Digital photographs

Date: December 2009 - June 2017

By: Tymar Lighting (Firm); Collings, Wendy, 1961-

Reference: PA-Group-00914

Description: Photographs of mostly New Zealand bands and musicians, performing mainly in Wellington, taken December 2009 to June 2017 by Wendy Collings (some by Kat Grayston and Nic Cave-Lynch) of Tymar Lighting. Includes other performers from overseas. Arrangement: Original order of collection maintained. Digital files arranged and described in the same folder structure as created by the donor. Tymar Lighting is a stage lighting company based in Wellington. Established by Nic Cave-Lynch and Wendy Collings. They take photographs of performances of bands at various venues, mainly in Wellington, to showcase their stage lighting work to potential customers and published these on their website www.tymar.com Quantity: 9508 digital photograph(s).

Date: 13 Aug 2004 - 20 Oct 2006 - 13 Aug 2004 - 20 Oct 2006

By: Brehaut, Loreen, active 2006-2014; Seahorse World Science Heritage and Education Trust

Reference: OHColl-0856

Description: Interviews with eighteen former whalers who were based in Tory Channel, Cook Strait. Recorded are their experiences, attitudes and lifestyles when involved in whaling and their experiences and attitudes, including whale watching after the whaling industry ceased being active. Interviewees are Tim Barnes, John Bunt, Noel Davis, Geoff Godsiff, Bob Hansen, Joseph Heberley, Neil Henderson, Stuart Howden, Mana Huntley, Waru Huntley, Basil Jones, Noel Mears, John Norton, Tom Norton, Adrian Perano, Ted Perano, Peter Perano and Ron Perano. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Relationship complexity - Tory Strait Whalers' Families & Whekenui School oral history project (OHColl-0860) Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-001387 to OHDL-001422 Tape numbers - OHC-015994 to OHC-016032 Quantity: 39 C60 cassette(s). 18 printed abstract(s). 36 Electronic document(s) - abstracts. 18 digital photograph(s). 18 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Abstracts contain a photograph of each interviewee

Date: 1989-2008

By: BATS Theatre

Reference: PA-Group-00304

Description: Photographs relating to BATS Theatre productions from 1989 onwards, mostly publicity photographs and actors in rehearsals. Includes shows performed during ASB Bank International Laugh Festival 1998, Wellington Fringe Festival 1999, International Laugh! Festival 2000, TV2 International Laugh Festival 2001, Shebang Festival 2000, Dance Your Socks Off Festival 2006, Young and Hungry Festival 2005, Wellington International Jazz festival 2001. Also includes photographs taken in The Pit Bar attached to Bats Theatre, photographs taken at fundraising shows, plus photographs of people associated with Bats Theatre at Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards and social events. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 143 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 90 b&w original photographic print(s). 20 b&w original negative(s) strips with 54 images. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 15 colour original negative(s) strips with 56 images. 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 248 digital photograph(s). 14 digital print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, negatives, digital photographs Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0801 : Bats Theatre (Wellington) : Records. See also Oral History Collection and Ephemera Collection (Eph-C-BATS-2008, Eph-C-BATS-2009, Eph-D-BATS-2008, Eph-D-BATS-2009)..

Date: 16-21 October 2011

By: Kühne, Thomas, active 2007-2015

Reference: PA-Group-00994

Description: Photographs of the 14th International Conference of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), held 16-21 October 2011, at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographs were mainly taken by Thomas Kühne and some promotional photographs supplied by Te Papa (which are unidentified). Includes photographs of the conference venue presentations, social events (Carter Observatory), reception, and banquet (Parliament). Arrangement: Files kept in original order created by the donor. Files were delivered to the Library on two USB sticks and were arranged into seven folders named "01-Venue", "01-Venue-Environment", "02-Conference", "03-Social Event", "04-Reception", "05-Banquet" and "Title and Captions". Thomas Kühne is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, at Victoria University of Wellington. Kühne was the General Chair of the organisers for the ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems which was held 16-21 October 2011 at Wellington, New Zealand. Quantity: 128 digital photograph(s). 2 Electronic document(s).

