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Date: October 1956 - 24, 25 Oct 1981

By: Phillips, John Oliver Crompton, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-0295

Description: Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 3 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1956 - 1981

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: 28 Apr 1998

From: I am a dark river (Bob Lowry Oral History Project)

By: Churton, Meme, active 1955-1998

Reference: OHInt-0589/09

Description: Meme Churton talks of her background in Italy and China and opening the first coffee shop and gallery in Auckland. Recalls settling into New Zealand society and gives her impressions of the lifestyles of intellectuals with whom she met. Talks of the freedoms of the time including parties and drinking. Mentions Bob and Irene Lowry and family, recalling his personality and death. Interviewer(s) - Tessa Mitchell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-009023 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) summary notes. 1.17 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2834. Search dates: 1950 - 1963

Date: 13 Dec 2007

From: Studio La Gonda - a large format legacy oral history project

By: Sameshima, Haruhiko, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-1002-03

Description: Interview with Haru (Haruhiko) Sameshima, born in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1958. Recalls his family background, coming from a line of scientists, his mother dying when he was three, and his father remarrying later. Talks about the family coming to New Zealand in 1973, first impressions, and his geologist father working as a research associate at Auckland University. Comments on the profound personal shift for him arriving in New Zealand at age 14 unable to speak English. Details his father's interest in photography and his own first camera. Refers to moving to Dunedin aged 20 as a student, dropping out of his course, and in 1979 working through a PEP scheme as a graphics technician at Otago Polytechnic. Outlines his jobs in commercial photographic studios and as a photographic technician in the the Otago University Geology Department in the 1980s. Talks about meeting his partner Moyra Elliot and buying his own studio lighting to photograph her pottery. Discussess studying at Elam School of Fine Arts [1987-1991, 1994-1995], teachers John B Turner, Megan Jenkinson and Denys Watkins, and students Gavin Hipkins, Michael Parekowhai, Giovanni Intra and Darren Glass. Talks about John Turner's interest in large format photography and his influence. Comments on his first experiences using 8x10 cameras. Recalls meeting Mark Adams in 1992 and mentions photographers Fiona Pardington, Alan McDonald and Bill Hammond. Refers to his first solo exhibition "Aesthetic Science" at Lazelle Gallery, Auckland. Describes the formation of Studio La Gonda as an antidote or alternative form of existence to an art career, the origin of the name, physical characteristics of the studio, and deposits of personal archives there. Outlines some of the equipment housed at La Gonda, and his relationship to technology. Describes the evolution of digital technology, and sketches an outline for the future of large format technology as a boutique activity. Comments on large format photography in the context of the art school curriculum, and on major 19th and 20th century influences. Mentions Rim Publishing. Reflects on difficulties in how commercial works get credited and the problem of authorship of commissioned images. Interviewer(s) - Hanna Scott Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023028 - OHC-023030 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7507. Photograph of Haruhiko Sameshima at Studio La Gonda? (photographer Mark Adams; 2008) Search dates: 1958 - 2007

Date: 19 Feb 2010

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

By: McBride, Alison Mary, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0984-11

Description: Interview with Alison (Ally) McBride (nee Coxhead), born in Napier in 1955. Interviewer's summary: Ally was born in Napier, one of six children. She spent her childhood in Taradale and Dunedin where her family moved in 1961. This interview was recorded to complete the interview recorded with her mother, Marian Coxhead (OHInt-0984-03). It focuses on Ally's childhood and teenage years and Marian's domestic life from 1955-70. Topics explored include: grandparent's domestic lives; parents' relationship and roles in home; kitchen and laundry facilities and upgrades; kitchen equipment; daily domestic routine; domestic help; meals, mealtimes and table manners; impact of week of television (hired for Landing on the Moon); chores, learning to cook, baking; food supplies, shopping and food storage; sources of recipes and core menu; food for celebrations, social occasions and picnics; food trends and signature dish; preserving and home brewing; mother's attitudes to money, housework and role; Other aspects of mothers life: work, volunteer and business activities, interests. Recipes from Marian's handwritten recipe book are referred to during interview. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001495 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form, image captions). 3 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001465, OHA-7391. Colour photographs of: Ally McBride (19 Feb 2010); Marion Coxhead's recipe book cover and facing pages of handwritten recipes. Scanned B&W photograph of Gillian, Ally and Rachel Coxhead as young children cleaning the family car (OHDL-001466) Search dates: 1955 - 2010

