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Date: 18 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Leckey, Richard Edward, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0562/07

Description: Richard Leckey was born in Gazaiabad in 1937. Explains that his father worked for the railways, talks about his transfers and recalls memories of Kotri, railway houses and servants. Mentions his brothers and step-sisters, his own schooling at Lawrence College. Recalls his experiences of partition. Talks of his sister living in New Zealand, followed by the rest of the family, and his father's money in India. Talks of his carpentry apprenticeship in Auckland and describes his various jobs with hydro schemes. Mentions his wife's work on a psychiatric ward, his work in the same hospital and at a freezing works. Mentions his returned serviceman's loan, wanting to buy land. Talks of Maori associations, his genealogy, the SAS in New Zealand and why he left it. Explains the changes in his religions and mentions Indian religions. Talks of his family in Australia, Pakistan and England, school uniform, western clothes, mealtimes and games played and mixing with Muslim children. Mentions club membership and cultural differences. Talks of his drinking habit, settling in New Zealand and outlines the differences in lifestyle. Talks about his property in Karamea, and interest in forestry, his carpentry and building. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008512, OHC-008513 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2645.

Date: 20 Oct 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Smith, Kevin David, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-0425/8

Description: Kevin Smith was born in Taumarunui in 1953. Describes going to Owhango Primary School and Taumarunui High School. Mentions his father, Bluey Smith, worked as a bushman and bush boss for Dominion Timber Company from the 1920s to the 1950s. Recalls exploring the forest as a child, working there with his father and deer hunting as a teenager. Talks about his early interest in conservation as the result of a road being built through Ohinetonga Reserve. Describes studying botany and then forestry at university, beginning his PhD on the West Coast and deciding to campaign to protect the native forest instead of finishing his thesis. Describes living in Harihari for fourteen years and working for Native Forests Action Council with Gerry McSweeney and Guy Salmon. Discusses damage to the Tongariro Forest. Mentions goats, other pests and the creation of poor farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey in the southern part of the forest. Comments on the use of red beech for fence posts. Describes writing an ecological report for Forest and Bird. Talks about community support for saving the Tongariro Forest and involvement from the Outdoor Pursuits Centre and Mangatepopo School. Comments on unique forest communities and mentions Waimarino Plateau. Explains the difference in attitude between communities in south Westland and Owhango in terms of their local forests. Discusses the start of the Tokaanu Power Scheme and the destruction of the headwaters of the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Mentions damage to the blue duck and the wider ecosystem. Discusses mountain biking and the need for wider recreational use in the Forest. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2962. Black and white colour photo of Kevin Smith Search dates: 1998

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: 10 Sep 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Chapple, Keith Robert, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0425/1

Description: Keith Chapple was born in London in 1943. Describes how his parents were killed during World War II and he grew up in Surrey. Mentions his university qualification in political science and philosophy, involvement in the anti-nuclear campaign and CND, moving to New Zealand in 1967 and various jobs. Recalls moving from Auckland to Kakahi and his first involvement in New Zealand in a conservation battle with a group, Friends of the River of Kakahi Society (FORKS) in 1981. Describes the community of Kakahi when it had several timber mills. Comments on milling in the Tongariro Forest when he arrived in the area. Describes a visit by Gerry McSweeney and Kevin Smith from Forest and Bird surveying the forest and a public meeting in 1983 planning the campaign to save the Tongariro Forest. Mentions widespread and diverse support from deer hunters, fishermen, walker and water supply advocates and the formation of the Tongariro Forest Park Promotion Committee with its aim of forming a forest park. Mentions the promotion of recreational activities and use of the Forest by the Outdoor Pursuit(s) Centre Discusses the moratorium placed on logging in 1983 and the role of Jim Bolger. Comments on the reaction of Lands and Survey and the Forest Service. Recalls Koro Wetere signing an application to log 600 hectares in the Ketetahi Block. Describes how this sparked a snap debate in Parliament and Prime Minister David Lange asked Mr Wetere to overturn the decision. Comments that the park is still not gazetted as a Forest Park. Mentions disappointment in DOC. Discusses the ecological diversity of the Tongariro Forest, the decline of the kiwi and the strategy for the Save the Kiwi campaign. Describes becoming President of Forest and Bird and his paid work which pays for his environmental work. Comments on his use of conflict resolution. Mentions the Kaimanawa horse issue. Comments on the government of Jenny Shipley, beech logging, Tony Ryall and the intention to sell Timberlands. Discusses the battle to have more water released into the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers and diverse groups involved in the Whanganui River Flows Campaign. Mentions Federated Farmers, Rotary, Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, Fish and Game, the Maruia Society and recreationalists. Comments on the differing approach by Maori. Describes the case against Electricorp, the Electricorp loss, their taking of the case to the Planning Tribunal and the High Court where it failed. Mentions that Electricorp CEO Rod Deane wanted to take the case to the Privy Council. Comments on the stress caused by the case. Explains his motivation in being a conservationist. Discusses environmental activism and the information and communication explosion in the 1980s and 1990s. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-2955. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Colour photograph of Keith Chapple

