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Date: 28 Mar 1994 - 14 Apr 1994

From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: OHInt-0406-06

Description: Tony Batley outlines his family history going back to 1863 when his grandfather joined the crew of the `Royal Bride` which sailed to New Zealand and anchored off the coast at Napier (Paytoney) where a local gale blew the vessel over. Local Maori formed a living chain and saved the crew - Grandfather was thirteen years old with no possessions. Was hired for a couple of years by Sir Donald McLean who had a sheep station at Marae Kakako. Evenually in 1882, after several jobs, grandfather returned to Moawhango and opened a store with his brother Thomas Snelling and in 1883 opened a post office. He acted as interpreter for the Maori Land Court held in Moawhango in 1894. Discusses his life in Taihape, apart from 4 years in the Airforce, which included a course in firearms in Levin and Ohakea camp before duty in the Solomon Islands, arriving in Guadacannal on his 21st birthday. Recalls the RNZ Airforce camp called `Bloody Knoll on Ridge' had been a scene of heavy fighting in 1942. Describes the tension. Refers to Ventura bombers, the S Brauning Machine guns and depth charges. Describes the impact of returning to Moawhango and the Taihape district and how it re-awakened his interest in the history of the area and in 1946 he began to abstract his grandfather's diaries and relates extracts from them. Describes many interests. He was on the Council of the Polynesian Society; was a Board Member of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust; Chairman of the Kaimanawa Kaueha Forest Park Advisory Committe; President of the New Zealand Archaeological Society and currently on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Regional Committee, Wanganui. Discusses the peopling of inland Patea by Tamtea and his descendants. Notes that Ngati Hotu were the original iwi. Discusses Winiata marae and the Moawhango and Orua Matua carved houses. Tells the story of Ngatarua and land given to Ngati Hinemanu. Abstracted by - Susan Hawes Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - The Homested, Moawhango Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006749-006755; OHLCD-1295-1300 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1530. 5 photographs

Date: 21 and 27 Aug; 8 Oct 1986; 24 Mar 1988 - 21 Aug 1986 - 24 Mar 1988

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Gillies, Ellensleigh Denny Gordon (Dr), 1902-1989

Reference: OHInt-0019/04

Description: Dr Denny Gillies talks about her family background, her childhood, her reason for choosing medicine as a career, university education, Otago Medical School, Dr Fitchett, holidays and social life, tuberculosis, hydatids, time as house surgeon at Palmerston North, Napier Earthquake, reasons for going to England and not into private practice, post graduate study at Cambridge University studying radiology, return to New Zealand as radiologist at Palmerston North Hospital and then move into private practice in Wellington, type of work, attitudes of patients. Accompanying material - Attached to printed abstract are a number of copies of newspaper articles about Dr Denny Gillies, unsourced; a copy of article entitled 'The Rita Gillies Gardner Memorial Fund' from NZ Medical Journal, vol 62 no 372, August 1963, pp. 383-384 Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Venue - 12 Newman Court, 16 Tinakori Road, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001782 - OHC-001785 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 279.

Date: 16, 23 August, 13 Sept, 1994 - 16 Aug 1994 - 13 Sep 1994

From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project

By: Jones, David, 1914-1999

Reference: OHInt-0406-19

Description: David Jones born Wanganui, 1914. Outlines family background - maternal grandparents from County Cork, Ireland - mother born in Greymouth - Uncle Jack became Mayor of Greymouth. Talks about the West Coasters. Recalls the Chinese gold miners and the differences in their work conditions from the other miners. Describes growing up in Wanganui; family house in Keith Street; Masonic Lodge; father's fear of fire as a result of the great Raetihi bush fire in 1918. Recalls going to work in an electroplater's shop and at the age of 15 `doing a man's work for a slave wage'. Talks about the lack of a trade union covering electroplaters in Wanganui and the subsequent working conditions. Explains electroplating process. Moved to Wellington and recalls decent pay and work conditions and his first union meeting at the age of 22 when he requested that the Wanganui and Palmerston North area be covered by the engineers union which did eventuate. Explains that conditions had improved on moving back to his former job. Other recollections include: fishing; native school, Putiki; Maori canoes on the river; cherry trees planted by Mother Mary Aubert; influenza epidemic 1918; end of World War I celebrations; 1920s earthquake; big flood in 1926 and Foster's Hotel fire. Recalls declaration of World War II and joining Expeditionary Force, travelling in `The New Amsterdam' to Sydney, then to Singapore where they transferred to the `Aquatania' bound for Egypt. Was part of the 4th anti-aircraft regiment. Has vivid recall of events, relating many stories and mapping his movements during the war and comradeship. Talks about the dreadful living conditions during the war and gives his opinions on war. Mentions Battle of Alamein. Moved from the deserts to Bari, Italy and relates stories from the Sangro River. Talks about the fall of Cassino and experiences in Italy. Talks about life after the war and his research into rammed-earth building, using that method to build his own house which he describes. Talks about his book on the subject of rammed earth building that is being published at present. Recounts his involvement with RSA and Vietnam issues - was totally opposed to the Vietnam war. Gives reasons for living so long in Wanganui and the changes he has seen in the town. Recounts his involvement with the Four Seasons Theatre. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Michelle Horwood Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - 22 Ngatarua Road, Wanganui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007598-007600 ; OHC-006766-006767 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1917. Photocopies of 3 photographs: (1) David Jones Italy 1942; (2) David and Aunt Avril Jones and brother Lou; (3) David and Lou 1940.

