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Date: 4, 8, 15 July and 1 and 30 August 2011 - 04 Jul 2011 - 30 Aug 2011

By: Ngan Kwok Guy, 1926-2017; Oldham, Philippa Jane, 1957-

Reference: OHColl-1053-01

Description: Interview with New Zealand artist and former director of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Guy Ngan, conducted from July - August 2011. 'Guy Ngan was born in Wellington in 1926, the son of a Chinese New Zealand businessman and his second wife who herself became a successful businesswoman and family matriarch. Guy was taken back to China as a 2 year old and would likely have stayed in the Guangzhou area there had it not been for the Japanese invasion in 1938. When Guangzhou was bombed Guy's father made hasty arrangements for Guy and his elder brother Albert to leave. The two boys travelled unaccompanied to New Zealand by ship. They lived initially in Newtown but Guy, unhappy at Newtown School, quickly struck out on his own arranging to stay with relatives in Miramar. This was the beginning of an independent way of life and thinking that Guy has continued to pursue.' (information provided by interviewer). The interview discusses his early life, education, experiences abroad, and his art career in New Zealand. Abstracted by - Pip Oldham Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7665. 1 interview(s). 13.31 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Liz Ngan, Wellington, May 2012 Search dates: 1872 - 2011

Date: 2011-2013

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DC-Group-0050

Description: Cartoons about political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. Malcolm Walker cartooned for the Dominion Post in 2011 while Tom Scott was on leave.

Date: 13 Dec 2009

From: New New Zealanders oral history project

By: Cottrell, Anna, active 1996-2003; Ali, Sanoubar, 1987-

Reference: OHInt-1039-06

Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7658. 1 interview(s). 1.48 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 17 Oct 2009 and 7 Nov 2009

From: New New Zealanders oral history project

By: Cottrell, Anna, active 1996-2003; Mahendran, Thurairatnam, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-1039-07

Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7659. 1 interview(s). 2.37 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 23 Jan 2009

From: New New Zealanders oral history project

By: McLeod, Marion, active 1950-2000; John, Nikola, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-1039-08

Description: Interviewer(s) - Marion McLeod Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7660. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 15 Feb 2010

From: New New Zealanders oral history project

By: Cottrell, Anna, active 1996-2003; Awad, Adam, 1966-

Reference: OHInt-1039-09

Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7661. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 14 July 2009

From: New New Zealanders oral history project

By: Locker-Lampson, Anna, active 2001; Hassan, Mohammed, 1966-

Reference: OHInt-1039-10

Description: Interviewer(s) - Anna Locker-Lampson Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7662. 1 interview(s). 1.19 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 11 Nov 1999

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: Van Kregten, Hans, active 1999; Wevers, Maarten Laurens (Sir), 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0484-02

Description: Maarten Wevers was born in the Netherlands in 1952. Gives details of his family's background and reasons for their emigration in 1953. Notes that his mother was English. Recalls travelling out on the `Rangitata' and adapting to New Zealand society. Comments on his awareness of being Dutch. Talks about family life and growing up in a home designed by his architect father. Mentions his practice in Masterton. Discusses having no relatives in New Zealand other than immediate family. Recalls his enthusiasm for sport, particularly golf, and being a Wairarapa representative. Talks about family discussions on political issues, including Vietnam, and political involvement at Victoria University. Describes doing maths and economics degrees, going overseas, living in Holland and learning Dutch. Comments on living in Holland and returning to New Zealand. Describes getting a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and arranging the tour to New Zealand of Princess Beatrix and Dutch parliamentarians. Talks about meeting and marrying his wife Louise, going to Japan from 1980-1985 and being ambassador there from 1994 to 1998. Recalls being private secretary for David Lange, travelling with the Prime Minister, his role as a public servant and the excitement of the job. Talks about working in Brussels. Describes chairing the officials' meeting of APEC in Auckland in 1998, the impact of the East Timor crisis on the APEC summit and vice versa and the unique character of APEC. Sums up his feelings about his Dutch heritage. Interviewer(s) - Hans Van Kregten Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2704.

