Rural health

Date: 15 Feb 1998

From: Haast oral history project

By: Hill, Ruth Ida, 1907-2006

Reference: OHInt-0419/08

Description: Ruby Hill was born at Okuru in 1907. Describes how her father came from Germany to Australia and then the West Coast and worked on roadworks round the district. Describes the death of one brother during World War I and another from drowning. Recalls Christmas, Sundays, children's games, discipline, entertainment, music, fishing, schooling, visiting neighbours and horse riding. Mentions having to ferry people across the river to their place and riding to Jacksons Bay. Recalls Arawata Bill. Gives details of food preparation and her mother's hard work. Comments on the isolation. Describes how it took eight days to drive the cattle to market at Whataroa. Recalls getting all her teeth pulled out by the dentist when she was about ten. Describes how her mother had one of her children half way between Waiatoto and Okuru on the side of the track. Talks about her mother's death from appendicitis and the doctor's attempt to perform surgery on her at home. Recalls how she and her sister Grace left home to go to work. Discusses how they felt about leaving the district, her work at Seaview Hospital, Hokitika and working in a number of hotels. Describes meeting her husband and moving to Sutters Creek near Ngahere where her husband cut silver pine for the mining industry. Describes stores and the hall in the Haast district, sports days and the dance afterwards. Talks about her brothers Charlie and Dick Eggeling. Mentions Dick Eggeling was the postmaster for a time and Charlie and Betty Eggeling started the motor camp. Comments on Okuru as a place to grow up. Recalls the Cuttance Family. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2902.

Date: 17, 31 Mar 1996 - 17 Mar 1996 - 31 Mar 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Nolan, Desmond Joseph, 1920-2001

Reference: OHInt-0419/01

Description: Des Nolan was born in Hokitika in 1920. Describes how his paternal grandparents arrived in Jackson's Bay from Ireland. Comments that the community was a `fiasco' and they moved to Okuru. Recalls growing up in the homestead there, his father's vegetable garden, eating wood pigeon, and his first schooling at home being taught by his cousin. Recalls fishing and playing music for entertainment. Describes high school education at St Kevin's in Oamaru. Recalls riding out to Haast on a horse and then going by bus and train to Oamaru. Mentions that prior to this he had been out of Haast once to Hokitika on the `Gael' (boat) to go to the dentist. Notes that the `Gael' came up the Okuru River about every two months. Mentions that mail was by pack horse every fortnight and the priest and minister came every few months. Comments on trips made over the Paringa Saddle when people were sick and had to leave the area. Mentions that Mrs Nolan and Mrs McPherson helped with births. Comments on the difficulty for women moving in to the area. Describes changes with the air service which meant that conditions such as appendicitis were no longer so dangerous. Mentions Dr Jean McLean. Describes meeting and marrying Eileen in Hokitika and their honeymoon in Christchurch. Mentions movies once a week at Haast and occasional dances. Describes cattle farming as their main livelihood. Discusses the cattle being driven along the Paringa Track to market. Describes mustering. Mentions cattle were originally driven to Whataroa and later to Cromwell. Mentions the butter and cheese factory, cheesemaking and their 160 cows. Describes the difficulty of weather conditions and drownings in the area. Mentions the local roadmen and swaggers during the Depression. Describes the need to be a jack of all trades. Mentions the steam engine which ran the sawmill. Discusses local settlers including the Cron family, Donald and Jimmy McPherson and the Harris family on the Turnbull River, the Nisson family, and Mrs Cowan at the Okuru store and post office. Recalls Arawata Bill. Describes the beginning of the whitebait industry and his father's purchase of canning machinery in Australia. Recalls catching 130 kerosene tins of whitebait one day in 1944. Discusses the `whitebait wars', learning to fly and flying whitebait out for a number of years. Mentions his Tiger Moth and Miles Messenger aeroplanes. Describes stopping flying in 1970 after the road went through. Mentions that his wife Eileen nursed in Hokitika, ran a whitebait buying business and a motel in Okuru after the road went through. Comments on the benefits of the road. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2905.

