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Date: Sep 1996 to Jul 1997

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

Reference: OHColl-0446

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

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

From: Wanaka Station oral history project

By: Blennerhassett, Jill Stewart, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-1011-01

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

Date: 01-31 08 2006

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Lochhead, Arthur William Allan, 1915-2008

Reference: OHInt-0920-11

Description: Lived in Ashburton 1915-2008. Backgrounds parents Arthur Osborn Lochhead and Kathleen Alma Lochhead (nee Ruddenklau) who ran a mixed farm at Mount Somers. Recalls leaving farm at ten years to come to Methven when his father went shearing. After leaving school worked at Hobbs seed cleaning store. Details sewing bags on tin mill and poisoning rabbits while working at Rangaitata Island farm for Frank Ruddenklau, his uncle. Says he then drove tractor and plough at Springfield estate farm for his grandfather Frederick Ruddenklau. Refers to being held back from World war Two service for 12 months because he was head sewer on the header. Says he left in 1941 from Wellington on board the Aquitania after three months training as a driver at Trentham. Refers to his three brothers going to war. Describes voyage via Fremantle, South Africa, the Red Sea to arrive at Port Tewfik, Egypt. Talks about training at Maadi Camp to be in 6 RMT (Reserve Mechanical Transport). Discusses transport of petrol and water and conditions in the desert, food, snakes, flies, clearing mine fields. Refers to taking 26th Battalion to Sidi Rezegh. Mentions brother George Lochhead in battle of Sidi Rezegh, being taken prisoner of war and getting the Victoria Cross medal. Talks about being present at El Alamein battle, everything bursting into fire at night, and being at Tobruk. Brief mention of Battle of Minqar Qaim, and a bullet through his radiator. Describes drinking sprees in Cairo, the Club, sightseeing at Pyramids and Nile River, Aswad Dam, hiring gharries. Talks about Methven and Districts reunion dinner in Cairo. Refers to getting pneumonia and having to go to Alexandria Hospital, then going to Palestine to recuperate. Says the whole DIV (2nd NZEF) went to Aleppo, Syria for six weeks working with refugees and road making. Mentions meeting Bedouins in the desert. Describes returning to Mersa Matruh with 23rd Battalion on board. Discusses mail and food parcels from home. Mentions role of Major Hood, the commander. Talks about driving at night time over the Apennines mountain range in Italy where the 6 RMT broke up. Talks about working in Mobile ambulance company on Italian front during winter. Says took wounded from the field and from the Casualty Clearing station and RAP, and took locals to Italian hospitals. Mentions Methven local nurse Natalie Currie bringing wounded. Talks about being based in Forli, sleeping in his ambulance and mortar bombs hitting it. Recalls General Freyberg visiting the 6 RMT and Winston Churchill coming on parade. Talks about playing cards, rugby, trying Italian wine. Had leave in Florence. Says sent pay home for his family. Talks about going to Trieste and being in Udine when the war ended. Describes hitch hiking via Milan, Genoa, Turin, Lake Como to Bari. Expands on trip on the 'Georgic' to Maadi Camp, Egypt, and on the 'Strathaird' passenger liner home. Says post war he worked at Mid Canterbury transport, Pudding Hill timber mill, Jackson's limeworks, Staveley. Refers to working for Arie Van Dyke and Lofty Chambers, and then becoming partners with Chambers in a potatoe farm. Says he set up own business in the 1960s. Recalls building a brick house in Methven when he married his first wife Jean in 1958 who died in 1972. Talks about remarriage to Alma Rowney. Says bought 84 acre triangle Cambrose Village and sold land for the Methven Motor Services building. Describes land improvements. Says he rented the Methven race course to grow potatoes and wheat on rotation. Refers to growing cocksfoot, white clover, barley, wheat, French oats and ran sheep. Refers to growing grain on contract. Says was first to grow Rua poatatoes in Methven. Refers to Dakota potatoe and keeping potatoes in pits against frost. Describes transition from horse teams to tractors, headers replacing thrashing mills, changing from manpower to a transport hoist for lifting potatoe 70lb bags. Refers to snow storms, impact of droughts, Lyndhurst irrigation Scheme. Talks about using sprays, arsenic, reglone. Mentions topdressing with fertiliser. Says retired in 1988 to garden. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016760 - OHC-016765 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 6 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6033, OHDL-001828. Search dates: 1915 - 2006