Date: 20 Oct 2009

From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project

By: Jury, Trevor Evered, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-1004-04

Description: Interview with Trevor Jury, born in Featherston in 1926. Outlines his family background and refers to starting work as a message boy at the Featherston Post Office when he was 14. Talks about his duties, and comments that the message boys did not deliver the casualty telegrams during the War. Mentions being sent to telegraph school in Wellington in 1942. Refers to learning to send and receive Morse code and having to achieve 22 words per minute. Recalls the June 1942 Wairarapa earthquake while he was in Wellington, the Herd Street post office building being flooded, and doing fire watch after the earthquake. Mentions joining the Home Guard and trying to set up a Morse light signal system in the Featherston area. Recalls seeing Japanese prisoners of war being marched to the prison camp, hearing about the riot at the camp, and the court of enquiry held at the Featherston court house. Discusses his work as a telegraphist and other duties at the Featherston Post Office when he returned from Wellington in 1942, working from temporary premises until a new post office was built. Recalls setting up Morse telephone lines each morning, and refers to Creed machines [teleprinters?] which were mainly operated by women. Comments on the difficulty of sending weather reports by telegram because numbers had up to six characters whereas letters had four. Recalls working night shifts in the telephone exchange. Mentions postmaster Jack Hislop and librarian Mrs Halpin who encouraged him to continue his education, and studying for University Entrance. Recalls the housing shortage after the War. Refers to low wages in the post office and difficulty of getting promotions. Recalls the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and being the Post Office staff member at Cross Creek station when the Queen and Prince Philip travelled to the Wairarapa on the Rimutaka incline railway. Discusses leaving the post office in 1955 and working for NIMU Insurance in Wellington as an insurance assessor. Mentions being active in the New Zealand Institute of Management and the Insurance Institute. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001714, OHA-7521. Search dates: 1926 - 1940 - 2009 - 1955 Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.

Date: 2 Feb 2010 - 02 Feb 2010

From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project

By: Robertson, Lynda Gaye, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-1004-06

Description: Interview with Lynda Robertson (nee Fussell), born in Christchurch in 1958. Refers to her father working for the Post Office and the family moving frequently. Comments on working for the Bank of New Zealand when she left school, and getting a job as a telephone toll exchange operator in Christchurch c.1974. Talks about her training, how the switchboard operated, and putting calls through to manual and automatic exchanges. Comments on shift work, swapping shifts, and operators taking 111 calls on the 'doggo shift'. Refers to the role of supervisors. Explains how they would answer a call at the toll exchange, the standard phrases, toll tickets and person to person calls. Describes transfer charge calls and collect calls. Talks about the urgent call service and how the calls would be placed. Describes working in the Auckland exchange for six months when it had partially migrated to subscriber toll dialing. Comments on the equipment used and why operators were still needed after the introduction of subscriber toll dialing. Mentions spending 10 years in Australia and getting a job in directory assistance in Auckland when she returned. Describes the work done there, and spending a period on international directory assistance. Comments on transferring to the toll exchange. Talks about 111 emergency calls and when they would use technicians or the police to trace the calls. Talks about the change from the Post Office to Telecom. Comments on her subsequent career with Telecom in business credit control after the call centre was outsourced to SITEL. Reflects on changes in technology over the years. Accompanying material - Scanned copy of Lynda Fussell's certificate from the Post Office Telephone Exchange Training School (dated 2 December 1975) Accompanying material - Recording of greetings used when answering calls put through a telephone exchange (track 3) Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001716, OHA-7523. Search dates: 1958 - 2010