Date: 11 Aug 1999 - 18 Aug 1999 - 26 Aug 1999

From: NZ CCS Otago Inc oral history project

By: Ford, Christopher John, 1970-

Reference: OHInt-0468/03

Description: Chris Ford was born in Balclutha in 1970. He was born with cerebral palsy which has affected his mobility and ability to work without support. Describes several operations to improve his mobility. Recalls primary school years at Paretai where there was a lot of community support and parents and teachers encouraged his learning. Mentions Peter Renshaw Centre where he had contact with other children with disabilitites. Describes moving to Dunedin as a result of the 1978 Paretai floods, living with his grandmother and attending the Matariki unit at Forbury primary school. Recalls attending physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions. Describes living at the CCS Hostel between 1981 and 1984. Talks about conflict and emotional abuse, the failure of field officers to act as advocates and the absence of grievance and complaints procedures. Mentions attitudes to people with disabilitites, under resourcing and lack of training. Describes media attention and charges being laid against staff as a result of accusations of abuse. Mentions the closure of the hostel in 1992. Comments that these events led to his politicisation about disability rights. Mentions the 1983 Assembly of People with Disabilitites (DPA), thinking in terms of people with disabilitites rather than disabled people and the role of Anne Hawker in promoting these rights. Mentions returning to live with his family in Momona, attending Taieri High School and then Otago University. Mentions the importance of CCS social worker Grant Clelland as a role model. Comments that there were few support groups for people with disabilities in his early days at university. Mentions depression, living at home and then going flatting. Describes his involvement in student politics and left wing politics. Discusses being New Labour candidate for the Clutha electorate in the 1990 election. Comments on the importance of the 1993 Human Rights Act. Discusses the Disabilities Action Group (DAG). Describes involvement in CCS including memebership of the PHAB (Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied) Group, the CAG (Consumer Advisory Group) and being on the CCS Board. Describes resigning from the Board, Board mistakes and a period of disillusionment with CCS before returning to the organisation. Comments on the national structure put in position in 1997 and the involvement of stakeholders by Graham Hambeton. Mentions Helen Burnip, Jenny Newstead, Leah Galvin, Grant Clelland and Donna-Rose McKay. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Diary of Chris Ford's progress from 1970-1976; copy of newspaper cuttings`Paretai School makes a big contribution', `Want to be a Santa?' `My W-3adventure', `Disabled children meet', `Election'90', `Students with disabilities pave way', `Advocates call for action over athletes' and `Work testing for benefits criticised'. Copy of photograph of Chris Ford at his graduation in 1997 Arrangement: The Interview audio recording comprises eight parts. The Interview is recorded on both sides of tapes one, two, and three, and on side two only on tape four, and on side one only of tape five. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2569.

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: 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: 20 Dec 2000

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: Hill, Mary, 1915-

Reference: OHInt-0601/05

Description: Mary Hill (Sister Kostka) born Karaka Bay, Wellington 1915. Outlines family background - father, Geoffrey Vincent Hill killed in France 1918 - mother trained as a midwife after father's death and family moved to Christchurch. Recalls education at St Mary's Christchurch, Teschmakers as a boarder until aged 12 years and secondary at Villa Maria College, Christchurch run by Sisters of Mercy. Backgrounds decision to become a nun with the Little Company of Mary, commencing 1931, travelling on the `Maori' to Australia to the Novitiate. Outlines training as a nun and as a nurse, spending time in Hobart and Adelaide hospitals before completing nursing training 1934 and final vows as a nun in 1937. Recalls doing child care training in Hobart for four months before going to Buenos Aires. Describes small hospital in Buenos Aires and mentions the shock on seeing the architecture. Notes the Little Company of Mary had been in Argentina in San Antonio from 1913 or 1914. Talks about problems with Peron and Evita and Evita's attempt to commandeer the hospital. Discusses the political situation. Describes atmosphere when revolution succeeded. Recalls return to Wellington in 1960 and experience as Bursar in Wellington and Hawera and term in Tonga and year in Samoa in 1982. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009395-009396 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3041.