Date: 14, 19 May 2007 - 14 May 2007 - 19 May 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Kelly, George David, 1916-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-08

Description: Interview with George Kelly, born in Ashburton in 1916. Refers to growing up on a North Canterbury farm until his father sold it. Talks about his primary schooling, and boarding with his grandfather to attend Christchurch Boys High School. Mentions playing rugby and running. Discusses working for his father as a team driver with a four horse team ploughing for wheat crops. Talks about stacking sheaves to make stooks and stacking the dray. Recalls an electric tractor and traction engines. Refers to going shearing aroung Methven and Highbank for a time and buying a car. Talks about being a member of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry in the 1930s, training camps, and providing his own horse. Comments on working for several years as an attendant at Sunnyside Hospital and learning "a thing or two about people". Mentions marrying his wife Hilary in 1939, and joining the Police force. Comments that he could not serve overseas in the army during the War because he was a policeman. Refers to resigning from the police when his father had a heart attack [ca. 1948/49] and running the farm for a year. Discusses the difficulty he had buying his own farm Spring Lynne and having help to pay off the mortgage. Talks about arable farming, growing tama grass, peas and clover for seed, wheat and barley, and selling wool during the Korean War. Comments on his Romney flock, number of ewes, and drafting lambs. Discusses the arrival of the Lyndhurst irrigation scheme. Comments on the Springfield water supply and water rates. Mentions giving up irrigating and getting a well drilled for water. Refers to the Winchmore Research Station and fertilizer trials. Recalls his farm staff over the years. Refers to the Lauriston Farm Club and farm advisors. Mentions the vet club. Talks about the Methvyn Trotting Club and horses that he and his father bred. Outlines his involvement with the Canterbury A & P Association over three decades including being Association president. Mentions judging horses and ponies at shows and presenting trophies. Discusses the Springfield Pony Club and other pony clubs in Canterbury. Reflects on farming in the Methven district and welcomes the arrival of dairying in the area. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016752 - OHC-016754 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6030, OHDL-001825. Search dates: 1916 - 2007

Date: 17 Feb 2008

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Coppard, Edward John, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0920-01

Description: Interview with Ted Coppard, born in 1930 in Leeston, one of six children to Ernest Coppard and Bessie Dorothy Coppard (nee Taylor). Educated at Yaldhurst primary school and Christchurch Boys High School. Talks about his childhood, his toys, rabbit shooting at Aylesbury, trips to New Brighton and Sumner beaches, West Coast and Lake Ida. Describes house lived in from 1936, using a meat safe and coal range. Talks about growing vegetables, baking bread, and home kill of pigs. Mentions they had no telephone at Yaldhurst until 1940s. Talks about his home- made wireless crystal set, and listening to radio serials. Refers to working on Yaldhurst farm from 15 years old to 1996. Describes using Clydesdale horses to work the machines, the reaper binder, stooking machine, thrashing mill, and traction engine. Talks about socialising at Yaldhurst and Kirwee dances, and the Young Farmers Club activities in Methven. Talks about annual Methodist Church bible camps at Amberley, bible studies and bible class dances in the Methven St Johns Presbyterian Church, and playing organ at Yaldhurst and Methven Methodist churches. Talks about converting implements for the Fordson tractor. Talks about working for his father who bought Methven farm in 1951, and contracting. Describes taking over his father's farm in 1958 with his brother Bruce Robert Coppard. Mentions he raised a mortgage with Pyne Gould Guinness in Ashburton. Details farming wheat, barley, potatoes, rye grass, and ewe flock and Romney sheep. Describes harvesting using 'pull behind engine function header' method, the wheat silos and bulk heading of wheat and grass seed. Mentions danger of fire when using Massey headers. Describes changes in his farming practices, silo storage and transport of grain. Mentions closure of Rakaia to Methven railway line in 1976, the mill and the Sanitarium cornflake factory in Papanui, Christchurch. Details methods of drying grass seed, short rotation (moata ryegrass) and perennial rye grass and effects of weather. Talks about the Methven seed dresser (owned by Cavils, then McCaw Seeds), and how son Trevor Coppard built his own seed dresser. Says his brother Bruce Coppard bought a farm in Hororata in 1966. Talks about later years of farming, growing white clover, selling the ewe flock, farming lambs and growing radishes for the Japanese market and farming pigs. Says Trevor Coppard took over farm in 1996, which he still visits once a week. Talks about his faith and family, mentioning his granddaughters, and feeling he has achieved what he wanted to achieve. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016728 - OHC-016729 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (Abstract). 1 interview(s). 1.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6023, OHDL-001818. Search dates: 1930 - 2008

