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Date: 24 Oct 2012

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Marychurch, Benjiman Cyril, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-1017-04

Description: Interview with Benjiman Cyril Marychurch. Born 1930 in Silverdale. Explains origins of the name Marychurch, and parents' arrival to New Zealand from England, and that his father had worked as a steam engineer on ships travelling between England and New Zealand. Also discusses his father's military service for New Zealand as an ANZAC. Explains that his father won a returned serviceman's ballot for a dairy farm in Coatesville with about a dozen cows. Describes farm work and the family's experiences during the depression. Discusses his family life and his experience of being one of 13 children. Discusses schooling at Coatesville School, and the new school building in 1942. Left school after Standard 2 due to transport problems. Describes difficulty finding apprenticeships at the end of World War Two. Describes long daily journey to apprenticeship in Onehunga. Refers to costs of travel and wages. Describes school picnic at Milford, which included swimming, running races, tug of war, and other activities. Recounts cycling with friends to Beachhaven or Milford, and talks about Pirate Shippe. Compares going to Milford in the 1930s-40s with going to Waiheke Island in 2012. Describes features of the Milford Swimming Pool, and swimming lessons at a creek in Coatesville. Discusses American soldiers that frequented the swimming pool. Describes their uniforms and the soldiers' interactions with children and his father. Mother did not like the war because her eldest son had been killed in action in Egypt in 1940. Tells of his older brother, Roy Marychurch, who had a retail wood and coalyard in Milford. Tells that silent movies shown at Coatesville Hall, and that electricity came to Coatsville in 1937. Describes getting dressed up to go to the movies, and going to city barefoot to buy shoes. Describes working at A & T Burt brass foundry, and learning woodwork. Describes an upholstery apprenticeship, and a farm labouring job near Whangarei. Tells of volunteering for army service in Korea. Describes dairy farming work, cycling and playing rugby. Belonged to the Whangarei Ballroom Dancing Club and Operatic Society, and performed in Whangarei, Warkworth, and Dargaville. Tells of dancing at the Pirate Shippe, and describes decorations, bands, dances, prizes, and supper. Describes heating hot water and giving out food and drinks at dances at Coatesville Hall. Discusses alcohol at dances. Describes his experience in the K-Force in Korea, basic training at Papakura, and taking the Wahine from Wellington. Describes medical examination, and his duties as troop carrier and supplies carrier, and his job as car trimmer. Describes extreme cold of Korea, workshops and living conditions under canvas. Describes going to a dance and meeting his wife, Fumiko Yamamoto. Describes courtship and marriage, and her parents' attitudes to marriage. Describes difficulty for westerners living in Japan, and his parents' attitudes to Fumiko as a daughter-in-law when they returned to New Zealand in 1954. Describes going to dancing at the Pirate Shippe, and dances at Albany Hall and Greenhithe Hall. Discusses closure of the Pirate Shippe and swimming pool. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 01 Aug 2011

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Hutchinson, Graham Warren, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-1017-03

Description: Interview with Graham Warren Hutchinson. Born 1926, Takapuna, and attended Milford Primary School, Takapuna Primary School, and Takapuna Grammar School. Discusses his father who served in World War One, and the effects of the first World War on his family. Also discusses the family businesses. Discusses various houses where they lived, and life in Milford. Describes his schooling at Mt Albert School and Milford Primary School, and his experiences in school. Discusses his friends, activities, and going to church. Also discusses yachting in summer, learning to sail, and taking part in Cubs and Scouts. Describes climbing Rangitoto and camping at Long Bay, and helping in vegetable gardens. Also talks about family holidays at a farm in Wharepapa owned by his grandfather. Discusses being a student at Takapuna Grammar School, where third form classes were single-sex, but fourth form classes were merged. Describes sports, such as playing football, cricket, and a girls vs. boys hockey game. Became regimental sergeant major in the school military cadet corp, and describes going to camps at Narrow Neck and digging trenches in case of air attack. Discusses the Milford Shopping Centre in the 1930s and 40s, and sale of milk and cream by Anderson's dairy in Milford off Shakespeare Road. Describes the Hutchinson family being one of the first to have a refrigerator. Discusses life during the depression for their family. Describes Milford Beach and Milford Cruising Club, the tepid baths, swimming, and the Bayswater Boating Club. Describes a trip to Waiheke Island. Also discusses the Milford Swimming Pool, American soldiers at the pool, and confectionary kiosks. Also describes surf lifesaving activities, as well as Milford Mini Golf, Ye Old Pirate Shippe, and the Milford Picturedrome. Recalls American soldiers during World War II, and alcohol at the Mon Desir Hotel. Describes dances at Takapuna Grammar School, and working at Chelsea Sugar Works in the laboratory. Discusses transportation to Milford and tram tracks. Reflects that Milford was a nice place to live. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.06 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 19 06 00 - 19 Jun 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Levett, Vera Schlesinger, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0590-7

