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Date: 14 Jun 2010

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

By: Spencer, Shona, 1937-2017

Reference: OHInt-0984-17

Description: Interview with Shona Spencer (nee Dalglish, formerly Brown), born in Lower Hutt in 1937. Interviewer's summary: Shona Spencer born 1937, lived in Lower Hutt until she left home, aged 17, to go to Canterbury University where she studied arts and music, graduating BA 1957. She qualified as a teacher and taught music at Marsden School, Wellington before marrying. Material recorded includes family background and domestic life of the Dalglish family in Lower Hutt. She had little cooking experience until she went flatting as her mother had actively kept her and her sister out of the kitchen. Her domestic life started in her early twenties when she married a farmer in 1960 and lived on a farm 'Waihi' fourteen miles out of Masterton. She prepared meals for the family (three children) as well as farm employees for over twenty years before the marriage ended and she moved to live in Wellington. She re-married in the 1990s and continues to hold a number of voluntary positions particularly with music groups. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001501 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.01 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001477, OHA-7397. Colour photographs of: Shona in her kitchen; recipes in her recipe book (2010). Scanned B&W photograph of Shona as child (OHDL-001478) Search dates: 1937 - 2010

Date: 3 Aug 2010 - 03 Aug 2010

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

By: Prangnell, Irihapeti, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0984-14

Description: Interview with Irihapeti (Betty) Prangnell (nee Te Moana), born in Waihau Bay in 1932. Talks about her family background, being raised initially by her grandparents and then by her aunt Hariata Turei in a predominanly Maori community at Cape Runaway. Describes food and meals, daily life, and social activities. Refers to her schooling, and to the impact of the young men leaving in World War II. Talks about her aunt's decision that she become a nurse and training in Hamilton. Refers to meeting and marrying her pakeha husband Alfred Prangnell, a mechanic, and continuing working. Discusses her first recipe book (Aunt Daisy Cookbook), shopping and food preparation with her husband. Refers to adopting a daughter, having a son, and the family returning to Cape Runaway for a year. Mentions moving to Christchurch, returning to nursing, and her husband dying suddenly in 1965. Comments on food preparation and meals for the children. Refers to meeting her biological parents and sisters. Talks about leaving nursing, training as a teacher, and teaching Maori in Christchurch schools. Mentions being matron at Hukarere Maori Girls College in Hawkes Bay for several years. Discusses living with her son, caring for grandchildren, doing home care nursing, and activities at the Waikanae Senior Citizens' Centre. Reflects on the different stages of her life. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001498 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 9 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 2.52 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001471, OHA-7394. Colour photographs of: Betty Pragnell; recipe book and recipes; B&W photograph of two young children with Maori man. Scanned colour photograph of Betty and a class at Hukarere (1992). Scanned B&W photographs of: Betty after qualifying as a nurse; a Maori couple; Betty and husband Alfred on their wedding day (OHDL-001472) Search dates: 1932 - 2010

Date: 19 Apr 2010

From: MOTAT 1950s life oral history project

By: White, Shirley Catherine Blanche, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-1005-04

Description: Interview with Shirley White (nee Black), born in Christchurch in 1935. Talks about growing up in Herne Bay, Auckland from the age of five, their neighbours, having a vegetable garden at the back of their section, and playing in the street and in a local park. Recalls her mother worked outside the home until she was 70 as well as cooking and tending the vegetable garden. Discusses her family's artistic and musical talents, learning to play the piano, and having opera playing 'all the time'. Comments on her mother bringing her up as a Catholic but rebelling when she was 12. Mentions spending holidays with relations in Taranaki. Talks about her schooling at Ponsonby Primary School and Auckland Girls' Grammar School, mentioning teachers, discipline and class sizes. Refers to her memories of the War and the fears of a Japanese invasion. Comments on her father leaving home and the attitude of others to her parents' divorce. Talks about leaving school at 15 after her father left home, and buying a bicycle on time payment once she started working. Comments that her father arranged a job for her at the Chief Post Office in Auckland, where she hated the routine working in the telephone exchange. Discusses getting a live-in job at a private boarding school in Albany, working as matron for kindergarten age children and helping in classes. Mentions that the school was run on Quaker principles and served vegetarian meals of food grown organically on site. Refers to being trained as a preschool teacher in the job and getting her driver's license to drive the school van. Talks about meeting her husband Bruce White at the Leys Institute library while she was working in Auckland and he was still at school, how their friendship developed, and communicating by telephone and mail while she was living at Albany. Mentions attending balls together including the royal ball during the 1953-1954 royal tour. Comments on his family and how he helped her mother with her finances. Refers to marrying in 1959 after a long engagement while Bruce attended university and trained as a teacher. Describes their wedding in an Anglican church, the reception, and honeymoon in a hired Morris Minor car. Talks about living in rented accommodation and housekeeping. Recalls the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and walking across it on opening day. Mentions moving to Rotorua later for her husband's work. Interviewer(s) - Megan Wishart Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023042 - OHC-023044 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 3.03 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7528, OHDL-001734. Search dates: 1935 - 2010

Date: 5, 6 Aug 2010 - 05 Aug 2010 - 06 Aug 2010

From: New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association: Oral history project

