Language and languages

Date: 25 Apr 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Mendonca, Anthony Kenneth, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0562/09

Description: Anthony Mendonca was born in Karachi in 1934. Talks of his relatives living in India from the late 19th century until World War II and mentions marriages to British soldiers, several of whom later became prisoners of war. Talks of his father's wartime work, recalls food rationing and curfew. Mentions his twelve brothers and sisters and their education at a catholic school, the size of their house and compares other similarly sized familes with his. Talks of his work, on leaving school, as a civilian in the Air Force and land-based work with a steamship company. Mentions trade problems and exploitation of the East. Relates his move to England and the overseas currency situation. Describes his impressions of life in England, finding work, his accommodation and studying engineering at evening class. Recalls his blind date, marrying, having children and moving to New Zealand. Recalls his jobs, passports, religions and the Goan community. Talks of accommodation and servants, food and mealtimes, clubs, languages and treatment of races. Describes partition and the situation following it. Mentions social standards of behaviour and inheritance of property. Relates his children's lives, his son's army experiences, his use of languages and knighthood. Mentions his daughter's work experiences. Talks of his attitude and visits to England and Pakistan, his nationality, the procedure of obtaining New Zealand citizenship. Explains property inheritance and ownership, the financial situation of his family. Awards/funding - project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008316 - OHC-008319 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2647.

Date: 20 Mar 2001, 15 May 2001 - 20 Mar 2001 - 15 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Pugh-Stemmer, Daphne Adeline, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0562/10

Description: Daphne Pugh-Stemmer was born in Calcutta, India in 1931 and mentions that her family lived there from 1920s. Mentions her brothers' boarding school, her sisters' education, travelling to school and church activities. Talks of her family's jobs and training. Describes their daily routine, rented accommodation, bathrooms, servants and clubs. Mentions mealtimes, food, etiquette, languages, orphanages. Describes her family's move to New Zealand, their travel, settling and acceptance. Talks of her younger brothers' schooling, her husband's death and their children, supplementing her widow's benefit and owning her house. Explains differences in dress code, mentions passports, the family tree. Talks of the situation after partition. Mentions visits to India and schoolfriends who now live in other countries. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Genealogical tables Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008520, OHC-008521 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2648.

Date: 22 03 2000 - 03 04 2000 - 22 Mar 2000

By: Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Translation Service

Reference: OHColl-0598

Description: Details the work of the Translation Service and its history through interviews with five people who have worked for the organisation. Includes some discussion of the translation industry in New Zealand. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Recorded by - Megan Hutching Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 5 printed abstract(s) Includes partial transcripts except for one interview. 5 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1970 - 1990

Date: 15 Jul 1998

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Wilkins, John, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0728/22

Description: John Wilkins born Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, Wales 1925. Refers to Brynmervyn estate, the largest house in the area. Describes school in Wales, Welsh language classes and training as a draughtsman with the Engineering Section of the Post Office at Swansea in 1942. Recalls being in a Reserved Occupation, servicing aerodromes for Coastal Command. After World War II recalls applying and being accepted for position in Southern Rhodesia, arriving Oct 1948. Describes work in Design Office of the Post Office, designing and maintaining records for the northern half of Southern Rhodesia. Describes life in Rhodesia, lifestyle of tobacco farmers and village of dependent workers. Recalls meeting a young nurse on board ship and marriage at St Peter's Anglican church, Carmarthen while on leave. Discusses church and chapel crossing of denomination boundaries. Describes move to New Zealand, travelling on the M V Ixion from Cape Town to Sydney and then on the M V Wanganella. Talks about work experience with the New Zealand Post Office, then six years in design work with William Cable before joining Chief Design Engineer, Frank Kerslake who went out on his own with involvement with Kawerau and Caxton Paper Mills. Refers to electric power line pylons, substations, Wairakei and steel portal frames. Backgrounds involvement with the Welsh Society and his increasing interest in developing his Welsh conversation. Mentions Percy and Heulwen Jones, and Marjorie Gee. Describes visit back to Wales and talks of miners' education in the arts, choirs and visits of various male choirs to New Zealand. Refers to Dafydd Iwan. Describes interest in painting, developing his oil painting to a standard exhibit in the Academy of New Zealand and current interest in calligraphy and history. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - David Hughes Venue - 69 Moorefield Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011926 ; OHLC-005984 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4110.