Date: 05, 12 Nov 2007 - 05 Nov 2007 - 12 Nov 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Lill, Gordon Thomas, 1921-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-10

Description: Interview with Gordon Lill. Born in 1921 in Ashburton. Backgrounds paternal family, parents Wilfred Thomas Lill, mother Edith Francis Caroline Lill (nee Watson), grandfather William Thomas Lill, farmer in Ashburton, and grandmother Clara Lill (nee Taylor), who was involved in temperance union movement. Mentions maternal grandparents Joseph Watson, headmaster of Willowby primary school and Emily Watson (nee Hight) from Brookside. Says he went to Westerfield primary school and Ashburton High School. Refers to taking agricultural course and having John Bell scholarship. Describes growing up on 'Lone Pine' farm, Westerfield, cooking on coal range, pitting root vegetables for winter, milking, using Clydesdale horses. Details growing oats and grass seed, turnips, giant rape, reaping oats, working the chaff cutter. Mentions family had thrashing mill and traction engine. Talks about impact of 1928 slump and 1930s Depression and mortgagee sales. Says father sold Westerfield farm to clear debt and bought small farm at Eiffelton with money from maternal grandfather's estate. Explains crops grown were wheat, ryegrass and barley. Talks about being called up for army training at Burnham, then being manpowered out in 1940 to work at Mesopotamia sheep station and Inverary station. Describes autumn muster, and blade shearing. Mentions manpower shortage during World War two. Recalls marriage to Doris Joan Davison and big snow of 1945. Says bought sheep farm at Montalto with his parents. Describes developing the farm, stone picking, having the house divided into two flats. Purchased farm at Springburn, and another block where he farmed sheep and cattle. Bought property at Carew to farm sheep. Details border dyke irrigation process. Talks about water allocation, changing from government to private ownership as Hinds Mayfield Irrigation Scheme. Refers to building new house at Carew. Explains purchase of 'Whenuapai' farm at Cairnbrae, Methven, in 1962 or 1963 which was a mixed cropping farm with wheat, barley, peas, grass seed and Border Romney or Coopworth sheep. Refers to International Agricultural Exchange Association students on the farm. Discusses soil, wind, rainfall and a typical year. Mentions soil fertility, use of lentils and getting bigger farm machinery. Talks about role of farm advisors. Explains process of changing farm to all cropping farm in 1968, selling stock to grow wheat, peas and ryegrass. Refers to getting bigger plough, tractor and grain silo, building a seed cleaning plant and shed. Explains direct heading wheat and peas with Roundup. Talks about soil testing, inputs of nitrogen, urea, sulphate of ammonia, always using fertilisers and chemicals. Says diesel prices forced direct drilling. Discusses wind erosion, putting in shelter belts subsidised by South Canterbury catchment board. Talks about wife's role on farm, all their sons going farming and Graeme Lill working at Lincoln College. Refers to moisture and soil testing. Reflects on mechanisation making farming easier. Talks about droving and now trucking sheep to sale yards. Mentions Lyndhurst Barrhill scheme pumping water from Rakaia River back to the RDR (Rangitata Diversion race). Refers to getting Dry Creek closed for grazing for nine years. Discusses community activites, nine years on South Canterbury Catchment Board, Mayfield A&P Association President in 1959, being on Monalto School committee, Hinds School committee, Hinds Rugby Football Club, Chairperson of Methven Lions, Chairman of Methven Aged Persons Welfare Association, Chairman of Methven House home committee, and involvment in Federated Farmers and United Wheatgrowers. Details his purchase of maternity hospital and turning it into Methven House aged persons home. Mentions being involved in St Davids Church, Allenton, Ashburton and Methodist Synod Timaru. Says retired to Methven for four to five years, then moved to Ashburton. Refers to son Colin Lill taking over the farm. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016757 - OHC-016759 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6032, OHDL-001827. Search dates: 1921 - 2007

