Boarding school students

Date: 1935-1947

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2001-008-001

Description: Letters written by Thompson to his parents, and brothers David and Gordon, from boarding school in Chefoo, China, from a prisoner-of-war camp, from Australia, from Rabaul with the ATIS Language Detachment where whe was working with the Japanese, and from Christchurch in which he is negotiating to buy a house with his parents' help. He writes of his daily life and activities, unusual occurrences and mutual interests. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 21 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hewett, Neale Brind Stuart, 1906-2005

Reference: OHInt-0562/01

Description: Neale Hewett talks about his birth in Burma in 1906. Mentions that many generations of his father and mother's side of the family served in the military in India. Details great grandfather's service and the family tradition. Describes himself and his father as Cape Horners. Mentions Dartmouth and Royal Navy. Talks about father's service in Burma and describes the influences of the King and Queen on their subjects. Details being sent to a home in Cheltenham, England at 4 years of age and school in Eastbourne until 13 holidays included, and not recognising his parents. Describes growing up without parents. Describes attending Pangbourne College aged 12, the Royal Naval Reserves and outlines his work including HMS Winchelsea testing poison gas. Outlines voyages with P&O to obtain his 2nd mate's ticket, enters the Royal Indian Marines. Describes the relief given at the 1923 Japanese earthquake.Talks about moving from ship to ship, having royalty as passengers, later surveying the coastline of India on the Investigator. Describes copying charts during the monsoon season. Talks about the closure of the Indian Navy and finding work with Bombay Burma Trading Company while continuing as a reserve officer with the Frontier Force Cavalry. At the outbreak of war describes re-entering the Navy. Describes his jobs and escorting the First NZ Echelon: taking a gunnery course, wanting to return to sea but having to train gunners. Describes the situation at the changeover in 1947 and gives reasons for retiring from the navy and leaving India. Talks about his parents, wife and children and his father wanting to retire to New Zealand. Mentions living in Australia with his children. Gives reason for moving to New Zealand, applying for citizenship, discovering that his father was a New Zealander and his mother's family were here also. Talks about his employment in commercial fishing and NZ Forest Products.. Relates his United Nations job in 1950's in various countries, describes the way he organised his work and staff. Describes the changes when a political element joined the UN, and his resignation. Compares the African independence with that of India. Describes wartime atrocities by the Japanese. Talks about his nationality and religion, and as it was in India. Talks about his accomodation, furnishings and places he called home, his servants who travelled with him, the meals, lifestyle and languages spoken. Relates meeting his wife, Thecla Edana Davis, and describes her background. Talks about his children's schools and education and family health. Mentions snake encounters. Details the clubs they belonged to in India, multiculturism and integration of races, talks of Anglo-Indians. Talks of partition. Mentions his impressions on his return to India. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Includes 2 leaves of notes about conversations held with Neale Hewett. One clarifies various subjects and the second conversation was over lunch with a neighbour. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008510, OHA-008511 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2644.

Date: 31 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hansen, Robert Haig, 1918-2009

Reference: OHInt-0562/05

Description: Robert Haig Hansen was born in 1918 at Dehra Dun. Talks of his British and New Zealand passports, citizenship and residence in Britain. Relates that he was in Borneo at the time of independence and talks of the wartime there. Mentions that his maternal grandfather and father were bandmasters in India while his mother was a pianist and singer and sons are musicians. Mentions the boarding schools which he, his brother and sister attended. Details his family members and their silk business in Kashmir, their house and servants' living arrangements. Talks about food, clubs and sports. Recounts details of his father's death, his mother's remarriage, her move to New Zealand and sheepfarming. Describes meeting his wife, talks of her army background in India and marrying in Britain. Mentions his ability in speaking and writing languages. Recalls working as an unpaid teacher, an RAF pilot, joining the police as a civilian, being the Governor's private secretary in Borneo. Talks of accommodation provided for the Duke of Edinburgh in Borneo and relates that he received an MBE in England in 1946. Recalls being a school caretaker and buying a dairy in New Zealand. Describes his wife's strokes and his cataracts and heart operation. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Genealogical table for the Hansen family and handwritten war memoirs of Wilfred Griffin, brother-in-law of the Interviewee. Includes photocopies of various certificates and letters. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008506, OHC-008507 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2642.

