Parents

Date: 26 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Murphy, Francis Richard, 1948-; Murphy, Bronwyn Gay, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0569/06

Description: Frank Murphy was born in Palmerston, Otago in 1948. Describes his father's work on Bluecliffs Station and his mother's as station cook. Talks about the Bluecliffs area, the ownership of Bluecliffs Station by the Rhodes Estate and its management by Dr Woodhouse. Explains father's work on the farm and going away to boarding school. Discusses his relationship with his parents, attitudes to table manners, discipline, alcohol and smoking. Describes riding a horse to school, mustering on the station and his interest in rugby, cricket and race meetings. Lists a variety of jobs before going to work at Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Mentions getting used to office work and doing extra mural study at Otago University. Explains reasons for not completing study, for leaving his job and the receivership of Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Backgrounds a venture in woolscouring. Bronwyn Murphy was born in Mosgiel in 1948. Mentions the Bisset family farm was at Momona and part of it is where the Dunedin airport is now located. Describes the fanily home, helping with cooking and chores, the childhood family routine and going to Sunday School. Comments on enjoying the open spaces as a child. Describes her schooling followed by working in a lawyer's office. Explains how she met Frank, dates, their decision to marry and their wedding day in 1970. Describes living in Dunedin and on the Taieri before buying the Beaumont Hotel in 1982. Refers to its run down appearance, its physical layout, guest accommodation, clientele, hours of work, the area covered by the hotel, the financial help of the previous owners and their first winter there. Describes customers including forestry workers. Refers to farming and orchards. Describes the Beaumont community and local characters. Talks about music at the hotel. Discusses the attitude ot the locals to outsiders. Details their aims and goals when they first took over the hotel and the introduction of food for casual diners to minimise the effect of alcohol for motorists. Lists important local events including the Beaumont races, the Paradise Fishing Club competition, other activities on the river, and a pig hunting competition. Refers to the decline of the Beaumont Races in the context of drink driving. Explains the shift of the race to Wingatui and its impact. Describes the closure of the community hall, church and school. Mentions fund raising and Bob Woods. Describes the dam project public meeting at Beaumont in 1989 and the destructive effect on the community. Explains his belief that ECNZ has been deliberately vague about the proposal. Discusses the second public meeting in 1991. Talks about the treatment of people selling to ECNZ, their absence from the hotel and a lack of farewells. Describes concerns about the environmental impact. Summarises the impact on the locals particularly in terms of uncertainty. Refers to ECNZ personnel and how they should have operated. Discusses interest groups Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the national campaign run by musician Graeme Collins and local attitudes to him. Explains their decision to sell the hotel in the context of the break up of the community and the decline in the hotel's turnover. Describes reluctance to sell to ECNZ and breaking the news to the local community. Describes their farewell, its emotional impact and new lessees Ray and Margaret Pankhurst. Describes the circumstances which led to them leasing the Fairfield Hotel. Talks about retaining links with the Beaumont community, continuing uncertainty in Beaumont and the stress suffered by locals. Explains their hopes for future of Beaumont. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2630. Photo of Frank Murphy as a child; phot of Bronym Bisset in 1959; photo of Frank and Bronwyn Murphy in 1995

Date: 16 Nov 1999

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Roberts, Heather Richenda, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0556-09

Description: Heather Roberts was born in Hobart, Australia in 1946. Describes parents, early life, quaker education, living on a mission station, and academic achievement. Talks about attitudes to men, sex and marriage. Describes teaching under the grammar/comprehensive schooling system in England. Talks about returning to New Zealand, completing a Masters degree in English Literature, teacher's college and being awarded a scholarship to complete her doctorate. Describes pregnancy and motherhood, and her decision to work as the Women's Employment Officer at Department of Labour in Wellington rather than taking an academic position. Talks about involvement in feminist associations such as the Women's Studies Association and the Family Planning Association and being Secretary to the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women (NACEW). Mentions ten months travel with her parents near London. Discusses being awarded the McCarthy Fellowship, researching New Zealand women writers and writing the book 'Where did she come from?'. Describes fourteen year career as public servant and policy positions in Department of Social Welfare and then Youth Affairs. Describes work as Barnardo's national advisor on supervised access, while teaching English as a second language. Talks about editing Jean Devanny's 'The butcher's shop', writing for a general audience and co-editing an anthology of women's writing 'A woman's life'. Mentions interest in literary criticism. Discusses quakerism's espousing of equality of the sexes. Discusses her mother as a role model. Describes early involvement in fertility control issues while working as a volunteer at Family Planning. Mentions influential feminist writers, living in communal housing, her family and feminism, compromising as a feminist and valuing friendships. Talks about 30 year relationship with husband and raising a son. Recalls the gains feminism has made for women, and fertility control in particular. Talks about feminism's inability to prevent violence towards women, yet comments on the achievement of the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) making it possible for women to leave abusive relationships. Talks about the current Women's Studies Association. Mentions current project in Vietnam with Voluntary Services Abroad (VSA) with Vietnamese teachers of English. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, Biographical information, two photos Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2657, OHDL-001006. Photo (coloured) - head and shoulder mid-shot, 1999. Photo (B & W) - head and shoulder mid shot, 1966