Date: 14 Jun 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Spencer, Shona, 1937-2017

Reference: OHInt-0984-17

Description: Interview with Shona Spencer (nee Dalglish, formerly Brown), born in Lower Hutt in 1937. Interviewer's summary: Shona Spencer born 1937, lived in Lower Hutt until she left home, aged 17, to go to Canterbury University where she studied arts and music, graduating BA 1957. She qualified as a teacher and taught music at Marsden School, Wellington before marrying. Material recorded includes family background and domestic life of the Dalglish family in Lower Hutt. She had little cooking experience until she went flatting as her mother had actively kept her and her sister out of the kitchen. Her domestic life started in her early twenties when she married a farmer in 1960 and lived on a farm 'Waihi' fourteen miles out of Masterton. She prepared meals for the family (three children) as well as farm employees for over twenty years before the marriage ended and she moved to live in Wellington. She re-married in the 1990s and continues to hold a number of voluntary positions particularly with music groups. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001501 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.01 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001477, OHA-7397. Colour photographs of: Shona in her kitchen; recipes in her recipe book (2010). Scanned B&W photograph of Shona as child (OHDL-001478) Search dates: 1937 - 2010

Date: 19 Feb 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: McBride, Alison Mary, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0984-11

Description: Interview with Alison (Ally) McBride (nee Coxhead), born in Napier in 1955. Interviewer's summary: Ally was born in Napier, one of six children. She spent her childhood in Taradale and Dunedin where her family moved in 1961. This interview was recorded to complete the interview recorded with her mother, Marian Coxhead (OHInt-0984-03). It focuses on Ally's childhood and teenage years and Marian's domestic life from 1955-70. Topics explored include: grandparent's domestic lives; parents' relationship and roles in home; kitchen and laundry facilities and upgrades; kitchen equipment; daily domestic routine; domestic help; meals, mealtimes and table manners; impact of week of television (hired for Landing on the Moon); chores, learning to cook, baking; food supplies, shopping and food storage; sources of recipes and core menu; food for celebrations, social occasions and picnics; food trends and signature dish; preserving and home brewing; mother's attitudes to money, housework and role; Other aspects of mothers life: work, volunteer and business activities, interests. Recipes from Marian's handwritten recipe book are referred to during interview. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001495 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form, image captions). 3 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001465, OHA-7391. Colour photographs of: Ally McBride (19 Feb 2010); Marion Coxhead's recipe book cover and facing pages of handwritten recipes. Scanned B&W photograph of Gillian, Ally and Rachel Coxhead as young children cleaning the family car (OHDL-001466) Search dates: 1955 - 2010

Date: 3 Aug 2010 - 03 Aug 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Prangnell, Irihapeti, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0984-14

Description: Interview with Irihapeti (Betty) Prangnell (nee Te Moana), born in Waihau Bay in 1932. Talks about her family background, being raised initially by her grandparents and then by her aunt Hariata Turei in a predominanly Maori community at Cape Runaway. Describes food and meals, daily life, and social activities. Refers to her schooling, and to the impact of the young men leaving in World War II. Talks about her aunt's decision that she become a nurse and training in Hamilton. Refers to meeting and marrying her pakeha husband Alfred Prangnell, a mechanic, and continuing working. Discusses her first recipe book (Aunt Daisy Cookbook), shopping and food preparation with her husband. Refers to adopting a daughter, having a son, and the family returning to Cape Runaway for a year. Mentions moving to Christchurch, returning to nursing, and her husband dying suddenly in 1965. Comments on food preparation and meals for the children. Refers to meeting her biological parents and sisters. Talks about leaving nursing, training as a teacher, and teaching Maori in Christchurch schools. Mentions being matron at Hukarere Maori Girls College in Hawkes Bay for several years. Discusses living with her son, caring for grandchildren, doing home care nursing, and activities at the Waikanae Senior Citizens' Centre. Reflects on the different stages of her life. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001498 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 9 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 2.52 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001471, OHA-7394. Colour photographs of: Betty Pragnell; recipe book and recipes; B&W photograph of two young children with Maori man. Scanned colour photograph of Betty and a class at Hukarere (1992). Scanned B&W photographs of: Betty after qualifying as a nurse; a Maori couple; Betty and husband Alfred on their wedding day (OHDL-001472) Search dates: 1932 - 2010

