Occupational therapy services

Date: 1954

By: Haughton, Son & Mair (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-322

Description: Shows floor plans, sections and elevations. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and pen on tissue, 470 x 730 mm.

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-299

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Italy during World War 2, 1943-1944, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. This album changes between the Middle East and Italy, with the bulk of the Middle Eastern images between pages 1 and 71, and the Italian scenes on pages 49-52, and from 72 onwards, with a few Middle Eastern items interspersed. Recreation for soldiers with sporting activities including athletics, cricket, swimming, tennis and softball, some of which are in competition with personnel from other groups including South African Division Artillerymen. New Zealand engineers building a pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal with the help of Belgian Congo troops; NZ reinforcements arriving in the Middle East; troops voluntarily donating blood; parades and inspections by Freyberg and Inglis, and decorations presented by them (p 9-13, 23, 33, 36, 62). Hitchhiking from Maadi into Cairo; street tailors altering uniforms while the soldiers wait (p 15-16); camp cinema. A large number of reunions of personnel from various New Zealand districts held at different restaurants in Cairo, including Rotorua & district; Levin & district; Arrowtown, Queenstown Lakes District; Wairarapa; and Temuka. Occupational therapy for convalescent troops including embroidery and leather-work toys (p 20-22); a leave camp for forces on the Palestinian coast, run by British Army staff assisted by ATS, and Italian Prisoners of War and European women assistants. NZEF in Italy: Members of the PoW Sub-Commission in Taranto; members of the 2nd NZ Division Advance party in Taranto; released prisoners of war; embarkation on troopships from Alexandria for Italy. Funeral at cemetery at El Ballah of 3 nurses and a corporal in a motor accident between Ismailia and Port Said (Private (Miss) P A Morrissey (from Port Ahuriri); Private (Miss) M O McNulty (from Eketahuna); Private (Miss) M Innes (from Masterton); and Corporal S R W Bomford (from Takapuna), all members of the No 2 NZ General Hospital). NZEF Middle East: Award winners of the NZ Division Field Ambulance; personnel with a NZ Air Transport Squadron; members of the NZ Port Detachment; weddings in Egypt; Xmas dinner at the Maori Training Depot, Maadi. George Formby, seen with his wife/manager entertaining troops at El Djem Theatre, Maadi; Mobile Cinema Van donated by NZ Film Exhibitors' Association through the YMCA. Group of 10 men repatriated after time in German prison camps who had been taken in the Grecian Campaign; 4 brothers from the Duncan family from Wellington reunited at Maadi (S/Sgt A T Duncan, Capt R J Duncan, Pte H G Duncan and Cpl G J Duncan); photo of brothers A J and S R Halkett who arrived back in Canterbury after having been together in the firing line, in a shipwreck, in a prison camp and in a successful escape.t NZEF in Italy: men of transports from Alexandria to Bari; troops in Bari; artillery duels on the Sangro River Front; party of Russian military observers visiting the 8th Army (p 82-83); road construction, mud, road deviations constructed after demolition of bridge; water carts being filled at Sangro River, and filling canvas water tanks for filtering and storage; repair of tents and canvas items by NZ soldier A A Patmore on a sewing machine behind the lines; small arms repair; bootmaker; visit of senior officials from the British Army to HQ 2NZ Division in Italy; destruction of the village of Gessopalena by the Germans. Arrival of Patriotic parcels in Italy, Xmas 1943; Xmas dinner; snow on New Year's Eve; NZ Forces Club in Bari (p 109-110), with NZ sisiters and members of VAD at the club, and soldiers in the writing room of the club; inspection and awards by freyberg in the Volturno Valley; soldiers washing vehicles, and Italian women washing clothes in a stream near Alife in the Volturno valley. Two scenes with Peter Fraser one at Pearl Harbour with Admiral Chester W Nimitz, and Robert L Ghormly (p 116); and his arrival at National Airport, Washington in April 1944, with Walter Nash, Mrs Nash and Mrs Fraser (p 116). NZEF in Italy: Bivvies and dugouts to cope with the cold; the No 2 NZ General Hospital (p 121-123); the Monte Cassino area (p 124-136), with bombing, destruction, villagers living in caves after homes demolished by Germans; Airmen serving with the RAF in the Cassino area recording messages to be broadcast in NZ; preparation for transport of supplies over the Inferno Track, only possible at night. New Zealand Infantry Brigade Band in Italy; malaria control (p 138-140); Malaria School established by the NZ Field Hygiene Section; preventative spraying; routine taking of anti-malarial tablets; examination of Italian children for signs of malaria. Airmen in italy; men on leave at "200 Rest Home" giving free amenities to troops on 4 day's leave from the front line; sorting of winter clothing after summer clothing had been issued; Registrar's office and staff at the No 1 General Hospital, Molfetta. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2556-3002. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 19 Nov 1999

