Association of Presbyterian Women (N.Z.)

Date: 1881-1995

By: St. James Presbyterian Church (Newtown, Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-2219

Description: Includes: Establishment Committee minutes, 1881-1883, 1883-1888; Session minutes, 1882-1896, 1896-1911; Deacons' Court minutes, 1892-1898; papers including Deacons' Court reports, Managers' reports, building specifications, financial records and correspondence, 1881-1898; printed annual reports, 1897-1941. Communicants registers and attendance books, 1946-1990; Session minutes and related papers, 1962-1995 and papers relating to the Association of Presbyterian Women, including minutes, membership lists, annual reports and financial statements, 1941-1990 Relationship complexity - St James's Church (Newtown) marriages for Mar 1885-Oct 1886 (officiating minister Rev J Kennedy Elliott) are in register (MSY-0907) with Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church marriages 1886-1889. Quantity: 99 folder(s). 8 volume(s). 1 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - St James Church Session, 1929 (PAColl-10308) - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans of proposed alterations to church.

Date: 21, 27 August 1998 - 21 Aug 1998 - 27 Aug 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Dyer, Norma Joyce France, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0441-03

Description: Norma Joyce France Dyer born Dunedin. Outlines family background - paternal grand-mother, Betsy Munroe from Inverness, Scotland. Father, Frederick James Dyer worked mostly at Lanes Ltd. Recalls childhood in Dunedin; Auntie Betty who worked in H & J Smith's in Gore; father's attitude to discipline; outbreak of poliomyelitis; Otago Girls High School, with reference to teachers, Miss King (Headmistress), Miss May (English), Miss Lowden ? (French), Flo Campbell (English) and Miss Rosevaar (Science); importance of Sunday School, with reference to teachers and superintendents, Miss Sanderson, Mrs Moody, Mr Rankin Harper, Mr Kirby, and Lily Stephens; play activites which included Circloss? Hopscotch, marbles, netball and cricket; Busy Bees; socials, without dancing and bible class camp. Mentions Mr Stevely, Les Monner?, Charles and Margaret Bowie, Bruce Guthrie and Frank Cowan. Discusses career with Firestone Tyre Company which included six months in their London Office. Refers to travelling on the cargo ship `Fort Jackson' in 1949. Recalls involvement with First Church, commencing in 1930 at the age of 14, and being ordained an elder thirty years later (1967). Refers to Pat Thorn who was also on the Session. Notes that women have much more input into church affairs now. Talks about the Pacific Island group - Samoans and Cook Islanders and their involvement in First Church. Recalls Moray Place Congregational Church joining in 1967 and St Andrews Presbyterian Church combining in the late 1970s, bringing with them their traditions and memories of Rutherford Waddel who helped found organisations, including the Tailoresses' Union and the Kindergarten Society. Mentions Lloyd Geering's book and visit of Toi Hiko Kagawa. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Joanne Aitken Interviewer(s) - Dorothy Leffly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007712-007713 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2026. Photocopies of 2 b&w photographs: (i) [Joyce Dyer] with student friends 1997. Dunedin Botanical Gardens; (ii) ca 1992, Margaret, Lorna, Joyce and Frederick Dyer. Search dates: 1916 - 1998

Date: 19, 30 Nov 1998 - 19 Nov 1998 - 30 Nov 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Leffly, Dorothy, 1921-2009

Reference: OHInt-0441-07

Description: Dorothy Leffly (nee McNight) born in Aspatria in West Cumberland. Came to New Zealand with parents ca 1927. Outlins family background - father joined the Third Dragoon Guards of the regular army during First World War. Recalls coming to New Zealand on the ship `Corinthic' and travelling on Maori ferry to Lyttelton. Refers to sponsors, the Telford family who lived in Smith Street. Other childhood recollections include: Methodist Sunday School in Moray Place; Plymouth Brethren Revivalist meetings; big flood in Castle Street (1929); attending Congregational Church in King Street; Albany Street Primary School, with reference to friend, Agnes Brown; Union Street school, with reference to Miss Purches, Clem Hill and Mr Alloo; life in Ravensbourne and transition moving into Dunedin; Depression; Red Cross group; Bible class, and years at Otago Girls High School. Recalls outbreak of World War II while at Teachers' Training College and describes father's reaction and mother's contribution as a member of Ladies Association, knitting and sending parcels. Recalls that up until World War II women didn't work after marriage and explains how this changed. Outlines teaching experience at various schools. Describes reaction to husband's diagnosis of tuberculosis and gives details of the `cure' for TB. Discusses involvement with First Church Moray Place, with reference to Samoan and Cook Island sectors of the congregation; congregation's reaction to Lloyd Gammon as new minister; involvement with the Fellowship of Congregational women and compares with Association of Presbyterian women; Cameron Centre; APW (Association of Presbyterian Women; PWMU (Presbyterian Womens Missionary Union); refugee resettlement campaign; Freewill Offering; change in women's voice; Federation of University Women, with reference to Dame Daphne Purvis. Mentions: Denzil and Marget Brown; Clive Pearson; Ian Cairns; Lloyd Gammon; Dennis Povey; Syd Smale; Evan Sherrard; May and Florence Struthers; Isobel Allan; Joyce Dyer; Pat Thorn; Patsy Bonsor; Sister Josie and Jean Lion, with reference to the Mission Birthday Gift. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Joanne Aitken Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007722-007725 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2030. Search dates: 1921 - 1998

