School discipline

Date: [1902]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MSX-4507

Description: Comprises record of fatigue duties, misdemeanours and publishments; list of books (?read) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1957-1959]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-042

Description: Comprises report re Mrs Hutcheson's move from Wanganui to Nelson and her financial situation, correspondence, minutes, financial reports, clippings, annual reports, circulars and other papers relating to Wanganui Collegiate School, the old boys association and the Whanganui College Board of Trustees; and some minutes for Nga Tawa school (1959) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 19 November 1992 - 19 Nov 1992

From: Catholic Education in Gisborne 1894-1994.

By: Gordon, Charlotte, active 1930s-1992

Reference: OHInt-0078/3

Description: Nan Gordon attended St Mary's School Gisborne, starting in primer I at the age of 5 years, in the old brick building in Childers Road and continuing to form IV. Describes teachers, Sr Borgia, Sr Leonie, Sr Dominica and Sr Olga. Mentions head teacher, Sr Catherine who was `staunch'. Recalls having complex about being Maori and explains there were only two Maori pupils in class - other Maori student was Bernadine Waiwatai. Gives details of daily routine in school. Mentions priests' visits with reference to Fr Berridge and Fr McMahon. Describes conditions of school, desks etc. Mentions school milk. Recalls St Patrick's Day being celebrated with shamrocks and wearing green. Other topics mentioned include: prayer life of school; outside activities - picnics; student pranks, with reference to Ann Girling-Butcher; inspectors; uniform and religious education. Gives final memories and describes changes. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Gisborne Interviewer(s) - Bruce Maguire Venue - 35 Einstein St, Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006020 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1344.

Date: 13 Oct 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Kinsman, Mary Louisa, 1905-1997

Reference: OHInt-0616/26

Description: Mary Louisa Kinsman (nee Chisholm) born Dunedin 1905. Recalls getting the strap on first day at school for writing with left hand. Describes influenza epidemic (1918). Talks about World War I and recalls farewell concerts, socials and church services for men leaving from Green Island. Other memories recalled include: household chores; Opening of Concord school Sep 1915; High school, with reference to teachers, Miss Dallaston and Mrs Kerr; marriage 1927; lack of electricity; birth of twin girls; entertainment which included movies on Saturday nights in the old town hall; fire at Cement works 1912; Depression and rationing during World War II. Mentions a younger cousin, Alistair Duthie, who went on the Wyatt Earp on a Southern Polar expedition. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Grant Rule Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010106-010107 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3375.

Date: 12 Dec 1997

From: Government House oral history project Stage I

By: Williams, David Claverly, 1917-2010

Reference: OHInt-0636/7

Description: David Williams was born in Christchurch in 1917. Gives details of his family background. Mentions his father was Canon Henry Williams, a vicar and son of a minister, who was married twice and had eleven children. Recalls that when his mother Ethel Martin married his father she became mother to his existing nine children. Mentions her grandfather's role as a magistrate on the west coast during the gold strikes and a clash with Richard Seddon. Describes his father's interest in education and involvement in starting the Church of England Primary School in Christchurch. Mentions the Open Air School Association. Recalls attending Christs College and comments on the discipline, caning, prefects, fagging and bullying. Describes beginning work at Pyne Gould and Guinness as an office boy in 1935 and then working at the Land and Income Tax Department in Wellington. Mentions joining the Wellington Regiment and during World War II going to New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands in the 36 Battalion and then to Italy with the 15th Reinforcements. Talks about marrying Elizabeth Neas and their family. Mentions working for the Forest Service after the war and doing a professional exam in public administration with the State Services Commission. Recalls applying for the job as Official Secretary at Government House, his qualifications for the job and interview with Lord Cobham. Comments on the formality and clothing. Mentions the previous Official Secretary David Fouhy. Describes the difference between the job of Official Secretary and Comptroller. Discusses the procedures for greeting diplomats, the Executive Council, the opening of Parliament, cabinet dinners, large events at Government House, proceedings for investitures, the Honours list and the five year programme for the Governor-General. Describes the ladies in waiting as friends and relations of the Governor-General's wife. Talks about Lord Cobham as Governor-General, his strong links with New Zealand and background as the cricketer, the Honourable John Lyttelton. Comments on the relationship of Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister, with Governors-General Lord Cobham and Sir Bernard Ferguson. Mentions that Sir Bernard Ferguson was the fourth member of his family to be Governor-General. Talks about his war record, personal style, knowledge of Maori, interest in church union and desire to get into the community. Discusses the 1963 Royal visit and meeting of the Privy Council in New Zealand. Describes the New Zealand background of Governor-General Sir Arthur Porritt who was a Rhodes scholar, athlete at the 1924 Olympics and top surgeon. Comments that Sir Denis Blundell was the first real New Zealander as Governor-General and comments on the difficulty of maintaining the mystique of office when the person is known. Mentions changes made to the Honours system by Norman Kirk and changes in the appointment of Governor-General. Talks about the death of Kirk. Describes being awarded a CBE. Talks about links with Buckingham Palace. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Accompanying material - Information on Williams' family tree included in abstract Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3401.

