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Date: 1993-1994

By: Haami, Bradford Joseph Te Apatuoterangi Maaka, 1966-

Reference: OHColl-0453

Description: These recordings were made as source material for the written biography `Dr Golan Maaka : Maori doctor' (1995). Dr Maaka practised medicine in the Whakatāne district for 35 years and combined Pākehā and traditional Māori medical practices. He also did medical rounds in the Ureweras. Interviews are with Tangi Maaka, Maanu Paul, Willie Aarons, Bill Davis, Helen Draper, Ted and Pauline Butt, Jumbo Chadwick, Dr Staverley, Roger Maaka, Ching Tutua, Florence Maaka, Puti O'Brien, Derek Asher, Bob Burgess, Jock Young and Graeme Howard, Leslie Stewart, Inia and June Maaka, Rowena Paku, Koa Murdoch and Manurere Dimitrof. Interviewer(s) - Brad Haami Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 10 C90 cassette(s). 20 interview(s). 28 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 17, 24 Jul 2010 - 17 Jul 2010 - 24 Jul 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Luke, Hina Lucy, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0984-10

Description: Interview with Hina Luke (nee Puketapu), born in Lower Hutt in 1932. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered in the recording include: Mother's family: farming background in Taranaki; maternal grandparents' English ancestry; values, visits to grandparents' home; grandmother lived with family. Mother: previous marriage and children; appearance; domestic life; sale of produce; preserving; budgeting; views about health; leisure. Father: education with Te Whiti and Tohu Te Raukura; Maori language; previous marriage and children; self-education; friendship with Walter Nash; community relationships; quest to build Marae after loss of land; public and private life; working life; leisure; dress; gardening; extent of domestic role. Maori language: attitude to and experience of in childhood and since beginning of Kohanga Reo movement. Childhood homes: Whites Line East house and garden; Puketapu Grove house and garden; rooms and facilities; father's design requirements for new homes in Puketapu Grove; water and bathing; gardens and crops. Childhood: education; chores; visitors; meals; food; offal; meat bones; cooking; gardening; keeping chooks; evening activities; education; gender roles; special occasions; Christmas; childhood illnesses; mother's health remedies; dances in Wellington; discipline; parents attitudes to alcohol. Sewing and dressmaking; dresses for dances; apprenticeship at Regent Gowns; taking in sewing; making quilts, cushions; mending clothes. Marriage: meeting husband; first pregnancy before marriage; wedding dress; wedding day; wedding presents; budgeting; husband's role in domestic and family life. Husband Richard Luke: employment; Maori language; role at Waiwhetu. Living with husband's family in Manaia, Taranaki: food; laundry; fish and meat offal; return to Waiwhetu. Living with parents in Puketapu Grove: furnishing room; children; domestic work. Family home at Porirua East: furniture and appliances; garden; shops; making friends. Children: preparation of layette; wool and fabric; preparations for birth; equipment; hospital stay; treatment of eczema and asthma; daily routine; clothing; meals; chores; weekend activities. Food, cooking and meals: kitchen and cooking equipment; use of fat; meat and offal; vegetables; fish and shellfish; food storage; keeping fowls; freezing and preserving; saying Grace; catering; making bread at Marae; changes since stomach stapling operation. Recipes and recipe books: manuscript book for catering information; basic muffin recipe; mother's dumplings; healthy apricot snack; macaroni pudding; instant pudding. Laundry: separate wash house at Puketapu Grove; washing by hand; drying clothes; ironing; stains; washing machine; washing at Manaia. Waiwhetu Marae: fundraising for; opening; catering at opening; role of food on marae; self's current role; daily routine; food for Kohanga Reo; food for Marae visitors; special dietary requirements; food brought for tangi; healthy food; health clinic; smoking. 28th Maori Battalion: return to Wellington; meal for returned servicemen. Current living arrangements: family home with extended family. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001494 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 digital photograph(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 4.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001463, OHA-7390. Colour photographs of: Hina Luke in her kitchen (2010); Hina Luke in marae kitchen (2010); handwritten recipes and cover of recipe book (2010). Scanned colour photographs of: Hina with Waiwhetu Health Centre banner; Hina and others outside Waiwhetu Marae; Hina sewing quilt; Hina sewing; Hina in Waiwhetu kitchen; Rewena baking bread; montage of photographs of Hina and Richard Luke. Scanned B&W photographs of: Hina as a child; Hina aged 17; Hina with her high school basketball team; Hina with other staff of Regent Gowns; wedding photograph with her parents; grandparents Caroline and Algenon Yeates; house at Puketapu Grove (OHDL-001464) Search dates: 1932 - 2010