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: Green, Paul Montague, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0425/5

Description: Paul Green was born in Wellington in 1944. Describes education at Te Aro Primary School and Wellington College. Talks about his love of tramping and climbing and climbing in New Zealand and South America. Recalls his first day as a ranger at Ohakune. Describes working for Lands and Survey and becoming senior ranger at Whakapapa. Discusses the turning of wetlands into farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey. Comments on the beginning of involvement in managing Tongariro Forest in 1987 when boundaries were drawn. Recalls the political pressure to have the Department of Conservation (DOC) established in 1987 and the political goals in creating the Department. Talks about controlling pinus contorta and goats. Describes the land administered by DOC from Whakapapa and later from Turangi as the Tongariro Taupo Conservancy. Gives a history of Whakapapa Village. Comments on the importance of pest control, possum control by 1080 poison and trapping and efforts to increase the presence of the brown kiwi in the Tongariro Forest. Gives a history of huts in the Forest and discusses the need to balance the conflict between conservation and tourism. Discusses the cessation of trips to the Ruapehu crater lake. Mentions local iwi. Recalls the beginnings of the Outdoor Pursuit Centre and its growth. Describes involvement with Search and Rescue. Discusses the development of a Conservation Management Strategy and a Treaty of Waitangi claim against it by Ngati Tuwharetoa. Explains DOC involvement in efforts to reduce the amount of water ECNZ diverted from the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Describes recreation and conservation issues in the campaign. Comments on the relationship between DOC and ECNZ. Comments on changes in the Forest in two decades and mentions highlights including the release of kiwi in the Forest and going through the Mangatepopo Gorge. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-2959. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Colour photo of Paul Green

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: 14 Nov 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Climo, Brian Francis, 1946-; Anderson, Colin Hugh, active 1998

Reference: OHInt-0425/2

Description: This interview takes place throughout the Tongariro Forest over a period of eleven hours. The interviewer and interviewees are travelling on motor bikes and a mountain bike and give map grid references as to their various locations during the interview. Brian Anderson was born in Auckland in 1946 and grew up in Owhango. Describes training as an engine driver and later becoming a truck driver at the quarry. Recalls his father was boss for Carter Holt and he went into the forest with him from an early age. Colin Anderson's father was a logging contractor with Dominion Timber Company. Discusses the mills near Raurimu. Mentions Kapoors Mill. Comments on the mountain biking track known as 42 Traverse. Discusses the pressure of hunting in the forest, the use of helicopters in hunting and the `deer wars' which resulted in a lodge being blown up in 1969. Discusses the construction of bridges, the naming of various tracks, accidents in the bush and the building of huts in the forest. Mentions DOC's plans to remove huts. Recalls camping, hunting, fishing and climbing in the area. Comments on the 4WD (four wheel drive) vehicle ban in the Tongariro Forest. Discusses the failure of the Forest Service to plant pines after logging as stipulated by the Forestry Act 1953. Comments on the success of the Tongariro Forest Park Promotion Committee. Mentions Keith Chapple. Discusses the effects of the Tokaanu Power Scheme on the Whakapapa River. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2956. Search dates: 1998

