Mater Misericordiae Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.)

Date: [1975-1976]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-04/08

Description: Outward correspondence relating to text of King's biography in progress and completed text. Letters to identifed persons entered under Name below. Also includes letters to Heeni, Bob re translation, Mrs Winiata, Mrs Thomas, Dr McDowall, Sir Henry [Kelleher?], Mr Ropiha, Mr Ihaka, Dr Meade, Dr Jones, Mr Metekingi, and the Cape Reinga lighthouse. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1923-1928

From: Janes, J (Mrs) : Panoramic photographs

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-535

Description: Photographer identified by comparison of inscription with other photographs in collection Arrangement: From unprocessed panoramas box 1 (2W106 unpr coll 190) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1982-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a large two-storeyed brick hospital building with a tiled roof. Gravel drive in the foreground. On the far left there is a gate with a label reading "Kiwi". Centre left on the lawn a statue of the Blessed Virgin faces the hospital. Herbaceous border on the near side of the drive, left and right, and there is a rockery border around the lawn in front of the building. A nun is leaning over the deep entrance porch flanked by two pillars, another balcony above. Fire escapes. Part of the building on the left is of a different design with arched windows, a decorative parapet and verandahs downstairs. Two cars are parked at the head of the drive on the far left of the buildings. Houses are visible amongst trees to the right of the hospital. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Mater Misericordiae Hospital. Mountain Road. Mt. Eden. Auckland. N.Z. No. 85 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.4 x 112.7 cm

Date: 27-30 August 2001 - 27 Aug 2001 - 30 Aug 2001

By: Lawler, Cicely Margaret, 1930-; West, Maureen Rosalind, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0637/1

Description: Cicely Margaret Lawler was born in Whitburn, County Durham, England in 1930. Talks about being a child of divorced parents, growing up with her father, an estate manager in Highcroft. Mentions being evacuated during World War II; rationing, and transport during the war. Mentions father's remarriage, her stepmother Dora, and stepbrothers. Mentions her mother Hilda, who worked in the ambulance service during the war. Mentions her sister dying of whooping cough. Talks about her education, her goal to become an obstetrician, and attending University of Durham Medical School. Talks about medical training and work as a house surgeon and registrar in the 1950's, working shifts of up to 36 hours. Mentions hospital lifestyle, parties, National Health Service, attitudes of male doctors to women. Describes the difficulties involved, as an English protestant, in marrying her Irish catholic husband, Derry Lawler, whom she met in 1956-7. Talks about resistance from family and the Catholic Church. Mentions difficulty with the instruction course on marriage to a catholic. Talks about working part-time as a polio vaccinator, describes feelings about giving up work to raise five children. Describes emigrating to New Zealand, by ship, while pregnant. Compares household appliances in England and New Zealand in the 1960's. Talks about her children, and her husband's career as an anaesthetist in Auckland. Describes having single mothers in her home, via an arrangement with Presbyterian Social Services; mentions Bethany Hospital. Talks about journeys back to England and Ireland, family visits, her mother-in-law, and what she misses about England. Mentions New Zealand's standard of living, attitudes to sport, politics, Maori, immigrants. Talks about friends, housekeeping and housework, her chronic back problem, feelings towards Catholic Church and influence of religion on her life. Mentions husband's illness and death. Talks about her voluntary work with Care and Craft group, and the Mater Hospital, since the 1970's. Interviewer(s) - Maureen West Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10827 - 10833 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3829. Search dates: 1939 - 1950 - 1945 - 2000

Date: 1973-1977

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 77-107-08

Description: Correspondence relating to research for Te Puea biography and thesis; identified correspondents entered under Name below. Also includes letters from Fraser; K [?] Allott, Grafton, Auckland; G G R [?] Browne, Te Awamutu; Brian, [?] Callin, Te Atatu, Auckland; Bill [?] Eaddy, Mt Maunaganui; inland postcard from Ngaruawahi; Jean, University of Waikato; letter, King to Bob [?] Mahuta. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts Finding Aids: List of correspondents in Back file.

Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0180-F

Description: Panoramic view of Auckland Harbour and City taken from Mater Misericordiae Hospital. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - "View of Auckland Harbour" from Mater Miseracordiae [sic] Hospital No.5." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.4 x 106.4 cm