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Date: 17 Jun 1997

By: Costar, Dorothy Christina, 1942-; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. Department of Corrections

Reference: OHColl-0549/1

Description: Dorothy Christina Costar born Thames. Outlines family background - father, a miner, later worked for A & G Price, Thames. Mother was dental receptionist for [Mr] Shaw, the dentist, Thames. Describes: Thames which had a population of five and a half thousand people; schools - Thames South and Thames Central, with reference to Miss Baker; school uniforms; Church of Christ Sunday School and picnics in the Kauaeranga Valley. Refers to six o clock closing and recalls a fatal accident when friend was killed and comments on the $50 fine driver received. Mentions different attitude towards drinking and driving in those days. Recalls various jobs - Jamesfield clothing factory and Hutton the jewellers before joining the WRNZAF at Wigram, 1961 ending up as Flight Sergeant in charge of the joint services telephone exchange in Wellington. Recalls amalgamation of services, with reference to Ministry of Defence. Backgrounds circumstances leading to career with Prison Service and refers to Rev Hoddinutt. Commenced at Mt Eden prison October 1966 as assistant matron. Refers to Miss Molloy (Molly), chief matron who wore a veil. Describes process of training, with reference to examination subjects, psychology, penology, criminology and Acts and Regulations. Refers to the old Raven's Matrice test - psychological test. Discusses Arohata, the women's borstal: its daily routine; uniforms; punishment, with reference to deprivation of privacy; recreation; transportation of prisoners between Arohata and Dunedin women's prison. Talks about the integration of Mt Eden Prison and preparation for women prisoners and choosing staff. Discusses changes to the system and notes there is now more emphasis on rehabilitation - people have case management and are assessed to see what their needs are. Mentions the introduction of computers and health and safety courses, with reference to AIT [Auckland Institute of Technology]. Refers to Alternatives to Violence Programme, started by Quakers (Society of Friends) and mentions PARS (Prisoners' Aid & Rehabilitation Society). Other topics discussed include: split of the Justice Department into Corrections and Courts, with reference to Penal Division; numbers of Maori and Pacific Island offenders; glue sniffing; drug addiction; policy for mothers and children; change in hierarchical structure; child abuse, with reference to Women's Refuge; and the rebuilding of Mt Eden which commenced 1986, with reference to the Mason Clinic. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Venue - Mt Eden Prison Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008078-008080 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2235.

Date: 23 Jan 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Bielawski, Lynnette Flora, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0593/09

Description: Lynne Bielawski talks about her Methodist and Brethren upbringing. Describes religious summer camps in Otaki. Recalls ministers, especially Rev. Ormond Burton, mentioning anecdotes about each one, and their influence on her. Relates family connections with Rangiatea Church. Talks of her faith journeys, Girls' Brigade leadership and support of church people. Discusses parenting and adoption. Relates changes, both in and out of church, in the role of women, of freedom for children, young people's responsibilties. Mentions drug abuse and skinheads. Recalls church picnics, near drownings. Describes suitable clothing and head coverings for church attendance. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009243: OHC-009244 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2972, OHDL-000930. Portrait photograph of Lynnette Bielawski