Date: 2011-2012

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-1017

Description: Interviews with fifteen people who grew up in Milford, North Shore City, or visited Milford as an entertainment destination during the 1920s - 1940s. The interviews describe beach life, activities in Milford, life during the depression and World War II, and reflections on Milford generally. The interviewees are Nancy Ballard and Lloyd Bell-Booth, Jo Gladwell, Warren Hutchinson, Ben Marychurch, Maurice McGreal, Harry Puckey, Elena Sanders, Daphne Savage, Glenn Shaw and Leslie Truscott, Squire Speedy, Jack Urlic, Jeanette Walker, and Ron Wareham. Abstracted by - Deborah Dunsford Awards/funding - Project received a New Zealand Oral History Award Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 13 printed abstract(s). 13 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 13 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Deborah Dunsford, Auckland, Nov 2012 Search dates: 1920 - 1950

Date: 1 Dec 1999 - 01 Dec 1999

From: Aroha Trust oral history project

By: Desmond, Phillipa Mary, 1955-; Priestley, Dinah, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0479-04

Description: Interview with Pip (Phillipa) Desmond, born in Dunedin in 1955. Describes her strong Catholic upbringing and her relationshp with her father during her childhood and teenage years. Refers to spending three years at Victoria University, then going to Dunedin where she worked for the South Dunedin Youth Club. Talks about becoming involved with the Aroha Trust and Wellington Black Power. Recalls helping set up the Trust; her work, friends and leisure activities while she was a trust member; and her experiences as a woman in a gang scene. Covers briefly what she has done since leaving Aroha Trust, the effect the Trust has had on her life and her vision for the future. Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009832 - OHC-009833 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3296. Prints (A4) of: scanned B&W photograph of Pip Desmond during her involvement with the Aroha Trust (undated); colour photograph of Pip Desmond with two of her children (1999?) Search dates: 1955 - 1999

Date: 28 Apr 2000

From: Aroha Trust oral history project

By: Daley, Dorothy Dawn, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0479-03

Description: Interview with Dorothy Daley, born in Wellington in 1958. Covers her childhood growing up in Porirua and Titahi Bay; her experience as a member of the Wellington women's work cooperative Aroha Trust; her association with Wellington gangs; and her adult life. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009829 - OHC-009831 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3295. Search dates: 1958 - 2000

Date: 18 Apr 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Mooney, Brian Denis Simon, 1957-