Date: 21 Oct 1999

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: McCallum, Janet Mary Candon, 1947-2015

Reference: OHInt-0556-07

Description: Janet Mary Candon McCallum was born in Calcutta, India, in 1947 of British descent. Describes parents' backgrounds, their arrival in New Zealand 1948 and childhood on a Wairarapa farm in the early 1950s. Talks about Catholic boarding school experiences in Wellington, winning fellowship to Paris, travel in Germany and England and post-graduate study at Victoria University, Wellington. Talks about teaching in Wairoa and studying te reo Maori. Describes Mckenzie research fellowship 1973 to study Maori children's use of English. Mentions family issues. Describes husband Chris, teaching English at Port Moresby University and involvement in feminist issues. Talks about New Guinean attitudes to women, and helping produce a newsletter for local women. Talks about travelling in Asia, returning to New Zealand, the birth of daughter 1979, and how creche enabled her to study journalism. Describes work as Press Officer for Tourism and Publicity Department, and attitudes to women within the department. Describes living in Whangarei, part time radio work, involvement in Whangarei Women's Centre's newsletter, the birth of twins and the family's return to Wellington in 1986. Mentions work experiences as press officer at Department of Health, researcher for Royal Commission of Social Policy, work for childcare association, and discusses own child care arrangements. Comments on books that she contributed to including 'Book of New Zealand women' and 'Wilderness women', and talks about influential feminist books. Describes what feminism has enabled her to achieve. Talks about the impact of childcare on women, and comments on the contemporary women's movement. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, Biographical information, chronology Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2655, OHDL-001004. One photocopied photo

Date: 14 Feb 1995 - 1 May 1995 - 4 Dec 1996 - 04 Dec 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

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

Date: 23 09 00 - 23 Sep 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Abigail, Jill, 1939?-; Reid, Jennie Christina, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0590-8

Description: Jennie Christina Reid, known as Tina, was born in Hastings in 1950. Mentions mother (Portuguese and Danish origins) who worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation before marriage, and father who had a returned serviceman's balloted farm in Hawkes Bay. Refers to Pukehou primary school, which gave insight into Maori culture. Talks about boarding school, Waikato University, and the freedom of university life, and recalls protests, Vietnam War activism and hippie ideals. Talks about first job at National Society on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, doing social and youth work. Mentions marriage at 22 to Peter Reid, and having two children. Describes work for Wellington Community Volunteers, Mackenzie Education Foundation. Mentions her influences, including the 1975 United Women's Convention, New Mothers' Support Groups, the Brooklyn Resource Centre, Household Income and Expenditure Survey. Mentions importance of Kindergarten and Playcentre. Talks about several roles in Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA); tutoring on its Diploma of Community and Youth Work; Development Officer for women with pre-school children. Describes the politics within YWCA, the contribution of Elizabeth Sewell and Gail Powell, and being introduced to women's networks through the YWCA. Mentions fulltime work as Community Development Officer and then Policy Officer at Wellington City Council. Talks about National YWCA, being a representative on the Personnel Committee, Jane Cumming and Pauline McKay. Talks about becoming president of the Wellington YWCA in 1994, staff she supervised, projects such as the Mothers' Alone project, Nydia Bay camps and the Maori Womens' Transfer Fund, working with Mary Goodwin and learning about management and governence from the YWCA. Mentions decision to leave the YWCA Presidency, job at Internal Affairs, the death of her husband and its impact on her family's life. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9073-9075 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2876. Coloured photocopy of photo (wide shot) of Tina Reid Search dates: 1975 - 1995