Description: Vera Levett was born in Trencin, Czechoslovakia in 1935. Mentions Jewish origin, and talks about her mother who was a seamstress and her father who was a doctor. Talks about escaping Czechoslovakia during World War II, cousins who died in concentration camps, the impact of the Holocaust, bombing, air raids in England, and emigrating to the United States. Talks about girlhood, school, university and her doctorate in clinical psychology. Mentions marriage, moving to New Zealand, two children. Talks about interest in feminism, joining National Organisation of Women (NOW), feminist literature on mental health. Mentions work as guidance counsellor and at the Wellington School of Medicine. Describes helping establish Hecate Women's Health Collective in 1979, and involvement in a television documentary on mental health that was critical of doctors. Mentions Hecate referring women to Levett for counselling, and mentions the Women's Resource Centre. Talks about friendship with Elizabeth Sewell, National Director of YWCA, who recruited feminists. Talks about tension between Sewell and YWCA's non-feminist lobby, and being a YWCA board member. Mentions collegues Faith Gibbons, Audrey Reynolds, Mary-Jane Rivers and Gail Powell. Describes self defence courses, sexual abuse discussions, board meetings. Comments on YWCA as a traditional organisation and feminists' impact on it. Mentions Hecate's closure by the end of the 1980s. Talks about decision to leave YWCA to work at Child and Family service, Hutt Valley Health and her private practice. Talks about feminism's impact on her children, and mentions adoption. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9070-9072 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2875. Photocopy (coloured) mid shot of Vera Levett.

Date: 07 Jan 1992

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Warren, Frances Benny Watson, active 1935-1991; Grace, Patricia Frances, 1937-; Ramsden, Irihapeti Merenia, 1946-2003

Reference: OHInt-0600-05

Description: Frances Warren was born in Westport. Mentions her father's death from the influenza epidemic on return from World War II. Discusses tribal links with Ngai Tahu, Ngati Apa, Rangitane, how her mother was a Mahuweka, and her father Rihari Watson and grandmother Heni Turoa. Mentions that at home the adults spoke Maori, but English to the children. Mentions writing to a Maori trust board on land rent issues for her mother. Mentions her whanau in the McDonald, Watson, Matai, Fitzgerald, and Te Awiawi whanau. Describes moving to Wellington, work at Levy's tailoring, poor pay, and a Newtown boarding house. Mentions Mrs Grey, Lady Pomare, Henry Ngata, Jock McEwan, Bill Parker, the Sinclairs and her friend Lucy Gunson. Recalls meeting people and whanau at Poneke Club nights. Mentions Club elders and leaders such as Mrs Heketea, Dovey Katene, Kingi, the Bennetts. Talks about singing lessons with Mrs Potiki, and monthly church services. Mentions Apriana Ngata, Pakeha interest in the Club, and talks about Ngati Raukawa predominence. Recalls Tahiwi family, Bella Winiata, and Sammy Tahiwi, and playing hockey for the Club. Mentions the Club's original name, 'Poneke' and the original committee members, costumes and fund raising. Mentions entertaining the troops in World War II songs, action songs and poi, and being the first group to use electric light bulbs on the long fishing poi. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Grace Interviewer(s) - Irihapeti Ramsden Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3651; MSDL-0153 (files Warren.doc, Warren2.doc).

