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Date: 29 Dec 1999

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Raymond Rodney, 1925-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-05

Description: Raymond Moffatt, known as Ray, was born at home in Otaki in 1925. Mentions great grandfather Moffatt, a missionary, settling in Otaki in 1868, and family living there ever since. Worked with Dr Livingstone. Recalls that family farmed beside the Waitohu Stream from 1925 until ca 1990. Mentions family butcher shop, pig farming, dairy farming, milking, Rahui Dairy Factory, hay press, Otaki Railway Station, local shops, food, school, school boys helping to build a classroom, entertainment. Mentions mother, related to Ngati Raukawa, dying in the flu epidemic after World War I. Talks about father helping restore Rangiatea Church, build wall at Raukawa Marae, and do work for Catholic Church. Mentions his father's concrete making process. Mentions dances, married life, farming. Mentions buying two acres of land for 180 pounds sterling and a cow, and building home. Refers to rectifying purina moth problem, local families, involvement in clubs, including Lions, Citizens Advice Bureau and the Friendship Force. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11061 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3869. Photos include Ray & Joan's 50th wedding anniversary; Moffatt family; Rita and Edwin Moffatt (Ray's parents). Search dates: 1868 - 1974

Date: 1973 - 01 Jan 1973

By: Leitch, W J, 1899-1985; Tegg, William, active 1973; Jackson, George, 1908-2000; Higginson, W, active 1973-1975; Crosado, Douglas Armstrong, 1921-1994; Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994

Reference: OHColl-0041

Description: Interview concerns the establishment of the Railway Tradesmens' Association in 1924; work conditions; divorce from political parties in early years, impressions of J G Coates and other politicians, the 1924 rail strike and the 1932 Auckland riots. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - D A Crosado Interviewer(s) - H O Roth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000426 - OHC-000428 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available Partial transcript only held in Manuscripts (82-368).

Date: 1975 - 01 Jan 1975

From: Williams Family Interviews

By: Warren, Greville Williams, 1899-1992; Williams, Brian Leslie, 1904-1975; Williams, Charles Athol, 1899-1990

Reference: OHInt-0174/1

Description: Charles Athol Williams, B L Williams and Greville Warren talk about the Williams Family of Te Aute Station, Hawkes Bay. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Tony Stark Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000466 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 21 Apr 1979

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Sumner, Leila Osberta, 1890-1982

Reference: OHInt-0105-49

Description: Lila Sumner talks about her early days in Dargaville, her father's life, working on Kurvati newspaper, Novena newspaper, Aurega House, Northern Wairoa history, the early days of the Hillary family before World War I. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Mrs Edmund Hillary Venue - Lady Alum Home, Milford, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000405B; OHC-000406 - OHC-000407; OHC-000408A; OHC-000409B Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 3.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1979

Date: 2006-2011

By: Diamond, Paul Edward, 1968-; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHColl-1030

Description: Ten interviews with Māori who served in the Vietnam War. The interviewees were born between 1935 and 1949, and belong to iwi from rohe across Aotearoa/New Zealand. Includes interviews with Paul Kimiora Carr, Roy Tutewhakaiho Matakatia Komene, Roger Carew Aritaku Maaka, John Edwin Heremaia Marsh, William (George) Mathew, Anthony (Andy) Leon Mokaraka, Albert Sidney (Sid) Puia, Rangi Mathew Rata, James (Jim) Taia, and Charles Romi (Bunny) Tumai. Includes printed biographical forms, printed abstracts, printed pre-interview questionnaires, digital recordings, photographs, and other documentation. Awards/funding - Funded by an Award in Oral History from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2006. Between June 1964 and December 1972 around 3,500 New Zealand military personnel served in South Vietnam. All of the New Zealanders who served were regulars or had enlisted in the Regular Force to join V Force - New Zealand's army contingent in the US-led coalition. Māori participation in the war was substantial. The interviewees served with many of the New Zealand units deployed in Vietnam; some served with Australian units. Quantity: 10 digital sound recording(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 1 folder(s). 10 interview(s). 44 Electronic document(s). 203 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 37 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Paul Diamond, Lower Hutt, November 2011 Search dates: 1964 - 1900 - 1972 - 2011