Date: 16-17 Dec 1995 - 27-28 Jan 1996 - 16 Dec 1995 - 28 Jan 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Buchanan, Henry John, 1917-1997

Reference: OHInt-0419/03

Description: Henry Buchanan was born in Runanga in 1917. Recalls living in Ikamatua where his father trammed for the sawmiller A R Wallis. Mentions their shift to the Turnbull River in 1930 where his father cut timber for Mr Wallis, had a farm and built a sawmill at Okuru. Describes working for his family on a gold claim on the north Haast beach, growing vegetables, having dairy cows and making butter. Recalls other food eaten including wood pigeon, ducks and some beef. Recalls rowing from Big Bay for a dance and riding by horse to Haast and Jackson's Bay. Mentions fording rivers and going by the tide. Talks about mail brought in by pack horse and a launch between Jackson's Bay and Okuru. Comments on the beginning of the aeroplane service and being able to get emergency service when needed. Notes that previously when people were sick it had taken three or four days to get them to Paringa by stretcher. Mentions accidents in the area. Comments on Dr Jean McLean flying down from Hokitika each fortnight. Describes post offices at Okuru, run by the Eggeling family, at Upper Okuru, by the Nolan family, at Haast, by the Cron family and at Huhuka by the Harris family. Mentions Betty Eggeling was the first woman to drive through Haast Pass. Talks about marrying Mina McCrae at Greymouth and their honeymoon in Nelson. Describes life with radio and no television. Describes beginning a fishing venture about 1950, buying a freezer, starting whitebaiting and a `whitebait war' with the Nolans. Describes operating boats and an aeroplane while whitebaiting and crayfishing. Discusses fights about air space with Myrtle Cron, the airways agent at Haast. Mentions that Ivy Cron operated the ferry across the Haast. Notes that West Coast Airways began operating about 1930 and discusses weather problems and flying. Recalls deer stalking full time from 1955 to 1960, a venison factory built in Greymouth in the 1970s and a mussel farming venture in Marlborough. Discusses other work he has done including on the Haast aerodrome, goldmining, scrubcutting for W D Nolan in Cascade, droving cattle out to Whataroa, working on the road from Makarora and from Waiatoto to Okuru and being manpowered into the sawmill at Ikamatua. Notes that the Government gave subsidies for gold mining during the Depression. Talks about the Cowl and Harris families and mentions his mother remarried Joe Harris. Mentions camps at Jacksons Bay, Okuru and Haast and roadmen Joe Driscoll and Jack Farrell. Talks about brothers and sisters Ted, Bill and Myra Buchanan. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2897.

Date: 15-16 Nov 1997 - 15 Nov 1997 - 16 Nov 1997

From: Haast oral history project

By: Eggeling, Milcah Elizabeth, 1920-

Reference: OHInt-0419/07

Description: Betty Eggeling was born at Ross in 1920. Describes her family background, her parents meeting in Greymouth, her father's occupations as coalminer, goldminer and farmer and how the family lived in Runanga, Aratika and Ross. Describes how their house was washed off its foundations by a burst water supply dam. Comments on her mother's ability to feed the family, trap possums and make clothes for the children from flour bags. Recalls the tin bath in front of the open fire and rescuing her brother from being drowned in the river. Describes being timid, having few visitors, the distance from school and some schooling by correspondence. Describes the family's shift from Ikamatua to Okuru after the purchase of a farm and recalls travelling south by boat with the livestock in 1931. Mentions planting potatoes and oats. Talks about her father's absence bush cutting. Mentions her brother Henry Buchanan was like a father. Describes the cattle track and mustering. Discusses the roadmen Jack Farrell and Joe Driscoll, Chinese mining for gold at Bald Hill and gold diggings at the Arawata River beach. Discusses changing her name from Milcah to Betty. Recalls having her children at Greymouth, the fortnight spent in hospital and how women looked after one another's children. Talks about the work of her husband Charlie Eggeling and his brother Dick Eggeling building and maintaining the roads and bridges. Discusses alcohol, the arrival of the supply boat, the ensuing dance and the use of alcohol by the Ministry of Works (MoW) staff. Describes the friendship of the Harris and Buchanan families. Talks about operating a motor camp and looking for greenstone with husband Charlie Eggeling. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Abstracted by - Abstracted by Julia Bradshaw Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009129; OHC-009130; OHC-009131 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 2901.

