Interview with Janet Marr

Date
7 August 1993 - 07 Aug 1993
By
Marr, Janet Lillian, 1953-
Reference
OHInt-0067/090
Description

Janet Marr born Wanganui. Talks about: negative and positive aspects of childhood; Palmerston North Teachers' Training College; marriage to a soldier and time spent in Singapore. Describes rehabilitation loan available to soldiers on leaving the Services and buying a house at Athenree, Waihi. Discusses child sex abuse and involvement with Victim Support and helping to set up Citizens' Advice Bureau.

Gives her opinion on mining in Waihi and describes her involvement in all the Tribunal Hearings and wading through enormous boxes of Environmental Impact Reports.

Access Contact - see oral history librarian

Venue - Waihi

Other - limited biographical information available

Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth

Venue - Waihi

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005868; OHV-0278F

Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 90 Minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1275.

Additional description

Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.

Use/Reproduction
Public use requires the written permission of the Curator, Oral History Centre Copyright: Copyright held by the Alexander Turnbull Library
Access restrictions
Partly restricted material
Part of
Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project
Format
1 C90 cassette(s), 1 videocassette(s), 1 transcript(s), 90 Minutes Duration, Oral histories, VHS
There are 3 items in total.
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Video

Interview with Janet Marr, video recording

Date: 7 August 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

Reference: OHV-0278F

Description: Recorded by - Rose MacBeth Arrangement: The recording of this interview is found on the tape described at OHV-0278.

Other

Interview with Janet Marr, printed transcript

Date: 7 August 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

Reference: OHA-1275

Description: Quantity: 1 transcript(s).

Audio

Interview with Janet Marr, tape one

Date: 7 August 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

Reference: OHC-005868

Description: Recorded by - Rose MacBeth Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 90 Minutes Duration.