Date: 6, 7 July 1995 - 06 Jul 1995 - 07 Jul 1995

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-; Jackson-Thomas, Fiametta Cecilia, 1903-2003

Reference: OHColl-0312/1

Description: Fiametta Cecily Jackson-Thomas born Roslyn, Dunedin. Gives parents background and talks about father's life as a Punch and Judy expert, trapeze artist and snake handler until the age of 35 when he became a cabinet maker. Describes own school days, clothing worn, discipline in school, cadet uniform, chanting of tables, pole drill, description of games played, explaining how boys and girls played games differently. Recalls outbreak of World War I, its effects on women, friends receiving telegrams and comforting each other, white feather incident and attitutes to conscientious objectors. Talks about brother's involvement in World War II. Refers to 6 o'clock closing as a war measure. Recalls being only family in street not contacting flu during epidemic. Refers to garlic as used in Corsica. Describes work experience, working in art department of photographic firm and going to School of Art 1/2 day per week. Talks about Ngaio Marsh who was in class. Refers to Ronald McKenzie, also in class. Recalls learning cabinetmaking which was considered radical for the period - 3rd woman in New Zealand to do so. Talks about social hierarchy of Christchurch. Mentions visit of Prince of Wales. Backgrounds meeting and marrying husband, Arthur, and his brief involvement with the Communist Party. Describes helping watersiders during 1951 Waterfront Dispute and at end of dispute Arthur being made honorary Life Member of Seamen's Union. Talks about Walter Nash. Also refers to Bastion Point occupation and reads poem about Maori sweeper. Gives background to poem. Mentions husband's position of manager of Auckland's Progressive Book shop and invitation to publishing house in China to help Chinese writers in English. Describes time in China, cultural revolution and immense relief on leaving China. Describes her poetry writing and refers to poem `Idle time'. Interviewer(s) - Alwyn Owen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011607-011609 Quantity: 2 C70 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4004.

Date: 22 Dec 1998

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Burgess, Ronald, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0478/01

Description: Ron Burgess was born in England in 1928 and worked as a seaman until 1955 when he came to New Zealand. Describes living in Timaru and working for the South Canterbury Electric Power Board. Recalls the need for change and beginnings of involvement in the New Zealand Post Office Union. Discusses Ivan Reddish and a `go slow'. Comments on the equal pay campaign. Discusses Muldoon, the wage feeze, the fourth Labour Government and Rogernomics, Jim Knox, Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble, David Lange, Stan Rodger and Jonathan Hunt. Explains time as chair of Combined State Union (CSU) and secretary of NZ Council of Trade Unions. Recalls problems faced and the 'unreal atmosphere' of compulsory unionism. Accompanying material - biographical notes supplied by Ron Burgess, newspaper clippings Abstracted by - Shaun Ryan Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007229-OHC-007233, OHC-007288 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1794. Black and white photo of Ron Burgess taken in 1974 in abstract Search dates: 1928 - 1998

Date: 2000-2018

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Sunday News (Newspaper)

Reference: DC-Group-0035-02

Description: Cartoons by Malcolm Walker published in the Sunday News from 2000-2010. Part of the NZ Cartoon Archive Physical Description: Digital cartoons

Date: 20 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Chapman, William Alan, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0159/05

