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Date: [1877-1917], nd

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-120

Description: Includes letter from Rev F W Martin re prayer and Hawke's Bay matters and from Major Gerald B Carter with MEF writing from the Dardanelles; and letters from Jessie; WBP of London; part of letter written from `Thorthowald', Napier; and part of one from South Makaretu re fires causing major problems for bush settlers. An undated letter written from Crail has attached a dance programme card for Meta Johnston, Okawa (6 Oct 1905). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1859-1861 (1939)

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: MS-1717

Description: She describes the voyage out on the Eclipse, 1858-1859, and her first impressions of New Plymouth and its inhabitants. Her comments on colonial society are detailed and perceptive Maria came to New Zealand in 1859 on the Eclipse as governess to the family of the Rev H H Brown, a clergyman at Omata, New Plymouth. In 1860 she was evacuated to nelson, and shortly afterwards dismissed from the Brown's service. Unable to pay her fare back to England, she reluctantly worked as governess to Lulu Eyes, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the province. Maria stayed with the Eyes family at Wairau for one year, She returned to England, having decided that the shortage of artistic talent together with the burden of domestic work was not to her liking Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 15 Jan 1982

From: NZOHA Martinborough Project

By: Boyd, Joan Rachel, 1911-1985

Reference: OHInt-0005/03

Description: Interview outlines family background - father's family from Belfast - mother's from Leicestershire. Father, Adam Wright, came to New Zealand aged 16 years and became a hairdresser in Greytown before moving to Martinborough ca 1898. Recalls circumstances which resulted in mother getting double pneumonia and dying in 1917. Describes some of the 25 housekeepers employed by father over the years. Topics discussed include: impact of electricity; childhood; relationships with other adults; domestic arrangements; discipline; religion; education which included boarding school, with reference to Sr Mary Dorothy at St Mary's, Wellington and later, Solway College; sex education; fishing trips and picnics with father in the model T Ford; paintings, possibly a `Goldie' owned by father; music, with reference to Miss Ottaway; hair fashions and hairdressing equipment; politics, with reference to A D McLeod (Reform); contact with Maori, refers to Patramoor family. Mentions a local identity, Pedlar Palmer. Describes the social groupings: the farming group; middle (working) class and `the others'. Refers to the old settlers; Martin, Sutherland and Cameron families. Describes husband, Terry Boyd and his strong affiliations with the Fire Brigade becoming a `fire chief' after 25 years. Refers to Sid Ussher (Mayor) and Fire Chief, Mr Duffy. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Martinborough Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Martinborough Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0610-OHT5-0614 Quantity: 6 5" reel(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0003. One photograph of Mrs Joan Boyd Search dates: 1982

Date: 24, 26, 30 November 1992; 2, 5, 19, 26 April 1993; 24, 31 May 1993 - 24 Nov 1992 - 31 May 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Cunninghame, Rose, active 1992; Richmond, Irene Dorsett, 1909-1996

Reference: OHInt-0148/23

Description: Mrs Irene Richmond was brought up and went to school in North East Valley, Dunedin. First jobs as hat check girl, usherette, and with dressmaker; later as waitress in restaurants, hotels and boarding houses in Dunedin and Wellington. In Dunedin with husband living on dole during Depression, experienced health system when her new-born baby died. Then lived in poverty at Earnscleugh orchard where had a gold claim. The marriage failed, after which supported herself by waitressing in Napier, Auckland and South Island centres. In later life lived in Dunedin, nursing ailing parents and made second marriage. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Rose Cunninghame Venue - Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018508-018519; OHLC-00947-009958 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 transcript(s) partial. 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6419 and OHDL-000757. Photograph of Irene as a young woman; Irene in 1993.

Date: 25 April 1994; 3, 9, 25 May 1994 - 25 Apr 1994 - 25 May 1994

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clouston, Denise, active 1994; Sinnamon, Gladys Margaret, 1913-2013

Reference: OHInt-0148/26

Description: Gladys Sinnamon (nee Mee) was born and grew up in the close knit rural community of Becks, Central Otago. Her parents were publicans - they owned the Becks Hotel - and farmers. All the family assisted with running the hotel. After one year at secondary school in Dunedin, Gladys returned home. Although she wanted to train as a nurse she was needed at home to assist with running the hotel which she did until she married local farmer William Sinnamon in 1936. Once married Gladys shifted with her husband to Poolburn where they farmed for many years and raised two children. Music had been one of Gladys' great interests - she played the piano for many years in a band and the church organ which she still plays on occasion. She also had a long association with the Women's Division and is a Life Member. Though they have retired from farming Gladys and her husband continue to live in the house they moved to when married. Gladys contines to be involved in the local community and has in recent years taken up bowls. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Oturehua Interviewer(s) - Denise Clouston Venue - Oturehua Accompanying material - Newspaper article "Historical society hard at work on old Becks Hotel". Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018595-018598; OHLC-010034-010037 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6437 and OHDL-00759. Photographs of Gladys aged nine with sisters; Gladys and son playing for a dance; Gladys in 1993.

