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Interview with Noel Mears
- Date
- 7 Oct 2006 - 07 Oct 2006
- By
- Mears, Walter Noel, 1926-
- Reference
- OHInt-0856-12
- Description
Interview with Noel Mears, born in Havelock in 1926. Talks about growing up in the Marlborough area, first at Ria Valley. Comments on having several jobs, marrying young, and his wife Dawn dying during childbirth. Refers to meeting his second wife Alice when she visited the whaling station. Talks about moving to Hastings when he left whaling, working at the freezing works for a time and later owning Hilton & Mears Monumental Masons.
Outlines getting a job at the Peranos' whaling station about 1950, operating a winch in his first season and then becoming a flenser. Discusses working conditions and the factory being upgraded each year. Talks about living with his wife's uncle Bernie Gardiner in an ex-army hut, and refers to parties with Ted, Tai, Dookie, Cairo and Ossie Huntley and others. Comments on harpooning sharks from a dingy.
Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut
Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016014
Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 52 Minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5776, OHDL-001409.
Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001410)
Search dates: 1926 - 2006
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Both printed and digital versions of the abstract are available
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright is held by Alexander Turnbull Library
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel
- Format
- 1 printed abstract(s), 1 C60 cassette(s), 2 Electronic document(s), 1 digital photograph(s), 1 interview(s), 52 Minutes Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Digital photographs, Illustration: Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001410)
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Interview with Noel Mears, printed abstract
Date: 7 Oct 2006
From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel
Reference: OHA-5776
Description: Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Includes colour portrait
Photograph of Noel Mears
From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel
Reference: OHDL-001410
Description: Photograph of Noel Mears taken by Loreen Brehaut in October 2005 Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Quantity: 1 digital photograph(s).
Interview with Noel Mears, digital abstract
Date: 7 Oct 2006
From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel
Reference: OHDL-001409
Description: Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Accompanied by a brief biographical document Quantity: 2 Electronic document(s).
Interview with Noel Mears, tape one
Date: 7 Oct 2006
From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel
Reference: OHC-016014
Description: Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).