Date: 13 Nov 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Glennie, Ian Cedric William, 1937-2002

Reference: OHInt-0425/4

Description: Ian Glennie was born in Gisborne in 1937. Mentions his parents Archibald and Mabel Glennie. Recalls moving to Kakahi and then Taumaranui, where he was educated. Describes being an apprentice electrician before becoming interested in native forests and becoming a Junior Forest Labourer. Recalls working with Austin Kirk who had been in the 28 (Maori) Battalion. Describes the process of appraising trees so that every merchantable tree was measured. Mentions the Dominion Timber Company, Taurewa Sawmill, Kopu's Mill and the Tongariro Timber Company. Discusses bush sense and bush skills including food preparation and hunting. Discusses working with assisted immigrants, including `ten pound Poms' and Dutchmen, and their learning of local rules. Describes becoming a forest foreman for the Forest Service. Lists merchantable tree species. Describes his working tools. Comments on the logging of pristine matai on the eastern shore of Lake Taupo. Recalls his job as Appraisal Officer, shifting to Wellington to become Forest Ranger, moving to Reefton and teaching at the training school, the closure of the training school and becoming Officer in Charge at Whareama Tinui, Karioi and Waimahea (Kaingaroa). Comments on urban life and life in Reefton. Mentions his wife Elsie May and their two sons. Comments on the difference between logging native and exotic forest. Describes becoming District Ranger at Turangi, the discussion about Tongariro as a state forest park and the involvement of the Outdoor Pursuits Centre. Discusses forest fires, hunters clearing land for deer and fire fighting techniques. Recalls becoming Principal Forest Ranger at Head Office and then District Ranger at Gisborne. Describes the East Coast Forestry Project to stop erosion, increase diversity and provide employment. Discusses becoming Assistant conservator of operations at Palmerston North and his reaction to the stopping of logging in the Tongariro Forest. Discusses land use arguments, the Forest Service and Lands and Survey. Discusses the privatisation of the New Zealand Forest Service and its effects. Talks about becoming manager of the Hawkes Bay area until its sale to Carter Holt Harvey. Describes working for Landcorp in Rotorua and becoming a lifestyle farmer in Taumaranui. Comments on visiting indigenous forest at Pureora Forest Park. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2958. Colour photo of Ian Glennie

Date: 17 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Buchanan, David Edward, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0419/02

Description: Ted Buchanan was born in Reefton in 1927. Recalls his family moving from Ikamatua to Haast when he was five. Describes how his father was frequently away as he was a mill worker. Mentions that the six children had chores and his mother, Isabel Buchanan, was tough and capable. Recalls her ploughing fields to plant potatoes. Talks about the vegetable garden, making bread, bottling and storing fruit and making jam. Describes going to school at Okuru, Te Taho and Ikamatua. Mentions his father died when he was twelve. Recalls playing cards, listening to the radio and catching cockabullies for recreation. Describes going to Christchurch for six months when he left school, returning to Haast, felling bush in the Arawata area with his brother Henry and living at the Public Works Department (PWD) camp. Mentions also doing road work. Describes whitebaiting at Cascade and bringing the whitebait out by horse or boat. Mentions constructing an air strip and taking freezers in. Describes deer stalking with Des Nolan for two seasons and gives details of working at Carters Mill as a bushman. Talks about marrying Collette Brazil who worked in a hotel in Hokitika. Mentions visits from the dentist at Hokitika and Dinny Nolan who also pulled teeth out. Talks about ways of getting out to medical help. Recalls the Duggan family, the McPherson family on the Turnbull River and Myrtle Cron who could shoot and skin a deer. Recalls shifting to Mosgiel for his children's education. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2896.

