Name transcribed from back of file print of photograph 1/2-018529.
Greymouth Hospital
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Audio
Interview with Joan Garman
Date: 13 May 2003
From: Quaker Oral History Project
By: Garman, Joan Neale, 1933-
Reference: OHInt-0427-38
Description: Joan Neale Garman born Four Oaks, Sutton Coalfield, 1933. Gives family background in England. Reflects on experience of being a twin of sister Sheila who became a librarian. Describes training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and midwifery training and domiciliary experience in Edinburgh. Gives reasons for decision to come to New Zealand arriving 1957 on SS Captain Cook to Wellington and then Greymouth. Describes Greymouth hospital and nurses home. Mentions use of Ether and Chloroform for all deliveries, caesareans under spinal anaesthetic, Exomphalos surgery and experience with multiple deliveries. Refers to Surgeon Superintendent Barclay. Recalls experience in Vancouver working at Royal Columbia at New Westminister. Discusses Church Affiliation, father from Quaker family in Glasgow and childhood experience in Sutton Coalfield Meeting House. Talks about activities in Wellington - elder, newsletter and properties committee. Outlines production of newsletter. Talks about involvement in Peace activities, International League for Peace and Freedom, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and white poppies for Hiroshima Day. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012522 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 C62 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4312, OHDL-000818. Sony TCM 500 EV Cassette Recorder; Sony ECM 144 lapel microphones: Number of interviews/events: 1
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Telegraph Office, Government Life Insurance office and Post Office, Greymouth
Date: [ca 1900?]
Reference: 1/2-018529-F
Description: Telegraph Office, Government Life Insurance office and Post Office, Greymouth (circa 1900?). Photographer unidentified. This building previously housed the Greymouth Hospital. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
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Hospital, Greymouth
Date: ca 1900-1930
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001123-G
Description: Looking across a stretch of water at the Greymouth Hospital. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between circa 1900-1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Hospital Greymouth No 1138B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative