Embalming

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: C-131-026-a

Description: The scene shows the embalmed corpse of Tee propped up on a bed draped with cloth placed in front of a hut for viewing. The sides of the open-sided thatched canopy (or hut) are enclosed with cloth. There is an attendant near the corpse. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 224 x 378 mm

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: C-131-026-d

Description: The scene shows the embalmed corpse of Tee propped up on a bed draped with cloth placed in front of a hut for viewing. The sides of the open-sided thatched canopy (or hut) are enclosed with cloth. There is an attendant near the corpse. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 224 x 378 mm

Date: 03 October 2010 - 03 Oct 2010

From: Reflections from funeral directors who have worked in New Zealand and Australia

By: Day, Francis, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-1015-03

Description: Interview with Francis Day. Born in 1947 in Nelson, one of nine children. Describes childhood memories of growing up in family run funeral parlour business Day and Son, later known as P Day and Son Ltd, and then Eventide Funeral Services. Talks about his grandmother, Hilda Day (nee Emms), a school teacher, hockey player for New Zealand and businesswoman, and his grandfather Francis Maurice (Paddy) Day who purchased first motorized hearse in Nelson. Recalls family business in Hardy Street, the move to Vanguard Street and then to Marsden House premises to manage Marsden House Funeral directors. Talks about attending Australian Academy of Embalming and Funeral Hygiene in 1964. Discusses Australian methods of dealing with body decomposition and adoption of English customs in funeral services. Recalls in his father's time (Patrick (Pat) Day), there was method of temporary preservation and that proper embalming using intravenous circulation was important development. Refers to embalming training being in Australia, England and American resulting in 13 qualified embalmers in New Zealand by 1971. Mentions being one of three man team which developed embalming curriculum for New Zealand Embalmers Association (NZEA). Talks about embalming being required for hygiene, control of disease and presentation of deceased. Discusses how funeral work affects whole life and attributues neccessary for role. Observes changes from fewer family owned businesses and women entering the profession. Observes role progressed from providing coffin and transportation to profession that provides care for others. Refers to bereavement support program. Talks about his business expansion projects, opening his own crematorim in Motueka, developing 'Gardens of the World' property at Hope, Nelson. Describes tutoring embalming for 12 years and 30 years on Funeral service Training Trust (FSTT). Discusses environmental impact of embalming fluids and need for regulation of embalmers because of dealing with dangerous substances. Mentions membership of British Institute of Embalmers. Discusses Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand (FDANZ), their Griefcare quality assurance programme and his reasons for forming New Zealand Independent Funeral Homes (NZIFH) with others. Talks about the business covering Nelson, Rye Valley, Murchison and Golden Bay. Recalls dealing with different ethnic groups. Details Chinese funeral practises. Recounts working on police call outs for fishing industry deaths, and traumantic deaths. Mentions body removal after Inangahua earthquake. Recalls personal impact of working on Mount Erebus air disaster team. Discusses socialising as a funeral director and impact of profession on home life. Mentions dealing with children's funerals and suicides. Discusses green or eco burials. Expresses concern over direct cremation. Talks about dealing with differing family member wishes. Describes portrayals of profession in media and entertainment. Talks about his 46 years in the business and considers 'it's a calling'. Abstracted by - Penny Brander Interviewer(s) - Penny Brander Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7629, OHDL-001865. Search dates: 1947 - 2010

Date: 17 May 2011

From: Reflections from funeral directors who have worked in New Zealand and Australia

