her children while she worked. Mentions Mr Edhouse lending money to Maori pensioners. Talks about changes in shops in Main Street, and several shop owners. Describes courting Whatakaraka Davis, attending dances, motion pictures, basketball and rugby together. Recalls their formal engagement and marriage in 1948. Talks about borrowing money from the bank, recalls learning to drive a car. Talks about being in a marching team, touring, uniforms, and painting her legs uniform white for competitions. Mentions playing netball. Recalls that Lucy Jacob was a key organiser on the Ngatokowaru Marae, and church service on the Marae, led by Paora (Paul) Temuera. Talks about confirmation at All Saints Church, her husband's being christened so he could marry, and the midnight service. Talks about the impact of Te Wananga o Raukawa on the community. Refers to the revival of the Maori language. Describes changes to the town and in transport. Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11062 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3870. Photo of Whakakaraka and Margaret at the Otaki Maori Racing Club (no date). Photocopy of photo of Margaret at her 21st birthday Search dates: 1934 - 1990

Date: 9-28 Dec 1996 - 09 Dec 1996 - 28 Dec 1996

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part two

By: Pihema, Ani Masefield, 1924-2002

Reference: OHInt-0633/1

Description: Ani Pihema was born near Helensville in 1924. Describes how her mother, Meri Ngaroto, had foster parents and her father, Murray Pihema, was brought up by his mother's family. Mentions his father, Louis Arnoldson, worked on the gumfields. Describes how her own father was gassed during World War I and died of tuberculosis at a young age. Gives early memories of Haranui, their small farm, the old pa and her great grandmother Harata Takare. Talks about their whare, gardens and gardening techniques. Mentions her mother Meri Ngaroto (Molly Williams) went to school at Helensville. Talks about camping holidays on Pahekeheke Island, Sunday School picnics at Shelly Beach, the small Parkhurst School and local spring water. Discusses Maori Pakeha relationships. Mentions Harold Mather. Describes how her mother milked a herd of cows. Discusses the meeting house which had been brought over from Taporoporopo, dismantled, the carvings buried and found again after World War I. Discusses tikanga Maori. Discusses kinship with Maori across the Kaipara Harbour at Kakanui, Araparera and Puatahi. Discusses tangi. Talks about the tangi of Arthur Povey and the Povey, Hill and Richards families. Discusses a gift of land. Mentions Rev Marsden. Describes her writing of Ngati Whatua history in 1965. Talks about the Orakei meeting house and her grandmother whose second husband owned part of the Otakanini Block. Describes how Orakei was originally Tainui land. Mentions Kiwi Tamaki, Te Tao, Haranui, Tuperiri, the Makirikiri Pa and Waiohua (iwi). Discusses the family interrelationship of Reweti, Haranui and Orakei. Mentions the Orakei Block has been returned to Te Tao. Discusses the settlement of land claims in the early 1900s by the Maori Land Court. Mentions an 1869 land claim and the case of Te Kawau against Waiohua. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3320.

Date: 19 Apr 1982-3 Feb 1983 - 19 Apr 1982 - 03 Feb 1983

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Cooper, Whina (Dame), 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0514/1

Description: This interview took place over a number of months to provide material for Michael King to write the biography of Whina Cooper at her request. Discusses her family background, her father Heremia Te Wake, a Native Land Court assessor and her mother, Kare Pauro Kawatihi. Notes that she was the first child of her father's second marriage. Discusses her father and his attitude to Pakeha,land and mana. Mentions his friend Sir James Carroll and Sir Maui Pomare. Recalls childhood and schooling at Whakarapa Native School and St Joseph's Maori Girls' College in Napier. Describes working in the local store, becoming a teacher trainee at the Pawarenga Native School and then housekeeper at the Catholic presbytery. Recalls considering becoming a nun but changing her mind over a nun's treatment of a child. Talks about her role in fighting for the preservation of the Whakarapa mudflats, being drained by a Pakeha farmer, at the age of eighteen. Describes her interest in land surveyor Richard Gilbert, marriage to him in 1917, living at her parents' home and the birth of a daughter. Describes both parents' deaths and the need for her young family to move. Recalls living on family land at Te Karaka, the birth of another child and assistance from a priest to buy Heremia Te Wake's home and farm and the local store. Describes paying off the loan and building a new shop, post office, community centre and health clinic while husband Richard Gilbert ran the farm and later bought a second farm. Mentions becoming president of a Panguru branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and her role in land development in the Hokianga. Comments on Sir Apirana Ngata and legislation enabling Maori to borrow money to clear, drain, grass and fence land. Mentions the establishment of a programme dividing the Hokianga into development schemes and her supervision of the Panguru and Waihou schemes. Talks about the role of senior land consolidation officer William Cooper and the growth of her relationship with him. Talks about the death of husband Richard Gilbert and her intention to marry William Cooper on his divorce. Comments on reaction to this, moving to Kamo with William Cooper and having four more children. Recalls her fund-raising efforts during the war. Describes the return to Panguru of Whina and Bill Cooper after their marriage. Mentions the attempt to organise the building of a meeting house in Panguru. Talks about the death of husband Bill Cooper and going to Auckland. Discusses the beginning of the Maori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) in 1951, her election as President and travelling the country to establish branches. Discusses the work of the League and her role in it. Talks about the establishment of an Auckland urban marae, Te Unga Waka, in 1966. Talks about her health and attitude to medicines. Discusses her involvement in leading the Maori Land March in 1975 and the organisation Te Ropu o te Matakite. Talks about Kupe's discovery of Hokianga harbour. Discusses Father Becker, Archbishop Liston and other Catholic clergy. Talks about custom, carvings and fishing. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 30 Jun 1996