Description: Alan Chapman was born in Levin in 1936. Gives details of his family background and growing up on a dairy farm in the Horowhenua. Describes being the only child and helping with farm work. Talks about attending Horowhenua College and leaving school to become a clerk with the Public Service Commission in Wellington. Describes living in the Public Service Hostel, his work in the accounts and personnel section and staff of the Commission. Talks about becoming Staff Training Officer with the Commission and then joining the New Zealand Forest Service in this same position. Comments on the positive attitude of the Forestry Service to training and rivalry between foresters and rangers. Describes two years spent as the Private Secretary to the Minister of Forests, Duncan McIntyre. Gives details of his work and recalls their positive working relationship. Comments on the 1969 Forestry Development Conference and the beginnings of lobbying from conservationists. Describes returning to the Forest Service and getting in to administration in the position of Executive Officer for the Rotorua Conservancy. Comments on living in the Kaingaroa village, challenges involved in this and his empathy with Maori culture. Describes the Forest Service as culturally sensitive because of the number of Maori employees and comments on its social role in unemployment schemes. Talks about being Senior Training Officer at Head Office of the Forest Service, developing new forest ranger courses and the closure of the woodsman training scheme. Comments on Directors General of Forestry. Describes becoming Chief Executive Officer and then Corporate Employee Relations Manager in the Forestry Corporation when the Service was restructured. Describes working hard to establish the new organisation and then the shock and betrayal of the 1988 amendment privatising the Corporation. Accompanying material - Photograph of A.W. Chapman in 1960; curriculum vitae Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mayfair House, The Terrace, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001908; OHC-001909; OHC-001910 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 301. Search dates: 1936 - 1988

Date: 11 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McNamara, Walter James, 1914-2000

Reference: OHInt-0070/21

Description: Walter McNamara gives details of his family background including his maternal grandfather's work on a bullock team and his father's work in timber mills all his life. Notes that his father was a saw handling champion. Describes how hard his mother worked, particularly during the Depression, her ability as a pianist and how she played piano in a dance band and also as background for silent movies. Recalls his childhood in Owhango. Discusses how his father lost his job during the Depression, relief work, some hunger and hunting for wild food. Recalls his active membership of the Labour Party as a result of the Labour Government's assistance during the Depression. Recalls an incident of corporal punishment, being taught to box, bullying at school and fighting at the mill. Notes that he disliked school as the teaching was poor. Recalls his early employment fencing, becoming a message boy at Raurimu Post Office 1929-1934, salary, personalities Bert Ewing, Ted Mather (postmaster), reasons for going into Line Branch, work hours, the operation of the railway travelling post office, rural mail delivery, remittance men, various duties, Post Office as a local information bureau, the sport of lazy stick, sly grogging, uniform, learning morse, Okutu Pa, social and sporting life. Describes working as junior lineman at Ohakune Post Office 1934-1938, duties, how telegraph and morse lines jointed, distinction between Post Office workers and linemen, gang sizes, accidents, social life, work as lineman in New Plymouth 1938-1941, describes main line, systems, phantom circuits, subscriber wires, regulated lines, callouts, Wellington / Wairarapa earthquake 1942, manpowered into army and worked in Signals section in Wellington during World War II, work as timber mill manager 1950s. Talks about returning to Post Office as lineman in 1959, reasons, changes in lines, telephones, insulators as targets, work as lineman New Plymouth Post Office 1959-1973, types of wood used as poles, impressions of Directors-General, retirement. Venue - New Plymouth Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Walter McNamara's home at 9 Baring Terrace, New Plymouth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001236 - OHC-OO1239 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 162. Search dates: 1914 - 1985

Date: 26 Jul 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Ashton, Courtney John, 1909-

