Places

Date: 8 Oct 1993 - 08 Oct 1993

By: Clunie, Fergus, active 1985-1994

Reference: OHColl-0155/1

Description: Fergus Clunie was Director of the Fiji Museum until the mid 1980s when he came to New Zealand and worked on a King Country farm. He became curator of Pompallier House, which was in dire structural trouble, in early 1988. The Trust (Historic Places Trust) wanted to resolve problems with the building. Refers to Alan Nixon, chief engineer for the Works Consultancy, Ruth Ross, Pompallier House historian, Mr Wilson, project manager, and Jeremy Salmond, conservation architect. Gives details of restoration and describes the goal of achieving a self-generating income for the building compatible with the building's history. Interviewer(s) - Gerry Brackenbury Venue - Russell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005462 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1. 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Transcript - Ab 1081.

Date: 2000

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-643-001/025

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Politicians response to digital television, matchfixing in cricket, community responsibility for child abuse, Maori support of disgraced Maori MP and lack of support for abused Maori children, Fiji - banana dictatorship, Middle East peace process, concern over disparity between NZ and Australian defence forces reimbursement for serving in East Timor, Queen Mother celebrates her 100th birthday, space exploration, world opinion swings againsgt Israel's heavy-handed tactics, ACC payouts in Australia, cost cutting measures in the NZ Police Force, silencing Dover Samuels and social policy critics, high cost of yachting's Viaduct Basin, state-owned enterprises over-spend on conferences, British royals have a go at the tabloid press, Mark Todd's chances of selection damaged following sex and drug scandal, South Africa's reluctance to comment on Zimbabwe, terrorism in NZ? or just plain violence, Human genetic secrets uncovered, 'closing the gaps' policy, May Day and workers' rights, Fiji embroiled in racism, the price of the American Presidential election and recounts, Prime Minister announces she not going to attend Waitangi on Waitangi Day. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies photocopies of computer print-outs, A4 size.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of computer print-outs.

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

Date: [1937]

By: Nicholl, William Sharman Crawford, 1851?-1937

Reference: MS-1713-1714

Description: The first part describes gold prospecting at the Thames & Coromandel, in Fiji, & at the Klondyke; the second part the start of mining at Waihi Arrangement: MS-1713-1714 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s) (94, 26 pages). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; dark brown imitation leather folder) Provenance: The manuscript was received through Mr J P Wilson of the Waihi High School, who notes that the 2nd part was received in 1937. The writer died a few weeks later.