By: Norton, Owen Nicholson, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0990-02

Description: Interview with Owen Norton, born in Greymouth in 1931. Has lived whole life at Coal Creek, West Coast, next door to the Norton family's Westland Snowflake Ice Cream Company factory. Left school to work in the factory aged 15. Took over and ran the business from 1955 until it was sold in 2008. Interview covers career in the ice cream industry and allied refrigeration and transport activities, and recollections of life on the West Coast from the 1930s. (Interviewer's summary) Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001596 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 4 Electronic document(s) (word, Adobe pdf). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 4.43 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7446, OHDL-001598. 2 digital photographs of Owen Norton; 9 scanned B&W photographs and 5 scanned colour photographs of Owen Norton and the ice cream factory. Accompanied by 2 appendices (pdf files) with information about the photographs (OHDL-001599) Search dates: 1931 - 2010

Date: 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010 - 23 Jun 2010 - 16 Aug 2010

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

By: Ngan, Jeanette, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0984-13

Description: Interview with Jean (Jeanette) Ngan (nee Wong), born in Taihape in 1933. Interviewer's summary: Talks about being one of 5 children of New Zealand Chinese parents who ran the General Store at Utiku near Taihape and were actively involved in the local community. When Jean's older brother drowned the family moved away to the Hutt Valley and established a new business in which Jean worked until she was released by her father to pursue her ambition to become a nurse. Discusses her marriage to Guy Ngan, then an architect but for the greater part of their married life a self employed artist and sculptor, the couple moving to Stokes Valley where over a period of years Guy built their home. Talks about raising 2 children there and, during her years at home with the children, doing a considerable amount of weaving, exhibiting and selling her work, and was a member of Port Nicholson Weavers. Discusses in detail domestic life, housekeeping and food in her parents' and her own home. Describes family photographs. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001497 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001469, OHA-7393. Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden (OHDL-001470) Search dates: 1933 - 2010

Date: 01 Aug 2011-02 Aug 2011 - 23 Sept 2011-24 Sept 2011 - 01 Aug 2011 - 23 Sep 2011

From: Wanaka Station oral history project

By: Blennerhassett, Jill Stewart, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-1011-01

Description: Interview with Jill Stewart Blennerhassett, born at Prospect House, Dunedin in 1933, younger of two daughters of Stewart Dalrymple MacPherson and Gulielma (Billy) MacPherson, nee Sargood. Backgrounds paternal grandparents Jeannie Sinclair MacPherson, nee Trotter, and John MacPherson, Surveyor and manager of Totara Estate, and their children Bill, Sheila and Eva. Talks about maternal family background in Melbourne, Australia, and her great grandfather Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, Mayor of Prahran 1856-1858, and her great great grandfather Frederick James Sargood, Chairman Prahran Municipal Council 1856-1858. Talks about her close knit family childhood in Dunedin with older half brother Rolfe Sargood Mills at their home Piccadilly, Maori Hill, and at Marinoto, home of maternal grandparents philanthropists Sir Percy Sargood and Lady Lucy Sargood, nee Ormond, who bought Wanaka Station in 1912. Talks about growing up as a boy, gardening, horse riding, shooting. Refers to parties, fetes and dances held at Piccadilly, Marinoto and Wanaka Station. Talks about Ukrainian immigrant workers at home and on Wanaka Station farm, and the family relationships with the nanny and house staff. Talks about her mother's first marriage to Lesley Pilkington Mills, her strong character, artistic abilities, being a socialite and a crack shot. Discusses her father's service in World War One, her own relationship with him, cleaning tools together and visiting the Dunedin Club and Dunedin factories with him as director of Sargood Son and Ewen business. Refers to her parents' service in World War Two in the Home Guard and Women's Army Auxiliary Corp, her brother Rolfe Mills being in the Navy, and hosting their British cousins and nanny at home during wartime. Discusses school holidays at Kartitane crib. Details her holidays on Wanaka Station in mid 1940s to 1950s, doing farmwork and attending local dances, Upper Clutha A&P shows, and going water-skiing. Talks about the Station homesteads which burnt down in 1913 and 1931, and living in the renovated stables. Talks about contact with relatives the MacKillops and MacPhersons. Refers to Sir Percy Sargood and uncle Bill MacPherson, who became farm manager in 1946, generating their own power supply and establishing farm and flood irrigation systems near Ripponvale, Cromwell Flats and Kawarau River. Mentions Wanaka Station shifting from running mainly cattle to sheep. Says her parents and Bill MacPherson managed the farm well together. Details life on the farm, food preservation, accidents, haymaking, horse riding, the farm managers and farm workers, the rabbit problems, shearing, the fruit orchards, crop growing. Mentions that James K Baxter worked on the farm. Talks about small town life of Wanaka in 1940s to 1950s. Says after her father died in 1965, her mother took responsibility for the farm, selling land blocks to the Gordons family. Talks about attending St Hilda's Collegiate, Dunedin and Nga Tawa Diocesan boarding school, being keen on sports and later studying physical education at University of Otago. Refers to socialising at university and meeting her husband Doctor John Blennerhassett whom she married in 1956. Discusses raising a family of four, including twins, in Wellington. Talks about John Blennerhassett winning a BNZ Bank scholarship to train and study medicine in United States where they had two more children. Discusses making networks and raising her family in Boston and in Montreal, Canada during the forment of the 1960s. Talks about a 9000 mile camping trip with her children in North America before they returned to Dunedin, so John Blennerhassett could take up his appointment as Head of Pathology at Otago University School of Medicine. Discusses formation of Wanaka Station Trust in 1970s to look after the farm and development of Rippon Lea subdivision. Refers to splitting the Station land with Rolfe Mills after Bill MacPherson died in 1970s, donating land to the community in 1977, and site of original homestead to be Wanaka Station Park in 1997, and giving farmland to be the lakefront and golf course. Refers to development of Rippon Vineyard by Rolfe Mills. Mentions subdividing her farmland between her children. Talks about retiring in 2003 to Barn Pinch Farm, part of the Station, and her interest in photography, 70th birthday present of a tractor, and her involvement with tennis and rowing clubs. Refers to putting land into QEII Trust as Blennerhassett Kanuka Reserve. Refers to land inheritance going down female line, mentioning maternal great great grandmother Emma Rippon who married Frederick James Sargood, and her paternal great aunt suffragette Learmonth White Dalrymple. Talks about her ten years chairing the Sargood Bequest, growth of its charitable work, wise investments and sponsoring Te Kakano Aotearoa Trust, and her continuing interest in the management of Wanaka Station Park. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Three printouts of website biographies of Sir Percy Sargood and John MacPherson, scanned photographs with captions, scanned letter by John MacPherson from 1918 about Stewart MacPherson and Bill (Willy) MacPherson's service in World War One, and newspapers clippings on Wanaka Station and Barn Pinch Farm. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001810 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract and forms). 2 digital photograph(s). 27 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (incl. scanned letter). 6 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 13.23 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft Word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7626, OHDL-001808. Printed scans of black and white photographs of family, friends and the second Wanaka Station homestead, scan of homestead floor plan, scans of colour photographs of the Station woolshed and Jill Blennerhassett at Barn Pinch Farm. Search dates: 1933 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 7 Nov 2009 - 07 Nov 2009