Reference: OHInt-0975-15

Description: Interview with Brian Mooney, born in Alexandra in 1957. Refers to being raised in Clyde and Hamilton, and his father being a lawyer and then a magistrate. Talks about working for the New Zealand Forest Service after he left school, spending two years at Kaingaroa Forest training as a Woodsman Cadet. Comments on having a year off work after a bad motorcycle accident and later being sent to Tawarua Forest (Te Kuiti) to learn supervision. Mentions working at Aupouri Forest, Kaitaia for a year and then in the Thames Regional Office of the Forest Service where one of his tasks was collecting native seeds. Describes work in the Tairua Forest near Whangamata 1980-1985 planting kauri and supervising tree thinning. Comments on living in single men's camps at each forest and on camp life. Talks about becoming a Timber Inspection and Preservation Officer in Mt Maunganui in 1985, and the training he received in entomology, mycology and wood techology. Discusses his work inspecting export logs and timber, timber mills and preservation plants, as well as timber packaging on ships coming in. Mentions the port was focused on exports. Refers to the development of his passion for quarantine, especially import quarantine. Mentions dealing with termites which had arrived on Australian power poles. Comments on the merger of the Ministries of Forestry and Agriculture in 1987 and the culture change for Forestry staff. Talks about learning new skills after the merger of the Port Inspection Service and the Timber Inspection Service and the job becoming more complex. Refers to moving to Auckland in 1990 where his work became focused on imports. Mentions the shift to containerisation, working with people and the difference from working with exports. Describes in detail the chain of processes for importers on the wharf, and MAF and Customs having separate processes. Compares methods for inspecting an incoming ship as a timber inspector and later as a quarantine officer, and the problems with developing common procedures. Talks about agricultural risks for New Zealand, container standards and searching, and importer lobby groups. Refers to white spotted tussock moth and painted apple moth, the costs of incursion emergencies, and MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) being manager driven. Comments that Customs and MAF need more communication at all levels. Mentions pre-clearance on passenger and cruise liners, the risk of passenger items, and detector dogs. Describes the importance of the staff uniform. Comments on changes in attitudes to and opportunities for women in the service since the merger with MAF. Refers to the ethnic make up of staff, and to the TV programme Border Patrol. Mentions colleagues including Des Ogle, Neil Hyde, Pat Marsh, Len Greaves and David Grimshaw. Reflects on his deep passion for quarantine, and on the need to save New Zealand coming before staff and management. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - copy of booklet "Taking pines to pasture: merging of the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry (Cases in public sector innovation, no. 10, published by Victoria University of Wellington through Victoria Link, 2001.); with printed abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001102 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.44 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7310. Search dates: 1957 - 2008

Date: 20 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Norcliffe, Billy, active 1950-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-04

Description: Interview with Billy Norcliffe about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Mentions he was living in Kaimata near Greymouth with his wife and two young children, building their house and working for the Electricity Department, when he developed TB. Talks about being in an isolation unit in Grey Hospital for about a month, then being sent to Cashmere for treatment. Refers to complete bedrest for several months and having a lung collapsed. Discusses how patients spent their time, and occupational therapy in the middle unit when he was recovering. Refers to being sent home after a few months, and continuing to have X-rays, tests for reinfection and management of the collapsded lung for a long time. Comments on the people who had rallied round to help his wife while he was sick. Discusses trying for a long time to get another job, always mentioning in his applications that the had had TB, and eventually getting a job at Addington which allowed him to move to a drier climate. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012726 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4266, OHDL-000898. Search dates: 1950 - 2001

Date: 13 Mar 2002

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Harding, Noeline, active 1950-2002

Reference: OHInt-0837-08

Description: Interview with Noeline Harding about her experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Talks about having played cricket, tennis and hockey, being engaged to her husband, and preparing for her brother's wedding, when she was admitted to Coronation Hospital with TB at the age of twenty. Comments on the shock of having to sleep outside, and having nine months of complete bed rest. Talks about having a bad reaction to the drug paramycin (para-aminosalicylic acid), and the effects of a patient's attitude on their outcome. Refers to Dr Brent Manhire. Comments on learning to knit properly once she was recovering, and love letters sent between the men's and women's wards. Discusses an operation she needed to collapse a lung and crush a nerve after she was left with a hole in her lung. Mentions being conscious during the procedure and the power going off. Comments on visitors and those who did not visit. Refers to having day home leave for her second Christmas in the hospital. Mentions only being able to work part time after she had recouperated, but getting back into sport gradually. Comments on having close medical supervision when she was pregnant. Reflects that her experiences strengthened her faith and made her a stronger person. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012730 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4270, OHDL-000902. Search dates: 1950 - 2002

Date: 20 Jun 2002

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Crofts, Te Ruahini Elizabeth Koe, 1930-2010