Date: 17 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Buchanan, David Edward, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0419/02

Description: Ted Buchanan was born in Reefton in 1927. Recalls his family moving from Ikamatua to Haast when he was five. Describes how his father was frequently away as he was a mill worker. Mentions that the six children had chores and his mother, Isabel Buchanan, was tough and capable. Recalls her ploughing fields to plant potatoes. Talks about the vegetable garden, making bread, bottling and storing fruit and making jam. Describes going to school at Okuru, Te Taho and Ikamatua. Mentions his father died when he was twelve. Recalls playing cards, listening to the radio and catching cockabullies for recreation. Describes going to Christchurch for six months when he left school, returning to Haast, felling bush in the Arawata area with his brother Henry and living at the Public Works Department (PWD) camp. Mentions also doing road work. Describes whitebaiting at Cascade and bringing the whitebait out by horse or boat. Mentions constructing an air strip and taking freezers in. Describes deer stalking with Des Nolan for two seasons and gives details of working at Carters Mill as a bushman. Talks about marrying Collette Brazil who worked in a hotel in Hokitika. Mentions visits from the dentist at Hokitika and Dinny Nolan who also pulled teeth out. Talks about ways of getting out to medical help. Recalls the Duggan family, the McPherson family on the Turnbull River and Myrtle Cron who could shoot and skin a deer. Recalls shifting to Mosgiel for his children's education. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2896.

Date: 15 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Mackey, Ann Patricia, 1920-2004

Reference: OHInt-0419/10

Description: Ann Mackey was born in Hokitika in 1920. Describes growing up at Okuru where her father would be away on cattle drives for several weeks. Talks about her mother's ability at operating the ferry across the Okuru River. Describes carrying water from the river for household use. Talks about whitebaiting and using sugar bags to make whitebait nets. Recalls Grandfather Eggeling who stuffed native birds. Mentions Arawata Bill. Describes going to school at Dinny Nolan's house and later to the Okuru School. Mentions riding bareback to school, the other children, and teachers Hector Brown and Mr Gillan. Recalls corporal punishment. Describes leaving school at the age of twelve. Comments on her cousins, the Nolan boys, going to boarding school at Oamaru. Talks about Christmas, picnics and the Easter races at Mussel Point. Recalls first leaving Okuru at the age of five and going over the cattle track. Describes her next trip at the age of fourteen and having all her teeth removed. Mentions that Dinny Nolan pulled teeth out and also made coffins. Describes deaths by appendicitis, accidents in the area and trips out by stretcher. Talks about the McPherson and Harris families and card parties. Describes her mother's cooking including goslings, whitebait and scones. Mentions visitors and cooking for workmen. Discusses doing the laundry including heating the copper. Recalls being lonely and having a pretend friend. Describes how the phone could be cut off for weeks. Describes swimming, tramping and helping with mustering and haymaking. Talks about how shy she was when she left the area and not being able to play sport. Discusses her husband Harold Mackey, who worked for the Public Works Department, and their taking over his father's farm at Kowhitirangi after World War II. Alan and Eunice Cron participate in part of the interview Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2904.

Date: 25 Apr 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Cowan, Bernard Homersham, 1921-2003

Reference: OHInt-0419/04

Description: Bernard Cowan was born in Christchurch in 1921. Gives details of his family background. Mentions his mother met his father in Christchurch and went to live at Okuru. Mentions their farm was between Waiatoto and Arawata. Discusses their income from cattle and home made butter. Describes how his brother died when he was seven and his father was killed in 1935 when Bernie was fourteen. Describes attending school at the Nolan's household school. Talks about the other children and teachers. Recalls being carried out on a stretcher on the Haast-Paringa cattle track with appendicitis when he was twelve. Mentions his grandmother went with him. Recalls a difficult trip back from Hokitika, where he had been visiting his mother in hospital, in the boat `Elsie' as a nine year old. Recalls no hot or cold water during the Depression, eating wood pigeons and fish and having difficulty paying bills. Mentions his sister was educated at Hokitika and was training to be a nurse until the death of his father. Describes meeting and marrying Myra Roberts and getting a job with the Public Works Department (PWD). Recalls working at the aerodrome at Mussel Point and on road building. Comments on how the air service saved people's lives. Describes selling deer skins while working for the PWD. Describes selling the farm in 1947, buying a truck to cart gravel and having five trucks working at one time. Describes whitebaiting and selling the whitebait and a crayfishing venture with his son John. Discusses crossing rivers. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2898.