Date: 1 May 2000 - 01 May 2000

From: Interviews with Shari and Donald Cole

By: Cole, Shari Lee Carr, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0477/01

Description: Shari Cole was born in Des Moines, Iowa and grew up there and in Florida. Describes training as a teacher, marrying Don Cole, teaching and having family while living in Oregon. Describes applying for work in American Samoa, living there with her family, working with fabrics and moving to New Zealand for the boys' education. Recalls their arrival in 1973 in Rotorua where her husband was teaching and her response to New Zealand. Describes her work and becoming more involved in art and craft including batik, basket making, pandanus weaving, patchwork and quilting. Discusses writing a book on Western Samoa for Air New Zealand and writing for magazines, her publications `Pacific patchworks' and `Plaited patchwork', tutoring at Waiariki Polytechnic and her exhibition `Plaited patchwork'. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Accompanying material - Abstract includes curriculum vitae and exhibition statement from `Plaited patchwork' exhibition Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007188 Tape numbers - OHC-007189 Tape numbers - OHC-007190 Tape numbers - OHC-007191 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (2 folders). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1805, OHDL-000846. Photographs of Shari Cole, photograph of Kelly Cole and Eric Cole, photograph of the exhibition `Plaited patchwork from Pacific weaving inspirations'

Date: 2 May 2000

From: Interviews with Shari and Donald Cole

By: Cole, Donald Eugene, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0477/02

Description: Donald Cole was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up there and in Des Moines, Iowa. Describes quitting university, getting married, going to live in Oregon where his wife Shari taught and finishing college. Describes getting a job as a teacher in Pago Pago and living there for some time before emigrating to New Zealand. Talks about teaching at Western Heights in Rotorua before becoming manager at Fairy Springs, a tourist attraction which features rainbow trout. Talks about learning photography and taking photographs for publications for Polynesian Airlines for which his wife did the writing. Discusses guided tours he lead to Oregon and Santa Fe. Describes their decision to return to the United States. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007183 Tape numbers - OHC-007184 Tape numbers - OHC-007185 Tape numbers - OHC-007186 Tape numbers - OHC-007187 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (2 folders). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1806, OHDL-000847. Samples of Donald's photography; photographs of Donald and a photograph of his cowbone carving are bound in with the abstract

Date: 4 Nov 1991 - 04 Nov 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Bell, Cynthia Tohe Adelaide, 1922-1997

Reference: OHInt-0060/01

Description: Cynthia Bell was born in Levin on 4 September 1922. Gives some details of her whakapapa and growing up at the accommodation house at the Otaki Maori Racing Club Race Course where her father was caretaker and her mother did the catering. Describes family life, chores, involvement in sport, religion and her mother's beliefs about bringing up children on the marae. Talks about her education at Otaki and Palmerston North. Talks about the outbreak of war and being given a position in Base Records in the War Office in 1941. Explains the work which included typing telegrams prepared from casualty lists and involved some secrecy. Recalls her involvement with Ngati Poneke and their role in entertaining troops. Talks about Peni Tahiwi and the arrival of American troops in Wellington. Recalls her clothing, hair and reading,leisure and sport involvement. Talks about her father who fought at Gallipoli and played in the Maori Pioneer Rugby Battalion which toured England and France at the end of World War I. Notes that he also played for the New Zealand Maori rugby team and was an All Black. Describes the ability of her brother Ranfurly and members of the Winiata family (her mother's side) at playing rugby. Describes meeting and marrying Benjamin Raniera Bell at Rangiatia (Rangiatea) Church on his return from war. Talks about the Maori Battalion, tikunga (tikanga), attitudes to sex, the birth of her daughter and the role of Dr Atmore (a woman doctor) in helping Maori women overcome their fear of doctors. Mentions the local sanatorium and the incidence of tuberculosis. Describes working at the tobacco factory and then as a stenographer. Talks about the RSA and her love of golf, the involvement of Ben Bell and herself in horse racing, fashion and hats at the races and meeting Governors-General Freyberg and Fergusson as a result of his role as President of the Otaki Maori Racing Club. Describes her increasing involvement with Raukawa (Te Wananga o Raukawa). Talks about her use of traditional Maori medicine, love of Maori food and her mother's support of Raukawa and Maori Women's Welfare League. Venue - Otaki : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rawinia Hyland Venue - Mill Road, Otaki Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004675; OHC-004676; OHC-004677 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 820. Photograph of Cynthia Bell in the War Records Office; photograph of Cynthia Bell in 1991

Date: 10 Dec 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Whiley, Te Kahurangi, 1907-1992

