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Date: 01 Nov 1991 - 14 Aug 1992 - 01 Nov 1991 - 14 Aug 1992

By: Stace, Hilary Janet, 1954-

Reference: OHColl-1190

Description: Seven interviews covering the establishment, between late 1940 and early 1941, of the Wadestown Playcentre initially in the downstairs of the Presbyterian Hall, and its later shift around 1950 to the local Plunket Rooms. Interviewees discuss their involvement as mother helpers or trained supervisors, obtaining equipment, and the daily routine of the Playcentre. Some became active in the Wellington Playcentre Association. They mention the anti-playcentre feeling in the community and the expected role of women in the 1950s. Interviewees comment on the kindergarten versus playcentre philosophy as well as playcentre's relationship with plunket. Many mention the impetus given to the playcentre movement by educationalist Gwen Somerset, and also refer to Beatrice Beeby and Marie Bell. Interviewees are: Augusta Bohmer, Jean Reid, Joyce Ross, Shirley Rowe, Jeanette Stace, Gwyneth Wright, and joint interview with Bobbie Fawthorpe, Joyce Hudson and Mary Aslin. The collection also includes a recording of speakers at the 50th anniversary lunch held at the Wadestown Community Centre, which is followed by comments on the Wadestown Playcentre from people attending a related evening social. Another recording covers an informal discussion by women who had been involved in the Wadestown Playcentre in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Interviewer(s) - Hilary Stace, Pam Callard Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-13104 - OHC-13111 Listening copies: LC-7663 - LC-7670 Abstract available: OHA-4574 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 2 event(s). 7 C60 cassette(s). 7 interview(s).

Date: 5 Jun 2008 - 05 Jun 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Gould, Susan Deborah, 1959-

Reference: OHInt-0975-13

Description: Interview with Sue (Susan) Gould, born in Timaru in 1959. Refers to her family background and schooling in Timaru. Comments on working in a nursery for a year, doing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln College, then travelling and working in various jobs until she was old enough to join the Port Agriculture Service in Christchurch in 1981. Described her first weeks on the job, sitting entrance exams in an Auckland wharf shed, and year's probation. Refers to the roster system, on-the-job training, and there being only one other female on the Christchurch staff when she started. Describes work at Lyttelton rummaging through freight and inspecting chests of household effects. Talks about later boarding vessels before they berthed, meeting the captain, the paperwork involved, going through cabins and galleys, sealing meat lockers, and checking fish holds on trawlers for hidden meat. Refers to learning some Japanese and Russian at night classes, and also kickboxing. Mentions the changes that came with containerisation, with cargo being inspected in unpacking areas or importers' premises. Refers to working at the airport, the 'pecking order' of the staff there, passenger risk criteria for bringing in food (ethnic groups) or animal diseases (horse breeders, vets), and a drug runner with a suitcase of hashish. Refers to boarding American, Italian and New Zealand military aircraft to spray for insects. Comments on the change to using residual insecticides on surfaces in planes and air bridges which reduced the need for spraying on arrival. Mentions garbage collection from aircraft and spraying left over food with dye before disposal. Refers to the transporting of horses, cats, dogs and other animals on aircraft, aircraft preparation, and arrival checking. Talks about crew searches, and the importance of passenger profiling before x-rays. Mentions starting to use dogs in the late 1990s to help with cruise ships. Describes post office duty, the numbers of foreign university students in Canterbury and knowing the seasons to expect food items in parcels. Discusses the beginning of importing off season fruit and vegetables, which became a massive part of the job. Talks about doing pre-clearance of grapes in Australia. Comments on her current work arranging and carrying out pre-clearance inspection of grapes in Mexico, the U.S. and Australia. Explains setting up the inspection process in Mexico. Outlines the fumigation process with ethyl dibromide or methyl bromide, the training given, having little safety gear in the early days, and problems in cold weather. Refers to taking a full time job at Lyttelton after 15 years on general roster. Mentions moving to Wellington in 2003 as Site Manager for the Wellington Quarantine Service. Talks about relations with the port and airport companies, and procedures for VIPs. Discusses becoming Manager Offshore after a restructuring in 2005, and her work finding suitable staff to send overseas, arranging service agreements and managing staff at a distance. Describes current work with the military doing pre-clearance overseas for returning personnel. Outlines the process of passenger pre-clearance on cruise ships and the job's popularity. Comments on struggling to find staff to go to Japan for vehicle inspection. Refers to her other administrative work, and to never wanting to lose sight of the border. Comments on the introduction of charging for service, the TV programme Border Patrol, and their relationship with Customs. Refers to working with the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service, and work in the Pacific improving quarantine standards. Mentions their relationship with the United States Department of Agriculture. Reflects on various restructurings during her career and refers to how unsettling they were for staff. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Interviewee's curriculum vitae, with printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001100 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) biographical form. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7308. Search dates: 1959 - 2008