Date: 14, 15 Dec 1998 - 14 Dec 1998 - 15 Dec 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Lion, Jean McCaw, 1921-2004

Reference: OHInt-0441-10

Description: Jean McCaw Lion (nee Murray) born Lovell's Flat. Outlines family background - brother, Robert, was ordained for Church Ministry in Central Otago 1937 and brother, John Donald, a lawyer, was secretary to the Board of Enquiry into the Tangiwhai Rail Disaster 1954. Recalls: school, church and Sunday School. Mentions Mrs Carruthers who had been a missionary in the New Hebrides. Recalls being manpowered into Production records office at Woollen Mills during World War II and recalls that brother, John, was on the `Rangitani' which was hit by a German Raider. Discusses involvement with St Andrews Church Dunedin. Mentions Ronald Watson, Rev J S Murray and Lawrence Bibby. Talks about Girls Auxiliary; Women's Fellowship; PWMU (Presbyterian Womens Missionary Union); Older Citizens Welfare rooms; Ross Home; National Council of Women; Presbyterian Social Services Association; fairs and garden parties; Bible School hall; Busy Bees; Kingston Sunday School and Association of Presbyterian Women. People mentioned include: Mrs Eva Watson; William Keith; Irene Thew; Helen and Gwenda Wilson; Marjorie Colvin; Geoff Laing; Adelaide McLean; Mrs Peggy Salmond; Gwen, Paul and Ailsa Hannah; Dawn Ibbotson; Dorothy McMahon; Marget Brown; Dr Rutherford Waddel and Sister Christobel Duncan. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Joanne Aitken Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007731-007732 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2033. Three photocopies of b&w photographs: (i) Alan Wiloughby marries Jean McCaw Murray, 20 October 1945; (ii) [Alan and Jean Lion] Outside daughter Margaret Lion's London flat, 1987; (iii) The Lion's at Lake Matheson, 1985. Search dates: 1921 - 1998

Date: 27 Nov 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: McLean, Adelaide Frances, 1910-2004

Reference: OHInt-0441-11

Description: Adelaide Frances McLean (nee Allchurch) born Gore. Outlines family background - father came to New Zealand in 1905 and became an auctioneer in Timaru in 1912. Discusses childhood in Timaru, musical evenings, and the intrusion of television into their home life. Recalls parents travelling to concerts in horse and trap or wagonette. Refers to Waitangi Land Claims and settlement of New Zealand. Other childhood recollections include: bath day when hair was put in rags; father's reaction to blaspheming; Sunday School at Chalmers Church - activities and size of church; participation in choirs; school, with reference to strap at the age of 5 years, and saluting the flag; fashion, with reference to Show day at Timaru, Commercial Travellers and Savage Club balls; resourcefulness during Depression (1930s) and riots; spring cleaning with no electricity or hot water - lists sequence of washing. Talks about wedding at Chalmers Church Timaru and move to Wanganui where husband, Alistair was a Presbyterian minister. Discusses promotion of Mission evenings; birth of APW (Association of Presbyterian Women); Cherry Farm; first impressions of First Church (Dunedin) and the Manse; Young Women's Club; Knox College; youth camps at Tirihonga; 150th celebrations; changes in the Presbyterian Church; involvement on Assembly Social Services Committee for the Chaplaincy and Theological Hall Committee; arrival of Polynesians and Maori in Dunedin; Presbyterial and Alistair's (husband) retirement. Recalls husband, Alistair McLean was the first Presbyterian minister on National Council of Churches and the first New Zealand born Presbyterian minister. Recalls husband getting multiple sclerosis and describes general attitude to Alzheimer's then. The sixth recording in this interview is of Alistair McLean speaking. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Joanne Aitken Accompanying material - Transcript of Adelaide's story (OHC-007737) and Rev Alistair McLean Sermon (OHC-007738) Accompanying material - McLean - Allchurch Family Tree Accompanying material - Newspaper cuttings Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007733-007738 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2034. Photocopies of 11 b&w photographs: (i) Adelaide, age 21; (ii) Adelaide, age 27; (iii) Adelaide, age 57; (iv) Rev Alistair McLean, shortly before he retired; (v) Alistair and Adelaide on their wedding day, Jan 20th 1940; (vi) Adelaide, 1981 upon being awarded the Queen's Service Medal; (vii) Adelaide and Alistair with their children, Margaret, Diana, John and Alistair; (viii) Alistair and Adelaide off to meet the Queen, 1963; (ix) First Church Manse, 1953; (x) First Church Manse, 1953 (different view); (xi) Alistair and daughters at the time of demolition of the Manse, 1963. Search dates: 1910 - 1998