By: Crooks, Terrence Arthur, 1943-

Reference: OHINT-1015-09

Description: Interview with Terrence (Terry) Arthur Crook. Born 27 February 1943, Goulburn, Australia. Father was a farm manager and Mother was a machinist.Recalls first qualifying as Embalmer then leaving that profession to arrange and conduct funerals in Sydney. Mentions returning to Goulburn in 1968 to combine both professions. Talks about studying at Australian Institute of Embalming and Funeral Hygiene in 1961 run by course founder Englishman Harold Wigley. Describes motivation for becoming an embalmer and funeral director. Discusses differences between Australian and New Zealand knowledge of embalming. Talks about current shortage of embalmers in Australia. Opines that reason may be lack of encouragement. Considers New Zealand more supportive of embalming because of Maori traditions. Observes embalming uncommon in Australia unless for repatriation overseas and vault interment. Discusses changes in embalming fluid processes. Recalls being invited to convention in New Zealand due to membership with British Institute of Embalmers and being asked to join New Zealand Embalmers Association (NZEA). Notes New Zealand compared favourably to Australia with regard to work practices and acceptance of profession. Mentions working in funeral businesses in New Zealand. Refers to working in Richmond, Victoria, after qualifying as Embalmer. Talks about getting an untrained management position in Bankstown. Describes being thrown in the 'lions den' and learning the business the hard way from 1964 to 1966. Talks about difference between hours of work past and present day. Recalls getting promotion to Resident Manager in 1966 and working at Head office for next two years. Recalls becoming engaged to Valerie, a Goulburn girl and becoming manager of RJ Sidney Craig in Gouldburn. Recalls purchasing business in 1972 when owner died and staying there until retirement in 2004. Describes rewards of working in Goulburn as being part of community. Notes differences between country and city funerals, advantages and disadvantages of knowing everyone. Mentions being called to difficult accident situations. Mentions importance of word of mouth in small town for funeral business. Refers to purchase offers from Service Corporation International (SCI) and Stewart Enterprises. Discusses importance of finding most professional person for the job and how this is easier now due to having more choice and the training being offered. Explains professionalism and standards in funeral industry. Discusses positive impact of professional organisations such as Australian Funeral Directors Association.Mentions differences in various state regulations with regard to professional bodies.Discusses large funeral businesses taking over smaller ones and the more personal note in smaller firms. Notes greater public awareness of funeral practice, due to media presentation, education, and advertising. Observes changing client relationship with funeral director. Reflects on changes in regard to funeral services in churches becoming more personal.Talks about cultural differences in styles of funerals. Describes views on women funeral directors and how it has been a male dominated field until recently. Reflects on effects of funeral directing on own positive attitude to life. Discusses people's reactions to him and his son being funeral directors. Abstracted by - Penny Brander Interviewer(s) - Penny Brander Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 1.12 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7635, OHDL-001875. Search dates: 1943 - 2011

Date: 18 May 2011

From: Reflections from funeral directors who have worked in New Zealand and Australia

By: Foley, Ronald Wayne, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-1015-11

Description: Interview with Ronald (Ron) Wayne Foley. Born in 1947 in Auckland, New Zealand. Talks about emigration to Sydney, Australia in 1972 after working as teacher and how he started working in funeral business. Describes job as driver for Walter Carter funerals, Bondi Junction, 1973. Mentions learning from Clive Jones, Jack Crocker and Terry Crooks. Describes learning embalming by correspondence courses with British Institute of Embalming and Australian Institute of Embalming (AIE). Talks about being Chairman of AIE 1993-1994 and helping to rewrite embalming course with help of Industry Training Board, Melbourne and Australian Funeral Directors Association (AFSA). Details his organisation of a national conference of embalmers in 1994. Refers to attending New Zealand course competency meetings and using that information for Australian course rewrites. Refers to writing new embalming course at Victoria University, Melbourne, 1998-1999. Discusses development of embalming training in Australia. Comments on best individuals for roles of funeral director and embalmer. Refers to spending two years in Auckland, then returning to work at Walter Carter Funerals in 1978. Discusses how different cultures require different funeral practice. Details dealing with Jewish, Irish-Catholic, Italian, Greek and Maori communities. Describes repatriation of New Zealand citizens. Refers to reasons for settling in Australia. Comments on effect of American company ownership and corporatisation on funeral industry and decline of 24 hour seven day a week service. Mentions Stewart Enterprises and Service Corporation International. Recalls compulsory registration for funeral directors in New South Wales and union agreeements. Refers to Funeral Industries Council and Allied Industries Trade Union. Describes funeral regulation. Comments on effect of Health Act and Local Government Act. Discusses role and function of professional organisations such as AFDA. Discusses distinctive funeral practices in different Australian states. Comments on differences between New Zealand and Australian practices, the importance of death certificate in process. Describes his involvement in disaster recovery work. Details his jobs with Kenyon International Emergency services on the Silk Air disaster in Sumatra and body identification work on Bali bombing. Mentions Jan Field. Talks about working for Blake Emergency Services on repatriation of victims of Boxing Day tsunmai 2004 in Thailand. Recalls working on internment of stillborn children for Walter Carter Funerals who had a contract with Royal Hospital for Women and Benevolent Society of New South Wales. Talks about explaining process to parents of stillborn babies who did not know what happened to the baby. Describes changes in attitude and practice related to stillborn babies. Comments on value and function of funeral service and personal rewards. Refers to being a caring profession. Explains why he sees his role as funeral consultant. Outlines future directions and challenges such as technology, green funerals, family and community involvement. Abstracted by - Penny Brander Interviewer(s) - Penny Brander Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). 2.13 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7636, OHDL-001879. Search dates: 1947 - 2011

