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Date: 24 Oct 2012

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Marychurch, Benjiman Cyril, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-1017-04

Description: Interview with Benjiman Cyril Marychurch. Born 1930 in Silverdale. Explains origins of the name Marychurch, and parents' arrival to New Zealand from England, and that his father had worked as a steam engineer on ships travelling between England and New Zealand. Also discusses his father's military service for New Zealand as an ANZAC. Explains that his father won a returned serviceman's ballot for a dairy farm in Coatesville with about a dozen cows. Describes farm work and the family's experiences during the depression. Discusses his family life and his experience of being one of 13 children. Discusses schooling at Coatesville School, and the new school building in 1942. Left school after Standard 2 due to transport problems. Describes difficulty finding apprenticeships at the end of World War Two. Describes long daily journey to apprenticeship in Onehunga. Refers to costs of travel and wages. Describes school picnic at Milford, which included swimming, running races, tug of war, and other activities. Recounts cycling with friends to Beachhaven or Milford, and talks about Pirate Shippe. Compares going to Milford in the 1930s-40s with going to Waiheke Island in 2012. Describes features of the Milford Swimming Pool, and swimming lessons at a creek in Coatesville. Discusses American soldiers that frequented the swimming pool. Describes their uniforms and the soldiers' interactions with children and his father. Mother did not like the war because her eldest son had been killed in action in Egypt in 1940. Tells of his older brother, Roy Marychurch, who had a retail wood and coalyard in Milford. Tells that silent movies shown at Coatesville Hall, and that electricity came to Coatsville in 1937. Describes getting dressed up to go to the movies, and going to city barefoot to buy shoes. Describes working at A & T Burt brass foundry, and learning woodwork. Describes an upholstery apprenticeship, and a farm labouring job near Whangarei. Tells of volunteering for army service in Korea. Describes dairy farming work, cycling and playing rugby. Belonged to the Whangarei Ballroom Dancing Club and Operatic Society, and performed in Whangarei, Warkworth, and Dargaville. Tells of dancing at the Pirate Shippe, and describes decorations, bands, dances, prizes, and supper. Describes heating hot water and giving out food and drinks at dances at Coatesville Hall. Discusses alcohol at dances. Describes his experience in the K-Force in Korea, basic training at Papakura, and taking the Wahine from Wellington. Describes medical examination, and his duties as troop carrier and supplies carrier, and his job as car trimmer. Describes extreme cold of Korea, workshops and living conditions under canvas. Describes going to a dance and meeting his wife, Fumiko Yamamoto. Describes courtship and marriage, and her parents' attitudes to marriage. Describes difficulty for westerners living in Japan, and his parents' attitudes to Fumiko as a daughter-in-law when they returned to New Zealand in 1954. Describes going to dancing at the Pirate Shippe, and dances at Albany Hall and Greenhithe Hall. Discusses closure of the Pirate Shippe and swimming pool. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 08 Aug 2011

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Sanders, Elena Raquel, 1919-

Reference: OHInt-1017-07

Description: Interview with Elena Raquel (nee Jeff) Sanders. Born in 1919 in Okahukura (King Country). Her mother was from Chile, and her father, a New Zealander, who was a civil engineer who had worked abroad in Chile. Describes how her parents got married in Chile, and her parents' decision to return to New Zealand. Discusses her family moving around in New Zealand for her father's work with the Public Works Department, and recalls living in Christchurch, Hastings, Taumarunui, and Ohakune. Explains that the family first moved to Dargaville and Whangarei, and then moved to Milford before 1935. Describes their family's house in Milford at 15 Ocean View Road. Recalls shops on Kitchener Road in Milford, and speaking Spanish at home. Describes attending Takapuna Grammar School and Seddon Technical College to take a home science course. Describes sewing lessons at Seddon, and travelling by bus between Milford and Devonport. Discusses joining the Milford Tennis Club with her neighbour who was French. Describes playing tennis and swimming in the ocean. Describes life during the depression, and wearing hand me down clothing. Recalls times when they were short on food, and tells story of brother spending pocket money on day-old cakes. Explains that she had wanted to work, but her mother wouldn't allow it. Eventually her father convinced her mother to let her go work at a milliner. Explains that her brothers grew and sold pumpkins for pocket money, and her sisters cooked and helped at home, but didn't get paid. Describes going to pictures with her brothers on Saturday afternoons. Recounts story of travelling with her brothers and father to get a job near Dargaville, and cutting her ringlets off to look like a boy. Describes time spent at the beach with her mother. Discusses two piece bathing costumes, and making them from patterns. Describes homemade suntan lotion from olive oil and vinegar, and that some at school thought they were Maori. Explains that they taught themselves to swim and swam in the ocean at every opportunity they got. Describes the Milford surf life saving club, and their supervision of swimmers at the beach. Describes the Milford mini golf course, and describes the dances and bands at Ye Olde Pirate Shippe, and her experiences attending dances. Discusses food at Ye Olde Pirate Shippe, and life in Milford during World War Two. Describes working at the Chief Post Office during the war, and flatting in Devonport. Describes how she met her husband, Lloyd Sanders, and her mother's relationship to family back in Chile. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0024692

Description: Cartoon showing past and present battlegrounds for New Zealand. Then the battlegrounds were Greece, Crete, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Italy. Now the battlegrounds are nicotine, alcohol, obesity, sugar, diabetes, fast foods, and poverty. Refers to ANZAC Day commemorations, and current health issues in New Zealand. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006-2011

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

Reference: OHColl-1030

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