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Date: 14 Jun 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Spencer, Shona, 1937-2017

Reference: OHInt-0984-17

Description: Interview with Shona Spencer (nee Dalglish, formerly Brown), born in Lower Hutt in 1937. Interviewer's summary: Shona Spencer born 1937, lived in Lower Hutt until she left home, aged 17, to go to Canterbury University where she studied arts and music, graduating BA 1957. She qualified as a teacher and taught music at Marsden School, Wellington before marrying. Material recorded includes family background and domestic life of the Dalglish family in Lower Hutt. She had little cooking experience until she went flatting as her mother had actively kept her and her sister out of the kitchen. Her domestic life started in her early twenties when she married a farmer in 1960 and lived on a farm 'Waihi' fourteen miles out of Masterton. She prepared meals for the family (three children) as well as farm employees for over twenty years before the marriage ended and she moved to live in Wellington. She re-married in the 1990s and continues to hold a number of voluntary positions particularly with music groups. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001501 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.01 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001477, OHA-7397. Colour photographs of: Shona in her kitchen; recipes in her recipe book (2010). Scanned B&W photograph of Shona as child (OHDL-001478) Search dates: 1937 - 2010

Date: 12, 19 April 2010 - 12 Apr 2010 - 19 Apr 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Toebes, Heather Bethune, 1928-2020

Reference: OHInt-0984-20

Description: Interview with Heather Toebes (nee Thomson), born in New Plymouth in 1928. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered in the recording include: father's family background, upbringing, medical studies, war service (including Gallipoli, prisoner of war in WWII). Mother's upbringing: female teachers and role models, acquisition of domestic skills and knowledge, use of a spurkle (spurdle). Her father George Thomson's medical practice in New Plymouth and the family home: layout, hygiene, laundry, mother's role in practice, care of babies, encouraging Maori into maternity nursing, goods in lieu of fees in the Depression. Family life in wartime: household chores, power cuts, mother's social life, learning manners and table manners, fear of Japanese. Childhood: attitude to parents, discipline and punishment, treatment of domestic workers, food, ironing, use of starch, personal cleanliness, mother's care of babies, learning the facts of life, schooling, manual training, saving and swapping. Food and meals: mealtimes, puddings, supplies, healthy food, examples of meals, keeping food fresh, sterilising milk and water, preserving. Kitchen and laundry layout and appliances. Garden: vegetable crops. Mother: friendships, sources of support during husband's war service, attitude to community service, support of female patients and friends. Siblings: adoption of elder brother, younger brother's loss of hearing following measles, role during mother's trips away. Mother's old age. Recipes and recipe books: Olive Bone's Fudge, "The Nothing Succeeds like Excess Cookbook", mince, curry, marmalade, gravy. Heather's working life: Victoria University Law Library, Chen and Palmer, secondary teaching, scientific translation. Marriage to Dutchman Kees Toebes: preparations for marriage, wedding presents, learning to cook Dutch and Indonesian food, learning Dutch pronunciation and language, husband's work. Family life: first home at Onerahi, meals and supplies, keeping food fresh, fishing, swapping food with neighbour, growing fruit and vegetables, drinking wine, daily and weekend routines, sewing, domestic furniture, ceramics and china, drinking coffee, kitchen utensils. Current living arrangements: buying house, kitchen, shopping, washing, housework, garden, grandchildren, change in manners and table manners, teaching law students. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001504 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 digital photograph(s). 13 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4.49 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001483, OHA-7400. Colour photographs of: Heather Toebes in her kitchen; recipe book and spurtle; recipe book (all 29 April 2010). Scanned colour photographs of: Toebes' home at Onerahi; Annie Thompson with children (1939); Kees Toebes in the house; Heather's children Quentin and Harriet at Manakau with a Christmas Crown (c.1970); Heather Toebes at her farewell from the Law Commission (1995). Scanned B&W photographs of: Major George Thomson in uniform, and verso with handwritten details; George Thompson; Heather's mother Annie with her school hockey team; Annie Thomson with Heather (c.1929); Toebes' home at Onerahi; Heather with her mother, brothers and sister (1939); Heather's mother Annie as a your woman; Heather Toebes (1951); Heather's wedding party (1954) (OHDL-001484) Search dates: 1928 - 2010

Date: 27 Mar, 1 & 8 Apr 2008 - 27 Mar 2008 - 08 Apr 2008

By: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. New Zealand Branch; Prior, Ian Ambury Miller (Dr), 1923-2009; Gaitanos, Sarah, 1950-

Reference: OHColl-0929-01

Description: Interview with Dr Ian Ambury Miller Prior, born at Masterton. Son of Norman Henry Prior and Jessie Anne (nee Miller). Gives background to his father as a doctor in Masterton. Talks about siblings Arthur Prior (eldest and half-brother; philosopher), Owen (doctor) and sister Mrs Elaine McLaren. Describes his education in Wairarapa. Discusses the beginning of his pacifist in relation to his friendships with Jewish refugees - Arthur Hilton and Fred Turnovsky. Talks about his marriage to Elespie Forysthe. Talks about his interest in collecting art and involvement with the arts. Describes time in England at Royal College of Physicians and then back in Wellington as senior registrar at Wellington Hospital. Talks about his Fulbright Research Scholarship (1957) and working in Boston where he met Bernard Lown. Describes in detail IPNZZ and the establishment of the New Zealand branch. In particular mentions Don Beaven, Helen Caldicott, Bernie Lown, Samuel Levine, Eric Chreian, Derek North, Erich Geiringer, Derek Wilson, Paul Zimmet, Dr Ann Evans, George Salmond, Brian Scobie, Sir Leonard Thornton, Peter Hadfield. Explains his role in IPPNW and collaborating with Australian branch. Talks about opposition to peace movement due to hippie association, whilst IPPNZ were physicians who were well respected. Describes Gaylene Preston filming Dr Helen Caldicott meeting. Refers to own public speaking engagements and other visitors. Talks about IPPNZ membership. Mentions how some members where spied on by secret services. Interviewer(s) - Sarah Gaitanos Quantity: 4 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s) over 3 days. 1.39 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-000112. Search dates: 1923 - 2008

Date: 1967-1971

From: Oettli, Max Christian, 1947-: Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PADL-000145

Description: Photographs of Dunedin, Wellington and Auckland, taken 1967-1971 by Max Oettli. Comprises photographs of girls behind glass doors in Dunedin, people at Auckland Zoo, Grafton Bridge, broken window in an abandoned house, man reading cinema listings, upper Queen Street, people waiting at Wellington's ferry terminal, part of a crowd at a graduation ceremony, grave stone, health food shop wares, school girls in uniform, pub scene, people at Grand Prix at Pukekohe, a takeaway sign in Wellington. Other Titles - visible evidence Arrangement: Photographs were originally contained in an electronic folder labelled 'visible evidence' Quantity: 28 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).