Date: 27 Nov 2009

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Stewart, Jocelyn Claire, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0984-18

Description: Interview with Jocelyn Stewart (nee Smith), born in Auckalnd in 1928. Talks about her family background, and domestic life during her childhood. Mentions to her schooling, and life during World War II including Red Cross training and the death of her father. Refers to making things for her glory box. Discusses meeting her husband Clyde (Snow) Stewart after the War, their marriage, and building their house. Talks about furnishing their house, and wedding presents helping to set up the house. Refers to their vegetable and flower gardens, bottling fruit, and baking. Comments on using the Edmond's recipe book, and collecting recipes in her handwritten recipe book. Mentions eating out occasionally, and making clothes for the children. Refers to laundry facilities. Talks about the births of her children and Plunket visits. Discusss Christmas celebrations, children's birthday parties and holidays. Comments on getting television and a stereo. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001502 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract, form). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 1.56 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001479, OHA-7398. Colour photographs of Jocelyn's recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of Jocelyn Stewart, Jocelyn with her mother on her wedding day, and the bridal party; Jocelyn and Snow Stewart (OHDL-001480) Search dates: 1928 - 2009

Date: 19 Feb 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Mills, Nance Cameron, 1926-2012

Reference: OHInt-0984-12

Description: Interview with Nance Mills (nee MacDonald), born in Palmerston North in 1926. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered include: Family background: father's family from Pohangina Valley, mother's family from Rangitikei; Farm property at Pohangina; buildings on property, interior layout of homes especially kitchen and laundry, garden; golf course and school on property. Matriarch paternal aunt: involvement in affairs of farm; exchange of houses; relationship with interviewee's mother and father. Birth of younger sister. Visits to maternal grandmother in New Plymouth. Grandmother's knowledge of Maori language; family connection with Te Ruaparaha. Nance's friendship with Pomare family. Family interest in horse racing. Primary schooling - discipline, Maori action songs. Secondary schooling: weekly boarding; food; subjects studied -career options. Nance and mother's domestic life; farm catering; washing. Leisure activities (golf, horse racing, social activities). Meat: butcher in Ashurst; farm killing; offal; wild turkeys; rabbits. Sunday routine; Church; socialising after church - local pub open; home for Sunday roast. Fruit, vegetables, herbs; growing; cooking and preserving. Puddings: recipes, especially milk and fruit; milk; milking; making butter; afternoon teas. Weekly trip to 'town' [Palmerston North]; lunch out; father at the Club. Getting provisions; groceries, bread etc. Home help. Meeting husband: decision to leave farm and father; adjusting to life in the city; return visits to the farm. Having children: hospital stays after birth; routines for bathing and sleeps; milk and food; after school activities of grandchildren compared with own children. Homes at Wadestown and Karehana Bay especially kitchen and laundry. Recipes in handwritten recipe book; ingredients; method; favourites; sources of recipes. Overseas travel to London; Cordon Bleu cooking course; foreign food. Cooking new dishes for father and brother on farm; cooking at time of interview. Spring cleaning. Also mentioned: Napier Earthquake, polio epidemic. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001496 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 10 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 3.09 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001467, OHA-7392. Colour photographs of: Nance Mills (15 Feb 2010); Jonathan White painting mentioned in the interview; family dining table; details of leg of dining table; Quinnane with path to bungalow in foreground; view of bungalow with main house, Quinnane, in background; Nance's and grandmother Macdonald's recipe books. Scanned B&W photograph of Nance and Hector MacDonald with grandmother Macdonald (OHDL-001468) Search dates: 1926 - 2010

Date: 22, 23, 24 Mar 2011 - 22 Mar 2011 - 24 Mar 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Potter, Margaret Mary, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0991-03

