Interview with George Smith

Date
17 Dec 1985
By
Smith, George Henry Alexander Sidney, 1908-1987
Reference
OHInt-0070/22
Description

George Smith recalls his family background, childhood in Petone, effect on the family of the influenza epidemic of 1918, the Post Office Association Welfare Fund, smoking in the Post Office, duties as a lineman and chauffeur in Lower Hutt ca 1926, transferring to Rarimu during the Depression 1930s, work as message boy in Petone Post Office from 1923, interview for job, uniform, salary, deliveries, sorting, Ericsson telegraph equipment and procedures, delivery routes, work as junior lineman Lower Hutt 1926, methods of erecting poles, effects of Hutt River floods, the way the General Division was viewed by others.

Describes personalities, feelings about work, Tommy Dale the Wellsford policeman ca 1942, the town of Wellsford ca 1942, the effect of the Depression 1930s, ceremony of automatic cutover in Wellsford in 1964, role of overseer, geographical organisation in Wellsford - fault areas, effect of lineman work on health, faults and on call work, details of the Eureka Line Camp during the Depression 1930s.

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Venue - Auckland

Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe

Venue - 72 Port Albert Road, Wellsford

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001233 - OHC-001235

Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 164.

Search dates: 1908 - 1985

Additional description

Alternative form available: Digital copies of the recording and abstract are also available in the Library's Reading Room

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Access restrictions
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Part of
New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Format
3 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 3 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Equipment used: Sony TCD5M Cassette Recorder ; Neck microphones.
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Interview with George Smith, printed abstract

Date: 17 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

Reference: OHA-0164

Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).

Audio

Interview with George Smith, tape three

Date: 17 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

Reference: OHC-001235

Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).

Audio

Interview with George Smith, tape one

Date: 17 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

Reference: OHC-001233

Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).

Audio

Interview with George Smith, tape two

Date: 17 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

Reference: OHC-001234

Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).