AUDIO
Interview with Pamela Lockhart
- Date
- 14 Feb 1995 - 1 May 1995 - 4 Dec 1996 - 04 Dec 1996
- By
- Lockhart, Pamela Mary, 1930-
- Reference
- OHInt-0438-09
- Description
Pamela Lockhart was born in Auckland in 1930. Mentions her father was a surgeon and she attended Bayfield School and Woodford House. Recalls the Depression, World War II and life at boarding school. Describes her first job at a travel agency, travelling to England on a boat, her job in London and travel in Europe in 1951. Discusses being a New Zealand woman in London, being presented at Court and her return to NZ after three years. Describes working in Auckland before marriage in 1955 and being on a farm in Bombay (South Auckland) with husband John. Recalls helping on the farm, loneliness, a limited social life, having four children and being involved with the local school.
Describes their move to a farm in Porangahau in 1979, her husband's illness after being there a year and the sale of the farm. Describes their move into Hastings. Talks about widowhood and her job with Red Cross for twelve years and association with Woodford House Old Girls.
Comments on her preference for Single Tranferrable Vote (STV) over the MMP electoral system. Discusses the location of the Hawkes Bay Hospital and the local body elections. Talks about gardening, the local harvest, painting, a writing group and her role in Speaker Forum organising women speakers from around the country to come to speak in Hawkes Bay. Talks about her grandchildren. Discusses Jim Bolger going to the Asian Pacific Trade Organisation meeting, the health sytsem and the arrival of Canadian firm McCains in Hawkes Bay. Describes the purchase of a new car.
Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton
Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton
Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2140.
Search dates: 1930 - 1996
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLC-004040 - OHLC-004042
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use may require the written permission of the donor Copyright: Hawkes Bay oral history project
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Hawkes Bay oral history project
- Format
- 3 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 3 Hours Duration, Oral histories
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Copyright
All Rights ReservedInterview with Pamela Lockhart, printed abstract
From: Hawkes Bay oral history project
Reference: OHA-2140
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Pamela Lockhart, tape two
Date: 1 May 1995
From: Hawkes Bay oral history project
Reference: OHC-007934
Description: Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Pamela Lockhart, tape three
Date: 4 Dec 1996
From: Hawkes Bay oral history project
Reference: OHC-007935
Description: Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with Pamela Lockhart, tape one
Date: 14 Feb 1995
From: Hawkes Bay oral history project
Reference: OHC-007933
Description: Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 3 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.