AUDIO
Interview with Ellen O'Gorman
- Date
- 27 Jan 1986
- By
- O'Gorman, Ellen Catherine, 1891-1992
- Reference
- OHInt-0070/26
- Description
Ellen O'Gorman outlines family background, education, childhood at Addisons on West Coast of South Island, hotel as family business, appointment to Addisons Post Office as postmistress, need for accuracy in work, daily routine, telephone, mail routine, telegrams, salary, delivering telegrams, work as postmistress at Ngakawau Post Office in 1912, describes town, the Stockton mine, social life, salary, Ngakawau Telephone Exchange, daily routine, accidents at the mine, social life, lighting, security, pensions.
Describes move to Wellington in ca 1914, work as waitress at Trocadero Private Hotel, reasons for not continuing with post office work, marriage, post office as a career in retrospect, work with St Vincent de Paul Society.
Venue - Lower Hutt
Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr
Venue - 1A Tocker Street, Lower Hutt
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001255 - OHC-001256
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 163.
Search dates: 1891 - 1986
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLC-002785 - OHLC-002786
- 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
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 2 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Equipment used: Marantz Superscope Cassette Recorder ; SM58 Microphones.
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Interview with Ellen O'Gorman, printed abstract
Date: 27 Jan 1986
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHA-0163
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Ellen O'Gorman, tape one
Date: 27 Jan 1986
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-001255
Description: Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Ellen O'Gorman, tape two
Date: 27 Jan 1986
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-001256
Description: Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).