Date: 21 and 27 Aug; 8 Oct 1986; 24 Mar 1988 - 21 Aug 1986 - 24 Mar 1988

From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records

By: Gillies, Ellensleigh Denny Gordon (Dr), 1902-1989

Reference: OHInt-0019/04

Description: Dr Denny Gillies talks about her family background, her childhood, her reason for choosing medicine as a career, university education, Otago Medical School, Dr Fitchett, holidays and social life, tuberculosis, hydatids, time as house surgeon at Palmerston North, Napier Earthquake, reasons for going to England and not into private practice, post graduate study at Cambridge University studying radiology, return to New Zealand as radiologist at Palmerston North Hospital and then move into private practice in Wellington, type of work, attitudes of patients. Accompanying material - Attached to printed abstract are a number of copies of newspaper articles about Dr Denny Gillies, unsourced; a copy of article entitled 'The Rita Gillies Gardner Memorial Fund' from NZ Medical Journal, vol 62 no 372, August 1963, pp. 383-384 Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Neville Glasgow Venue - 12 Newman Court, 16 Tinakori Road, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001782 - OHC-001785 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 279.

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: 5 April 2003 - 05 Apr 2003

From: Tung Jung oral history project

By: Wong, Raymond Ling Yui, 1911-2009

Reference: OHInt-0747-10

Description: Interview with Raymond Wong, born in Wellington in 1911. Talks about family life in New Zealand and being sent to China for further education at the age of 14. Refers to his training and employment as a radio officer on coastal ships for a British company in Hong Kong. Mentions meeting his New Zealand-born wife Betty in China, marrying her in 1935, then returning to New Zealand. Discusses his father having returned earlier and set up another fruit and vegetable shop in Cuba Street and working for the family business (Wong Tong and Sons) which he joined when he came back. Comments about working in the green grocers markets and moving to Nelson in 1954 where he joined another family firm. Talks about his father's choice to immigrate to New Zealand, family experiences as Chinese immigrants and reflects on his cultural identity as a Chinese New Zealander. Interviewer(s) - Kitty Chang Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014101 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5057. Colour ink jet print image of Raymond Wong and his wife (no date). Search dates: 1911 - 2003

Date: 15 Apr, 18, 19 May, 13, 16 Jun 2011 - 15 Apr 2011 - 16 Jun 2011

By: Martin, John Robert, 1936-; Stewart, Jiff, active 1967-2016

Reference: OHColl-0992-01

Description: Interview with John Martin, born 1936 in Wellington. The interview was conducted over five days between 15 April and 16 June 2011. The interview discusses Martin's early childhood and education, time spent abroad in Samoa and London, and his career in Wellington working at the Treasury, the Department of Health, and Victoria University. Abstracted by - Jiff Stewart Interviewer(s) - Jiff Stewart Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 6 Electronic document(s) (Microsoft Word files). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7664. 1 interview(s) over 5 days. 14.54 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Jiff Stewart, Wellington, August 2011 Search dates: 1940 - 2011

