Earthquakes - Psychological aspects

Date: Oct 1983

By: Chalmers, Jocelyn Margaret, 1951-; Smith, Ann Gladys, 1905-1996

Reference: OHColl-0695/1

Description: Ann Gladys Smith was born in West Otago in 1905. Describes her childhood, family and moving from Glenkenich to Tapanui when she was five. Recalls schooling and attending Sunday School. Describes being housekeeper at the age of twelve, returning to high school, becoming a student teacher at the Glenkenich School and then going to Dunedin to work at the Nisbet Home for children in Andersons Bay. Talks about her decision to become a deaconess and training before going to St Andrew's Church in Hastings in 1932. Comments on the effect of the 1931 Napier earthquake on local people. Recalls her time at Auckland at St David's Church during World War II. Discusses the Emergency Precautions Services (EPS) for civilians in the event of a Japanese attack. Describes going to Inglenook Home for children in Gore in 1948 and then to Knox Church in Dunedin. Discusses her work as a deaconess particularly at Knox Church in Dunedin. Publication - Entry in 'Southern people : a dictionary of Otago Southland biography' Interviewer(s) - Jocelyn Chalmers Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come.

Date: 2015-2016

By: Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority Te Mana Haumanu ki Waitaha; Patterson, Lesley (Dr), active 2015; Beaven, Sarah (Dr), active 2000-2016

Reference: OHColl-1195

Description: Interviews conducted by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) between 2015 and 2016 to document CERA's work in the social recovery of post-earthquake Canterbury, analyse lessons learnt, and share experiences. Most interviews are around one hour in duration. Materials include: proposed interview questions; interview recordings; transcripts of interviews; abstracts of interviews; interviewer notes; media deposit forms; and interview access and consent forms. The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) Te Mana Haumanu ki Waitaha was established as a government department on 29 March 2011 to lead and coordinate the Government’s response and recovery efforts following the devastating earthquakes of 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 in Canterbury. The CERA Recovery Lessons and Legacy Project (RLL) was established in 2014 to capture and share the lessons and experiences from the establishment and work of CERA. The agency-wide project aimed to 'support the development of long-term legacies from those lessons, to inform future recovery efforts, and national and international resilience.' The project was part of a wider cross-government legacy project hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Under the umbrella of CERA's RLL project, the Social and Cultural Recovery Group established the Social Recovery Legacy project (SRL) to examine CERA's role in social recovery in post-earthquake Canterbury. See also related website: http://eqrecoverylearning.org/. CERA was disestablished on 18 April 2016. Quantity: 185 Interview(s) Not all interviews described online. 319 Electronic document(s). 51 digital sound recording(s). Physical Description: Digital oral history sound recordings and related text files Finding Aids: A description of the collection is also available on Archives New Zealand's online catalogue.. Provenance: Transferred from CERA in April 2016 to Archives New Zealand, under the control of the Chief Archivist. Search dates: 2015 - 2016 Processing information: Digital files transferred to Library via external hard drive.

Date: 14 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Marr, Josephine Astbury, 1927-2013

Reference: OHInt-0106-07

Description: Jo Marr was born in Whakatane on 30 August 1927. Describes growing up in Matata where her maternal grandmother ran the general store and her parents the Matata Hotel. Talks about her great grandfather's marriage to a Maori woman and identifying with a subtribe of Arawa at Rangitihi Marae at Matata. Describes Matata and the hotel in detail. Talks about her Catholic upbringing, including education at Baradene College in Auckland, and considering becoming a nun. Describes working in the family hotel before and after marriage until she worked with her husband in the Plains Butchery Ltd, Edgecumbe until the business was sold in 1981. Talks about living in an extended family situation and being on the Edgecumbe Maori Committee. Notes that this committee included Maori and Pakeha and tried to keep the teenagers out of court. Describes working in Meikle's shop at Riverslea Shopping Complex, Edgecumbe at the time of the earthquake. Recalls the noise of breaking glass and people crying and praying. Describes going outside and not being able to stand up. Talks about going to a family member's home at Otakiri where twenty seven people slept. Describes people wanting to be together and gradually returning home after a few days. Discusses the importance of talking as therapy. Talks about the mess and breakages. Describes returning to work, wearing hard hats, because the Riverslea complex was initially thought to be safe. Notes it was pulled down and rebuilt. Comments on the rebuilt Edgecumbe. Comments on the role of the Salvation Army, the Army, the Cosmopolitan Club, the Hahuru marae, the Kokohinau marae and the Department of Social Welfare. Notes that a few people `took advantage'. Discusses in detail her representation on the Whakatane Mayoral Relief Fund which worked hard to compensate people. Comments that the uninsured, elderly and children suffered most. Venue - Edgecumbe : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Marr's home at Edgecumbe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002880; OHC-002881; OHC-002882 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0552. Photograph of Jo Marr in February 1990 Search dates: 1990

