Places

Date: Sep 1996 to Jul 1997

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

Reference: OHColl-0446

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

Date: Nov 2000-Jun 2001

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-0551

Description: Interviews with a number of people who spent their childhood in this rural district north west of Auckland City during the 1910s and 1920s. The area was long used as a portage by Maori between the Kaipara and Waitemata harbours. Pakeha initially settled during the mid to late 1800s and, after forest and gum clearance, the area was slowly developed into dairy farms. In 1915 nearly 5000 acres of scrubland at Kumeu North (renamed Huapai) were subdivided as orchards, mixed farms and weekend homes. There was an influx of new residents (including weekend only residents) following this. Huapai School opened in 1919. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 27 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0897-F

Description: Apple blossom at Mildura Apple Orchard, Upper Moutere, taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - [in list formation] 2 2; Photographer's title on negative - "Blossoms at Mildura Apple Orchard" No. 452 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.9 cm

Date: 1909

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-002

Description: A view in an orchard This picture was awarded the 1st prize in the Farm or Station Class for the `Auckland Weekly News' eleventh photographic competition. Extended Title - Supplement to: The Auckland Weekly News special Christmas Number, 1909 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 387 x 575 mm

Date: [1950s-1970s]

From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-7484

Description: Colour slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1. Cottage, Motueka Jan 1975, 2. Hopfield and cemetery, Riwaka Jan 1975, 3. Queenstown Airport, 4. Moeraki boulders, 5. South Island scene, 6. Tuatara, Invercargill Museum, 7-12. Kingston Flyer, 13. Christchurch Square, 14. Looking down Heathcote Valley, 15. Lyttelton from ferry, 16-20. Napier Marineland early 1970s, 21. Napier flower clock mid 1950s, 22-23. Hastings orchards mid 1950s, 24. Top dressing mid 1950s. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film negatives

Date: 1915 - 1919

By: Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PA1-q-394

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1839-1947

By: Brown, Ellinor Jane Hunter, 1840-1929

Reference: MS-Papers-0101

Description: Forthright and articulate letters of a family prominent in Anglican affairs in England and New Zealand. Topics include the 1848 revolutions, an indignant account of the Second Spring of the Catholic hierarchy, the Crimean War, the European War 1914-1918; strikes and most social or religious movements of the time. Also typescript of Catherine Orbell's voyage to New Zealand in the ship "Mariner". Charles's correspondence include his mother Ann, sisters Eliza, Della and Mary, which continue after Charles emigration to New Zealand in 1849, up to June 1855 when Mary wrote to report Dell's death. Ellinor's correspondence deals chiefly with family and religious matters, including letters from her mother Caroline, 1871-1872; sister Annie, 1872-1874, and Mary, 1868-1872; cousin Caroline Abraham, 1868-1872; Alice Lloyd, 1875; Mary Ann Martin, 1872; A M Nihill, en route to England on the Chatham, 1856; Sarah Sewyn, 1867-1868; and Elizabeth Sewell, 1865. Source of title - Supplied title Ellinor met Charles Hunter Brown in Auckland during 1860, where she was staying with relatives Caroline and Archdeacon Charles Abraham. They married on 5 February 1861 and lived in Auckland, Napier and Wairoa, before settling on their property `Long Look Out', at Nelson, April 1866. Quantity: 60 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [1980-1988]

By: Beatson, C B, active 1912-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5692

Description: Comprises list of contents of three tapes transferred to the Oral History Centre and `fore-word' to the tapes. The reminiscences begin with Beatson's family settling in the Ngatimoti area and continue with descriptions of his family, the land they settled and farmed, events that occurred locally including shipwrecks, development of roads and bridges, schooling, church, fruit growing, house building, raspberry growing, tobacco growing and social life. Included are photographs and maps, an appendix of extracts from `An Expedition to the Tableland - Mount Arthur - 1880' by Edward Jennings and one on Woodstock, a rural subdivision. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - The full account by Edward Jennings of his climb to the Mt Arthur Tablelands in 1880 is at MS-Papers-1297 Beatson was born at Ngatimoti and lived there until he had completed his university studies. Some years before the reminiscences were donated to the Library he began recording memories of his early life. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (116 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr C B Beatson, Wadestown, Wellington, Feb 1988 Transfers: To Oral History Collection - Three tapes of Beatson's reminiscences (OHColl-99). Photographs and maps are reproduced