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-618-001/074

Description: 74 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include National Party style ('radical conservatism'), political aspects of the ban on native forest logging on the West Coast, bribery and corruption in international cricket, softening of the macho image of Super 12 Players, the fatal shooting Steven Wallace by police in Waitara, email viruses, underage drinking, tax on cigarettes, greenhouse gas emission control, the entrenched position of Christine Rankin, Head of WINZ, television presenter Paul Holmes, the sale of the cell phone spectrum to Maori, Americas' Cup yachtsmen, the rebel coup in Fiji, prisoners' rights, All Black rugby, Maori activisim and cultural sensitivites, the falling New Zealand dollar, falling business confidence, the Employments Contracts Act, the legal staus of cannabis, the Coalition between the Labour Party and Alliance, the flight of underpaid and overworked young doctors from New Zealand, unseasonable weather, the meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea, the Budget, the Government's 'Closing the Gaps' policy, underfunding of the army, muck-raking by ACT politician Richard Prebble, drugs in sport, the takeover by Qantas of Ansett New Zealand, political scandal and the sacking of Dover Samuels as Minister of Maori Affairs, child abuse, dangerous driving by truck drivers, the conflict over Israel, the dangers of excusing away mental illness, Helen Clark's leadership style, alcohol and sportsmen, railway accidents, republicism and Tandor Nancos of the Green Party, the Bledisloe Cup, cannabis use, forest fires in the United States, extended sittings in Parliament, the Employment Relations Bill, speed limits, the loss of Kursk, the Russian submarine, defence expenditure, controversy over Maori domestic violence, rising petrol prices. Quantity: 74 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960: Australia v New Zealand. First test. Basin Reserve, 19-23 February 1960. Programme (2 copies) Australia v New Zealand. 2nd test. Lancaster Park, 27 February - 2 March 1960. Programme. M.C.C. v Wellington. Basin Reserve, 31 December 1960 - 3 January 1961. Programme (2 copies). 1961: M.C.C. versus Canterbury. Lancaster Park Christchurch, 7-10 January 1961. Programme M.C.C. v New Zealand. Second unofficial test. Basin Reserve, 3-7 February 1961. Programme. M.C.C. v New Zealand. 3rd unofficial test. Lancaster Park, 10-14 March 1961. Programme. Fiji v Waikato. Waikato Cricket Association. Seddon Park, Hamilton. 25-26 December 1961. Programme. 1962: Fiji v Southland. Queen's Park Invercargill, 15-16 January 1962. Programme New Zealand v R A Roberts XI. Lancaster Park Christchurch. 16-19 March 1962. Programme. Ron Roberts' Commonwealth XI v NZCC President's XI. Eden Park 22 March 1962. Grandstand ticket UE52. 1963: Wellington Cricket Association. Objects, constitution and general rules. 1963. M.C.C. v an Otago XI; a souvenir of cricket. Carisbrook, 8-11 March 1963. Programme. 1964: Parnell Cricket Club. Annual report, accounts and balance sheet, 1963-64. South Africa v New Zealand. Basin Reserve 21-25 February 1964. Programme. South Africa v Canterbury. Lancaster Park Christchurch, 6-9 March 1964. Programme 1965: Plunket Shield cricket. Northern Districts v Central Districts. Tauranga Domain. 25-28 December 1965. Programme. England v New Zealand. Lord's Ground (England), 17-22 June 1965. Scorecard (2 different versions) England v New Zealand. Lord's Ground, 15-18 May 1965. Scorecard. 1966: President's XI v M.C.C. Basin Reserve, 19-22 February 1966. Programme. England v New Zealand. 1st test. Lancaster Park Christchurch, 25 February - 1 March 1966. Programme. New Zealand Women's Cricket tour 1966 [Tour of England]. Souvenir programme 1967: Australia v New Zealand. First test. Pukekura Park New Plymouth, 3-7 March 1967. Programme Australia v New Zealand. 3rd test. Lancaster Park, 16-20 March 1967. Programme (2 copies) 1968: India v New Zealand. Basin Reserve, 29 Febraury - 5 March 1968. Programme. Plunket Shield cricket. Northern Districts v Auckland. Seddon Park Hamilton. 30 December 1968-1 January 1969. Programme. New Zealand cricket team. Tour of England 1969. Itinerary card, published by Wellington District Savings Bank. Television All Stars v Murray Chapples "XI". Anderson Park, 9 March 1969. Scorecard. Lord's Ground. England v New Zealand. 24-29 July 1969. Scorecard. 1969: West Indies v New Zealand. Basin Reserve, 7-11 March 1969. Programme. West Indies v New Zealand. Lancaster Park, 13-17 March 1969. Programme. New Zealand v India at Hyderabad, 15 October 1969. Programme (with photos of both teams and biographical notes on the New Zealand team) Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 32 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 2000

Reference: H-638-001/018

Description: Topics include developments along the Wellington waterfront, Prime Minster Helen Clark's attack on spend-thrift television managers, controversy over the national museum Te Papa's presentation of artworks, the Constitutional Conference 2000, the rebel coup in Fiji, activist Tame Iti's visit to Fiji during the rebel coup, the character of Jenny Shipley, the Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand's health record compared to that of France, New Zealand doctors and nurses emigrating while immigrant doctors are not employed in New Zealand, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's use of the word holocaust in a Maori context, the falling New Zealand dollar, the use of human DNA in pig embryos, American miltary responses to cut-backs in New Zealand defence spending, the non-pacific nature of the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand-Australian agreement reached over social welfare and immigration policies, logging of native forests on the West Coast, the Treaty of Waitangi Tainui settlement advantaging the Hong KOng and Shanghai Bank. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of black ink drawings.

