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Date: 1992-1996

By: Apatu, Marei, active 1992-1996

Reference: OHColl-0347

Description: Waipatu marae kaumatua talk about their memories of early life in the Heretaunga region of the Hawkes Bay. Primary topics discussed are iwi and hapu links, the Waipatu Marae, local beaches and food sources. Interviewer(s) - Marei Apatu Accompanying material - OHA-4569 and OHA-4570 are in one folder and also contain accompanying information called Background to "Te Kotahitanga - First Maori Parliament" a Chronological Timeline, Glossary and Poroporoake. Quantity: 4 C90 cassette(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 1 folder(s) - Accompanying materials. 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

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: 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: 02 Apr 1997

From: Te Roroa Maori life stories project

By: Mete, Ngamako, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0568/02

Description: Ngamako Mete was born in 1935 at Waipoua, Tai Tokerau. Talks about being delivered at birth by grandfather Pera (Aperehama) Nathan Patuawa. Discusses her parents Noema Rose Thompson of the Uri o Hau Iwi, father Wiki (George) Aperehama Nathan Patuawa of Te Roroa, Ngati Torehina, Ngati Whatua and Ngati Rehia iwi. Mentions her paternal grandmother Sophia Urikore Nathan and great grandmother Piipi Cummins (nee Tiopira). Describes whare she was born and raised in. Recalls whanau who lived in Waipoua, the construction of kumara pits and an old pataka. Mentions Liz Myers. Talks about father being a dairy farmer then becoming involved in the Anglican Ministry, the family moving to Waimate North, father's withdrawal from the ministry and Maori clergy being paid less than pakeha. Names brothers and sisters and describes experiences at Ahikiwi marae and Kaihu village. Talks about the kaumatua and kuia of the Kaihu area, including Kino Raniera Te Rore Taoho. Describes her participation in athletics and basketball. Mentions leaving Ahikiwi to work in George Courts in Auckland and her father returning to the ministry in Auckland. Describes meeting Rev Mark Mete and gives details of their large wedding. Talks about her children, their birthplaces, their education and mentions the illness of one of the children. Gives details of her experiences during her husband's ministries in Bombay, India, Kamo/Hikurangi and Kawakawa Co-operating Parishes. Mentions sectarianism during the period in Kawakawa. Talks about moving to Christchurch, the difficulties she experienced on a modest income with her husband often working away from home, taking boarders. Mentions Rima and Kira Tirikatene and the Ellisons. Talks about the Phillipstown parish and running a mission shop. Describes religious study trip to Selleyoak College, Birmingham, time at Ashton parish, presentation to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace and being part of a (Church Missionary Society) CMS delegation to Lambeth Palace to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mentions nephew Manos Nathan and other whanau. Talks about Birkenhead parish in Auckland, racism, the Springbok tour, the Bastion Point occupation and the role of the church in confronting injustice. Discusses the changes she saw among Maori when she returned to Northern Wairoa. Talks about her father's death, his pact with Bishop Panapa and his burial in Maitahi urupa, Taita. Interviewer(s) - Garry Hooker Accompanying material - Ngati Ruanui, Tai Tokerau whakapapa of Ngamako Mete included in abstract Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 C120 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2621.

Date: 29 Oct 1999

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Ngataki, Martin Matekino, 1943-; O'Shaughnessy, Phil, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0509/11

Description: Martin Ngataki was born in 1943 and has lived in Tuakau most of his life. Briefly describes his farm next door to the original family farm. Recalls Tekohanga Primary School, being told not to speak Maori and Onewhero District High School. Mentions that the school was 50% Maori. Talks about playing rugby at school and for Counties. Recalls playing against Don Clarke. Describes how his father was a farmer and a plumber. Describes working at Southdown freezing works as a butcher and other casual work before starting shearing and going go shearing school. Mentions Ivan Bowen. Describes marrying Tia Taonga in 1962, shearing around Mercer, Maramarua, Hauraki Plains, Pukekohe and Onewhero. Mentions his wife's adjustment to shearing life. Talks about early shearing competitions, help from Tom Brough and the excitement of getting in the Golden Shears final for the first time. Comments that except for one year he was in every final from 1973 until 1979 when he won. Mentions running, rowing and swimming as training. Recalls the 1979 final and other finalists Samson Te Whata, Tom Brough, Bob Michie, Ivan Rosandich and John Fagan. Describes winning a trip to Australia in the New Zealand team, shearing at Euroa, using narrow gear, shearing merinos and being beaten. Compares his style with that of others and discusses whether there is a Maori shearing style. Tia Ngataki comments about her family, the impact of shearing on family life and her preference for the open shed. Comments on the Golden Shears. Discusses women shearers Barbara Marsh, Michelle Harrex and Jillian Burney. Mentions having eighteen grandchildren. Discusses the family marae (Paimaria), marae involvement and being Tainui. Comments on MMP and some politicians. Discusses judging, golf and rowing. Interviewer(s) - Phil O'Shaughnessy 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-2521. Photos of Martin Ngataki as Golden Shears champion 1979