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-026

Description: A family group including a woman and small child with a horse and trap, picking ripe apples. An orchard and bush behind them Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Poole, Isabella F, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2295-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed Arts and Crafts styled house with roses climbing over arched pillars. Orchard to left of the house. Lawn in front bordered by garden, with a drive on the right between the garden and tall trees. Grey Buick car parked in the drive (number plate: NZ81-186). Hills in the background with jagged peaks on the right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Refer also Pan-1955. Name taken from legible initials, the full name found in Wise's Post Office Directory, and from fact that there was already a photograph taken by R P Moore of Mrs Poole's orchard (Pan-1955) Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - I.F. [Poole?]. [K...a?] Clyde. 1 oils. 2 sepia. [Emulsion damage, where lettering illegible shown as ...]. [ ... view. House ... roughcast, red roof. Barge board on roof & eaves ... Shrub next right corner of house ... shrub showing over top of same ... white & red ... creepers. Grey car. Rose bed on ... colours. Tussocky colour hills Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.4 cm

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

From: Wanaka Station oral history project

By: Blennerhassett, Jill Stewart, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-1011-01

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

Date: 24, 26, 30 November 1992; 2, 5, 19, 26 April 1993; 24, 31 May 1993 - 24 Nov 1992 - 31 May 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Cunninghame, Rose, active 1992; Richmond, Irene Dorsett, 1909-1996

Reference: OHInt-0148/23

Description: Mrs Irene Richmond was brought up and went to school in North East Valley, Dunedin. First jobs as hat check girl, usherette, and with dressmaker; later as waitress in restaurants, hotels and boarding houses in Dunedin and Wellington. In Dunedin with husband living on dole during Depression, experienced health system when her new-born baby died. Then lived in poverty at Earnscleugh orchard where had a gold claim. The marriage failed, after which supported herself by waitressing in Napier, Auckland and South Island centres. In later life lived in Dunedin, nursing ailing parents and made second marriage. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Rose Cunninghame Venue - Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018508-018519; OHLC-00947-009958 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 transcript(s) partial. 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6419 and OHDL-000757. Photograph of Irene as a young woman; Irene in 1993.

Date: 23, 26, 29 March 1993; 3 April 1993 - 23 Mar 1993 - 03 Apr 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Randle, Daphne, active 1993; Haydock, Irene Myrtle, 1898-1994

Reference: OHInt-0148/15

Description: Irene Myrtle Haydock, nee Fraser, born in Christchurch and lived in Christchurch, Dunedin, Alexandra, Rakaia and Wellington. She was the eldest of 9 children but lost track of her brothers and sisters because she was raised by her aunt, Jean Patrick and cousin Dr Clifford Patrick. She was one of the first girls taken on by the Post Office to train as a Telegraphist. She worked in Post Offices in Rakaia, Government House (Wellington) and Sydenham. She married in 1925 to Philip Haydock and had one daughter. She took boarders into her home and later ran a boarding house, Haeremai, in Alexandra. Irene's great interests were Bridge and Croquet Club. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Alexandra Interviewer(s) - Daphne Randle Venue - Alexandra Accompanying material - Marriage certificate of Irene Myrtle Fraser to Philip Cecil Haycock in 1925; Acceptance letter of resignation from Post Office in 1925; Birth certificate of Irene Myrtle Fraser in 1898; Trinity College of Music certificate for pianoforte playing in 1922. Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-018543-018546; OHLC-009982-009985 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6424 and OHDL-00749. Photograph of Mrs Haydock at Ranui Home in 1993