Date: 1987

By: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-; Listener (Periodical)

Reference: H-509

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. Quantity: 43 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, A4 size

Date: 08 Mar 1985

From: NZ News Ltd: Sound recordings

By: Upton, Geoffrey Thomson, 1912-1989

Reference: OHInt-0135-01

Description: Geoffrey Upton gives details of the amalgamation of the 'Lyttelton times' and 'Taranaki daily news' into NZ Newspapers Ltd in 1925. Discusses the Leys family, experiences as a student at Cambridge University in England and as a reporter in Glasgow, Christchurch and Auckland, mentions fellow students and newspaper staff. Describes his military experiences before, during and after World War II in Fiji, Auckland and the Solomon Islands with reference to the sinking of the 'Niagara'. Explains history of the acquisition of 'Waikato times', Hilton Keys' involvement, 'Northern advocate', 'Southland times', 'Hawkes bay herald-tribune' and Hawkes Bay Newspapers Ltd, 'Napier daily telegraph', Brierley involvement, 'Eve magazine', 'NZ home journal', 'NZ pictorial', details of editorial policy with reference to Korean war and Suez affair, editors Eric Dumbleton and others. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Ross Sayers Venue - Auckland Accompanying material - Copies of newspaper articles from the Auckland star about the passenger ship Niagara which was sunk by a mine. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002462 - OHC002463A Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 429. Search dates: 1912 - 1985

Date: 14 September 2011 - 14 Sep 2011

From: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Engineering New Zealand oral history project

By: La Roche, John Charles, 1937-; La Roche, Sue, active 1940s-2011; Robinson, Winsbury James, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0965-09

Description: Interview with Jim Robinson, conducted 14 September 2011. Interviewee discusses his childhood, education, and his service in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the second world war and training as a pilot. The interview also discusses university study, working on a transmission line from Bunnythorpe to Haywards, and working at the Auckland Electric Power Board (AEPB), and various projects, such as the reticulation of Waiheke Island. Also discusses his work for the Fiji Electrical Authority in the early 1970s. Abstracted by - John La Roche Interviewer(s) - John La Roche Interviewer(s) - Sue La Roche Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 digital photograph(s) Jpeg file. 1 printed abstract(s). 1.59 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - Wave files; textual files - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1900 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 26 Jun 2000

From: Pacific War Stories oral history project

By: Dunlop, Robert Gordon, 1920-2010

Reference: OHInt-0921-01

Description: Interview with Robert (Bob) Gordon Dunlop, born in Hawera in 1920. Talks about his family's background in Scotland and New Zealand. Comments on his father serving in the mounted rifles in Egypt and the south of France during World War I. Talks about the hardships growing up on a dairy farm in the 1920s, living in a two-bedroom house with a family of nine and milking cows in the early morning. Discusses food, clothing, family holidays, haymaking and his schooling. Comments on Maori land issues, politics and the Depression. Refers to working for stock and station agents after leaving school, first as an office boy, then as an auctioneer's clerk and later a junior agent with a car. Talks about Hawera Aerodrome being built on part of his grandfather's farm. Recalls hearing about war being declared in Europe but not joining the army until he was 21. Talks about being assigned to serve in the Pacific after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, and being sent to Fiji. Comments on doing construction work there, and later being sent to Norfolk Island. Refers to having Jack Marshall as Company commander. Talks about going to New Caledonia and then to Guadalcanal on American destroyers, and the devastation they found at Lunga Beach. Describes the taking of Mono Island by New Zealand troops, being in the first lot ashore, and some New Zealanders being killed by American shells. Refers to their 1914 Enfield rifles, dealing with fear and stress, and how officers dealt with the situation. Comments on the attitudes of veterans from Europe to Pacific theatre veterans after the war, and on the effects of his experiences on his life. Talks about being invalided out of the Army after returning to New Zealand and working on Alec Corrigan's farm for a time. Discusses returning to work for a stock and station agent, meeting and marrying Gladys, and their children. Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDV-0024 - OHDV-0027 Quantity: 4 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5094, OHDL-000789. Search dates: 1920 - 1939 - 2000 - 1945