From: CORSO 50th anniversary oral history project

By: Stocker, Dulcie, 1921-1999

Reference: OHInt-0504/22

Description: Dulcie Stocker (nee Watson) born Christchurch 1921. Describes parents, father's work as a cabinet maker, the depression and decline of cabinet making. Recalls doing commercial course at Digby's College, maternity training at Essex Maternity Home and practical training at Waikari and Rangiora. Undertook brief district nursing course and was sent to Kaitaia and describes life as a district nurse and being informed about protocol. Refers to lack of training in cultural practices. Compares differences between Maori/Pakeha relations in Kaitaia and Tologa Bay where she later did district nursing. Recalls being shocked when war was declared and talks about emotion of people coming back from War [World War II]. Refers to American soldiers. Recalls sailing for Britain ca 1949 and describes nursing experience in London, including brief period looking after father of Kathleen Ferrier. Recalls meeting future husband, grandson of Archdeacon Stocker from Invercargill. Details feelings about pacifism and alcohol. Refers to adoption of two children. Discusses support for CORSO and being involved in clothing drive and Vietnam and Springbok protests. Mentions visit of Bishop Tutu; GATT ; Taitua project; Rogernomics; growth of multinationals and involvement with Amnesty International. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Cecily McNeill Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011246-011248 ; OHC-005528-005530 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3927. 5 coloured photographs: 3 of [Dulcie Stocker, 1996?] and one of Dulcie and Peter Stocker with grandchildren, Aug '65 and one Jan '86.

Date: 23 Feb 1989

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Reid, Colin Andrew, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0185/14

Description: Colin Reid was born in Dunedin in 1925. Describes how his mother died when he was six and his father died when he was thirteen. Talks about growing up in St Kilda and education at St Clair Primary and Kings High School. Describes many responsibilities at home and little time for sport, reading or music. Recalls a series of housekeepers and the care of his stepmother and other relatives after his father died. Recalls James K Baxter at high school and his unwillingness to be involved with school cadets. Talks about religion. Describes becoming a cadet with Lands and Survey in 1943. Discusses acceptance by the RNZAF during World War II and being a navigator on planes in the Pacific in the Flying Boat Squadron number 5. Describes working at Lands and Deeds after the war, joining the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works and working in Palmerston North. Recalls the Director of the Housing Division, Reg Hammond. Discusses the responsibilities and functions of the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works. Talks about planning work for subdivisions and setting up the infrastructure of sewage and water for Porirua. Discusses sorting out legal issues for the sale of state houses and the effects of the Town and Country Planning Act on the Housing Division. Comments on the group housing scheme and hardening of public attitudes to state housing, partly as a result of social problems in some areas. Argues that state housing brought in good design and the requirement to use New Zealand materials. Recalls the work of the architect Plischke and chief planner Ian Dudding. Describes higher density housing as a reaction to urban sprawl. Comments on subdivisions in Palmerston North, New Plymouth and Napier. Describes `pepper potting' as the placement of state housing within a suburb. Mentions the Race Relations Act. Explains the housing allocation process which resulted in ethnic groupings within blocks of flats. Describes mass earthworks as the result of the advent of new machinery. Notes that state housing was a political issue and mentions Don Borrie and Rev Charles Waldegrave. Describes the positions he held culminating in Assistant Director General of the Housing Corporation. Comments on the formation of the Housing Corporation from the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works and State Advances Corporation in 1974. Describes being a member of the National Housing Commission from 1975 to 1984. Discusses the first Director-General of the Housing Corporation, Ted Babe and his successor Hec King. Comments on Hec King's death. Talks about Minister of Housing Bill Fraser. Discusses the change in political climate and the diminished working relationships between politicians and senior civil servants by the time of his retirement in 1984. Venue - Wellington : 1989 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - At Colin Reid's home at Crofton Downs, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002250; OHC-002251; OHC-002252; OHC-002253 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 416.