Date: 23 Nov 1992

From: Pop Music Oral History Project

By: Adderley, Tommy Arthur, 1940-1993

Reference: OHInt-0485-02

Description: Tommy Adderley was born in Birmingham, England in 1940. Outlines family's involement in World War II including his father, member of the West African Army Corps and present at the liberation of the Belson Camp in Germany. Remembers German bombings in 1943 and 1944. Outlines education and early musical tastes. Details job as cook, apprenticeship as pipe fitter and joining the Merchant Navy aged fifteen to become first class steward. Discusses first ship, the S.S. Dominion Monarch sailing to New Zealand via Africa, the Canary Islands and Australia. Recounts cargo stops in Wellington and Lyttelton, shore leave, duties on board and entertainment on ship from Tony and the Initials, Tommy Ferguson and Nick Villard from the Embers. Outlines rehearsals with Tommy Ferguson and Ray Maby playing on board and local dances while in port. Recalls transfer to the Rangitane and introduction to Wellington music scene. Mentions the Maori Volcanics, Hi-Five and Johnny Devlin. Discusses decision to jump ship in Australia, 1959, trip to New Zealand on the Wanganella, work as a barman at St George Hotel and playing at the Pines Cabaret with Garth Young and Slim Norwood. Outlines recording with Laurie Lewis, Don Richardson and the Wellington Jazz Orchestra under Alex Jennings' Lexion label. Mentions Justin Du Fresne's Sunset Show, Selwyn Toogood and the Lever Hit Parade. Outlines move to Auckland in 1963. Discusses recording on General Artists label, American exposure, lack of recording contracts, Television New Zealand's 1962 'Big Show' and 1964 'Showtime Spectacular'. Details recording successes, Australian performances with Mark Perjanik, Bruce King, Jack Harrison, Wally Scott, George Varna, Neil Metcalfe and Allison Durbin, Jimmy Sloggett's band back in New Zealand, Radio Hauraki and shows at Hatchetts, an Auckland club renamed the Ace of Hearts. Discusses time with group Headband with Dick Hopp, Jack Stradwick, Alan Quinnell, Jimmy Hill, Billy Kristian and Ronny Craig playing at 'Granny's'. Names Headband songs 'Good morning Mr Rock and Roll' and 'The laws must change'. Outlines co-ownership of the Green Door, a late night Auckland cafe, with David Gapes. Talks about introduction of liquor licensing laws in 1979 and their effects on clubs. Details the Auckland drug scene and time spent in Mount Eden and Witako prisons for drugs conviction from 1980. Discusses work in prison bakery and later role teaching at prison officer training college at Trentham. Discusses establishing New Zealand International Jazz Festival, work with telethon and London jazz career. Talks about current projects. Refers to Mike Walker, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Bill and Boyd, Peter Posa, Dinah Lee, Lou and Simon, Mannfred Mann, the Kinks, the Honeycombs, Paul Jones, Midge Marsden, Barry and the Breakaways, the Merseymen, Elaine Page, Split Enz, Hello Sailor and Fourmyula. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Roger Watkins Venue - 3/179 Jervois Road, Herne Bay, Auckland Accompanying material - Photocopy of article `Knee deep in the blues' from Metro September 1993 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005003-005005; OHLC-001129, 001130, 001131 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1826.

Date: 09 Nov 1993

From: The Dames Oral History Project

By: Metge, Alice Joan (Dame), 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0046/06

Description: Joan Metge talks about her family background; childhood; rejection of Brethren Church; parent's feelings about education; lack of conflict between religion and science; reasons for becoming an anthropologist; importance of reading the Bible as child; early education; teaching method of father; sex education; racism in the 1950s and before; political leanings; feelings on award of DBE in 1987; views on feminism. Discusses views on gender as barrier in anthropological studies; problems for anthropologists fitting into the academic world; defines anthropology and uses; interest in cross-cultural communications; field work at Ahipara and learned about traditional Maori society; the benefits of studying under Raymond Firth at London School of Economics; learnt a lot about teaching; leisure and entertainment in London; decided against working in Britain; awareness of the limited Pakeha understanding of Maori social organisation; the effect of presenting four lectures on Maori society and culture at Kaitaia High School. Recalls helping establish the teaching of Maori studies at Victoria University; attitude of Maori to Pakeha researchers; helping with submissions for Muriwhenua Land Claims; reasons for not marrying; regrets about not having children; fostering children; involvement with drug offenders. Accompanying material - Copy of brief biography note from unknown source; copy of 'Speaking as an anthropologist', Joan Metge, address from Women in Science Conference, Wellington, 1993 (suffrage year). Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 8 Paisley Terrace, Karori, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005279 - OHC-005281 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1125.

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017658

Description: A couple of criminals chat in their cell. One of them holds a newspaper with a heading 'Anti-stress medication - Pills being developed to help you relax' and he says indignantly 'That's what I got busted for!' Context - The problem of the misuse of drugs in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0024738

Description: Shows MP Peter Dunne holding up a packet of 'Kronic Politix' and saying: "The drugs in this packet will root your brain, play havoc with your bowels and turn you into a kind of political whore who scores at every party, with whoever's holding it. Long-term users develop hideous hairdos requiring medical attention. Some even sport tasteless bow ties that provoke mass vomiting." Accompanying note from the artist states: "Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne seems to embody the perfect antidote to the "psychoactive" drugs he's clamping down on." Refers to Dunne's 'clamp down' on so-called legal highs, with the introduction of a Temporary Class Drug Notice banning BB-22 and 5F-AKB48, substances found in K2 synthetic cannabis, from 9 May. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0029895

Description: Cartoon shows a couple sitting on a park bench, discussing a group of laughing youths. One asks, "Do you think they've been at the new stuff?" referring to a recent news report on laughing gas as the newest recreational high. The other replies, "Either that, or listening to the new minister defending Corrections". Cartoon references the flight of convicted murderer and child abuser Phillip Smith, who fled New Zealand for Chile while released on parole. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019938

Description: Australia says 'Hi cobber' to New Zealand and New Zealand replies 'A little'. A second version names Australia and New Zealand 'the Antripodes'. Context: An Australian study, published in British medical journal The Lancet, has led to renewed calls for a rethink of New Zealand's drug policies. The researchers found cannabis use on both sides of the Tasman was the highest in the world, with 10 to 15 per cent of people aged between 15 and 64 having smoked it in the last year. (NZ Herald Jan 6 2012) Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020023

