Places

Date: 1937-1943

By: Greymouth Clerical and Office Staff Employees Industrial Union of Workers

Reference: MS-0883

Description: Contains minutes of committee, annual and special meetings of the union. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 50 p). Physical Description: Mss and typescript (25 cm; ½ blue buckram, marbled boards) Processing information: Access restrictions removed April 2023.

Date: 23 Feb 2007

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

By: Raymond, Nancy, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0980-14

Description: Interview with Nancy Raymond (nee Fleming), born in Dunedin in 1924. Talks about growing up in South Dunedin and later in Richmond, Christchurch where her father had grocery shops. Refers to her father having been gassed during World War I, and drinking at weekends. Talks about her Christian mother who did not have a happy marriage. Recalls the Depression years and not having food problems. Refers to working in the shop for her pocket money. Comments on loving primary school, leaving technical college before she turned 14, and having to help her mother at home for a period even though she wanted to be a teacher or nurse. Describes being manpowered [in 1942] to a rubber factory, being transferred to office work at the Farmers Co-op because of a 'fairly useless' left arm, and the lack of men in the workplace. Discusses home life during the war, listening to the 9pm news on the radio, and the pages of deaths in the newspapers. Comments that the Movie Time news was very explicit. Recalls hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbour which increased fears of an invasion in New Zealand but brought the Americans into the war. Refers to blackouts, her father being in the Home Guard and a brother in training. Describes preparing food parcels for men they knew and for the Red Cross. Talks about transport difficulties when the family did not have a car and winter power cuts during the war. Comments on having a vegetable garden, making rations last and making herself very friendly to the grocery department at the Farmers Co-Op. Refers to courteous and generous American servicemen, the effect of war on relationships between men and women, and men wanting the security of an engagement before they went away. Talks about dances to raise money for the services, cycling in a long dress to them, and smuggling beer in for the boys. Mentions her 'young man' Dick Cobden-Cox, reading his death notice, and receiving a letter from him a week later. Talks about a cousin Jimmy Beattie who died when HMS Leander was bombed, and the grief when there was no body or grave here. Recalls the VE and VJ parades where she played in the Christchurch Ladies Pipe Band. Comments on the support the pipe band members gave each other during and after the war. Reflects on a visit to a war cemetry in Manilla in 1971. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022561 - OHC-022564 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7337. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of June Fleming (aka Nancy Raymond) (1942); printout of a colour photograph of Nancy (2007) Search dates: 1924 - 2007

Date: 26 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Murphy, Francis Richard, 1948-; Murphy, Bronwyn Gay, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0569/06

Description: Frank Murphy was born in Palmerston, Otago in 1948. Describes his father's work on Bluecliffs Station and his mother's as station cook. Talks about the Bluecliffs area, the ownership of Bluecliffs Station by the Rhodes Estate and its management by Dr Woodhouse. Explains father's work on the farm and going away to boarding school. Discusses his relationship with his parents, attitudes to table manners, discipline, alcohol and smoking. Describes riding a horse to school, mustering on the station and his interest in rugby, cricket and race meetings. Lists a variety of jobs before going to work at Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Mentions getting used to office work and doing extra mural study at Otago University. Explains reasons for not completing study, for leaving his job and the receivership of Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Backgrounds a venture in woolscouring. Bronwyn Murphy was born in Mosgiel in 1948. Mentions the Bisset family farm was at Momona and part of it is where the Dunedin airport is now located. Describes the fanily home, helping with cooking and chores, the childhood family routine and going to Sunday School. Comments on enjoying the open spaces as a child. Describes her schooling followed by working in a lawyer's office. Explains how she met Frank, dates, their decision to marry and their wedding day in 1970. Describes living in Dunedin and on the Taieri before buying the Beaumont Hotel in 1982. Refers to its run down appearance, its physical layout, guest accommodation, clientele, hours of work, the area covered by the hotel, the financial help of the previous owners and their first winter there. Describes customers including forestry workers. Refers to farming and orchards. Describes the Beaumont community and local characters. Talks about music at the hotel. Discusses the attitude ot the locals to outsiders. Details their aims and goals when they first took over the hotel and the introduction of food for casual diners to minimise the effect of alcohol for motorists. Lists important local events including the Beaumont races, the Paradise Fishing Club competition, other activities on the river, and a pig hunting competition. Refers to the decline of the Beaumont Races in the context of drink driving. Explains the shift of the race to Wingatui and its impact. Describes the closure of the community hall, church and school. Mentions fund raising and Bob Woods. Describes the dam project public meeting at Beaumont in 1989 and the destructive effect on the community. Explains his belief that ECNZ has been deliberately vague about the proposal. Discusses the second public meeting in 1991. Talks about the treatment of people selling to ECNZ, their absence from the hotel and a lack of farewells. Describes concerns about the environmental impact. Summarises the impact on the locals particularly in terms of uncertainty. Refers to ECNZ personnel and how they should have operated. Discusses interest groups Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the national campaign run by musician Graeme Collins and local attitudes to him. Explains their decision to sell the hotel in the context of the break up of the community and the decline in the hotel's turnover. Describes reluctance to sell to ECNZ and breaking the news to the local community. Describes their farewell, its emotional impact and new lessees Ray and Margaret Pankhurst. Describes the circumstances which led to them leasing the Fairfield Hotel. Talks about retaining links with the Beaumont community, continuing uncertainty in Beaumont and the stress suffered by locals. Explains their hopes for future of Beaumont. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2630. Photo of Frank Murphy as a child; phot of Bronym Bisset in 1959; photo of Frank and Bronwyn Murphy in 1995