Description: Margaret Mary Potter (known as Kate), born at Temora, New South Wales in 1934. Backgrounds her German ancestry in the Barossa Valley, South Australia and her various relations. Talks of the hard domestic life for her mother, their rural based family life during The Depression and her impressions of World War Two. Tells of the family shift to Euabalong and then to Griffith, where her father worked his way up to owning a farm and a wrecking yard business until his death. Describes childhood memories of games, Sunday church, chores, spiders and snakes, radio, plus trips to the show, Australian rules games, the pictures, and socialising with family and vistors. Describes life at Catholic school, contact with Italian and Aboriginal communities, going to choir, concerts and fancy dress balls. Tells of passing school certificate, working in doctor's surgery before training as a nurse in Leeton for a year before getting married in 1952. Talks about meeting her husband Don and memories of their wedding. Recalls her early married life, roles for husband and wife and moving to Yanco where their first two children were born. Mentions working at Letona cannery and the friendships with Lene Schafer, Dallas Schafer, Jim Hodges and Marie Hodges, and how they made the decision to shift to New Zealand. Describes sea voyage on the Wanganella, first impressions of Oamaru and staying with Jim and Marie Hodges for first year before they got a flat. Reflects on whether emigrating with friends and having support from them and Overseas Club was helpful in settling down. Tells how Jim got Don a job, his subsequent occupations and how they were able to get a house with help of family benefit and State Advances loan. Talks about being a mother, her third pregnancy, getting involved with Plunket and having a fourth child. Remembers the children's school life, trips to the beach and going camping. Compares New Zealand and Australia in music, fashion, sports and news coverage. Explains how they voted, why she retained her Australian citizenship and her shift back to Australia in 1975 with her daughters. Tells that Australia was different from her memory, problems with drugs, murders and mafia, though she still viewed it as home. Compares attitudes and identities of New Zealanders and Australians, noting similarities between the countries. Explains why they shifted back to New Zealand due to heat and not being happy at work. Talks of ease of settling back in, buying a house and paying it off. Reflects on friendships with couples they emigrated with and impact of shift to New Zealand on their lives. Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001610 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 7 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image file - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7450, OHDL-001611. Photograph of Kate Potter taken at the time of her interview in March 2011 Search dates: 1934 - 2011

Date: 13, 20 July 2010 - 13 Jul 2010 - 20 Jul 2010

From: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Engineering New Zealand oral history project

By: McCutcheon, Ian Alexander, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0965-07

Description: Interview with Ian McCutcheon, born in Wellington in 1926. Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001637 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 3 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2 digital photograph(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.48 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word, Adobe pdf; Image files - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7467, OHDL-001638. Scanned B&W photographs of Ian McCutcheon in 1967 (from Wellington City Council Archive). Colour and greyscale photographs of Doug Ritchie (2010). Document (Adobe pdf) with images and captions Search dates: 1926 - 2010 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 19 Apr 2010

From: MOTAT 1950s life oral history project

By: White, Shirley Catherine Blanche, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-1005-04

Description: Interview with Shirley White (nee Black), born in Christchurch in 1935. Talks about growing up in Herne Bay, Auckland from the age of five, their neighbours, having a vegetable garden at the back of their section, and playing in the street and in a local park. Recalls her mother worked outside the home until she was 70 as well as cooking and tending the vegetable garden. Discusses her family's artistic and musical talents, learning to play the piano, and having opera playing 'all the time'. Comments on her mother bringing her up as a Catholic but rebelling when she was 12. Mentions spending holidays with relations in Taranaki. Talks about her schooling at Ponsonby Primary School and Auckland Girls' Grammar School, mentioning teachers, discipline and class sizes. Refers to her memories of the War and the fears of a Japanese invasion. Comments on her father leaving home and the attitude of others to her parents' divorce. Talks about leaving school at 15 after her father left home, and buying a bicycle on time payment once she started working. Comments that her father arranged a job for her at the Chief Post Office in Auckland, where she hated the routine working in the telephone exchange. Discusses getting a live-in job at a private boarding school in Albany, working as matron for kindergarten age children and helping in classes. Mentions that the school was run on Quaker principles and served vegetarian meals of food grown organically on site. Refers to being trained as a preschool teacher in the job and getting her driver's license to drive the school van. Talks about meeting her husband Bruce White at the Leys Institute library while she was working in Auckland and he was still at school, how their friendship developed, and communicating by telephone and mail while she was living at Albany. Mentions attending balls together including the royal ball during the 1953-1954 royal tour. Comments on his family and how he helped her mother with her finances. Refers to marrying in 1959 after a long engagement while Bruce attended university and trained as a teacher. Describes their wedding in an Anglican church, the reception, and honeymoon in a hired Morris Minor car. Talks about living in rented accommodation and housekeeping. Recalls the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and walking across it on opening day. Mentions moving to Rotorua later for her husband's work. Interviewer(s) - Megan Wishart Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-023042 - OHC-023044 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 3.03 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7528, OHDL-001734. Search dates: 1935 - 2010

