Cambodians - New Zealand

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 7 December 1979

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

By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978

Reference: EP/1979/4284-F

Description: Cambodian refugees Tan Haing Sreng (Taing Haing Sreng), aged 6 years, and Tan Haing Khang (Taing Hang Kheang), aged 8 years, photographed in the midst of their luggage at Wellington Airport shortly after their arrival on 7th December 1979, by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 19 April 1983

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

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1983/1389-F

Description: Original Evening Post caption reads: "The proposed auction tomorrow of a valuable 16th-17th century Cambodian buddha is concerning members of the Cambodian Buddhists' Association who wish to obtain the sacred figurine for their own religious services...The president of the Cambodian Buddhists' Association, Mr Bunthan Chan, said the 70cm-high figurine had a great religious and cultural significance for the displaced Cambodian community...". Photograph taken on 19 April 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 31 October 1980

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1980/3550-F

Description: Cambodians Tan Ten Lian and Lauv Muy Fang are photographed as they are reunited with their sons Sreng and Khang at Wellington Airport on 31 October 1980 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Original Evening Post captions reads: "The tears over, the family get together with Mum holding three-week-old Tan Ly Sin and Dad with his arms around Sreng and Khang." Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 29 November 1995

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

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1995/4608-F

Description: Cambodian refugees photographed learning to ride bicycles in Waikanae on 29 November 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford. Original Evening Post caption reads: "Three Cambodian Refugee families are starting a new life in Waikanae, thanks to the support of an inter-church group. The Thack, Lam and Son families - six adults and six children - have spent up to 10 years in refugee camps in Thailand...The United Nations organised for the families to come to New Zealand in September..." Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negatives, 35mm

Date: 31 October 1980

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1980/3551-F

Description: Cambodians Tan Ten Lian and his wife Lauv Muy Fang photographed as they are reunited with their sons Sreng and Khang at Wellington Airport on 31 October 1980 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Original Evening Post caption reads: "Together again...an overcome Tan Ten Lian can't quite believe it and wife Lauv Muy Fang wipes the tears from her eyes as the couple are reunited with sons Sreng and Khang (right) for the first time in 16 months." Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1 July 1983

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

Reference: EP/1983/2442-F

Description: The Lao Family at Wellington Airport. They are from left - Ratha. Chea. Phin. Prida. Sor Tho. Visith. Song Taing Muy. Chunn. Chunn's baby Satya. Viseth. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Gail Selkirk 1 July 1983. Chunn and his immediate family left a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand 10 months before this photograph was taken, to come to New Zealand under the sponsorship of the Wellington branch of the Humanist Society. It had been a four year struggle to escape the Khmer Rouge and get to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 2 July 1999

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1999/1926-F

Description: Vietnamese actor Huong Nguyen and Cambodian actress Tevi Fanning perform in The Boy and the Bamboo Flute at Capital E, Wellington, photographed 2 July 1999 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) negative strips with 2 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 20 August 1990

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

By: Round, Mark, active 1991

Reference: EP/1990/2874-F

Description: Senior monk venerable Suthep Surapong holding a sketch of a proposed Buddhist monastery at Dart Crescent, Wellington, photographed on 20 August 1990 by Evening Post staff photographer Mark Round. With him is (left to right) Amanda Neum (aged 4), Hient Kung and Srang Lang. Original caption reads: "Hundreds of Cambodian refugees now living in Wellington will soon have a place to call their own if a proposal to build the city's first Buddhist monastery meets with local approval. The Wellington Cambodian Buddhist Trust wants to build a two-storey meeting place in Island Bay for the estimated 500 Cambodian families now living in Wellington." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1993

By: Young, Niborom, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-1185

Description: Interviews with 10 Cambodian women immigrants to New Zealand, which cover their experiences before, during and after the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge taking power in Cambodia in April 1975. (The years 1975 to 1979 are known as the Cambodian Genocide). The interviewees talk about their experiences in refugee camps and as residents in New Zealand. The interviewees are: Sichun Saingtha, Phalla Chok, Sokhom You, Thol Sao, Ngoc Chou Tran, Pet hSoun, Heang Long, Nom Khat, Chhay San, Yong Yin. The interviews were funded by a grant from the Suffrage Centennial Trust 1993. The work to create translated transcriptions was assisted by a grant from the Friends of the Turnbull Library. Nine of the ten interviews have both a transcription and a translation of the sound recording. One interview was transcribed, translated, and proof read at the same time. A note attached to the document at Library reference OHA-8460 explains the difference between the transcriptions and translations. These oral histories were used as the basis for a book: Young, Niborom. 'I Tried Not To Cry. The Journeys of Ten Cambodian Refugee Women', Steele Roberts, 2015. This collection was inscribed on the Aotearoa/New Zealand register of the UNESCO Memory of the World in November 2018. Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-025195 - OHC-025241 Quantity: 10 Interview(s). 47 tape(s). 12 folder(s) containing forms, transcriptions, and translations. Processing information: The spelling of the interviewees' names has been taken from the published book. Some names are spelt slightly differently in the transcript and translation documents, and on the cassette tape labels.

