Single parents

Date: 15 Feb 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Blair, Paul, active 1976-2018

Reference: OHInt-0662/08

Description: Paul Blair talks about his first involvement in the unemployment union and recalls Auckland University march against treatment of solo parents in 1976. Refers to Combined Beneficiaries Union (CBU) which was formed in 1979 and discusses concept of beneficiaries and unemployed having a union. Describes work for CBU. Talks about involvement with and structure of AUWU (Auckland Unemployed Workers Union). Mentions Syd Pilkington and Andy Aitkenhead. Refers to March Against Unemployment in 1988. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010375 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s) (side one). 1 printed abstract(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3521.

Date: 05 Apr 2001

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-; Women's Studies Association (N.Z.)

Reference: OHInt-0556-02

Description: Ellen Ellis was born in Westport in 1944. Describes family life, her father (a diplomat), and a family posting to Canada in 1949. Recalls returning to Wellington and secondary school. Talks about her mother's health and treatment. Mentions university study. Describes teacher training college, and work at Victoria University Library, Wellington. Discusses sexuality and relationships. Talks about working at Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Library School, working for Alister Taylor, and the challenges of being a sole parent in full time work. Talks about co-ordinating music for Harry Seresin's The Settlement restaurant, Willis St, Wellington. Talks about the development of her feminist consciousness. Comments on her mother's life. Discusses encounter groups, Bert Potter and Centrepoint. Discusses housing and discriminatory attitudes towards women. Mentions the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Describes Wilderland Commune, Coromandel, New Zealand. Talks about her involvement in the Hecate Women's Health Collective and alternative health groups in Wellington. Describes National Archives work, the feminist librarians' group, teaching on the Women's Studies course, involvement with Women's Studies Association, working as a research consultant, and researching Sandra Coney's book 'Standing in the sunshine'. Talks about TV documentary research on abortion, and various writing projects. Mentions researching Boer War concentration camps. Reflects on feminism in her life, in relationships, housework, emotional equity, and feminist gains. Mentions that child care is still a critical issue. Other - Note: Part of interview was lost. During the recording, a completed tape was reused to record the next part of the interview by mistake. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, photo, biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2650, OHDL-000999.

Date: 1976 - 1979

Reference: Eph-B-SOCIAL-1976/1979

Description: Includes: 1976: Association of Superannuation Funds of New Zealand Inc. [Circular letters dated 6 May, and 1 November 1976] (2 items) Council For the Single Mother & Her Child. Press release 22 July 1976 Men Against Sexism. The Sexist Press. Magazine available 20c each from 51 Browns Road, Christchurch 1. Arlington Community newsletter. Play area. Meeting 25 September at 10.30am outside the Community Room, Arlington Flats. Flyer Arlington Community newsletter, 1 December 1976. Yellow flyer Michael O'Neill. [Public letter to the Secretary of the Domestic Purposes Benefit Review Committee, 19 October 1976] 1977: You are invited to a seminar "Paid parenthood?". Auckland Trades Hall, Saturday 26 March 1977. (Speakers Kaye Green, Judy McDonald, Ivanica Vodanovich, Deirdre Milne, Shirley Andrews, Sandra Coney, Jim Woolnough). Pink flyer Newtown Community Centre. You are invited to come to a public meeting to elect a committee to run the Centre. Tuesday 29th March 1977. White flyer Overseas Development Committee. A note to delegates to the 1977 Labour Party Conference. 16 May 1977. Pink flyer Wellington Parents Centre. Annual report for year ending 31st December 1977 1978: A proposal to set up a community service trust for the Wellington region as a five year project; a discussion paper [ca 1978] A friend when you need one; the Public Service Welfare Society. Pamphlet (2 copies) 1979: Benefit cuts; demonstrate at Parliament Grounds this Thursday, December 20th between 11am - 2 pm. Beneficaries [sic] Union From October your money will go down if you live in a state house; less money means less food. If this makes you angry ring the Health Project on 76-135, or call into the Citizens' Advice Bureau to discuss what can be done to stop this happening [flyer being distributed in Porirua Shopping Centre, 11 September 1979 in conjunction with ontaining signatures on a petition] Public meeting, October 4th - 12 noon at Ngatitoa Lodge Hall, Porirua Town Centre. Speakers Margaret Nolan, Ken Douglas, Margaret Shields, David Keall, Alf Potaka, Carol Goodall. What is the International Alliance for Male Feminism? [1978]. White flyer Wellington Parents Centre. Circular letter, March 1978 Community Development Seminar. Fitchett Street Social Centre, 12 September [Palmerston North, 1979]. Flyer Wellington Volunteer Bureau Inc. Circular letter from Garth Baker, coordinator, 17 September 1979 List of Citizens Advice Bureaux at February 1979 Solo Parents NZ. [Two different yellow flyers] Barnardo. Barnardo gifts [one yellow and one white flyer] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed sheets and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