Date: 18, 21 May 2009 - 18 May 2009 - 21 May 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Morgan, Reginald John, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0979-05

Description: Interview with Reginald John (Jack) Morgan, born in Auckland in 1916. Describes the family background, and his parents, who ran the Hukerenui hotel. Tells of his father's death from influenza after World War I, and his mother's subsequent labours on the rough farm she ran - while raising seven children - after her husband's death. Talks about farming methods, and the transportation of materials and farm produce. Describes horse, rail, barge and railway transport of timber, lime rock, coal and dairy products. Gives details of collecting and marketing kauri gum and other jobs he did while at school. Describes milking cows twice a day, and getting the produce to the Whangarei Dairy Company, on atrocious roads. Discusses his shift from dairy farming to agricultural contracting, in particular to hay baling, which he worked at for 49 years. Explains the progress from manual to automated methods. Talks about his wife, and her supportive role running the family farm while he worked as a contractor. Describes the local extractive industries: native timber milling, kauri gum, prospecting and mining (for gold, coal, manganese, red ochre, mercury), mineral water, and quarrying. Talks about his interest in the history and the people of the district - Maori, and European settlers and community life Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001254 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 6 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 2.06 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7483, OHDL-001264. Three digital photographs of Jack Morgan, one in his workshop (2009). Scanned B&W or sepia photographs of: Morgan farmhouse, early 1919; Hukerenui Store, 1920s; Hukerenui School (1923); Hukerenui Hotel 1936 flood; Hukerenui Home Guard; Morgan farmhouse, 1970s Search dates: 1916 - 2009

Date: 5 May 1995 - 22 Nov 1996 - 05 May 1995

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Shaw, Alasdair Archibald, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0438-12

Description: Alasdair Shaw was born near Hastings in 1944. Mentions he is third in the family and his parents had a small orchard. Recalls going to Twyford School, Scots College and Hastings Boys High School. Mentions injuries from playing rugby and shepherding. Describes jobs on a station near Gisborne, at Tomoana Works and Maraetotara. Describes a sheep diploma course at Massey University in 1965 and three months in the army at Waiouru in 1966. Comments on enjoying the discipline in the Army. Mentions his love of rugby and returning to work at his father's orchard. Describes high insurance premiums and hailstorm damage to fruit. Talks about the irrigation system, moisture testing of soil, packing, developing new apples, apple varieties and market changes. Talks about his daughters and ski-ing holidays. Discusses electoral changes and MMP. Comments on labour shortage on orchards and orcharding costs including costs of bringing in new varieties. Discusses a hearing on submissions about a proposed bridge over the Ngaruroro River and culverts under the motorway by his house. Mentions the role of the Regional Council and Transit New Zealand. Talks about Apple Fields (company), the Apple and Pear Board and overseas markets. Comments on the necessity of such a board. Interviewer(s) - Pam Lockhart Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2143. Search dates: 1944 - 1996