Date: 19 06 00 - 19 Jun 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Levett, Vera Schlesinger, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0590-7

Description: Vera Levett was born in Trencin, Czechoslovakia in 1935. Mentions Jewish origin, and talks about her mother who was a seamstress and her father who was a doctor. Talks about escaping Czechoslovakia during World War II, cousins who died in concentration camps, the impact of the Holocaust, bombing, air raids in England, and emigrating to the United States. Talks about girlhood, school, university and her doctorate in clinical psychology. Mentions marriage, moving to New Zealand, two children. Talks about interest in feminism, joining National Organisation of Women (NOW), feminist literature on mental health. Mentions work as guidance counsellor and at the Wellington School of Medicine. Describes helping establish Hecate Women's Health Collective in 1979, and involvement in a television documentary on mental health that was critical of doctors. Mentions Hecate referring women to Levett for counselling, and mentions the Women's Resource Centre. Talks about friendship with Elizabeth Sewell, National Director of YWCA, who recruited feminists. Talks about tension between Sewell and YWCA's non-feminist lobby, and being a YWCA board member. Mentions collegues Faith Gibbons, Audrey Reynolds, Mary-Jane Rivers and Gail Powell. Describes self defence courses, sexual abuse discussions, board meetings. Comments on YWCA as a traditional organisation and feminists' impact on it. Mentions Hecate's closure by the end of the 1980s. Talks about decision to leave YWCA to work at Child and Family service, Hutt Valley Health and her private practice. Talks about feminism's impact on her children, and mentions adoption. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9070-9072 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2875. Photocopy (coloured) mid shot of Vera Levett.

Date: 28 Apr 2001

From: Interviews with Patricia and Trevor Mickell

By: Mickell, Patricia, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0594-01

Description: Patricia Mickell is interviewed by her grand daughter, Kathryn Mickell, about her life's stories. Talks about her family, the 1931 Napier earthquake, sport, working as a land girl in World War II, marriage, homemaking, life in the 1940s and 1950s, and life in the South Island with her family. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn Hazelwood Accompanying material - 2 copies of bound volume of quotes and photos Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009342, OHC-009343 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3018. Photocopies on A4 sheets throughout. Search dates: 1922 - 2001

Date: 10 02 00 - 10 Feb 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Reynolds, Audrey, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0590-2

Description: Audrey Reynolds was born in Mexborough, Yorkshire in 1921. Talks about her family background, social conditions of the 1920s, schooling, marriage, teaching, having children and running a Mother Club in Luton. Talks about decision to emigrate to Nelson New Zealand. Describes involvement in Kindergarten Association in Nelson and Rotorua, joining YWCA, helping build a new hostel on Maori land, moving to Wellington, and becoming a YWCA board member. Mentions various projects, work with Maori and Pacific Island women and fundraising. Talks about running teenage dances, offering career programmes, activities at Scots College, and Executive Director Major Peter Young. Talks about a 'nearly new' shop, mobile creche, drop-in centre, and after-school programme. Mentions Catholic nuns's involvement, Sister Pauline O'Regan's Aranui community house in Christchurch, new initiatives, and government involvement. Mentions United Women's Convention 1975, the impact of feminism on YWCA, life memberships. Describes Elizabeth Sewell 'dragging the Y into the new century' with the Rape and Sexual Violence Conference 1983, a self defence initiative, and employing Sue Lytollis. Mentions various positions in YWCA including Wellington President, and new initiatives in the 1980s. Talks about benefactor Jack Ilott, and controversy when the Police wanted to use the Vivian St Wellington YWCA during the Springbok Tour in 1981. Talks about Gail Powell's influence in bringing feminism to the Wellington branch, impact of feminism on herself and on modernising the organisation. Talks about it being one of the few organsations run by women, and how it trained women in leadership roles. Talks about YWCA's future role, and pays tribute to Marion Wood. Reflects on 38 years of work with YWCA, and her husband supporting her voluntary work. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Interviewee information form, project release form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9076-9078 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2877. 1 b&w headshot Audrey Phillips, President YWCA Wellington, 1986 Search dates: 1960 - 2000

Date: 04 08 00 - 04 Aug 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Rivers, Mary-Jane, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0590-3