Date: 1997

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Nine original cartoons published in New Truth between May 1997 - December 1997.

Reference: A-322-016

Description: A three-panel strip showing a moustached teacher or schoolboy talking with schoolboys Tau Henare and Winston Peters about school rules for prefects. Tau Henare thinks this would be a good idea so that the latitude for marginal behaviour could be gauged. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D. Fletcher Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt pen, 124 x 390 mm.

Date: 25 Jun 1993

From: Convent girls oral history project

By: Ryan, Paula Ann, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0634-15

Description: Interview with Paula Ryan, born in Christchurch in 1948. Talks about growing up in a farming family at Weedons where personal growth was encouraged. Discusses religous observances in the family, mainly the daily rosary and attending mass on Sundays. Comments on her first communion and confession. Refers to Catholics being born with guilt but that can lead to working hard to be good at whatever you do. Mentions that she drifted away from attending church after she left school. Discusses being a boarder at St. Patricks Dominican College, Teschemakers, and rebelling against the discipline. Talks about how the staff encouraged her creativity and arranged a correspondence course in art for her. Mentions that a sense of humour was encouraged, and refers to convent schools as classless compared with Anglican schools. Describes the nuns of the semi-enclosed order as having limited experience of the world, and not being good at preparing girls for a sexual life as women. Reflects that she looks now on the positive elements she gained at the convent, especially being encouraged to believe she can do anything and to to be the best at whatever she did. Comments on having had her own business since she was 19. Refers to being Rose of Tralee in 1969, and runner up at the final in Ireland. Mentions using meditation and creative visualisation to cope with personal problems and challenges. Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010484 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 folder(s) (forms only). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. 60 kilobyte(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-000290 Abstract Available - other OHA-3597 (forms folder). Search dates: 1948 - 1993

Date: 1993

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :The Dominion cartoons 9 - 16 November 1992

Reference: H-059-002

Description: Shows a grinning man (Parliament) peering round a door at a voluptuous woman wearing boots, fishnet stockings and a bodice (labelled Middle Ages) and carrying a whip. Refers to the proposed reintroduction of corporal punishment into schools Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :Editorial cartoons. Evening Post. 2 - 30 November 1992

Reference: H-108-009

Description: Shows John Carter with a telephone at each ear speaking to callers. Refers to his offer to pass on messages of support to the Royal family, and his bill calling for the re-introduction of corporal punishment. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1984 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-186/217

Description: Includes cartoons on parents' undertaking sex education, Education minister Merv Wellington leaves his post, corporal punishment in schools, teachers on strike, smoke-free week at schools, university graduates to pay back the cost of their training, correct toys for children, abolition of school uniform, sexist language in religion, teachers to be more accountable if students fail, teachers and cleaners both on strike, caretaker falls through rotting floors of Victoria University's Hunter building, war toys, children and violence in rugby, the power of children whose parents are on the school Board of Trustees, paying off the degree loan as an old man, children with School Certificate on the edge of a cliff, "Tomorrow's schools" have disappeared over the horizon, or have gone up in flames, pupils staying at school longer because of unemployment, pornographic programmes available to children, the cheshire cat of education fades away, "Tomorrow's schools" attacked by privatisation and bulk funding and other government cost-cutting exercises, Richard Prebble (?) and Bill Birch as school bullies cutting funding. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those not found in the albums have been given estimated dates. Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1987