Date: 22 Jan 1998

From: Bainham Reunion oral history project

By: Hadfield, William Rogers, 1913-2004; Dawber, Carol, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0417/1

Description: Bill Hadfield was born in Nelson in 1913. Discusses life at Little River, Awaroa throughout the twentieth century. Talks about food including wild and domestic pigs, salting and curing their own meat, catching herring and snapper and eating kiekie flowers and nikau hearts. Mentions selling meat to settlers, growing tobacco and hops and sawmills in the bay. Notes there was a daily boat to Takaka and weekly boats to Wellington. Mentions boats the `Kaspar', `Morning light' and the`Lily'. Describes riding the mail over the hill to Wainui on his motorbike. Talks about work wiring houses for electricity. Notes the house of his grandfather, William Hadfield, was prefabricated in totara and white pine and came from Bretts' Colonists Guide. Talks about his father Fred Hadfield. Mentions Fred Gibbs, Ray Fry, Mr Avery, Jim Perrot, Christiana Winter, Newton Nalder and Mr Spanton. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2674. Search dates: 1998

Date: 9 Jun 2000 - 09 Jun 2000

From: Vintage years - the wine industry in New Zealand

By: Lamb, Joseph (Brother), 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0535/7

Description: Joseph Lamb was born in Wellington in 1934, the twin brother of David Lamb. Mentions he was born at Dr Levy's Private Hospital in Willis Street. Recalls the Pirie St area where they lived. Describes how his father worked for the Ford Motor Company, had an accident and was an early plastic surgery patient. Talks about the deaths of five of the children in the family from the Rh negative factor. Describes how his Irish mother was intended for the convent. Mentions his father was Scottish. Describes going to Buckle Street Convent School. Recalls the school buildings and St Joseph's Catholic Church. Describes enjoying St Patrick's College which was strict. Recalls a booklet about the lay brothers and his decision to become a brother. Describes leaving home for Highden Estate in Palmerston North. Recalls his early days there and the structured environment. Talks about prayer, meditation, the grand silence, examination of conscience, vows and meetings and lectures on religious life. Describes Highden as a working farm. Mentions that there were six brothers in residence and many students. Describes being there from 1953 to 1955 when he went to Mount St Mary Seminary. Describes his work with Brother Maurice Murphy who was in charge of the vineyards at Greenmeadows. Mentions that Brother Basil was the winemaker. Discusses the close planting of the vines, low yield, building up production, the use of oil pots when temperatures dropped, spraying, harvesting, the use of netting to prevent damage by birds and disease. Talks about the arrival of phylloxora. Discusses the work of the other brothers at the Greenmeadows community and its split into priests, students and brothers. Recalls the moving of the wooden buildings from Meeanee to the current site on the hill. Describes how he and Brother John were the first to get diplomas. Discusses his bursary to study viticulture in France in 1965. Talks about grafting. Describes replacing Brother Maurice as vineyard manager and deciding with Brother John on what varieties would be planted. Talks about Tom McDonald, the merger of McDonald's Winery with McWilliams and Tom McDonald's role in establishing the Wine Institute. Describes how the Institute raised the standard of New Zealand's wine exports. Recalls the Hawkes Bay Winemakers Association. Mentions the effect on the vineyard of the 1921 fire and the 1931 earthquake. Describes changes in the wine cellar and wine press. Talks about the Colin (named after John Claude Colin) Library, its move to the Auckland seminary in 1998 and the Marist brothers move from Greenmeadows to Taradale the same year. Describes how the vineyard and winery is now run by lay people with Dave London as vineyard manager and Paul Mooney as winemaker. Interviewer(s) - Janice Aplin Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3120.

