Aquatic exercises

Date: 24 Jan 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Girven, Irene, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0593/22

Description: Irene Girven was born in New Lynn in 1927. Lois Bolitho assisted Irene Girven in describing events and experiences in her life. Talks of representing Upper Hutt Methodist Church and the Uniting Parish in community, district and national events. Relates her experience playing the organ. Describes giving communion, singing and playing hymns on the piano after a severe stroke. Talks of the first woman minister and women trustees in the church, and involvement with the various church properties. Recalls her overseas trips, travelling by ship, seeing the King and Queen in 1936, meeting grandparents and doing family tree research. Mentions her Stoke Club membership, driving a modified car, hydrorobics and the facilities in her house. Describes activities from photographs of Wesley Seniors, Wesley Revue and her late husband with their Model A car. Talks of the church's participation in Christmas parades, the Oscar programme. Mentions having diphtheria as a child, decribes being in isolation and the care she received. Talks of men in the parish who have died. Interview concludes with two pieces played on the piano with Lois Bolitho. Elaine Bolitho summarises Irene Girven's life, mainly after her stroke. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009264, OHC-009265 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2985, OHDL-000942.

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-119

Description: Photographs related to recreation, arranged alphabetically from A to FIS, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Includes images related to dragonboat racing and chariot racing. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-120

Description: Photographs related to recreation, arranged alphabetically from FIT to M, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.