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Interview with Mita Carter
Date: 20 Jan 1982
From: NZOHA Martinborough Project
By: Carter, Samuel Mita Hami Tuhokairangi, 1913-1998
Reference: OHInt-0005/07
Description: Mita Carter, only remaining elder of the early Wairarapa Maori families, born Te Ore Ore. Outlines family background - father, John Carter was a well known local identity - journalist/lawyer. Gives an account of settlement of the Wairarapa by the Pakeha. Refers to part played in 1853 by Sir George Grey, Donald McLean and other members of the Land Purchase Committee and the Land Purchase Agreement with Mr Carter's ancestors at Pirinoa on the `Hill of Consent' - Whakai. Explains why Maori wanted colonisation. Gives details of settlers and land they took up. Refers to the MacMaster, Hume, Martin, Bidwill families, Sir George Clifford, Captain Mein-Smith and Colenso. Summarises how land was acquired. Recalls Maori people's desire to embrace Christianity. Refers to Simon Peter. Also mentions first owners of Martinborough land, Captain Mein-Smith and Samuel Revans. Talks about subdivision of land with reference to John Purvis, Hume and Kershaw; Coleman Philips and Angus McMaster's Gladstone subdivision. Mentions first breed of Holstein cattle to be imported to New Zealand by Coleman Philips. Refers to part played by Jack Kershaw in cementing relationships between Maori and Pakeha. Details racial harmony in the area. Talks about a distinguished Martinborough personality, Martha Asher (Martha McGregor, Martha Mahupuku) who was an intimate friend of Katherine Mansfield. Refers to manuscripts of `Maata' and letters written by Katherine to Martha - some of the latter sold in England but feels others may have buried with Martha. Other personalities mentioned include: Alexander Bathgate and Bert Robinson (remittance men); Princess Niniwa; Dick Ropiha (Waipawa); Tui Hemi; Jack Spencer; Kaa Barney and `hotwater kara'. Other topics discussed include: rugby; social life in Martinborough with reference to orchestra and musicians, Tom Duffy and Torquil Hudson; childhood; sex education; morality; transport; remittance men; Pirinoa school with reference to teacher, Miss Dawson and her Ford car; arranged marriages; transport; flu epidemic (1918); `Bob Hops'; Maori Agricultural College; relationship between Maori and Pakeha in the early days; World War II, 1939-1945 with reference to his time in the home service; Korean War (New Zealand Transport Company, 1950) with reference to his musical ability and position as director of Commomwealth Concert Party; the sinking of the troop carrier, `Wahine'. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Pirinoa Abstracted by - Judith Fyfe Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Pirinoa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0558, OHT5-0559, OHT5-0646-O649 Quantity: 6 5" reel(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0007. 1 photograph of Mita Carter Search dates: 1982
Interview with Kuini Te Tau
Date: 6 Apr 1993 - 06 Apr 1993
From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.
By: Te Tau, Katarina, 1899-1998
Reference: OHInt-0086/02
Description: Kuini Te Tau was born in 1899. Heather Marunui sits in on the interview and comments. Describes the Health Leagues and the formation of the Maori Women's Welfare League in 1951. Describes being asked by Michael Savage to take charge of women coming to Wellington on essential work during World War II and finding hostel accommodation. Recalls this as the beginning of her welfare work which she did for twenty years. Talks about visiting women at Arohata women's prison. Describes working at Fareham House and changing the approach to care. Talks about the activities of the Maori Women's Welfare League in the Wairarapa and the role of Kuini Te Tau's husband in building houses for Maori. Describes places she has lived and a period of dairy farming. Recalls being personal driver to Peter Fraser, being in the Army, Maori committees formed in the war effort and women in the land army at Papawai. Describes trying to collect money for the building of a meeting house. Comments on the Maori Women's Welfare League at the time of the interview. Venue - Masterton : 1993 Other - Heather Marunui sits in on the interview and contributes to it; Kuini Te Tau is also interviewed in the Masterton South Rotary Club oral history project Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Venue - Maori Development Office, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006383; OHC-006384 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1481.