Date: 18 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Sisley, Matekitawhiti Eliza, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0106-04

Description: Mate Sisley was born at Otakiri on 4 March 1950. She grew up in a large extended family in Otakiri and was largely raised by her maternal grandparents after her father had an accident. Describes her schooling, going to secretarial college and working at Tasman Pulp and Paper. Talks about what her siblings are doing now. Describes her marriage and moving to Wellington with her husband. Recalls working for Robert Muldoon, socialising with him and being the only Maori working for the National Party. Describes having her children, the death of her husband in a car accident and its effect on her. Talks about the day of the earthquake and her job as secretary to the Mayor and Council at the time of the earthquake. Notes that the Council was meeting at the time. Describes the Council buildings being set up as Civil Defence headquarters. Comments on the role of Wira Gardiner. Talks about returning home and going to see her children at a relative's house. Describes taking the children to Rotorua and cleaning the mess at her house. Describes disorganisation and alienation and recalls that it took a few days before people developed a community spirit. Describes the work of the army and recalls elderly people being taken to the marae. Talks about working at the Disaster Recovery Centre at Edgecumbe. Comments on the work of Elsie Walker, the lack of involvement of politicians and difficulties with insurance. Describes her children as still frightened. Venue - Whakatane : 1950 Interviewer(s) - Fyfe, Judith Venue - At 12 Kauri Street, Edgecumbe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002889; OHC-002890; OHC-002891 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 555. Photograph of Mate Sisley in February 1990; photograph of Mate Sisley and others about 1980; photograph of Mate Sisley and Judith Tangitu about 1953 Search dates: 1990

Date: 14 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Russell, Ronald William, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0106-09

Description: Ron Russell was born in Raetihi on 3 November 1939. Talks about his family and describes growing up in Raetihi, Gisborne, Coromandel, Thames and Morrinsville. Talks about starting a watchmaker's apprenticeship but having to give that up. Recalls beginning work at the Morrinsville Dairy Factory, doing a Diploma in Dairy Technology at Massey University and working at the Dairy Research Institute before joining the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company. Notes that this is now Bay Milk Products. Describes being Site Manager and the most senior person on the site at the time of the earthquake. Describes the town of Edgecumbe and its `mill town' atmosphere. Comments on preparation for fire and floods but not earthquakes. Recalls earthquake weather and a swarm of earthquakes before the major earthquake. Describes being at work when it struck and the sight and noise of five huge stainless steel milk silos and other equipment falling. Comments that all the staff were thrown to the ground. Describes injuries in the factory and office, checking the whole building and dealing with chemical spillage. Commends Jim Goulden and others who isolated the boiling oil and turned off the chlorine gas. Describes trying to contact his milk tanker drivers throughout the countryside. Talks about the shock amongst his staff and how long people were affected. Comments on his family's reaction to the earthquake. Talks about the Edgecumbe bridge and the decision to declare it safe. Recalls the help of the Salvation Army and the Fire Service, the slow response of Civil Defence, insurance issues, rebuilding part of the factory and the long term effect on the community. Venue - Edgecumbe : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Fyfe, Judith Venue - At Mr Russell's home at Edgecumbe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002874; OHC-002875; OHC-002876 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 550. Search dates: 1990

Date: 15 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Tukiri, Manu Kapua, 1954-

Reference: OHInt-0106-06

Description: Manu Tukiri was born in Whakatane on 29 September 1954. Describes growing up in Edgecumbe and spending some time as a child at the Kokohina marae. Describes not being able to speak Maori and experiencing conflict between the Maori and Pakeha worlds. Comments that Maori are more free to be themselves now but many are still deprived of their language. Comments on attitudes towards Pakeha at Te Teko. Recalls always sticking up for the underdog and sometimes fighting his cousins to defend Pakeha. Describes education at Edgecumbe and working at a number of jobs, including Caxton Pulp and Paper, before learning bone carving from Peter Langah. Talks about his business Kapua Crafts. Recalls tutoring bone carving at Waiariki Polytechnic at the time of the earthquake. Talks about previous smaller earthquakes and the Maori god of earthquakes, Ruaumoko. Describes taking his class outside and feeling that it was surreal and the world was ending. Recalls returning to Edgecumbe through slips on the road and his shock at seeing Edgecumbe. Describes how his father and niece were very upset and his father was reminded of World War II battlefields. Recalls the fear of the Matahina dam bursting. Describes returning to Whakatane, spending a number of days with his brother and not remembering anything else clearly until about May. Assumes this was shock. Recalls a big concert held at Edgecumbe to help towards reconstruction. Expresses frustration at the time taken to rebuild the new Edgecumbe. Venue - Edgecumbe : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Manson, Hugo Venue - At Manu Tukiri's home at Edgecumbe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002886; OHC-002887; OHC-002888 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 554. Photograph of Manu Tukiri in February 1990 Search dates: 1990