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

By: Hunter, Gretchen Mary de Visme, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0984-07

Description: Interview with Gretchen Hunter (nee Blathwayt), born in Gisborne in 1937. Interviewer's summary: Born Gisborne 1937. Family moved to the Wairarapa late 1930s. Father a barrister & solicitor. Except for 5 years primary school educated single sex girls school (boarder at Woodford House). Completed nursing training at Christchurch and married soon after qualifying NZRN. Married John Hunter, farmer, Porongahau, Central Hawkes Bay, aged 22. Raised 4 children on the coastal farm Rangitoto (nearest town Waipukurau). Early years of married life and while raising her children she provided meals for all the farm requirements as well as the family. She was actively involved with all activities in the district and on occasion relied on by the community for her nursing skills. Material recorded covers family background, domestic life in Martinborough and Masterton, nursing training in Christchurch, experiences as a Hawkes Bay farmer's wife, raising children in the country, and years of cooking for a wide range of employees, family and community. Personal recipe books were used as references during the interview. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001491 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 9 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001457, OHA-7387. Colour photographs of: Gretchen Hunter in her kitchen (Nov 2009); colour portrait of Gretchen Hunter; page in a handwritten recipe book (2006); covers of three old recipe books. Photographs of B&W photographs of: Gretchen Hunter (1950s); Gretchen and John Hunter on their wedding day; Gretchen with three young children (1964); Rangitoto Station (1950s). Scanned colour photograph of Gretchen and John Hunter with their 4 young children. Scanned B&W photograph of Gretchen with two young children (OHDL-001458) Search dates: 1937 - 2009

Date: 1, 8, 21, 29 June and 13 July 2011 - 01 Jun 2011 - 13 Jul 2011

By: Oldham, Philippa Jane, 1957-; Macaskill, Stuart Alisdair, 1931-2012; Local Government New Zealand

Reference: OHColl-1055-01

Description: Interview with Stuart Macaskill, born 1931 in Lower Hutt. Macaskill discusses his family history and Scottish heritage, childhood and education, business life, engagement with local and regional politics, and his role on national representative bodies, including the NZ Catchment Authorities, the Regional Government Association, and Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ). Abstracted by - Pip Oldham Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham The oral history project was funded by Local Government New Zealand Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7671. 34 Electronic document(s) Adobe PDF. 2 digital photograph(s). 14 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 3 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Deposited by Wayne Facer, Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), Wellington, November 2011 Search dates: 1931 - 2011

Date: 4 February - 19 March 2013 - 04 Feb 2013 - 19 Mar 2013

By: Karaitiana, Robert Leggett Paul, 1930-; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-; Clucas, Rosemary, active 2013-