Date: 23 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Dever, Jeanne-Marie Thecla, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0562/04

Description: Jeanne Dever was born in 1933 in Bangalore, the daughter of Neale Hewett. Talks of boarding schools attended in India and England. Describes her reaction to the lack of privacy at these schools and her attitudes to learning. Talks of servants, her social life in clubs and the inability to take her Parsee friends to them. Details her family in India and talks of holiday activities in Karachi. Mentions beggars and caste differences. Talks of her clothing, mealtimes and the discipline meted out by mother. Talks of her father's attitude to partition. Mentions being engaged and living in Australia and Tasmania. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Brief notes taken before and after the recording Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008505 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2641.

Date: 24 Apr 2001 - 10 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: MacLeod, Beryl Aida, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0562/08

Description: Beryl MacLeod was born in Calcutta in 1923. Talks of her arrival in New Zealand, her husband's family home in Glasgow, and buying, as opposed to renting, their first home. Mentions that her parents were English and talks about their move to India in 1921. Describes her father's job as bandsman and musician, the instruments he played, his WWI service in France later in Egypt, his retirement and move to New Zealand in 1950. Relates her schooling in India, her secreterial and hairdressing jobs. Talks about the mother's hairdressing equipment and business. Mentions her father giving violin lessons in schools. Describes their accommodation, the servants and their routines. Describes meeting her husband, her sisters' dancing school and performances. Talks of religion, boarding school life and gives reasons for her move to Shillong with her mother. Describes the situation at the time of partition and relationships of Anglo-Indian women with European men. Describes social life of Burma Shell employees, club membership and social distinction. Recalls her children's time at boarding school in Scotland, working for Shell Oil, her return to Scotland then New Zealand. Describes her theatrical performances, Meals on Wheels and driving for the Foundation for the Blind. Recalls a visit to India, compares life there and the way it was when they lived there. Awards/funding - Project recieved an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008514, OHC-008515 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2646.

Date: 1907-1908

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Stout, Agnes Isobel, 1891-1971

Reference: PA1-o-1990

Description: Agnes Isobel Pearce's photograph album of family, holiday, and boarding school scenes, 1907 to 1908. Most photographs are captioned with dates, places, and people's initials. Photographers unidentified. Contains holiday photographs from England and Scotland. Locations photographed include Burnham Beeches, Abbotsford, Roslyn Chapel, Melrose, Tintagel, Plymouth, Inverness Castle, and a number of sites in the Lake District (such as Wordsworth lodging house, Ruskin's Grave, Market House at Keswick, and Derwentwater). Boating pictures include scenes from 'Riverside' and views from on board a boat travelling on the Caledonian Canal. The sailboat 'Onari' is photographed on the English Channel. A Pearce family portrait is taken on the deck of the SS 'Athenic'. DC and WS Aden are photographed in the crow's nest of a boat. Wycombe Abbey School building and Barry House building are also photographed. School sports events, including a canoe race between houses, and house expeditions are also included. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "Album belonged to Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Sir Duncan Stout's wife)." Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 56 b&w prints. Physical Description: Red card photograph album, 11 x 16.8 cm

Date: [ca 1903-1911]

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Stout, Agnes Isobel, 1891-1971

Reference: PA1-o-1993

Description: Agnes Isobel Pearce's album of family, travel, and boarding school photographs, circa 1903 to 1911. Most photographs are captioned with people often identified only by their initials and some dates given. Some photographs likely taken by Pearce but other photographers unidentified. Commercial prints taken by Edward Sweetland (High Wycombe). Shipboard scenes from a voyage on SS 'Bülow' are included as well as views of the Suez Canal and locations along the route such as Port Said. Also photographs of Genoa, Naples, and Colombo. Holiday photographs show Scotland scenes and buildings as well as ice skating at Adelboden, Switzerland. The Bell family are photographed at the house 'Milcote', Ascot. The Pearce family, and others [possibly Warren family?], are photographed at Padstow with boating and tennis scene as well as a family portrait. Pearce family photographs include portraits taken at the garden at the Hobson Street house (Wellington) as well as house interiors and exterior photographs. Pearce's mother, father, sister, and brother all appear in the album. Other people, identified by more than initials include Mr Hodson, D Collins, and a baby called Arthur Album contains scenes from 'Pihautea' in the Wairarapa, Trentham, Heretaunga, and Lowry Bay. These include Christmas, picnicking, and riding scenes as well as the Pearce family children at play (see-saws, carts). Various animals are photographed with an emphasis on pony "Sweetheart" and horse "Littlejohn". Other horses, such as "Vocation", and "Imagination", and a puppy called "Nipper" are photographed. Trips within New Zealand show a picnic scene in the [Marlborough?] Sounds, a veiw of the Pahiatua Track (cleared land), motoring in Paekakariki, a shipboard scene on the S S 'Eastern', and golfing scenes in Christchurch and Napier. Album also contains a newspaper clipping relating to a golf tournament in the Manawatu. Wycombe Abbey School (England) photographs show informal snapshots of students and gym class, a gardening scene, and formal portraits of the lacrosse and cricket teams as well as other, larger, unidentified groups. Agnes Isobel Pearce appears in a group portrait of students where she is sitting beside a well-groomed dog. Also included are photographs of the Wycombe Abbey School boarding facility Barry House. Photographs show an example of a boarder's room and a study room [dining room?]. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "This album belonged to Agnes Isobel Pearce." Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 152 b&w prints. Physical Description: Grey photograph album, 20 x 28.6 cm Transfers: Prints separated during processing. See PAColl-10493-6..