Date: 25 Apr 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Cowan, Myra Edith, 1921-2015

Reference: OHInt-0419/05

Description: Myra Cowan was born in Christchurch in 1921. Describes schooling at St Margaret's College, becoming a dental assistant and meeting Bernie Cowan from Okuru in Christchurch. Talks about visiting Okuru before they married, moving down there, the old family home, being `tin kettled' by the neighbours and being homesick. Mentions sandflies and no electricity. Discusses the coal range, getting a diesel generator and some conveniences. Describes being thought of as a snob and concessions she made to this. Mentions enjoying the company of new arrivals such as the Ministry of Works people. Discusses getting some supplies from the Jacksons Bay shop, growing vegetables and some food being flown in. Describes the dance in the old hall that followed the arrival of alcohol supplies by boat. Mentions local musicians and making the supper. Discusses the whitebaiters ball which went on until daylight. Describes having her children in Greymouth or Christchurch and leaving for hospital a month before the birth. Talks about the death of one of her children from cancer. Discusses learning to drive the truck and getting a car when the road went in. Talks about the family whitebaiting and fishing. Mentions the impact of the opening of Carter's Mill near Haast. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2899.

Date: 18-19 Feb 1997 - 18 Feb 1997 - 19 Feb 1997

From: Haast oral history project

By: Jones, Mary June, 1928-1998

Reference: OHInt-0419/09

Description: Mary Jones was born in Christchurch in 1928. Gives details of her family background and the arrival of her grandparents at Haast Beach where her grandfather, William Harris, had the store, farm and an orchard. Talks about the eleven children in the family. Mentions the family's move to a farm at the Turnbull River. Describes how her father met her mother in Christchurch where she was working. Describes being a tomboy, wrestling with Ted Buchanan, her love of animals, helping milk the cows, skinning sheep and mustering with her uncles after doing her Correspondence School work. Recalls riding horses and calves from an early age. Discusses animal husbandry including dipping sheep, branding and dehorning cattle and shoeing and breaking in horses. Mentions making bridles. Describes riding from Haast to Jacksons Bay on horseback and crossing rivers. Comments on the locals' respect for rivers. Recalls catching skate, paua and crayfish at Jacksons Bay. Describes the family home, the rifles hanging on the wall and the attitude to guns. Describes how her mother shot wood pigeons and trout were shot by an uncle. Talks about her father being a road builder and returning to the farm every fortnight. Describes the family's vegetable garden, fruit trees, bird life and storms and huge floods in the area. Recalls preserving eggs. Describes candles and kersoene lamps for lighting. Mentions the radio battery was charged on the water wheel and the saw ran off the milking machine. Discusses deaths from appendicitis before the beginning of the air service, operated by Captain Bert Mercer, about 1934. Comments on people's efforts to heal themselves in the period before the air service. Mentions Beecham's Pills. Describes how people got their teeth out rather than have fillings because the dentist visited infrequently. Describes going to high school in Christchurch and finding it difficult. Mentions shyness and not having played sports. Comments on road building stopping and the men leaving the area during World War II. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2903.