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: C-131-026-c

Description: The scene shows the embalmed corpse of Tee propped up on a bed draped with cloth placed in front of a hut for viewing. The sides of the open-sided thatched canopy (or hut) are enclosed with cloth. There is an attendant near the corpse. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 224 x 378 mm

Date: 1920

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-45

Description: Waiata from Ngapuhi eg waiata aroha and waiata putorino or flute song; also several waiata tangi describing the loss of a daughter from the Rangitikei / Manawatu area and waiata tangi from Maru iwi; waiata poroporoaki or farewell songs from people such as Tawhiao and several hymns covering a wide range of topics from Christianity to the `Mt Egmont Hotel' in Hawera; several war songs about the Orakau battle, Maori soldiers overseas during World War One, a waiata hari or `Triumph Song' and many other war songs from iwi on the East Coast; also songs about birds and Maori welcomes. Essays and articles on Maori food preparation and preservation about birds, body embalming and preserving heads, Maori lunar calendar, Ohaewai land claim, pataka, archaeology, Taranaki Maori history, Maori creation and Maori evolution, stories with an essentially New Zealand theme, the meeting proceedings between the Premier and Maori at Patea, on William Cowper, Maori taonga and artifacts found in a Ohaewai Cave in the Bay of Islands, a swimming pool with the skeletal remains of Frenchmen in a settlement in England, an account of the `Death of Hauraki, a Hokianga Chief' during the New Zealand Wars in 1845-1846, on Maori and Polynesian origins, protest to the Treaty of Waitangi in 1913. Photographs of landscape such as the Whangarei Heads and Mt Manaia, photograph of a Chief, Pokai Tete, letter to Sir James Carroll and another to Sir Maui Pomare, includes card play tactics in cribbage and also whakapapa of Hongi Hika of Ngapuhi and Kapewhiti of Taranaki also includes 92 whakatauaki and material on Ngapuhi grammar or Maori phrases. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts (some with ms annotations) and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: C-131-026-b

Description: The scene shows the embalmed corpse of Tee propped up on a bed draped with cloth placed in front of a hut for viewing. The sides of the open-sided thatched canopy (or hut) are enclosed with cloth. There is an attendant near the corpse. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 224 x 378 mm (trimmed close to plate mark)

Date: 1784 - 1777

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: C-131-026

Description: The scene shows the embalmed corpse of Tee propped up on a bed draped with cloth placed in front of a hut for viewing. The sides of the open-sided thatched canopy (or hut) are enclosed with cloth. There is an attendant near the corpse. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 224 x 378 mm

Date: 4 July 1993 - 04 Jul 1993

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

By: Ashby, Rana Elsie, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0067/006

Description: Rana Ashby born Ashburton but at the age of 5 years moved to Rangiora when father became Station Master. Describes early working days at Farmers Co-op and recalls having to stop work due to polio scare - reference to law which stated anybody under the age of 16 years not allowed to work in public places. Recalls meeting and marrying Reece Ashby, a cabinet maker and funeral director in the family business. Describes embalming course undertaken in Hamilton - trained by Stan Stout, a Canadian, and at that time the most qualified embalmer in New Zealand. Talks about the Ashby family who were a well established family of carriers in Waihi. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005830B; OHV-0268 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 videocassette(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1643.