Date: 07 Sep 1993

From: Bishop Julius Hall Old Girls' Association: Oral History Project

By: Mohammed, Elizabeth June, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0326-12

Description: Elizabeth June Wylie was born in Invercargill in 1936. Backgrounds early life on farm and sisters academic achievements. Outlines decision to attend university in Christchurch 1954. Discusses life at Bishop Julius Hall, studying geography and music, and postgraduate teachers training. Recounts marriage in Fiji and life in a mixed marriage. Talks about Fiji climate, social structures, education practices, lifestyle and peoples. Discusses her family in depth. Interviewer(s) - Vickie Hearnshaw Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012909 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available agreement form and biograpahical information at OHA-4493. Colour photograph of June Mohammed

Date: 11 Sep 1995, 18 Sep 1995, 26 Sep 1995 - 11 Sep 1995 - 26 Sep 1995

From: YWCA (Wgtn) Oral History Project

By: Cotterill, Margaret Hazel, 1910-2005

Reference: OHInt-0351-04

Description: Margaret Hazel Cotterill (nee Williamson) was born in 1910 in Waimate. Talks about family, childhood memories, the Influenza Epidemic and boarding at Timaru Girls High School from 1924. Outlines training as kindergarten teacher and association with Girl Guides. Talks about Girl Guide badges and camps with Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) members. Provides early memories of the YWCA, position as secretary from 1936 and life in a hostel. Describes recreational activities including dances with servicement during World War II. Discusses sports, millinery and cookery classes, sex education during the War, the thrift club and move from Christchurch to Hamilton as YWCA General Secretary 1940. Outlines relationship between the YWCA and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Details work in Hamilton, Palmerston North in 1945 and Dunedin. Talks about staffing, training, wages and conferences. Describes 1948 visit to Canada, education at Toronto University, work for the Children's Aid Society in Ottawa, visit to England, and YWCA's refugee budget and work. Outlines return to New Zealand as Wellington General Secretary. Recounts building new YWCA residence through fundraising and grants. Touches on move to San Francisco 1958, marriage and years spent in England. Discusses work with World YWCA in Fiji in depth. Describes Christian and political elements within the YWCA. Recounts election as New Zealand National President 1973. Provides history of the Wellington YWCA and invovlement with women's liberation. Talks about her 1977 Her Majesty's Commemorative Medal and 1979 CBE. Discusses the current and future role of the YWCA. Interviewer(s) - Judith Byrne Accompanying material - Abstract also contains a range of newspaper articles 1940's-1970's focusing on Margaret Cotterill or the YWCA, YWCA newsletter Herstory article by Margaret Cotterill and notification of her life membership with the YWCA. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013865, OHC-013866, OHC-013867, OHC-013868 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4945. Photograph of Margaret Williamson c.1930's. Photograph of Margaret Cotterill receiving CBE award 1979

Date: 03 Jun 1996

From: Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project

By: Marino, David Wi Pauro, active 1940s-1990s

Reference: OHInt-0610-3

Description: David Wi Pauro Marino talks about his extended family and connection to the Silbery family. Provides memories of World War II. Discusses local personalities and names in Te Horo and Manakau. Talks about catching and cooking eels and other kaimoana including whitebait. Also describes pig hunting and collecting puha, blind eels, freshwater crayfish and mussels. Touches on local history including pre-European Maori wars. Outlines work after leaving school as an airforce engineer and time spent based in Fiji. Compares Fijian and Maori forms of cooking. Discusses New Zealand racial issues including the 1949 All Black tour, and Maori in the airforce. Talks about career change to railways and move to live and work in Australia. Details changes in Te Horo since childhood and memories of the Otaki kaumatua, Patete Nopera, his wedding, the death of his father and the local Chinese families. Interviewer(s) - Michael Walsh Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013211, OHC-013212 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4609.

