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Interview with Jean Williams and Katharine Price

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Date

2 Feb 2003 - 02 Feb 2003

By

Williams, Jean Caradus, 1910-2007; Price, Katharine Margaret Huia, 1914-2009

Reference

OHInt-0783-17

Description

A joint oral history interview with friends Jean Williams and Katharine Price. Jean Williams was born 1910 in Richmond, Nelson. Katharine Price was born 1914 in Merivale, Christchurch. Talk about their childhoods. Describe their nursing careers and the role that bicycling had in their lives. Katharine refers to bicycling to the St Helen's Maternity Hospital to collect surplus milk for the children's ward at the Christchurch Hospital. Jean refers to how the small wage of nursing made bicycling the most economic way to travel. Talks about the bicycles women would ride and the clothing they wore. Refer to the dress reform of women cyclists and mention Diana Durbin and Amelia Bloomers. Recall various cycling trips and tours in the Canterbury region. Jean mentions a South Island tour with her sister Mabel during the war in the early 1940s. Discusses experiences of nursing during World War II in New Zealand. Jean recalls working in a medical unit, petrol restrictions, rations, army bases and United States officers in Christchurch. Katharine recalls sightings of Japanese submarines in the Cook Strait, working on hospital ships in Aotea Quay and the United States officers in Wellington. Discusses reasons for giving up cycling. Jean mentions that she gave up when she had children. Katharine mentions she stopped when she became frightened of the increased cars on the road and had an accident 15 years ago.

Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett

Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4165.

Colour photograph of Katharine Price and Jean Williams

Search dates: 1910 - 2003

Additional description

Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.

Alternative form available: Printed and digital versions of the abstract available

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Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright held Alexander Turnbull Library

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Part of

Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

Format

2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Colour photograph of Katharine Price and Jean Williams

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