Reference: OHInt-0837-09

Description: Interview with Ruahini Crofts about her experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Mentions her father had died of TB when she was four. Talks about having a month-old baby when she was diagnosed and admitted to Coronation Hospital in Christchurch. Comments that the treatment was bed rest, injections of streptomycin and big pills that were hard to swallow. Refers to Dr John McLeod, Dr Enticott and Dr MacIntyre. Mentions an older Maori woman in the next bed, and the number of Maori women in the ward. Talks about nurses and patients who helped her morale, and about occupatinal therapy. Refers to her family travelling by buses from Tuahiwi to visit, but not seeing her baby for ten months. Discusses contagion, visitors, staff and volunteer helpers at the sanatorium. Refers to the privilege of getting "block leave" - being allowed to get up and go to the toilet when they wanted to. Mentions a Maori cook who collected puha and cooked boil ups for Maori patients. Comments on patients smoking secretively, mainly once they were mobile. Mentions relationships and marriages breaking up when the more mobile patients in the "upper san" got into relationships together. Talks about having relapses after the birth of her next two daughters, and "eating her way out" of hospital. Refers to having a new operation during her third period in Coronation Hospital. Describes how she was well for two years after her son was born, but then had a relapse, was sent by her priest to Hanmer Hospital where she deteriorated and was rushed back to Christchurch Hospital. Reflects on how her experiences have made her realise she is not invincible, and led her to take very good care of her family and herself. Discusses the role of the extended family in bringing up her children when she was in hospital. Talks about her later life and careers, and her children and grandchildren. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012731 - OHC-012732 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4271, OHDL-000903. Search dates: 1950 - 2002

Date: 25 Jan 2008

From: Native Forest Action oral history project

By: McNamara, Patrick John, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0966-06

Description: Interview with Pat (Patrick) McNamara, born in Whangarei in 1955. Talks about growing up in Whangarei in a poor but happy Catholic family where he gained a sense of social justice. Discusses leaving catholicism, travelling overseas and finding he did not fit in any more with his friends when he returned. Comments on his connection with forest and land, his shock at finding forest cleared for farms, and gradually becoming an activist. Refers to the demonstration in Whangarei during the 1981 Springbok tour. Discusses searching for an alternative lifestyle and his transient life, moving to Buller and settling in Denniston. Describes the formation of the Buller Conservation Group (BCG) and the dependence of the West Coast on extractive industries. Mentions the main aims of the Group were creation of Paparoa National Park and stopping native logging on crown land. Talks about forest devastation by the Forest Service and the local attitude to logging. Discusses the need for public education, raising debate in the newspaper, and persuading many Buller residents to support Paparoa National Park. Describes how Guy Salmon from the Native Forest Action Council (NFAC) and Forest and Bird ended up creating the West Coast Accord with local mayors and government, a move that was considered "a sellout" by other environmental activists. Discusses how the forest campaign was restarted in 1996 with planning for the Charleston occupation by Nicky Hager and others, visiting the forest with Terry Sumner and later with a Native Forest Action (NFA) group. Talks about the start of the occupation in February 1997, setting up camps at night, logistics, and communications using radio. Refers to tree climbing, building platforms in trees, but only using them when visitors were coming. Describes day to day life of the occupation, visits by politicians, the enthusiasm of younger protesters, and the experienced older campaigners. Refers to activists being arrested, Timberlands stating it would stop logging "until the government sorted it out", but just moving their operations up the gorge. Mentions activists being arrested when they went to check out the new logging area. Discusses incidents with helicopters, hostile actions by Westport police, and the media interest whenever protesters were arrested. Comments that he was able to participate because his wife worked, but reflects on the difficulty of being part of the Westport community and a protester. Mentions the NFA celebration in Charleston in 2002, and the hostile actions of locals who tried to disrupt it. Reflects on how he had trouble finding work in Westport for a time because of his environmental activism. Interviewer(s) - Mary-Lou Harris Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001046 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 2.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001047, OHA-7265. Search dates: 1955 - 2008

Date: 15-16 Jun 2009 - 15 Jun 2009 - 16 Jun 2009

From: The founding of landscape architecture in New Zealand oral history project

By: Scheltus, Hermanus Willem, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0857-10