Date: 15 Feb 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Rickard, Lisa Hazel, 1912-2014

Reference: OHInt-0593/41

Description: Lisa Rickard was born in India in 1912 to missionary parents. Relates that she and her family arrived in New Zealand in 1947 from England, and describes the NZ Army huts at Mangaroa in which they lived. Relates that her father joined them from Sweden and gives advice for living with elderly parents. Talks of their pet magpie and possum. Recalls Mr Benton, a teacher at Mangaroa School, travelling by railcar. Describes taking her class to swim in the Hutt River, pets' day, being threatened by a mother of one of her pupils, understanding accents. Talks of children of various backgrounds whom she taught at Woodstock School, India. Recalls work for the local people organised by her father at the Mission, especially gardening and explains the watering system, mentions the quality of the drinking water and the wells. Talks of the orphanage run by her mother, clothing the children, Christmas presents, bracelets, cleaning floors, slates and pencils, food. Mentions weddings. Describes travelling in a bullock cart. Recalls beginning her boarding school life. Relates the value of prayer in her life. Discusses various denominations, types of communion services, Catholic marriages. Mentions the Rev. Robert Te Whare. Talks of walking to church, mentions the makes of their cars. Recalls settling in England, her husband's work and her attitude to war. Mentions relatives in Sweden and England, speaking Indian and Swedish languages. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009295, OHC-009296 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3004, OHDL-000959. Portrait photograph taken at time of interview Search dates: 1947 - 2001

Date: 2000 - 2004

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-C-LANGUAGE-2004-01

Description: Shows samples of nine different languages in circular shapes: Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish, Pashto, Somali and New Zealand Sign Language. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 420 x 295 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library in 2004.

Date: 2 Mar 1994 - 02 Mar 1994

From: Multiple Sclerosis Society Oral History Project

By: Bray, Anne, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0205/01

Description: Discusses her work on the Advisory and Research Standing Committee including developing an assessment form and finding ways of promoting research. Comments on her background as a social scientist with a PhD in Education and Human Development. Describes the importance of research which is not just medical and biomedical. Comments that research should be improving the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. Discusses the limitations of treatment. Notes that she is the convenor of the Information and Education Standing Committee. Discusses the information service offered and the beneficial effect of the Cartwright Report on information given by doctors. Comments that people with multiple sclerosis should be involved in their organisation but that there is a problem with fatigue. Comments that the change in language about multiple sclerosis reflects a change in the way people with disabilities are viewed. Talks about tension between national and regional societies in all voluntary organisations and describes the role of the national society in giving the regions a focus. Venue - Dunedin : 1994 Interviewer(s) - Miriam Clark Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005472; OHC-005473 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1082.

Date: 17 Feb 1994

From: Multiple Sclerosis Society Oral History Project

By: Hunt, Gloria, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0205/03

Description: Summarises her involvement with the Society including being on the Persons with Multiple Sclerosis Standing Committee, convenorship of the Public Relations and Fundraising Standing Committee and President of the Nelson Regional Society since 1981. Discusses the overlap between standing committees. Mentions the use of teleconferences by committees. Describes her role in writing a document examining the inappropriate language surrounding multiple sclerosis and people with it. Discusses the relationship between national and regional levels of the organisation and the function of the Executive. Talks about the change from an annual appeal to an awareness week. Notes that a percentage of the money raised is distributed to regional societies. Describes fundraising at a local level and comments on the growth of the local Nelson society. Venue - Nelson : 1994 Interviewer(s) - Miriam Clark Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005476 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1083.

Date: 18 Oct 1984

From: European refugees to New Zealand - oral history interviews

By: Halberstam, Lucie Martha, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0009/16

Description: Lucie Halberstam recalls her childhood as one of the German-speaking minority in Czechoslovakia, her father's work in an oil refinery, his treatment after the German Occupation, and the family's decision to emigrate to New Zealand. Describes her childhood impressions of New Zealand's attitude towards `friendly' (i.e. Czech) aliens, speaking German; Czech and other refugee social and cultural clubs; parents' adjustment to life in New Zealand. As a child of a Jewish-Gentile marriage, she provides insight and comments on the New Zealand Jewish Community from a partially `inside' and partially `outside' perspective. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Dr Ann Beaglehole Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003802-003803 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1614.