From: University of Canterbury. Department of Education : Records of the first joint AARE/NZARE conference, Christchurch

Reference: 89-012-02

Description: Includes papers by groups of people, John Codd, Don McAlpine, Wanda Korndorffer, Jan McPherson and Graeme Bassett, of Massey University, Dept of Education; and E Burman, M N Lovegrove and R Lewis, of Auckland Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1985

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923- :[Cartoon bromides for the "Dominion" concerning children, education, broadcasting and health. 1983 - 1991].

Reference: H-306-009

Description: Shows a headmaster speaking in his office to a rough-looking small smiling schoolboy, who is smoking and has his hands in his pockets. Behind the headmaster's back is a glowing brazier of coals with tongs dipped in it. On the floor beside it is a huge pair of pincers, some bellows and a corkscrew. The headmaster's portrait of prize cups are displayed on the wall. Published in the Dominion on 8 November 1985. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Eric Heath Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide.

Date: 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :The Dominion cartoons 18 November - 14 December 1992

Reference: H-060-001

Description: Shows a group of MPs, including John Banks, Winston Peters, Ruth Richardson, Jenny Shipley, Jim Bolger, Lockwood Smith and Bill Birch, being whipped by a large man dressed as a hangman. Refers to the parliamentary whipping system and to suggestions that corporal punishment be introduced into schools Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 2007

From: Darroch, Bob, 1940- :[15 Cartoons published in the Whangarei Report 11 January to May 17, 2007]

Reference: H-751-108

Description: It is the beginning of the new school year and a bravely cheerful teacher makes his way out of the staff room to face the students who are seen marching past with wicked grins on their faces. The teacher shouts back into the staffroom that hiding under the table will not help. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

Date: 1970 - 1983

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-162/185

Description: Includes cartoons on cuts in spending on hobby classes, vandalism of schools, corporal punishment with the cane, refusal to discipline children in the Year of the Child, a children's newspaper, school leavers face a maze through life, safe toys for Christmas, the lack of sex education in New Zealand, the Computer Generation, children staying out overnight at the Disco, teachers on strike in Wellington winds, robots to replace teachers by the 1990s, a school leavers can't stretch high enough to reach the moon (labelled "Jobs"), the violence of youngsters these days, children monitoring teachers' behaviour for the SIS, children staying on at school because of fewer job opportunities, underfunding of the Education Department, job cuts, declining education standards, the popularity of videos for children's toys, sex education in schools. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those not found in the albums have been given estimated dates. Quantity: 25 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1967

From: National Council of Women of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1371-045

Description: Includes reports on - N.Z. Standards Association - Corso - National Commission for UNESCO - Joint Committee on Women and Employment - National Housing Council - Discipline in schools - Homosexuality - Dr Doris Gordon Memorial Fund - Proposed referendum on hours of sale of liquor - Women's Viewpoint Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1974-1981]

From: Piper, Leon Bremner, 1924-2024 : Collection

Reference: 95-233-4/3

Description: Circulars, newsletters, clippings, reports etc relating to the problem of corporal punishment in secondary schools Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1974-1981]

From: Piper, Leon Bremner, 1924-2024 : Collection

Reference: 95-233-4/2

Description: Circulars, newsletters, clippings, reports etc relating to the problem of corporal punishment in secondary schools Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2005

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009637

Description: Shows David Benson-Pope in a tennis ball bouncing around. Refers to accusations that Benson-Pope as a teacher he pushed tennis balls into the mouth of a student. See DCDL-0009638 for black and white version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0000091

Description: A harrassed mother wearing an apron over her flowery dress stands in front of the kitchen stove reading instructions about smacking from a booklet. Her small son is bent over in front of her waiting fearfully for what is to come and she tells him to be patient because she has only reached chapter three. Refers to a report that Carey College, a small Christian school, has sent a booklet home to parents with instructions about smacking; how to, what to use etc. There is proposed anti-smacking legislation that will be debated after the election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).