World War, 1939-1945 - Civil defence - New Zealand

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: 17 Nov 2005 - 04 June 2006 - 17 Oct 2005 - 04 Apr 2006

By: Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Reference: OHColl-0827

Description: The project concentrates on the interviewees' war and service experiences at home in New Zealand, including that of a conscientious objector. Some interviews also cover post-war years, including reflecting on the effect of war and an emphasis on the everyday life of being a serviceman or woman. The interviewees are Mervyn Brown, George Clark, Heather Crispe, Peter Crispe, Katherine Dyall, Ngaire Gibbons, George Judge, Derek Laver, Jane McIntyre, Maisie Munro, Hazel Rowe, Harry Spencer, Gwen Stevens, Maisie Takle and Betty van Praag. Publication - Last Line of Defence: New Zealanders Remember the War at Home, Megan Hutching (ed). Auckland: HarperCollins NZ, 2007. Abstracted by - Megan Hutching Abstracted by - Megan Hutching Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Abstracts contain questionaire, copies of photographs and some contain additional or photocopied information . Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015225 - OHC-015255 Quantity: 31 C60 cassette(s). 15 printed abstract(s). 15 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete partial transcripts also available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Date: 1943

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4830

Description: Contains administrative records of the South Wairarapa Home Guard, including a list of members

Date: 1942-1943

By: New Zealand. Army. Home Guard. Wellington City Battalion. B Company

Reference: MS-Papers-2253

Description: The collection includes material on operational tactics, use of weapons and physical training. Also contains sketch maps drawn by Sergeant Lloyd of parts of Wellington covered by B Company, and B Coy roll books. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some cyclostyled or carbon copies) Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Armbands transferred 1978 (Curios 24(c)/1).

Date: 1940

From: Harper, James Edward, fl 2004 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9631

Description: Group portrait of Platoon D, Kelburn Home Guard Company, taken 1940 by an unknown photographer. Edward James Haughey (1908-2004?) is at front row, extreme right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 16.4 x 21 cm

Date: 1941-1942

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4831

Description: Contains administrative records of the South Wairarapa Home Guard, including a list of members

Date: 1843 - 1939 - 1847 - 1945

Reference: MapColl-832.47p/[197-?]/Acc.23130

Description: Map showing old military installations from the New Zealand Wars, 1843-7 and the home guard sites of New Zealand Army in World War II. Sites from the New Zealand War include Te Rangihaeata's stronghold (1846), the site of a chapel and the colonial cemetery at Pauatahanui, military trenches (one named McKillops), the barracks of the 65th regiment, the officer's quarters, the Boulton's Hotel of 1847, Troopers Hill, isolated Maori grave along Paekakariki Hill Road, the landing stage of the 58th and 65th regiments, Tandy's constablulary's post and the Waitaha Maori at Ration Point. Sites during World War II include the home guard headquarters of 1941 at Jones Deviation, the 1939 New Zealand Army Unit and United States Marines 2nd division near Kakaho Stream, as well as the Duck Creek saw mill at Bradey's Bay. Shows J Walker's homestead. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 34.2 x 36.6 cm.

Date: 1943

By: New Zealand. Army; Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977

Reference: MapColl-832.47a/1943/Acc.12719

Description: Drawn on a base map, the annotations for the New Zealand Army name creeks, ridges, streams and spurs in the vicinity of the Titi Stream and the Whakatikei Stream, inland from Paekakariki. Some survey measurements are given. Written on recto: Whakatikei, Army, 1943. Geoff Wilson. Written on verso above title: Army. Base map: Part section Hutt County map ([s.l], [s.n], [s.d]) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 37.3 x 53.8 cm.

Date: 1946

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to dance parties, social dances, discoes]

By: New Zealand Returned Services Association

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-Social-1946-01

Description: A dance ticket, of various typefaces, with the logo of the Returned Services Association at the top centre. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on card, 60 x 94 mm. Provenance: Part of a purchase from Nigel Thorp, 1995.