Description: Cartoon shows a group, wearing black singlets and shorts, apparently a sports team, all smoking marijuana. A banner reads 'The All Weeds'. One member of the group is asking 'What sport do we play anyway?' Another replies 'Dunno...I forgot maan!'. Refers to an overseas news item that drug use, particularly of marijuana, was more widespread in Australia and New Zealand than in the rest of the world. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022312

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key wiping his nose on a document relating to 'Asset sales'. A beneficiary outside the window thinks he should be tested for substance abuse. Context: Relates to the government's determination to sell shares in state assets. Relates also to the news that beneficiaries will be tested for drugs when applying for particular jobs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0028004

Description: Shows two parents sitting on the sofa, discussing the impact that closing the legal highs shop will have on their son. The woman says, "He says when they close his legal highs shop he's got a good mind to go back on the real stuff." The man replies, "Oh come on now... he hasn't had a good mind since the bloody shop opened!!" In the background, the son walks down the corridor, oblivious to the conversation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022729

Description: Shows a young man smoking dope and wondering whether his intelligence will be effected. Context: In a study of more than 1,000 adolescents in New Zealand, those who began habitually smoking marijuana before age 18 showed an eight-point drop in IQ between the ages of 13 and 38, a considerable decline. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, charted the IQ changes in participants over two decades. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020024

Description: Cartoon shows a New Zealander in a black singlet, holding a marijuana cigarette in the shape of New Zealand, singing the words to the first verse of a 'new National Anthem?'. Begins 'Marijuana at thy feet' and ends with 'God defend our weedy land!'. Refers to an overseas news item published in January 2012, which reports that marijuana use in Australia and New Zealand is one of the highest in the world. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018537

Description: Text across the top reads 'Warning: Some other chronic products out on the streets' Below are packets of legal highs called, Key weed', 'Russel's reefa', 'Goff ganja', 'Dunne dak', 'Hone hooch' and 'Brash hash'. Below each packet which includes a caricature of the politician being referred to is further text about the politicians concerned. Context: A reference to the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, promoted by the United Future leader, Peter Dunne, that will make synthetic cannabis products illegal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018494

Description: The cartoon shows the leader of United Future, Peter Dunne, standing resolutely on a road beside a sign saying 'Road closed'. The cartoonist named the cartoon 'Peter Dunne, anti-drug campaigner'. Context: Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Parliament yesterday passed the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, promoted by the United Future leader, that will make synthetic cannabis products illegal. He smoked cannabis a couple of times in the 1970s. He is Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Colour and black and white versions available Title from file name Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018125

Description: The title is 'What a drag' (wordplay on 'drag') and the cartoon shows a packet of 'Broadbandit Telecom CHRONIC overcharging artificial highs - let the dope take charge'. Context - Telecom can't count and could be overcharging thousands of customers' broadband accounts. Detailed internet usage logs from two Telecom customers - one in Dunedin and the other in New Plymouth - show over-counting broadband downloads, in one period by as much as 139 per cent. (NZH 22 June 2011) The other element of the cartoon refers to news that The legal high Kronic will remain on sale in New Zealand even though the substance that mimics cannabis has had tighter controls put on it in Australia. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018107

Description: A television interviewee says 'New Zealand's reliance on drugs, to ensure the success of all social intercourse... is simply pathetic!' An intoxicated man slumped in his armchair raises his glass and says 'I'll drink to that!' Context - The cartoon illustrates how people fail to perceive alcohol as a drug. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0018195

Description: A hopeless-looking man waering a baseball cap and representing New Zealand, holds two babies called respectively 'Drugs' and 'Booze' and wonders 'WHY?' Nearby is a broadsheet reading 'Another baby bashed...New (Zealand). A second version has the man saying 'Don't look at me, I look after my babies!' Context - Suggests a strong link between a culture of drinking and drug-taking and the too-high level of injury and death to babies. Also using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during pregnancy is a major cause of preventable physical and mental damage to infants and children. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018544

Description: Text reads 'Poter [Peter] Dunne.Grassociate Minister of Health'. Below is the leader of United Future, Peter Dunne, who has a small bird on his head and a lit cigarette in his hand. He says 'Yes I've had a personal experience with the dope thing'. Context: Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Parliament yesterday passed the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, promoted by the United Future leader, that will make synthetic cannabis products illegal. He smoked cannabis a couple of times in the 1970s. He is Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has admitted smoking pot just one day after pushing through a bill to ban copycat drugs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018524

Description: A teenager lies on his bed texting. A younger brother runs past the door shouting, 'Granny found the supply of wacky baccy you hid in the shed... Right now she's floating past Mount Nimrod!'. On the bedroom wall is a poster reading 'Kronic rules'. Context: Parliament passed the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill on 4th August. It was promoted by the United Future leader, Peter Dunne, and will make synthetic cannabis products illegal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).