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Date: 8 Nov 1989

From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings

By: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004; Walker, Piripi, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0937-0407

Description: Interviewer(s) - Piripi Walker Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-1519, OHT7-1520 Quantity: 2 7" reel(s). 1 interview(s).

Date: 15 Nov 1994

From: The Merchant Navy story

By: Carey, Francis Lawrie, 1921-1997

Reference: OHInt-0321-06

Description: Steve Carey was born in Port Chalmers, in 1921. Outlines marine education as an engineering apprentice at Port Chalmers Marine Repair Works and King Edward Technical College. Talks about Hillside Engineer work apprentices and private tuition with Mr Kendall of Cossens and Black. Describes extra work due to war time conditions and leisure trip to Bluff on the Muruhiku, the Southland Harbour Dredge towed by the Awarua. Touches on problems with seasickness. Recalls trip on the Tamatea, used by the United States Forces in the Pacific. Talks about the Akaroa Mine Testing Station. Describes introduction to the Union Steam Ship Company and position on the Maunganui hospital ship in 1942, travelling to Freemantle. Talks about the Middle East, maintenance and repair work, troop numbers, Perla Gibson, repatriating Italian and Yugoslavian prisoners of war, smallpox isolation and recuperation in the Marlborough Sounds. Recalls the high regard of New Zealand nurses during the war. Details repair and use of coal burners, piston rods, octane petrols and weir pumps onboard. Compares working practices in New Zealand and Britian. Remembers details of the Glasgow docks and tramcars. Outlines number of wounded carried by the ship, the 1949 Victory Parade in England, the New Zealand Club in London, yachting and sailing activities and return home. Recounts the refitting of the Maunganui, renaming to the Arina and upgrading mechanics including freezing facilities. Talks about freezer workings on ships. Outlines employment as the assistant marine engineering superindentant in Wellington and time with the National Mortgage and Agency Co. on the Taiaroa and the Otago Harbour Dredge Otakou. Talks about the Chatham Islands and the National Mortgage and Agency factory built there. Touches on war and peace time wage scales, and the influence of the unions. Interviewer(s) - Stan Kirkpatrick Accompanying material - Includes photocopied article 'Lady in White to 'sing' again', from R.S.A. Review February 1995 regarding the unveiling of the Perla Siedle Gibson statue on Durham's North Pier. Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4445. Search dates: 1994

Date: 11 Feb 1992, 13 Feb 1992, 17 Feb 1992 - 11 Feb 1992 - 17 Feb 1992

From: Hobson Wharf Auckland Maritime Museum Oral History Project

By: Daniel, Barney Thomas, 1911-1997

Reference: OHInt-0332-06

Description: Outlines life as young man and maritime experiences. Talks in detail about family. Details life of great grandfather John James Stanaway, the first registered New Zealand harbour pilot in 1858. Backgrounds father's maritime career mentioning the Hokianga lighthouse and signal station. Discusses rope construction career, oyster production, boat builder Jack Guard, the French Pass ferry service during the 1930's, cattle barges and the Union Company. Outlines employment with the Wellington Harbour Board. Talks about rubbish disposal. Details the Port of Wellington and shipwrighting including building of barges and ships for the armed services. Depicts shipwright industry during the 1940s and the fall off in coastal trade. Discusses the Waterfront Strike, 1951. Remembers the Wahine disaster at Wellington Heads in 1968. Discusses in depth the sinking of the ferry and helping to rescue passengers. Mentions rescue vessels the Success, the Tina, the Arahina and the Marlyn. Describes the Wahine and salvage operations. Depicts life on the Chatham Islands and Pitt Island in 1932 sketching the physical details and describing the inhabitants, community life, transport, occupations and Chatham Island cod. Ships mentioned include: the Tiroa, the Kawhai, the Kohi, the Freedom (previously the Anzac), the Nora, the Matangi, the Arahura, the Whakanui, the Kohi, the Pearl Casper, the Golden Light, the Star of the East, the Margarita, the Tramp, the Ranger, the Waiiti, the Vesper, the Sonia Kay, the Taotane, the Miro and the Hualalai. Interviewer(s) - Peter McCurdy Interviewer(s) - Gillian Chaplin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013020, OHC-013021, OHC-013022, OHC-013023, OHC-013024 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4522 contains abstract and partial transcript.