Date: 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: DA-01787

Description: Bivouac on Sugarloaf Hill, Gollans Valley, Wainuiomata, built by the signal unit of the Somes Platoon of Bush Guides of the Wellington Home Guard. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in December 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943 - 1947

By: New Zealand Post Office

Reference: MapColl-832.4799hkcmf/Ka/[1943-47]/Acc.37513-4

Description: Plan showing layout and road access of Site W, Karori, Wellington, the military station at Wrights Hill Fortress, during World War II. Shows excavated military barracks, command post and plotting room, war shelter, gun store, tunnels and chambers. Shows road access to the station, going through several private properties. Includes a schedule of areas table. Kano, Campbell, and Donald Street are marked. Also shows surrounding properties, owned by F L Rabone, Florence Louisa Rabone (leased by W M Wood), Fodlalla Khoura, J Prenderville, Mrs P M Bates, M W Prenderville, J M Prenderville, E Beavis, A Dorman, W F Dorman, Wellington City Council, Wellington City Supply, Barrer, Brightacre Ltd. WDO 11335 Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets. Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 39 x 52.4 cm on sheets 42 x 29.6 cm

Date: 1942

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-136

Description: View of a farm house and outbuildings with a high hill in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 213 x 301 mm

Date: 1973 - 2006

By: Stokes, Evelyn May (Dame), 1930-2005

Reference: MSX-7859

Description: Contains a volume of photocopied newspaper clippings relating to the 1980 Maori land dispute over the Raglan golf course. Land taken during the Second World War for a military airfield at Raglan was returned to Tainui Awhiro people, but only after a long dispute. Instead of being handed back to its former owners when not required for its designated public use, part of the land was turned into a golf course in 1969. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter (photocopies)

Date: 1943

By: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: MapColl-832.4799hkcrf/A/1943/Acc.13579

Description: Map of civil defence area 15, central Wellington, during the Second World War, being the area of Brooklyn and Mount Cook, bounded by part of Washington Ave, the Wellington Show Building, Dufferin Street, Martin Square and Brooklyn Road. Zones 1, 2 and 4 are shown, with zones 2 and 4 highlighted. Fire alarm boxes and tram routes are marked, as well as streets, public buildings, schools and churches. The defence stores, Prince of Wales Park, Winter Show Building, Basin Reserve, Nairn Street Reserve, St Patrick's College and Mount Cook School, are highlighted. Written on map in pencil: Japanese area, 1943. Area 15. Title from catalogue card and cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 49 x 60 cm.

Date: 1939-1945 (?)

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-116

Description: Contains records of the Wairarapa Home Guard during World War Two, including lists of tools and vehicles of members

Date: 12, 17 Jan 2007 - 12 Jan 2007 - 17 Jan 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Simpson, Thora Cuthbert, 1924-2007

