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Date: 27 Dec 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/337

Description: Mona Candy of Tauranga recalls childhood hours spent climbing the nineteen pine trees which stood on the farm. However, the time came when the farmer needed a woolshed and a new hen-house so down came the trees to provide posts and battens. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 99 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0345 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 9 Minutes Duration.

Date: 22 Nov 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/332

Description: Amelia Batistich describes the loneliness felt by the first Dalmatian women to come to the Northern Wairoa. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0340 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 11 Minutes Duration.

Date: 30 Aug 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/323

Description: Reminiscences of a childhood playing in a stream running through her farm on its way to join the Motueka River. Explains how in the winter, the stream could rapidly become almost unrecognizable - more like the real Orinoco in colour, though not in volume. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 95 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0331 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 13 Minutes Duration.

Date: 04 Jan 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/291

Description: Letter to Jim Henderson from Alfred Herring, outlining his life. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Copy of letter at MS-Papers-1239, folder 89 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0299 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 13 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.

Date: 26 April 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/307

Description: The Simcox family were among the earliest settlers in the Otaki district and it was from Martin Simcox that John McCaw heard this story of a race meeting at Waikanae. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 92 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0315 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 8 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1970

Date: 25 Jan 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/294

Description: Walter Christie of Rotorua recalls days gone by when wild horses roamed over the Hauraki hills and plains. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 89 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0302 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 11 Minutes Duration.

Date: 24 May 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/310

Description: It's a pretty hard blow to a person or family, particularly if they are isolated, when their house is destroyed. That is the subject of this Open Country Programme in which Terry Hogue, Ministry of Works engineer, at Inangahua gives an insight into the situation after the earthquake - more than 800 after-shocks took place within 6 weeks of the main shock. Marion Trotter describes how her house burned down. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 93 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0318 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 11 Minutes Duration.

Date: 05 April 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/304

Description: Since the rail-road had gone through and the saw mills had cut out and gone further north, it was apparent that the hey-day of Taihape was past, and the eager crowds no longer gathered around the pie cart of Joe the Greek as he travelled around Taihape. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 91 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0312 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 10 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1970 - 01 Jan 1970

Reference: OHColl-0036/1

Description: Genealogies of the Ngati Te Rangi and Ngati Ranginui tribes of Tauranga, back to canoe arrivals, chanted by Te Hare Reohau Piahana at Tauranga. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Tauranga Interviewer(s) - Hare Piahana (Singer) Venue - Tauranga Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0753 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Processing information: Record title was updated on 7 October 202 from "Ngati Rangi and Ngati Ranginui Whakapapa" to "Ngai Te Rangi and Ngati Ranginui Whakapapa" on advice of iwi researcher.

Date: March 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0007

Description: Small group of men at Trentham Racecourse; church service and re-enactment of the landing of Captain Cook. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. The first three frames show a small group of men watching a race standing on the steps of a grandstand at Trentham Racecourse. Frames 4 onwards show a church service and re-enactment of the landing of Captain Cook at Ship's Cove [i.e. Ship Cove] in Marlborough Sounds, during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in March 1970. The first and 6th frames show the Queen wearing a headscarf, greeting people. She is seen seated in the front row of a large audience. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet. Source of descriptive information - Date given in the first of this series by Ans Westra is February 1970, but all the information on the internet in websites such as the Captain Cook Society (www.captaincooksocisety.com/home/detail/new-zealand-list) about the visit by Queen Elizabeth II relates to her arrival in New Zealand on 12 March 1970 for the Cook Bicentenary celebrations. She arrived with the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, and Princes Anne (on her first visit to New Zealand), leaving on the 30 March. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0017

Description: Visitors at the Browns Mill Craft Market in Auckland. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Dr Diana Mason is seen in frame 12. Jeweller Kevin Jon Rawlinson and wife Karen Francis Cowley in the background on right of frame AW-0017-06. Kevin Jon Rawlinson and wife Karen Francis Cowley talk to Dr Diana Mason at their jewellery stall in frame AW-0017-12. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet. Source of descriptive information - Woman in frame 12 is named as possibly being potter Helen Mason. However, curatorial staff in ATL recognised her as being Dr Diana Mason. While she is turned away from the camera, she is recognisable by her stance, her hairstyle, and style of clothing. (Winifred Lynch and John Sullivan, 19th October 2015) Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0037

Description: Scenes of Evans Bay, Wellington; and an orator and spectators at Albert Park, Auckland. Photographs taken in 1970 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Frames 1-3 show a yacht in Evans Bay; frames 4-7 show aeroplanes seen from Evans Bay, including a Safe Air Bristol Freighter coming in to land at Wellington airport, Rongotai. Frames 8-12 show a Maori orator and spectators in Albert Park. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0097

Description: Views of spectators, at Trentham Racecourse in 1970. Frames 10 to 12 show punters placing bets at a betting window. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Sourse of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film