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: 29 Jan 1998

From: Citizens Advice Bureaux oral history project

By: Walker, Elsie, active 1960s-1998

Reference: OHInt-0443-15

Description: Elsie Walker backgrounds getting involved with the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), Whakatane in 1975 when she was appointed co-ordinator. Recalls being called VIC (Volunteers Information and Co-ordination Services) for some time before applying and being accredited as part of CAB (Citizens Advice Burreau) in 1981. Recalls helping mill workers and their families when many were made redundant from the mills. Describes the effects of the Edgecombe earthquake in 1987. Also discusses involvement with Maori Women's Welfare League; Civil Defence; Red Cross Society; Birth Right; Prisoners Aid Society; Budgetary Advisory Service; Solo Parents of New Zeland and helped with the establishment of Women's Refuge. Recalls getting award as a companion of the Queen's service order. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Fran O Keefe-Jones Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009645 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3135.

Date: 1980 - 1982

Reference: Eph-B-SOCIAL-1980/1982

Description: Includes: 1980s: Men For Non-Violence, Wellington Region. Man line telephone serive [Pink pamphlet 1980s] 1981: Diploma of Youth and Community Work. 8th course 1981-19812. Course information and curriculum. Sponsored by Ministry of Recreation and Sport, Council of Recreation and Sport, National Youth Council, National Council of YMCAs of NZ Families Need Fathers Society (N.Z.) Inc; a society for equal parental rights. Principles and aims. [Flyer] 1982: Christchurch Parents Centre. Children adjusting to school, and back home. Hagley House, Hagley High School, commencing 4 October [1982]. Flyer Christchurch Parents Centre. Children can be fun; management and discipline course. Hagley House, Hagley High School, commencing 13 September [1982]. Flyer Equal Parental Rights Society. In the new family courts, who gets custody of Jonathon? [Flyer] Family Rights Association (Newmarket, Auckland). The Family Charter [1982] Brooklyn Resource Centre. We are gathering together some of the resources of the people of Brooklyn. We would appreciate it if you would indicate below any ways in which you are able to help others in the community. Please fill in and return this list ... [1982] Care and craft. The Care and craft centre for the Disabled and Elderly will be holding a sales day at the Lighthouse Drop-In Centre, Main Road Karori, Thursday 21st october [1982]. Flyer Community centre For Youth, 2nd floor, Trojan House, Manners St, Wellington. [Flyer] Barnardo's New Zealand. Adoption advice service [1982?]. Flyer Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed sheets and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1986-1987

By: Opie, Anne (Dr), 1946-

Reference: OHColl-0153

Description: Extended interviews with people who had been separated at the time of interview for between 1 to 6 years and who were sharing responsibility for the care of their children as well as the parents' current partners. Interviewer(s) - Anne Opie Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-000268 - OHDL-000282 Tape numbers - OHC-001949 - OHC-002032 Quantity: 84 C60 cassette(s). 2 megabyte(s). 16 interview(s). 43 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: 23 Sep 1993

From: Slices of lives oral history project

By: Musella, Beverley, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-0407-03