Date: 9 Sep - 26 Oct 2005 - 09 Sep 2005 - 26 Oct 2005

From: Royal Society of New Zealand Wellington Branch oral history project

By: Prior, Ian Ambury Miller (Dr), 1923-2009; Marr, Julene, active 2000s

Reference: OHInt-1008-12

Description: Interview with Ian Prior, born in Masterton in 1923. Outlines his family background, importance of family and friends, schooling and his desire to study medicine. Talks about studying in Dunedin, playing rugby, Knox College and the residential college environment, and Lloyd Geering. Discusses professors and teachers at the Medical School including John Malcom, Eric D'Ath, Horace Smirk, Sir Charles Hercus, Gordon Bell and Bernard Dawson. Talks about meeting his future wife Elesbie Forsyth, and her Hallenstein and Fels family family background. Comments on his early work as a doctor at Wellington and Hutt Hospitals, the workplace culture and resources, hierarchy and decision-making. Mentions the personal qualities needed, women in medicine and promotion. Refers to time in England and membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Comments on his publications and the issue of quality versus quantity. Mentions his work in epidemiology. Describes the development of his links with Maori and work with Tuhoe. Talks about his links with Pacific Island peoples and visits to Rarotonga. Discusses Royal Society Fellows who were influential in his life including Charles Flemming and John Miles. Refers to ECO (the Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand), the Save Manapouri campaign and other other environmental activities. Reflects on discipline and teamwork in science, communication and on the relationship between science and society. Discusses the important role of arts and culture in the Prior family, referring to the family art collection. Talks about the booklet 'Two unusual families : the origins of the Prior collection' (2005). Refers to a poem written by Hone Tuwhare for the Prior family. Interviewer(s) - Julene Marr Accompanying material - Sprial-bound booklet 'Programme for Ian Priors birthday event, 16 October 1923-16 October 2005'. Two copies of 'Two unusual families : the origins of the Prior collection' (2005), with content bound in different sequences. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023173 - OHC-023177 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (handwritten summary). 1 interview(s). 3.31 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7609 (handwritten summary). Small B&W photograph of Ian Prior cut from a publication; B&W photocopy of cartoon sketch of seven professors from the Otago School of Medicine (1940) Search dates: 1923 - 2005

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: 05 Apr 2003

From: Tung Jung oral history project

By: Wong, Betty, 1915-2006

Reference: OHInt-0747-06

Description: Betty born in NZ but returned to China, (Guangzhou City) aged 5 with parents. Aged 7 when mother died, raised by old servant. Remained in China, then returned to NZ after marriage to Ray Wong at 19. Father remarried twice, so several siblings. Gradually settled after children born. Worked in family fruit business for several decades. Recalls many Chinese businesses in Cuba Street. Later moved to Nelson and took over brother's business there. Third son got scholarship to Havard. Betty very concerned that he not marry a westerner. She longed to return to China. The second half of the interview concerns information about Betty's parents. Father suffered 'bitter experiences' because of the very hard work. Wife always sick so family returned to China in 1918. She then refused to return to NZ so remained in China with 2 children. A second wife was chosen to come to NZ and 'suffer' in her place. Father then escaped the Japanese invasion (1937) on last boat out of Hongkong with no papers. Wanted to return to China when dying but because of the war was unable to. Language - Cantonese Interviewer(s) - Kitty Chang Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014097 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 27 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5053. Photocopy of photograph of Raymond and Betty Wong Search dates: 1915 - 2006

Date: 28 Mar 2009

From: Composing New Zealanders oral history project

By: Buchanan, Dorothy Quita, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-1010-02

Description: Interview with Dorothy Buchanan, born in Christchurch in 1945, the second of six girls. Talks about her family background, growing up on the West Coast and later in Christchurch in a musical family, and Catholic schooling. Outlines her early music education with piano lessons and learning the violin at seven. Refers to joining the Christchurch Civic Orchestra at 15 and also playing in the first orchestra at the Christchurch School of Music. Mentions joining the Christchurch Harmonic Society choir at 17 or 18 and travelling to the United Kingdom with them for the Commonwealth Festival. Recalls studying at the University of Canterbury, lecturer Michael Toovey and fellow student Ross Harris. Mentions having her own students during her high school and university years. Talks about her early compositions at school and university. Refers to marrying, teaching, playing in orchestras, attending teachers' training college and teaching music in schools. Recalls being appointed Composer in Schools in Christchurch in 1977, being based at Burnside High School and visiting 14 schools a week. Describes setting up Nota Bene Publishing with Philip Norman. Talks about moving to Wellington in 1984 where she found it difficult to get established. Recalls a commission to write music for a silent film which began a long association with the Film Archive as a composer and silent film accompanist. Comments that her maternal grandmother had also been an accompanist for silent films. Talks about being a composer in residence at the Film Archive, the influence of Jonathan Dennis, and enjoying accompanying silent films by Lawrie Inkster that were filmed on the West Coast. Refers to working at Wellington College as a music adviser, and working with young composers in Wellington. Discusses her friendships and collaborations with writers Lauris Edmond, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Fleur Adcock and Hone Tuwhare. Talks about collaborating with Desiree Gezentsvey on 'An Ocean Between Us' with the New Zealand Piano Quartet. Regrets not having more commercial recordings made of her work. Describes unfinished work on an opera 'Denniston Rose'. Reflects on her pride in the Artists in Schools project in Wellington. Outlines the Composing Women's movement in the 1990s. Pays tribute to her parents. Interviewer(s) - Roger Smith Accompanying material - List of names mentioned in the interview (with the abstracts) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001793 (digital) Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 6 Electronic document(s) (abstract, etc.). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.29 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word, Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7621, OHDL-001794. Search dates: 1945 - 2009