Reference: OHInt-0185/04

Description: Jack Ashton was born in Dunedin in 1909. Talks about his family's move to Tautuku when he was three and his father's employment scutching at a flax mill. Notes that the family lived in a tent for eighteen months. Describes his childhood near Balclutha and in Milton. Talks about passing the Public Service Entrance exam in 1925 and becoming a cadet with the State Advances Corporation. Discusses some of the Corporation staff. Notes that between 1925 and 1939 he boarded in 26 places. Talks about doing accountancy at night school. Explains his office work. Discusses the effect of the Depression on public service salaries and comments on the abandonment of Corporation properties during the Depression. Describes the establishment of the Mortgage Corporation in 1935 with T.N. Smallwood and A.D.Park as directors. Talks about moves to Napier, Invercargill and Hamilton with the Corporation as Accountant. Discusses the Rehabilitation Loans Committee, the Housing Allocation Committee, the Mortgagors' and Lessees' Rehabilitation Act 1936, the group housing scheme, capitalisation of family benefit and the sale of state houses to tenants. Describes being Branch Mananger in Invercargill and Nelson. Comments on Ministers of Housing J.R. Hanan, William Fox and John Rae. Describes a difficult position as Inspector at Head Office of the Corporation. Talks about becoming Managing Director in 1969 and the satisfaction of going from cadet to this position. Comments on the Corporation's relationship with the State Services Commission and Sir Robert Muldoon's opinion of the State Advances Corporation. Notes the difficulties of combining urban and rural lending. Venue - Lower Hutt : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Jack Ashton's home at Lower Hutt Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 407.

Date: 26 Nov 1993

From: The Dames Oral History Project

By: Muldoon, Thea Dale (Dame), 1927-2015

Reference: OHInt-0046/04

Description: Thea Muldoon describes family background; childhood; education at Takapuna Grammar School, Auckland; jobs in accounts until marriage; night school at Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland in bookkeeping; meeting Rob Muldoon; courtship and marriage; the first ten years of marriage; the children; domestic chores; Plunket and Karitane. Recalls husband's political life; supportive role in Waitemata Electorate especially fund raising; reference Norman King; involvement in National Party women's committees; Robert Muldoon elected as Member of Parliament for Tamaki in 1960; electorate work especially telephone messages; support of parliamentarians' wives when Robert Muldoon elected Prime Minister; reference Miriam (Mirie) Mackay, Dame Catherine Tizard and Mrs Findlay; parliamentarians' wives' support groups; reference Diana Macintyre, Shirley Adams-Schneider; role as prime minister's wife; functions and visits. Discusses need for public speaking; difficulty of public criticism; strategies for coping with criticism; living in Vogel House; difficulties with staff management; effect of role on time, interests and friends; recreation; Robert Muldoon's personality; the Hatfield's Beach holiday home; overseas trips (state visits); private lunches with Queen Elizabeth; effect of women's movement. Talks about Robert Muldoon's retirement from political life; changes to life after his death; current interests and community involvement; contact with Maori gangs; invitations as guest speaker; involvement with Hospice Movement, Red Cross; reference to Stephen Marsh; receiving the CBE; satisfactions in life; childrens' careers. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - 7 Homewood Place, Birkenhead, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005276 - OHC-005278 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1130.

Date: 18 May 1993

From: The Dames Oral History Project

By: Tizard, Catherine Anne (Hon Dame), 1931-2021

Reference: OHInt-0046/08

Description: Catherine Tizard talks about family background; childhood; family interest in politics; effect of sex education on life; views on treatment of Maori; Maori language; views on biculturalism; life at University of Auckland; meeting future husband, Bob Tizard; courtship and marriage; child rearing; effect of Bob Tizard losing seat in Tamaki in 1960; the decision to return to university to study zoology; difficulty of combining study and child rearing; growing independence; supporting husband as parliamentarian. Discusses reasons for entering local politics; attitudes of council and staff; work as part of panel of 'Beauty and the beast', reference to Selwyn Toogood; importance of this experience; involvement in 1975 (second) United Women's Convention; importance of being involved with women's movement; views on women's choice in having children; amount of work as Governor-General; pressures as mayor of Auckland; actions and reactions during Queen St riots; hostility over Aotea Centre; feelings on being offered the role of Governor-General; public support and opposition. Describes breakup of marriage to Bob Tizard; views on republicanism; course of life; risk taking; most satisfying aspects of life; the future; involvement with charitable and community organisations. Accompanying material - Copy of curriculum vitae Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Government House, Wellington Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1142. Search dates: 1993