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-675-016/033

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on New Zealands cancer treatment compared to Australia. Verbal sparring between Helen Clark and Bill English. Helen Clark looking forward to Bill English being plastered in the boxing ring and he referring to her art fraud incident. Comment on rural doctor shortage. Rural famlies resort to taking their children to the local vet. Shows Labour Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, fishing (electioneering) with a tin of fat worms (budget). Shows small boy asking his father to borrow his gun for the nativity scene at school. Cartoonist Tom Scott receives a Doctorate from Massey University. The agitated voice of Rob Muldoon comes from the sky. Shows National Party President, Michael Boag in a box. Bill English asks National Party Divisional Conference delegates to form an orderly queue to try the magic trick of cutting her in half. Comment on Jeff Wilson's retirement from international rugby. Shows Helen Clark and Peter Davis in trenchcoats, hats and sun glasses with an umbrella. Passersby wonder if she's worried about the hole in the ozone layer or the holes in the Kyoto Protocol. Comment on the perceived waste of money within the Maori Television Service. Shows Helen Clark having cut free the Employments Contract Act now has a large cat (wildcat strikes) on her back. Comment on teachers anger and frustration with Labour's Education Minister, Trevor Mallard's dealings throughout the teacher contract negotiations. Shows Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis in the kitchen, Peter is preparing a picnic as he heard Helen say that once Michael Cullen had presented his budget they would go to the country - i.e. set the date for the election. Comment on so-called 'Maori bashing' of Derek Fox for his handling of the Maori Television Service engagement of Cheif Executive, John Davy. Shows a shearing shed scene. Comment on the popularity of Jim Anderton in the Wigram Seat, one shearer suggests the voters are like sheep in their blind acceptance of him. Shows two older people opening their front door to Bill English who is dressed up as a police officer in boxing gloves carrying his drawn truncheon (law and order). Comment on the clash of traditional Indian past-times of snake charming and lying on beds of nails to intensify the practitioners mental state, with the new order of nuclear weapons. Shows three tables in a restaurant and how they are divided to accommodate smokers, non-smokers and passive-smokers. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size horizontal photocopies

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-677-001/025

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Shows father and son watching a World Cup Soccer game. The boy comments that he's going to play soccer when he grows up as it gives him all day to do something else. Comment on the nature of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Shows Sharon and Arafat as two dogs. Sharon is huge and dangerous and Arafat is small and timid. George W Bush points out Arafat as being the dangerous dog and the other needing to be put on a lead for his own protection. Comparing the Black Caps cricket performance with the teachers strike. The Beehive is bombarded by a swarm of Painted Apple Moth demanding an apology from Helen Clark. Refers to all the apologies Clark has given recently. Nandor Tanczos argues that using cannabis has never done him any harm. Helen Clark defends her position on giving special treatment to Maori. Walking frames are unloaded ready for a political address by Winston Peters. Helen Clark prays to God to look after the country while she campaigns. She reassures God she'll pick the job up again on the 28th of July (the day after the election). Jim Anderton receives a gold Mickey Mouse watch from his former Alliance Party colleagues. A New Zealand couple receive a written apology from Helen Clark for the things she will do once back in power. Helen Clark and Bill English get breifed about not hitting below the belt. Helen Clark's belt (popularity) goes all the way up to her arm-pits and Bill English's belt only comes up to her knees. A storm cloud (resurgent unionism) rains over a school. The forecast is for continuing stormy weather for the next three years. Helen Clark stands on a chair screaming as 4 large rats (Rising Dollar, Falling Commodity Prices, Popularity Decline, Rising Interest Rates) approach her. A child comments on the 2002 snap election. Helen Clark does the Dance of the Seven Veils with possible election dates. The audience call for her to give them a date. A man is about to take a pill (rural GP subsidy) but it is too little to help with his condition, a giant knife (rural dissolution policies) through his body. Shows Winston Peters using immigration to brew up trouble as a way of getting back into power. Comment on the number of apologies the Prime Minister has been making. Comment on the likelihood of the Teacher Settlement Package being ratified. Shows Helen Clark ticking off the list of apologies she's planning to make. Comment on the possibility of a mad-cow disease outbreak in New Zealand. Shows Helen Clark holding firm on not letting anything out in regards to the possible election date. Shows Air New Zealand's new no-frills airline, the plane has no seats. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 12 Apr 1985