Date: 15 Nov 2008

From: Composing New Zealanders oral history project

By: Harris, Ross Talbot, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-1010-03

Description: Interview with Ross Harris, born in Amberley in 1945. Talks about his family background, growing up in Ashburton and Christchurch and strict upbringing. Refers to the lack of music or music-making in the family and his interest not really starting until high school. Comments on joining the school band to avoid military service. Mentions learning the B flat bass tuba quickly and joining the Addington Workshop Brass Band. Refers to playing tuba in the Christchurch Civic Orchestra and struggling to learn to play the French horn. Comments on Clifton Cook, music teacher at Christchurch Boys' High School, and private harmony study with Vernon Griffiths. Talks about his early desire to write music as well as perform. Discusses studying music at the University of Canterbury, including studying composing with Bill Hawkey. Refers to his setting for Denis Glover's poem 'Arawata Bill' that was performed by Simon Tipping in the Great Hall, Christchurch. Mentions his close relationship with Dorothy Buchanan and Gordon Burt. Remembers his disillusionment with brass band playing and choosing to go to Britain with the Christchurch Harmonic Society choir rather than the New Zealand National Band. Comments on marrying and moving to Wellington in 1967. Refers to working with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as a French horn player in 1969. Mentions being invited to teach at the university. Discusses the university's Music Department when he first arrived and the influence Frederick Page and his circle had had. Talks about studying French horn with Edward White, and studying towards a masters at Victoria University, mostly electronic music composition with Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar. Recalls the slow transition from being a horn player who wrote music to being recognised as a composer. Talks about composing music for television series 'The Games Affair' and 'The Governor'. Discusses composing his opera 'The Clock Makers', and his collaboration with Witi Ihimaera on the opera "Waituhi' (1981-1983). Refers to a rift with Douglas Lilburn, and spending six months teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium. Outlines further opera projects with Witi Ihimaera and Vincent O'Sullivan, and a period as Composer in Residence with the Auckland Philamonia Orchestra. Comments on retiring from teaching at Victoria University when the School of Music merged with Massey University. Refers to becoming director of the Electronic Music Studio at Victoria University when Douglas Lilburn retired, but passing it over to John Young when he lost interest in electroacoustic music. Reflects on never feeling like an academic and not enjoying teaching. Comments on his early interest in modernism in music but moving away from it later. States his belief that music is language. Recalls his residencies, works he composed during residencies and people he collaborated with. Comments that now he has retired he can commit more fully to composing. Interviewer(s) - Roger Smith Accompanying material - List of names mentioned in the interview (with the abstracts) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001796 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 6 Electronic document(s) - abstract, etc.. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word, Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001797, OHA-7622. Search dates: 1945 - 2008

Date: 15 Nov 1993

From: Oral history interviews for the Archive of New Zealand Music

By: De Lautour, Geoffrey, 1922-2000; Wilson, Roger Douglas, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0134-15

Description: Interview with Geoffrey de Lautour, born in Dunedin in 1922. No abstract available; interviewer's summary notes: Sides 1 and 2: Ancestry, birth and upbringing in Dunedin; education; Otago University. War service in Air Force, aerial photoraphy. Musical influences; competition and concert experiences; first engagements. Side 3: First performance continued; "Carmen" in Dunedin; Otago University again, John Matheson, Dr Galway. Dunedin competitions 1948. Side 4: To UK, study at Guildhall, conducting, various teachers. Performance of "Merrie England", Carl Rosa Opera Company. Side 5: Carl Rosa contd., Denis Dowling, "Maltese Joe". Marriage in London, odd jobs, film, TV etc. Side 6: Birth of daughter Karen; various concerts. Return to New Zealand; N.Z. Opera Company, "Marriage of Figaro" in Wellington and South Island tour; touring conditions; Donald Munro. Death of father. Side 7: "Figaro" tour. Dunedin - work in woolstore. "Barber of Serville" tour; shift to Wellington; manager of Catholic Supplies; musical odd-jobbing. Side 8: Tour of "Carmen" and "Barber of Serville". Side 9: N.Z. Opera Company contd. - "Aida"; disastrous imports; poor "Figaro"; Donald Munro leaves; demise of NZ Opera Company. Job at Hutt Valley Memorial Tech.; Wellington Competition Society. Side 10: Producer of Gilbert & Sullivan, Wellington Operatic Society. New Opera Company; formation of De La Tour Opera. Expansion to Regional Trust (early-mid-late 1970s). Side 11: Rise and fall of National Opera 1979-1981. Television opera; heart bypass operation. Wellington City Opera's foundation and development. Interviewer(s) - Roger Wilson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-020294 - OHC-020299 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s) - forms incl. summary. 1 interview(s). 6 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come. Search dates: 1922 - 1993