Date: 18 Dec 2007

From: Vietnam War oral history project

By: Bristowe, Te Hukarere Mamaeroa Pereto, 1938-; Diamond, Paul Edward, 1968-

Reference: OHInt-0959-49

Description: Interviewer(s) - Paul Diamond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001270 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 4.24 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word, Adope PDF; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7442, OHDL-001324. B&W photograph of Sugar Bristowe and another soldier in the field; Colour photograph of Sugar Bristowe at the time of his interview (December 2007) (OHDL-001325) Search dates: 1938 - 2008

Date: 29, 30 Mar 2011 - 7, 12, 19 Apr 2011 - 29 Mar 2011 - 19 Apr 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Potter, Donald James, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0991-04

Description: Donald James Potter, born at Newcastle, New South Wales in 1932. Recalls details of his grandparents' lives, hard working lives of his mother who died at 41 years and his father who worked as plasterer and steel worker. Tells of being bought up in the industrial 'Pommie' land of Newcastle, being in baby contests, food during The Depression, Christmas, games with siblings and playing cricket for Waratah. Talks of Japanese attacking Newcastle, Sydney and Darwin in World War Two. Tells of family attitude towards education, his own disinterest and preference for cricket. Recalls childhood home and shifting to a new house at 14 before his father moved in with a lady and the family went their own ways. Talks about his first job at 14 at Breckenridges Department store, later working at Stewarts and Lloyds steel works and its safety issues, shifts and union activity. Recounts story of unjust theft accusation at work, and decision to leave for Leeton with mates. Describes getting work at Yanco government experimental farm and Letona cannery in 1950, and the social life at boarding houses, dances and Murrimbidgee River. Explains how he met friends Jim Hodges and Dallas Schafer, and how they all met their partners before they left to work at the Whyalla shipyards. Tells of his wedding to Kate in 1952, meeting her family and converting to Catholicism. Talks about decision to shift to New Zealand, the sea voyage to Wellington and living with Jim and Marie Hodges in Oamaru. Recalls adjustment to New Zealand was helped by having the two other families from Leeton around. Details building and wharf jobs from 1957 to 1975 and getting his first house through State Advances loan. Remembers looking after their children when wife Kate went back to Australia for her father's funeral. Recalls it was 19 years before he went back to Australia for first time in 1976, and how they didn't survive there. Reflects on whether New Zealand or Australia was home, keeping his Australian passport, and how his family have different passports. Talks about the growth of Australian drug scene and mafia and being at Griffith hotel shortly before anti drug campaigner Donald McKay was murdered. Recalls impact of closure of the Oamaru wharf in 1976. Talks of his work at Oamaru woollen mills from 1979 to 1986 when he and Kate stopped work to nurse their son Dallas before his death from bowel cancer. Reflects on adventure of emigration, the support of friends and differences between Australia and New Zealand. Contrasts New Zealand attitudes to sport and politics with that in Australia. Comments that they will be buried in New Zealand where their son is. Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001613 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 5 days. 8.53 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7451, OHDL-001614. Photograph of Don Potter taken at the time of his interview in 2011. Scanned B&W photographs of: Don and Kate Potter and others leaving on the Wanganella (1957); Don and Kate Potter with children and friends, first Christmas in Oamaru. Scanned colour photographs of: Don and Kate Potter and others on first visit back to Australia (1975); workmates at Yanco Experimental Farm, Leeton, NSW (undated) Search dates: 1932 - 2011