Reference: OHColl-1077-1

Description: Interview with Paul Karaitiana by Helen Frizzell. The interview focuses on Karaitiana's whanau and family land, his blade shearing career, and muttonbirding at Pohowaitai Island. The interview also discusses language and Te Reo Maori, and Karaitiana's thoughts on his cultural identity. Awards/funding - Interview funded by the Ngai Tahu Fund Abstracted by - Helen Frizzell Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Includes photographs, scans of newspaper clippings, whakapapa information and other materials Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-002186 to OHDL-002188 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 20 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 interview(s). 9.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7785, OHDL-002187. Search dates: 1930 - 2013

Date: 13 Jun 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Emery, Nicholas Francis, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0975-10

Description: Interview with Nick (Nicholas) Emery, born in England in 1937. Refers to his family moving to Kenya after World War II, the Kenyan independence uprising, joining the Army when he left school, then doing farm work until he went to England to study at an agricultural college. Mentions returning to Kenya, marrying in 1961, and emigrating to New Zealand where he worked on a farm near Helensville and then in a sawmill. Comments on the quarantine risk of their household goods when they arrived in the country. Discusses joining the Port Agriculture Service in Auckland in 1963, the work manual and tools he was issued with, and on-the-job training. Mentions training courses he attended, and becoming an instructor later. Comments on inspecting mail at the mail centre and the reasons for searching all parcels from some countries. Talks about meeting cargo ships when they arrived in port, checking ship-board animals, sealing meat lockers, dealing with ship garbage, and inspecting cargo. Refers to inspecting Island trader ships and their produce, particularly for insect pests. Explains how goods from passenger ships were inspected. Refers to inspecting ships with ammunition on board at Kawakawa Bay, and to having trouble inspecting Japanese fishing boats. Discusses the introduction of containers for cargo, their quarantine risk and the need for publicity, and the introduction of off-wharf inspection areas. Refers to giant African snails arriving on the underside of containers from Pacific islands. Talks about fumigation work, gases used, and training. Recalls meeting aircraft, goods and baggage inspection, and spraying in aircraft for insects. Mentions the staff rosters for airport duty and the long hours worked after Mangere airport opened in 1966. Talks about changes to the system for meeting passengers as passenger numbers increased, and dealing with VIPs including diplomats, royalty and the Pope. Refers to learning words of welcome in different languages and the availability of interpreters. Mentions the fruit fly outbreak in Mt Roskill in 1996, the role of airlines in publicising quarantine regulations, and the introduction of beagle sniffer dogs and x-ray machines at airports. Talks about the development of residual disinfection of aircraft as passenger objections to direct spraying increased. Describes inspecting air cargo including animals. Refers to inspecting export produce at the city markets and in pack houses. Reflects on the Service having a very low staff turnover, and to the appointment of Mary Middleton as the first woman on staff in Auckland. Comments on moving into a management position, being rotated between the port and airport and the meetings involved. Mentions restructurings within the Department, Ministry and Service during his career. Recalls spending time in Tonga helping set up a training system for quarantine, a visit to Niue, and contact with the Australian Quarantine inspection Service on disinfection of aircraft. Recalls the work of Julian Brown, Sam Jamieson, Travis Flint, Ian Knox, Charlie Cooper, Brian Rose and others. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - leaflet "The history of biosecurity border inspection in New Zealand" which includes a photo of Nick Emery in uniform with a dog (with printed abstract) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-002007 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form). 2 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-002008, OHA-7305. Photographs of: Nick Emery, his Quarantine Officer's bag containing his tool kit (both 13 June 2008) Search dates: 1937 - 2008

Date: 30 Apr 2009 - 1 May 2009 - 01 May 2009

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

By: Morgan, Alan Charles, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0857-09

Description: Interview with Alan Morgan, born in Waimate in 1945. Talks about growing up on a small farm near Waimate where his father grew raspberries, peas and strawberries and worked on a threshing mill. Refers to their freedom to roam, going eeling and shooting rabbits. Mentions being keen on science and agriculture at high school, then getting a horticulture and gardening apprenticeship in Christchurch, working in the Municipal Nursery and the Botanic Gardens. Describes the progression of experience and responsibilities during his apprentiship, and finishing by getting commercial experience at Millichamps Nurseries in Ashburton. Discusses going to Europe in 1959 to gain overseas experience, working in nurseries in England and Holland, and being impressed by the efficiency of Dutch nurseries. Comments on working for landscaping firms in England, refurbishing old estates and landscaping new towns. Talks about getting a job in the United States for a year to learn big tree moving, and the social and political climate he found at the time. Discusses returning to New Zealand via Japan where he looked at gardens and landscape. Talks about setting up a landscaping business (A.C. Morgan) in Christchurch in 1964, later forming a partnership (Morgan & Pollard) with Roger Pollard in 1969. Discusses the types of work they did, safety issues and hiring staff. Comments on introducing instant lawn in New Zealand, trademarking the 'Readylawn' name and then franchising it. Discusses setting up Readytrees in 1968 to grow big trees for landscaping. Mentions changes in the business in the 1990s and 2000s. Discusses his involvement with the Horticultural Trades Association (later the Nurserymen's Association) and the New Zealand Association of Landscape Designers. Comments on the later establishment of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects which had an academic requirement for membership, and the Landscape Architecture course at Lincoln College. Mentions that the Landscape Designers Association later changed its name to Landscape Association. Refers to the establishment of the Landscape Guild in 1983/84. Discusses the Guild being involved in revamping training courses, personally being in favour of apprenticeships rather than theoretical unit standards, and apprenticeships being reintroduced. Comments on the Guild changing its name to Landscape Industries Association of New Zealand in 1995. Discusses television programmes on gardening and landscaping. Reflects on the development of the landscaping industry in New Zealand. 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. 4.08 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001334, OHA-7355. Search dates: 1938 - 2009