Date: 5 Sep 1989

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

By: Keelan, Keita, active 1989; Keelan, Ngawini P, active 1989

Reference: OHInt-0151/59

Description: Comments on sharing of decision-making on the marae. Discusses the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi to her. Talks about the denial of traditional hunting rights and confirms this as an example of the Treaty not working. Contends that the exercise of legislation in relation to trespass is contrary to the principles of the Treaty. Comments that Maori interests are not adequately served in education. Discusses Maori health and housing including the Waitakaro papakainga housing scheme. Comments on the effort of addressing issues arising from the Treaty and the high cost in time and money given the lack of satisfactory outcomes. Highlights the role of the kaumatua as a support base. Interviewer(s) - Ngawini Keelan Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 40 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2238.

Date: 29 Aug 1993

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

By: McLean, Murdoch, 1912-; Sanson, Rita, active 1993; Hooper, Phyllis May, 1903-2002; Honore, Doug, active 1993

Reference: OHInt-0430/11

Description: Murdoch McLean discusses his father's work on the railway tunnel at Kanohi. Recalls floods in 1926 when the railway line was closed for a number of days and passengers were trapped on the train. Discusses his grandfather's work sending off kauri logs. Mentions loading logs on trucks, shifting logs by rail and rafting them down the river. Rita Sanson talks about Taranaki boats and the `Gerlock' which travelled to Kaipara. Phyllis Hooper discusses music in the area. Mentions Bel (Belle) Wilson, Bella Russell, Millie Nicholls, Dick Aitkenhead, Reverend Noel white, Dora Eddelston, Jasper Calder, Alice Rimmer and Doug Lilly. Recalls local musical productions, playing music at the church and Sunday School and playing for fundraising concerts such as the Queen Carnival. Comments on music teachers Dennis Coles and Graham Nobbs at the College in the 1960s and 1970s. Doug Honore talks about his great grandfather (Abel) Abraham Honore who was attached to a German Mission from 1820 to 1848 and sent to the German settlement at Upper Moutere before going to Ruapuke Island near Stewart Island. Describes how Maori there were in poor health as a result of contact with the whalers and sealers and Honore helped with crop growth and the improvement of whares. Talks about how he asked for a wife after eight years, the birth of five children, their move to near Ranfurly and then Wellington and the death of his first wife. Mentions that Honore spoke English, Maori, Danish and Swedish and also served as a minister in the Scandanavian settlement of Forty Mile Bush near Dannevirke and amongst the Maori in the Manawatu. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s) with four people. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3331.

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: 1994-1999

By: Harte, Helen Mountain, active 1999

Reference: OHColl-0471

Description: Interviews women from the Bay of Islands area about their childbirth experiences. Interviews Miria Shortland, Taurangi Clendon, Wainu Hoori, Ida Packer, Florence Pita, Mihiterena Wells, Ngareta Wharerau and Harriet Brown Simeon, Atareiria Haika, Morini Katene, Hera Paratene, Erana Prime, Mabel Waititi, Akanihi Tiatoa and Lucy De Thierry Kiwikiwi. Interviewer(s) - Helen Harte Quantity: 14 C90 cassette(s). 14 printed abstract(s) (Summaries and 4 transcripts). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Short summaries and 4 transcripts.

Date: 15 Jul -29 Jul 1985 - 15 Jul 1985 - 29 Jul 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Siddall, Alice, 1884-1987

Reference: OHInt-0004/21

Description: Alice Siddall was born in Wanganui in 1884. Gives details of a working class childhood in Wanganui before World War I. Describes her mother's early death, father's disability and how the family coped. Talks about the early death of a brother and sister and living with her brother Charlie, who worked with the Railways Department, at Bell Road in Lower Hutt in the 1920s and later. Recalls travel on the Wanganui River to Pipiriki by canoe ca. 1892, living in a whare at Upokongaro, Maori women's tattoos and relationships with Maori. Talks about the Keith Street area, living conditions, the family garden, chores, running away from school and not returning, the town of Wanganui and its personalities, the 1891 flood, the Church of Christ and the Salvation Army. Recalls clothing, her dislike of trade unions, phonographs, the lamplighter before electricity, `foreigners' and the 1918 flu epidemic. Venue - Lower Hutt : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Aroha Hospital, Molesworth Street, Lower Hutt Accompanying material - Two newspaper articles - one about Alice Siddall's 100th birthday and one about her 101st birthday Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001329; OHC-001330; OHC-001331 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 183. Search dates: 1884 - 1985

