AUDIO
Interview with Charles Barr
- Date
- 03 Dec 1984
- By
- Barr, Charles William Mayo, 1893-1988
- Reference
- OHInt-0070/02
- Description
Charles Barr describes in detail family background, father's cartage business, childhood in Christchurch in the 1890s and 1900s, including clothing worn. Recalls education and mentions classmate Sid Holland. Describes first employment at a tobacconist shop, then employment at the Post Office and work as a message boy, wages, conditions, uniforms. Mentions nickname was Sandow. Details work in the Telegraph Operating Room, discusses the importance of telegrams.
Recalls the Telegraph Training School at Oamaru, and discusses the personality, stresses, requirements of the ideal telegraphist, social life. Describes his service in World War I in the ANZAC Wireless Troop, serving in India, Iran, and France. Talks about conditions of service. Recalls career after the war in the Telegram Delivery Branch, Christchurch, changes in telegram delivery, growing employment of women in both Post Office and Telegraph Branch, the Post and Telegraph Association (later the Post Office Union), Post Office administration and attitude to staff, his later employment as Rehabilitation Officer for the Post Office.
Venue - Christchurch
Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe
Venue - Claremont Avenue, Christchurch
Accompanying material - Four pages of handwritten biographical notes and a newspaper article obituary on Mr Rupert Thomas Wood of Rotorua attached to the printed abstract
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000746 - OHC-000749A
Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-110.
Search dates: 1893 - 1984
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Listening copies available OHLC-000545 - OHLC-000548
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the written permission of the donor and the interviewee Copyright: Held by the donor
- Access restrictions
- Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Access requires written permission of the donor
- Part of
- New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
- Format
- 4 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Equipment used: Marantz Superscope recorder ; Shure microphones
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Copyright
All Rights ReservedInterview with Charles Barr, printed abstract
Date: 3 Dec 1984
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHA-0110
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Charles Barr, tape three
Date: 3 Dec 1984 - 03 Dec 1984
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-000748
Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 4 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Charles Barr, tape four (side one)
Date: 3 Dec 1984 - 03 Dec 1984
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-000749A
Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 4 of 4 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Charles Barr, tape one
Date: 3 Dec 1984 - 03 Dec 1984
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-000746
Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 4 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Charles Barr, tape two
Date: 3 Dec 1984 - 03 Dec 1984
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-000747
Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 4 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).