Date: 27, 28 Aug 2009 - 3 Sep 2009 - 5, 12 Nov 2009 - 11 May 2010 - 27 Aug 2009

From: Effects of the Wahine Disaster 10 April 1968 oral history project

By: Phillips, Stephen Falcey, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0976-06

Description: Interview with Stephen (Steve) Phillips, born in Lower Hutt in 1939. Talks about his family background, his father's family involvement in the shipping industry, his mother's German heritage, and growing up in a family of ten in Eastbourne. Recalls Muritai School, local identities, and recreation including sailing, cricket and rugby. Refers to attending Wellington College, qualifying as an accountant, then travelling to London for a period of study and work. Mentions travelling in Europe, to El Alamein and Asia on the way home, and travelling again 1969-1974. Outlines his subsequent career as an accountant, becoming director of finance in the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand 1978-1986, then working in Australia for a period until he returned, studied Maori, trained as a teacher in 1999 and became a Maori teacher in Lower Hutt and Wellington schools. Describes hearing radio reports about the Wahine on 10 April 1968, deciding not to go to work, and gathering with others at the Eastbourne pub at 9.30. Refers to hearing about the lifeboats coming to the eartern side of the harbour, "getting on his bike", police at Burdan's Gate, getting around the fence and walking along the coast road. Discusses being first rescuer there, pulling people from the sea, survivors walking barefoot along the road, and a line of corpses. Mentions the toughest time was with the boats and the power of the waves on jagged rocks. Comments on just concentrating on rescue rather than resuscitation, his exhaustion later, and wondering why there was no public call for helpers. Reflects on watching television news that night, the Wahine Tribunal findings, and the memories he has carried since the day. Refers to his memory of events being selective. Interviewer(s) - Shelley Dunford. Accompanying material - Photocopy of p. 178-181 of "The Wahine Disaster" by Max Lambert and Jim Hartley (1969); photocopies of three articles from the Eastbourne Herald that mention Stephen Phillips, including one about the anniversary of the foundering of the Wahine (24 April 2010). Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001138 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s) over 6 days. 3.11 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001139, OHA-7323. Three digital photographs of Stephen Phillips (12 November 2009); printout of one of the photographs Search dates: 1939 - 2010

Date: 7 Sep 2009 - 07 Sep 2009

From: From memory oral history project

By: Beams, Peter Derek, 1929-2010

Reference: OHInt-0981-05

Description: Interview with Peter Beams, born in Clapham, London in 1929. Talks about his family background, early life and schooling in Glasgow and weekends at Loch Lomond. Recalls his father built an Anderson air raid shelter in their back garden. Comments on being evacuated to New Zealand with his two older brothers in 1940, and not bringing any personal items with them. Refers to sailing on the SS Ruahine and suffering from sea sickness. Recalls the ship being visited in Wellington by prime minister Peter Fraser. Talks about being taken with his brothers to a magnificant house (Tudor House) in Park Road, Belmont to stay with George and Ethel Seers. Mentions the history of the house which was owned by General Motors at the time. Describes their accomodation and mentions the cook Betty Verity and parlour maid Jean Hyde. Talks about food, eating mostly in the servants' quarters, tennis, billiards, entertainment and discipline. Comments on spending a lot of time walking the hills, walking the dog and playing war games with friends. Refers to being taught to wait on table. Reflects that he and his brothers were fairly self-sufficient because they were not used to closeness in their family. Refers to attending Hutt Central School and later Nelson College, and talks about life there as a boarder. Mentions that he was not really concerned with news of the war but kept up with it. Recalls hearing of Pearl Harbour, submarine sightings around New Zealand, and the Americans having ammunition dumps in the Western Hutt Hills. Recalls the 1942 earthquake. Comments that he was required to return to Britain at the end of the war but having "nowhere to go home for". Refers to sailing with one brother on the SS Rangitata via the Suez Canal and being met by their father who was a stranger to them. Comments that their parents were separated and he met his mother later. Refers to working on a farm until he was called up for National Service in 1947. Comments on serving in Egypt and Malaya, being demobbed in Sydney and returning to New Zealand in 1950 after recovering from malaria. Talks about going back to live with the Seers whom he had kept in contact with. Discusses working for Wright Stephenson & Co (stock and station agents) and his subsequent career including working at General Motors and finally starting his own sign company. Mentions marrying his wife Mona Cadwallader in 1953 and building their house. Refers to meeting his mother and brother Tony in England in 1985, and also meeting his father again once they located him. Comments on a memoir he was writing about his own experiences. Reflects being grateful for the experiences and opportunities he has had that would not otherwise have been available to him, but regrets the lack of a family life when young. Accompanying material - Partial memoir by Peter Beams written for his children, covering his life up to the 1970s (OHDL-001383) Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001380 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s) - Tiff file. 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) - Tiff files. 1 Electronic document(s) - word document (partial memoir). 1 interview(s). 3.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7242. Search dates: 1929 - 1939 - 2009 - 1945