Date: 6, 11, 15 November 1992 - 06 Nov 1992 - 15 Nov 1992

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: How-Johns, Noreen, active 1993; Lawrence, Mary Jane, 1902-2002

Reference: OHInt-0148/18

Description: Mrs Jane Lawrence, daughter of Henry Clyde Parcell and Mary Abigail nee Crow. Father was a goldminer and carrier. Jane had four brothers and three sisters. Educated at Bannockburn Primary School. Left school at 12 years. Worked a housemaid. Married Edward Lawrence on 27 June 1923. Lived at Bannockburn. Raised three daughters. Spoke mainly about her childhood and married life in Bannockburn. Jane now lives at Ripponburn Home, Cromwell. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Cromwell Interviewer(s) - Noreen How-Johns Venue - Cromwell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018540-018542; OHLC-009979-009981 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6423 and OHDL-000752. Photographs of childhood home; Jane Lawrence in 1992; Ted & Jane's home; interiors of childhood home (Parcell family)

Date: 18 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Leckey, Richard Edward, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0562/07

Description: Richard Leckey was born in Gazaiabad in 1937. Explains that his father worked for the railways, talks about his transfers and recalls memories of Kotri, railway houses and servants. Mentions his brothers and step-sisters, his own schooling at Lawrence College. Recalls his experiences of partition. Talks of his sister living in New Zealand, followed by the rest of the family, and his father's money in India. Talks of his carpentry apprenticeship in Auckland and describes his various jobs with hydro schemes. Mentions his wife's work on a psychiatric ward, his work in the same hospital and at a freezing works. Mentions his returned serviceman's loan, wanting to buy land. Talks of Maori associations, his genealogy, the SAS in New Zealand and why he left it. Explains the changes in his religions and mentions Indian religions. Talks of his family in Australia, Pakistan and England, school uniform, western clothes, mealtimes and games played and mixing with Muslim children. Mentions club membership and cultural differences. Talks of his drinking habit, settling in New Zealand and outlines the differences in lifestyle. Talks about his property in Karamea, and interest in forestry, his carpentry and building. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008512, OHC-008513 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2645.

Date: 21 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hewett, Neale Brind Stuart, 1906-2005

Reference: OHInt-0562/01

Description: Neale Hewett talks about his birth in Burma in 1906. Mentions that many generations of his father and mother's side of the family served in the military in India. Details great grandfather's service and the family tradition. Describes himself and his father as Cape Horners. Mentions Dartmouth and Royal Navy. Talks about father's service in Burma and describes the influences of the King and Queen on their subjects. Details being sent to a home in Cheltenham, England at 4 years of age and school in Eastbourne until 13 holidays included, and not recognising his parents. Describes growing up without parents. Describes attending Pangbourne College aged 12, the Royal Naval Reserves and outlines his work including HMS Winchelsea testing poison gas. Outlines voyages with P&O to obtain his 2nd mate's ticket, enters the Royal Indian Marines. Describes the relief given at the 1923 Japanese earthquake.Talks about moving from ship to ship, having royalty as passengers, later surveying the coastline of India on the Investigator. Describes copying charts during the monsoon season. Talks about the closure of the Indian Navy and finding work with Bombay Burma Trading Company while continuing as a reserve officer with the Frontier Force Cavalry. At the outbreak of war describes re-entering the Navy. Describes his jobs and escorting the First NZ Echelon: taking a gunnery course, wanting to return to sea but having to train gunners. Describes the situation at the changeover in 1947 and gives reasons for retiring from the navy and leaving India. Talks about his parents, wife and children and his father wanting to retire to New Zealand. Mentions living in Australia with his children. Gives reason for moving to New Zealand, applying for citizenship, discovering that his father was a New Zealander and his mother's family were here also. Talks about his employment in commercial fishing and NZ Forest Products.. Relates his United Nations job in 1950's in various countries, describes the way he organised his work and staff. Describes the changes when a political element joined the UN, and his resignation. Compares the African independence with that of India. Describes wartime atrocities by the Japanese. Talks about his nationality and religion, and as it was in India. Talks about his accomodation, furnishings and places he called home, his servants who travelled with him, the meals, lifestyle and languages spoken. Relates meeting his wife, Thecla Edana Davis, and describes her background. Talks about his children's schools and education and family health. Mentions snake encounters. Details the clubs they belonged to in India, multiculturism and integration of races, talks of Anglo-Indians. Talks of partition. Mentions his impressions on his return to India. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Includes 2 leaves of notes about conversations held with Neale Hewett. One clarifies various subjects and the second conversation was over lunch with a neighbour. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008510, OHA-008511 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2644.