Date: 17 Jun 1995

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

By: Smith, Norman V, active 1995

Reference: OHInt-0430/12

Description: Discusses his work experiences until 1962 when he joined the Woodhill State Forest. Describes how his job was under the Fire Service which serviced all the State Forests in the area. Discusses fire equipment and training. Talks about the need to stop sand from covering farms and railway tracks. Gives a historical background to this mentioning the Public Works Act in the 1930s. Recalls gangs and camps in the Muriwai area and headquarters at Woodhill. Describes a number of inventions including a lupin seed sower, marram grass planter, a machine which traversed sand to get kauri logs and a submersible pump to utilise sea water and put out fires. Discusses toheroa digging, community life, the generations of families at Woodhill and the consequences of the forests being sold by the Government. Mentions Dan Young, Ned and Charlie Fenton and Arthur Terlesk. Talks about the tree nurseries, the effect of poisons on the bird life, and whale strandings and shipwrecks on Muriwai Beach. Mentions the `Warkworth'. Talks about the release of fallow deer by Alfred Buckland, deer farming by John Harmer and deer hunting at South Head. Discusses pre European sites, middens, battlegrounds and obsidian. His son Greg sat in on the interview Interviewer(s) - Bernadette Malizia Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3333.

Date: 15 Jul 1996

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

By: Tangaroa, William Tamu, 1922-1999

Reference: OHInt-0633/4

Description: William Tangaroa was born in 1922 in Wellington. Gives the origins of Ngati Whatua. Talks about his grandmother Mere Huia Shaw and her marriage for the purpose of holding land. Describes how her grandparents settled at Dairy Flat then Reweti (Rewiti). Describes their original home of nikau and raupo and the home that was built in 1928. Describes the site of the original Reweti marae in the hills. Discusses missionaries Reverend Marsden and Reverend Selwyn and Ngati Whatua. Discusses his father, John Tangaroa, who attended Three Kings Secondary School and Wesley College with Jack Nathan. Gives details of the background of his mother, Emma Smith. Talks about the Depression, the children carting water for the gardens and his grandfather being blinded digging rushes. Describes the selling of produce from the Reweti gardens at the market. Discusses the sacred Reweti mountain, Puketapu, where burials were made. Explains the way people were buried according to their place in society. Notes that Tauwhare Hill was a recovery place for warriors. Mentions the quarry in the area which was closed as a result of lots of accidents. Discusses fishing methods and the catching of eel, koura, toheroa, paua, mussels and other species. Describes drawing the oil from mutton birds. Describes how work was done with horses and mentions the breaking in of brumbies. Mentions how the moving sand buried native bush and the role of marram grass in stabilising sand. Mentions his schooling at Helensville and leaving school and working in a bush camp. Describes the work. Describes planting marram during the Depression and the finding of midden. Describes being manpowered to do farm work in World War II. Mentions marriage. Mentions the South Head forestry settlement. Comments on the continuation of early customs at Reweti including herbal knowledge, forecasting weather and food preparation. Discusses tapu and the identification of tapu places. Mentions the Brynderwyn bus accident and identifying victims. Describes how the sacred mountain, Puketapu, is now planted in pine. 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-3321.

Date: 8 Jul 1993 - 08 Jul 1993

From: Rawene Public Library oral history project

By: McVeagh, Janine Elizabeth, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0641/09