Date: 15 Feb 1990

From: Bay of Plenty Earthquake (1987) Oral History Project

By: Smith, Yvonne Blanche, 1942-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0106-01

Description: Yvonne Smith was born 7 April 1942 in Malanda, North Queensland where she grew up in a town similar to Edgecumbe. Describes coming to New Zealand on a working holiday in 1965, marrying a New Zealander and settling in Edgecumbe in 1968. Talks about working as an office worker before the birth of her child. Recalls involvement in local groups, particularly the Plunket society, while a full-time homemaker and parent. Describes her appointed voluntary position of Community Education Officer in the 1980s and her appointment in 1985 as Night Class Supervisor at Edgecumbe College. Comments on life in Edgecumbe before the earthquake. Talks about local employment at the Dairy Company, Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill, Caxton Mill at Kawerau and Whakatane Board Mills. Describes local horticulture. Gives details of the earthquake, post earthquake behaviour, immediate needs, social work and counselling, communications and the effectiveness of various organisations. Talks about her current work as Community Development Officer and chairperson of the Edgecumbe Board of Trustees. Venue - Edgecumbe : 1990 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - At Mrs Smith's home Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002895; OHC-002896; OHC-002897 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 557. Search dates: 1990

Date: 1987

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

Reference: 89-012-09

Description: Also includes `Augmenting human intelligence, inquiry learning with computers' by K E Sinclair; `Evaluating a teacher education course, a case study' by Keith Skamp; `It can't be a drug, miss, 'cos it's not illegal; Victoria post-primary school students' perceptions of drugs and drug related issues' by Monica Slattery; contributions to Anne B Smith and B W McMillan's paper from Brenda Ratcliff, Shelley LKennedy and Kwok-wing Lai; `Secondary students' views on computers and computing'' by Ralph G Straton; `Principals as reflexive practitioners; action sets for policy implementation practice' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 12 Nov 1997 - 10 Oct 2002 - 12 Nov 1997 - 10 Oct 2002

By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum

Reference: OHColl-0487

Description: Interviewees recall their experiences of the 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake. Many remember being at school (primary and secondary) or in technical training when the earthquake struck. Others describe the sensation of being inside at work (including factory, hospital, office) or at home. Those outside describe movement in the urban and rural landscapes and subsequent damage, particularly to buildings. A number mention injuries to people. The interviewees are: May Atkinson (nee Reid), Harold Beer, Mary Bennett (nee Ellingham), Monnie (Mons Mary) Devine, Lancelot Wellington Dobbinson, Tui Dunningham (nee Forsythe), Rev Thomas C. Fuohy, Alberta Lilian Gill, Edward James Greaney, Ellen Catherine (Nell) Hay, Margaret (Peggy) Higgins (nee Mayo), Elizabeth Beatrice (Harvey) Hill, Ivan Stanley Hodgkinson, Robert James Hunter Holms, Peter Digby Jeffreys, Percival James Jessep, Joseph (Joe) John King, John Robert Lister, Robert Neil Lister, Ethel Mansfield (nee Pidd), Doreen May McConaghty (nee Tyne), Dorothy Bernice McKay, Leo Noel McLaughlin, William Fred Nightingale, Teresa (Tessie Walsh) Antonia Oliver, Janet Grieg Pearse (nee West), Gwendolyn (Gwen) M. Rouse, Agnes Cara Saxby, Ronald Shakespeare, Owen Somerset Smith, Evelyn Smyth, Lawrence (Lawry) Spackman, Eugenie Frances (Melhuish) Stark, Ronald Archer Steel, Keith Swailes, Tamangaro (Tama) Te Marnumairangi Tomoana, Gordon Ernest Vogther, Frank Desmond Gordon Walker, Percy Watson. Awards/funding - The first group of interviews were funded by an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Helen McConnochie Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019024 - OHC-019052 Summaries of abstracts: OHA-6564 - OHA-6581, OHA-6582 - OHA-6602 Quantity: 29 C60 cassette(s). 39 printed abstract(s). 39 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other summaries rather than abstracts. Transfers: See backfile for three agreement forms..