Description: Beverley was born in Foxton. On leaving school at the age of 15, she started work with the Taxation Department in Palmerston North, later transferring to Wellington. She discusses various jobs, travel overseas and meeting her Italian husband. Talks about living in Italy and Belgium before moving to Perth where they ran a takeaway business. Describes returning to New Zealand, their marriage breakup and becoming a solo parent of three children. Describes in detail life as a single parent and her experiences as a woman on the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Reflects on societal pressure on women. Was President of the Solo Parents' Association which she describes. Reflects on her efforts to gain further education and training as a school teacher at Palmerston North. Abstracted by - Susan Hawes Awards/funding - Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - 118 Rangiora Avenue Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006811-006812 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1574 and OHA-1574a (Additional material). 1 photograph + 1 sheet of images

Date: 28 May 1994

From: National Council of Women: Narratives from a century - oral history project

By: Vidal, Catherine Mary, 1930-2007

Reference: OHInt-0387/27

Description: Catherine Mary Vidal (nee Hill) born Wellington. Outlines family background - father owned Hills Brick & Pipe Yards (Wellington), later became Murphys & Tonks. Recalls early memory of losing family home. Recalls difficult time mother had bringing up 4 children on her own during Depression. Describes Sisters of Mercy with reference to sister Joachim who was a brilliant violin teacher. Other topics discussed include: reasons for leaving school at the age of 14 years; Youth Movement at Church; being a debutante 1947; marrying Ian Lesley Gerald Vidal from Hawkes Bay - a founding member of the Catholic Tramping Club; involvement with Catholic Women's League and as a result was NCW delegate; Ecumenical Movement; Meals on Wheels; long association with St Mary's Old Girls; issues of NCW - abortion, Women's Forums in the late 1970s. Those mentioned include: May Spoor, Ngaire Adcock, Marilyn Waring, Jocelyn Fish, Fr Scully, Mother Gabriel and Sr Mary Winifred. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Marian Redwood Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006344-006346 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1464. One coloured photograph of Kitty Vidal taken March 1994

Date: 17 April 1988 - 17 Apr 1988

From: NZOHA Four Generation Oral History Project

By: Stoneman, Sharon Rhonda, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0236/4

Description: Sharon Rhonda Stoneman born Raetihi 1958. Explains Maori background. Recalls first day at school; adolescence; education; sport; religion; employment; childbirth and aspirations. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Putiki, Wanganui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002510-002511 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0440. Search dates: 1958 - 1988

Date: 24 July 1993 - 24 Jul 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Gilmore, Linda, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-0067/038

Description: Linda Gloria Gilmore born Auckland. Outlines family background - both parents teachers. Describes childhood and being educated at home by parents until Form II and then Manurewa High School. Describes time spent at hairdressing college and gives father's opinion of hairdressing. Talks about nursing training then leaving to have baby and later joining staff of Fletcher Timber. Describes working conditions. Met and married Maurie, a school teacher at Tairua and moved to Waihi. Describes: big flood at Waihi; organic horticulture; involvement with women and children's health issues; home birth issues - is an active member of Thames Valley Home Birth Association; La Leche League; Ohinemuri Earthwatch Group and is a representative on the Council's Waste Management Committee looking at Hauraki's future waste disposal. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005849A; OHV-0272A Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1256.

Date: 7 August 1993 - 07 Aug 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Fraser-Jones, Maryanne Cecelia, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0067/048

Description: Maryanne Cecelia Fraser-Jones born Tauranga. Moved to Waihi 1980. Outlines family background - grandfather was a bushman up the Waitawheta - father a miner. Describes lifestyle of grandparents and conditions under which grandmother had her children. Recalls leaving school at end of 5th form to go nursing. Refers to stigma of leaving pregnant before final examinations. Compares sex-education today to that era. Separated from husband. Talks about solo parenthood and attitudes then and now. Discusses mining and explains objection to some conditions in present Mining Act. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005856A; OHV-0278A Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1263.