Date: 17 May 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McCarthy, Pam, active 1998; Rose, Stewart Stenning, 1919-2006

Reference: OHInt-0428/15

Description: Stewart Rose was born in 1919. Recalls people talking about the flu epidemic of 1918. Mentions how his father was pushed into the job of funeral director. Gives details of his parent's origins and marriage at Owaka in 1917. Recalls being unwell as a child and his mother not being able to afford to take him to the doctor during the Depression. Describes living in Mataura opposite the freezing works and also living in Roxburgh and Pounawea. Recalls the Proficiency exam in Standard 6 at school. Describes working on the farm of Dr Rodgers at Mokoreta making and repairing sheds. Mentions Dr Waters. Talks about the outbreak of World War II, being in the 1st Southland's in a camp at Forbury, Dunedin, sleeping under the grandstand at the Forbury Trotting Park and being in the same platoon as Arthur Morton. Describes being stood down for a year as the result of an injury and then leaving on the Aquatainia (Aquitania) for the Desert War in Egypt. Recalls `going to the line' for the first time, the death of Bill Wallis and being taught the sound made by mortars by Andy Crawford. Talks about being sent back to Egypt form Italy with a bad knee. Comments on the effect of the Depression on the business of his father, who was a builder as well as funeral director, and laid employees off. Notes that the family still took in destitute people despite this. Recalls working at H and J Smith and leaving there to work for his father. Describes coffin making, the Scottish custom of laying out a body and going to Hamilton to learn funeral directing and embalming from Mr Scrimshaw. Describes building up the funeral business, the deterioration of his health and being bought out by the opposition funeral director. Recalls carrying out the bulk of funerals in Tapanui and Crookston. Mentions his wife Joyce is the first woman in New Zealand to hold an embalmer's certificate. Describes trips to the Dunedin Crematorium. Recalls conducting his father's funeral. Mentions involvement in the Crippled Children's Society and Masonic Lodge. Interviewer(s) - Pam McCarthy Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2607.

Date: 07 Oct 2010 - 23 Feb 2011

From: Reflections from funeral directors who have worked in New Zealand and Australia

By: Amys, Cheryl Joy, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-1015-05

Description: Interview with Cheryl Joy Olds Amys. Born in Warkworth 1953. Describes move from nursing to being a funeral director. Details finding position as sponsored student to learn embalming at Gee & Hickton, Upper Hutt in 1995 when she said she her father was a methodist minister. Talks about doing the embalming certificate at Central Institute of Technology in 1996 and the funeral directors course in 1998, and her experience of sexual harassement there. Talks about employment by John Duncan at Ninness Funeral Home, first woman apart from receptionist at this location, and by Peter Cowan at Guardian Funeral Home, Porirua. Mentions dealing with tough stuff and a child's funeral. Recalls shifting to work at Wellington Hospital Mortuary for three years, training and qualifying as a mortuary technican. Comments on changes in funeral services and role of funeral director, more personalised funerals and family involvement and less held in churches. Refers to attributes required for funeral director role. Talks about her own and customer interest in eco friendly funerals. Mentions her system of ice packs for those who don't want embalming. Refers to Makara Cemetery requirements for natural burials. Discusses history of embalming in New Zealand, and purpose of practice. Discusses attitudes to her as a female funeral director from colleagues and public. Talks about womens contribution to funeral industry. Mentions low retention of women as funeral directors, long unsociable hours and heavy work. Refers to funeral directors as conservative group. Comments on lack of registration and regulation of industry. Comments on difference between New Zealand and Australian funeral practice. Refers to impact of inter marriage with Maori and Pacific communities leading to greater participation of family in funeral in New Zealand. Recalls rewarding and significant funerals in her career. Mentions the death of her own baby 30 years ago and recent death of her mother. Talks about developing her own confidence and style as funeral director and feeling like 'I'm an enabler'. Abstracted by - Penny Brander Interviewer(s) - Penny Brander Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). 1.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7631, OHDL-001869. Search dates: 1953 - 2011