Description: Mary-Jane Rivers was born in Christchurch in 1951. Describes her mother and their relationship, her father, mother's family and paralysis due to medical malpractice. Talks about being educated by nuns, and moving to Auckland in difficult conditions. Talks about Auckland University, social movements, Sue Kedgely and Sharyn Cederman, becoming interested in feminism, marriage, moving to Wellington, and Victoria University. Mentions joining a feminist group that met weekly including Daphne Brasell, Therese O'Connell, Kay Goodger, and remaining friends. Talks about important feminist books. Mentions work as Community Development Officer for the City Council as a combination of feminism, social justice and community based action. Describes work as Manager, Community Services for Upper Hutt City Council, getting things off the ground such as adult education, local Workers Educational Associations (WEAs), community mental health services, Women's Refuge, helping establish early childhood services. Comments that many of these services still continue. Talks about leaving community work for the Public Sector, Senior Advisor Department of Health and working on pilot for Wellington's Area Health Board. Discusses joining Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA) Board in early 1980s; Elizabeth Sewell was Executive Director and wanted to bring the organistion into a new era. Mentions Sewell also recruited Jenny Gill, Nicola Crutchley, Vera Levett. Mentions Audrey Reynolds and Faith Gibbons progressive board members supportive of the younger women. Talks of tension between old and new ideas, such as whether or not to sell the old building. Mentions she was a Board member for three or four years. Talks about YWCA today, and her expections of its role for young women. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9066, 9067 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2873. - Search dates: 1975 - 1985

Date: 07 10 00 - 07 Oct 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Powell, Gail Lush, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0590-4

Description: Gail Powell was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1941. Describes mother, father, childhood, siblings, grandparents, school, influence of the local Southern Baptist church, and the accepted roles of males and females. Mentions university, visiting New Zealand on a Young Farmer Country Girl Exchange Programme. Mentions teaching in Appalachia, further university study, civil rights and anti-war activities. Mentions trying to get cinema desegregated in Richmond and the consequences. Mentions marriage to a New Zealander, working in a community development position in Canada, decision to move to New Zealand. Mentions work at Consumer's Institute, birth of three children, and parenting. Talks about attending 1975 United Women's Convention, and working for Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council, the cost of childcare. Talks about becoming Executive Director of Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), its role in the Women's Movement and its role in her own career development. Mentions Audrey Reynolds. Discusses whether or not the YWCA met Wellington women's needs. Talks about her interest in social and environmental justice, which were as important as feminism to her. Discusses job performance and satisfaction, financial restrictions. Comments the job was empowering for her but may not have empowered the disadvantaged women they sought to reach. Discusses some of the programmes run for children. Talks about the work skills she learnt such as financial management and political awareness. Mentions she was Executive Director for only one year but continued limited involvement. Talks about her children and the impact of feminism on them. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Biographical information form, CV, Project release form, card from Gail to Jill Abigail Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9068, 9069 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2872. Search dates: 1983 - 1986

Date: 07 10 00 - 07 Oct 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Gill, Jennifer Mary, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0590-5

Description: Jennifer Mary Gill was born in Lower Hutt in 1951. Talks about her parents, their marriage, and strong belief in education. Mentions relationship with brother, grandparents, and talks about school, Victoria University Wellington, and issues of the early seventies such as the Vietnam War, the Springboks rugby controversy and abortion. Mentions attending the founding meeting of Victoria's Women's Liberation Front. Talks about campus life, politics, flower power, hippiedom and the sense of freedom. Mentions her marriage in 1972, teaching, work for the Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas (CORSO), opening a Trade Aid shop, overseas travel and visiting CORSO projects in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Talks about working for Wellington's YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) before and after it was influenced by feminism. Mentions the Willis St building, the shopper's creche, management style, and remaining a board member after the birth of her son. Talks about the contrasting views between older and younger board members, such as police use of YWCA building during the Springbok Tour 1981. Discusses YWCA board meetings and committees, concerns about the Nydia Bay camps, and minimal contact with the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). Compares YWCA with CORSO and the Roy McKenzie Foundation which she later worked for. Talks about Roy McKenzie's preparedness to address hard issues. Mentions Marion Wood's ability as national Director of YWCA. Talks about current position as Executive Director of Fulbright New Zealand, mentions the Wellington Regional Community Foundation. Talks about her life, children, feminism, and women's organisations that no longer exist. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9081, 9082 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2872. 2 photocopies of photos, (one 1970's aged early twenties, one 1990's)

Date: 20 June 2000 - 20 Jun 2000

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Joan Catherine, 1924-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-04