Date: 1952, 1977-1982

From: St Giles' Presbyterian Church (Kilbirnie, Wellington): Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10469-5

Description: Comprises photographs of buildings and people taken to mark various events in the history of St Giles Church, Kilbirnie. Taken between 1982 and 1984, and circa 2013 by unidentified photographer(s). One set of images were taken during the 75th anniversary or Jubliee celebrations of the church in 1982. Includes the anniversary cake being cut, a bagpiper playing, and group portraits of congregation members and ministers. One set of images show congregation members with Kampuchean (Cambodian) refugees soon after their arrival in Wellington. Inscriptions on the reverse read "Taken at the home of the "Mackenzies". Two sets of images show the removal of the Boys Brigade hut from the church site between October 1983 and 1984. Includes men working and the hut being craned on to a truck for removal to Otaki. Some photographs are pasted on to a sheet with handwritten captions [probably done for display]. One set of photographs show buidldings associated with St Giles church: the church house next to the church, the cottage (before its demoliltion in 1981), and the church manse in Lyall Bay. One set of images show important objects on display in the church: the board listing parish ministers, plaques and pennants, the World War I Roll of Honour, trophies and cups, and the altar cross Some photographs have inscriptions on the reverse which identify the event. Quantity: 61 colour original photographic print(s) [including 8 prints pasted on three sheets with handwritten captions). Physical Description: Colour photographs; some have handwritten annotations on the reverse, and eight prints are pasted on three sheets.

Date: 1970 - 1999

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, relating to immigration to New Zealand, problems and issues of new immigrants and refugees]

By: New Zealand Immigration Service; Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet & Company

Reference: Eph-B-IMMIGRATION-1970/1999

Description: Includes: 1972: Sanctuary plea to Hon F Colman, Minister of Immigration, for coloured families from apartheid [1972]. (Yellow sheet) 1976: Amnesty Aroha: They're neighbours, not criminals. ... The present immigration law is a bad law ... No more police raids & random checks; Amnesty for all overstayers [1976] (2 copies) Dawn raids; the ugly reality [1976] (Blue sheet) Denis Glover. "To stay or not to stay". 30 October 1976 Immigration requirements for visitors to New Zealand (mimeographed typescript, 2 leaves) Total amnesty is the only humane solution [1976] (2 copies) Warning! If you don't look like a Kiwi carry a passport [1976] 1977: For a Students Association that defends overseas students interests. Cut overseas troops not overseas students. Vote Janet Roth for President. [1977] Yellow flier (2 copies) 1978: Amnesty Aroha. April 1978 [Flier appealing for members of an action group] Amnesty Aroha. Newsletter November 1978 Government deporting National student leader [re James Movick of Fiji. 1978] (Yellow sheet) Government threatens student leader with deportation [re James Movick of Fiji. 1978] (Green sheet) Overseas Students' Cutback Campaign. L.A.T.O.S. (Language Achievement Tests for Overseas Students). Flier Student leader faces deportation [re James Movick of Fiji. 1978] (1 white copy, 2 green copies) Blank petition sheet asking for an increased immigration quota to Indo-Chinese refugees [1979] Help the Russian immigrants. Furniture drive 17 June [1979] (Yellow sheet) 1980s: Republican Movement (Ponsonby). Tear up the All White New Zealand policy[1980s?]. Flier 1980: Aussie Malcolm another overstayer (2 copies)(Malcolm was Undersecretary for Immigration 1978-1981) New Zealand Migration Office, London. New Zealand for a new life. New Zealand retail prices. March 1980 1981: Department of Labour to travel agents. Entry to New Zealand - people travelling on expired United Kingdom passports. 28 May 1981. (White sheet) 1985: A knock at the door. [Mimeographed sheets in English, Khmer, Chinese, Vietnamese? and Lao] Mental health care for migrants to New Zealand - Lao title translates as “For those who left their mother land for another country where they are not familiar with different living styles ....” [Mimeographed sheets in English, Cambodian, Chinese, Vietnamese? and Lao] 1986: Department of Labour - Immigration Division. Application for a permit to enter New Zealand. [Collection of official forms and leaflets. 1986] 1988: March against the Immigration Act. 1 May 1988 (Yellow Sheet) 1992: New Zealand Immigration Service. Getting a work visa. 1992 1995: Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet & Co. Immigration law update July 1995 (2 copies) 1996: An immigrant nation. Top Shelf Productions invites you to attend a preview of "New Zealand; an immigrant nation". 7 June [1996] New immigrants friendship group. Speaker Hugo Manson. Crossways Community House, 29 May 1996 New immigrants friendship group. Speaker Mr John Bishara. Crossways Community House, 27 June 1996. New Zealand international visitor arrivals [Statistics sheet. 1996] 1998: New Zealand Immigration Service. A4 envelope [1998] New Zealand Immigration Service. Fact sheets 1-6 (Immigrating, General information, NZ Society, Language, Employment, Education) Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet & Co. Immigration Update November 1998 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and other prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.