Date: 3 Jan 2000 - 03 Jan 2000

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: McLeod-Saris, Yoka, active 1994; Kuiper, Koenraad, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0484-22

Description: Koenraad Kuiper was born in Hanover, Germany in 1944 and emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1951. Describes his school years as tough because he was foreign. Recalls his upbringing in a strict Dutch household, Dutch celebrations and parcels. Describes fitting in well at graduate school at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Mentions his Presbyterian background and a feeling of community responsibility. Describes intending to be a vet but being steered in the direction of languages by his teacher. Comments on using his Dutch language again in recent yers, feeling Dutch in some situations and also feeling comfortable with his cultural mix. Interviewer(s) - Yoka McLeod-Saris Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2724.

Date: 2011

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size relating to human rights, civil rights. 2000-2019]

By: New Zealand. Human Rights Commission

Reference: Eph-C-RIGHTS-2011-01/06

Description: Includes posters in English, Maori, Hindi, Samoan, Tongan and simplified Chinese, each showing silhouetes of different groups of figures standing talking together. The two speech bubbles above each group include the words for each language, equivalent to: "What can I do about discrimination?" - "Talk to the Human Rights Commission". Other Titles - Okay Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Human Rights Commission, 2014.

Date: 2012

By: Australian Packaging Pty Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-2012-01

Description: Paper bag with one side covered in text, printed in blue: Feeling unwell? E mauiui ana ahau; braak; [Chinese]; erbrechen; karkas; vomito; [Japanese?]; vomi. How ever you say it, it all comes out the same. If affected by motion sickness, use this bag and not your carry on. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on paper bag, 255 x 158 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-171

Description: Shows a man smoking a pipe and writing an angry letter to the Canterbury University council about a proposal to build a smokestack in Ilam. The letter contains many expletives written as exclamation marks and other symbols. Text at the top of the cartoon reads 'Mr Adamski - 'Space Authority' - says, space men he has met 'Find it very easy to learn any language - almost.' Outside, two children are sending a small rocket into space, with a note attached asking space men for help with their homework Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and blue coloured pencil on card, 235 x 280 mm

Date: 28 Nov 1998

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Watts, Edmund Brian, 1942-

Reference: OHInt-0728/14

Description: Brian Edmund Watts, born Swansea 1942. Describes Swansea with its industrial community. Talks of his employment and mentions, coal, steel, chemicals, petrochemicals nearby and Swansea University which he attended. Discusses Welsh language and gives reasons for not learning it. Backgrounds decision to come to New Zealand and job opportunity as Technical manager with BP. Describes the job opportunity of examining the potential of manufacturing petrochemicals from Maui and Epuni gas fields. Recalls arriving in Wellington 1983 and learning about the Welsh Society. Refers to Jim Thomas, Jean and Phillip Liner, Margot Griffith, Patricia Watts, Billy Pearson, David Hughes and Bob and Linda Bevan Smith. Describes Welsh Society activities over the years. Explains the National Gymanfa Ganu and describes what it means for him. Describes the Festival of Music at the Cathedral, Wellington and the invitation to the Welsh Society to hold a Gymanfa Ganu with Philip Walsh, the musical director of the Cathedral and the Orpheus Choir. Refers to Ray Henwood. Also recalls visit by Daffydd Wigley, MP, Plaid Cymru, and his wife, Elenor Bennett, (Harpist) who played in a concert arranged by the Society in the National Library auditorium. Refers to Scorpios restaurant in Wellington, supporters of the Society. Discusses the changing needs of people coming to New Zealand and gives the examples of those from the Middle Eastern countries with a need to converse in their own tongue. Comments on the Welsh people being bilingual with an emphasis on the English language. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - David Hughes Venue - 31 Greyfriars Crescent, Tawa Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011914-011915 ; OHLC-005972-005972 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4102.