Date: 21 Feb 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Barlow, Wilfred Ainslie, 1929-2004

Reference: OHInt-0562/02

Description: Wilfred Ainslie Barlow, known as Bill, was born in Calcutta on 24.10.1929, an only child. Talks about Indian, British and New Zealand passports and arrival in New Zealand, October 1971. Mentions grandfathers. Talks of father's job in Licence Measures Dept. in shipping, while mother was a stenographer. Grew up with servants, brought up by friend with three children. Talks of father, a catholic until he became a Freemason, and mother was Anglican. Mentions that he was not compelled to go to church, but attended Victoria School, Kurseong, which was Anglican with other denominations present. Talks of uniform, religions and standard of education, attaining Senior Cambridge. Describes being an apprentice engineer and training opportunities, also the five years as an A Grade apprentice in Kharagpur with mainly Anglo-Indians, then going to sea. Discusses the loyalties of Anglo-Indians. Talks about his parents' families in India, his parents' illnesses and early deaths and the whereabouts of the friend which brought him up. Talks of rented accommodation in Calcutta. Describes other Anglo-Indian communities, jobs and social life. Describes railway employee socials, dances and sports. Describes the family's accommodation, mentions western style clothing. Talks about childhood fun, food and related customs, languages including Hindi, Telagu. Mentions his accommodation and bearer. Talks about gaining his engineering ticket in England on completion of his apprenticeship, then working as a junior engineer in shipping. Describes tenants in his accommodation, the loss of his possessions. Mentions meeting his UK wife, his friends who left India and attitudes of Indians. Talks of the book 'Bhowani Junction' portraying Anglo-Indians and how they treated women. Talks of Raj wives and orphanages, club membership, class distinction and differences in races. Describes Calcutta at the time of partition. Mentions his jobs with freighters and applying to emigrate to New Zealand with his family. Talks of job with Union Steamship Co.and conditions. Gives reasons for going to Auckland and Lyttelton. Mentions conditions in India when he returned, settling in other countries, the colour issue and people's attitudes to Anglo-Indians. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008501, OHC-008502 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2639.

Date: 23 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Dever, Jeanne-Marie Thecla, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0562/04

Description: Jeanne Dever was born in 1933 in Bangalore, the daughter of Neale Hewett. Talks of boarding schools attended in India and England. Describes her reaction to the lack of privacy at these schools and her attitudes to learning. Talks of servants, her social life in clubs and the inability to take her Parsee friends to them. Details her family in India and talks of holiday activities in Karachi. Mentions beggars and caste differences. Talks of her clothing, mealtimes and the discipline meted out by mother. Talks of her father's attitude to partition. Mentions being engaged and living in Australia and Tasmania. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Brief notes taken before and after the recording Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008505 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2641.

Date: 17 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hart, Renee Sylvia, 1919-

Reference: OHint-0562/06

Description: Renee Hart was born in Worthing, Sussex, England on 20 June 1919. Mentions her passports, her attitude to her nationality and the postings of her father's regiment. Talks of her parents' marriage and children. Describes her father's move to India as a bandsman and how the family travelled there. Describes the band's musical commitments. Talks of her father's change from playing brass to stringed instruments and piano. Mentions the governors of various regions in India. Relates the details of the family's return to England and their subsequent return to India. Talks of her mother's occupation in hairdressing, her sister's role in the business and her own training, the techniques used at the time, their Indian customers with reference to privacy for various races. Mentions social life in the hills and teaching dancing with her sisters. Mentions her family's religion and censoring the forces' mail in wartime. Talks of her husband's family connections with India, their meeting and living in India. Describes sports clubs, social clubs and membership, relationships, modes of transport. Explains what their accommodation was like, mentions bathrooms and toilets at home and at boarding school. Mentions servants. Talks about her children, her parents and siblings settling in New Zealand. Describes her father's work and pension husband's job situation. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral Histroy Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008508, OHC-008509 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2643.