Date: March and July 1986 - 01 Mar 1986 - 01 Jul 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Hodgkinson, Leslie Robert, 1904-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/07

Description: Leslie Hodgkinson was born in Takaka on 14 March 1904. Talks about the arrival of his great great grandparents in Nelson on the `Thomas Harrison' in 1842. Gives details of family members. Describes being brought up by his great aunt Emma McDonald who accompanied her hotel owner husband around the gold diggings in Golden Bay last century. Talks about his schooling in Takaka, hop picking in the holidays, picnicking, sport and entertainment in the 1920s. Describes flax mills, saw mills and cheese factories and gives details of early motor vehicles. Recalls the East Takaka tramway, the Takaka River ferry, experiences on the Takaka Hill Road, the Onekaka Iron Works and the Tarakohe Cement Works. Talks about his engineering apprenticeship in Palmerston North between 1920 and 1924 and working for the Takaka Dairy Company as a maintenance man from then until 1936. Describes starting his own motor business, Hodgkinson Motors, in Takaka in 1936. Talks about his family and his wife's death in childbirth in 1951. Describes family life after his wife's death. Recalls the Murchison earthquake and the Golden Bay Home Guard in World War II. Talks about local personalities. Venue - Takaka : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Dodson Road, Takaka Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002961; OHC-002962; OHC-002963; OHC-002964; OHC-002965; OHC-002966; OHC-002967 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 573.

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0024474

Description: The Politician is told that his department should enter a vege growing competition in the category of 'biggest leeks'. Possibly refers to a recent privacy breach at the Earthquake Comission, where details of 98,000 claims were mistakenly sent to a contractor. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 17 Feb 2003 - 18 Nov 2003 - 17 Feb 2003 - 18 Nov 2003

By: Coffey, Veronica, 1959-

Reference: OHColl-1170

Description: Comprises eight interviews with Nelson women by Veronica Coffey, conducted in 2003. Interviewees describe their early life, families, education, careers, health, children, and connection to Nelson region's viticulture, and hop, apple and tobacco growing industries. Some describe working as owners, growers, harvesters and pickers, dairy farmers, nurses, teachers, clerical workers and in tourism Subjects covered include tobacco harvesting and grading, the role of tobacco companies Rothmans and WD & HO Wills in Nelson, division between men's and women's jobs, seasonal and local workers, wages, effect of mechanisation, decline in tobacco industry, trials in kiwifruit growing, establishment of vineyards and winemaking, tourism in Nelson and the West Coast Interviewees are Alma Joyce Barrow, Lois Yvonne Chisnall, Elizabeth (Beth) Ellen Eggers, Betty Yvonne Fry, Anne Elizabeth McEwan, Agnes Mary Seifried, Kaye Maureen Stevens and Jill Elizabeth Williams A ninth interview with Nola Leov was completed but not deposited with the collection. The recording is held by the Nelson Provincial Museum. Abstracted by - Veronica Coffey Interviewer(s) - Veronica Coffey Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019404 - OHC-019428, OHC-019431 - OHC-019437 Abstracts: OHA-6798 - OHA-6803, OHA-6806 - OHA-6807 In 2003, Veronica Coffey (Assistant Principal, Richmond Primary School, Nelson) received a Royal Society of New Zealand Sciences, Mathematics and Technology Teaching Fellowship, which she used to pursue stories about the lives of Nelson women. With support and guidance from the Nelson Provincial Museum, she narrowed her field of interest to 'women who had a role to play in making Nelson a prosperous place now and in the past', beginning with those involved in viticulture and tobacco Quantity: 32 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). 31 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: This collection was received with two other interviews - OHColl-1172-01, Interview with Rod Clements and OHColl-1175, Interviews about Royal Society of New Zealand Teaching Fellowships 2003 Donor/Lender/Vendor - Veronica Coffey 14 colour portraits of interviewees; copies of 3 black and white family photos of Anne McEwan, 1950-1970 Search dates: 2003