From: NZ CCS Otago Inc oral history project

By: Palmer, Shirley Lorraine, 1934-2017

Reference: OHInt-0468/11

Description: Lorraine Palmer was born in Cromwell in 1934 and raised in the small rural Central Otago community of Bannockburn where her parents farmed. Recalls family life, a love of the environment and art. Mentions her father was a CCS foundation member joining the organisation in 1934. Describes primary school at Bannockburn and the shock of moving to Dunedin to attend secondary school at Columba College. Describes Occupational Therapy training at the Avondale Mental Hospital in Auckland in 1952. Comments on the craft work and its role in assisting people in their rehabilitation. Recalls her final six months of training at Seacliff Hospital and working at the Occupational Therapy department of Dunedin Public Hospital. Talks about marriage, raising a family and voluntary work for the Play Centre Association. Recalls her return to the paid work force as Occupational Therapist at CCS in 1972 where her job was organising activities for the clients. Describes becoming Director of the Adult Centre, developing a client centred programme amd providing opportunities for clients to increase their independence. Mentions that the prevailing protective attitude to clients was a barrier. Comments on the inappropriateness of the `Crippled children' name when most of the clients were adults. Describes supporting higher education, recreation camps and increased living skills. Mentions volunteers, the work of Elizabeth Hamilton and Vera Hayward and the impact of 1981 as the International Year of Disabled People. Comments that most of the CCS Executive were male Rotarians not informed about current practice. Discusses her involvement in other groups, such as the Independent Living Group, designed to further opportunities of people with disabilities. Describes training as a social worker, becoming the CCS social worker and then Client Services Manager. Comments on communication problems within CCS, growing financial difficulties and personnel problems. Discusses a management review, being appointed interim General Manager and her decision to retire from CCS. Comments on the increased vibrancy and focus in the organisation since 1972. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Copies of photos of CCS gatherings with Lorraine Palmer involved; copies of newspaper cuttings of CCS events with Lorraine Palmer involved; paper by Lorraine Palmer `The Crippled children society - is it meeting the needs of the disabled?' Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2577.

Date: 23-24 Mar 2000

By: Barnett, Nancy, 1930-2000

Reference: OHColl-0474/1

Description: Nancy Barnett was born in Christchurch in 1930. Describes the onset of poliomyelitisio (polio) as a child, its treatment and impact on her schooling.Talks about training as an occupational therapist and specialising in the care of the disabled. Describes working as co-ordinator of the Child Potential Unit in Rotorua and teaching occupational therapy at Central Institute of Technology (CIT). Discusses being the first woman to be elected on to the national body of CCS and other work as a counsellor for NZ Marriage Guidance, court counsellor, hospice counsellor and CAB volunteer. Notes that she has been awarded a QSM. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1807 (2 folders), OHDL-000849.

Date: [ca 1975]

From: New Zealand Public Service Association : Collection

Reference: 82-046-084/4

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 23 Jun 1997 - 05 Jul 1999 - 23 Jun 1997 - 05 Jul 1999

By: Wilson, Linda Helen, 1949-

Reference: OHColl-1178

Description: Comprises 10 interviews with New Zealand born and trained occupational therapists who, among them, cover each of the modes of training and education provided for occupational therapists in NZ until the creation of new schools in 1991. Interviewees give early life histories, decision to train as occupational therapists, placements, career paths that for some included work overseas, teaching positions and active involvement in the professional body. They discuss changes in the profession, including the closure of the training school at the Central Institute of Technology and the opening of the new schools in Auckland and Dunedin. The interviewees are: Betty Searle (nee Paul), Linda Robertson (nee Morrison), Katherine (Katy) Austin (nee Hastings), Sharyn (Sybil) Gibson (nee Aplin), Wendy Becker, Jess Bunt, Norah Hobcroft, Valerie Wright-St Clair, Linda Wilson, Mary (Molly) Emery (nee Ford) Interviewer(s) - Linda Wilson, Jacqui Foley (interviewed Linda Wilson) Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-025157 - OHC-025194 Abstracts: OHA-8370 - OHA-8379 The New Zealand Registered Occupational Therapists Association, established in 1949, was renamed in the late 1960s as the New Zealand Association of Occupational Therapists. In 2014, it changed to Therapy New Zealand Whakaora Ngangahau Aotearoa Inc (OTNZ) Quantity: 38 C60 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: The interviews were carried out as part of the research for a doctoral thesis Donor/Lender/Vendor - Linda Wilson