From: NZOHA NZ State Dental Nurses Institute 50th Jubilee Oral History Project

By: Cameron, Sylvia May, 1908-1994

Reference: OHInt-0054/3

Description: Gives details of family background, childhood experiences on the family farm; education at Pohangina Primary School and Waiata Primary School, then Wanganui Girls' College; background to joining the School Dental Service; training in Wellington, 1928; staff; background of other students, accommodation at YMCA. Discusses first posting to Hawera and then Taihape; social life; layout of clinic at Taihape; relationship with children; condition of Maori children's teeth; inspections; move to the first mobile clinic in Wanganui; differences from working in a clinic; relationship with teachers and school dental clinic committees. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Wanganui Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mrs Cameron's home at Wanganui Accompanying material - Includes letter of confimation from the Department of Health of interviewee's service. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000716/000717/000718 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0040. Six b&w photos.. Jo Hamill, Joan McLean, Sylvia Cameron (nee Cousins), Taihape, early 1930s. Sylvia Cameron with first pupils attending Mobile Clinic, Maxwell School, Wanganui, 1934. Sylvia Cameron attending first pupil, Mobile Clinic, Maxwell Clinic, Wanganui, 1934. Sylvia Cameron with first pupils attending Mobile Clinic, Westmere School, Wanganui, ca 1935. Portrait of Sylvia Cameron. Portrait of Sylvia cameron, 1984

Date: 29 Mar 1985

From: NZOHA NZ State Dental Nurses Institute 50th Jubilee Oral History Project

By: Bishop, Florence Rita, 1905-1990

Reference: OHInt-0054/1

Description: Describes family background, grandparents, childhood in Dunedin and personality of her parents; interest in politics, religion; education at St Hilda's School, Dunedin, Columba College, Dunedin, Otago Girls' High School. Discusses application to join School Dental Service and entry into Dental School. Recalls conditions, staff, layout of rooms, social life, discipline, fellow students and graduation. Mentions Colonel Hunter (one of the initiators of the School Dental Service). Discusses experiences of first job at the Balclutha Clinic where she had to board; conditions of the clinic; condition of children's teeth; local dentists and relationship with school; limited contact with head office in Dunedin. Recalls marriage in 1928 and rejoining the service in 1942 after the death of her husband; experiences in Roxburgh Clinic; inspections. Attended a refresher course at Wellington Training School. Also worked at Beckenham Clinic, Christchurch, and as a Dental Health Tutor Sister in Christchurch. Discusses health hazards to dental nurses, especially mercury; staff at Christchurch Training School and District Office; changes to the service since early training days; fluoridation; opinions of State Dental Nurses' Institute. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mrs Bishop's home in Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000712/000713/000714 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 38. B&W photo of the 1927 draft (taken in 1971?). Includes Dorothy Hurley, ?, Ivy Hughes, ? Mowat, Rita Bishop (nee Paterson), Cecily Montefiore

Date: 20 Apr 1985

From: NZOHA NZ State Dental Nurses Institute 50th Jubilee Oral History Project

By: Bryant, Mavis Jean, 1915-2008

Reference: OHInt-0054/2

Description: Gives family background, childhood experiences on a farm; education at Hairini Primary School, Te Awamutu District High School (matriculated); discusses friendship with the only Maori student at Hairini School; background to applying to join school dental nursing. Recalls first impressions of Dental Nurse Training School in Wellington; hostel life, discipline, staff, subjects, graduation, social and recreational activities; mentions Colonel J L Saunders; first appointment to Huntly with a sub-base at the Pukemiro mining settlement; basic living conditions, equipment used and condition of children's teeth. Outbreak of World War II, dental nursing made essential work, had special duties. Problems with another Huntly sub-base at Te Kauwhata. Discusses being posted at Otorohanga during World War II; problems with the dental levy; work on the East Coast at Ruatoria and Te Araroa; lifestyle on the East Coast, inspectors and Maori population; horse trekking to reach some areas; association with Ngati Porou; adult extractions (performed on humanitarian grounds). Details work at Cambridge after the war; post-war improvements, relationship with school teachers, changes in equipment; specific emergencies; general improvement in condition of teeth; relationship with dental profession. Talks about future of school dental system; work as a dental nurse inspector in Hawkes Bay and Hamilton; opinions on dental nursing and retirement in 1974. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Te Awamutu Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Miss Bryant's home at Te Awamutu Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000729/000730/000731/000732 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0039. Five b&w photos. During training, 1939 (Patricia Stapleton, Margaret McLean (nee Macky), Marge Paterson (nee Reid), Jean Bryant. Outside Mobile Clinic, Te Kaha, East Coast, 1946. Dental Nurse Jocelyn Wilson with school pupils. Water by boy-power. Mobile Clinic at Omaio Native School, East Coast, 1946. Jean Bryant at Te Araroa, 1946. Marge Henderson? (nee Douglas), Jean Bryant, Margaret Tennent (nee Macky), Betty Adams (nee Goddard), Dec 1974