Date: 24 Apr 2001 - 10 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: MacLeod, Beryl Aida, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0562/08

Description: Beryl MacLeod was born in Calcutta in 1923. Talks of her arrival in New Zealand, her husband's family home in Glasgow, and buying, as opposed to renting, their first home. Mentions that her parents were English and talks about their move to India in 1921. Describes her father's job as bandsman and musician, the instruments he played, his WWI service in France later in Egypt, his retirement and move to New Zealand in 1950. Relates her schooling in India, her secreterial and hairdressing jobs. Talks about the mother's hairdressing equipment and business. Mentions her father giving violin lessons in schools. Describes their accommodation, the servants and their routines. Describes meeting her husband, her sisters' dancing school and performances. Talks of religion, boarding school life and gives reasons for her move to Shillong with her mother. Describes the situation at the time of partition and relationships of Anglo-Indian women with European men. Describes social life of Burma Shell employees, club membership and social distinction. Recalls her children's time at boarding school in Scotland, working for Shell Oil, her return to Scotland then New Zealand. Describes her theatrical performances, Meals on Wheels and driving for the Foundation for the Blind. Recalls a visit to India, compares life there and the way it was when they lived there. Awards/funding - Project recieved an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008514, OHC-008515 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2646.

Date: 25 Apr 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Mendonca, Anthony Kenneth, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0562/09

Description: Anthony Mendonca was born in Karachi in 1934. Talks of his relatives living in India from the late 19th century until World War II and mentions marriages to British soldiers, several of whom later became prisoners of war. Talks of his father's wartime work, recalls food rationing and curfew. Mentions his twelve brothers and sisters and their education at a catholic school, the size of their house and compares other similarly sized familes with his. Talks of his work, on leaving school, as a civilian in the Air Force and land-based work with a steamship company. Mentions trade problems and exploitation of the East. Relates his move to England and the overseas currency situation. Describes his impressions of life in England, finding work, his accommodation and studying engineering at evening class. Recalls his blind date, marrying, having children and moving to New Zealand. Recalls his jobs, passports, religions and the Goan community. Talks of accommodation and servants, food and mealtimes, clubs, languages and treatment of races. Describes partition and the situation following it. Mentions social standards of behaviour and inheritance of property. Relates his children's lives, his son's army experiences, his use of languages and knighthood. Mentions his daughter's work experiences. Talks of his attitude and visits to England and Pakistan, his nationality, the procedure of obtaining New Zealand citizenship. Explains property inheritance and ownership, the financial situation of his family. Awards/funding - project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008316 - OHC-008319 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2647.

Date: 1852-1855

By: Rose, Louisa George, 1820-

Reference: MS-Papers-2314

Description: In these four letters to her sister, Constance Smith, Louisa described her new home, the shortage of servants, the prospects for bringing up and educating children successfully in the colony, and social life in Christchurch. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - "Poaching song", "Traits of French character" (a poem), and brief notes on dates of birth of members of the Rose family (none apparently written by Louisa Rose) Louisa George Rose and her husband, Conway Lucas Rose, arrived in Canterbury on the "Midlothian" on 8 Oct 1851. They came to the colony with the intention of staying ten years but left after only three years. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 letters, 31 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1892

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-5-023

Description: At the top, two separate pencil drawings. On the left, a short stout woman holding a broom, possibly the Hodgkins' family servant 'Phemie' (Euphemia). On the right, a stout casually dressed working man. Below, in ink, a bowling match with a man cheering as a bowl runs down the green, another man in a top hat seated on the side, watching the game. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil or ink on laid paper glued into sketchbook, page size 244 x 123 mm.