Reference: OHInt-0980-16

Description: Interview with Thora Simpson (nee Farquharson), born in Nasbey in 1924. Talks about her family background and her school teacher parents being 'very much in favour of education'. Recalls her father had fought in World War I but never spoke about his experiences, and her mother had lost friends from Oamaru in the war. Describes her schooling - primary at Eiffelton School and Maori Hill School, and secondary at Otago Girls High School and later Waitaki Girls High School in Oamaru where she was sent to live with grandparents. Recalls her father enrolled her in a commercial course so she would always be 'sure of getting a job'. Refers to the polio epidemic of 1936 when schools closed. Mentions visiting relations in Dunedin, reading and being taught embroidery while the schools were closed. Comments on not being affected much by the Depression and having a vegetable garden. Recalls getting their first radio and the first family car, a Model T Ford, which both parents drove. Recalls the early war years, listening to the radio and cutting maps from newspapers. Comments on a sewing class at Waitaki Girls making clothes for refugee children coming to New Zealand, and learning first aid. Talks about working as a typist in the Dunedin City Engineer's office and later the School of Engineering at Canterbury University College during World War II. Refers to the Dunedin city engineer being responsible for the Emergency Precautions Scheme (EPS) for the city, taking shorthand at EPS meetings and manning telephones during night time air raid practices. Recalls reading about the bombing of Pearl Harbour and seeing American servicemen in Dunedin. Talks about recreation, holidays, food and clothes during the War. Recalls D Day, and VE and VJ Days and comments that the war led her to take life more seriously. Discusses meeting her husband Trevor in 1946 when he was working on a Canterbury farm under a rehab scheme. Talks about her brothers Hector and Alexander joining the air force during the war, with Hector being sent to Bomber Command at Little Rissington after training in Canada. Describes how her father and sister drove from Christchurch to tell her when Hector was killed. Talks about the supportive reaction of colleagues and being the first in her circle to have lost someone. Recalls Alex was discharged from the air force in 1942 after an incident but later reenlisted in Britain when there was a shortage of pilots. Comments that like other returned servicemen he found it hard to settle after the war and joined the Army until he died aged 48. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - OHInt-0980-16 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022565 - OHC-022567 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7339. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Thora Simpson (1942); printout of a colour photograph of Thora (2007) Search dates: 1924 - 2007

Date: 6 Mar 1995 - 06 Mar 1995

From: History of the Army in New Zealand during World War II

By: Douglas, Edward Arthur Norman, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0571/09

Description: Edward Arthur Norman Douglas born Pukekohe 1924. Recalls being a market gardener and serving on the Home Guard until 1942 when he was called up at the age of 18 years and sent for training at Ngaruawahia camp for one month. Posted to 2nd Battalion Waikato Regiment at Claudelands where training continued and describes duties which included loading out ammunition for the CAC factory Hamilton into rail or trucks. Recalls Battalion being sent to Great Barrier Island, Nov 1942 and describes headquarters at Claris airfield, conditions, beach guard duty, use of pack horses to supply outposts and coast watching. Recalls volunteering for Air Force, being posted May 1943, and after aircrew training, missed a medical and was allocated to guard duties with RNZAF. Mentions being manpowered out of services for a period and later serving with J Force. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Dick Linnell Venue - 46 Paerata Road, Pukekohe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008034 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2196.

Date: 23 Nov 1994

From: The Merchant Navy story

By: Blackie, Carl Joseph, 1911-1998

Reference: OHInt-0321-03

Description: Joe Blackie was born in Dunedin in 1911. Recalls education in Balclutha and at Caversham High School, running away from home, cutting flax as first job then taking variety of farm, labouring and outdoors work at Manuka Creek, Ettrick, Outram, Franz Joseph, Waiheka, Bruce Bay, Martin's Bay and Hollyford. Details wages, cost of living, walking to different areas. Describes training for the Territorial Army Reserves, medical discharge and working as instructor for Home Guard at Godfrey Head. Mentions Fred Jones, Minister of Defence. Talks about going to sea in 1940 with the New Zealand Shipping Co on the Surrey and returning from the United Kingdom on the Hurunui. Details torpedoing of the Hurunui, being picked up by the St. Margaret, transfer to Royal Navy ship, return to Glasgow and London and survivor's leave. Mentions British Sailors Society. Talks about later ships: the Ormonde; the troopship Almanzara; the Framlington Court; the Reino del Pacifico; the Sydney Star. Recalls joining the Royal Air Force, then working at Lockheed Aircraft works in Renfrew before returning to sea. Recounts hospitalisation in Rangoon due to tuberculosis, final discharge and returning to England as Distressed British Seaman. Talks about Hugh Hogarth & Sons, the Empire Duchess, the Highland Monarch, the Baron Ramsay and the Liberty ships at Gibraltar in 1945. Discusses incidents at sea, wages, final discharge from Merchant Navy and difficulties getting service medals. Outlines various jobs after the war in the United Kingdom. Recalls joining the Royal Marines during the Berlin Airlift. Talks about being in London for the Coronation in 1953. Describes returning to New Zealand on the Captain Cook as an assisted immigrant. Talks about Blackie and Harrington families. Outlines brother's academic career and position as former Director General of Agriculture in Hong Kong. Interviewer(s) - Stan Kirkpatrick Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4442. Search dates: 1994