Date: 12 Oct 1993

From: Slices of lives oral history project

By: van Duin, Diana, 1957-

Reference: OHInt-0407-08

Description: Born in Marton to Dutch parents who immigrated to New Zealand forty years ago. Recalls their difficulties on arriving in the country. Describes growing up with a Dutch lifestyle. Describes training as a psychiatric nurse at Tokanui Hospital followed by two years of overseas travel, including time spent in Holland. Recalls meeting her partner and having three children. Describes moving to Palmerston North as a single parent when the relationship broke down. Describes her involvement with the childrens' lives and activities including school and Kea scouts. Talks about the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and emergency help which is provided by Social Welfare. Abstracted by - Susan Hawes Awards/funding - Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - 11 Kaituna Street, Palmerston North Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006822 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1579. Search dates: 1957 - 1993

Date: 27 Jan 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Kirby, Lillian Jean, 1906-2009; McFarland, Paulette, active 1998

Reference: OHInt-0428/13

Description: Lillian Kirby was born in Gore in 1906. Describes her home, schooling, leaving school and being employed at H and J Smith's department store. Describes hours, wages, the various departments in the shop, staff social events, balls in Gore, her ball dress, and reasons for leaving the shop. Gives reasons for stopping work when she married. Talks about the main street in Gore and the shops. Recalls her wedding including the service, clothes and attitudes to engagements. Describes changes brought about by World War I and her impressions of the Depression in the 1930s and World War II. Describes the effect of the Prohibition on Gore. Comments on Mandeville being outside the area of Prohibition. Gives details of her grandparents, food eaten, their vegetable garden, their clothes, her relationship with her sister and celebrations. Describes married life, living arrangements, financial decisions, the death of her husband and help she had in raising her son. Describes her church life. Interviewer(s) - Paulette McFarland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2605.

Date: 28 Nov 1998

From: Neville Lambert Memorial oral archive

By: Birkin, Jean Margaret, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0585/05

Description: Jean Margaret Birkin born Dunedin 1939. Gives some family background - father a footwear manufacturer - mother, Doris Wheatley, a high school science teacher. Recalls schooling at Opoho for one year followed by St Hilda's Private School and Teachers' Training College. Outlines career as a teacher starting as PA (Probationary assistant) at North-East Valley and refers to prejudice encountered as a married woman with a baby and recalls being too frightened to take leave when child was sick. Recalls move to Bennedale near Te Kuiti, King Country, to infant mistress position and refers to multi-level teaching. Refers to Janet and John [books]. Discusses Myrtle Simpson's Reading Scheme and Orange Book Mathematics scheme. Mentions Sylvia Ashton Warner. Recalls move to Wellington with husband who was Educational Psychologist with Education Board, and J R McKenzie Scholar with Council for Educational Research, also move to England in April 1966, when he was awarded research scholarship at Birmingham. Talks about teaching position at Bellfield Junior School situated near Austin car works and Bourneville. Describes housing estate. Mentions Downing Ita Project which school participated in and explains phonetic symbols. In 1968 marriage broke up and returned to New Zealand with two small children and was appointed assistant teacher at Waikari School in Dunedin and in 1972 appointed to High Street School Dunedin as STJC (Senior Teacher of Junior classes). Mentions Dorothy Mann, Joyce Grant, Rosalie Hughes and Moyra Fleming. Talks about Open Plan teaching and Eric Programme (Early reading inservice course). Recalls appointment as principal to Caversham school. Mentions PICOT (Report) 1988 and Prime Minister Lange. Mentions Jack Shallcrass. Refers to ERO Reports. Recalls being a single income earner all of her life and feels that in many ways was ahead of her time in becoming a solo mother. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Jack Rutherford Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008896-008897; OHLC-004543-004544 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2762.

Date: 23 Jun 1998

From: Lower Hutt Women's Centre oral history project

By: Ellen, Vera, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0560/4

Description: In this interview Vera Ellen discusses involvement with the Women's Centre Lower Hutt through the National Council of Women to which she belonged. Describes what feminism means to her and talks about how important it is for women to have a sense of self worth and independence financially. Describes her role on the Women's Centre Board of Trustees and the way in which the Centre operates. Discusses the consensus model used by the Women's Centre and the way the volunteers work together. Refers to fundraising. Mentions the self-esteem courses. Mentions Marion Redwood from National Council of Women. Comments that through the Women's Centre she has become more aware of the kinds of lives that different women lead and more aware of the difficulties that solo parents have in bringing up children alone. Mentions workshop on Treaty of Waitangi and describes a group at the Women's Centre known as Growing Old Disgracefully. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Mathea Roorda Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009419 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3052.