Date: 16, 19, 22 Mar 2011 - 16 Mar 2011 - 22 Mar 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Hodges, James Carroll, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0991-01

Description: James Carroll Hodges, born at Invercargill in 1929. Backgrounds family history of immigrant great grandparents, grandparents and parents, their occupations, education, accidents and familial connection to local Maori Ngati Mamoe tribe at Colac Bay, Southland. Tells of muttonbirding season activities on the islands, personal links to Maori community, and childhood memories of his mother and maternal grandmother and siblings. Talks about family routines at home in his childhood, games and adventures with siblings and lack of material wealth. Recalls schooling with his Commonwealth medallist headmaster Jim Leckie, and impact of World War Two in the classroom and on local men, plus the family move to Invercargill where he was apprenticed for five years as a cabinetmaker. Talks about working on an Oamaru sheep farm and in Pukeuri freezing works before going to Wellington to take a ship to Australia at the time of the 1951 waterfront lock out. Describes voyage and initial experiences on arrival in Newcastle, working in Sydney as an egg checker and moving north to Leeton, New South Wales. Talks of work life there on a fruit farm, rice farm and at the Letona cannery. Recounts various adventures in the sun, heat, dust storms and flies of the harsh Australian outback climate. Comments on his first impression of Aboriginal people and attitudes of Australians to aborigines and immigrants. He reflects on his desire to assimilate as an average Australian, and his lack of homesickness and communication with home. Talks of seeking work in Broken Hill and Whyalla, where he worked as an engine fireman, life in boarding houses, and his first aeroplane trip to Adelaide and Melbourne. Describes his return to work in the Letona cannery where he met his wife and future brother-in-law. Talks about his wedding and the move to New Zealand in 1952, and how he missed his Australian mates. Describes pressure of renovating their home at the same time as working at a building firm and sheep station, thus missing the birth of his first child. Tells of their trips back to Australia and encouraging Australian friends to emigrate to New Zealand. Talks about his work as a builder and joiner until his lung condition forced him to take a job as a school groundsman and maintence man. Describes his life after retirement at 60, the end of his marriage, selling his home and living in a motor camp. Reflects on the importance in his life of his travel to Australia and the close friendships he made there. Interviewer(s) - Linda Hepburn Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001604 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 6.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image files - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7448, OHDL-001605. Scanned B&W photograph of Jim Hodges in Australia in the 1950s; photograph of Jim Hodges taken at the time of his interview in March 2011

Date: 5, 6 Aug 2010 - 05 Aug 2010 - 06 Aug 2010

From: New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association: Oral history project

By: Norton, Owen Nicholson, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0990-02

Description: Interview with Owen Norton, born in Greymouth in 1931. Has lived whole life at Coal Creek, West Coast, next door to the Norton family's Westland Snowflake Ice Cream Company factory. Left school to work in the factory aged 15. Took over and ran the business from 1955 until it was sold in 2008. Interview covers career in the ice cream industry and allied refrigeration and transport activities, and recollections of life on the West Coast from the 1930s. (Interviewer's summary) Interviewer(s) - Shona McCahon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001596 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 4 Electronic document(s) (word, Adobe pdf). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 digital photograph(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 4.43 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7446, OHDL-001598. 2 digital photographs of Owen Norton; 9 scanned B&W photographs and 5 scanned colour photographs of Owen Norton and the ice cream factory. Accompanied by 2 appendices (pdf files) with information about the photographs (OHDL-001599) Search dates: 1931 - 2010

Date: 30 Mar, 14 Apr 2011 - 30 Mar 2011 - 14 Apr 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Hodges, Marie, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0991-02

