Māori (New Zealand people) - Mortality

Date: 26 March 1995 - 23 Mar 1995

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Harris, Witarina Te Miriarangi Parewahaika, 1906-2007; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: OHInt-0600-07

Description: Witarina Harris was born at Ohinemutu, Rotorua in 1906. Talks about whanau, mother Matareia (Ngati Whakaue rangatira), mother's father Rautoko Haupapa, father James Whelan Mitchell, grandfather Henry Walter Mitchell and father's mother Whakarato. Talks about returning to family marae with Ngati Poneke and upsetting her family by staying on the tauiwi side with Ngati Poneke instead of on her family's side. Mentions two families hospitable to young Maori in Wellington, the Ngahanas and the Irihateras. Mentions collecting kaimoana from different Wellington bays, and cooking paua. Talks about Wellington's Granny Raukara. Mentions brothers and sisters, many of whom died young from whooping cough. Talks about growing up with her grandparents. Mentions getting the cane at her convent school for speaking Maori, and then being caned again on returning home as punishment. Mentions that children were not involved in important occasions at the Ngati Whakaue marae. Interviewer(s) - Jonathon Dennis Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) only. 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3658; MSDL-0153 (file Witarina.doc). Search dates: 1920 - 1950

Date: [19-?]-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-43

Description: Includes a land deed with signatures and a description of the land block; a 15th century Maori karakia with translation; a manuscript on Maori mortality; an undecipherable manuscript with annotations; a piece of the finer points of Maori grammar; a study of the Maori concept of Tangi; historiography on Turi, Aotea and Kupe; a Maori proverb or whakatauaki; the whakapapa of Ngati Paoa'; the history of Takitimu waka including its iwi and the lands of all those tribes affiliated with Takitimu waka; also includes a 'Ture kamupene' document from 1908; includes an essay regarding 'Te Huia'; and also an essay on 'Tuwhare and Ngapuhi'; also contains a Christmas poem in Maori and an English translation Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss (some with holograph annotations) and typescripts (some with ms annotations)

Date: 1931-1939

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-59

Description: Includes `Report of First Conference of Maori Labour Committees of the Northern Maori Electoral District' 1939; a memo for all District Nurses to natives from the Department of Health in 1933 concerning Maori health which includes reports on Maori welfare, infantile mortality, maternal mortality, respiratory diseases; `Highlights of the Hutt Valley Observations Tour'; a Caledonian Pipe Band Concert Programme'; a typescript of a radio broadcast concerning `The Maori war effort 1941'; a notice from Percy Smith to all New Zealand Historical Branch (NZHB) members about seminars being given `Te Kooti' and `Russia - Past and present'; `Third Annual Report 1930' of the NZHB Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 13-25 Oct 1986 - 13 Oct 1986 - 25 Oct 1986