Date: 1908-1912

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1062

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of his time at Huntley School and Nelson College. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 320 x 280 mm

Date: 1942-1943, 1955, 1971

By: Helm family

Reference: MS-Papers-7843

Description: Letters from Bryan Helm, boarding at Nelson College, to his father and brothers in Motueka during 1942 and 1943; some have notes by his aunt Nora Helm of Nelson. Also two letters written by him to his brother Herbert in 1955 and 1971. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Background to the correspondence provided by Bryan Helm Bryan Helm was a boarder at Nelson College from 1942 to 1943 and wrote weekly to his family in Motueka Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr B Helm, Paremata, Sep 2003

Date: [ca 8 December 1976]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/4445

Description: St Mary's College head prefect Mary Therese Lynch (right) and prefect Margaret Dever sitting outside the Wellington school. The two young women are wearing their school uniforms and are seated on suitcases. Dever is holding a trophy cup and Lynch is holding a tennis racket. Photographs taken ca 8 December 1976 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1925-2001

By: Mulgan family

Reference: MS-Group-1239

Description: Correspondence from John Mulgan to his parents and wife which traces his progression from school boy and university student to editor at Oxford University Press and finally a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army in the Second World War; literary drafts by Mulgan and papers relating to his school and university education and his death. Also papers, including correspondence, relating to Paul Day's literary and biographical study of Mulgan. John Mulgan was at various times a journalist, poet, novelist, editor and soldier Quantity: 94 folder(s). 4 volume(s). 1.25 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs G Day, Hamilton, 2003

Date: 1937-1946

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2001-008-003

Description: Letters from Thompson to his brothers David and Gordon (1937-1939) and to David (1940-1946) written from Tangfumias, Hwangyen District, China Inland Mission Boys' School, from Chefoo, Shanghai, Auckland, Wellington, Napier, PWD at Tuai, Hawke's Bay, Waiouru, Woodville, Feilding, and c/- ATIS based in New Guinea, and the Cobb Valley. He does not write about the military situation but of personal, political, economic and philosophical concerns. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 24 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Cox, Richard Anthony, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0562/03

Description: Richard Cox, known as Dick, was born in Rawalpindi in India, now Pakistan, on 28th March 1932. Mentions nationality, passports and New Zealand citizenship. Talks about family origins in England and mentions grandparents and parents marriages, being an only child. Talks of religious beliefs of mother's family and training and working in India and England. Details grandparents' deaths in India and New Zealand and his parents arrival in New Zealand 1949/50, and bringing grandmother from India. Talks of his mother's family in the Indian Army and father's side with the railways. Mentions his family's religious beliefs, his catholic education at boarding school. Mentions the social life at the various institutes. Talks of father in World War I building railways in Iraq, being stationed in Multan and Lahore on his return. Talks of grandmother's properties in Dehra Dun. Details definition of Anglo-Indian. Recounts family movements at the time of partition. Talks of the railway colony, Anglo-Indian districts and attitudes at the Institutes. Describes their house in Lahore and the role of servants and games played. Mentions beggars. Describes types of clothing worn, the food and mealtimes, use of different languages. Talks of boarding school life and discipline, and mentions leaving school in 1948, doing school certificate, travelling to New Zealand in 1949 and outlines reasons for their choice of country. Details incidents connected with partition. Describes his father's settling in New Zealand and his compulsory military training, bursary and Canterbury University studying medical intermediate before transferring to Otago. Talks of a holiday job at a freezing works, working at Dannevirke Hospital, his general practice at Granity and Christchurch. Talks about his wife and family of six children and their vocations. Talks of club life in India and the social hierarchy. Mentions differences in attitude to Anglo-Indians and Eurasians, and compares working in a freezing works with the Indian servants' tasks and earnings. Mentions not wanting to return to India, speaks of his childhood. Talks of his uncle and discrimination in army ranking. Mentions the British role in giving India back and his opinions on the various classes. Mentions the lepers of Dehra Dun. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Genealogical table for the Cox family Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008503, OHC-008504 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2640.

