Spiritual life

Date: 2006 - 2008

Reference: EphCom-PSYCHOLOGY-2008-01

Description: Promotional DVD for an organisation the Prem Rawat Foundation. The DVD gives website addresses and states that the organisation broadcasts on the Sky Channel (television) and on triangle TV, Auckland. Quantity: 1 optical disk(s). Physical Description: Computer DVD, diameter 120 mm, in plastic cover

Date: 07 Feb 1971

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/346

Description: John Denford of Dunedin tells us that `Two things make a nation the land and the dead`. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Interviewer(s) - Scott Paterson, reader Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0355 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 11 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.

Date: 15 Feb 1995-18 Aug 1997

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Cowan, Robert Hector, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0438-02

Description: Robert Cowan was born in Wellington in 1930. Recalls that his father was a railwayman and that he went to many schools - Brooklyn, Wellsford, Mataroa, Eltham, Stratford and Palmerston North. Mentions his birth during the Depression, and the reduction in salary for railyway staff. Comments on schooling, starting work on the railway and going to National Airways Corporation (NAC) in administration. Recalls leaving NAC to join the NZRAF as a photographer, being in civil aviation, the types of photos taken, and being posted to Whenuapai, Ohakea and Wigram. Talks about being widowed, remarrying and coming to Hawkes Bay. Discusses working for Unilever before becoming a trainer with the Department of Labour. Discusses training programmes. Describes working for Hastings Hospital and returning to the Hospital to do archive and library work after retiring. Talks about the effect of technological change on some jobs, changes in the public service and benefit cuts. Describes involvement in the Baptist Church. Discusses people's spiritual dimension. Talks about social work done by the Church including giving food parcels and helping with transport. Recalls his social life in 1945, engagement, marriage and death of his wife Helen a year later. Describes remarriage to Lorna and the birth of two sons. Discusses teaching management at the Polytechnic and the establishment of the Community College. Recalls Muldoon bringing in Supplementary Minimum Payments (SMPs), stock increases, the drop in demand for sheep and the closure of Whakatu and Tomoana meat works. Recalls new smaller meatworks Takapau and Oringi. Discusses different aspects of work at freezing works. Discusses an operation for an enlarged aorta. Mentions that he has had visions all his life. Comments on stress. Recalls the death of Helen. Comments on the amalgamation of the Napier and Hastings hospitals and possible council amalgamation. Discusses some contemporary MPs and his feelings about republicanism and the Governor General. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2133. Search dates: 1995 - 1997

Date: 1982

By: Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-TSCF

Description: Ephemera produced by a Wellington-based organisation ca 1982. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 24 Jan 1995

From: `Don't worry-they'll soon go away' : Rainbow Valley Community oral history project

By: Koolen, Gregor, active 1970-1985

Reference: OHInt-0409-05

Description: Talks to Gregor Koolen about communal experiences before living at the Rainbow Valley Community. Describes community house building and living in the Community House. Mentions building individual houses and financing community construction projects. Looks at the establishment of Rainbow Wares, funding for this fur business, associated administrative work and the reasons for its closure. Describes other funded schemes with which the Community was involved including P.E.P., the Restart programme, Community Task Force and the Regional Development suspensory loan scheme. Talks about wood-carving and finding a New Zealand style in this medium. Constrasts community and suburban lifestyles. Looks at problems of living in a community and the spiritual aspect to life. Abstracted by - Lynn Rain Interviewer(s) - Lynn Rain Venue - Recorded during the 21st anniversary celebrations of Rainbow Valley Community Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1606.

Date: 2000 - 2005

Reference: Eph-B-RELIGION-Ascension

Description: Material issued by Ascension Unlimited, including promotions about Sylvia Sharama Shanti Vowless, Jacqueline Maria Longstaff and Jasmuheen-Elturiel. Teachings include education of the soul, "Living in the light of the God I Am", Higher Consciousness, Wairua International and the Melchizedek Academy International. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies and offset prints on sheets, sizes varying up to 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased with other related serials for the Serials Collection.

Date: [ca 1945]

From: Creator unknown :Photographs relating to School of Radiant Living at Peloha, Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay, and unidentified families

Reference: PA1-o-1728

Description: Photographs relating to the School of Radiant Living at 'Peloha', Herbert Sutcliffe's house at Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay taken circa 1945 by an unidentified photographer. The album opens with unidentified photographs of sea and ships taken (on board ship?) with an accompanying caption 'Edgars [sic] trip to Peloha Health School'. Further photographs are taken around and of the house 'Peloha' comprising: the surrounding gardens; views of cultivated paddocks; groups gathered around the front steps; water lily ponds; a group exercising; unidentified persons. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, bound with string, 15 x 23.9 cm.

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