Date: 5 Dec 1992 - 05 Dec 1992

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Lamb, Jim, active 1990-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/16

Description: Jim Lamb gives reasons for involvement in the unemployed movement. Refers to Jackie Amohanga. Talks about 1990 campaigns on unemployment issues eg. `crime to be poor'. Mentions Coalition Against Benefit Cuts, Christian Family Movement and Solo parents. Refers to Oct 24, 1991 rally initiated by the Communist Party. Discusses visit to the house of [Hon] Jenny Shipley and arrest of Tony Greer. Mentions chocolate fish protest. Discusses tensions between ARM and Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre (AUWRC) and debate over affiliation of ARM. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010384 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3529.

Date: 7-8 Feb 1992 - 07 Feb 1992

From: Mothers and daughters oral history project

By: Pendray, Gwitha, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0323/05

Description: Gwitha Pendray born Waipukurau 1925. Recalls a happy childhood, good attitude of parents, nursing training and circumstances leading to birth of daughter at St Mary's, Auckland. Refers to lack of contraceptives. Describes difficulties encountered trying to manage work while caring for daughter and recalls sending her as a boarder to Friends School Wanganui. Describes daughter's life and notes they became closer after daughter's marriage. Talks about attitudes towards mothers who stay at home to care for their children and notes they are as worthy of respect and admiration as the woman making a career, both requiring skill and concentration. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Alison Gray Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010339 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3500.

Date: 8 Feb 1992 - 08 Feb 1992

From: Mothers and daughters oral history project

By: Crawford, Louana, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0323/02

Description: Louana Crawford born St Mary's Hospital Auckland 1949. Recalls a happy childhood, going to Tonga aged two, returning aged ca six, longing to see mother again and going to boarding school. Talks about distance between mother and self while growing up and change in relationship once own children were born. Recalls early pregnancy, adoption of baby and life at Bethany in Auckland. Describes attitude towards adoption. Other topics include; becoming a Christian; involvement in community work; marriage and children; involvement with Parentline and COGS committee and similarities between mother's life and own life. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Alison Gray Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010333-010334 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3497.

Date: 1970 - 1975

Reference: Eph-B-SOCIAL-1970/1975

Description: Includes: 1970s?: The Love Shop. Come to the Love Shop, 90 Vivian Street. printed for Love by the Argonaut Printing Co., 154 Willis Street. 1970: New Zealand Government Superannuation Fund. Notes on admission to membership, payment of pensions, etc. L.16. 24 March 1970 1971: Napier City Council. A new service for Napier. The Napier City Council has appointed Mr Morris Buckley as City Welfare Officer. 1973: Napier City Council. If you have any worries or problems ... call at your Social Service Centre, Memorial Square, Napier [1973] 1974: Napier City Council. If you have any worries or problems ... call at your Social Service Centre, Memorial Square, Napier [1974] Association of Superannuation Funds of New Zealand Incorporated. Flyers dated 10 May (2 copies), 22 July, 10 September, 8 October, 18 October 1974 New Zealand State Services Commission. Social work: Social worker, Maori welfare officer, probation officer [Vocational guidance pamphlet] The People's Union for Survival and Freedom. Information Service. 15 Ponsonby Road. Number 4, June 1974 The People's Union, 154 Willis Street [1974]. Flyer 1975: Association of Superannuation Funds of New Zealand Incorporated. Circulars dated 30 July, 22 october, 30 October, 11 November 1975 NZ Mutual Funds approved pension fund for the self-employed. August 1975 Solo Parents (NZ) Inc. Wainui-o-Mata Branch. Flyer [September 1975] The People's Union, 225 Adelaide Road, Newtown. Information sheet 2 [1975] Combined State Service Organisations. Don't be hasty about your superannuation decision. February 1975 (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed sheets and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.