Description: Janine Elizabeth McVeagh (nee Fuller) born Napier, 1946. Describes education in Napier before attending Victoria University Wellington. Recalls buying a farm in Wekaweka, Hokianga with a group of friends in 1973 and refers to strong organic principles. Describes different money-making ventures, which included: herb-growing, black sheep and spinning, growing and selling potatoes and gathering and selling blackberries. Backgrounds setting up piggery which became a profitable business. Describes interest in writing and refers to Neil Rennie, editor of `New Zealand Farmer'. Discusses local opposition to plans by big forestry companies to plant Hokianga in pine and recalls how news of a plan to clear the Wekaweka of people and of the native forest galvanised her into action. Describes the fight to get rules and guidelines laid down in the District Scheme so that it was the local community that decided what development would take place and not external forces with their own agenda. Refers to Huhana Anaroa also John Klaricich and own election on Community Board. Discusses involvement in setting up an independent publishing house together with a partner in the Hokianga, teaching themselves on the job - Te Reo Publications which supplies schools and some book shops. Talks about time as editor of Wag-Mag and refers to Danna Glendining of the Ministry of Women's Affairs. Mentions other books written - Centennial History of Waimamaku in 1988 and book on building a low-cost quality home. Describes area where she lives in the Wekaweka Valley with Waipoua on one side, and Mataroa on the other. Access Contact - see oral historian Interviewer(s) - Vilia Chisholm Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010757 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3811.

Date: Sep 1998 to May 1999

By: Kennett, Jonathan Peter, 1967-

Reference: OHColl-0425

Description: Gives a picture of forestry life in New Zealand including the changes in lifestyle as modern equipment became available. Describes some of the Maori history of what is now Tongariro Forest Park. Examines the development of a strong conservation coalition from an established logging community. Interviews are with Keith Chapple, Paul Green, Ray Mathieson, Ian Glennie, Graeme Dingle, Fred Richards, Sonny Te Hura, Kepa Patena, Kevin Smith, Brian Climo and Colin Anderson. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Accompanying material - Material including photos of the Tongariro Forest while travelling through it with Brian Climo and Colin Anderson, and Tongariro Forest Adventure Map (filed with abstracts) Quantity: 23 C60 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 20 Dec 1988

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

By: Hardy, Anthony John, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0159/03

Description: Tony Hardy was born in Gisborne in 1945. His early childhood was spent in the Ureweras and the State Hydro Department (New Zealand Electricity Department) Tuai Power Village. Describes the family's move to Lower Hutt in 1956 where Tony Hardy's father worked as an attendant at the Haywards substation (NZ Electricity Department). Describes qualifying as a motor mechanic and spending three years on the West Coast hunting and employed in bush work, mainly for the Kopara Sawmilling Company. Explains the relationship between this privately owned company and the Forest Service. Comments on exploitation of beech forest and gives opinion on conservationists and forest management. Talks about selective logging and sustainable yields. Talks about some time spent in Sydney, getting married and becoming a logging contractor in a partnership with Lou Weinberg in Mapua in 1973. Describes work with Nelson Pine Forest Company, operation of the gangs, their output compared with the Forest Service output, wages, safety aspects of the work and the need for something to be done with the Forest Service by the time it was corporatised. Talks about chipping, working in the Golden Downs Forest and for H.H. Baigent and Son. Discusses the privatisation of the Forestry Corporation and effects on local Nelson timber companies. Talks about Timberlands and Tai Swiss. Compares log hauling with log skidding. Comments on the capital investement involved in machinery. Venue - Nelson : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr Hardy's home at Nelson Accompanying material - Bound in with abstract and describes in abstract record Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001885; OHC-001886; OHC-001887 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 294. Search dates: 1943 - 1988

Date: 8 Dec 1988 - 08 Dec 1988

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

By: Henderson, Anthony William, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0159/04

Description: Tony Henderson was born in Rakaia in 1949. Describes growing up and being educated in Christchurch. Talks about working for the NZ Forest Service in the holidays, becoming a ranger trainee in the Ashley Forest in 1968 and training at the Forest Ranger school in Rotorua in 1969. Describes supervising gangs in the Balmoral Forest and then returning to Ashley Forest as a ranger between 1971 and 1976. Talks about getting married and living in the forestry village. Describes the different career structures of rangers and foresters. Notes that there were six conservancies and conservators were usually foresters (usually graduates) rather than rangers. Describes being in charge of the Te Kao subdivision of Aupori Forest and becoming familiar with Maori culture. Talks about planting marram and trees. Describes a two year Foreign Affairs secondment, supervising tree planing in Western Samoa, as a positive family experience. Outlines the rest of his career which included being second in command at Gwavas Forest in Hawkes Bay and at Ashley Forest before becoming Officer in Charge at Geraldine Forest at the time of corporatisation. Comments on voluntary severance, redundancy and the effect of corporatisation at the local level. Mentions his position as Forestry and Logging Mananger for the Aorangi District. Venue - Timaru : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Henderson's home at Timaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001902; OHC-001903; OHC-001904 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 299. Search dates: 1949 - 1988

