Employment (Economic theory)

Date: Dec 1999-Apr 2000

By: Desmond, Phillipa Mary, 1955-

Reference: OHColl-0479

Description: Interviews with women involved in the Aroha Trust, a co-operative of women associated with Wellington gangs in the late 1970s. Describes the Trust's aim as providing work, housing and support for members who were mostly Maori, young, unskilled, unemployed and homeless. Interviewees talk about: their childhood, experience as a member of Aroha Trust and their adult lives. Interviews with Amelia Taniwha, Charmaine Anaru, Dorothy Daley, Phillipa Desmond, Gini Shepheard, Jane Stevens, Nayda Te Rangi, Tasi Osborne, Annie Coughlan, Della Tahau, Evelyn Reid, Horiana Nuku Tarawhiti, Mahinarangi Houpapa and Nicki Torbett Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Includes project report Arrangement: Interviews have brief records Tape numbers - OHC-009821 - OHC-009871 Quantity: 51 C60 cassette(s). 14 printed abstract(s). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 9 October 1901

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

Reference: PA4-0466

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a fancy dress parade, showing the best dressed cart (Gear Co), moving through a Wellington Street on 9th October 1901. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - 8 Hours Day "Wellington 9 Oct 1901. Best dressed cart (Gear Co.) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1967 - 1986

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/22B-Acc.

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale [ca 1: 126 720] 49 x 38 cm.

Date: 5 Mar 1894, ca 1970s

By: Wilson, William Muir, 1868-1930

Reference: MS-Papers-9961

Description: Comprises telegram to W M Wilson, Wellington, offering him a job with Woolf and Dempsey, Eketahuna (1894); notes by Miss M Wilson re origins of her family; and accompanying letter from donor re collection sent to library Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1993

From: Body, Guy :New Truth & TV Extra; Cartoons 2 - 23 April 1993

Reference: H-035-002

Description: Shows a goblin, representing the green movement, blocking the path into the forest of a woodcutter. Refers to the controversial East Coast Forestry Project, opposed by conservationists Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photography

Date: 1984

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-117

Description: Shows a man returning home from work to find his wife sitting in an armchair with a glass of wine and a cigarette. Refers to the Cleaner's Union pay dispute which had expanded to include workers in Auckland. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 190 x 185mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: [1928], 1992

By: Barr, Avon Sinclair Dalrymple, 1929-

Reference: MS-Papers-6851

Description: Comprises family tree for the Trotter family compiled by Tony Trotter in 1992 and photocopy of transcript of reminiscences by Alex Trotter, following on from 1859. Trotter's reminiscences describe his family and their life in Southland while they lived in Appleby, Invercargill, Woodlands, his schooling in Dunedin. He writes of his work on a high country run at Kingston, the Roslin estate and other properties, of surveying, journey to Australia, working as a traveller for the Southland Farmers' Coop, farming, establishment in business, settling down at Waikanae and various trips around New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves, 2 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with corrections

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-651-001/023

Description: 23 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Europeans clean-up after the Americans' bloody their hands with oil deals Rural NZ angry following power price increases. Michael Cullen and Winston Peters play the sweet tune of "superannuation" leading the public to their demise. Swiss Government permit their army to carry guns when peacekeeping for the first time. Room for only one dairy industry trader in NZ's global outreach. A choice must be made between the NZ Dairy Group and Kiwi William Hague loses the British election to Tony Blair. Michael Cullen reassures the public the political parties can reach a concensus over superannuation. Public confidence is low over Air NZ's ability to make good management decisions following their purchase of Ansett. Winston Peters climbs back into the picture of superannuation ready to kick it around as a political football. The Labour Party woo Winston Peters over their new super scheme. Air NZ's purchase of Ansett seen as the white elephant that will end up grounding the Air NZ fleet. Publicans question the significance of second hand smoke in bars compared with second hand beer. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Laila Harre places the issue of paid parental leave at the Prime Minister's doorstep demanding it be dealt with now. The Public Health system is reeling from ongoing restructuring and unable to deal their basic functions. Public opinion that the lowering of the drinking age leads to a lack of sober youth to fight for the country. A new ever demanding creature has been given birth by the government - venture capital. Michael Cullen hails the budget as 'prosperity in our time'. Michael Cullen disparagingly hopes that the Prime Minister is not playing fast and loose with the country's money. Airline accidents impact on New Zealanders. Local council members seek for youth to be represented on council. Could this be Jim Anderton's next big idea, the people's airforce with armed troops flying hang gliders? NZ taxpayers show their displeasure with funding the Prime Minister's settlement for defamation in the Yelash case. Restuaranteer's reactions to the proposed 50% smoke free legislation. Helen Clark tries to make the Green Party seem more palatable to Alliance leader, Jim Anderton. Quantity: 23 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1999

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-557

Description: Political cartoons and caricatures. Quantity: 48 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, A4 size

Date: [ca 1972-1996]

By: Rainbow, Stephen Laurence, 1961-

Reference: 97-251

Description: Records relating to Rainbow's involvement with the New Zealand Labour Party, the Values Party, and Green political organizations, including the Progressive Green Party. There is also research material in environmental politics and employment, both for New Zealand and overseas, particularly in the Scandinavian countries. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 10 box(es). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Pamphlets, badges and car stickers - To Serials Collection - Various periodicals - To Oral History Collection - Cassettes of Values Party interviews.