Date: 31 Aug 1989

From: Massey University History Department. Students' Oral History Projects.

By: Campbell, Joseph, active 1989; Keelan, Ngawini P, active 1989

Reference: OHInt-0151/01

Description: Joseph Campell talks about whanau and hapu ties and discusses background sources of knowledge in relation to early New Zealand history and Treaty of Waitangi. Presents views on importance of his spiritual faith and lack of faith in man-made documents. Briefly discusses whenua, difficulties in communicating with kaumatua and the loss of Te Reo, also issue of identity. Describes the meaning the Treaty has for him in relation to his spiritual beliefs. Presents the view of the Paipera Tapu as a basis in constitution structure and organization. Discusses difficulties faced by having limited facility of Te Reo, also lack of background knowledge about the Treaty. Gives views on New Zealand coat of arms and what it means to him in relation to justice and equity. Talks about marae justice system and taha wairua gives views on race-relations, the present justice system and the inequities within the system. Talks about problem of access in relation to ancestral hunting and fishing grounds, with reference to local marae trespass issue. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Ruatoria Interviewer(s) - Ngawini P Keelan Venue - Private residence, Ruatoria, East Coast Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002143 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0348.

Date: 28 August 1989 - 29 Aug 1989

From: Massey University History Department. Students' Oral History Projects.

By: Brown, Raharuhi, active 1989; Keelan, Ngawini P, active 1989

Reference: OHInt-0151/03

Description: Raharuhi Brown talks about his involvement with his marae and community organisations. Discusses the meaning of the Treaty, inconsistencies between the texts, the importance of retention of the Maori language and the Maori Language Act. Talks about Maori fishing rights, Ngati-Porou land rights, raupatu and land taken unfairly, land tenure and land use in the traditional and contemporary context. Defines the concept of tino rangatiratanga in relation to land tenure and relates aspects of health to this concept. Discusses concept of turangawaewae and problems of living within the system. Discusses the education system, Maori language in schools, need for Treaty to be taught in schools to improve race relations, importance of kohanga reo, and problems maintaining local kohanga, bilingual education at secondary school level and local limitations to its success. Mentions the role and responsibilities of crown agents and gives his views on the part Maori play in decision making. Raises issue of Maori leadership in relation to illiteracy, with reference to finding leadership models. Gives example of Apirana Ngata. Talks about concept of Maoritanga in relation to urbanisation and legislation. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Ruatoria Interviewer(s) - Ngawini P Keelan Venue - Whakapaurangi Road, Ruatoria, East Coast Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002144 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0349.

Date: 6 Dec 1988 - 06 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Dowdney, Trevor Heath, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0159/09

Description: Trevor Dowdney was born in Rotorua in 1932. Gives details of his family background and the family's interest in the outdoors, particularly hunting and fishing. Describes attending Whakarewarewa Native School and recalls good race relations. Recalls going to Rotorua Boys High and mentions some teachers. Talks about joining the Forest Service as a junior labourer and being in the timber cruising party from 1950-1955. Describes its work measuring and recording all the millable (mostly native) trees. Recalls being on a job for up to four months and staying at the sawmill or at a bush camp. Comments on islolated conditions and talks about the staff. Recalls magnificent totara and rimu in Western Bay, Taupo. Notes the Forest Service awareness of Maori land. Describes going on a working holiday to England from 1956-1959. Talks about his wife who came out from England with him. Describes becoming a leading hand with the Forest Service in Rotorua from 1959 to 1965. Describes the attributes of a good bushman and the steps in tree felling. Talks about becoming an office worker setting silviculture and planting targets. Recalls the office's organisation and staff. Describes going to a Head Office job in Wellington as Organisation and Method Officer. Comments on the job, city life and the relationship between Head Office and the conservancies. Talks about working overseas from 1972-1973 and returning to a clerical job in Rotorua. Describes working as the operator of the Whakarewarewa and Kaingaroa weighbridges. Comments on bureaucracy. Talks about the effects of corporatisation and how it was achieved. Describes working on contract with his son since corporatisation. Compares being a free enterprise operator with being a public servant. Venue - Rotorua : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Dowdney's home at Rotorua Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001905; OHC-001906; OHC-001907 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 300. Search dates: 1932 - 1988

Date: 16 March 1989 - 16 Mar 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Harsant, Florence Marie, 1891-1994