Description: Joan Moffatt, nee Walker, was born in Wellington in 1924. Her parents moved to a soldier's farm in Te Horo in 1923, where she lived until marriage in 1948. Mentions walking three miles to Te Horo Primary School, segregated playgrounds, games, tennis, and boys tending headmaster's garden. Talks about being left handed. Recalls children's chores, ironing, mother's household tasks, living without electricity, and family pets. Talks about Graeme Walker and his poultry farm which was a major employer, his siblings, and farming being in the blood. Mentions family vegetable gardens, birthday parties, Christmas, attending Wellington Centennial Fair, Te Horo dances. Recalls the Trembarths, Grants, Thorntons and Spiers, the blacksmith and shoemaker, Sunday school, her grandfather. Refers to mother having children at St Helen's Maternity Hospital, Wellington. Talks about meeting husband, Ray Moffatt, a dairy farmer, and farming in the Otaki Gorge. Mentions four brothers in Home Guard, her father's response to brother enlisting for World War II, serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions self and mother knitting socks and baking for Merchant Navy, making Hussifs (needle cases), the Patriotic Society's farewell dances for soldiers, hosting English Merchant Navy sailors, and young women writing to servicemen. Mentions her brother serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions her father belonging to the Wellington Mounted Rifles, being badly wounded at Gallipoli and in France, being sent back to Britain, and evacuation orders. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11060 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 49 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3871. Photo of Joan in garden; the Walker family; Ray & Joan's wedding photo 1948 Search dates: 1930 - 1950

Date: 20 Sept 2001 - 20 Sep 2001

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Swabey, Barbara Vernon, 1910-2003; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-01

Description: Barbara Swabey was born in Wellington in 1911. Talks about her grandparents. Talks about how her grandmother Frances Simcox, nee Colenso, grew up on a mission station in Hastings, and spoke fluent Maori. Talks about her grandparents moving to Otaki in 1878, farming and building a homestead on leased Maori land at the Forest Lakes, and having a tennis court and a cook. Refers to her grandfather William Simcox, playing the organ at the Rangiatea Church, when Bishop Hadfield ran the Anglican mission. Mentions the missioners, the McWilliams. Refers to her parents settling in Otaki, and her father working at the butter factory. Mentions attending Miss Baber's (later Marsden) School, and boarding to attend Wellington Girls College. Mentions a governess. Describes holidays at the family's camping bach, her mother learning to drive a car, hotels, and shops. Talks about Karitane training in Wanganui, working as a Karitane nurse in Wellington during the Second World War, and returning to Otaki to nurse her mother until she died in 1958. Mentions travel was difficult during the war. Talks about being a life member of the golf club. Talks about writing articles for the Otaki Historical Society journal. Talks about her mother's family, who came from Birmingham. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Accompanying material - Notes written by Barbara prior to interview in 2001 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11058 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3866. Photo of Barbara ca 2000; photo of Lincoln Imp, bought from England by mother; photocopies of family holiday camp built by Barbara's grandmother (Frances Simcox); photocopy of photo of Barbara as child in a boat Search dates: 1870 - 2000

Date: 07 Jun 2000

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ormsby, Mary Louise, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0556-08

Description: Mary Louise Ormsby, known as Lou, was born in Hamilton in 1947. Describes parents, talking about her father's iwi affiliation with Nga Puhi, and her mother's Irish Catholic ancestry. Discusses childhood, cultural differences between Maori and Pakeha relatives, and Catholic education, including boarding school. Talks about study at Otago University, meeting husband Maurice Ormsby, marriage and birth of two children. Discusses motherhood, and being involved in the issues of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War protests. Mentions move to Wellington and then to Oxford in 1970, and describes the English class structure, discovering feminism, inspiring feminist writers, the Women's Liberation Movement and Oxford's liberating social environment. Discusses being an activist, and the movement's aims of equal pay, equal educational opportunites, free contraception, abortion on demand, and 24 hour childcare. Talks about living in Samoa as a diplomat's wife, and describes Samoan culture and the role of Samoan women. Describes work on her return to Wellington, including being part of the 'Herstory Diaries' collective and working as a researcher in the 1990s, and mentions Phillida Bunkle's support. Describes living in Iran 1986-88, and the culture and the position of women. Comments on the impact of feminism on her children, the gains made by feminism, and the lack of 24 hour childcare. Comments on the contemporary women's movement, and changes within the movement by the end of the 1970s. Describes her current research project on relationships between Maori women and Pakeha men pre-1900. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Curriculum Vitae Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2656, OHDL-001005.