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-610-001/041

Description: 41 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Jim Anderton and employment schemes, the Americas Cup, children and guns in USA, Pinochet's return to Chile, Nandor Tanczos and cannabis, the Americas Cup victory parade, oil prices, the superannuation fund, the police review, new industrial law and the Employers' Federation, cloned pigs as organ donors, gangs and cannabis supply, China/Taiwan anniversary, air force purchases, Labour's popularity, petrol prices, dairy industry merger, Helen Clark and the Oscars, red cards and the Hurricanes rugby team, Queenstown tourist accidents, children not getting enough sleep, road rules and cannabis law, state agencies and medical records, property rights in non-marital relationships, Microsoft monopoly, genetic engineering, TVNZ 'star' system, A K Grant dies, the National Party, the new honours list, biosecurity, Elian Gonzales and starvation, US bear market and the NZ stock market, President Mugabe, Marian Hobbs, ANZAC day, Australias wins against NZ in sport, Zimbabwe under Mugabe, Helen Clark and the media. Quantity: 41 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromides, approximately 220 x 160mm.

Date: 1978

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-417

Description: This cartoon features the Employment Superintendent from the Department of Labour who has come into the office which deals with unemployment. A man is putting up a sign for more staff for telephone enquiries. The inspector is saying he will be so busy interviewing unemplyed he will have no time to interview apllicants for the phone jobs Label on reverse dated 13/4/78 Extended Title - The Labour Department is too bogged down interviewing the unemployed to make any contact with employers, according to Wellington community workers Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon, newspaper clipping and letratone, 320 x 446 mm

Date: 1986 - 1966

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/17B-Acc.

Description: Employment Centres and transportation 1986 N Z M S 208 : Lands and Survey Department Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 103 x 74 cm.

Date: 2003

By: New Zealand. Community Employment Group

Reference: Eph-F-COMMUNICATIONS-2003-01

Description: Plastic suitcase includes a conference resource kit, a bookmark for www.worksite.govt.nz, a pocket programme in plastic sachet, an issue of "Employment matters", October 2003 (vol 14, no 10); an Information sheet (number 1, June 2003) of the Ministry of Social Development; a booklet "Connecting communities; a strategy for government support of community access to information and communications technology" (2002); a booklet "Gift of knowledge; professional development opportunities"; report by Victoria Link "Community information and communications technology research project final report" (28 March 2003). Quantity: 1 container. Physical Description: Plastic suitcase containing brochures and pamphlets, case 325 x 250 x 45 mm.

Date: 18 Oct 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Brown, Joyce Winifred, 1923-2008; Brown, Leonard George William, 1919-1994

Reference: OHInt-0403-01

Description: Joyce and Len Brown were both born in Wellington in 1923 and 1919 respectively. They give details about their family backgrounds - Len's maternal grandfather W.A.D. Skinner was the Government Printer and Joyce's paternal grandfather established H. Brittain Pharmacy in Wellington. Joyce's father, Albert Brittain, was also a pharmacist while her mother, Elspeth Tavendale, was a telephonist. Len's father, William Brown worked for the Wellington Harbour Board. His mother, Ethel Brown (nee Skinner) was a dressmaker whose work was crucial to the family's survival during the Depression. Joyce describes her family home in Resolution Street, Kilbirnie which she lived in till her marriage. Describes the musical talent in her family, family holidays and the family's attendance at church. Len describes the Ross Street family home, hard times during the Depression, being a boy soprano at church, Lyall Bay School and Rongotai College. They recall that they probably met through church. Joyce discusses pacifism within the Methodist Church and the split within the church before World War II over the pacificism of Methodist minister Ormond Burton. Len discusses the Ross Street neighbours, Brownlies (?) timber yard, the blacksmith, milkman and door to door butcher. Joyce recalls the Resolution Street neighbours, including the Riddells of J.C. Riddell Engineering, playing rounders as children and the shortcut to the beach. Describes how her mother and friends ran a soup kitchen during the Depression, the sale of the family pharmacy, the absence of an unemployment benefit and families looking after one another, doing the washing with a copper and mangle (wringer) and making soap. Joyce recalls a lack of sex education, playing basketball, influential teachers, enjoying music and verse and Wellington East Girls' College. Len recalls producing a newspaper in opposition to the Bible Class newspaper, playing rugby and being thrown out of Bob Semple's meeting. They recall local shops. Len recalls joining the Air Force during World War II while Joyce joined the Emergency Precautions Scheme (EPS). Talks about the changes in Resolution Street for the Centennial Exhibition. Notes that after the Exhibition the site and buildings were used as an Airforce training base then as wool stores before burning down in 1946. Recalls marrying in 1944, having four children, living in New Plymouth and Len becoming Shipping Manager of Shell. Describes moving to Bridge Street shortly after the opening of Rongotai Airport and they comment that the airport noise does not bother them. Describes the biggest change in the area as the development of community. Discusses the community centre, CAB (Citizens' Advice Bureau), health care, shopping centre and Aquatic Centre. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 25 Bridge Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006621 Tape numbers - OHC-006622 Tape numbers - OHC-006623 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1518.