Date: 24 Mar 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Lemalu, Ali'itasi Pepe, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0441-08

Description: Tasi Lemalu outlines family background - father, Nanae Vatau, was a high chief in a Samoan village and a church elder. Describes: childhood and strict cultural values; details of Sunday routine and role of church in everyone's life; London Missionary Society; sports; Bible; effects of World War II on Samoa; educational qualifications; first impressions on coming to New Zealand in 1955, going to Christchurch 1958 and eventually Dunedin 1960. Backgrounds involvement with Congregational Church, Moray Place and meeting husband, Foalima. Mentions Lloyd Gammon, Denzil Brown and Robert Wilson. Describes the merge of Moray Place Congregational Church with First Church and reaction of Pacific Island church community and their leaders to this merge. Refers to Foalima Lemalu and his enduring relationship with all First Church ministers. Mentions: Don Pearce; Gifford and Shirley Brown; Dawn Ibbotson; Alan and Jean Lion; Rev Ian Macintosh; George Johnston and Dorothy Leffly. Describes importance of APW and women in the Church and explains the aim of Association of Presbyterian Women. Refers to the separate Samoan Women's Association and Cook Island Women's Association which now form a combined group with OPAWA, hoping to merge with APW (Association of Presbyterian Women). Describes current involvement of women in First Church and also the continued division between Palagi and Samoan communities. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Joanne Aitken Interviewer(s) - Dorothy Leffly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007726-007727 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2031. Photocopies of three b&w photographs: (i) Lemalu Foalima, Aliitasi Lemalu, Faafetai Jonathon and Selena Marget; (ii) Lemalu Nani Foalima, Beadle of First Church and (iii) Samoan Elders, Satele La Faatoese, Mika Sefo, Mrs Toga Solofa, Tuuamaalii Nineva Vaitupu, Lemalu Nanai Foalima, Mrs Sina Muliau, Numiamaali Fala Muliau with Rev Dennis Povey and Rev Enere Wichman. Search dates: 1937 - 1998

Date: 19 Aug, 7 Oct 1998

From: First Church of Otago 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Ibbotson, Beryl Dorrien, 1914-2020

Reference: OHInt-0441-06

Description: Beryl Dorrien (Dawn) Ibbotson (nee Smith) born Gore. Outlines family background - father, Ethelbert (Bert) Cann Smith, was a country lawyer and Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in New Zealand. Mother, Frances Hagell Smith (nee Every) was very community minded with an interest in Dr Barnardos Homes and Methodist Church. Describes childhood and property around family home. Describes problems of the Depression (1930s); boarding school in 6th form at Timaru Girls' High School, with reference to principal, Rhoda Barr; Methodist church Sunday school and holiday cottage at Kaka Point. Compares Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Other topics covered include: social life while at University; Studholme Hall; Home Science Students' Association; marriage in Gore; teaching career; involvement in Mornington Presbyterian Church; involvement with National Council of Women; Plunket Mothers Club; Young Marrieds activities; feminism; PWMU (Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union) and APW (Association of Presbyterian Women); merge of Moray Place Congregational Church with First Church, with reference to Lloyd Gammon; interest in `Inclusive language'; women's role in church, with reference to United Women's Convention; The Flower Flame Exhibition in Church; The Tapestry, conceived by Denzil Brown and organised by Jan Wilson of Polytechnic - a six year project. Recalls experience as a member of Knox College Council (later the Knox College and Salmond Hall Council) and membership of Teachers Council. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Joanne Aitken Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007718-007721 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (plus one amended copy of abstract). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2029. Search dates: 1998

