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Date: 13 Sep 1988

From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III

By: McLeod, Ella Margaret, 1921-2011; McLeod, Norman Colin, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0003/26

Description: Ella Mcleod describes family background; childhood, particularly discipline, religion, education, alcohol, smoking, health; education at Karori Primary School and Wellington Girls College; employment, reference New Zealand Insurance Co; nursing training; nursing at Wellington Hospital; describes doing public speaking course - shyness; development of relationship with Colin. Colin McLeod recalls family background; father's work with the Public Works Department; childhood: discipline, religion, alcohol, smoking, music, reading, sport; education; enjoyment of school; memorable teachers at Canterbury University, Professor J E L Culls (?); practical work for degree; background to employment in design office of Public Works Department; service during World War II, work on coastal defences, army service in 6th Field Company ending war in Trieste, Italy, benefits of war experience, reaction to return to civilian life. Recalls work as engineer at Mangakino (1948 - 1960); salary at start; first house; J T Gilkison as project engineer; training; sense of community; describes Mangakino; workers' union; Householders' Association; reference to YMCA; Waikato Hydro Welfare Association; staff housing; social hierarchy; reference to Arnold Clark (?), Jim Macky, Bill Bell; first impressions; early feelings of Ella McLeod; importance of tunnellers; artificial nature of settlement; power shortages post World War II; shortage of labour; immigrant workers. Ella McLeod describes making own entertainment; harsh climate; cinema; babysitting system; clubs; community involvement; the infective hepatitis epidemic (1957); childbirth; lack of major health problems in community; few deaths; giving lectures to St John Ambulance, Red Cross. Colin Mcleod discusses worker turnover; single men's camps; strikes; the volunteer fire brigade; Maori integration and comparison of standards of living between Maori and Pakeha; details first strike before arrival; co-operative contracts for engineers; tactics of workers' union; details second strike in 1951; impact on women; fatal accident on Waipapa Dam and union reaction; union loyalties. Both discuss political feelings; Ella McLeod's membership of Wellington Hospital Board since 1974 and her public awards; her enjoyment of leadership roles; the effect of going to United States on both their lives; circumstances of Ella's appointment as JP in Mangakino. Colin Mcleod recalls trauma involved when Maraetai II was closed down in 1960; procedures for rendering site safe. Colin describes work as District Commissioner of Works, Hamilton (1964 - 1966); learning how the Department worked at district level; reference to P L Laing (Commissioner of Works, 1965 - 1969); involvement with local authorities; details of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, 1966; work as Director, National Water and Soil Conservation Authority (1966 - 1971); reference to Water Polution Act, 1954; finding ways of issuing water rights; Water Allocation Council, reference to Chairman, Percy Allen; colleagues, Gordon Walker and Don McGill; work as Commissioner of Works (1973 - 1981); planning of Albany Development, Auckland; role; duties; ministers worked under; strain of job as Commissioner. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr and Mrs McLeod's home at 8 Astor Street, Karori, Wellington Accompanying material - Copies of two brief typed CVs; Copy of brief biography of Colin McLeod in Notable New Zealanders, p 311; Copy of brief biography of Colin McLeod in Who's who, 1979, p 187. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001859 - OHC-001862 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 287. Black and white photographs of:-. Colin McLeod, 1988. Ella McLeod, 1988. Ella and Colin McLeod, Christmas 1964 Search dates: 1921 - 1988

Date: 17 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Smith, George Henry Alexander Sidney, 1908-1987

Reference: OHInt-0070/22

Description: George Smith recalls his family background, childhood in Petone, effect on the family of the influenza epidemic of 1918, the Post Office Association Welfare Fund, smoking in the Post Office, duties as a lineman and chauffeur in Lower Hutt ca 1926, transferring to Rarimu during the Depression 1930s, work as message boy in Petone Post Office from 1923, interview for job, uniform, salary, deliveries, sorting, Ericsson telegraph equipment and procedures, delivery routes, work as junior lineman Lower Hutt 1926, methods of erecting poles, effects of Hutt River floods, the way the General Division was viewed by others. Describes personalities, feelings about work, Tommy Dale the Wellsford policeman ca 1942, the town of Wellsford ca 1942, the effect of the Depression 1930s, ceremony of automatic cutover in Wellsford in 1964, role of overseer, geographical organisation in Wellsford - fault areas, effect of lineman work on health, faults and on call work, details of the Eureka Line Camp during the Depression 1930s. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 72 Port Albert Road, Wellsford Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001233 - OHC-001235 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 164. Search dates: 1908 - 1985

Date: 14 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McLaughlin, James, 1908-1994