Reference: OHInt-0060/08

Description: Te Kahurangi Whiley was born on 27 June 1907 at Poroutawhao. Talks about her family and the origins of some of their Christian names. Describes education at Levin Central School where children were strapped for speaking Maori. Talks about missing out on Maoritanga when she worked locally as a domestic. Recalls meeting Lloyd Whiley, marrying in 1936 and living at Kuku Beach. Describes her husband's work at the Kimberly air base till the end of the war and after the war leasing land and growing flowers for the Wellington market. Talks in detail about living at Ohau for thirty two years, the family's daily routine there, family values, involvement with St. John's Anglican Church at Ohau and Rangiatea. Recalls the absence of hot water and coping with war rationing by conserving coupons. Talks about her brother Te Wireti in the Maori Battalion, fundraising for the troops, dances at Levin and the American troops around the Ohau area. Notes that her husband was not interested in tikanga Maori. Talks about her involvement at the marae since his death including beginning to karanga as a kuia aged seventy. Describes the occupations of her children and granchildren. Language - English and Maori Venue - Levin : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana Hyland Venue - Levin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004699; OHC-004700; OHC-004701 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 829. photograph of Rangi Whiley aged about 13; photograph of Whiley family in 1940

Date: 18 Jan 1992

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Pilcher, Margaret Irene, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0060/15

Description: Meg Pilcher was born in Gisborne on 24 February 1925. Describes her childhood on a farm at Patutahi, twelve miles from Gisborne. Gives details of her parent's backgrounds. Talks about her schooling, good race relations and reasons for leaving school. Describes working in a legal office and wanting to go into the Navy. Recalls opposition from her father when she joined the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service becoming a WREN in 1943. Describes being posted to Beacon Hill which was the shipping identification and examination area for Wellington Harbour. Recalls the fear of Japanese invasion and alarms going off at Wellington Heads. Talks about signalling and working at the degaussing station at Somes Island. Describes degaussing as a system for ships to identify and repel magnetic mines. Recalls a typical work day and describes the uniform. Comments that the Navy was a great leveller and enabled women to do things they had not previously done. Mentions working at Narrow Neck. Comments on wartime morals, values, sexual behaviour and etiquette. Talks about American servicemen. Recalls working in the WRNZNS ledger office in Auckland. Describes going home to Gisborne on leave and meeting Ron Pilcher who was at Teachers College. Recalls discharge from the Navy, getting married, and living in Masterton, Te Kuiti and Tuai before moving to Wellington. Recalls doing bookwork and teaching financial planning. Comments on the impact of war. Venue - Wellington : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Venue - Interviewee's home at Paraparaumu Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004714; OHC-004715; OHC-004716 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 833.

Date: 18 Nov 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Andrews, Jean Matekitewhawhai, 1915-1994

Reference: OHInt-0060/20

Description: Jean Andrews was born in Otaki on 23 October 1914. Gives details of her family, particularly her mother, her Te Ati Awa background and childhood in Otaki. Describes use of Maori medicine and family values. Talks about shift to Paekakariki on to land that is now Queen Elizabeth Park. Describes mother's negotiations with the Government over this land and being told that if they did not sell the land it would be taken under proclamation. Talks about the Maori Battalion being based in Palmerston North during World War II and the American Marines stationed around Paekakariki. Notes that at one point there were 26,000 Marines in the area. Describes at length their family's close and ongoing association with these soldiers many of whom were welcomed in to the family home. Describes entertainment of the troops by Ngati Poneke. Relates how her mother did washing for American soldiers and family members cleaned the Liberty trains. Comments on relationships, including sexual relationships, between local women and soldiers, lack of contraception and her ongoing role in helping children find their American fathers. Recalls the collision of transport ships in a storm off Mana Island which resulted in 103 soldiers being drowned. Talks about the kindness of most of the American soldiers, the racism of a few and a brawl that broke out between members of the Maori Battalion and American soldiers. Talks about pilgrimages made back to the area by many Marines. Talk about her six daughters and one son, her involvement in kohanga reo and teaching korowai. Describes her welfare work with Social Welfare and the Probation Department and briefly mentions her QSM. Venue - Wellington : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Hyland Venue - Peakakariki Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004732; OHC-004733; OHC-004734 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 839. Colour photograph of Jean Andrews in 1991

Date: 24 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Oakey, Margaret Isabel, 1920-2006