Date: Mar 1963 or 1964

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Wilson, Arthur, 1868-

Reference: OHInt-0470/21

Description: Arthur Wilson was born in Auckland in 1868. Describes how his father, a builder by trade, went to Rotorua in 1872. Recalls being educated in an old whare on the side of Pukeroa Hill overlooking Ohinemutu. Talks about some of his fellow pupils. Mentions the Morrisons who ran the Rotorua Hotel and Dr Hope Lewis who owned the first home in Rotorua. Describes the stores at Ohinemutu which belonged to Thomas Wrigley, Harry Taylor, William Kelly and Charley and Willie Rogers. Describes how the Post Office and police station were built on the government reserve. Describes some schooling at Te Wairoa with Mr Haszard and at Tauranga District High School in 1883. Talks about his brothers and sisters Mary Jane, Kate, Eliza, William, Millie and Ellen Hinemoa. Mentions that William lived only a week and Ellen Hinemoa died at the age of two from falling into a hogshead of boiling water. Describes the boats that crossed Lake Tarawera and Harry Taylor's boats. Mentions Mokoia Island. Recalls Bishop Bennett at the mission at Te Mu, Te Wairoa. Mentions Ngati Hinemihi and Tuhourangi at Te Wairoa. Talks about the family owning the Terrace Hotel which had to be in the name of the brother in law, William Menzies. Mentions Arikatara's pa and Taumataherea Pa, Hiwawa and the Maori policeman Hare Takerei and Kiwi Amohau. Talks about Maori settlements Galatea, Whakarewarewa, Rotoiti, Taheke, Rotoma, Rotoehu and Awahou. Recalls veterinary surgeon Fred Allom; surveyors Bigham, Dalton, Stubbs, Harding and Alf and Charlie Clayton; school teacher Mr Webber; Mr Dansey the postmaster; Captain Gilbert Mair and Father Reignier and Dr Stewart, the Bishop of Waiapu. Talks about the cemetery and people buried there. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2870. Search dates: 1963 - 1964

Date: 26 March 1995 - 23 Mar 1995

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi Parewahaika, 1906-2007; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: OHInt-0600-07

Description: Witarina Harris was born at Ohinemutu, Rotorua in 1906. Talks about whanau, mother Matareia (Ngati Whakaue rangatira), mother's father Rautoko Haupapa, father James Whelan Mitchell, grandfather Henry Walter Mitchell and father's mother Whakarato. Talks about returning to family marae with Ngati Poneke and upsetting her family by staying on the tauiwi side with Ngati Poneke instead of on her family's side. Mentions two families hospitable to young Maori in Wellington, the Ngahanas and the Irihateras. Mentions collecting kaimoana from different Wellington bays, and cooking paua. Talks about Wellington's Granny Raukara. Mentions brothers and sisters, many of whom died young from whooping cough. Talks about growing up with her grandparents. Mentions getting the cane at her convent school for speaking Maori, and then being caned again on returning home as punishment. Mentions that children were not involved in important occasions at the Ngati Whakaue marae. Interviewer(s) - Jonathon Dennis Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) only. 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3658; MSDL-0153 (file Witarina.doc). Search dates: 1920 - 1950

Date: 11 Apr 2002

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Royal, Manihira Te Ra Purewa, 1932-; Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0673-09