Reference: OHInt-0070/29

Description: Jim McLaughlin recalls family background, childhood in Westport, education, early work as message boy in Post and Telegraph Department in Westport, the postmaster W T Johnston, details of shifts, duties, salary, uniform and cleanliness, clearing post boxes, discipline, training in morse, layout of Westport Post Office, selling telephones to the farmers, peoples' reaction to telephones initially, operators listening to telephone calls, importance of wrist in sending morse, press telegrams, suicide of telegraphists, mentions work as radio inspector and signals officer in World War II, traits needed for good telegraphy. Describes earthquakes, Murchison earthquake June 1929, damage, conditions in Nelson, effect of earthquake on communications, land and forestry, relieving work at Nelson Post Office as telegraph cadet, acquaintanceship with Keith and Norma Holyoake, Motueka, transfering to Wellington radio in 1931, Depression in 1930s, work as radio operator in Chatham Islands 1930s, describes place, the post office and the radio station, the spark transmitter, death and funeral of Tommy Solomon, the Moriori, the racing club, life of the Chatham Islanders, fishing, background to becoming radio inspector in Nelson from 1936-1943, work as radio inspector at Nelson in World War II, duties, training radio operators for the Hudson bombers, work as Maori interpreter at the Chatham Islands from 1932-1936. Talks about work as senior radio inspector in Hamilton from 1943 to 1965, views on engineers, involvement in several Royal visits, reference to some notible Post Office events from 1930-1962, attitude of Head Office to his work, retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Hamilton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 60 Awatere Avenue, Hamilton Accompanying material - Copies of the following included in printed abstract: Jim McLaughlin's curriculum vitae, typed, two pages; various radiograms to Jim McLaughlin; article from the Waikato times, 24 Mar 1958 entitled 'American satellite heard in Hamilton; 'Powerful signals picked up from Soviet satellite', Waikato times, 14 October 1957; various other articles about the same subject; a letter from Alan Frame from the Old Timers' Club to Jim McLaughlin; editorial by Leo Simpson entitled 'So you think you're an engineer, mate!', Electronics Australia, August 1984. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001240 - OHC-001243 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 161. Search dates: 1908 - 1985

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0010146

Description: A group of Hamilton cilty councillors sit around a table looking perturbed at the size that the Auckland super-city could be. One of them has the bright idea that Hamilton could make a bid for the rest of the North Island. Refers to the super-city that is propsed for Auckland that will be administered by a single mayoralty. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: Feb - Apr 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000276

Description: Photographs of Hamilton, Te Anga, Marokopa and Taharoa buildings, 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Buildings Feb to April 2008" Quantity: 24 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0012881

Description: The cartoon shows a train running backwards downhill from Auckland to Hamilton. Text reads 'Estimated cost escalation' and words on the train read 'Planned commuter service'. The driver says 'We could be going backwards'. Refers to the derailing of plans to trial a commuter train service between Hamilton and Auckland after the estimated cost escalated to more than $1 million annually for three years. The Hamilton City Council's transport committee yesterday admitted defeat over plans to trial the commuter service after the latest KiwiRail proposal revealed the cost would be more than double the $450,000 figure it earlier indicated. The council was left as the main funder of the service after the NZ Transport Agency and Environment Waikato refused to chip in. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: April - July 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000251

Description: Photographs of the exterior of buildings in Hamilton, Tokoroa, Te Aroha, Frankton, Tirau, Taupo and Putaruru, taken April-July 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folder called "New Zealand Buildings April to July 2008" Quantity: 70 digital photograph(s).

Date: January - June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000539

Description: Photographs of Hamilton, Raglan, Putaruru and Taupo buildings, taken January to May 2010 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 5 digital photograph(s).

Date: January 2011

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000643

Description: Photographs of buildings in Hamilton, Huntly, Morrinsville and Thames taken in January 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 6 digital photograph(s).

Date: November 2011 - August 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000930

Description: Comprises views of vans, trucks, and cars taken mainly in Wellington, but also Upper Hutt, Petone, the Waikato, and Whanganui by Dylan Owen between November 2011 and August 2013. The images include vehicles decorated in protest for Aotearoa is Not for Sale, and against exclusion of Maori from the All Blacks during the 2011 World Cup, as well as business vehicles and decorated camper vans. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Transport" Quantity: 12 digital photograph(s).

Date: July - November 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000929

Description: Comprises street views and various buildings in Wellington, Petone, Hamilton, and Upper Hutt, taken by Dylan Owen from July - November 2013. Includes images of Ghuznee Street, Victoria Street, Pipitea Street, and Marjoribanks Street in Wellington; Jackson Street in Petone, and Main Street in Upper Hutt. Also includes views of Barton Street in Hamilton. See also PADL-000924 for images of individual buildings on these streets. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Street views" Quantity: 11 digital photograph(s).

Date: July - November 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000924

Description: Comprises views of various buildings in Wellington, Petone, Hamilton, Upper Hutt, and Greytown taken by Dylan Owen from July - November 2013. The photographs include images of a bouncy castle on the Petone foreshore; Brownie's Mattress Direct building on Thorndon Quay, Wellington; the General Assembly Library, Wellington; JB Hi-Fi on Barton Street, Hamilton; Miro Street Panel Beaters in Upper Hutt; the Mt Vic Chippery on Marjoribanks Street, Wellington; a paintball fort in Manor Park; the Red Rat shop on Barton Street in Hamilton; the Rockshop on Barton Street in Hamilton; Autobodies and Prop Auto on Webb Street, Wellington; The Barking Lot on Victoria Street in Wellington; and Trust House Four Square on Main Street in Greytown. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Buildings" Quantity: 13 digital photograph(s).