Date: Sept-Oct 2010

By: Whitehead, Neil Evan, 1943-

Reference: MSDL-1256

Description: A preliminary report with findings from an internet survey conducted in the Christchurch region in the days following the Darfield earthquake. Includes eyewitness accounts of alleged earthquake precursors, such as earthquake lights, atmospheric changes, human responses and erratic animal behaviour. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Provenance: The donor provided the following information: In connection with the M7.1 earthquake at Darfield, September 4th, we collected many accounts of alleged precursors via an internet survey. The resulting report is attached. It is an interesting historical document and you might consider adding it to the National LIbrary collection in some form. About 100 copies have been distributed to those who asked for it. There is no official printed form, it is digital only. The report forms the basis of a scientific paper in preparation but it is already apparent that much of the quoted accounts from survey respondents will have to be left out. The report itself will therefore remain a useful document. We plan to submit the scientific paper to Natural Hazards and Earth Science Systems in due course. The report and paper confirm that some real precursors do exist, but cannot be more specific about causes.

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017305

Description: In a Christchurch street still covered in liquefaction man weeps over his four-wheel drive car, which has a number plate showing the word 'macho'. Two women who are working at clearing the road of silt watch and one of them observes that 'he's not handling the quake well at all... Keeps getting silt smears on the 4 x 4!' Context - The Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011. Liquefaction is a particular problem. There is a point being made here about the 'macho' man who sobs over his car and the two staunch women who get on with the cleaning-up effort. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0025237

Description: Roger Sutton, former chief executive of the the power lines company, Orion and since June 2011 Chief Executive Officer of the Canterbury Earhquake Recovery Authority, is shown in a straitjacket, raving. An unseen interviewer asks him how it feels after 'two years in the job'. Roger Sutton's work in leading the Earthquake Authority after the February earthquake was extremely stressful, considering the magnitude of the task. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 3 January 2021

From: Orchard, Samuel, 1984- : Digital comics created for the Rooster Tails website

By: Orchard, Samuel, 1984-

Reference: DCDL-0040512

Description: Autobiographical comic strip by Sam Orchard. Originally published at www.roostertailscomic.com on 3 January 2021. Title taken from file name. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020905

Description: Cartoon shows a game of hopscotch that illustrates the changing face of the entity with responsibility for the Christchurch rebuild after the earthquakes. Three versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020370

Description: Cartoon shows a stone foundation that commemorates 'community spirit' after the Christchurch earthquake of February 22 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0018087

Description: The cartoon shows a desperate man representing 'Christchurch' who is clutching the end of a broken plank that protrudes from a crumbling cliff-face. He says 'Who said we're living ON the edge?!' Context - the man is suggesting that they are not On the edge but OVER it. Refers to the continuing hardships facing many Christchurch residents as earthquakes and aftershocks continue and many face large financial losses because of insurance problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018068

Description: Two people crawl across a desert littered with animal bones and skulls towards the words 'Land reports' in the distance. The woman says 'Don't get your hopes up! It's probably a mirage!' Context - On Thursday 23 June Prime Minister John Key, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee and representatives from engineering consultants Tonkin & Taylor announced the first part of the Government's long-awaited land report that revealed the fate of up to 5000 quake-damaged homes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027770

Description: Cartoon of two frames depicting a bartender and two beer drinkers watching the news on television in a pub. The newsreader rounds up the natural disasters which have struck Christchurch in the last three years, two earthquakes and a flood. One of the drinkers comments that "Marge...thought the days were getting shorter". Refers to 2010, 2011 earthquakes and 2014 flood, and the change to daylight saving. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022774

Description: A man and a woman wearily face one another wondering how they should celebrate two years of frustration. Context: relates to continuing frustration over lack of progress by many people whose houses have been damaged in the Christchurch earthquakes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022803

Description: Shows in two frames the rebuilding of the Christchurch CBD (Central business district) and the continued lack of any progress on the CT3 (Christchurch technical category 3) on the second anniversary of the first Christchurch earthquake. Context: A TC3 residents' group have posted on their Facebook page, criticism over the performance of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, the Earthquake Commission, the city council and insurers in response to their predicament. Canterbury Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee said he was sick of these people carping and moaning. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).