Description: Manihira Te Ra Purewa Royal, known as Hira, was born in Otaki in 1932, and has lived there all her life, except when at boarding school. Recalls belonging to the Takarore whanau, which includes the families Hohipuha, Raika, Te Waiata, and Nikora (Nicholls). Mentions the Te Horo cheese factory, the Rahui dairy factory, milk at school, and milk delivered in cans. Talks about school and boarding at Hukarere in Napier, her teachers, the principal, Miss Hunter, prayers, strictness, duties, other pupils. Mentions her 11 children, her whangai (foster) daughter and her brothers and sisters. Recalls leaving school in 1949, marrying in 1950, living on the marae, then on Miss Lochore's property. Mentions using a copper washer and an outside hand wringer. Talks about their home in Otaki, built using a Maori Affairs Loan in 1954, and later extended. Talks about the family benefit. Mentions her mother-in-law, Whakarato Royal, who lived with them for 26 years. Refers to the Otaki Maternity Home, where mothers rested for 14 days after birth. Refers to Playcentre involvement. Talks about working for Koha Ora, at Kimberley Hospital and the Otaki Children's Health Camp. Describes association with Rangiatea Church and the Anglican mission, mentioning Grace Bargrove, a Pakeha deaconess buried at Rangiatea, and Olive Morgan. Mentions church at Ngatokowaru Marae. Recalls the influence of church ministers, including her uncle, Paul Temuera, and Hohepa Taepa. Describes involvement in the Anglican Church, as Kaikaraka, Deacon, and being ordained as a priest by Bishop Muru Walters in 1996. Reflects that she had a 'calling' to the church. Talks about whitebaiting and the importance of fishing. Recounts story of catching seafood and giving thanks to Tangaroa, the sea god. Mentions camping and a flood. Recounts living at the marae on retirement, and being on the Raukawa Marae Committee. Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11056/7 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3865. Photo of Hira and husband Wehi Royal at Raukawa Marae on their 50th wedding anniversary, 2000. Search dates: 1930 - 1990

Date: 15 Jul 1996

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

By: Tangaroa, William Tamu, 1922-1999

Reference: OHInt-0633/4

Description: William Tangaroa was born in 1922 in Wellington. Gives the origins of Ngati Whatua. Talks about his grandmother Mere Huia Shaw and her marriage for the purpose of holding land. Describes how her grandparents settled at Dairy Flat then Reweti (Rewiti). Describes their original home of nikau and raupo and the home that was built in 1928. Describes the site of the original Reweti marae in the hills. Discusses missionaries Reverend Marsden and Reverend Selwyn and Ngati Whatua. Discusses his father, John Tangaroa, who attended Three Kings Secondary School and Wesley College with Jack Nathan. Gives details of the background of his mother, Emma Smith. Talks about the Depression, the children carting water for the gardens and his grandfather being blinded digging rushes. Describes the selling of produce from the Reweti gardens at the market. Discusses the sacred Reweti mountain, Puketapu, where burials were made. Explains the way people were buried according to their place in society. Notes that Tauwhare Hill was a recovery place for warriors. Mentions the quarry in the area which was closed as a result of lots of accidents. Discusses fishing methods and the catching of eel, koura, toheroa, paua, mussels and other species. Describes drawing the oil from mutton birds. Describes how work was done with horses and mentions the breaking in of brumbies. Mentions how the moving sand buried native bush and the role of marram grass in stabilising sand. Mentions his schooling at Helensville and leaving school and working in a bush camp. Describes the work. Describes planting marram during the Depression and the finding of midden. Describes being manpowered to do farm work in World War II. Mentions marriage. Mentions the South Head forestry settlement. Comments on the continuation of early customs at Reweti including herbal knowledge, forecasting weather and food preparation. Discusses tapu and the identification of tapu places. Mentions the Brynderwyn bus accident and identifying victims. Describes how the sacred mountain, Puketapu, is now planted in pine. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3321.

Date: 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: 24 Nov 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Kaa, Sophie, 1903-1992

Reference: OHInt-0048/10

Description: Sophie Kaa was born in October 1903 in Iwitea, Wairoa, the eldest daughter in a family of twelve. Discusses her whakapapa descending from Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti, Ngati Kahungunu and Rongomai Wahine on her father's side and Rongowhakaata on her mother's side. Talks about her father, a faith healer who believed in a Christian God, and chairman of the Maori Council in the early 1900s. Talks about the family's Anglican religion and her father's attitude towards the Ringatu and Ratana religions. Describes his high moral values, emphasis placed on education and attitudes to his daughters' upbringing. Talks about sleeping arrangements on the marae. Recalls her father teaching his daughters how to fight physically. Talks about her grandparents and mentions that her maternal grandmother, an ariki from Whangara, was a descendant of Porourangi. Describes her fascination with the English language, a planned arranged marriage and her marriage to an English speaking Maori who became minister at Tirau College. Describes her mother's nursing of flu victims in 1918 and the effect of the flu on Maori society. Talks about her scholarship to the Church of England school Hukarere College and changing her name. Discusses the importance of cultivating and retaining the Maori language and integrating it into the education system. Talks about her involvement with the Maori Women's Welfare League, spirituality, tapu and tikanga with particular reference to menstruation, education on menstruation, women giving up their babies, the lack of birth control and Maori forms of abortion. Talks about her own twelve children, their education and career choices and contemporary attitudes to elders. Language - (small amount of Maori) Venue - Gisborne : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004132-OHC-004135 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1632 and OHDL-000571.