Date: Apr 1867

By: Hunter, Mary Ann, active 1867

Reference: MS-Papers-1279

Description: Letter from Mary Hunter to Mr Johnson, Henshaw, Yorkshire, from Remuera describing life in Auckland, conditions and pay as servant; and Maori dress and way of life; Volkner murder Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (some photocopies)

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 9 Jan - 3 Feb 1984 - 09 Jan 1984 - 03 Feb 1984

From: NZOHA Isabella Margaret Renner Project

By: Renner, Isabella Margaret, 1897-1984

Reference: OHInt-0018/1

Description: Isabella Margaret Renner talks about family background and early life: origin of her christian name; personalities of parents; father as entertainer. Remembers first house she lived in; parents' hotel in Johnsonville. Recalls childhood on the farm in Ruahine District; mother's chores; childhood chores; toilet facilities; lack of conveniences. Touches on food; alcohol; health; medicines; discipline; birthdays; picnics. Mentions one-room school (Kairiwhariwha ? Kaiwharawhara ?), teachers, Mr Hayden, Mr Scotland or Scotney, Mr McNeill; holidays, transport. Discusses death of father and brother in 1916. Describes reading, religion, parents' politics; reference to Bob Semple and Harry Holland; the Railway Hotel, Johnsonville, owned by parents; local personalities: the Fisher family, Mr Collins - local policeman; hotel staff; parents' drinking habits; effect of the 1909 prohibition on parents; family life after prohibition; childhood leisure; children played with: Rene Allen (?), Elsie Myers (?); contact with Maori; living next to railway; hobbies; parents' visitors: Mrs Calligan (?), Mrs Greener from Wanganui, Mrs Temperly (?) from Rangiwahia and Mrs Stokes; parties and social life. Discusses social classes at time of World War I; anti-German feeling; Johnsonville School: headmaster Mr Bethune, Miss Baker, Miss Evans; respect for teachers; sex education; early employment on leaving school at thirteen; work as a domestic; working for the Tripe family as a domestic: having honesty tested, hours and types of work, the Tripe family's new house in Bolton Street; reference to members of Tripe household: Mrs Mitford, Dudley Tripe, Dr Borridale (?) Tripe, Jo Tripe, Will Tripe; entertainment during teenage years. Recalls the war years (World War I); effects on family; joining the Labour Party in 1916; meeting her future husband, George Renner. Talks about the Influenza Epidemic of 1918: symptoms, deaths and funerals, source. Discusses the New Zealand Labour Party; origins; formation; early Labour MPs, David McLaren (?), Mr Hindmarsh and Mr Robinson; meetings; contact with trade union leaders, Jim Roberts, Mr Webber from America, Mr Reddy (?) Provides source of the Party's ideas, ideals and intentions. Mentions the International Peace League (women's branch of the Labour Party); an address by Delia Pankhurst. Recalls Walter Nash, Peter Fraser and Harry Holland; the jailing of Peter Fraser, Jimmy Thorn, Harry Holland and Tom Brindle; speeches against military patriotism, conscientious objection; visiting Peter Fraser in jail, describes him. Gives opinion of the Massey Government; reference to Bill Massey, Joseph Ward, Gordon Coates; taxation; conscientious objectors such as Ballantyne brothers and Baxter Brothers; distributing party leaflets; the 'Maoriland Worker' and 'The Standard'; the effect of the Russian Revolution on attracting support; marriage to George Renner; George's employment; slow progress of the Labour Party in attracting support in the 1920s; commitment to the party by members; the effect of the Depression (1929) on the party; feelings about Walter Nash; reference to Michael Joseph Savage; feelings about John A Lee, his sacking; reference to W Lee Martin, H G R Mason, Peter Fraser, Arnold Nordmeyer, Norman Kirk, Bill (Wallace) Rowling, David Lange; compares more recent Labour leaders with early leaders; the change in Labour Party policy; Labour bringing in conscription in World War II. Recalls party meetings; early party leaders from England and Australia; reference to D G Sullivan; Bob Semple as a orator; the responsibilities of the party workers; fund raising; the 1935 election; the 1925 election; future of the Labour Party; summary of personal details; greatest influence on life; current health; most satisfying period of life. Accompanying material - Copy of newspaper photograph and caption, 'Narnia's downward slide', Evening Post, 14 Jun 1984 Venue - Lower Hutt Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Strand Home, Wesleyhaven, Naenae, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000895 - OHC-000901 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 130.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] F. Hodgkins. 1890

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-425-q-007

Description: The Hodgkins' maid Phemie, washing clothes in a large tub Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 176 x 114 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] F. Hodgkins. 1890

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-425-q-006

Description: The Hodgkins' maid Phemie, pegging out clothes Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - "Phemie" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 176 x 114 mm