Date: 20 Dec 1988

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

By: Chapman, William Alan, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0159/05

Description: Alan Chapman was born in Levin in 1936. Gives details of his family background and growing up on a dairy farm in the Horowhenua. Describes being the only child and helping with farm work. Talks about attending Horowhenua College and leaving school to become a clerk with the Public Service Commission in Wellington. Describes living in the Public Service Hostel, his work in the accounts and personnel section and staff of the Commission. Talks about becoming Staff Training Officer with the Commission and then joining the New Zealand Forest Service in this same position. Comments on the positive attitude of the Forestry Service to training and rivalry between foresters and rangers. Describes two years spent as the Private Secretary to the Minister of Forests, Duncan McIntyre. Gives details of his work and recalls their positive working relationship. Comments on the 1969 Forestry Development Conference and the beginnings of lobbying from conservationists. Describes returning to the Forest Service and getting in to administration in the position of Executive Officer for the Rotorua Conservancy. Comments on living in the Kaingaroa village, challenges involved in this and his empathy with Maori culture. Describes the Forest Service as culturally sensitive because of the number of Maori employees and comments on its social role in unemployment schemes. Talks about being Senior Training Officer at Head Office of the Forest Service, developing new forest ranger courses and the closure of the woodsman training scheme. Comments on Directors General of Forestry. Describes becoming Chief Executive Officer and then Corporate Employee Relations Manager in the Forestry Corporation when the Service was restructured. Describes working hard to establish the new organisation and then the shock and betrayal of the 1988 amendment privatising the Corporation. Accompanying material - Photograph of A.W. Chapman in 1960; curriculum vitae Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mayfair House, The Terrace, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001908; OHC-001909; OHC-001910 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 301. Search dates: 1936 - 1988

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: 1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0096-F

Description: Maori men working in the Kaingaroa State Forest, photographed in 1961 by Ans Westra. Includes 9 images of men chopping logs; 3 images of a man driving a bull-dozer. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: Jan-Jun 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000873

Description: Comprises views of native bush and vegetation taken between January and June 2013 by Dylan Owen. Shows kiekie plants, Kaitoke, matai tree trunk, totara tree with epiphytes, Barr-Brown Reserve, Featherston, nikau fronds and forest at Waikanae, tawa trees, Porirua, umbrella ferns, bush clearing, young beech trees, Witako Reserve, Silverstream. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Jan to June Images 2013/Plants#F22C" Quantity: 14 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017014

Description: The title reads 'NZ forest ecosystems second-most threatened in the world - Conservation International report'. In large text are the words 'FOREST STUMP' (play on name of film 'Forest Gump') and below is an image of the stump of a large tree bearing the words 'Only 5% of original habitation left. Context - Conservation International, a US-based charity, released figures last week which said New Zealand's forests housed only five per cent of their original habitat - second only to Indo-Burma. However, the organisation has now admitted it got confused between New Zealand and New Caledonia. New Zealand is not even on the 10 most threatened forests list. Two versions of this cartoon are available Alternative version: Forest slump - NZ forest ecosystems crisis - they house only 5% of original habitat. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-:[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post and other newspapers]

By: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-

Reference: DX-012-045

Description: Shows the Beehive rocking as the Westcoasters party after hearing that Conservation Minister Sandra Lee is to retire. Sandra Lee was Minister of Conservation during much of the Westcoast battle to be allowed to log native timber forests. The Conservation Ministry put an end to native timber logging. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2013

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026369

Description: Cartoon depicts a fallen tree in a forest with a chainsaw beside it. The tree is labelled "NZ Forestry safety code". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024027

Description: A man on one side of a fence, which is brown and barren, looks over the fence at his neighbour, who stands among lush green bush. The man questions his compliance with water restrictions. Refers to ongoing drought through Waikato, and low levels of rainfall in New Zealand as a whole, prompting water use restrictions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).