Date: 12 Aug 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Solomon, Harata Ria Te Uira, 1925-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/09

Description: Harata Solomon was born 22 January 1925 in Otaki, one of eleven children, and was brought up in Waikanae. Discusses her name and whakapapa on both parent's sides. Discusses her paternal grandfather, Kaka Kura Wi Parata, a chief of Ngati Te Kowhai, Ngati Toa and Te Atiawa and his wife who was of Ngati Raukawa descent. Talks about arranged marriages, communal living and sharing in Maori society. Discusses Waikanae, living off the land and traditional diet. Talks about her memories of her mother and being looked after by her maternal grandmother after her mother's death. Discusses her father and his involvement with the Ratana religion and her family marae, Whakarongotai, in Waikanae. Talks of her cultural identity, modernity and assimilating into Pakeha culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Recalls her childhood pastimes, memories of the Depression and the number of people the family had staying. Discusses her grandmother's death, the division of labour in Maori society, her bicultural life and Maoritanga. Talks about her education at Waikanae, Hukarere Boarding School and Wellington Teachers' Training College. Talks about Ratana and Mormon teachings and lack of sexual instruction. Discusses her own faith as a member of the the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and a Mormon. Recalls the Waikanae community and poi, haka, taiaha and mere activities. Discusses women clearing tapu on the marae and her aunts and their passing down of knowlege and the place of Maori women. Talks about her commitment to teaching, the impact of World War II on her whanau, her marriage after the war and her husband and children. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Sound Centre, National Library, Wellington Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-4150-4151 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1637 and OHDL-000576.

Date: 15 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Anderson, Ripeka, 1921-2015

Reference: OHInt-0064/18

Description: Ripeka Anderson was born at Otorohanga on 27 July 1921. Gives her iwi as Ngati Maniapoto and hapu as Ngati Uekaha. Describes starting school at the age of eight at Hauturu near Kawhia. Talks about her tupuna who were Pai Marire. Notes that she became Methodist and her husband was a member of the Ratana faith. Describes food and fuel gathering and the family's punga house. Recalls the beginning of war and details of some of her relatives who went overseas with the Maori Battalion. Talks about women working on farms as land girls and her involvement in knitting, spinning and sending food parcels to the soldiers. Recalls dances with Maori bands and smoking straw and torori. Describes tolerance towards the birth of illegitimate children during the war. Discusses attitudes towards Maori going to war and mentions Te Puea. Talks about the wartime experience of husband to be Aterea Anihana in Greece and Crete, the medals he received and his return to New Zealand before the end of the war with tuberculosis, on the hospital ship `Oranje'. Recalls meeting him and their marriage before he went to a sanatorium. Describes their post war life in Bennydale. Describes his work in the mine and later the cement works. Talks about their family, race relations and involvement in organisations including Maori Women's Welfare League and the school Board of Governors. Describes her husband's deteriorating health, amputation of his legs and some difficulty in getting war compensation. Talks about Kingitanga, poukai (the growing and giving of food) and the marae. Talks about retirement to Te Kuiti, being a kaumatua on the marae and involvement with the Iwi Transition Authority and Maniapoto Runanga. Comments on the importance of grandparents and parents. Venue - Te Kuiti : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana-Hyland Venue - Te Kuiti Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004789; OHC-004790; OHC-004791 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 858.

Date: 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0015-F

Description: Maori women and children in the kitchen at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows a Betty Rei with a child on her lap; children playing; Una Epae, Miriama Morgan and Rongo Rangiwhetu playing cards etc. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 2003

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

Reference: DCDL-0006140

Description: Shows Maori activist Titewhai Harawira manipulating the New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark, as a puppet on strings, near a sign reading 'Waitangi'. Refers to how Harawira used Clark's status a Prime Minister to force through the issue of Maori women having the right to speak on the Waitangi marae. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0012-F

Description: Maori women and Rei family children inside the kitchen of Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, 1960. Shows a boy eating a meal; Una Epae, Miriama Morgan (nee Daymon) and Netta Puketapu playing cards; a toddler trying on footwear; and a boy looking at a book/magazine. Photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0032-F

Description: Scenes at the Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows Maori children, one holding a Coca-cola bottle; a glimpse of the meeting house etc. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0024-F

Description: Maori children at Waiwhetu Stream and at Waiwhetu Marae. Photographed 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: between 1959-1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0058-F

Description: Maori children at Waiwhetu Marae. Photographed between 1959-1960 by Ans Westra. M1 to M720 Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.