Description: Interview with Herwi (Hermanus Willem) Scheltus, born in Napier in 1951. Talks about his father having been born in China, educated in Holland, and managed a tea plantation in Indonesia. Comments that his parents met and married in Indonesia, spent the war in Japanese concentration camps, and never talked to their children about their experiences. Talks about his parents coming to New Zealand from Holland as sponsored immigrants after the war, speaking Dutch at home when he was a child and not knowing much English when he started school. Refers to his parents buying a small farm near Tauranga after a few years, having poultry, and living very simply. Outlines his schooling, being rebellious, and not having a sense of nationality. Talks about studying horticulture at Massey University and starting a nursery on his parent's property. Comments on going to California State University, Pomona, for a postgraduate landscape architecture course but finding the culture change too much, dropping out and travelling in Canada, the United States and Europe. Discusses studying landscape architecture at Lincoln College, and finding that the course was largely focused on urban parks rather than designing with nature. Describes joining the Department of Lands and Survey in 1979 as a landscape architect based in Taupo to work with engineers from the Electricity Department and Ministry of Works on power projects in the central North Island. Comments on efforts to try to minimise the impacts of engineering works on the environment such as finding a way to handle tunnel spoil that was acceptable to the engineers and had a low environmental impact. Refers to the Lands and Survey native plant nursery and sourcing seeds locally. Talks about his investigations on revegetation in the harsh environment, learning to mimic nature, and having to gain the confidence of a succession of engineers. Comments on work to improve rooting of nursery-reared plants when they were planted out in the harsh environment. Refers to the importance of maintenance and weed control in revegetation projects, but the electricity projects not having a budget for continuing this work after construction ceased. Talks about the land development section of Lands and Survey which developed marginal land into farm settlement blocks, and doing site planning and house design to improve outcomes. Refers to retaining some vegetation for shelter and erosion control, and being involved with the Woodstock Farm Forest project. Comments on giving advice on the conversion of a central North Island pine forest to pastoral land, and the revegetation of Tiritiri Matangi Island to convert it to an island sanctuary. Discusses the roles of Robin Gay and Boyden Evans at Lands and Survey Head Office in instigating landscaping and revegetation projects. Talks about being assigned to the Department of Conservation (DOC) when Lands and Survey was abolished in the 1987 restructuing of government departments. Mentions being based in Taupo in a national role, controversy over a mining project in the Coromandel, and the new Landcorp not wanting any landscape input in their land development projects. Discusses various projects he has worked on including road and rail realignments in national parks, explaining his aim is to reduce impacts rather than stop projects, and that urban designs and engineering practices can be inappropriate in national parks. Describes his role in overseeing upgrades to the skifield facilities at Ruapehu and being "hassled" by colleagues who did not want any skifields in a national park. Describes filming for 'Lord of the Rings' in Tongariro National Park, ministerial pressure to allow it to go ahead, and convincing the film makers to accept working within the Park management plan. Describes some of the creative solutions found to minimise environmental impacts of the filming. Refers to management plans for DOC land now requiring consultation with Maori, the time it has taken to build relationships, and some uncomfortable encounters on marae. Talks about his positive experiences working with iwi on the Tongariro National Park world heritage committee as well as with Ngai Tahi and others. Reflects on being the last landscape architect in DOC, current landscape architecture students not being taught "the basics", and the Resource Management Act having affected the profession both positively and negatively as landscape assessments are often what the client wants rather than what is best for the land. Reflects on why he settled in Taupo, his work in the Farm Forestry Association, and his admiration of Gordon Stephenson. Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form). 2 digital photograph(s) (Jpeg files). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001336, OHA-7356. Search dates: 1951 - 2009