Date: 15, 16, 20 Dec 1993 - 15 Dec 1993 - 20 Dec 1993

From: Oral history interviews for the Archive of New Zealand Music

By: Walden-Mills, William Henry, 1909-1997; O'Rourke, Anne C, active 1989-1993

Reference: OHInt-0134-14

Description: Interview with Bill (William) Walden-Mills, born in Farnsborough, England, in 1909. Tape one: 1909-1959 the early years, England and Dunedin; tape two, 1959-1974/75 Department of Education; tape three, 1975- retirement. (No abstract available) Interviewer(s) - Anne O'Rourke Accompanying material - Obituary of Bill Walden-Mills (Evening Post, 14 Aug 1997), in folder with forms Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-020291 - OHC-020293 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s) - forms. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come. Search dates: 1909 - 1993

Date: 28 Jun 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Harrison, Joyce Margaret, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0980-07

Description: Interview with Joyce Harrison (nee Morton), born in Wellington in 1927. Talks about her family background, growing up in Karori as an only child with older parents, and being very self reliant. Refers to starting school at six, going to Samuel Marsden school when she was 10 and being 'knocked into shape'. Comments on the headmistress's narrow vision of careers available for women. Mentions the family's bach at Paekakariki. Talks about the buildup to war when she was 13, 'ripples in the family' from World War I, and her father being called up for air raid warden service. Describes him spending nights on duty on a government building with his tin hat, bucket of sand and gas mask. Mentions her mother had worked in the War Office during World War I. Describes attitudes to England and Empire. Comments on the family's financial situation during the war, her mother sewing clothes and her parents' vegetable garden. Refers to shortages at school and air raid practice. Talks about fear for those leaving and not knowing when it would end. Recalls the departure of the Second Echelon in 1941, watching alone from a hill and sketching. Reflects that adults took the war work of children seriously and this brought home to them the seriousness of the situation. Mentions blackouts, seeing search lights from Wrights Hill, and feeling more protected in Wellington than at Paekakariki. Discusses the American Marines at Parkakariki and a gun emplacement (without gun) being built on their section there. Recalls the sadness and guilt when word came that so many marines had died. Talks about listening to the BBC news at Paekakariki but not following the progress of the war closely in newspapers, and the effects of lists of names. Refers to war news at the cinema and its patriotic tone. Recalls VJ Day, people celebrating in town, cold bitter weather and church bells ringing. Comments on wartime perceptions of the Japanese. Reflects on the effects of war on her as a teenager with restrictions and shortages, and her realisation that with men being killed she might not be able to get married. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022541 - OHC-022542 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7330. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Joyce Harrison (c 1940); printout of a colour photograph of Joyce (2007) Search dates: 1927 - 2007