Date: 13 Dec 1997

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Hughes, David, 1926-2006

Reference: OHInt-0728/09

Description: David Hughes born Bath, Somerset, 1926- . Describes parents' Welsh background, various family moves, education in England, commencing first job as a toolmaker in 1942 and joining the Army in 1944. Recalls making turrets for bombers until he entered the Army. Recalls first Regiment being the 5th Regiment based at Tenby, later changing name to 6th Field Regiment. Discusses Regiment's move from Germany to Italy in 1946 and going to Egypt en route to Palestine by troop ship 1946/1947. Mentions the Balfour Declaration. Recalls joining New Zealand Army and arriving in late 1956 on a paid passage on immigrant ship `Captain Cook'. Outlines Army postings, being commissioned and posted to the Wellington area in charge of Trentham-Belmont as Ammunition technical officer. Recalls posting in 1967-1968 to Vietnam for one year. Refers to his medals and retiring at rank of Major. Explains how the war influenced the course of his life. After retirement continued to work as office manager and credit controller with AWA, a wireless firm in Wellington and recalls a call from New Zealand Police with offer of a job with explosives. Backgrounds involvement with the Welsh Society, joining in 1979. Refers to Gwyn Owen, president and meetings at Wakefield House on the Terrace. Discusses Welsh Society Competitions. Describes learning the Welsh language. Refers to John Wilkins. Talks of his wife, Irene Hughes' country of Estonia. Mentions the Gymanfa Ganu and his role in the 1994 Gymanfa Ganu held in Wellington. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Linda Bevan Smith Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011907-011908 ; OHLC-005967-005968 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.08 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4097.

Date: 6 Aug 1999 - 06 Aug 1999

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Jones, Margaret Heulwen, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0728/19

Description: Margaret Heulwen Jones born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Describes family background and life in Wales, including war years, before coming to New Zealand in 1954, travelling on the `Captain Cook'. Discusses the Welsh language and the Oral Welsh examination as a requirement for matriculation. Recalls marriage in 1952 to Alan Roylands. Describes early years in New Zealand, living in Karori and working with Excelsior Supply Company in Victoria Street as secretary to the managing director. Explains returning to England 1954 as father was terminally ill, returning again to New Zealand, ca 1964 and living in house they had built in Paparangi. Recalls that mother, Nan Griffiths, emigrated to New Zealand 1966 and they both joined the Welsh Society when Gwyn Owen was president. Talks about positions held within the Society between 1967 and 1975. Describes the various events and activities run by the Society. Mentions involvement with the Wellington Quilters Guild. Refers to Ted and Mary Driscoll. Recalls Welsh Rugby Team's tour 1969, Welsh Soccer Team's visit 1971 and Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations (1971). Describes differences between houses in New Zealand and Wales and recalls experience of earthquake while at work. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - John Wilkins Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011920-011921 ; OHLC-005978-005979 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4107.

Date: 1975

By: New Zealand. National English Syllabus Committee; Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997

Reference: Eph-E-LANGUAGE-1970s

Description: Includes: 1973: Language is central to full human development. Language is a form of human behaviour; language is central to personal growth; the child first explores language through listening and speaking. A school language policy should seek to ... / National English Syllabus Committee, Department of Education, Wellington, 1973 1975: Language is .. [Eight colour illustrations show children involved in language-related activities] / National English Syllabus Committee, Department of Education, Wellington, 1975 Language is ... [13 black and white photographs of people engaged in activities involving language] / English Syllabus Committee, Department of Education, Visual Production Unity, Wellington, 1975 (2 copies) Language is ... Language is me, language is you, language is people, ... etc The limits of language are the limits of my world / English Syllabus Committee, Department of Education, Visual Production Unity, Wellington, 1975 Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 980 x 730 mm.

Date: 2004

From: [Ephemera relating to telephones, telephone exchanges and subscribers. 1900- ]

By: Kiwibank

Reference: Eph-A-TELEPHONE-2004-01

Description: Brochure in the shape of a mobile phone that opens. The text advises that one's bank balance at Kiwibank can be checked using a mobile phone. Other Titles - Now you can text for your bank balance Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on folded card. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded card, 135 x 70 mm.

Date: [2003]

From: Hughes, H G Alun (Dr), fl 1946-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7896

Description: Brief essay by Hughes on the inevitable changes of languages within cultures Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0022805

Description: Shows a post with several road signs in various languages. Context: Proposal out of Auckland on having bilingual signage. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).