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Parker, Wiremu, 1914-1986

Reference: OHColl-0216/1

Description: Wiremu Parker was born at Makarika, Waipiro Bay in 1914. His grandfather was William Parker from Durham, England who married a young Maori woman, Ereti Waititi. Describes how his mother had thirteen children, eleven of whom died in infancy, and died after the birth of her thirteenth child. Comments on rates of Maori mortality. Talks about his mother, Ruth Teoharepe Collier, her gentle nature, use of the Maori language and his bilingualism. Describes visiting his Pakeha antecedents on his father's side. Notes that his father was also Maori. Comments that he has two fatherlands and moves between Maori and Pakeha worlds. Discusses his Ngati Porou antecedents from Rarotonga and traces his own whakapapa from Porourangi. Interprets the Ngati Porou tradition of the waka (canoe) petrified in stone on the top of Mount Hikurangi. Recalls his grandfather, Sam Collier, who was a drover. Discusses his father spending part of his childhood on Makarika Station and how he built a home halfway between Makarika and Hiruharama. Mentions the development of Hiruharama and Waipiro Bay. Talks about childhood: not starting school till the age of nine as it was too dangerous to cross the river when younger; the importance of the horse then; corporal punishment. Notes that his father farmed his way through the Depression. Mentions that his maternal grandmother was the chief mat maker for their meeting house. Refers to Sir Apirana Ngata and the Land Development Scheme. Recalls the tangi as it used to be. Comments on the loss of part of it and the survival of the `externals'. Emphasises the importance of speech-making at the tangi. Comments on kohanga reo, the state of the Maori language, the people selected to travel with the Te Maori exhibition and his feeling that Maori have been required to change more than Pakeha in working towards biculturalism. Analyses taniwha stories. Describes change by the 1940s. Mentions Dr Harold Turbott of Te Puia Hospital who was responsible for Maori changes in attitude to hospitals. Talks about midwifery and Maori medicine. Recalls Hiruharama teachers Mr and Mrs David Miller and Doug Ball, the Senior Inspector of Maori schools. Describes attending Te Aute College where Maori language was not allowed except at the weekends. Comments on the role of the Mormon Church in the death of the Maori language and encouragement of the language by the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches. Describes the effect of the Napier earthquake on Te Aute College. Talks about playing rugby, attending Victoria University and marrying Matakaiohe Takarangi, a dental nurse, in 1940. Mentions their family. Discusses Sir Apirana Ngata and the chiefly tradition of which he was part. Comments on the importance of a chief showing skill in waiata. Compares some waiata, especially `Tutere Moana' with writing by John Milton. Analyses the waiata `Poia Atu Taku Poi' by Erenora Taratoa (Ngati Raukawa). Refers to Whatarangi Winiata. Recalls the week long tangi of Meriana Tairua, the wife of Tuta Nihoniho in the 1920s. Comments that Ngati Porou did not have land confiscations and women have always had the right to speak on the paepae tapu. Recalls the reception for General Freyberg in the Wellington Town Hall about 1942 and Ngata's speech there. Comments on his special gifts, ability to interpret Maori to Pakeha and vice-versa and his ability as an educator. Talks about the influence of Sir James Carroll. Refers to Paraire Paikea, Sir Eruera Tirikatene, Charlie Ryland, Henare Poananga, Timi Hei (Jimmy Hay), Dr Maui Pomare, Dr Tutere Wirepa, Dr Peter Buck, Dr Peter Tapsell, Sir Paul Reeves, Haare Hongi (Henry Stowell) and Reverend Rewiti Kohere. Talks about the skills of Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Discusses Hawaiki, religion and the book `The golden bough' by James Frazer. Comments on the visit of Bishop Frederick Bennett with Ngati Porou. Tape nine is the presentation of the honorary doctorate degree to Wiremu Parker at Victoria University of Wellington. Language - English and Maori Venue - Lower Hutt : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Parker's home in Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001287; OHC-001288; OHC-001289; OHC-001290; OHC-001291; OHC-001292; OHC-001293; OHC-001294; OHC-001763 Quantity: 9 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 277. Photo of Wiremu Parker in 1959 and later, as a broadcaster

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014966

Description: In four frames two men having a drink in the pub chat about a newspaper article that suggests that Maori should get super earlier because they tend to die sooner. When one of the two wonders if the idea is racist they figure that it wouldn't be if everyone else who tended to die earlier also got super earlier - like smokers, the obese, drunk drivers and boy racers... Refers to the head of the Government's 2020 Task Force, Don Brash, calling for the age of eligibility for superannuation to be raised from 65 to 67 years to prevent a future blow-out in Government debt. Professor Natalie Jackson of the centre of population studies at Waikato University, says Maori have lower life expectancy, with only one in 20 people over 65 being Maori, while four in 20 under the age of 24 are Maori and so they need to be exempted if the age is raised or increasing numbers of young Maori earners would be paying for a benefit they're unlikely to collect. (Radio NZ News) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).