Description: Marie Hodges, nee Beaupeurt, born at Leeton, New South Wales in 1933. Recalls her childhood, her grandparents and parents, daily chores, Sunday school, extended family get togethers. Talks of the rural town life of Leeton, the aboriginal settlement at Dull Hill and her family's domestic life, especially at Christmas. Recounts stories of childhood health problems, teenage sporting activities, family outings, school subjects and punishments, her good singing voice and family's experiences during World War Two. Describes achievements of her brother Ken Beaupeurt, and her own early working life in Sydney at various jobs, mainly the Shore Grammar School and NZ Guest House. Talks about the dances, fashions and food in Sydney, then later going back to Leeton to work in the cannery where she met her husband James (Jim) Hodges. Recalls farewell from Australia and voyage on the Wanganella in 1952, living with her husband's parents in Oamaru and feeling isolated. Talks of playing indoor bowls for 32 years, as representative player and first lady in North Otago to get a gold star and winning NZ Singles title twice. Describes her wedding and discusses married life. Moves on to talk about her trip back to Leeton and helping her Australian friends to emigrate to New Zealand. Comments on missing Australia, the cold and rain in New Zealand, and her pleurisy and other illnesses. Talks about her contact with Maori culture and Aboriginal culture. Describes her children and grandchildren. Talks about her working life at a hairdressers, Tui Milk Bar and Farmers and struggles with money after separating from her husband. Talks about close friendships with other Australians from the Letona cannery who emigrated to New Zealand, her frequent trips back to Australia, feeling it will always be home. Comments on differences in the lifestyles of the two countries. Interviewer(s) - Linda Hepburn Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001607 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 4.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image file - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7449, OHDL-001608. Photograph of Marie Hodges taken at the time of her interview in 2011 Search dates: 1933 - 2011

Date: 11 May 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Schafer, Dallas Daniel Phillip, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0991-05

Description: Dallas Daniel Phillip Schafer, born at Toowoomba, Queensland in 1931. Backgrounds his German and Scottish ancestry, his convict heritage, his grandparents' and parents' lives, and his siblings. Talks of the World War Two precautions and rationing, the presence of American troops, the bombing of Darwin, Broome and Townsville and the death of a neighbour in the war. Tells his father was away at war for months on end and developed a drinking problem. Tells about boyhood activities, movies, food treats and the Catholic versus Protestant conflicts. Recalls preferring sports to subjects at school and leaving secondary school after 6 months to work as apprentice painter decorator. Tells how he was burnt so badly on his first day at work he spent 11 weeks in hospital, and lost the job due to a religious argument with a nun. Talks about working at Western Queensland outback stations after the war for three to four years. Details the lifestyle of shearing gangs and meeting Kiwi shearers and the drinking culture. Talks about Aborigine people, mixed marriages and families, comparing them with Maori. Says he has Maori son-in-law. Describes travelling around Queensland to Bundaberg and Cook Town where cane cutters were mainly New Australians and prostitution was legal because women wouldn't go there. Talks of freedom to move from job to job. Talks of going to Leeton to pack oranges where he met his wife who was part of big Welsh community there. Tells of meeting Jim Hodges and Don Potter while living in boarding houses. Mentions trip to work at Whyalla shipyards. Talks about going back to Leeton and his wedding, and the birth of his daughters in 1954 and 1957. Reflects on motivation for emigrating to New Zealand and lack of ties to Australia, comments that it was 21 years before he returned to Australia. Tells of boat trip to New Zealand and first impressions of Wellington, Lyttelton and Oamaru. Recounts differences between New Zealand and Australia in housing, accent, alcohol supply, food, cars, schools, pensions, news coverage and Anzac day. Talks about the friendships with the Hodges and Potters, what his grandchildren are doing and how he has never regretted moving here. Interviewer(s) - Linda Hepburn Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001616 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 4.26 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image file - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7452, OHDL-001617. Photograph of Dallas Schafer taken at the time of his interview in May 2011 Search dates: 1931 - 2011

Date: 23 Jun, 16 Aug 2010 - 23 Jun 2010 - 16 Aug 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Ngan, Jeanette, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0984-13