Date: 1975

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Garlick, Richard, 1893-1976

Reference: OHInt-0470/11

Description: Dick Garlick came to Rotorua in 1910 and worked at the old Rotorua Coaching Company stables with about eighty or ninety horses. Discusses going to World War I with the Mounted Rifles. Mentions Paddy Abbottt, Gallipoli, being separated from his horse, getting dysentery and a fever and being shipped out. Recalls recuperating in an English hospital before returning to New Zealand in 1917. Mentions going on the Waimangu run on his return and the eruption of the geyser which blew up two people. Gives some details of his family background including growing up in Taneatua. Describes how his English father married Tuhi Tapsell. Talks about Rotorua boarding houses and hotels including the Geyser Hotel, Lake House Hotel, Grand Hotel and Brents Hotel. Describes how the typical Rotorua holiday was a fortnight long and included the Round Trip, the Six Lake Trip, Te Wairoa, Tikitere and Hamurana Springs. Recalls that the last coach went to Tauranga in 1920. Describes how the horses were changed every fourteen miles. Mentions five horses to a coach. Mentions that the horse coach had to go on a punt at Ohiwa and Te Teko as there were no bridges. Recalls driving coaches from 1912 to 1920 apart from some time during the war. Notes that the Rotorua Coaching Company was owned by Teddy Robertson, then Carr and Walker and was taken over by L C Ryan and Andy Brown who changed the transport from coaches to motor vehicles and called the firm Rotorua Motor Transport Company. Describes how Kusabs Motor Service changed to Aard. Mentions coach drivers Sonny and Tommy Atkinson and Bert Gleeson. Recalls driving Governor General Lord Fergusson round Rotorua, Lord Bledisloe to Gisborne, the Queen Mother fishing and Zane Grey to Tokaanu. Comments on the state of the roads and cars getting stuck. Describes dance halls the Peerless, Kings and Dixieland. Recalls Charles Kingsford Smith landing the Southern Cross at Te Ngae. Talks about the beautiful colours of Rainbow Mountain and soaping the Lady Knox Geyser. Describes a timber mill at Mamaku, a prison camp near the Lady Knox Geyser and early Taupo. Describes being a driver in the Waimana-Ruatoki-Taneatua areas and delivering mail bags at the same time. Recalls the Rangitaiki swamp and the difficulty of the terrain from Kawerau to Rotoma. Mentions being a Roads Service bus driver and then getting his taxi licence in 1950 and drivng a taxi till 1962. Recalls moving to Paradise Valley. Mentions that he is divorced and remarried. Talks about sisters Mrs Bidois and Nessie Bennett. Mentions a number of local indentities and Count Montague who was tarred and feathered. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2859.

Date: 04 08 00 - 04 Aug 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Rivers, Mary-Jane, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0590-3

Description: Mary-Jane Rivers was born in Christchurch in 1951. Describes her mother and their relationship, her father, mother's family and paralysis due to medical malpractice. Talks about being educated by nuns, and moving to Auckland in difficult conditions. Talks about Auckland University, social movements, Sue Kedgely and Sharyn Cederman, becoming interested in feminism, marriage, moving to Wellington, and Victoria University. Mentions joining a feminist group that met weekly including Daphne Brasell, Therese O'Connell, Kay Goodger, and remaining friends. Talks about important feminist books. Mentions work as Community Development Officer for the City Council as a combination of feminism, social justice and community based action. Describes work as Manager, Community Services for Upper Hutt City Council, getting things off the ground such as adult education, local Workers Educational Associations (WEAs), community mental health services, Women's Refuge, helping establish early childhood services. Comments that many of these services still continue. Talks about leaving community work for the Public Sector, Senior Advisor Department of Health and working on pilot for Wellington's Area Health Board. Discusses joining Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA) Board in early 1980s; Elizabeth Sewell was Executive Director and wanted to bring the organistion into a new era. Mentions Sewell also recruited Jenny Gill, Nicola Crutchley, Vera Levett. Mentions Audrey Reynolds and Faith Gibbons progressive board members supportive of the younger women. Talks of tension between old and new ideas, such as whether or not to sell the old building. Mentions she was a Board member for three or four years. Talks about YWCA today, and her expections of its role for young women. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9066, 9067 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2873. - Search dates: 1975 - 1985

Date: 16 Oct 1999

From: Virtue, Noel M, 1947-: Sound and video recordings

By: Edwards, Brian Finbar Myram, 1937-; Virtue, Noel M, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0575-11

Description: Brian Edwards interviews Noel Virtue on National Radio's programme 'Top of the morning'. Interviewer(s) - Brian Edwards Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8683 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1975 - 1999

Date: 19 Jul 1977

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Beckett, George Frederick David Isaiah, 1895-1983; Beckett, David Isaiah, 1903-1984