Date: 14 February 2000 - 14 Feb 2000

From: Race Relations Conciliators Oral History Project

By: Laidlaw, Christopher Robert, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0751-03

Description: New Zealand Race Relations Conciliator from 1989 to 1992. Born in Dunedin, 1943. Discusses attending school in Dunedin at Macandrew Intermediate then Kings High School. Talks about attending Otago University between 1962 and 1967 - mentions studying towards his Masters in Geography. Talks about being offered the Rhodes Scholarship and his time studying at Oxford between 1968 and 1970. Mentions his rugby career with the All Blacks. Talks about beginning work for the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972 and being posted to Suva and then Paris. Recalls working for the International Energy Agency from 1978 to 1979 before working at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London until 1984 - mentions Sridath Ramphal. Discusses returning to New Zealand to work in the Prime Minister's Department before accepting a position as the New Zealand High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania. Discusses appointment as Race Relations Conciliator - mentions the legislative framework, the complaints proccess and the 'working style' of the Office of the Race Relations Conciliator. Describes the bicultural structure of the Office and their part in the 1990 Sesquicentennial celebrations. Recalls reactions to his appointment from certain politicians and Maori groups - mentions Jim Bolger and Winston Peters. Discusses Judy Cunningham's report on the media treatment of race relations. Talks about Maori-Pakeha relations with regard to Doug Graham. Discusses the concept of conciliation - mentions the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Talks about Matui Rata's concept of 'a nation within a nation'- discusses the importance of developing both Maori and Pakeha identities. Recalls reasons for parliamentary select committee enquiry in 1994. Discusses the difference between racism and racial prjudice Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from newspapers and magazines Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012711, OHC-012712 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.18 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5443 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Photocopied articles includes copies of photographs of Chris Laidlaw Search dates: 1943 - 2000

Date: 1863, 1957-2006

By: Wendt, Albert, 1939-

Reference: ATL-Group-00142

Description: Includes correspondence from the early 1960s onwards, although mainly from the 1970s and 1980s; the subject matter varies from the personal through to his work as a writer and an academic, and his correspondents include many literary figures, both New Zealand and international. The drafts of his work include heavily revised handwritten and typed copies through to galley proofs. His academic papers comprise both notes of lectures and addresses which he has delivered and university administration papers. As a successful writer and an academic he received poems and other literary works from aspiring writers, especially from the Pacific Islands, and these are included in the collection. The diaries are mainly consist of brief entries and are often little more than appointment books. His notebooks, converted usually from school exercise books, date from the 1960s and as well as school notes contain fragments of early drafts. There are also conference papers of the events at which he attended and often addressed, newspaper cuttings, early study notes, a radio interview and other material relating to his wide-ranging career. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: The collection came to the Library with no clear arrangement. The papers have been organised into series, comprising correspondence, diaries and notebooks, drafts, non-literary work, university administration work, printed material, and newspaper cuttings. Born and raised in Samoa. Educated in Samoa and New Zealand. Trained and taught as teacher in New Zealand and then in Samoa, where he became principal of Samoa College. His first published book was 'Sons for the Return Home' in 1973. He has since published novels, essays, poetry collections, plays and anthologies of Pacific writing. Is also an artist. Has also had a notable academic career at Auckland University and the University of the South Pacific (in Fiji and Samoa). In 2013 he was awarded the Order of New Zealand. Quantity: 449 folder(s). 12 Linear Metres. 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 119 Electronic document(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). Physical Description: mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs, digital files, audiocassette Transfers: Five published items transferred to the book collection at PR-14-0311, posters to Ephemera, plans of a fale to Drawings and prints (at Plans-2014-085-001/013) and copies of the Samoa Bulletin to Serials. The collection as a whole is with the Manuscripts Collection. - To Serials Collection - Copies of Samoa Bulletin - To Ephemera Collection - Posters - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans of a Samoan fale at Plans-2014-085-001/013 - To Book Collections - Five printed items at PR-14-0311 - To Sound and Music Centre - Four cassettes..