Date: 21 May 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Brown, Peter Dennis, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0975-05

Description: Interview with Peter Brown, born in Takapuna in 1938. Refers to growing up in Takapuna and Devonport, and attending Mt Albert Grammar School to study agriculture. Talks about his early interest in farming and outlines his early career in farming, as an ambulance driver, and having a milk run. Discusses becoming a Port Agriculture Officer in 1966 and the long hours worked between airport, town office and shipping duties. Describes their uniforms. Refers to staff training through short training courses at research stations around the country as well as in-house training. Comments that the people initially employed had a horticultural or agricultural background, and later people with higher education levels were hired. Talks about Mary Middleton, the first woman Agricultural Officer in Auckland, and how her presence changed the atmosphere at work. Describes post office mail inspection. Talks about inspecting ships and sealing any foreign meat while ships were in port. Mentions the early practice of dumping ships' rubbish beyond Rangitoto, and naval garbage going to a pig farm until an incinerator was built after an outbreak of swine fever. Comments on procedures for inspecting produce ships from the Islands, and on the risk of fruit fly introduction with the freeing up of trade. Refers to procedures when (potential) pests were found in incoming produce. Mentions training at the fumigation centre in Tinley Street, and writing a manual on resuscitation and first aid which was added to the staff procedures manual. Comments on checking imported cars and machinery, teaching Army personnel in Singapore how to clean their vehicles before bringing them back to New Zealand, and checking Australian Army vessels during joint exercises at Great Barrier Island. Discusses the shift work meeting international flights during the night, processing incoming passengers, the different types of food various nationalities would try to bring in, and the advent of amnesty bins. Refers to the introduction of dogs, and mentions special treatment for VIPs. Talks about disinfection of aircraft (including Air Force One), changes in procedures over the years, and passengers not liking being sprayed. Comments on disposal of food and garbage from incoming planes. Refers to the setting up of an office at the Mangere Airport cargo terminal as air freight increased, and the process for clearing cargo. Mentions dealing with race horses arriving by air, as well as their owners, trainers and drugs. Refers to zoo animals coming in and the Auckland zoo being a quarantine zoo. Discusses checking export produce and issuing phytosanitary certificates, the need to keep up to date with the requirements of importing countries, and manager Travis Flint's ability to find pests. Remembers co-workers Alf Davis, Charlie Cooper, Neil Hyde, Don Possin, Albert Tolliday and others. Explains that he left the Service in 1989 because of the bureaucracy and the difficult rosters and hours worked. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Photocopies of handwritted roster schemes for Port Agriculture Officers at Auckland International Airport, 1966, 1968, 1988 (4 p.), with printed abstract Accompanying material - Scanned images of: job advertisement for Port Agricultural Officers and letter Peter Brown received in response to his application asking for more information; Peter Brown's fumigation operator's certificate; Peter Brown's qualification to issue phytosanitary certificates; letter Peter Brown received in 1988 agreeing to his early retirement when MAF was restructured. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001098 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) - scans of documents. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001099, OHA-7300. Search dates: 1938 - 2008

Date: 29 May 2009

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Calje, Aarnoud, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0975-07