Date: 13-25 Oct 1986 - 13 Oct 1986 - 25 Oct 1986

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Parker, Wiremu, 1914-1986

Reference: OHColl-0216/1

Description: Wiremu Parker was born at Makarika, Waipiro Bay in 1914. His grandfather was William Parker from Durham, England who married a young Maori woman, Ereti Waititi. Describes how his mother had thirteen children, eleven of whom died in infancy, and died after the birth of her thirteenth child. Comments on rates of Maori mortality. Talks about his mother, Ruth Teoharepe Collier, her gentle nature, use of the Maori language and his bilingualism. Describes visiting his Pakeha antecedents on his father's side. Notes that his father was also Maori. Comments that he has two fatherlands and moves between Maori and Pakeha worlds. Discusses his Ngati Porou antecedents from Rarotonga and traces his own whakapapa from Porourangi. Interprets the Ngati Porou tradition of the waka (canoe) petrified in stone on the top of Mount Hikurangi. Recalls his grandfather, Sam Collier, who was a drover. Discusses his father spending part of his childhood on Makarika Station and how he built a home halfway between Makarika and Hiruharama. Mentions the development of Hiruharama and Waipiro Bay. Talks about childhood: not starting school till the age of nine as it was too dangerous to cross the river when younger; the importance of the horse then; corporal punishment. Notes that his father farmed his way through the Depression. Mentions that his maternal grandmother was the chief mat maker for their meeting house. Refers to Sir Apirana Ngata and the Land Development Scheme. Recalls the tangi as it used to be. Comments on the loss of part of it and the survival of the `externals'. Emphasises the importance of speech-making at the tangi. Comments on kohanga reo, the state of the Maori language, the people selected to travel with the Te Maori exhibition and his feeling that Maori have been required to change more than Pakeha in working towards biculturalism. Analyses taniwha stories. Describes change by the 1940s. Mentions Dr Harold Turbott of Te Puia Hospital who was responsible for Maori changes in attitude to hospitals. Talks about midwifery and Maori medicine. Recalls Hiruharama teachers Mr and Mrs David Miller and Doug Ball, the Senior Inspector of Maori schools. Describes attending Te Aute College where Maori language was not allowed except at the weekends. Comments on the role of the Mormon Church in the death of the Maori language and encouragement of the language by the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches. Describes the effect of the Napier earthquake on Te Aute College. Talks about playing rugby, attending Victoria University and marrying Matakaiohe Takarangi, a dental nurse, in 1940. Mentions their family. Discusses Sir Apirana Ngata and the chiefly tradition of which he was part. Comments on the importance of a chief showing skill in waiata. Compares some waiata, especially `Tutere Moana' with writing by John Milton. Analyses the waiata `Poia Atu Taku Poi' by Erenora Taratoa (Ngati Raukawa). Refers to Whatarangi Winiata. Recalls the week long tangi of Meriana Tairua, the wife of Tuta Nihoniho in the 1920s. Comments that Ngati Porou did not have land confiscations and women have always had the right to speak on the paepae tapu. Recalls the reception for General Freyberg in the Wellington Town Hall about 1942 and Ngata's speech there. Comments on his special gifts, ability to interpret Maori to Pakeha and vice-versa and his ability as an educator. Talks about the influence of Sir James Carroll. Refers to Paraire Paikea, Sir Eruera Tirikatene, Charlie Ryland, Henare Poananga, Timi Hei (Jimmy Hay), Dr Maui Pomare, Dr Tutere Wirepa, Dr Peter Buck, Dr Peter Tapsell, Sir Paul Reeves, Haare Hongi (Henry Stowell) and Reverend Rewiti Kohere. Talks about the skills of Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Discusses Hawaiki, religion and the book `The golden bough' by James Frazer. Comments on the visit of Bishop Frederick Bennett with Ngati Porou. Tape nine is the presentation of the honorary doctorate degree to Wiremu Parker at Victoria University of Wellington. Language - English and Maori Venue - Lower Hutt : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Parker's home in Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001287; OHC-001288; OHC-001289; OHC-001290; OHC-001291; OHC-001292; OHC-001293; OHC-001294; OHC-001763 Quantity: 9 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 277. Photo of Wiremu Parker in 1959 and later, as a broadcaster

Date: 25 Nov 1990 - 25 Nov 1995

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Dowding, Shirley (Dr), 1920-