Date: 20 Oct 1998

From: Relative childhoods oral history project

By: Walton, Helen Mary, 1915-2011

Reference: OHInt-0433-03

Description: Recalls growing up in Waimate and gives details of family and social life. Describes boarding school life at Craighead. Talks about being more interested in sport and socialising than academic achievement. Describes going to secretarial college in Christchurch, meeting Ken Walton and becoming part of their family. Recalls working at Canterbury Frozen Meat Company and going flatting. Mentions marriage in 1942. Interviewer(s) - Hilary Stace Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006958 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1738.

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Armstrong, Hazel, 1952-; Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Paper Clip (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-10045-2

Description: Photographs relating to the Clerical Workers Union and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1970-1985. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Hazel Armstrong, Joe Hughes, Don & Beatrice Peat, Dominion and New Zealand Times, and Vecuz Manila Hotel Studio. Identified personalities include: Syd Jackson, Les Hewett, Quentin Mines, Connie Perdue, Graeme Kelly, Paul Garside, Pat Basham, Margaret Flanagan, E E Nellie, Therese O'Connell, Peter Palmer, Bill Thomas, Brian Brooks, Tony [Nealy?], Alan Simm, John Young, Ted Keating, Bid Bolding (G M Petone), J Inglis-Wright, Peter Michael Butler, Desmond `Des' Nolan, John Slater, Gerard Hill, David Lange, Mrs E Timms, Mary Batchelor, Marilyn Marshall, Dave and Petty Jacobs, Peter Gordon, and Graeme Lowie. Meetings, events, disputes, campaigns, and protests covered include: the New Zealand Clerical Award (1972), Auckland Union Social Club, Clerical News, field trips for `Paper Clip' magazine (Hawkes Bay, Masterton, Martinborough, and Palmerston North), the Cleaners' Union strike at Waiouru Military Base (1979), FIET meeting dinner, negotiations in the early 60s and 70s, departure of an aid ship to Ethiopia (organised by the Seamen's Union), opening of the Clerical Union Holiday Home in Rotorua, and Desmond Nolan at the first meeting of the International Technical Federation of Commercial Clerical and Technical employees in Manila. Miscellaneous images and events covered include: portrait of low paid workers, newspaper clipping relating to the death of Desmond Nolan, aerial view of Sydney and Harbour Bridge, and a cartoon of pilot shaking hands with office worker in skyscraper. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and newspaper clippings Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to forests, forest parks and forestry]

By: Smith Wylie and Company Ltd; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FOREST-1920s-01

Description: Booklet describing the Auckland firm of brokers of afforestation businesses in New Zealand, with portrait photographs of the directors D S Wylie, H Landon Smith and W Fraser. Also contains a group photograph of the head office staff, female staff working the addressograph, and an interior view of the head office at 301 Smith's Buildings, Albert Street, Auckland, with staff arranged at desks in an open office. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 211 x 110 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms T Healy, Auckland, 12 Jan 2012 Transfers: Other material of the same provenance housed at MS-Group-2053, Oral History and Photographic Archive..

Date: ca 1919-1930s

From: Chaplin, Reginald Wilfred, 1904-198? :Photographs of people and scenes in New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-1228

Description: Album containing scenic views of New Zealand, mainly of Hawkes Bay, and family holidays, an office picnic, young men at a 21st birthday party, Spring Show and a carnival. All of the photographs have captions. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - (inside cover) R.W. Chaplin, 206, Beresford Street, Hastings Arrangement: Loose photograph housed at PAColl-7970-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Pale green album 13 x 16.5 cm, containing 89 photographs

Date: 1909-1915, 1933

By: Reed, Ethelbert Arthur, 1895-1974

Reference: MS-Papers-9130

Description: Summary of Reed's life, written up to his enlistment with the NZEF, covering his education at Kaikorai School, Dunedin and his occupations, mainly as a clerk in various firms. Also included are two certificates for Dorothy Reed, who probably was his daughter for swimming proficiency and for learning passages from the Bible, provided by the New Zeal;and Amateur Swimming Association, Auckland Centre and by The Auckland Sunday School Union, respectively, in 1933. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter

Date: ca 24 Jul 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1978/2479-F

Description: Carol Canvin and Paul Anderson of Data General New Zealand Ltd, operating computers at the Am-Tech business machines exhibition at the Wellington Show Buildings in Mount Cook, Wellington. Photograph taken circa 24 July 1978 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Original caption reads: "...The exhibition, open to businessmen and trade representatives, is being stages by the United States Department of Commerce in association with the American Embassy in Wellington. The display is promoting American computers, business machines, advanced word processors and security surveillance equipment. In the picture, Mr Anderson operates the processor of the Data General Eclipse CS/60 computer, with the hard copy ternimnal and two display terminals in the foreground..." (Evening Post, 24 July 1978) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 8 December 1984 - 08 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Jewiss, Israel, 1895-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/07

Description: Ray Jewiss recalls family background and childhood St Bathans, Central Otago, work as message boy at St Bathans Post Office, R W Noake the postmaster, details of layout, delivery of gold through mail system, courting couples, hotel, duties of message boy, communications, Mr Hazeldine (?) the magistrate, the banks - Bank of New Zealand and Bank of New South Wales, working at Telegraph Branch Dunedin in 1913, boarding houses in Wellington, learning telegraphy at Telegraph School Wellington, work as a telegraphist at Caversham Post Office, Dunedin, uniform and clothing, salary. Discusses Mr Veitch the Chief Engineer at Dunedin, work at Roslyn Post Office Dunedin, work as junior clerk at the Engineers' Office in Dunedin, female employees in the Post Office, social life, visit by Sir Joseph Ward to the St Bathans' Post Office. Details work as a teacher at the Post and Telegraph Correspondence School, Wellington 1918-1951, various staff, H T Dawson, the standard of teaching, promotion, team spirit in the Post Office, retirement. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Ray Jewiss's home at Howick, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000792B - OHC-000794 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.29 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 117. Search dates: 1895 - 1984

Date: 17 Mar 1989

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Cantwell, Phyllis Maude, 1915-2011

Reference: OHInt-0185/15

Description: Phyllis Cantwell was born in Devonport, Auckland in 1915. Describes her forebears on both sides as early settlers in the Auckland area. Recalls her childhood in Devonport and briefly in New Plymouth. Describes the effect of her father's support of the Labour Party on her attitude to politics. Recalls school and her school uniform of gym slip, hat, gloves and stockings. Comments on the effect of the Depression on her father's building work. Describes clerical and receptionist work in Auckland, Te Kuiti and Hamilton before beginning work with State Advances Corporation in Hamilton as an office assistant in 1942. Describes the office, staff, time-keeping, her salary and working on calculating interest rates and filing. Talks about starting accountancy and graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1947. Summarises her career. Describes an unsuccessful appeal for regrading in 1969 and promotion in 1970. Talks about the accounting system in Hamilton including budget control, balancings, rehabilitation and other loans and the last day of the financial year. Refers to Jack Ashton, Johnny Wood and Ron Millard. Discusses working conditions including morning and afernoon teas. Talks about enjoying farm accounting work, the beginnings of computerisation and a staff effectiveness evaluation. Describes being the branch accountant in Nelson and being the first woman in State Advances Corporation to be examining accountant. Comments on being part of the equal pay campaign in the 1950s. Considers that opportunities for women were not as good as those for men but that State Advances Corporation was relatively fair. Describes retirement in 1978. Venue - Hamilton : 1989 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Phyllis Cantwell's home in Hamilton Accompanying material - `My years in the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, later divided into the Housing Corporation of N.Z. and the Rural Bank' by Phyllis Cantwell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002254; OHC-002255; OHC-002256 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 417.

Date: 20 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Chapman, William Alan, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0159/05

Description: Alan Chapman was born in Levin in 1936. Gives details of his family background and growing up on a dairy farm in the Horowhenua. Describes being the only child and helping with farm work. Talks about attending Horowhenua College and leaving school to become a clerk with the Public Service Commission in Wellington. Describes living in the Public Service Hostel, his work in the accounts and personnel section and staff of the Commission. Talks about becoming Staff Training Officer with the Commission and then joining the New Zealand Forest Service in this same position. Comments on the positive attitude of the Forestry Service to training and rivalry between foresters and rangers. Describes two years spent as the Private Secretary to the Minister of Forests, Duncan McIntyre. Gives details of his work and recalls their positive working relationship. Comments on the 1969 Forestry Development Conference and the beginnings of lobbying from conservationists. Describes returning to the Forest Service and getting in to administration in the position of Executive Officer for the Rotorua Conservancy. Comments on living in the Kaingaroa village, challenges involved in this and his empathy with Maori culture. Describes the Forest Service as culturally sensitive because of the number of Maori employees and comments on its social role in unemployment schemes. Talks about being Senior Training Officer at Head Office of the Forest Service, developing new forest ranger courses and the closure of the woodsman training scheme. Comments on Directors General of Forestry. Describes becoming Chief Executive Officer and then Corporate Employee Relations Manager in the Forestry Corporation when the Service was restructured. Describes working hard to establish the new organisation and then the shock and betrayal of the 1988 amendment privatising the Corporation. Accompanying material - Photograph of A.W. Chapman in 1960; curriculum vitae Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mayfair House, The Terrace, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001908; OHC-001909; OHC-001910 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 301. Search dates: 1936 - 1988