Date: 21 Aug 2008 - 9 Sep 2008 - 08 Sep 2008

From: Arts Foundation of New Zealand Heritage oral history project

By: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0926-05

Description: Maurice Gough Gee, born in Whakatane in 1931. Backgrounds paternal and maternal families. Talks about his paternal grandfather Harry Gee and his home at Peacehaven, Glen Eden. Talks about his maternal grandmother Florence Chapple, grandfather James Chapple and his novel 'Plumb'. Recalls childhood in Henderson, Auckland. Recounts memories of incidents which have appeared in his writing. Links smells to memories. Talks about his brothers and boyhood friends. Attended Henderson Primary School and Avondale College. Remembers teacher Bill Martin. Describes his father, Leonard William Gee, a boxer and carpenter, and his mother, Harriet Lyndahl Gee, a socialist who wrote and illustrated for womens magazines. Recalls reading Zane Grey, Victorian novels and Shakespeare as boy. Talks about family attitudes to Royal family, social class and pacifism. Talks about competing in boxing and golf. Says he loved playing rugby, though found a brutal conflict in it; refers to male aggression. Discusses taking conscientious objector stand when called for compulsory service. Talks about going to university and teachers college in Auckland. Describes socialising at the Queens Ferry Hotel, Vulcan Lane, Auckland, with others in writing and the arts. Discusses his friendships with Maurice Shadbolt, Barry Crump, Jean Watson, and Odo Strewe. Tells of first published stories in 'Kiwi' and 'Landfall' magazines. Talks about moving to Wellington in late 1950s and socialising with James K Baxter, Louis Johnson, Fleur Adock, Alister Campbell, Anton Vogt and other writers of the time. Mentions trip to Spain with Kevin Ireland. Talks about writing his first novel between 1957 to 1962 and importance of dialogue in his writing. Talks about relationship with first wife Hera Smith and their son Nigel Gee, born in Melbourne 1961. Describes teaching in Paeroa, and later in England 1961. Tells of returning to Rotorua where he worked at Sunset Intermediate School. Recalls going to Dunedin in 1964 on Robert Burns Fellowship. Details his writing routine. Tells of training as librarian and working at Alexander Turnbull library for two years and part time work at Broadcasting Library 1969. Talks about moving to Napier for City Librarian job 1970, and subsequent conflict with City Council and Library Association of Napier Public Library. Refers to Deputy Librarian position at Auckland Teachers College Library 1974 and one year position at Auckland University library. Talks about custody case over son. Comments on 1960s environment in Wellington. Describes feelings about spoken word and finding right word for right object in his writing. Mentions Leigh Barron and Colin McCahon. Discusses relationship with second wife Margareta Gee. Talks about birth of daughters in 1970 and 1972 and writing during this time. Comments on making a living from writing and his shift to writing for television and children. Explains his feelings about being in public eye and his own reputation as a writer. Talks about atheism and agnosticism, calls himself an evolutionary humanist. Details move to Nelson via Wellington in 1975 to start writing full time. Talks about writing 'Plumb', 'Meg','Sole Survivor', 'Under the Mountain' and 'Mortimer's Patch', the 'O' trilogy and other childrens' thrillers. Explains viewpoints on writing characters, writing for children and use of place in novels. Talks about travel with family in Europe after winning James Tait Black Memorial Prize, returning in 1982 and working in Nelson bookshops. Explains reason for moving to Penguin publisher. Recalls overseas conferences. Tells of move to Wellington to take the Victoria University Writer's Fellowship in 1989, and Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, France, 1992. Talks about never setting his writing outside New Zealand, and importance of location in story. Reflects on death of parents in 1981 and 1986 and their attitudes to his successes. Explains his feelings about receiving two honorary doctorates, Arts Foundation Icon Award and other literary awards, and turning down a knighthood. Tells of his current 'Salt' book series. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-000378, OHDL-000379 Quantity: 2 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 interview(s) - over 2 days. 6.38 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - Wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7098, OHDL-001347. Search dates: 1931 - 2008

Date: 5 Sep 2008 - 05 Sep 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: O'Neil, Barry Desmond, 1956-

Reference: OHInt-0975-16

Description: Interview with Barry O'Neil, born in Feilding in 1956. Talks about growing up on farms near Feilding and Te Puke, and studying veterinary science at Massey University, graduating in 1978. Mentions working in a veterinary practice in the Bay of Plenty, then travelling through Asia, and working in the United Kingdom for two years, becoming interested in exotic diseases. Comments on working in a practice in Tauranga when he returned until he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) in 1984. Describes his job as MAF veterinarian at the port of Tauranga, inspecting animals before they were loaded onto ships, and having responsibility for disease control. Mentions trips to the United States to accompany horses coming to New Zealand. Refers to going to work in Wellington in 1989, and being appointed as New Zealand Veterinary Counsellor in Brussels in 1991. Talks about this role, his responsibility for Africa and the Middle East as well as the European Union (EU), and the impact of EU directives on New Zealand trade. Recalls his involvement in GATT (General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade) negotiations and the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement under the World Trade Organisation. Comments on his involvement with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE, International Office of Epizootics), its role in setting international standards for trade in animals and animal products, and New Zealand dependence on trade agreements made through OIE. Talks about returning to New Zealand and being chief veterinary officer in MAF 1994-1999. Comments on concerns with BSE [bovine spongioform encephalopathy], rabbbit calicivirus and fruit fly infestations during this period and how they have affected the way biosecurity is managed. Recalls the introduction of infringement notices and instant fines. Backgrounds the making of the television series Border Patrol. Comments on the introduction of x-ray machines and detector dogs at the border. Refers to working with Customs when non-biosecurity risks are found with x-rays. Discusses the Biosecurity Act 1993 and how it is working. Refers to the appointment of a Minister of Biosecurity in 1999, the establishment of the Biosecurity Council, and the lack of investment in raising public awareness at the time. Comments on the division of MAF's regulatory authority into two groups, biosecurity and food regulatory, in 1999, and being appointed Group Director of the Biosecurity Authority. Comments on the establishment of Biosecurity New Zealand in 2005 and its roles and accountability with regard to pest management being clarified. Explains the thinking behind the merger of MAF Quarantine Service and Biosecurity New Zealand in 2007 to form MAF Biosecurity New Zealand, and becoming deputy director. Mentions the relationship between Biosecurity New Zealand and the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the assistance provided to Pacific nations for biosecurity and border control. Reflects on why Customs and Biosecurity services should not be merged in New Zealand. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001105 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract, form. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001104, OHA-7311. Search dates: 1956 - 2008

