Forest policy

Date: 1981-1989

By: Kirkland, Andrew, 1935-1997; Valentine, John, active 1988

Reference: OHColl-0709

Description: Part interviews with John Valentine and Andrew Kirkland on the history of state forest management in New Zealand. Records the changes experienced by a government department as it became a State Owned Enterprise and then prepared for privatisation. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 C100 cassette(s). 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available for Andrew Kirkland and John Valentine. Search dates: 1970 - 1980

Date: 25 Nov 1987

By: Rogers, Thomas Ellis, 1937-2013

Reference: OHColl-0165/01

Description: Pilot project involving a life history interview with employee Mr Tom Rogers who, at the time of recording, was District Manager for Bay of Plenty Timberlands. Tom Rogers was born at Kaeo in 1937. Gives details of his family background including his father's emigration in 1927 and settling in North Auckland where he married and farmed. Describes his job as Maori Land Development Supervisor. Talks about his mother's affiliation with Nga Puhi through her father. Comments on the lack of emphasis on Maori culture in his upbringing. Describes leaving high school and joining the Forest Service. Talks about his traineeship from 1955 to 1958 and the importance of training in the Forest Service. Comments on career structure in the Forest Service. Talks about indigenous production in the Service in the 1950s, the trend towards exotic plantations in the 1960s and his concentration on exotic forest management. Comments on politics in the Forest Service and management and union clashes at Kaingaroa Forest. Mentions Lew Skudder, Bernie Hornfeck and Tom Maunder. Discusses the emphasis on multiple use forestry in training in the Forest Service and the debate within Forestry Corporation about training and safety standards. Mentions two fatalities. Comments on the combination of commercial, environmental and social roles of the Forest Service. Notes that problems being dealt with by corporatisation had been recognised by the Service and comments on its paternalism. Describes events leading up to the disestablishment of the state department, attitudes of employees to the establishment of the new Corporation, personal experiences during the changeover period and implementation of the new policies. Comments on the difficulty of change, problems of reappointment and the effects on people of stress. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Gerry Morris 3 September 1987; copy of a proposed Forestry Corporation structure for Kaingaroa Forest. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-011112 to OHA-011115 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1750. Photocopies of photos of Tom Roberts in 1987, at Forest Service Rangers' School about 1958, at Forestry Training Centre in 1955 and in a group of foresters.

Date: 1988-1989

Reference: OHColl-0159

Description: A series of interviews aiming to give a human insight into the history of state forestry management in New Zealand and to create a record of the changes experienced by a government department as it became a State Owned Enterprise and then prepared for privatisation. New Zealand Forestry Corporation was one of the first departments affected by the Government's devolutionary policy. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Quantity: 28 C60 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0017014

Description: The title reads 'NZ forest ecosystems second-most threatened in the world - Conservation International report'. In large text are the words 'FOREST STUMP' (play on name of film 'Forest Gump') and below is an image of the stump of a large tree bearing the words 'Only 5% of original habitation left. Context - Conservation International, a US-based charity, released figures last week which said New Zealand's forests housed only five per cent of their original habitat - second only to Indo-Burma. However, the organisation has now admitted it got confused between New Zealand and New Caledonia. New Zealand is not even on the 10 most threatened forests list. Two versions of this cartoon are available Alternative version: Forest slump - NZ forest ecosystems crisis - they house only 5% of original habitat. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1989-1991

Reference: OHColl-0166

Description: Continues the New Zealand Forestry Corporation oral history research project in diary form with a series of monthly recordings with six personnel from the Corporation in order to document the fundamental changes being experienced by the Corporation as it moves from the position of a state owned enterprise to private ownership. Includes the interviewees' reactions to changes and the impact on their professional and personal lives. Quantity: 54 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.