Description: Interview with Aarnoud Calje, born in Biggekerke, Zeeland, Holland in 1935. Talks about growing up on a small farm, the German occupation during World War II, Allied bombing of the dykes, and the family being moved to a bigger farm after the War. Describes flying to New Zealand with his bride in 1959 as assisted immigrants and working on farms in Canterbury and Westland. Discusses getting a job as a Port Agriculture Officer in Christchurch in 1966, the buddy training system, being given the manual to read, and training courses. Refers to inspecting ships once they had docked, sealing their meat lockers, and being alert for insect pests associated with residues from previous cargos in holds. Mentions checking ship pets daily to ensure they were still on board. Describes scanning ships' manifests looking for unclear items, and checking sea cargo in the Lyttelton wharf shed or the railway goods shed. Talks about the fumigation centre in Rolleston, and sometimes having to fumigate holds if dunnage was infested. Refers to receiving training at the laboratory in Levin where they sent plants and insects for identification. Comments on working in the mail centre checking incoming mail, visiting seed stores and farms to check export seeds, potatoes and onions, and checking incoming household effects as they were unpacked. Describes the rostered hours at the airport, overtime worked when meeting late night and military flights, and their duties spraying aircraft, processing passengers and supervising garbage disposal. Comments on changes in aircraft disinfection methods over the years, and the introduction of x-ray checking and sniffer dogs. Mentions the treatment of VIPs, and his being able to help Dutch people coming through the airport. Mentions that staff are no longer allowed on foreign military aircraft and have to trust the crews to spray aircraft and handle garbage. Talks about the increase in air cargo over the years and horses being flown in and out. Mentions the horses would be checked by a vet while Agriculture checked food, manure and medicines. Comments on checking for TB in cattle going between North and South Islands. Comments that staff are now more specialised than when he started in the service and he now works largely at the airport. Describes the uniforms he has worn and changes in them over the years. Refers to the adjustments when women were first employed in the Service in the 1970s. Reflects that the restructuring of MAF (Ministry of Agriculture) has not changed the job dramatically but computerisation and charging for services has changed things. Mentions creating an online system for processing car identification numbers for imported cars. Reflects on the use of "biosecurity" instead of "quarantine" in the service's name. Discusses senior staff during his career, including Superintendent Julian Brown, District Port Agriculture Officer Charlie Cooper and Assistant Superintendent Don Possin. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copy of QuarantineWorks, April 2005 (a staff newsletter) containing an article about Aarnoud Calje; colour photocopy of a map of Zeeland; photocopies of: letter informing Aarnoud that he had been appointed as a Port Agriculture Officer (2 Mar 1966); certificate giving him permission to issue phytosanitary certificates; letter notifying him that he had been appointed to permanent staff (14 Dec 1967); letter stating he had passed the theory and practical tests for fumigation with methyl bromide (20 Mar 1968); note stating he was authorised to carry out fumigation (4 Apr 1968); his Fumigation Operator's Certificate (1 Mar 1975); letter from the Director-General entitled "Rostering of Male and Female Port Officers on Night Duties"; letter from Professor Don Bevan to the Director praising the help, courtesy and excellent service provided by Aaround Calje when he passed through Christchurch Airport (dated 3 Jan 1986). Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-002002 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7302. Scanned black and white photographs of: Aamoud Calje in uniform in airport arrival hall (late 1960s); Aamoud Calje and Trevor Clark in the fumigation station, Woolston, Christchurch (1960s) Search dates: 1935 - 2009

Date: 17, 24 Jul 2010 - 17 Jul 2010 - 24 Jul 2010

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

By: Luke, Hina Lucy, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0984-10

Description: Interview with Hina Luke (nee Puketapu), born in Lower Hutt in 1932. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered in the recording include: Mother's family: farming background in Taranaki; maternal grandparents' English ancestry; values, visits to grandparents' home; grandmother lived with family. Mother: previous marriage and children; appearance; domestic life; sale of produce; preserving; budgeting; views about health; leisure. Father: education with Te Whiti and Tohu Te Raukura; Maori language; previous marriage and children; self-education; friendship with Walter Nash; community relationships; quest to build Marae after loss of land; public and private life; working life; leisure; dress; gardening; extent of domestic role. Maori language: attitude to and experience of in childhood and since beginning of Kohanga Reo movement. Childhood homes: Whites Line East house and garden; Puketapu Grove house and garden; rooms and facilities; father's design requirements for new homes in Puketapu Grove; water and bathing; gardens and crops. Childhood: education; chores; visitors; meals; food; offal; meat bones; cooking; gardening; keeping chooks; evening activities; education; gender roles; special occasions; Christmas; childhood illnesses; mother's health remedies; dances in Wellington; discipline; parents attitudes to alcohol. Sewing and dressmaking; dresses for dances; apprenticeship at Regent Gowns; taking in sewing; making quilts, cushions; mending clothes. Marriage: meeting husband; first pregnancy before marriage; wedding dress; wedding day; wedding presents; budgeting; husband's role in domestic and family life. Husband Richard Luke: employment; Maori language; role at Waiwhetu. Living with husband's family in Manaia, Taranaki: food; laundry; fish and meat offal; return to Waiwhetu. Living with parents in Puketapu Grove: furnishing room; children; domestic work. Family home at Porirua East: furniture and appliances; garden; shops; making friends. Children: preparation of layette; wool and fabric; preparations for birth; equipment; hospital stay; treatment of eczema and asthma; daily routine; clothing; meals; chores; weekend activities. Food, cooking and meals: kitchen and cooking equipment; use of fat; meat and offal; vegetables; fish and shellfish; food storage; keeping fowls; freezing and preserving; saying Grace; catering; making bread at Marae; changes since stomach stapling operation. Recipes and recipe books: manuscript book for catering information; basic muffin recipe; mother's dumplings; healthy apricot snack; macaroni pudding; instant pudding. Laundry: separate wash house at Puketapu Grove; washing by hand; drying clothes; ironing; stains; washing machine; washing at Manaia. Waiwhetu Marae: fundraising for; opening; catering at opening; role of food on marae; self's current role; daily routine; food for Kohanga Reo; food for Marae visitors; special dietary requirements; food brought for tangi; healthy food; health clinic; smoking. 28th Maori Battalion: return to Wellington; meal for returned servicemen. Current living arrangements: family home with extended family. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001494 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 digital photograph(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 4.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001463, OHA-7390. Colour photographs of: Hina Luke in her kitchen (2010); Hina Luke in marae kitchen (2010); handwritten recipes and cover of recipe book (2010). Scanned colour photographs of: Hina with Waiwhetu Health Centre banner; Hina and others outside Waiwhetu Marae; Hina sewing quilt; Hina sewing; Hina in Waiwhetu kitchen; Rewena baking bread; montage of photographs of Hina and Richard Luke. Scanned B&W photographs of: Hina as a child; Hina aged 17; Hina with her high school basketball team; Hina with other staff of Regent Gowns; wedding photograph with her parents; grandparents Caroline and Algenon Yeates; house at Puketapu Grove (OHDL-001464) Search dates: 1932 - 2010