Date: 2-27 Apr 2009 - 5 May 2009 - 02 Apr 2009 - 05 May 2009

From: The founding of landscape architecture in New Zealand oral history project

By: Chalmers, Barry Lionel, 1950-2009

Reference: OHInt-0857-07

Description: Interview with Barry Chalmers, born in Bluff in 1950. Talks about his family background, being the youngest of eleven children, his birth mother dying when he was very young, and being brought up by an uncle and aunt who interested him in tramping, nature study and environmental activism. Talks about working for stock and station agents Donald Reid Ltd for three years after he left school, then as a bar manager, a labourer with a landscape gardening company, and as a groundsman at Lincoln College. Talks about deciding to become a landscape gardener, completing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln College and then the new Diploma of Landscape Technology course. Discusses the course content and teachers, and compares it with the Landscape Architecture course. Describes his career in local government 1975-1998, in parks and recreation departments in Dunedin, Whakatane and Wellington Region. Comments that he worked in management from the mid 1980s and saw the need to establish landscape principles at a political and senior management level. Reflects on the relationship between parks and recreation and landscape, early parks people having trained at Kew, and the increasing use of New Zealand native plants in landscape design. Talks about working in Whakatane 1983-1986 where the practice of landscape architecture was new and having difficulty getting his design ideas implemented. Comments that under the Reserves Act 1977 management plans were required for all parks and reserves but councils were reluctant. Discusses his position with the Wellington Regional Council where he set up and managed the Recreation Department and implemented the strategic plan for the regional parks network. Comments on the different types of landscape in each park as well as their histories and their uses including recreation, farming, forestry and water collection. Mentions land acquisitions, and refers to conflicts between the local and regional councils over recreational land. Refers to having to educate councillors about the landscape approach to managing regional parks. Comments on parks being considered discretionary in difficult economic times and having to use volunteers. Discusses introducing park rangers, and establishing "Friends of" to get community involvement. Talks about the development of the summer treks programme to promote the regional parks, developing picnic areas and simple structures, and protecting heritage structures and sites. Refers to leaving the Regional Council in 1998, setting up a consultancy and working with councils in the lower North Island on parks and reserves strategies. Mentions the conflict between developing amenities and retaining natural character and the need to involve the community, citing Te Raekaihau Point on Wellington's south coast as an example. Reflects on the need for a new approach to open space and built environment management, and comments that he regards landscape as infrastructure. Accompanying material - Abstracts accompanied by two appendices: Citation from the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (2006); Citation from the New Zealand Recreation Association for outstanding contribution award to parks and open spaces (2007) Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 5 Electronic document(s) (abstract, appendices, form). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s) (Jpeg file). 1 interview(s) over 8 days. 8.12 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001330, OHA-7353. Search dates: 1950 - 2009

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: 31 Oct 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Chisnall, Peter Charles, active 1952-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-12

Description: Interview with Peter Chisnell about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the 1950s. Talks about having health problems when he was doing his compulsory military service in 1953 but being accused of malingering. Mentions he started haemmorhaging after he left the army, was diagnosed with TB and admitted to Coronation Hospital. Refers to Dr McLeod, Dr Enticott, and Dr MacIntyre who arranged for him to get a war pension because the Army doctors had failed to diagnose his TB. Comments on treatment with paramycin and having a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). Discusses other patients including a prisoner from Paparoa, a bookmaker who took bets from patients, and another who had his girlfriend sneak into his hut at night. Comments on the amount of sexual activity among the recovering patients. Tells of patients sneaking out to the pub, taxi drivers sneaking beer in for them, and how he supplied tots of spirits to chronic patients. Mentions patients who were expected to die were put in the observation ward with a bottle of beer or stout on their cabinet. Describes how he discharged himself when he was about to be kicked out of the hospital after 15 months for misconduct. Refers to having 12 months at home under medical supervision before going back to work. Reflects that his fitness from participation in sports had contributed to his recovery. Comments on deciding never to marry because of the prejudice he experienced after he recovered. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012735 - OHC-012736 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4274, OHDL-000906. Search dates: 1953 - 2001

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