Reference: OHInt-0470/02

Description: George and Dave Beckett recall arriving in Rotorua in 1913 and 1914 respectively. George Beckett recalls driving the solicitor, Mr Rhodes and his wife, round the North Island in a Cadillac and then operating a taxi service for the Rhodes. Mentions getting engaged to Mabel Smith with whose family he was boarding. Recalls joining up for World War I and getting extended leave because of family sickness. Describes driving for Rotorua Motors (RM), operating a service to Whakatane and a mail run to Taupo. Describes the difficulties of running some of these routes. Mentions fascines, the punt at Te Teko and the Rangitaiki swamp. Comments that the people running coaches made difficulties for those running cars. Describes being made to swear an oath about a trip on which he was driving. Describes how this trip was to get Rua Kenana out from Ruatahuna. Talks about Constables Cummings and Grant, Mr Snodgrass, the engineer, and Mr Dyer, the magistrate. Describes how a second trip was made with seventy men and Rua and one of his sons were roped together and brought out. Recalls that after Rua's imprisonment he drove him from Ruatoki to Rotorua on a number of occasions in the White (car). Discusses the road to Tauranga. Comments on the low death rate in Rotorua from the 1918 flu epidemic and attributes it to the effect of sulphur. Describes boarding houses and old homes in the area. Discusses surviving the flu in Germany after the war and how he was cured. Dave Beckett describes the motorcycle club in Rotorua known as the Autocycle and Athletic Club. Recalls an athletic meeting in 1922 or 1923 with Bill Costello, Epi Shalfoon, Doug Sheaf and others competing in running, jumping and wood-chopping events. Mentions motorbike riders Steve Whitehead, Percy Coleman, Locker McCready and Stan Blackmore and Indian, AJS, Douglas, BSA and Harley Davidson motorbikes. Describes the sidecars for motorbikes known as Nash sidecars made by Percy Nash of Auckland. Talks about selling motorbikes to the forestry workers in the bush. Recalls being the longest serving BSA agent in New Zealand, starting in 1917 at the age of fourteen and finishing at the age of seventy three or seventy four. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2851.

Date: 14 Jun 1978

From: Kapunga Te Matemoana (Koro) Dewes collection of sound recordings

Reference: OHInt-0782-007

Description: Contents: Tape 1: Introduction on Bastion Point issue - Sonny Waru; Laws pertaining to Maori lands (VUW law student); Bastion Point - Ben Couch Tape 2: Bastion Point - Ben Couch, Matiu Tarewa, Sonny Waru Tape 3: "After the Crying, an Address on Bastion Point" - Prof S Mead Tape 4: Bastion Point, a political view - Whetu Tirikatene Sullivan, Matiu Tarewa Tape 5: Comments on Bastion Point - Heta Te Hemara; The Police Involvement in Bastion Point - Representatives of the Police Commission Hui was held at Victoria University of Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-2376 - OHT7-2380 Quantity: 5 7" reel(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Catalogue of Recordings from the Koro Dewes Collection.

Date: 02 Nov 2002

By: Radio New Zealand

Reference: OHColl-0643-1

Description: Post-punk musician and filmmaker Brent Hayward, born 1958, talking on National Radio's programme 'Musical Chairs', describing his musical history in his own words, from his band's 'Shoes This High' and 'The Kiwi Animal' to some new unreleased recordings as 'Fats White'. Quantity: 1 compact disc(s) CD-R 80. 1 event(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Provenance: Donated by Brent Hayward in 2002. Search dates: 1975 - 2002

Date: 05 Nov 2000

From: Virtue, Noel M, 1947-: Sound and video recordings

By: Virtue, Noel M, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0575-13

Description: Noel Virute's novel 'Losing Alice' is reviewed on Radio New Zealand's programe 'Bookmarks'. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1975 - 1999

Date: 23 Oct 1977

Reference: OHColl-0702/1

Description: Recordings of Holy Communion, Family service and Evening service at Knox Presbyterian Church, Lower Hutt on 23 Oct 1977. Includes the new covenant. Quantity: 2 7" reel(s). 1 event(s).

Date: 1974

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8766-1

Description: Photographs of a new National Library School Library Service building in Hastings, taken early 1974 by Miss H Cowey. Includes exterior and interior views of the building, and photographs of employees. Accompanying material - Envelope that originally contained the photographs Quantity: 10 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler prints

Date: 26 May 1979

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Katavich, Nikola Petar, 1902-1986

Reference: OHInt-0105-01

Description: Petar Katavich talks about life on the Far North gumfields in the 1920s and 1930s and gumdigging on the Omaha flats, Matakana in the early 1940s. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Venue - Dominion Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000361 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1920 - 1979

Date: 1979 - 01 Jan 1979

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Pivac, Ivan, active 1940-1979

Reference: OHInt-0105-02

Description: Ivan Pivac describes life on the Ahipara Hill gumfields in the 1940s and 1950s, including gum sluicing and gum washing. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Venue - Avondale, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000366 and OHC-000408B Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1940 - 1979

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: 19 Nov 1986

From: NZOHA L D Nathan & Co Ltd Oral History Project

By: Watt, Norman Kenneth, 1919-

Reference: OHInt-0083/19

Description: Norman Watt was born 22 Apr 1919 at Devonport, Auckland. Describes family background, childhood, education and early employment as a grocery delivery boy. Details career with Bond and Bond Ltd, from Junior Clerk in 1935, to Accounts, Office Manager, Credit Manager and Computer Output Controller, retiring from the company in 1979. Discusses the grocery trade and changes to the wholesale and retail business, including Four Square and Independent Grocers' Alliance (IGA). Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 19 Huron Street, Takapuna, Auckland Accompanying material - Bond and Bond Co Ltd memos, shareholders' documents, various papers, newspaper clippings. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001406/001407/001408/001409 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0213. Search dates: 1919 - 1935 - 1986 - 1979