Date: 06 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McBride, Robert Dryden, 1910-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/19

Description: Robert McBride recalls family background, childhood, joining Post Office as a cadet, duties, life as a boarder in Wellington, salary, checking telephone accounts, sorting postal notes, discipline, hours of work, sick leave, annual leave, work at the public service garage in ca 1930, duties, staff, Post Office fleet, motor repairs, work as assistant dispatch clerk, impressions of Napier after the earthquake in 1931, mail service contracts, reasons for transferring to Chief Postmaster's Office Dunedin - Clerical Branch, Ted Kerr, work at Post Office Savings Bank Dunedin, telegram dispatch room, work involved, the 1935 greetings telegram deluge. Describes transfer to Invercargill 1936-1958, type of work, missing mail, mail deliveries, salaries during Depression 1930s, inspectors, details of records work, enlisting in 1940 for service in World War II, work in Divisional Signals as radio operator in Italy and Egypt, involved in Battle of Sidi Rezegh, radio reception difficulties at Cassino, return to clerk in mail services in Invercargill in 1946, changes after the war, work as manager at Invercargill Post Office ca 1956, reporting system, work as Manager of Dunedin Post Office 1958, work as manager at Christchurch Post Office in 1959, background to appointment as Chief Postmaster at Timaru in 1960, state of discipline, staff relations, introduction of decimal currency in 1967, major changes in the Post Office, impressions of J B Darnell and Sir Dawson Donaldson (Directors General), retirement. Venue - Timaru Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Robert McBride's home at 116 Wai-iti Road, Timaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001249 - OHC-001251 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.27 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 159. Search dates: 1910 - 1985

Date: 22 Nov 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Kirkwood, Ronald Ross, 1921-1987

Reference: OHInt-0070/25

Description: Ross Kirkwood describes family background, early childhood near Westport, education, early work 'snigging' for mine (Stockton), Charming Creek Sawmill working for Bill Mumm, rope boy at mine, work as local recruit Accounts Section Wellington in 1939, salary, social life, work on toll tickets, unemployment levy, the ticket system, Wally Thom, Stan Copeland, working hours, work as postman at Granity Post Office in 1940, clashes with postmaster Jim Pringle, routines, delivery times, reasons for resignation from post office, war service in Egypt and Italy during World War II. Discusses work as exchange operator at Westport Post Office in 1946, use of Ericsson equipment, party lines, views on manual system, hours of work, training, promotion to supervisor 1948-1952, salary, shift arrangements, problems with electric storms, work as clerk for Clerical Branch at Westport in 1952, Jack Coutts chief postmaster, return to exchange work, work as customs officer at Westport, working on the census, Westland earthquake in 1962, promotion to manager at Westport in 1964, salary, duties, responsibilities, Westport as a training ground for postmasters, work as secretary of Post Office Association 1965-1980, work on Welfare Committee. Recalls television action committee, Inangahua earthquake in 1968, damage and deaths, his tasks during the earthquake, repairs, looting, view of devastation from air, colleagues: Bill Wilson, Ernie Wilson, Lou McLaughlin, Brownie Mason, relationships with postmasters, view of post office as career, biggest achievements, retirement. Venue - Westport Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - RD 2 Utopia, Westport Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001252 - OHC-001254 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 191. Search dates: 1921 - 1985

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0244-F

Description: Images show scenes from inside the Department of Maori Affairs, Rotorua, also includes images of Lake Rotorua, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes of civil servants at work inside the Rotorua branch of the Department of Maori Affairs. Images also show petrified branches sticking out of Lake Rotorua. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1911

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019749-G

Description: Group portrait of men (probably office workers) at a cement works at Tarakohe, photographed in 1911 by Sydney Charles Smith. Shows eight unidentified men outside a building clad in corrugated iron. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1993

By: McKnight, Shirley, active 2002

Reference: PA12-2292

Description: Portrait of Beeban Annadale McKnight (1897-1996), clerical worker, bank teller, dancer, entertainer, cinema operator and community leader, taken ca 1993 at Beeban's home in Ohingaiti by Shirley McKnight. Quantity: 1 colour copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler colour transparency 10 x 12.5 cm