Date: 08 Feb 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Jamieson, Edna Mae, 1930-; Jamieson, John, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0593/28

Description: John Jamieson, known as Sam, was born in Glasgow in 1928. Mae Jamieson was born in Oamaru in 1930. Sam and Mae Jamieson give their reasons for living in Upper Hutt. They describe poverty when they first married, walking and their shoes, bicycles, living economically. Mentions film going and buying the book 'Lord of the Rings'. Discusses remedial reading and reading books. Mentions shop opening hours. Talks of the Thrift shop, food bank, Girl Guides, Girls' Brigade, after school care run by the church, the plant fair. Mentions wear and tear on church buildings. Talks of homosexuality and the church, St Andrew's on the Terrace, Lloyd Geering. Discusses lay preachers and pastoral ministry and gives advice on church ownership and the concept of interdenominational unity. Sam Jamieson mentions the many places he lived in, boarding school life and separation from his family, the influence of Frank Milner, his religious education. Talks of the effect of his father's attitude in taking care of himself, attitudes to England, women's equality and the 'Girls can do anything' programme, women's roles in the church. Talks of restructuring, employment ethics and changes in the public service. Mae Jamieson recalls her Sunday School attendance, singing, the various churches attended and her awareness of God. Explains about her adopted son. Describes here courting days. Details her sons' participation in Boys Brigade and her family's church membership. Describes how she coped during an asthma attack. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape sequence - OHC-009274 : OHC-009275 Quantity: 1 transcript(s) - printed. 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2991, OHDL-000947. Portrait photograph of Sam and Mae Jamieson taken at the time of the interview. Framed family photograph in background, also china cabinet and standard spotlight lamp

Date: 1924, 1934, n d

From: Hughan family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1288-04

Description: The stranger in the blue serge suit - A history of the Rongokokako district up to the 1920s, the settlement of the area and early residents. Also school days as a boarder at Wellington College Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905

From: New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation :Negatives relating to the programme on Katherine Mansfield - "The White Gardenia".

Reference: 1/2-031597-F

Description: Class portrait of the boarders of London's Queen College. Miss Clara Finetta Wood is present (seated in the middle row, 3rd from the left?). Taken by an unknown photographer in 1905. Notes on the back of the file print suggest that Katherine Mansfield is the person on the extreme left, back row, however the person looks unlike Katherine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1947

From: Stout family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11518-025

Description: Letters to her mother, father and brother, written from Woodford House School, Hawkes Bay. Discusses school and family actvities. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1943-1945

From: Stout family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11518-023

Description: Letters to her mother, father and brother, written from Woodford House School, Hawkes Bay. Discusses school and family actvities. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1946

From: Stout family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11518-024

Description: Letters to her mother, father and brother, written from Woodford House School, Hawkes Bay. Discusses school and family actvities. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 23 January 2017

From: St Joseph's Māori Girls College 150th anniversary oral history project

By: Daniels, Kāterina, 1930-2020

Reference: OHInt-1471-07

Description: Interview with Katerina Daniels by Stephanie Tibble recorded on 23 January 2017. Also includes digital photographs of Katerina Daniels and a digital video recording of the interview. Interview discusses: experience as head girl; boarding school girls and nuns; going into teaching and attending Auckland Training College; becoming a debutant; meeting first husband; scholarships including from Te Arawa Trust Board and Tuwharetoa; time at St Joseph's including show day, marching, dormitories, Mass, dressmaking, and earthquakes. Mentions Georgina Kingi. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 3 digital sound recording(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 2 digital video recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) digital abstract. 1 printed abstract(s) includes agreement form. Search dates: 23/01/2017