Reference: OHInt-0064/11

Description: Margaret Oakey was born in Wellington on 20 July 1920. Describes her family background, childhood and education in Greymouth. Talks about jobs in a drapers shop, hardware shop and a cigarette packing factory before joining the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1942. Recalls training in Levin and being posted to Seagrove on the Manukau Harbour as a telephone operator. Talks about the threat of Japanese invasion and staffing the Vickers guns. Describes social life in Auckland at the Allied Service clubs. Talks about other postings to Nelson, Wellington, Ohakea and Blenheim. Recalls going to Auckland to be a hairdresser after the war and a job in Wellington. Describes meeting her husband Jack Oakey in Greytown, their wedding and family life. Talks about Greytown social life, particularly balls. Comments that life revolved round the home and family. Recalls the 1955 flood which went through their house. Talks about becoming a tea lady when her youngest child started school and later working at the Post Office as a telephone operator. Comments on the arrival of television. Describes her husband's poor health, nursing him and his death in 1976. Describes attending a WAAF reunion in Wellington in 1991 and comments on war-time WAAF and Air Force social life. Venue - Greytown : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Dr Cathy Casey Venue - Greytown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004765; OHC-004766; OHC-004767 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 850.

Date: 29 Jun-3 Jul 1992 - 29 Jun 1992 - 03 Jul 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Crisp, Enid Elizabeth, 1919-2009

Reference: OHInt-0064/12

Description: Enid Crisp was born in Greytown on 28 March 1919. Her father was a barrister and solicitor who also stood as a National Party candidate. Her mother was Plunket Society president and a founding member of the Little Theatre. Describes their home life, her schooling and teenage activites such as Bible Class dances, ping pong and going to movies. Talks about living next door to Maata Asher, a good friend of Katherine Mansfield's, and describes Maata's style. Talks about doing a secretarial course at Masterton Technical College, boarding at Masterton, working at Wright Stephensons and then with an accountant's firm. Describes her first date with husband to be John (Jack) Crisp and a group of friends socialising in `jalopies' with some alcohol. Notes that Masterton was a `dry' area. Describes Jack joining up at the start of the war, being sent to Burnham and as an officer sent overseas on long range desert campaigns. Focuses on her wartime involvement with patriotic activities including playing the piano at the Anzac Club and organising dance performances. Recalls soldiers camps at Solway showgrounds, Tauherenikau and other locations, which became tent cities. Talks about the American troops. Describes her involvement in the Emergency Precautions Scheme (EPS) and talks at length about the 1942 Masterton earthquake. Notes that Jack Crisp was invalided home from the war. Venue - Greytown : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Dr Cathy Casey Venue - Greytown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004768; OHC-004769; OHC-004770 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 851.

Date: 30 Jun 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Rangiihu, Myrtle Tahiti, 1918-2003

Reference: OHInt-0064/20

Description: Myrtle (Bundy) Rangiihu was born at Kohupatiki, Hastings on 29 June 1918. Gives details of her family background and growing up on the farm at Kohupatiki. Describes being selected to learn kowhaiwhai and tukutuku when she left school and being taught these in Wellington by Apirana Ngata. Recalls also learning waiata from him. Discusses his influence and also that of Kingi Tahiwi and Bishop Bennett, the first Bishop of Aotearoa. Notes that Bishop Bennett introduced her to future husband Sam Rangiihu while he was becoming a curate. Talks about the consecration of Bishop Bennett. Recalls the Napier earthquake in 1931 and the incidence of tuberculosis amongst Maori in the 1920s and 1930s. Talks about marrying and living in the Mission House and also working with her husband in the Opotiki and Hicks Bay area. Describes adopting her son Gary, and three other children, and explains the process of whangai (adoption). Talks about the outbreak of war and Sam Rangiihu becoming chaplain to the forces with Wi Huata. Mentions that he was also chaplain to K-Force (in Korea). Comments on the quality of the Maori (28) Battalion and the deaths of Maori soldiers. Discusses American servicemen, sexuality and Maori attitudes to illegitimacy. Describes how her father contracted to grow vegetables for Watties during World War II to feed American soldiers. Talks about the growth of Watties. Describes the importance of land to Maori. Details the Government Rehabilitation Schemes and land bought for soldiers in Wairoa after the war. Reflects on her husband's death. Talks about the importance of the marae. Describes her involvement with the Chadwick Family Trust who run orchards in Hastings and a project growing everlasting flowers. Venue - Napier . 1992 Interviewer(s) - Queenie Rikihana-Hyland Venue - Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004786; OHC-004787; OHC-004788 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 857. photograph of Kingi Ihaka, Bundy (Myrtle) Rangiihu, Manu Ihaka and Samuel Rangiihu about the 1950s; Myrtle and Samuel Rangiihu and family about World War II; Bundy (Myrtle) Rangiihu in 1992