Date: 23, 29 September 2010 - 23 Sep 2010 - 29 Sep 2010

From: Reflections from funeral directors who have worked in New Zealand and Australia

By: Duncan, John Murray, 1956-

Reference: OHInt-1015-01

Description: Interview with John Murray Duncan. Born in Palmerston North in 1956, spent childhood in Hawera. Recalls neighbours were funeral directors. Attended Canterbury University on Teachers College studentship graduating with BA. Recalls realising he did not want to be a teacher. Describes entry to funeral directing as his choice. Talks about early employment with Alan Irvine at Wilson Funeral Home, at Vospers Funeral Home, New Plymouth and with Jack Ninness in 1979. Details first funeral arrangment and direction by himself. Refers to assuming ownership of Ninness Funeral Homes, Porirua, in late 1980s and spending 28 years there. Mentions attending first funeral directing training course offered in New Zealand at CIT, Heretaunga, in 1978. Backgrounds establishment of CIT (Institute of Technology) embalming training course and New Zealand Embalmers Association (NZEA). Talks about reasons for embalming being fostered in New Zealand. Refers to Maori wish to have open caskets on marae. Recalls responses from others to job choice. Talks about changes over time in public response to funeral industry. Discusses issue of funeral costs and increase in pre-paid funerals from late 1980s. Refers to Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand (FDANZ) setting up Family Bereavement Plan and Prepaid Funeral Trust. Describes origin, structure and operation of FDANZ. Talks about his roles as Secretary of Wellington District Committee and FDANZ president 2004-2006. Discusses lack of government regulation of funeral businesses. Explains independent groupings of funeral companies, including New Zealand Independent Funeral Homes (NZIFH) and Funeral Link. Describes evolution and functions of Funeral Services Training Trust (FSTT). Talks about history and value of professional connection between Australian and New Zealand directors, shared issues and differences. Says first joint conference for FDANZ and AFDA (Australian Funeral Directors Association) was in 2004. Backgrounds joint Australian New Zealand owned company Bledisloe Funeral Homes. Says corporate ownership is more prevalent in Australia. Refers to advent of Bledisloe allowing non family owner directors to become managers in New Zealand. Describes own role in organising Tomb of the Unknown Warrior ceremony when FDANZ Vice President in 2002. Details casket design, transportation, funeral ceremony at St Pauls Cathedral and placement at National War Memorial, Wellington. Discusses impact of technology changes on funeral services and role of funeral director. Describes effects of cellphones, call diversion, desktop publishing, powerpoint presentations. Refers to secularization of society changing funeral venue from church to funeral home with celebrant, parks, clubs or family home. Describes change in nature of funeral from mourning to a celebration of life of the deceased. Observes greater professionalism required, skills in behavioural science, communication, psychology and technology. Talks about dealing with requirements of different ethnic and cultural groups. Details costs of funeral services that are outside the funeral director's control, cemetery and crematorium fees, rates for celebrants, flowers and newspapers. Talks about unchanged basics of funerals. Talks about rewards and challenges of being a funeral director. Describes own views on traditional Christian faith and himself as more agnostic. Describes job as appropriate care of the deceased. Refers to function of funeral being for the comfort and farewell by the family. Discusses distinctively New Zealand funeral practice and differences with Australia, American and English approach. Refers to 'green' funerals. Mentions increased level of client participation and attendance by children. Abstracted by - Penny Brander Interviewer(s) - Penny Brander Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7627, OHDL-001861. Search dates: 1956 - 2010

Date: 1905

From: [Music programmes 1905].

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1905-01-13-3

Description: Shows a funeral carriage pulled by two horses. Some of the lettering has ornate decoration. A similar logo is used in the same programme (page [8]) by E. Morris, jun. undertaker. Extended Title - From "The Maori and Pakeha Carnival, Vivian Street Citadel". Programme, page [13, bottom]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of programme.. Physical Description: Letterpress and engraving, 47 x 110 mm, on page 206 x 138 mm.