Date: Nov 1981 - Feb 1982

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0005

Description: Structured life history interviews with longterm residents of the Wairarapa town of Martinborough. The object of the project was to gather first hand accounts of living in a small rural town in NZ in the first part of the twentieth century. Awards/funding - Funded by a grant from the Department of Internal Affairs Abstracted by - Judith Fyfe, Hugo Manson and Jean Harton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - Notes to accompany the project, an index to the contents of the interviews (49 pages), a report on the pilot project, the interview guide and a catalogue of interviewee names and NZOHA tape numbers. This was a pilot project as research and preparation for establishing a national oral history archive. Martinborough was selected for a number of reasons including the interviewers' personal association with the town, its size - population 1357, and the celebration of its centenary in 1982. Quantity: 181 5" reel(s). 97 C60 cassette(s) working copies. 36 printed abstract(s). 36 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: The collection was initially held by the Department of Internal Affairs Search dates: 1981 - 1982

Date: 14 Oct 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Bruce, Robin Athol, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0403-05

Description: Robin Bruce was born in Kilbirnie, Wellington in 1932. Gives details of his family background - the Bruce family on his paternal side and the Hobman family on his maternal side. Recalls growing up at 24 Wexford Road, a house which no longer exists because of the Wellington airport construction. Describes how his father, a builder, built 24 Wexford Road and 22 Wexford Road which was moved to its current location in Tacy Street about 1958 when the Rongotai airport was constructed. Describes the house and outhouses in detail. Discusses the importance of sport to his father John Bruce, an ex All Black, and the involvement of his mother, Beatrice Bruce, in organisations including the Methodist Women's Union and Prisoners' Aid Society. Notes that she was a pianist and there was a lot of music around the house. Discusses the effect of the Depression on his father's building firm. Describes childhood routines including meals, table manners, listening to the radio, Monday washday, frequent visitors to the house and many relatives living nearby. Recalls his brothers Donald and Neil and the death by accidental shooting of Neil. Describes the effect on the family. Describes neighbours, neighbouring properties, the power station, Miramar Wharf, childhood friends and schooling at Miramar South Primary School and Rongotai College. Comments on the effect of World War II, the Japanese threat, his father's involvement in the Home Guard and the Emergency Precaution Scheme (EPS), drills and air raid shelters. Recalls spending time at the airport during the War. Describes his jobs as a delivery boy and social life including pictures, dances, rugby at Athletic Park and fishing. Recalls the Centennial Exhibition and the destruction of the exhibition buildings by fire. Describes the use of trams and other public transport and no telephone till 1951. Recalls the planning of the Rongotai airport and the shift of housing and its effect on his family. Talks about leaving school with School Certificate and work poisoning rabbits, as a clerk and as a sales representative with Automobile Supplies. Describes marrying Alice MacInnes in 1962, moving to Wainuiomata, having a family and returning to Kilbirnie in 1985. Talks about establishing his own firm, Spares and Accessories in 1983. Gives reasons for staying in Kilbirnie. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 3 Tacy Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006615 Tape numbers - OHC-006616 Tape numbers - OHC-006617 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1522. 17 photocopies of photographs of house being moved from Wexford Road. 3 photocopies of photographs of Robin Bruce with others Search dates: 1932 - 1993

Date: 24 Aug 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Bateman, Clarence Thomas, 1912-1996; Bateman, Jean Ysobelle, 1918-1991