Date: 24 Apr to 1 May 1999 - 24 Apr 1999 - 01 May 1999

From: Coastal and inland voices

Reference: OHInt-0365-013

Description: Interviews with long-term residents (three generations) from the Chatham Islands. The interviews include brief life histories and word lists. Interviewees are: Denis Day, David Holmes, Iris Lanauze, Mick Lanauze, Patricia Lanauze, Ngawhata Page, Alfred (Bunty) Preeze Snr, Ollie Seymour, Ron Seymour, Denis Soloman and Hector Taunui. Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-13698 - OHC-13712 Form folders: OHA-4928 - OHA-4938 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 11 folder(s). 11 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come OHA-4928 - OHA-4938. Search dates: 1999 Processing information: Interviews not yet fully described

Date: 5 Sep 1994 - 05 Sep 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Aberdein, Alan (Capt), 1934-1994

Reference: OHInt-0444-01

Description: Captain Alan S Aberdein born Aberdeen, Scotland 1934. Recalls going to sea with the British India Steam Navigation Company as an apprentice deck officer in 1951. Talks about his early days at sea and arrival in New Zealand. Describes his first trip to sea on a fishing boat out of Auckland and working on the fishing vessel `Coromel' which acted as a mother ship to some of the blue cod fishing boats at the Chatham Islands in 1956. Discusses some of the cargo ships he worked on around New Zealand, in particular, vessels belonging to the Northern Steam Ship Company. Explains that on leaving the Northern Steam Ship Company he and some others set up the Kaiapoi Shipping Company and discusses the problems experienced and how the introduction of the rail ferry Aramoana decimated coastal shipping in the early 1960s. With the failure of the company recalls how he and some of his partners decided to set up a fishing venture. He talks about the problems of getting out onto the Marnoo bank, the fishing methods and the blue cod and groper caught on this virginal ground. Describes the initial attempts to develop the crayfish fishery at Chatham Islands, outlines the crayfish boom which started in 1965 and lasted until the early 1970s, and considers himself one of the pioneers. Talks about the setting up of the Mernoo Fishing Company and refers to vessel `Picton' and the formation of the Picton Fishing Company in 1964. Also discusses the processing plants and the helicopters used for taking the crayfish off the fishing boats. The fishing boat convoys between the mainland of New Zealand and the Chathams are discussed, their problems and boat losses, his part as convoy leader, and problems with the Marine Department. Talks about his fishing career after the crayfish boom which included expeditions to some of New Zealand's southernmost islands and trips into the Pacific in search of crayfish. Concludes by talking about his life as mate and later skipper aboard the Government Fishery Research vessels, `James Cook' and `Kaharoa'. Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 20 Leinster Ave, Raumati South and Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010213-010216 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3410.

Date: 3 Mar 1995 - 03 Mar 1995

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Kaminski, Edwin, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0444-04