Date: 24 Nov 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Pierson, Ruby Ellen, 1916-2006

Reference: OHInt-0314/18

Description: Talks about her family life in Nelson including childhood games, her strict father, her mother's housework and activities and activities at the Methodist Church. Describes secondary schooling at Nelson Polytechnic and segregation of boys and girls though the school was co-educational. Recalls the effects in Nelson of the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Talks about shifting from the Methodist Church to the Church of Christ, leaving school and trying to find work during the Depression, social life in Nelson, doing nursing training in Wellington and nursing at Ashburton and Otaki. Recalls the impact of the American forces there during World War II. Describes doing midwifery training at St. Helen's Hospital in Christchurch and Plunket training at Karitane. Comments on challenging aspects of Plunket home visits and lack of training in finance and mothercraft. Describes returning to Nelson, her relationship with the local Plunket branch, and Plunket work in country areas such as Murchison. Talks about the demand for birth control information, the role of fathers in bringing up children, her establishment of Fathercraft classes, the role of Plunket nurses in education and cot deaths. Venue - Nelson : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Nelson Quantity: 3 DAT tape(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 874.

Date: 21 Oct 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Thorpe, Joyce Elaine, 1917-

Reference: OHInt-0314/14

Description: Gives details of her family background, childhood days and schooling in Hataitai in the 1920s.Talks about the family's social life, the church in family life, Sunday School picnics and Hataitai as a new suburb in the 1920s and 1930s. Recalls the effects of the Depresssion, high school at Wellington East Girls' College, Commercial School (College), teenage social life and World War II. Comments on the effect of the presence of American servicemen during World War II. Talks about working for a film distribution company and the Wellington Automobile Association. Describes meeting `husband to be' Jack Thorpe, their six year courtship, his unavailability for military service during World War II for health reasons, the effect of this on him, and treatment for his tuberculosis at a Christchurch sanatorium. Mentions marrying Jack, the birth of Bill and first contact with Plunket. Talks about her interest in natural childbirth and the techniques of Grantly Dick-Read, the loss of a baby during pregnancy and her eventual family of eight children. Describes their move to Gisborne where her husband established the Columbine Hosiery factory along the lines of a `garden factory' with his two brothers. Talks about becoming pregnant at the age of forty-seven and her attitudes to contraception. Describes joining the Plunket Committee, fund-raising events, the Stamp Out Measles Campaign, local sub-branch issues, being President of the Gisborne branch for four years and the attitude of Maori women to Plunket. Comments on Neil Begg, David Geddis and Plunket Society national presidents including Joy Reid and Pat Seymour. Venue - Gisborne : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004831; OHC-004832; OHC-004833 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 878. Colour portrait photograph of Joyce Thorpe in 1992

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015955

Description: A group of Warner Brothers executives sit around a table discussing the issue of filming 'The Hobbit' in New Zealand. One of them suggests scrapping 'The Hobbit' and making a film about trying to make the Hobbit movie instead'. Refers to the Hobbit saga in which a between Warner Brothers, represented by Peter Jackson, and NZ Actors Equity over a union demand for negotiations over the terms and conditions offered in the contracts for actors and others working on the film very nearly caused the film to be made somewhere else. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

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

Reference: DX-014-051

Description: Uncle Sam, representing the United Staes, hugs a placard reading 'trade deal-free NZ', pointing towards the 'nuclear free-NZ' held by a New Zealander. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2001

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-042

Description: Shows the legs of the big boys on the international stage, US, Australia, India and China with NZ only reaching their ankles in relative size. NZ is committing suicide on it's sword by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emmisions while the big 4 are holding back. Extended Title - US. AUSTRALIA. INDIA. CHINA. NZ. '...we lead by example' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0016423

Description: Voices float out of the 'Bethlehem Hilton' office; one says that it sounds as though the couple who took the stable smuggled a kid in, another hopes not and in answer to his question about who is arriving today, a third voice says 'messrs Holyfield, Tua, Mundane and Sonny Bill Williams'. Text above reads 'Boxing Day in Bethlehem'. Refers to the heavyweight boxing champions Evander Holyfield and David Tua and to Anthony Mundine who is Sonny Bill Williams's boxing trainer. (Wordplay on Boxing Day and boxing) Both colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-005-220

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).