Reference: OHInt-0185/12

Description: Clarence Bateman was born at Totara Flat near Greymouth in 1912. Describes how his father remarried after his mother's death and he lived for two or three years at the Glendinning Home in Andersons Bay, Dunedin. Recalls that his father was in and out of work. Describes the family's move to Christchurch when his father remarried and Clarence Bateman's involvement in helping bring up the family. Describes doing well at school. Talks about his first job at the Aulsebrooks biscuit and sweet factory. Talks about his family's move to the Waitaki Hydro Scheme village where he and his father got jobs. Describes involvement in local sport, living in the single men's huts and meeting Jean Dakers. Describes the single men being put off during the Depression, returning to Christchurch and marrying Jean. Jean Bateman (nee Dakers) was born and spent her early years at Crown Terrace near Arrowtown and Frankton. Talks about the role of music in her family and her father's (John Dakers) writing. Notes that he had poems published in the Otago Daily Times. Describes the family's move to the Waitaki Hydro Scheme village about 1925. Recalls meeting and later marrying Clarence Bateman. Describes a number of places they lived in Christchurch during the Depression. Talks about Clarence Bateman's work with C.S. Lunnery. Recalls balloting for the house at 24 Beanland Ave (originally 24 McCombs Street) which was the second state house to be occupied in Christchurch. Notes that they were the first tenants of this house. Comments that when they arrived there were no neighbours, streets, footpaths, fences, carpets, blinds or curtains. Describes the opening of the house which was attended by M.J. (Micky) Savage and many MPs. Describes the house as well built in brick with a concrete tiled roof and wooden window frames. Notes that the rent was high but the house was well built. Describes regular visits by State Advances inspectors. Talks about house maintenance, purchasing the house in 1950 under the scheme which allowed tenants to capitalise their family benefit and buy their state house, and their occupation of the house for fifty years. Describes Jean Bateman's activities which include voluntary work at the Spreydon Public Library, membership of a choir and the Townswomen's Guild. Venue - Christchurch : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - Clarence & Jean Bateman's home at Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002242; OHC-002243 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 413. Photo of Clarence and Jean Bateman and their home about 1980; photo of their home about 1950

Date: 31 Jan 1999

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: Potae, George William, 1936-; Williams, Des, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0509/12

Description: Interview begins with greeting in Maori. George Potae refers to New Zealand Broadcasting tapes with his grandfather in 1947. George Potae was born in Kennedy Bay in 1936. Notes his father shore in the area and on Great Mercury Island. Recalls education at St Stephen's College and Coromandel High School before joining his brother Mac Potae shearing in the Wairarapa. Discusses working on stations on the Wairarapa coast including Huiaurau, Whakapirau and Te Awaite. Mentions people he shore with and recalls brothers Eric, Mac, Bill and Colin also shearing. Describes developing a shearing contract in Milton from 1960. Compares the northern and southern shearing season. Mentions dairying in the north between seasons. Discusses operating twenty five gangs in the Milton area. Mentions having Snow Quinn on the staff and the old shearers' quarters he established, `The Ranch'. Recalls entering the Golden Shears in 1961, making the finals in 1965, 1966, 1967 and winning in 1969. Discusses other shearers in the 1969 final including Danny Holland, Kerry Johnstone, Tony O'Reilly, Brian Waterson and Eddy Reidy. Discusses strategies of competition shearing and Maori versus Pakeha competition. Describes winning a trip to England to the Bath and West Show, returning to New Zealand and being a finalist in three more Golden Shears. Mentions Bill Meech, Samson Te Whata and `beating the (Snow) Quinn'. Comments on being responsible for changing the face of shearing in the south. Talks about setting up the New Zealand Woolhandler of the Year competition in Balclutha. Discusses the Balclutha Show and the Young Farmers Club (YFC) movement. Recalls buying Maori land in Coromandel in 1970, developing a kiwi fruit orchard and a mussel farm. Discusses the impact of 1984 government change on this business and returning to the Coromandel from Milton. Discusses the mussel industry and employing local people. Mentions the number of young people he employed in Milton. Recalls the 1997 reunion of previous Golden Shears champions. Interviewer(s) - Des Williams Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2522. Photo of George Potae, Golden Shears champion 1969

Date: 19 Dec 1999

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: Van Kregten, Hans, active 1999; Slappendel, Caroline, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0484-01

Description: Carol Slappendel was born in Lower Hutt in 1958. Talks about her parent's arrival in Wellington on the `Oranje' in 1953. Describes her family's background and parent's reasons for emigrating. Mentions her father had been in forced labour in Germany. Describes growing up in Upper Hutt and being different. Comments on her mother's difficulty in adjusting to New Zealand and return trips to Holland. Recalls Upper Hutt College and Massey University, returning to Holland for three years and working as a researcher at a university. Describes returning to New Zealand with a Dutch partner and difficulty in readjusting. Comments on marrying, getting residency for her partner and employment difficulties. Describes lecturing at Massey University for ten years and then working for ACC. Discusses losing her Dutch passport and nationality, her family's relationship with Holland and her feelings about being a New Zealander. Interviewer(s) - Hans Van Kregten Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2703.