Reference: OHInt-0019/07

Description: Dr Shirley Dowding describes family background, education, life in Te Karaka, private education at Woodford House, Otago Medical School - St Margaret's College, attitude to women medical students, travel to Dunedin during wartime, being manpowered to base hospitals at East Cape, diseases, treatments, duties. Recalls entering general practice at Te Karaka succeeding Dr Gordon Ellis, importance of general practice in Te Karaka with lack of hospials in area, also that of Plunket and district nurses and cooperation with them, health practices of large Maori population, transport in rural East Cape, need to function as accident and emergency clinic because of bad roads, later life in Gisborne. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Gisborne Interviewer(s) - Elaine Barron Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004291 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 19 Apr 1995

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Neave, Margaret (Dr), 1920-2007

Reference: OHInt-0019/11

Description: Dr Margaret Neave discusses childhood, family background, education, work as a ships doctor returning from United Kingdom to Wellington, work for the Health Department at Kimi Ora Cerebral Palsy School, research work with Dr Ian Prior relating to the Tuhoi (Tuhoe) people of the East Coast, work with Dr Randal Elliott in Raratonga and Puka Puka, two year term with Volunteer Service Abroad in Samoa, with the New Zealand Surgical Team in Qui Nhon in Vietnam, with Save the Children Fund in Vietnam, in Mt Hagen in Papua New Guinea, with Save the Children Fund and then the Hong Kong Government at Hong Kong Refugee Camp, with Volunteer Service Abroad in Vanuatu (Pentecost Island), helping to restart Volunteer Service Abroad activity in Qui Nhon from New Zealand. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Dr Ruth Black Venue - Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006280 - OHC-006283 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 31 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Savage, Dorothy Te Uru Manuka, 1911-1988

Reference: OHInt-0015-06

Description: Naki Savage describes her family background; her whakapapa (genealogy); early Maori cultural training at the Pa; the Wairarapa Anglican Maori Cultural Group; the Ngati Kahungunu Group; prominent Te Ore Ore families : Rimene, Kawana, Karaitiana, Waaka, Manaena, Whakamairu, Ellis, Carrol and Himona; important dignitaries of the time: Ratima Maaka, Ihaia Whakamairu, Rimene Witinitara, Albert Himona, Rose Paraone (Nanny Rose), Joe Brown; favourite childhood games; excerpts from Naki's narrative of the coming of Ratana; Potangaroa's Stone; social gatherings at Te Ore Ore; gathering food, eels, preserving meat, the gardens at Kopuranga, seafood, preserving apples and eels. Recalls childhood upbringing by Nanny Rose; custom of burying the afterbirth; swaggers (tramps); carting water from the Ruamahanga; Maori medicine and hygiene; tuberculosis; parties and alcohol; the Depression; contact with Pakeha; starting school; employment with the post office; discrimination; skills taught at school; the influenza epidemic; the Karitiana Family from Christchurch. Discusses politics and the Ratana; religion at Te Ore Ore; work available at Te Ore Ore; marriage and family; her ideas about Kohanga Reo; work for Bessie McKenzie at Mataikona; marriage to Bert Savage; The Maori Women's Welfare League; events experienced at Te Puia Springs; events at Maketu Beach, Rotorua; places regarded as tapu in New Zealand; losing her fluency of the Maori language; how the whakapapa was taught; the Owahanga (Aohanga) Management Committee; the finding of Kuini Reside's whakapapa book; her husband's businesses; life at Castlepoint; her work at the telegraph during World War II; the 1942 earthquake; early memories of Masterton; impressions of Masterton today. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 10 Cedar Wood Flats, Opaki Road, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004434, OHC-004435, OHC-004845 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0887. Search dates: 1911 - 1983

Date: 16 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Anderson, Dolly Kiriwai, 1913-1995

Reference: OHInt-0064/17

Description: Dolly Anderson was born in Te Maika, Kawhia on 14 December 1913. Describes her childhood, without formal schooling, her father, who drowned in 1928 and her four brothers and three sisters. Talks about Catholicism and hardly ever seeing Pakeha. Recalls food and fuel gathering and how she got to dances at Kawhia by horse and boat. Describes doing housework and working in a shop selling food. Recalls living and working in Hamilton, Rotorua and Kawerau. Talks about getting married, her children, the death of her husband and how she coped as a widow. Describes ensuring her children were educated. Comments on Maori-Pakeha relationships. Discusses World War II and her objection to Maori men fighting but also the support she gave when they departed. Talks about some of the war deaths and tangi held for soldiers. Recalls attending tangihanga at Ngaruawahia and her family's involvement in the coronation of the Maori King. Gives the Maori King whakapapa. Discusses aspects of the Ratana movement. Talks about working in a cookhouse and running a laundry service, health, childbirth, Maori medicine and Maori attitudes to doctors and hospitals. Describes being wahine karanga for Tokanga Nuia Noho Marae. Venue - Te Kuiti : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana-Hyland Venue - Te Kuiti Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004783; OHC-004784; OHC-004785 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 856. Photograph of dolly Anderson in June 1992