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: 5 July 1993 - 05 Jul 1993

From: Interviews with land girls by Jim Sullivan

By: Allen, Aileen Gordon, 1919-2006

Reference: OHInt-0156-2

Description: Aileen Allen born in Wellington in 1919. Talks about decision to join Women's Land Army and value of land girls for the war effort. Describes working on a farm near Turakina for three years before moving to a farm in Feilding. Topics discussed include first impressions of farm work; tasks as a land girl; living with farming families and lack of contact with other land girls Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005467b, OHLC-006260b Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 15 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 22 Jul 1992

From: Interviews for Romance Writers Book Project

By: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000

Reference: OHInt-0339-02

Description: Rilla Berg recounts early intention to become an authoress in a family of readers. Talks about father, a Danish seaman, and her early childhood on Mount Victoria. Mentions current genealogical project. Outlines her marriage and nursing career at Wanganui Hospital. Describes early writing attempts, lack of confidence and love of others writing including Dorothy Eden. Mentions first novel, published 1974. Talks about writing the history of the New Zealand Women Writers Society, of which she was the president. Recounts death of husband and subsequent travel to the Amazon and Galapagos Islands. Discusses the status of romance writers and limitations placed on romance novel heroines. Outlines personal philosophy of life and personal pleasure found at home. Interviewer(s) - Rachel McAlpine Accompanying material - abstract includes list of interviewee published works Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012754, OHC-012755 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4413.

Date: 05 Mar 1996

From: Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project

By: Broughton, Rona Amelia Wallace, 1912-2002

Reference: OHInt-0610-1

Description: Rona Amelia Broughton gives birthdate as 1911, born in Te Horo. Names both parents and outlines places the family lived. Outlines father's work as Wairoa farm manager before death in 1918 Influenza epidemic. Provides memories of life in Wairoa including neighbours and extended family members. Talks about pre-World War I housing, Manakau families, grandfather Huri Marino and his tangi and time spent in Patea. Discusses Pomare Day and early members of Ngati Poneke. Talks about the Depression, Pukerua Bay, meeting husband and agreement to marry. Outlines Otaki and Patea connections and further family members. Describes birth of her children, limitations of learning Maori, building a home with Maori Affairs assistance, the Patea Freezing Works, the Wai o Turi marae and religious beliefs. Talks about connections with Wehiwehi and Patea. Provides memories of World War II. Interviewer(s) - Michael Walsh Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013208, OHC-013209 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4607.

Date: 22 Jun 1991

From: Women writing for theatre in New Zealand in the 1980s

By: Farrell, Fiona Grace, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0617/03

Description: Discusses writing as a child. Recalls her schooling in Oamaru, university in Dunedin and then in Toronto. Describes being overseas for eight years after marrying. Mentions directing plays in Canada, the influence of some Canadian playwrights, `hippy theatre' and a theatre renaissance in Canada as a result of government funding. Comments on the beginnings of feminism there. Recalls a job with a publisher to help redress the gender imbalance in literature. Describes juggling a job, a baby and a thesis. Describes her return to New Zealand in 1976 and becoming a drama teacher. Recalls working with Stanley Roche, author of `The red and the gold', and writing her play `Waihi 1912' based on it. Discusses Amy Bock and the play she wrote based on her life. Comments on the incidence of women posing as men to get more out of their lives. Mentions other plays she has written including `Bonds', `Passengers' and `Airwaves'. Talks about writing poetry, a radio script and television comedy for 'Away laughing'. Describes being made redundant and her realisation that nearly all the staff put off were female part-timers caring for children. Comments on this. Discusses the style of theatre she enjoys. Mentions Peter Schaffer. Comments on `Foreskin's lament'. Discusses the lack of production of plays written by women in Palmerston North. Interviewer(s) - Colleen Cleary Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3432.

Date: 20 May 2002

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Manz, Arthur Herbert, 1917-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-07