Date: 1930s-1945

By: Capewell, Edward Hugo, -1943; Hendry, Kenneth Arthur, 1915-1996

Reference: PAColl-5645

Description: Family photographs and views of Fiji, Canada and the Middle East during World War 1939-1945. The photographs of Canada are negatives, and all relate to the RAF Commonwealth air training programme. There are views of Halifax and the ANZAC Club there. Others are of Montreal and New York. There are photographs of soldiers, planes and countryside taken from the air. Then it's off to Britain, views of London, English countryside and active service. One sequence of negatives records a trip to the Middle East. The Fijian photographs are prints taken by a member of the 30th Battalion, that part of the New Zealand army in Fiji sent directly to Lautoka on the west coast of Viti Levu, and stationed at the Namaka Camp, about 17 miles inland from Lautoka. There are views of Namaka Camp, of camp life, of recreations, work, manoeuvres, and the effects of the hurricane that hit Fiji on the 20th Feb, 1941. There are also views of a camp at a place called Comboni (pronounced "thomboni") which is a coastal tourist spot and beach on the western end of the northern coast of Viti Levu towards the Ba River mouth. There is one photograph of a military camp made up of tents at Momi Bay on the west coast of Viti Levu, south of Lautoka. There are views of Suva and an ANZAC Day parade there as well as images of Fijians, villages, Fijian buildings and the country side in general. After his tour of duty in Fiji the creator of this collection was sent to the Middle East. The family photographs date from the 1930s. The largest group of these are records of the New Zealand contingent at the Australian Boy Scout Jamboree held at Frankston, Melbourne, from 27 December 1934 to 13 January 1935. The New Zealand contingent constructed a "Maori Pa" and dressed up in Maori costume. There are 18 prints of this feature of the New Zealand contribution to the jamboree. Arrangement: Negatives at 35 mm 22145 to 22228, and 1/4-81170-F to 1/4-81202-F This collection comes from two different sources. The negatives of Canada are associated with the name of Sergeant E H Capewell (also apparently known as \"Stormy Capewell\"). Those of the New Zealand army in Fiji and the rest of the photographic prints in the collection belonged to Private K A Hendry who came from Dannevirk before the war, and left Trentham camp for Fiji as a member of a field ambulance team. There is also an envelope dated 1943 addressed to him at the General NZ Hospital, 2nd N Z E F, Middle East Forces. During the Second World War New Zealand was responsable for raising forces and organising the defense of Fiji against possible Japanese attack. Brigadier W H Cunningham was put in command and the 8 Infantry Brigade Group was organsed for the operation. The defense strategy centred on the island of Viti Levu. Of the two areas designated as critical one centred on Suva and it's hinterland, and the other in the west centred on Lautoka. In late 1940 the 8 Infantry Brigade Group was transported to Fiji on the Rangitira escorted by the Monowai. It took three trips to effect this and the first troops landed in Fiji on 1 November 1940. The 30th Battalion was that section of the 8 Infantry Brigade Group sent directly to Lautoka on the West coast of Viti Levu. It's main base was Namaka camp inland From Lautoka and linked to the coast by the Colonial Sugar Company's railway. Another camp at Momi Bay, south of Lautoka guarded the Navula passage through the reef off Momi. There was also a temporary camp at a resort beach called Comboni, north of Lautoka. The rest of the 8 Infantry Brigade Group went to Suva which was also the location of the command headquarters. During the organisation of the 8 Infantry Brigade Group troops were assembled at the military camps at Ngaruawahia, Te Rapa, and Trentham. Those at Trentham were support services -- the 7 Field Ambulance, and details such as Pay, Records, Ordnance, Provost and Signals. Private K A Hendry was part of the Trentham operations and evidence suggests that he was a member of the 7 Field Ambulance. The Australian Boy Scout Jamboree held at Frankston, Melbourne, was the first international scouting event held outside the United Kingdom. Over 12,000 scouts from 23 countries attended, and it was the only scouting event held in Australia attended by Lord Robert Baden-Powell (who with his wife, features in two of the prints relating to this event). Quantity: 409 b&w original photographic print(s). 112 b&w original negative(s) Of these 84 are 35mm negative strips comprising 306 images.. Provenance: Purchased from general auction. Name "Sgt Capewell E H" inscribed in front of negative album. Name "Capewell, 198 Main Road, Plimmerton" inscribed in accompanying first aid manual. Transfers: To Other - To Acquisitions 1 copy of "First Aid" transferred 23 March 1998..