AUDIO
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters
- Date
- 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
- By
- Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986
- Reference
- OHInt-0053/16
- Description
George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days.
Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence.
Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee.
Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly.
Venue - Collingwood : 1985
Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little
Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014
Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s).
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Publication or broadcasting requires the written permission of the copyright holder, the interviewee and the interviewer. Copyright: held by the Nelson Provincial Museum
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
- Format
- 12 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), Oral histories, Equipment used: Sony Walkman Cassette Recorder ; Tie pin microphones
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Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, printed abstract
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHA-0580
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape four
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003006
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 4 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape eight
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003010
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 8 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape twelve
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003014
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 12 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape five
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003007
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 5 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape six
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003008
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 6 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape seven
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003009
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 7 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape one
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003003
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape three
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003005
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with George and Kathleen Masters, tape two
Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
Reference: OHC-003004
Description: Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 12 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).