Date: 26 Mar 1992

From: Nga Kohikohingia o Nga Taonga a Ngati Koata. (Ngati Koata Oral History Project)

By: Elkington, Maunganui, 1920-2005

Reference: OHInt-0017/2

Description: First fifteen minutes of tape not summarised. Maunganui Elkington recalls school trip to Picton; teacher, Miss Abbott; remarriage of father; first job at Kirkpatricks; meeting husband, Turi Elkington; local dances at Oddfellows Hall, Val Coleman; reasons of going to D'Urville Island; mentions Charlie Jacobson, Wetekia Elkington, Noke Kawharu, Jack Webber and the 'Anaru'; describes Madsen Bay, Cherry Bay and identifies people there; wedding arrangements; purpose of Maori House; her wedding day; mentions Rangi and Lucy Elkington; move to French Pass, accommodation from the Webbers; duties of husband as coast guard during war; mentions May Barnett, Roy Webber; return to Madsen Bay; mentions Hahi Ngamuka, Jim Elkington; cooking methods; buying first home at Kia Ngawari Bay; mentions Mrs Gullery; family troubles, mentions Roma and May Elkington, Harold Leov. Gives origin of first boat, 'Belfast'; mentions Gundy Kohe, Turi Ruruku; origin of Buck Ruruku; reasons for home births; employment at Post and Telegraph; mentions Carol Kingturner; and Christmas tree party at French Pass; mentions Abbey Turner; recalls New Year's Eve parties and Bill Turner, Hemi Walker, Mick Elkington; origin of French Pass Hall; New Year's Day and meal; details people buried in Madsen Bay Cemetery; the district nurses; diseases causing deaths in the war years; purpose of coastal scows, mentions 'Puriri'; lists scows operating around D'Urville Island; mentions Roma and Rangi Elkington, Turi Ruruku. Describes recreational activities at Madsen Bay, cards, ping-pong, dances, tennis; life before electricity; hardships experienced, food situation, ways of coping; Bill Selwyn's death; Alamein Selwyn; closing of Maori House; recalls '5 Washington Rd'; memories of Wetekia Ruruku; fishing trips with children, grandchildren; mentions Val Meichun from Hastings; move to Waipukurau, Maori culture group, Kia Ngawari; wanting to return to Picton. Venue - Waipukarau Interviewer(s) - Josephine Paul Venue - 25 Woburn Street, Waipukurau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004470 - OHC-004471 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 763.

Date: 21 Oct 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Thorpe, Joyce Elaine, 1917-

Reference: OHInt-0314/14

Description: Gives details of her family background, childhood days and schooling in Hataitai in the 1920s.Talks about the family's social life, the church in family life, Sunday School picnics and Hataitai as a new suburb in the 1920s and 1930s. Recalls the effects of the Depresssion, high school at Wellington East Girls' College, Commercial School (College), teenage social life and World War II. Comments on the effect of the presence of American servicemen during World War II. Talks about working for a film distribution company and the Wellington Automobile Association. Describes meeting `husband to be' Jack Thorpe, their six year courtship, his unavailability for military service during World War II for health reasons, the effect of this on him, and treatment for his tuberculosis at a Christchurch sanatorium. Mentions marrying Jack, the birth of Bill and first contact with Plunket. Talks about her interest in natural childbirth and the techniques of Grantly Dick-Read, the loss of a baby during pregnancy and her eventual family of eight children. Describes their move to Gisborne where her husband established the Columbine Hosiery factory along the lines of a `garden factory' with his two brothers. Talks about becoming pregnant at the age of forty-seven and her attitudes to contraception. Describes joining the Plunket Committee, fund-raising events, the Stamp Out Measles Campaign, local sub-branch issues, being President of the Gisborne branch for four years and the attitude of Maori women to Plunket. Comments on Neil Begg, David Geddis and Plunket Society national presidents including Joy Reid and Pat Seymour. Venue - Gisborne : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004831; OHC-004832; OHC-004833 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 878. Colour portrait photograph of Joyce Thorpe in 1992