Date: 17 Jun 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Barber, Leslie Allan, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0975-03

Description: Interview with Leslie (Les) Barber, born in Te Kuiti in 1941. Refers to his family background, schooling, his first jobs, and joining the Port Agricultural Service in 1962. Recalls his interview for the job, others in his intake, the office in Auckland, and his training. Refers to the later introduction of regular staff training and training officers, and the manual of instructions. Talks about Julian Brown the superintendent of the Service. Recalls the process of annual job assessments and the uniforms. Refers to reactions to the appointment of the first woman - Mary Middleton - in the Service in Auckland. Explains how incoming ships were inspected, including sealing meat in lockers, checking for crew pets, and incidents involving snakes. Comments on inspecting incoming produce and the importance of having quarantine officers doing it. Refers to inspecting holds including those containing explosives, and sealing holds of export meat. Mentions the inspection of produce for export. Comments on sending samples to the Department's entomologists at Lynfield. Discusses the impact of containerisation on their work on the waterfront, changes in procedures over time, and finding insect pests in produce imported in containers. Recalls inspecting mail at the post office and options when prohibited goods were found. Mentions inspecting vehicles and ex World War II aircraft arriving in the country. Talks about the fumigation station in Tinley Street, using methyl bromide and formalin, and the training given. Comments that fumigation was free in the early days of the Service and the introduction of charges was self-defeating. Refers to the move of Auckland airport from Whenuapai to Mangere. Talks about the hours at which international flights and military aircraft would arrive, and inspection procedures on the aircraft and in the terminal. Refers to immigrant ships, inspecting immigrants' household effects, and inspecting cruise ships. Mentions cruise ships being dealt with by pre-clearance, and being flown overseas to return on the ships. Recalls trips to Singapore and Malaysia to inspect household goods of returning military personnel. Mentions doing pre-inspection of forestry mill machinery in Canada, and trips to Fiji and Tonga to inspect produce. Refers to the merger between the Ministries of Agriculture and of Forestry, and the division of Auckland into zones for inspecting cargo containers. Comments on off-wharf inspection and its quarantine risks. Refers to the introduction of risk management analysis in their work. Mentions the development of public relations work by the Service and the need for it. Reflects on early rivalry between Customs and the Port Agricultural Service, proposals to merge the services, and how they work in parallel. Recalls restructuring of MAF in the 1980s. Talks about fellow staff including Don Possin and Neil Hyde. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Tribute by John Burton entitled "Les Barber - Quarantine Man" on the occasion of his retirement (2 p.), with printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001094 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract, form. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001095, OHA-7298. Search dates: 1941 - 2008

Date: 4 Jun 2008 - 04 Jun 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Alexander, Michael David, 1956-

