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Interview with Peggy Vause (nee Bryan)
Date: 2 Mar 2010 - 02 Mar 2010
From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project
By: Vause, Peggy Nita Graham, 1924-
Reference: OHInt-0767-23
Description: Interview with Peggy Vause (nee Bryan), born in Onehunga in 1924. Refers to her family background and growing up at Graham's Beach, Awhitu peninsula, Mangere and Otahuhu. Mentions working in the family horticulture business, and then for Aircraft Service Ltd at Mangere Airfield - sewing Tiger Moth wings and office work. Comments that all senior staff there had been in the Air Force during the War. Talks about wearing slacks to work. Refers to development work on aerial topdressing done at Aircraft Service, including by her future husband Alan Vause. Comments on being offered a job as an air hostess in the late 1940s but turning it down. Mentions flights with Freddy Ladd. Talks about leaving Aircraft Services, and flying to Australia in 1950, landing in an electrical storm. Refers to working in Australia for a period and then returning Auckland to work at Aircraft Service Ltd again. Mentions buying and renovating a house in Mt Eden, going to dances, working as a cashier at the Crystal Palace picture theatre, and having an account at Smith and Caughey's. Recalls the 1953 Royal Tour, visiting Government House, and the Tangawai train disaster. Mentions marrying Alan Vause in 1974. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001701, OHA-7512. Search dates: 1924 - 2010
Interview with Sanoubar Ali
Date: 13 Dec 2009
From: New New Zealanders oral history project
By: Cottrell, Anna, active 1996-2003; Ali, Sanoubar, 1987-
Reference: OHInt-1039-06
Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7658. 1 interview(s). 1.48 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Jack Urlic
Date: 04 Jul 2011
From: Milford oral history project
By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Urlic, Jack Dominko, 1932-2012
Reference: OHInt-1017-11
Description: Interview with Jack Dominko Urlic. Born in Black Ridge, Mangere on 24 May 1932. Describes family history and the reasons for his father's immigration to New Zealand from Croatia. Explains that his father sent food parcels and money back to Croatia during World War Two. Describes his father's work near Dargaville gum digging and flaxmilling. Discusses how his parents met and their courtship. Describes his father's music shop in Onehunga. Discusses his family's move to Milford, where his mother's brother Arthur had a garage business. Describes the trip from Onehunga to Milford, and explains that his parents bought Stormont's Cake Shop in Takapuna but then sold it and opened a milkbar in Milford. Describes shops and life in Milford and Takapuna in the 1930s, and that his parents worked seven days a week in the shops. Describes experiences at Takapuna School and Campbell's Bay School. Describes a school trip to the Bay of Islands in the 1940s, and participating in sports. Also describes attending church and mistaking Americans arriving in amphibian boats for a Japanese invasion during the war. Describes Milford generally during World War Two and fear of invasion. Discusses schooling at Northcote High School and transportation difficulties getting there. Describes schooling, work, and apprenticeships. Describes his social life in Milford, and explains that his parents bought the Milford Mini-golf course after the war. Explains that Wolsley Avenue was the red light area of Milford, and that two houses were brothels. Describes the Milford Picturedrome, and dances at Pirate Shippe. Explains how people used to sneak in alcohol. Also describes Milford swimming pool. Discusses schooling at Northcote High School and transportation difficulties getting there. Describes schooling, work, and apprenticeships. Describes his social life in Milford, and explains that his parents bought the Milford Mini-golf course after the war. Explains that Wolsley Avenue was the red light area of Milford, and that two houses were brothels. Describes the Milford Picturedrome, and dances at Pirate Shippe. Explains how people used to sneak in alcohol. Also describes Milford swimming pool. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.05 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Nikola John
Date: 23 Jan 2009
From: New New Zealanders oral history project
By: McLeod, Marion, active 1950-2000; John, Nikola, 1946-
Reference: OHInt-1039-08
Description: Interviewer(s) - Marion McLeod Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7660. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Adam Awad
Date: 15 Feb 2010
From: New New Zealanders oral history project
By: Cottrell, Anna, active 1996-2003; Awad, Adam, 1966-
Reference: OHInt-1039-09
Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7661. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Mohammed Hassan
Date: 14 July 2009
From: New New Zealanders oral history project
By: Locker-Lampson, Anna, active 2001; Hassan, Mohammed, 1966-
Reference: OHInt-1039-10
Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Locker-Lampson Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7662. 1 interview(s). 1.19 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Terefe Ejigu
Date: 12 Dec 2008
From: New New Zealanders oral history project
By: Ejigu, Terefe, 1988-; Cottrell, Anna, active 1996-2003
Reference: OHInt-1039-01
Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7653. 1 interview(s). 2.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Monte Cecilia Housing Trust 30th anniversary oral history project
Date: 2012
By: Greenaway, Ruth Margaret, 1968-
Reference: OHColl-1040
Description: Six interviews conducted between August and October 2012 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Monte Cecilia Housing Trust in Mangere. The interviews are with staff of the Trust, and include two staff members who were former residents. The interviewees are Sister Mary Foy (CNZM), Elaine Lolesio, Cecilia Wulf, David Zussman, Vaima'a Memea (Ma'a), and Georgina Kelly. Awards/funding - The project received a Ministry of Culture and Heritage Oral History Award grant in 2012. Abstracted by - Ruth Greenaway Interviewer(s) - Ruth Greenaway Monte Cecilia Housing Trust was established in 1982 by the St Vincent de Paul Society, Liston Foundation, the Sisters of Mercy and the Marist Brothers. The original purpose was to provide emergency housing and practical assistance to families with a housing need. The Trust also sought to ensure adequate, affordable and secure housing for all New Zealanders through housing action and political advocacy. Quantity: 14 Electronic document(s) (Adobe PDF files). 14 Electronic document(s) (Microsoft Word files). 11 digital photograph(s) Jpeg files. 6 digital sound recording(s). 7 printed abstract(s). 6 interview(s). Search dates: 1982 - 2012
Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :NEWS - A Customs officer at Auckland Airport was almost knocked...
Date: 2013
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0025152
Description: Depicts a New Zealand Customs offical being punched on the chin by a fist emerging from a torch in a bag. The bag owner is aghast. Refers to an illegally imported stun gun disguised as a torch discharging during a baggage search at Auckland Airport (Stuff 10 May 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :NEWS - Auckland Biosecurity staff got 'quite a fright' when the...
Date: 2013
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0025153
Description: Depicts a female Biosecurity officer being attacked by a giant crab emerging from the luggage of an Asian traveller. Refers to Auckland Airport biosecurity staff seizing five live giant Chinese mitten crabs which were declared by a Vietnamese traveller arriving from Sydney (see TVNZ 17 May 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Auckland International Airport. "We come from the orient, with abundant riches for thos...
Date: 2007
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0003629
Description: Two Arab men on camels enter the Auckland International Airport. Dollar notes drop out of overful suitcases and float to the ground. One of the Arabs says they have abundant riches for those in the Manger and an airport official tells them they mean, 'Mangere' and points in the direction of Mangere. There has been a miscommunication between the notion of the Three Kings taking gifts to baby Jesus in the manger and Mangere, a suburb of Auckland. Refers to a consortium from Dubai putting in a bid to buy Auckland International Airport. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).