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Interview with John Gates
- Date
- 31 Jan 2011
- By
- Tararua Tramping Club; Gates, John, 1928-
- Reference
- OHInt-1007-04
- Description
Interview with John Gates, born in 1928, an architect who joined the Tararua Tramping Club in 1945. Outlines his official roles in the Club including being Chief Guide and designing the Tararua Lodge which was built in 1960. Talks about his work building huts and how they were funded. Mentions meeting his wife Edith through the Club and taking their children tramping. Comments that the Club was a social club for young people at a time when there were fewer activities available for them. Discusses alpine trips in the South Island when there were no maps and relying on mountain radios for weather reports. Talks about early equipment including canvas packs that ripped easily and contrasts it with present day climbing equipment. Refers to accidents and rescues. Mentions skiing, tubing down rivers, and photographing trips. Talks about rock climbing in England, ski-mountaineering in Europe, and a trip to Peru in 1982 where he climbed to 19,500 feet without oxygen. Mentions his last mountaineering trip was in 1985 and his last tramping trip was to Milford Sound in 1990. Reflects on having had an understanding wife.
Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDV-0053 - OHDV-0055 - mini DV 60 cassettes (original field recording)
Tape numbers - OHDV-0056 - DV CAM (edited master of interview)
Quantity: 3 videocassette(s). 1 videocassette(s) Videocassette. 1 printed abstract(s). 476 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 371 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 1.31 Hours and minutes Duration.
Physical Description: Image files - Jpeg; Textual file - Microsoft word
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7596.
Scanned black and white and colour photographs of tramping and mountaineering trips from John Gates' albums - 1945-47, 1947-65, Hopkins 84, Olivines and Peru (list of photographs available). Scanned photograph album pages; scanned document listing major tramping trips of John and Edith Gates and family from 1945 to 2004 (printout with printed abstract)
Search dates: 1928 - 1945 - 2011
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copy of edited master OHLDVD-1735 - OHLDVD-1736 (DVD, PAL)
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder; public use of the photographs requires the permission of the interviewee Copyright: Copyright held by Tararua Tramping Club
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
- Format
- 3 videocassette(s), 1 videocassette(s) Videocassette, 1 printed abstract(s), 476 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s), 371 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s), 1 Electronic document(s), 1 interview(s), 1.31 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Digital images, Image files - Jpeg; Textual file - Microsoft word, Illustration: Scanned black and white and colour photographs of tramping and mountaineering trips from John Gates' albums - 1945-47, 1947-65, Hopkins 84, Olivines and Peru (list of photographs available). Scanned photograph album pages; scanned document listing major tramping trips of John and Edith Gates and family from 1945 to 2004 (printout with printed abstract)
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Interview with John Gates, digital video tape two
Date: 31 Jan 2011
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDV-0054
Description: Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Original field recording Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 3 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s) Sony digital video mini tape DVM60. Physical Description: Physical Characteristics - metal evaporated Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7596.
Interview with John Gates, digital video tape one
Date: 31 Jan 2011
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDV-0053
Description: Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Original field recording Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 3 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s) Sony digital video mini tape DVM60. Physical Description: Physical Characteristics - metal evaporated Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7596.
Interview with John Gates, printed abstract
Date: 31 Jan 2011
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHA-7596
Description: Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Accompanying material - List of John Gates' photographs; list of major tramping trips of John and Edith Gates and family from 1945 to 2004 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with John Gates, digital video tape three
Date: 31 Jan 2011
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDV-0055
Description: Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Original field recording Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 3 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s) Sony digital video mini tape DVM60. Physical Description: Physical Characteristics - metal evaporated Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7596.
Interview with John Gates, edited master digital video tape
Date: 31 Jan 2011
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDV-0056
Description: Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Edited master of OHDV-0053 - OHDV-0055 with photographs added Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s) Sony digital video DV CAM. Physical Description: Physical Characteristics - metal evaporated Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7596.
Photographs of John Gates
Date: 1945 - 1987
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDL-001784
Description: Scanned black and white and colour photographs of tramping and mountaineering trips from John Gates' albums - 1945-47, 1947-65, Hopkins 84, Olivines and Peru (list of photographs available). See OHDL-001785 for scans of the pages in the photograph albums. Quantity: 342 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 271 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). Search dates: 1945 - 1987
List of John Gates' photographs
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDL-001786
Description: Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).
Photograph album pages of John Gates
Date: 1945 - 1987
From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011
Reference: OHDL-001785
Description: Scanned photograph album pages of tramping and mountaineering trips from John Gates' albums - 1945-47, 1947-65, Hopkins 84 and Peru ; scanned document listing major tramping trips of John and Edith Gates and family from 1945 to 2004 (printout with printed abstract) Quantity: 134 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 100 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). Search dates: 1945 - 1987