Date: 8 November 1983

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Grant, Mary, -1999; O'Brien, Putiputi, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0014/125

Description: Mrs Putiputi O'Brien registered as a nurse at Waikato Hospital in 1945. Gives family history. Talks about: childhood; school; influences; application for nursing; shearing gang which she was part of until the age of 19; influence of aunt, Hannah Hepolite Rangihewea; nursing training; the Otaki Sanatorium; diseases - typhoid, chest, diphtheria; experience as a maternity nurse at Rotorua and involvement as a member of the Womens' Health League; soldiers' hospital in Rotorua; Public Health nursing - spent time at Taneatua, Waimana and Matahi - describes mode of transport; infant care. Spent time at Murupara, Te Whaiti, Ruatahuna and discusses goitre and home deliveries. Also worked at Putaruru, Maungataupere, Tirau (filmed). Talks about the Tuhoe people, old people, Kaumatua, Crippled Children Society and the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board. Outlines nurse related activities in retirement with reference to the Red Cross; Te Teko family clinic; Birth Right, NZHA, Rotorua Health Camp and Maatua Whangai. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Te Teko Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Mary Grant Venue - Edgecumbe Road, Te Teko Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000185-000186; OHLC-000913-000914; OHLC-006173-006174 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1983

Date: 4 July 1993 - 04 Jul 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Carmine, Dorothy Mary, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-0067/042

Description: Dorothy Mary Carmine (nee Baxter) born Waihi on the day World War II ended and recalls mother's vivid memories of that historical day. Describes happy childhood and getting to school on the cream truck. Recalls: studies at Auckland University; marriage; teaching experience at Papatoetoe High School and Rangiototo College before returning to Waihi 1980. Talks about attitude to husbands who stayed at home to look after family (house husband). Talks about involvement with Community Health Advisory Group to save health services in Waihi. Backgrounds her journey to writing, starting as a child writing for the Boys' and Girls' column on the back page of the Herald and in later years having two children's books published - Daniel's Dinosaurs and Asleep on the Mat. Reference to Martin Baynton from Whangamata who did illustrations. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005853A; OHV-0268D Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1260.

Date: 12 Sep 1991

From: Rawene Public Library Oral History Project

By: Spender, Dorothy Winifred, 1910-2002

Reference: OHInt-0079/2

Description: Dorothy Winifred Spender describes her early life and impressions of Rawene. Discusses the hospital, nursing and rural health during the slump and the work of Dr Smith. Talks about marriage and family, fundraising and leisure activities such as dances and the picture-theatre. Venue - Whangarei Interviewer(s) - Vilia Chisholm Venue - 7/6 Wolfe Street, Whangarei Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004497 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-773.

Date: 13 Dec 1993

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Howie, Ivan Philip, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0104-32

Description: Ivan Philip Howie, born in China 1941, parents medical missionaries. Was prisoner of the Japanese for 3 years and came to New Zealand in 1951. Topics discussed include: early visits to Orama Christian Community (GBI); being in Thailand with World Vision in 1980; buying practice [medical] in Great Barrier Island from Dr Diana Nash; medical facilities and community efforts at fundraising to build new centre; advantages of home delivery births; importance of airfield; emergencies over the years and first aid courses; changes in telephone system and recent teleconference courses. Recalls being called upon for emergency dental work, emergency vet, and conducting funerals and weddings. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Venue - Medical Centre, Claris Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012392 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4227. Search dates: 1941 - 1993

Date: 20 Dec 1993

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Robertson, Adele Mariea, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0104-43

Description: Adele Mariea Robertson born Thames 1952. Backgrounds moving to Great Barrier Island Jan 1985 as public nurse. Talks about the pressures, stress from long working hours, home births and community spirit. Refers to woman with homeopathic remedies. Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012407 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4243. Search dates: 1993