New Zealand. National Housing Commission

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards]

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSING-1980s

Description: Includes: 1980s: Home Owners Association Ltd. The home service setip you've been waiting for ... One call for all around the house jobs! [1980s?]. pamphlet 1980: Award Homes Ltd. We think you deserve an Award [ca 1980] Keith Hay Homes; a home of your own. Booklet 1980s? National Housing Commission. New Zealand's changing housing needs; a seminar. 15 July 1980. Pamphlet (2 copies) Wellington Tenants' Union. Tenants' rights [ca 1980]. Booklet 1982: Majoribanks Apartments, 38 Marjoribanks Street, Wellington City New Zealand [1982?]. Pamphlet Mount Victoria Housing Trust. [1982-1983?]. Blue pamphlet Wellington Housing Trust; a pioneering approach to rental housing. [1982?]. Booklet (2 copies) Wellington Tenants' Union. What does the tenants' Union do? [ca 1982]. Yellow pamphlet 1983: Housing Corporation of New Zealand. Home improvement loans. 1983 1984: Wellington Tenants' Union. Housing a national disaster. Flier [1984] (2 copies) 1985: AARH Action Against Rent Hikes. End of rent "freeze". 11/2/85 [1985]. Pamphlet Ministry of Energy. Waikato housing; it's your choice. [1985?] Pamphlet 1987: Landlords and tenants; rights and obligations under the Residential Tenancies Act 1986. Booklet [1987?] The Manukau Housing Scheme. Housing ... as if people mattered. Pamphlet [1987?] New Zealand Housing Network [1987]. Folded pamphlet 1989: Housing Corporation. Home loans [1989]. Pamphlet Housing Corporation. Renting a home from the Housing Corporation [1989]. Pamphlet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 23 Feb 1989

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Reid, Colin Andrew, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0185/14

Description: Colin Reid was born in Dunedin in 1925. Describes how his mother died when he was six and his father died when he was thirteen. Talks about growing up in St Kilda and education at St Clair Primary and Kings High School. Describes many responsibilities at home and little time for sport, reading or music. Recalls a series of housekeepers and the care of his stepmother and other relatives after his father died. Recalls James K Baxter at high school and his unwillingness to be involved with school cadets. Talks about religion. Describes becoming a cadet with Lands and Survey in 1943. Discusses acceptance by the RNZAF during World War II and being a navigator on planes in the Pacific in the Flying Boat Squadron number 5. Describes working at Lands and Deeds after the war, joining the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works and working in Palmerston North. Recalls the Director of the Housing Division, Reg Hammond. Discusses the responsibilities and functions of the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works. Talks about planning work for subdivisions and setting up the infrastructure of sewage and water for Porirua. Discusses sorting out legal issues for the sale of state houses and the effects of the Town and Country Planning Act on the Housing Division. Comments on the group housing scheme and hardening of public attitudes to state housing, partly as a result of social problems in some areas. Argues that state housing brought in good design and the requirement to use New Zealand materials. Recalls the work of the architect Plischke and chief planner Ian Dudding. Describes higher density housing as a reaction to urban sprawl. Comments on subdivisions in Palmerston North, New Plymouth and Napier. Describes `pepper potting' as the placement of state housing within a suburb. Mentions the Race Relations Act. Explains the housing allocation process which resulted in ethnic groupings within blocks of flats. Describes mass earthworks as the result of the advent of new machinery. Notes that state housing was a political issue and mentions Don Borrie and Rev Charles Waldegrave. Describes the positions he held culminating in Assistant Director General of the Housing Corporation. Comments on the formation of the Housing Corporation from the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works and State Advances Corporation in 1974. Describes being a member of the National Housing Commission from 1975 to 1984. Discusses the first Director-General of the Housing Corporation, Ted Babe and his successor Hec King. Comments on Hec King's death. Talks about Minister of Housing Bill Fraser. Discusses the change in political climate and the diminished working relationships between politicians and senior civil servants by the time of his retirement in 1984. Venue - Wellington : 1989 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - At Colin Reid's home at Crofton Downs, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002250; OHC-002251; OHC-002252; OHC-002253 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 416.

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).