Reference: OHInt-0058/06

Description: Florence Marie Harsant talks about her childhood as the daughter of a school teacher who taught at native schools, her own education and relationship with Maori, learning to speak Maori, her father's attitude to learning Maori and her reading tastes. Notes difference in dialects around the North Island and refers to her autobiography `They called me Te Maari' and the radio programme produced by Alwyn Owen. Discusses her work with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) as the Maori organiser in the North Island, her personal hatred of alcohol and having to give up this work because of ill health. Describes going to live in Hahei, the horseback and ferry rides necessary to get there, conditions of life in such a remote place, her marriage to Horace Henry Harsant and her life bringing up her children in Hahei. Recalls her history of library membership, writing to the women's pages of various farm magazines, taking a correspondence course in journalism and her subsequent story writing. Describes why and how she came to set up a Country Library Service `B' library in 1952 in her home at Hahei. Gives details of the library systems used, subscriptions, supply of cataloguing cards, selection process, increase in number of books supplied and the changing nature of users and reading tastes over the years. Describes the routine when the book van was there, talks about the first Field Librarian Joe O'Neill and about having the drivers to stay. Discusses the great importance of reading and having access to books when living in such a remote place and the impact the library has had on the community. Explains the continued difficulties of travel in the area, detailing the ferry service and recalling trips out to have children. Details how she looked after other people's children and teaching school in her own home. Describes her husband's accident and its impact on the family. Discusses her favourite book van drivers Joe O'Neill and Jim Sutherland and making friends through the library. Describes the current library service she runs from her home through the National Library Postal Book Service. Talks about the publicity she has received from writing her book and being awarded the Queens Service Medal (QSM). Venue - Whitianga Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Harsant's home at Whitianga Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains list of publication Relationship complexity - Diary and materials held in Manuscripts & Archives at MS-Group-0246 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002055, OHC-002056, OHC-002057 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2714, 2715, 2716, 2717, 2718 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0310. Printed abstract contains two portrait photographs of Florence Harsant, one dated ca 1913. Search dates: 1891 - 1989

Date: 17 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Sisley, Albert William, 1915-2007; Sisley, Sonja, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0106-05

Description: Bert Sisley was born at Mahia on 3 August 1915. He describes going to Te Teko School and always being treated as Maori though Pakeha. Talks about working on a farm at Manawahe before being in the 25th Battalion during World War II. Describes being a bushman and working for Tasman Pulp and Paper on his return. Sonja Sisley was born at Te Teko on 14 May 1925, one of eighteen children. She describes her family's home, attending Te Teko Native School and meeting Bert Sisley after the war. Talks about their family of twelve children, living on bush food including venison and wild pork and using Maori medicine. Describes the township of Te Teko before the earthquake. Talks about what they were doing at the time of the earthquake, furniture flying, getting outside, worrying about their family and the fear that the Matahina dam would burst. Comments that Maori and Pakeha became closer after the earthquake. Talks about the use of the Hahuru Pa as a shelter and the help of the Red Cross and the Army. Describes assistance given with food, clothing, crockery and money. Comments that many Maori did not have their homes insured. Venue - Te Teko, Bay of Plenty : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Manson, Hugo Venue - At Mr and Mrs Sisley's home at Te Teko Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002892 - OHC-002894 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 556. Photograph of Bert and Sonja Sisley in February 1990 Search dates: 1990

Date: 18 Nov 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Andrews, Jean Matekitewhawhai, 1915-1994

Reference: OHInt-0060/20

Description: Jean Andrews was born in Otaki on 23 October 1914. Gives details of her family, particularly her mother, her Te Ati Awa background and childhood in Otaki. Describes use of Maori medicine and family values. Talks about shift to Paekakariki on to land that is now Queen Elizabeth Park. Describes mother's negotiations with the Government over this land and being told that if they did not sell the land it would be taken under proclamation. Talks about the Maori Battalion being based in Palmerston North during World War II and the American Marines stationed around Paekakariki. Notes that at one point there were 26,000 Marines in the area. Describes at length their family's close and ongoing association with these soldiers many of whom were welcomed in to the family home. Describes entertainment of the troops by Ngati Poneke. Relates how her mother did washing for American soldiers and family members cleaned the Liberty trains. Comments on relationships, including sexual relationships, between local women and soldiers, lack of contraception and her ongoing role in helping children find their American fathers. Recalls the collision of transport ships in a storm off Mana Island which resulted in 103 soldiers being drowned. Talks about the kindness of most of the American soldiers, the racism of a few and a brawl that broke out between members of the Maori Battalion and American soldiers. Talks about pilgrimages made back to the area by many Marines. Talk about her six daughters and one son, her involvement in kohanga reo and teaching korowai. Describes her welfare work with Social Welfare and the Probation Department and briefly mentions her QSM. Venue - Wellington : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Hyland Venue - Peakakariki Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004732; OHC-004733; OHC-004734 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 839. Colour photograph of Jean Andrews in 1991