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Interview with Kuini Te Tau
Date: 27 Jan 1983
From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.
By: Te Tau, Katarina, 1899-1998
Reference: OHInt-0015-05
Description: Kuini Te Tau describes her family background, her parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters; her tribe - Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu. She recalls her childhood at Waikouaiti in the South Island:- the story of Parihaka as told to her by her grandfather; her father as a farmer; Sir James Owen; the family house; cooking; music; meals; butter making; swaggers (tramps); the Te Whao Family; the thrashing mills; her father and the Maori Land Courts; whakapapa; speaking Maori; dances; punishment; pocket money; doctors; alcohol; the Otago Hussars; home medicines; birthdays; lollies; influenza epidemic; visiting the mental hospital; school - Waikouaiti Native School; religion; Sundays; the era that Grandfather Parata was in politics; the effect of World War I on her family; horses; attitudes to sex; 'Maori matches' - marriage between two families for land. Discusses meeting her future husband; his family background; leaving the South to live at Masterton; polo ponies; the 'old Maori' on the Pa; the homeguard; joining the Red Cross; Kitty Cameron and John Bunny; World War II; American soldiers; the Featherston Prisoner of War Camp; Maori Affairs Housing; sport; the meeting house, Nga Tau E Waru and her role; her job in the war for Manpower and becoming the first Welfare Officer for Maori Affairs based in Wellington; the elderly Maoris; meals on wheels; Maori budgeting; respect for elders; Mrs Paku who lived at Whakataki; Mrs Rimene; Rose Brian; Maori attitude towards Pakeha; the Historic Trust; school visiting; Joe Paku and his story of how Wairarapa and its rivers got their names; the Maori Anglican Church; the Depression; the Costello Family. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gordon Street, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004417 - OHC-004419 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 886. Copies of black and white photographs:-. Kuini Te Tau, undated. Rewi Tamahau Tamihana, Kuini Te Tau; Richard Tahuora Himona, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 30/10/1976. Kuini Te Tau, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 1983 Search dates: 1899 - 1983
Evans, Malcolm 1945- :'Meeting to protest the treatment of disgraced politician. Meetin...
Date: 2001 - 2002
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DX-002-077
Description: The response of two events is compared within the Maori community. The first shows a huge community turnout to protest the treatment of a disgraced Maori politician, Dover Samuel. The other shows no turnout at a meeting to protest the treatment of abused Maori children by their families. Exhibited in 'The Famous Five. Manawatu's Cartoonists On Show (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).