Description: Interview with Jean (Jeanette) Ngan (nee Wong), born in Taihape in 1933. Interviewer's summary: Talks about being one of 5 children of New Zealand Chinese parents who ran the General Store at Utiku near Taihape and were actively involved in the local community. When Jean's older brother drowned the family moved away to the Hutt Valley and established a new business in which Jean worked until she was released by her father to pursue her ambition to become a nurse. Discusses her marriage to Guy Ngan, then an architect but for the greater part of their married life a self employed artist and sculptor, the couple moving to Stokes Valley where over a period of years Guy built their home. Talks about raising 2 children there and, during her years at home with the children, doing a considerable amount of weaving, exhibiting and selling her work, and was a member of Port Nicholson Weavers. Discusses in detail domestic life, housekeeping and food in her parents' and her own home. Describes family photographs. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001497 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001469, OHA-7393. Colour photographs of: Jean Ngan (June 2010); recipe book and recipes. Scanned B&W photographs of: Chinese names; Wong children (ca.1940); montages of Wong family photographs; Jean aged about 11; Wong family shop; other photographs of Jean; nurse trainees; wedding photographs (June 1959); Nicholas Ngan; home in Raukawa Street; Jean and Guy in kitchen; Jean and children; weaving made by Jean; Ting Chin garden (OHDL-001470) Search dates: 1933 - 2010

Date: 12, 19 April 2010 - 12 Apr 2010 - 19 Apr 2010

From: Mrs Schumacher's gems oral history project - domestic life in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1960s

By: Toebes, Heather Bethune, 1928-2020

Reference: OHInt-0984-20

Description: Interview with Heather Toebes (nee Thomson), born in New Plymouth in 1928. Interviewer's summary: Topics covered in the recording include: father's family background, upbringing, medical studies, war service (including Gallipoli, prisoner of war in WWII). Mother's upbringing: female teachers and role models, acquisition of domestic skills and knowledge, use of a spurkle (spurdle). Her father George Thomson's medical practice in New Plymouth and the family home: layout, hygiene, laundry, mother's role in practice, care of babies, encouraging Maori into maternity nursing, goods in lieu of fees in the Depression. Family life in wartime: household chores, power cuts, mother's social life, learning manners and table manners, fear of Japanese. Childhood: attitude to parents, discipline and punishment, treatment of domestic workers, food, ironing, use of starch, personal cleanliness, mother's care of babies, learning the facts of life, schooling, manual training, saving and swapping. Food and meals: mealtimes, puddings, supplies, healthy food, examples of meals, keeping food fresh, sterilising milk and water, preserving. Kitchen and laundry layout and appliances. Garden: vegetable crops. Mother: friendships, sources of support during husband's war service, attitude to community service, support of female patients and friends. Siblings: adoption of elder brother, younger brother's loss of hearing following measles, role during mother's trips away. Mother's old age. Recipes and recipe books: Olive Bone's Fudge, "The Nothing Succeeds like Excess Cookbook", mince, curry, marmalade, gravy. Heather's working life: Victoria University Law Library, Chen and Palmer, secondary teaching, scientific translation. Marriage to Dutchman Kees Toebes: preparations for marriage, wedding presents, learning to cook Dutch and Indonesian food, learning Dutch pronunciation and language, husband's work. Family life: first home at Onerahi, meals and supplies, keeping food fresh, fishing, swapping food with neighbour, growing fruit and vegetables, drinking wine, daily and weekend routines, sewing, domestic furniture, ceramics and china, drinking coffee, kitchen utensils. Current living arrangements: buying house, kitchen, shopping, washing, housework, garden, grandchildren, change in manners and table manners, teaching law students. Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001504 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 digital photograph(s). 13 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 4.49 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual file - Microsoft word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001483, OHA-7400. Colour photographs of: Heather Toebes in her kitchen; recipe book and spurtle; recipe book (all 29 April 2010). Scanned colour photographs of: Toebes' home at Onerahi; Annie Thompson with children (1939); Kees Toebes in the house; Heather's children Quentin and Harriet at Manakau with a Christmas Crown (c.1970); Heather Toebes at her farewell from the Law Commission (1995). Scanned B&W photographs of: Major George Thomson in uniform, and verso with handwritten details; George Thompson; Heather's mother Annie with her school hockey team; Annie Thomson with Heather (c.1929); Toebes' home at Onerahi; Heather with her mother, brothers and sister (1939); Heather's mother Annie as a your woman; Heather Toebes (1951); Heather's wedding party (1954) (OHDL-001484) Search dates: 1928 - 2010