Date: 11 April 1994 - 11 Apr 1994

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: OHInt-0600-12

Description: Jock McEwen was born in 1915. Talks about involvement in a carving project organised by Apirana Ngata. Talks about the origins of Ngati Poneke, based on a church service at St Thomas', Newtown, led by Rangiatea Church minister, Paora Temuera, for which he was pianist. Talks about Kingi Tahiwi, the Native Department's chief interpreter, who initiated the formal choir. Mentions practices at Riria Walker's mother, Hinga Hunter's house, where he was pianist. Mentions Tahiwi's siblings, Henry, Hinehou and Renal, who formed the group Te Tahiwi and recorded in Sydney. Mentions Purihura Heketa from Ngati Kahungunu teaching the poi and action song, and the women's leader, Miriama Heketa. Describes how Tahiwi would compose songs on his banjo and then McEwen would work out full parts on the piano. Mentions that Poneke stands for 'Port Nick' and the history of some Wellington Maori place names. Mentions Ngati Poneke providing entertainment at the Centennial Exhibition. Mentions being in the Home Defence force during World War II and his career after the war. Mentions Wai Parata (pianist), Aunty Dovey Katene (foundation tutor), Fred Katene (club secretary), Francie Mitchell, Puna Cooper, Witarina Harris, and the two presidents after Kingi Tahiwi, his brothers Pirimi and Henare Tahiwi. Mentions Pakeha members, including Stephen (Tipene) O'Regan. Mentions the Ngati Poneke Maori Association as umbrella organisation for other Maori groups. Mentions Maori picnics at Hutt Park or Whakatiki and estimates there were 400 Maori living in greater Wellington before the war. Mentions that Mrs Heketa taught the old waiata to the Club. Talks about Apirana Taylor and the Akaroa Centennial. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Dennis Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3656; MSDL-0153 (file McEwan.doc, side one). Search dates: 1937 - 1948

Date: 20 May 2002

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Manz, Arthur Herbert, 1917-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-07

Description: Arthur Herbert Manz was born in Wellington in 1917, and his family moved to Otaki in 1920. Recalls his German grandfather, a cottage weaver, who after the industrial revolution worked in the railway workshops. Recalls his father, a cabinetmaker, who emigrated to New Zealand, worked on the Manawatu Gorge railway construction, helped build the Hutt Park Grand Stand, and toured overseas with the 1905-6 Wellington Bowling Club. Mentions that his father's ethnicity became an issue during World War I, and that his mother was of English descent. Mentions getting pneumonia walking to school, school life, not being able to play football, movies, stores, dances, music and parties. Mentions the tuberculosis sanatorium. Talks about the Otaki Maori Racing Club. Talks about education and training to be a teacher. Mentions beekeeping and the Hautere Defence Rifle Club. Describes a trip to Mount Ruapehu in 1937 in a Model T truck, mentions the conditions of the roads. Recalls joining Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1940 during World War II, and having to request exemptions from the Provisions of the Alien Control Emergency Regulations because of his German nationality. Mentions that his sister worked as a WAAF for five years. Talks about his postings, including Taieri, Wigram, Hobsonville, Waipapakauri, Suva, Florida Island. Mentions he was trained in being a flying instructor, night flying, and Tiger Moths. Talks about returning to teaching after World War II, at Waitohu School, and being principal of the Otaki Health Camp School. Mentions Rangiatea Church being built. Talks about the Otaki Rotary Club, the railway station, rifle clubs, his wife and children, fishing, and leasing land to Chinese growers. Describes the Otaki Brass Band and the people involved in it. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11054 - 5 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3864. Search dates: 1920 - 1960