Reference: OHInt-0975-01

Description: Interview with Mike (Michael) Alexander, born in Napier in 1956. Talks briefly about his family and having moved every three years as his father was a bank manager. Refers to working for Firth Concrete after leaving school until he could start work as a farm cadet. Comments on deciding farming was not the career he wanted and working for 18 months as a driver salesman for General Foods. Refers to applying for a job as a port agricultural officer in 1975 and his first day in the job in Auckland. Discusses the training he received on the job, and numerous short training courses run by MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries/Forestry). Describes the uniform, working initially at the post office in Customs parcel post, and his duties there. Comments on being rostered on mail about four weeks a year, the rest of his time being divided between the airport and the port. Talks about procedures with incoming aeroplanes before airbridges. Refers to meeting incoming passengers, and to working in the air cargo section. Discusses duties at the port where the favourite job was vessel clearance, meeting ships before they docked and sealing stores particularly meat. Refers to the process for inspecting a ship's cargo, and searching for pests in cargos of produce. Talks about travelling for a period after working in Auckland for 18 months, and then going to Wellington where the team was smaller. Comments on the number of Japanese and Korean squid vessels and Taiwanese fishing boats using Wellington port and the language difficulties. Describes becoming a Quarantine Timber Preservation Inspector in Napier in 1981, the timber preservation processes in use, and his work inspecting the packing materials and dunnage with imported sawn timber. Talks about visiting a pulp mill, joineries and picture framers to give export certification. Comments on returning to Wellington after four years as an Agricultural Quarantine Officer. Mentions the MAF fumigation stations at all major ports and how the work is now contracted out. Talks about using methyl bromide and safety precautions. Talks about moving to a job at head office in 1991, and working on new standards for sites involved with quarantine in cooperation with the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service. Describes how ballast water became a biosecurity issue, and the slow progress working with the International Maritime Organisation. Refers to his auditing work, one of his first audits being on the system used for pre-export treatment of Australian tomatoes and oranges. Talks about going to Japan to inspect vehicles, and the inspection of grapes in California where weed seeds are a problem. Refers to restructuring in the Quarantine and Biosecurity Services in recent years. Reflects on his colleagues in the service, mentioning Julian Brown, Don Possin, Travis Flint, Charlie Brown, Neil Hyde, Albert Tolliday and Wally Robinson. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copy of interviewee's curriculum vitae with abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001090 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001091, OHA-7296. Search dates: 1956 - 2008

Date: 21 Oct 1999

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: McCallum, Janet Mary Candon, 1947-2015

Reference: OHInt-0556-07

Description: Janet Mary Candon McCallum was born in Calcutta, India, in 1947 of British descent. Describes parents' backgrounds, their arrival in New Zealand 1948 and childhood on a Wairarapa farm in the early 1950s. Talks about Catholic boarding school experiences in Wellington, winning fellowship to Paris, travel in Germany and England and post-graduate study at Victoria University, Wellington. Talks about teaching in Wairoa and studying te reo Maori. Describes Mckenzie research fellowship 1973 to study Maori children's use of English. Mentions family issues. Describes husband Chris, teaching English at Port Moresby University and involvement in feminist issues. Talks about New Guinean attitudes to women, and helping produce a newsletter for local women. Talks about travelling in Asia, returning to New Zealand, the birth of daughter 1979, and how creche enabled her to study journalism. Describes work as Press Officer for Tourism and Publicity Department, and attitudes to women within the department. Describes living in Whangarei, part time radio work, involvement in Whangarei Women's Centre's newsletter, the birth of twins and the family's return to Wellington in 1986. Mentions work experiences as press officer at Department of Health, researcher for Royal Commission of Social Policy, work for childcare association, and discusses own child care arrangements. Comments on books that she contributed to including 'Book of New Zealand women' and 'Wilderness women', and talks about influential feminist books. Describes what feminism has enabled her to achieve. Talks about the impact of childcare on women, and comments on the contemporary women's movement. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, Biographical information, chronology Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2655, OHDL-001004. One photocopied photo

Date: 25 Jul 1995

From: Interviews about Denis Glover by Gordon Ogilvie

By: Barrett-Lennard, Jane, active 1995

Reference: OHInt-0576-02

Description: Jane Barrett-Lennard was a friend of Denis Glover. Describes her life as a teacher and meeting Denis Glover through the Christchurch Literary Club. Talks about their relationship, Khura Glover, his relationship with James K. Baxter and mutual literary friends such as Rex Fairburn. Talks about Lauris Edmond, mentions his work at the Caxton and then the Wingfield Press. Talks about their shared interest in books, Denis Glover's reaction to hearing his poems described on a University literature course. Talks about visits from Denis Glover when she lived in Hamilton and Napier, his relationship with his sister Coreen, Janet Paul, and the funeral of his wife Khura Glover. Comments on his drinking and his relationships in general. Interviewer(s) - Gordon Ogilvie Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-00-8788, 008789b Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2800.