Description: Arthur Herbert Manz was born in Wellington in 1917, and his family moved to Otaki in 1920. Recalls his German grandfather, a cottage weaver, who after the industrial revolution worked in the railway workshops. Recalls his father, a cabinetmaker, who emigrated to New Zealand, worked on the Manawatu Gorge railway construction, helped build the Hutt Park Grand Stand, and toured overseas with the 1905-6 Wellington Bowling Club. Mentions that his father's ethnicity became an issue during World War I, and that his mother was of English descent. Mentions getting pneumonia walking to school, school life, not being able to play football, movies, stores, dances, music and parties. Mentions the tuberculosis sanatorium. Talks about the Otaki Maori Racing Club. Talks about education and training to be a teacher. Mentions beekeeping and the Hautere Defence Rifle Club. Describes a trip to Mount Ruapehu in 1937 in a Model T truck, mentions the conditions of the roads. Recalls joining Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1940 during World War II, and having to request exemptions from the Provisions of the Alien Control Emergency Regulations because of his German nationality. Mentions that his sister worked as a WAAF for five years. Talks about his postings, including Taieri, Wigram, Hobsonville, Waipapakauri, Suva, Florida Island. Mentions he was trained in being a flying instructor, night flying, and Tiger Moths. Talks about returning to teaching after World War II, at Waitohu School, and being principal of the Otaki Health Camp School. Mentions Rangiatea Church being built. Talks about the Otaki Rotary Club, the railway station, rifle clubs, his wife and children, fishing, and leasing land to Chinese growers. Describes the Otaki Brass Band and the people involved in it. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11054 - 5 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3864. Search dates: 1920 - 1960

Date: 24 Apr 1998

By: Willis, Sarah, active 1998; Crump, Bryan, 1966-

Reference: OHColl-0683/1

Description: Recording of radio programme about the `Bridge to nowhere' played on `Country life', the rural magazine show on National Radio. The bridge was built into an area at Mangapurua opened up by the Government as rehabilitation land for World War I soldiers. Discusses how poor the land was and how the farmers eventually had to walk off it. Uses excerpts from an interview with Fred Bettjeman (OHInt-0004/09). Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 15 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

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: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

Date: 08 May 2004

From: Tung Jung oral history project

By: Chan, Janet Lay Jung, 1915-2014; Wong, Yvonne, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0747-01

Description: (i) Interview with Mrs Janet Chan born in Sarng Seng, Guangzhou (Canton), China, in 1929. Describes growing up in China and meeting her husband, Stanley Young Chan who emigrated to New Zealand from China at age of seven and had returned to China to study Chinese. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1939 and helped her husband run his fruit and vegetable shop in Mt Albert, Auckland for 12 years. She describes living among the Chinese community and learning English. In 1945 she moved to Thames where her husband had aquired what became known as SYC Vineyards where they produced wine and table grapes. In the 1970s they retired to Auckland. Mrs Chan describes her life in Thames and retirement in Auckland and compares life in New Zealand with China. (ii) Interview with Mrs Yvonne Wong (daughter of Janet Chan) Yvonne Wong was born in Harkee Village, Canton, 1936 and came to New ealand with her parents in 1939. She describes life living in her parents fruit and vegetable shop in Mt Eden, Auckland and from 1945 working on her parent's vineyard in Thames. In 1960 she married Fred Wong who owned a fruit and vegetable shop in Taihape. She describes her life in Taihape and her sons becoming managers of New World supermarkets in Taihape and Palmerston North. Language - Interview with Janet Chan conducted in Cantonese; interview with Yvonne Wong in Cantonese and English Interviewer(s) - Chang, Kitty Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014089 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). 1.18 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5059. Colour photograph of Yvonne and Janet; B&W [sepia?] photographs of Janet with her family prior to coming to New Zealand, Chan family menfolk and Janet, Stan and family Search dates: 1915 - 2004

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: 15 Jun 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Bettjeman, Frederick Charles, 1884-1987

Reference: OHInt-0004/09

Description: Describes his German born father's early arrival in the Canterbury settlement about 1850. Talks about his family, relationship with his parents and childhood at Fairdown, just out of Westport, the local goldmining community including some of the `identities'`Shakespeare Jo' and `Champagne Charlie' and attitudes to alcohol. Describes the local native bird population and the sluicing process in gold mining. Talks about his schooling, lifelong interest in poetry and being a seaman from 1904-1909. Recalls working for the Westport Coal Mining Company at Denniston until World War I when he joined the 13th Canterbury Company and fought at Gallipoli. Describes his wartime experience in depth including dysentery, depression, the effects of shell fire, shell shock and the longterm effects of the war. Talks about hospitalisation in Britain and meeting nurse Agnes (Nancy) McNab who came to New Zealand and married him. Describes taking up bush land in Mangapurua, some distance up the Wanganui River from Pipiriki. Talks about the effort in breaking in the land from bush and the Government's decision to close the Mangapurua Settlement. Recalls objecting to Prime Minister William Massey about this decision. Notes their relocation on land at the Mangahoe River. Venue - Te Kuiti : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Hillview Home, Te Kuiti Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001301; OHC-001302; OHC-001303; OHC-001304 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 170. Search dates: 1884 - 1985