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Paulin, R N, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1868-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across the Clutha River to orchards above a steep rock and shingle bank. Two houses centre left visible behind fruit trees. Rows of poplars behind the houses and along the river bank. Steep rocky, tussocky hills behind. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - R.N. Paulin. Box 44, Clyde. Otago. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Wood, Alfred John, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1883-F

Description: Panoramic view of a sloping valley with a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse in the left foreground. Two women are standing at the top of steps by the entrance porch. A car is parked beside the drive to the right of the house with two children seated on the running board. There is an orchard behind and to the right of the house with paddocks and cleared hills in the background and on the right. There are farm buildings and pallets of fruit cases above and to the right of the house. Areas of tussock on the hills. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - A.J. Wood, Coal Creek Flat, Roxburgh, Otago. 3 B&W. Red roof, cream house, red borders. Orchard light & dark green. Red car, red garage tin roof. Cement shed, tin roof. Some of trees in orchard are slightly red tipped leaves; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 98.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Craig, William S, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1884-F

Description: Panoramic view looking towards a stone cottage with quoining on the corners. Orchard in front of the house in the left foreground, and farm buildings behind. Other areas of orchard up a hill behind the house. Rough stony ground in the foreground and tussocky hills behind. Large field, possibly of grain, on the right with a larger house partially visible over the brow of a low hill on the far right. Another orchard above this house on the left. Scrub in the foreground. An area of willows and newly planted trees on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - W.S. Craig. Roxburgh, Otago. 6 sepia; Marginal notes on negative - 7 7 7 7 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 113.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Robb, Sydney Alfred Hedges, -1934

Reference: Pan-1885-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over a narrow valley. Rocky ground on either side of the golf course, a grassy strip running across the image. Small single-storeyed clubhouse in the right middle distance with a tiny peep of roofs in Roxburgh in a lower valley behind a steep hill to the left of the clubhouse. Orchards on the lower sopes of a hill in the middle distance on the left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S. Robb. Box 93, Roxburgh. 6 B&W. 1 oils. Golf House, white house, red roof. Portion of town red & tin roofs. [Tips?] on tces white. Grey stone rocks. Orchards in distance dark green. Green grass; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Faulks, J, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1887-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up a return drive to a single-storeyed bungalow-styled farmhouse with a corner verandah. Steps up from the drive. Large flower bed in the centre of the drive, orchard to the left of the house. Garage behind the house on the left, and small farm building centre left above the orchard. Group of willow trees to the right of the house. Tussocky hills behind, valley below on the right with steep hills in the background on the right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J. Faulks. Pembroke, Otago. 3 oils. White house, red roof, willow trees on hill, tussock hills. Dark beetroot tree close to camera in front of garage. Dark red, pink & cream roses in front of house. Yellow sun-flowers on right of drive. green hill on right, small yellow sunflowers on left of house, pink roses at back of house on left side; Marginal notes on negative - 5 5 5 5 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 129.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Russell, Peter R, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1897-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from a tussocky hill to a wide area of newly established orchards at millers Flat. The back view of a single-storeyed farmhouse is in the centre right with outbuildings. There are other houses in the middle distance behind the orchard. Flat farmland in the middle distance as far as hills in the distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - P.R. Russell. Millers Flat. C. Otago. 3 sepia. 8/8/- [pounds]; Marginal notes on negative - 6 6 6 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 107.8 cm

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Birch, Albert (Mrs), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1900-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up along a drive in the centre of the image to a single-storeyed farmhouse with a tiled roof. There is a smaller stone cottage to the left. Garage at the end of the drive to the right of the house. Orchards on left and right up to the foothills of tussocky hills with some areas in pasture. Poplars across the image on the foothills and some up into the hills. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Birchdale" 1926; Marginal notes on negative - Title "Birchdale 1926" Mrs. Birch Senr. Roxburgh. 3 sepia; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.8 cm