Date: 1969-1986

From: Calvin Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, Wellington, N.Z.) : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-5557-16

Description: Comprises two accounts books (1976-1981, 1982-1986), information brochure re APW, Mission Birthday Gift correspondence, executive of Wellington Presbytery (1985-1986), circular and letters re AGM (1986), APW annual report (1980, 1984), draft annual reports for APW (1971, ?1975), Women's Missionary Association annual report (1969), and Friendship Circle notes re meaning and purpose of group Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1915-1958

From: St Andrew's-on-the-Terrace (Wellington) : Records

Reference: Series-2161

Description: The St Andrews Branch of the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union was opened in 1904 with the object of promoting Home, Maori, and Foreign Mission schemes. The Branch held prayer meetings, circulated information about the missions, raised money and encouraged mission work by the young people of the congregation. In 1960 the Missionary Union combined with the Women's Association under the name Mission and Social Service Group which was changed in 1969 to the Association of Presbyterian Women. Although the Association is still involved in mission work, it now furthers all aspects of the Church by uniting Presbyterian women in prayer, study, fellowship and service. The series contains annual reports, 1939-1958; rolls, 1921-1922; correspondence, 1955-1958; financial records, 1915-1951; and minutes of the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union, Mission and Social Service Group and the Association of Presbyterian Women. Quantity: 10 folder(s).

Date: [1970-1990], nd

From: Calvin Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, Wellington, N.Z.) : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-5557-15

Description: Comprises receipt books for APW and Mission Birthday Gift, unused minute and treasurer's notebooks, `Handbook of the Association of Presbyterian Women containing the constitution and rules of procedure' (nd) and revised (1975) edition of same, and Mission Birthday League financial record Quantity: 1 folder(s) (case folder).

Date: 1969-1982, 1970-1982

From: Calvin Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, Wellington, N.Z.) : Records

Reference: MSX-4232

Description: Includes minutes for Executive committee and association Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1982-1986

From: Calvin Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, Wellington, N.Z.) : Records

Reference: MSX-4231

Description: Includes ordinary and executive committee meetings Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: March 1993 - Nov 2002

By: Association of Presbyterian Women (N.Z.); Irwin, Sheila, active 2002; Laxon, Lorna, active 2002; Ensor, Sharon, active 2002; Scarlet, Betty, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0668

Description: The Association of Presbyterian Women (APW) of Aotearoa New Zealand set up project known as the Women's Stories to collect written and oral material recording the contribution of Presbyterian women in their churches and communities. The women come from a wide range of ethnic, geographic and social backgrounds. Many of these high profile Presbyterian women were deaconesses, teachers, school principals, nurses, ministers, ministers' wives, missionaries, first women moderators, first Maori deaconess, PCANZ elders or office bearers. Several were missionaries and in the medical profession in India, Hong Kong and China. Those interviewed are Lorna Aberley, Joan Anderson, Nan Baxter, Nancy Burgess, Meri Caton, Beryl Howie, Grace Ironside, Helen Jackman, Nancy Jansen, Beth Johnson, Mavis Kaarup, Kathleen Keene, Ethel Kinross, Daphne McRae, Shona MacTavish, Carolena Mitchell, Joyce Murray, Grace Patterson, Margaret Reid-Martin, Doreen Riddell, Margaret Royds, Lorraine Saunders, Margaret Schrader, Vivienne Sinclair, Pamela Ball, Judy Breward, Erice Carley, Mia Denee-Sieger, Margery Dwerryhouse, Dorothy Harvey, Joyce Lake, Lorna Laxon, Barbara McKenzie, Anne Massey, Rouie Mercer, Gwen Neave, Mary Prier, Jane Prichard, Lorraine Sealy and Heather Webster. The project also included an interview with Shirley Murray but this was not deposited. Access Contact - To request access to items in this collection please contact Library staff Interviewer(s) - Shirley Irwin Interviewer(s) - Lorna Laxon Interviewer(s) - Sharon Ensor Interviewer(s) - Betty Scarlet Accompanying material - Photographs accompany interviews Arrangement: Abstracts: OHA-6089 - OHA-6112, OHA-8277 - OHA-8292 Original recordings: OHC-016969 to OHC-017037 (no OHC-017024), OHC-025020 - OHC-025055 Quantity: 104 C60 cassette(s). 40 printed abstract(s). 41 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1993 - 2002 Processing information: Interviews not yet described