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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: 2005

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

Reference: DX-022-292

Description: The scene shows Wellington's Beehive, the administration wing of parliament. It is surrounded by large wind turbines. As two men walk past one comments to the other 'but there is no wind'; the second man replies 'the House isn't sitting right now'. Relates to the controversy over the proposed wind farm above Makara. Other Titles - "But there's no wind". "The House isn't sitting right now!" Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: January - June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000540

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt and Greytown buildings, taken January to May 2010 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 39 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0012393

Description: Cappucino Dreams. In the first of four frames Finance Minister Bill English carrying his briefcase and a load of banknotes labelled 'housing subsidy', explains that he must work here in Wellington even though his home is in Southland. In the second frame his children are shown learning the ways of commerce in the school tuckshop; in the third frame Bill English explains that our experts have been able to postpone climate change until the farmers and carbon burners have made their profits and in the last frame he is shown arriving at his Karori home with the Beehive in the distance and 'Southland' on the gate. Refers to Bill English's embarrassing struggle with his Karori houng subsidy, and to the New Zealand's ETS strategy, a deal that has been stitched up between the National government and the Maori Party without the Labour Party that has resulted in taxpayers subsidizing big business and farmers for the next four years. (until 2013) The deal between the two parties provides that the new emissions trading scheme (ETS) will halve the cost of energy increases to consumers but polluting industries will have an easier ride and longer to adjust through taxpayer subsidies. Published in Presto Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007-2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000532

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Lower Hutt and Carterton street views taken in 2007-2009 Quantity: 30 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000518

Description: Photographs relating to street art (including graffitti, sticker art, stencilling, and knitted art) in Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "New Zealand Street Art 2009" Quantity: 39 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-005-370

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

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012450

Description: A couple of tourists in a car arrive in Dipton and are held up by a flock of sheep. The farmer tells them that the new popularity of Dipton as a tourist destination is due to 'Good ol' Bill!' who has 'put us on the map even though he doesn't live here!' A roadside sign reads 'Welcome to Double Dipton Home of Bill English'. Refers to news that Bill English was claiming nearly $1000 a week to live in his family house in Wellington in spite of fact that the English's family trust owns the $1.2 million house in Karori; he claims his real home is in Dipton. Wordplay with 'Double Dipton' and 'double dipping'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017399

Description: Text reads 'The hitchhiker on the Labour Party's leadership lane'; the cartoon depicts a naked and sweating Phil Goff, Leader of the Labour Party, reaches from behind some bushes late in the evening to thumb a lift. Context - Phil Goff's leadership is being called to question in the run-up to the November election. The cartoon has been suggested by an alleged incident that has brought about the downfall of Labour MP, Darren Hughes. The incident involves an 18-year-old male who, after a night of drinking, ended up in Mr Hughes' home; in the early hours of the morning witnesses saw a man who matched the description of the young man, naked and trying to hitch a ride in the Wellington suburb of Haitaitai. Colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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).

Date: 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000219

Description: Photographs of election billboards in Auckland and Wellington, taken October-November 2008 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 21 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016286

Description: The cartoon is an 'NBR Advent Calendar' (National Business Review). In a snowy Christmasy scene can be seen the Beehive, holly, reindeer, and many politicians having Christmas fun (or not). Context; Maori MP Hone Harawira in a grass skirt throws a snowball at Finance Minister Bill English, PM John Key conducts Minister of Social development Paula Bennett who is singing carols and ACT leader Rodney Hide sings beside her with his music upside-down, A judge throws ex Minister of Womens and Ethnic Affairs Pansy Wong out of a window in a bucket of water and ex Labour MP Chris Carter throws himself from a window. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0010769

Description: In a series of four frames Jaimee tells Debbie about her ideas for making Wellington a super city as well. This in light of debate over making Auckland a super city with a single mayor and council. She suggests that there could be a military operation and Petone, the Hutt, Porirua, Paraparaumu, Levin, and Palmerston North would all fall like dominoes. When Debbie in her pragmatic way wonders what will happen after that, Jaimee sighs and goes home to watch the 'Where the wild things are' trailer again. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014251

Description: In the first of two frames a group of people show reverence as they stand before the shroud of Turin. In the second frame a crowd bows down before the Rugby World Cup. Comment on the New Zealand reverence for rugby. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0012326

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister, Phil Goff in a can of worms labelled 'John's electoral system turmoil' and Minister for Local Government, Rodney Hide, in a second can of worms labelled 'Rodney's Chunky Auckland Super City Chaos'. In the background is a third can labelled 'Ministerial Housing Rort'. John Key says that if you hold your nose and shut your eyes they are yum. Refers to the decision that the Government will spend millions of dollars holding a referendum on whether MMP should be dumped - a system Prime Minister John Key thinks New Zealanders are increasingly comfortable with. Mr Key said National would hold the referendum to honour its election pledge and let people "kick the tyres" of the electoral system. Refers also to the rows over the supercity which are about Maori representation on the council and how much of Auckland is included among other things. Published in the Listener Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007-2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000245

Description: Photographs of street art in Palmerston North, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington, taken 2007-2008 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 49 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2009

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0012478

Description: The cartoon shows a town planner trying to persuade a surf life-saver and a chef from the Maranui Surf Life Saving Club to accept a plan for a 'gleaming featureless edifice that could be anywhere' rather than return to the 'draughty, creaky, noisy, old, admittedly quaint building that's utterly unique to this coastline'. On Saturday 1st August 2009 the club was severely damaged by a fire caused by damaged electrical wiring. The fire started in the basement of the building and worked its way through to the ground level store room and up into the cafe. Destruction of the area of the store room and office meant that most of the records and archives of the club and cafe were destroyed. The building has a hole through the centre and there is significant fire, smoke and water damage to most of the building. However, the structural damage is around 25% and this gives the club confidence that the building will be repaired. The building owners, Wellington City Council, will make this decision within the next few weeks in consultation with their insurers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: Feb - Apr 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000277

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Featherston, Carterton, Greytown, Tinui, Masterton, Castlepoint buildings, 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Buildings Feb to April 2008" Quantity: 53 digital photograph(s).