Interview with Harata Solomon
Date: 12 Aug 1988
From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project
By: Solomon, Harata Ria Te Uira, 1925-1993
Reference: OHInt-0048/09
Description: Harata Solomon was born 22 January 1925 in Otaki, one of eleven children, and was brought up in Waikanae. Discusses her name and whakapapa on both parent's sides. Discusses her paternal grandfather, Kaka Kura Wi Parata, a chief of Ngati Te Kowhai, Ngati Toa and Te Atiawa and his wife who was of Ngati Raukawa descent. Talks about arranged marriages, communal living and sharing in Maori society. Discusses Waikanae, living off the land and traditional diet. Talks about her memories of her mother and being looked after by her maternal grandmother after her mother's death. Discusses her father and his involvement with the Ratana religion and her family marae, Whakarongotai, in Waikanae. Talks of her cultural identity, modernity and assimilating into Pakeha culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Recalls her childhood pastimes, memories of the Depression and the number of people the family had staying. Discusses her grandmother's death, the division of labour in Maori society, her bicultural life and Maoritanga. Talks about her education at Waikanae, Hukarere Boarding School and Wellington Teachers' Training College. Talks about Ratana and Mormon teachings and lack of sexual instruction. Discusses her own faith as a member of the the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and a Mormon. Recalls the Waikanae community and poi, haka, taiaha and mere activities. Discusses women clearing tapu on the marae and her aunts and their passing down of knowlege and the place of Maori women. Talks about her commitment to teaching, the impact of World War II on her whanau, her marriage after the war and her husband and children. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Sound Centre, National Library, Wellington Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-4150-4151 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1637 and OHDL-000576.
Taranaki Maori groups at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, before the opening of the meeting ...
Date: September 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0013-F
Description: Groups, primarily of Maori women from Taranaki, at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, before the opening of the meeting house. Taken in 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Maori women and children in the kitchen at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt
Date: 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0015-F
Description: Maori women and children in the kitchen at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows a Betty Rei with a child on her lap; children playing; Una Epae, Miriama Morgan and Rongo Rangiwhetu playing cards etc. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Maori at Waiwhetu
Date: 1959 or 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0083-F
Description: Maori at Waiwhetu, either 1959 or 1960. Includes 5 images of Gilbert children (Piri, Hono, Ra and Susan); 7 images of a group of Maori children. Photographed by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Opening of meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt
Date: September 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0042-F
Description: Scenes during the opening of the meeting house at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in September 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows Taranaki Maori women and children; a kuia smoking a cigarette; a woman with a moko; people at a dining tables; etc. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Maori sheep shearers and wool handlers at work, Wairarapa
Date: 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0118-F
Description: Maori sheep shearers and wool handlers at work. Photographs taken in a wool shed in the Wairarapa in 1960, by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Maori at Eastbourne, Groups at Trentham Racecourse
Date: 1959
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0065-F
Description: 7 photographs of Maori at Eastbourne, in a boat, on the back of a truck etc. 5 photographs taken at Trentham racecourse, including 3 of elderly Pakeha women and 1 of a Maori woman seated alongside a young Maori girl. Photographs taken by Ans Westra in 1959. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Maori women and children inside the kitchen of Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt
Date: 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0012-F
Description: Maori women and Rei family children inside the kitchen of Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, 1960. Shows a boy eating a meal; Una Epae, Miriama Morgan (nee Daymon) and Netta Puketapu playing cards; a toddler trying on footwear; and a boy looking at a book/magazine. Photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Maori sheep shearers at work, Wairarapa
Date: 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0113-F
Description: Maori sheep shearers at work. Photographs taken in the Wairarapa in 1960, by Ans Westra. Includes 1 image of 2 Maori women. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.
Opening of meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, dawn ceremony
Date: September 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0047-F
Description: Scenes at the opening of meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in September 1960 by Ans Westra. Shows people attending the dawn ceremony, including Prime Minister Walter Nash and Eruera Tihema Tirikatene. Also shows a group (including Betty Puketapu, Erenora Puketapu, Hina Puketapu, Patsy Puketapu, Joyce Hawe, Grace Gandy and Wikitoria Puketapu) performing an action song, Maori women, and a portrait of a Maori girl. Individuals were identified by family members Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Maori in Plimmerton
Date: 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0109-F
Description: Maori in Plimmerton, 1960. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Includes 10 images of linesman having a tea break; 1 of a Pakeha boy and a Maori boy; 1 image of 3 women. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.
Scenes at the opening of the meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt
Date: September 1960
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AWM-0035-F
Description: Scenes at opening of meeting house, Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt, photographed in 1960 by Ans Westra. Showing Taranaki Maori people sitting on the porch at Waiwhetu. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.