Date: 17 May 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Barnes, Emlyn, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0856-01

Description: Interview with Emlyn (Tim) Barnes, born in England in 1933. Discusses doing a shipwright's apprenticeship and later working in the merchant navy as a ship's carpenter. Refers to emigrating to New Zealand after several visits, living first in Napier and Wellington before settling in Picton. Mentions working as a boatbuilder and farm labourer until he was invited by Athol Perano (first mate) to crew on the Orca where he worked for two years. Talks about the boat, its crew, catching whales, and towing them inshore. Comments on not having much contact with workers in the whaling station factory, which was a dangerous place to work. Recalls that the Orca developed a boiler problem which ended its days at sea. Discusses his feelings about whaling. Mentions working later as a builder and boatbuilder and working on the waterfront. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015994 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 40 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word; Image file - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5765, OHDL-001387. one colour portrait (OHDL-001388) Search dates: 1933 - 2006

Date: 21 Feb 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Bunt, John William, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0856-02

Description: Interview with John Bunt, born in Picton in 1936, a fifth generation whaler. Talks about his family background, mentioning that he is descended from one of the first local whalers, Joseph (Geordie) Toms (or Thoms) and his second wife Maria Boulton. Mentions his wives Gail Huntley and Violet Warepouri. Refers to other whaling families at Te Awaiti including the Heberleys, Nortons, Guards and Keenans. Describes first going to Te Awaiti in 1958 where his grandfather William Toms (Thoms) talked to him about whaling including at Campbell Island. Refers to taking over the family farm after three years at Te Awaiti, and working at the whaling station as a flenser for one season about 1963-1964, at the end of the industry. Discusses the whaling station at Tipi Bay that was on Toms family land and run by Toms, Norton, Arthur Heberley, and Charlie and Joe Perano. Comments that after whaling most families turned to fishing and farming. Mentions doing commercial paua diving and fishing by 1965. Talks about the local community, social life, and the children being educated through the Correspondence School. Mentions his current interest in promoting a mataitai reserve in Tory Channel with Te Atiawa. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015995 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 22 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word; Image file - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5766, OHDL-001389. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001390) Search dates: 1936 - 2006

Date: 20 Oct 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Davis, Nolan Donaldson, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0856-03

Description: Interview with Noel (Nolan) Davis, born in Hastings in 1934. Mentions his mother died when he was five, and the family had a difficult time during World War 2. Talks about working as a shepherd after he left school, then going on a working holiday on a motorbike in the South Island during the summer of 1953-1954. Mentions taking various jobs before he got a job at Joe Perano's whaling station factory in 1956 through personal contacts and his freezing works butchery skills. Refers to working there for five seasons and then doing one season at Great Barrier Island. Mentions cows in calf and a protected right whale being caught. Comments that the whale meat was discarded until a meat plant was established in 1957. Talks about the work he did as a flenser as well as night shifts filling the Kvernar pressure digester with blubber. Mentions accidents at the factory and hazards such as the slippery flensing floor, and bomb shrapnel and an unexploded bomb in blubber. Discusses catching sharks that were attracted into the bay by dumped offal and calves. Reflects on the very long hours worked during the whaling season and not getting home often to see his wife and children. Talks about living conditions and the social life at the whaling station. Refers to working on a farm at Okukari Bay between seasons. Discusses recreational activities in the area including the Arapawa Rowing Club and early water skiing. Comments on moving to Picton, working in the freezing works, and later buying orchards, then a deer farm and finally a native plant nursery, as well as working as a builder. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015996 - OHC-015997 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C90 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 1.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word; Image file - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5767, OHDL-001391. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001392) Search dates: 1934 - 2006

Date: 20 Oct 2005 - 27 Oct 2005

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Jones, Basil Leslie, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0856-11

Description: Interview with Basil Jones, born in Picton in 1934. Talks about his father Harry McCall Jones managing farms in the Marlborough Sounds and working at the whaling station in Fishing Bay during the season. Discusses working for the Railways as a fireman, then in a cheese factory at Tuamarina, with off-season jobs whaling and at the freezing works. Talks about working for a plumber and getting married when he finished whaling in 1963, and taking up rowing. Describes working as a flenser at the Peranos' whaling station, the work involved and the knives used to cut up whales. Describes sharks attacking whales moored in the bay, and nelly birds and cape pigeons attracted by the waste dumped into the water. Talks about pay, living conditions, socialising in the hall, and the team spirit. Mentions also working at the Byron Bay Whaling Company's Great Barrier whaling station with other Marlborough whalers, mainly as a flenser, and talks about living and working conditions there. Refers to driving a whalechaser in his last season and the process of killing a whale. Comments that whaling ended suddenly when whale numbers collapsed. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016012 - OHC-016013 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 2 interview(s). 1.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5775, OHDL-001407. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001408) Search dates: 1934 - 2005