Description: Edwin Kaminski born in Poland 1921. Talks about his early life in Poland. Recalls attempting to escape from Poland after the outbreak of World War II, being captured and sent to work in the coal mines in Russia from where he eventually escaped and made his way to England. Talks about the beginning of his seafaring career as a marine engineer and the shipping companies he worked for. Recalls emigrating to New Zealand with his wife and working in Haast for five months before joining P Ferons & Son Ltd, who owned fishing vessesls. Describes his work, maintaining the company's vessels which, directly or indirectly, numbered 80. Recalls a nine month period living aboard a converted naval fairmile which was anchored in Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island and was used, as an interim measure, as a floating refrigeration plant to service some of the local fleet, until a freezer could be built ashore. Talks about fishing in the Chatham Islands and describes his involvement in the setting up of a processing plant at the Chathams by Ferons Ltd during the tail end of the crayfish boom which occurred there from 1965 to 1971. Discusses crayfish processing and his experiences with the locals on the Chathams. Recalls being an engineer on a number of Chatham Island convoys which travelled between the Chathams and Lyttelton. Mentions the vessel `La Paloma' which was lost with all hands during one of the convoys. Talks about the salvage of the fishing vessel `Rosaleen' which he nursed to Lyttelton. Joined the Marine Department in the early 1970s as chief engineer of their new fisheries research ship `James Cook' and discusses the problems in preparing the vessel for her new role. Recalls later working on the department's new vessel the `Kaharoa' which was built in Whangarei during the early 1980s. Retired from MAF in the late 1980s and talks about his occasional work as chief engineer on a variety of vessels being delivered to or from New Zealand. Ends the interview with his view of the present fishing industry in New Zealand and comments on some of the policies. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 73b Tahunanui Drive, Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010221-010223 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3413.

Date: 14 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McLaughlin, James, 1908-1994

Reference: OHInt-0070/29

Description: Jim McLaughlin recalls family background, childhood in Westport, education, early work as message boy in Post and Telegraph Department in Westport, the postmaster W T Johnston, details of shifts, duties, salary, uniform and cleanliness, clearing post boxes, discipline, training in morse, layout of Westport Post Office, selling telephones to the farmers, peoples' reaction to telephones initially, operators listening to telephone calls, importance of wrist in sending morse, press telegrams, suicide of telegraphists, mentions work as radio inspector and signals officer in World War II, traits needed for good telegraphy. Describes earthquakes, Murchison earthquake June 1929, damage, conditions in Nelson, effect of earthquake on communications, land and forestry, relieving work at Nelson Post Office as telegraph cadet, acquaintanceship with Keith and Norma Holyoake, Motueka, transfering to Wellington radio in 1931, Depression in 1930s, work as radio operator in Chatham Islands 1930s, describes place, the post office and the radio station, the spark transmitter, death and funeral of Tommy Solomon, the Moriori, the racing club, life of the Chatham Islanders, fishing, background to becoming radio inspector in Nelson from 1936-1943, work as radio inspector at Nelson in World War II, duties, training radio operators for the Hudson bombers, work as Maori interpreter at the Chatham Islands from 1932-1936. Talks about work as senior radio inspector in Hamilton from 1943 to 1965, views on engineers, involvement in several Royal visits, reference to some notible Post Office events from 1930-1962, attitude of Head Office to his work, retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Hamilton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 60 Awatere Avenue, Hamilton Accompanying material - Copies of the following included in printed abstract: Jim McLaughlin's curriculum vitae, typed, two pages; various radiograms to Jim McLaughlin; article from the Waikato times, 24 Mar 1958 entitled 'American satellite heard in Hamilton; 'Powerful signals picked up from Soviet satellite', Waikato times, 14 October 1957; various other articles about the same subject; a letter from Alan Frame from the Old Timers' Club to Jim McLaughlin; editorial by Leo Simpson entitled 'So you think you're an engineer, mate!', Electronics Australia, August 1984. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001240 - OHC-001243 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 161. Search dates: 1908 - 1985

Date: 1982-1994

By: Wills Johnson, Te Mīria Kate, 1929-1995

Reference: OHColl-0526

Description: Interviews with a number of Chatham Islanders. Full names are not given on all the tapes but the collection includes interviews with Dave Holmes, Annie Kamo, Linda Remi, Pearl Hunt, Pirihira Daymond, Minnie Kamo, Ali Norris, Maui Pomare, Emmie Paynter, Maud Miratana and Ellen Whata. Interviewer(s) - Kate Wills Johnson Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 17 C90 cassette(s). 15 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Processing information: Original recordings: OHC-020087 to OHC-020107