Date: 1920-1927

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1994

Description: Stout family photograph album, 1920 to 1927. Photographer(s) unidentified. Album features domestic scenes including numerous portraits of infant Robert Edward Stout. Some of these photographs also include his parents, Agnes Isobel Stout and Duncan Thomas Macgregor Stout [pages 1 to 2]. Photographs taken at 'Tahora' in Featherston show Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout with toddler Robert Edward Stout and infant Arthur Duncan Stout (page 10). Further photographs depict 'Tahora' (pages 18 to 19). Other photos of the Stout children appear throughout the album including Robert Edward and Arthur Duncan photographed with their infant brother John David Stout (page 22). Various family excursions are covered, including scenes at Lyall Bay beach and children photographed on horseback. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 108 b&w prints. Physical Description: Black card photograph album, 18.2 x 29.8

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-674-108/125

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Shows the Police trying to deal with huge traffic queues from Wellington to Levin by setting up speed cameras after Levin to catch the people speeding who are trying to make up the time. Labour feign being blackmailed by the Greens so they appear to have a reason to call an early election. The Queen of England is surrounded by the mess following her Jubilee party, but remains amused. Comment on the New Zealand couple who denied their baby medical care with the result the baby died. The couple are drawn in the style of NZ Gothic. Bill English hears that 1 in 4 National Party supporters are considering voting for Labour to keep the Greens out of the next Government. Shows Helen Clark undermining Trevor Mallard to the press over his handling of the Teachers pay negotiations. Helen Clark is advised that calling an early election without good reason will do her no harm. The leaders of National, ACT, Greens and NZ First whine about Helen Clark calling an early election when her popularity is high. Bill English takes heart in the news that the favourite teams for the Soccer World Cup have been eliminated from the competitions. He sees this as a sign for his hopes in the 2002 elections. Jim Anderton launches his new Political party the 'Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition Party'. A teacher schools his class on how they can help escalate pressure on the government over teacher salaries and conditions. Winston Peters stirs from the political wilderness to address an audience of 500 trapped elderly people. Jim Anderton wears a jester's hat (pretend Alliance member) and regrets having to take it off. Around him are other hats of political parties he has belonged to or is about to belong to. The Greens outline their policy on GE organisms and cannabis. There is an obvious disparity in their requirement for safety between the two substances. Comment on the lack of support for signing the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming. Helen Clark seeks to rule as a majority government. The minor parties all agree that she can't. Shows public being notified of the closing of the Wellington Evening Post and the merger of the Evening Post with the Dominion. President Bush outlines his plans for a Middle East peace. It includes the Palestinian leader, Arafat, being relegated to an outhouse. Quantity: 18 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1962-[1996]

From: Franken, Paul Joseph, 1935- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-5783-02

Description: Includes statement by Franken to his family, probably relating to his coming out as gay (1990); copies of birth certificates of Mark Paora Franken (1970); menu for dinner at Gravenhage (1962); first day cover, decimal coinage (1967); Futuna Retreat cards; Kensington Palace Hotel menu; Father's Day cards from his children; Rongotai College prizegiving programme (1989); Sports and Social Club harbour cruise and Christms party tickets (1991, 1992); Evans Bay Intermediate School raffle ticket books (1986); bereavement card for Archibald Brewster Grant (1970); Wellington Civic Awards Dinner invitation and menu (1990); Frank Kitts Park opening invitation (1990); statement by Franken about his life and the papers he has collected; catalogue of Freda Simmonds' exhibition and receipt for painting he bought (1965); clippings of Franken's public life and his family including his engagement notice and his visit to his sons', Peter and Mark, kindergarten Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2004

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper); Hubbard, James, 1949-

Reference: H-740-015/020

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 6 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [ca 1875-1900]

From: Halcombe family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11397-30

Description: Contains outward correspondence from Bertie [Arthur Herbert] Halcombe to his parents. Some letters are written from boarding school at Wanganui Collegiate and from the family farm `Ferngrove' in Urenui. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-193

Description: Shows four teenagers dancing to music on the radio. Meanwhile, their parents are discussing the newspaper headline 'Radio active rain fell in Wellington' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm