Māori (New Zealand people) - Social conditions

Date: 1989-1993 - 01 Jan 1989 - 29 Jun 1993

By: Māori Women's Welfare League; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001; Delamere, Anne Anituatua, 1921-2006; Koopu, Areta, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0602

Description: Interviews to record the history of this organisation founded in 1951, to help improve the health, economic status and education of Maori women. Interviewees from Te Taitokerau are Dame Mira Szaszy, Dame Whina Cooper, Paraehe Te Pana Raharuhi, Nina Subritzky, Mate Toia, Harriet Te Paa, Maata Te Maru, Amy Tatana, Maude Smith, Tottie Robson, Violet Pou, Meremere Petricevich, Katie Phillips, Hazel Paul, Tata Norman, Meri Netana, Taukiri Neho, Maree Millar, Erana Lazarus, Rangi Karena, Alma Herbert and Nettie Harrison. Interviewees from Tamaki Makaurau are Eve Taimana and Agnes Theodore. Interviewees from Tainui are Mona Wikaira, Rangimarie Hetet, Diggeress Te Kanawa, Raiha Sargeant, Rora Pakititi, Emily Paki and Kahu Jones. Interviewees from Waiariki are Katerina (Kaa) Maxwell, Anne Delamere and Te Rina Waenga. Interviewees from Tairawhiti are Hekeiterangi Te Maipi, Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, Mana Rangi, Fanny Morice, Jean Maxwell, Puti Keelan, Maude Isaac and Tuahine Hauraki. Interviewees from Aotea are Daisy Waitere, Maraea Tippins, Rangitaamo Takarangi, Hiria Rennie, Kath Rangi, Lucy Puohotaua, Te Arahori Potaka and Ivy Papakura. Interviewees from Ikaroa are Harata Solomon, Taumata Renata, Rita Ranginui, Tahiti Rangiihu, Eileen Ngahere, Mere Hutchinson, Louise Carkeek, Kuini Te Tau, Rutua Heremia, Roimata Hawea, Mairatea Tahiwi, Te Maari Joe, Ada Brown and Witarina Harris. Interviewees from Te Wai Pounamu are Magda Wallscott and Ruku Arahanga. Sir Charles Bennett and Sir Ralph Love are also interviewed. The interviews formed the basis of the book 'Early stories from founding members of the Maori Women's Welfare League, Te Timitanga tatau tatau' as told to Dame Mira Szaszy (Wellington, The League and Bridget Williams Books, 1993) Abstracted by - Kataraina Were and Arama Pirika Recorded by - Beverley McCombs Quantity: 30 C60 cassette(s). 33 C90 cassette(s). 2 videocassette(s). 67 transcript(s). 70 interview(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available for most interviews. Transfers: MS-Papers-1396 (A93-289).

Date: 1950-1997

By: Māori Women's Welfare League

Reference: MS-Papers-1396

Description: Includes National Executive minutes, conference papers, newsletters, branch reports, correspondence and entries for Te Puea Trophy and some New Zealand Maori Council papers. Includes files relating to National President's Committee (Unicef), ANGOA, women's development issues, Te Kohanga Reo, Civil Defence, Te Puni Kokiri, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Waitangi Tribunal, Mawhera Incorporation, Children and Young Person's Service, Lottery Grants Board applications, McKenzie Foundation, Hillary Commission, NZQA, Te Waka Hauora, Hepatitis B immunisation, MAF, Consumer Affairs, arts, culture and libraries, National Maori Congress, welfare and community funding, voluntary organisations, educational issues and health and safety issues. Arrangement: Arranged by series. Material listed and boxed by League staff. Preliminary arrangement only (A93-180). Quantity: 138 folder(s). 67 box(es). 28 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Maori Women's Welfare League : Photograph albums (PAColl-3318) - To Oral History Collection - Tapes of the interviews (OHColl-0602).

Date: Oct-Nov 1978

By: King, John, 1935-

Reference: OHColl-0237

Description: Unstructured interviews with members of the Ngati Maniapoto recorded by John King for the National FIlm Unit in 1980. The intention was to use them for a film `The narrowing' concerning the understanding of Maoritanga by the people of Te Kuiti. Discusses issues of Maori land, Maori language and education. Focuses on the loss of Maori culture and the effects of this. Interviewer(s) - John King Interviewer(s) - Judith (unknown) Quantity: 46 5" reel(s). 27 transcript(s). 27 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: 1991-1995 - 01 Jan 1991 - 01 Dec 1995

By: Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002; Grace, Patricia Frances, 1937-; Ramsden, Irihapeti Merenia, 1946-2003

Reference: OHColl-0600

Description: Comprises 15 interviews to record the personal stories of the original members of the Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club, one of the first national associations of Maori people. The kuia and kaumatua interviewed talk about the early years of the Club from its origins in the early 1930's and they also give a personal account of their lives during this time. The interviews were collected as part of the research for the book 'The silent migration' by the interviewers, a project initiated by Mihipeka Edwards. Publication - Sound recordings were made as research for the book 'Silent migration : Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club 1937-1948 : stories of urban migration / by Agnes Broughton...[et al]; told to Patricia Grace, Irihapeti Ramsden and Jonathan Dennis. Wellington, Huia, 2001. Accompanying material - Notes toward a introduction for the book 'Silent migration', shelved with back file Interviewer(s) - Patricia Grace Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Dennis Interviewer(s) - Irihapeti Ramsden Quantity: 7 C90 cassette(s). 16 C60 cassette(s). 15 transcript(s). 1 folder(s) draft book introduction. 15 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available for most interviews, except the Black sisters, and most of the Aunty Dovey interview. Some are transcripts; some digital transcripts at MSDL-0153. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-317 - Native Department paper to Hon PK Paikea on Maori and war conditions was transferred back to manuscripts.. Search dates: 1937 - 1948

Date: 1999-2000 - 29 Oct 1999 - 20 May 2002

By: Selby, Rachael Ann, 1949-; Richmond, Joanna Mary, 1946-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHColl-0673

Description: Maori and Pakeha were interviewed for this project, which looks at the history of Otaki and the lives of ten of its community. Language - mainly English but possibly some Maori within interviews by Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Interviewer(s) - Rachael Selby Interviewer(s) - Jan Richmond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011052 - 011064 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s) and accompanying photos and material. 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Several photocopies of photos accompany documentation Search dates: 1930 - 2000

Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: 1841-1844, 1844-1852, 1852-1854, 1935-1936

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-2053-2055

Description: Journals kept by Stephens which include a biographical sketch by his nephew, J Edmund Clark (ppi-ii of v1, 1935), a note to an extract of 1842 (v3, 1936), and a letter to him from Robert Pattie (1935) re the excerpts (pp846-850, v3), letters from Stephens and Sarah Stephens to his mother and sisters, Anne and Ellen and extracts from his journals. Stephens describes his daily life as a surveyor and settler, events in New Zealand, people he met and other aspects of his working and private life. Each volume has a list of contents and v3 has an index. The pages are numbered chronologically through the three volumes. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (850 leaves, 35 leaves)

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-539-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand. Soldiers explain why it is humane to cut people's throats once they've been driven from their homes. Jenny Shipley reacts negatively to Jim Bolger's book. Jenny Shipley does a unicycle act on the high/slack wire. She can't look down for fear of falling, and she can't look up for fear of the coalition government she carries on her shoulders. Jack Elder and Tuku Morgan line-up behind Tau Henare in a new political allegiance. The American Republicans are exposed in their determination to impeach President Clinton over sex allegations no matteer what public opinion is. Jenny Shipley announces under National's new housing policy people in sub-standard housing will be assisted to buy their properties rather than rent them. Tim Shadbolt has been re-elected Mayor of Invercargill. Russia backs the bloody regime of Slobodan Milosivic against the Albanians. Jenny Shipley receives a negative reaction from the Dairy Board members over comments they should dig their own graves and make their wills. Jenny Shipley's intention of ending the Producer Board's statutory monopolies is thinnly veiled to avoid farmer backlash prior to the election. The Labour Party surges in the polls although their visibility is low. A paralell is drawn between roading reforms proposals and the manner Warriors' boss comments on players like Matthew Ridge. Commment on telephone electronic cueing messages. Canadian newspapers report that Wellington has the best views in the world. A Wellintonian watches as storms blow uprooted trees, boats, cars and other debris past his window. General Pinochet in jail being interrogated over his part in crimes of terrorism committed against Chilean critics of his Military Junta. Two contenders for the Auckland Blues Rugby coaching job are given a lesson in sportsmanship. Otago win the NPC (National Provincial Championships). Palestinian and Israeli leaders are booed by their supporters for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Met. office build an ark as an indication of the weather to come. Tuariki Delamere considers his political future. Tau Henare sums up the essence of his new Mauri Pacific Party. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Editorial cartoons; The Evening Post, 1 - 29 May 1992

Reference: H-008-003

Description: Shows Jim Bolger. Refers to the Los Angeles riots that followed police brutality against a black American Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: Nov 1981 - Feb 1982

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0005

Description: Structured life history interviews with longterm residents of the Wairarapa town of Martinborough. The object of the project was to gather first hand accounts of living in a small rural town in NZ in the first part of the twentieth century. Awards/funding - Funded by a grant from the Department of Internal Affairs Abstracted by - Judith Fyfe, Hugo Manson and Jean Harton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - Notes to accompany the project, an index to the contents of the interviews (49 pages), a report on the pilot project, the interview guide and a catalogue of interviewee names and NZOHA tape numbers. This was a pilot project as research and preparation for establishing a national oral history archive. Martinborough was selected for a number of reasons including the interviewers' personal association with the town, its size - population 1357, and the celebration of its centenary in 1982. Quantity: 181 5" reel(s). 97 C60 cassette(s) working copies. 36 printed abstract(s). 36 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: The collection was initially held by the Department of Internal Affairs Search dates: 1981 - 1982

Date: 12 Nov 1994 - 11 Sept 1995 - 12 Nov 1994 - 11 Sep 1995

From: Diamonds and gold - Ngati Kahungunu history of the Pou-a-Kani region oral history project

By: Ahipene, George Rangitahua, 1924-1999

Reference: OHInt-0584/1

Description: George Ahipene was born in 1924. Discusses school experiences, upbringing with Vic and Pare Saunders and farm ambitions. Talks about Pirinoa Station, the Wairarapa Training Farm and experiences in the Airforce and Maori Battalion. Talks about Lake Wairarapa's boundaries and titles, names farmers who lived on its perimeters and discusses the Blue water title and Ruamahanga River Diversion. Recalls the flooding and opening up of Lake Wairarapa and its impact on eeling and fishing. Recalls the women's protests, the agreement to a transaction of 30,000 acres of Pou-a-Kani land and retraction of that agreement in 1976. Talks about visits to Pou-a-Kani farms and perpetual forests. Refers to various meetings regarding Wairarapa Lake and the Pou-a-Kani land exchange agreement. Talks about the selection of people for Pou-a-Kani blocks and resettlement of Kahungunu ki Wairarapa whanau. Relates about the Pou-a-Kani farms, their titles, boundaries and management by the Maori Affairs Department. Describes the land, discusses dairying, mentions difficulties encountered with stock and talks about work opportunities in and around Mangakino. Recalls social activities, the sports clubs and sports personalities and the Wairarapa and Mangakino whanau. Interviewer(s) - Murray Hemi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008982, 008983, 008984, 008985 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2754.

Date: 27 Nov 2001

From: The Leniston Family Oral History Project

By: Leniston, Elizabeth Theresa, 1926-2017

Reference: OHInt-0607-01

Description: Betty Leniston was born in 1926 in Island Bay. Relates her maternal Irish background, refers to emigrant ships and Irish songs. Explains how Aunty Frances Cunningham met her future husband, Will McGruddy, sheepfarmer of Eketahuna and describes their house, talks of their farm workers, cousins helping with shearing, the train set, Mercedes Benz cars. Mentions her mother's laughter, singing, social work, working as a buyer at a drapery store and at the St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen, buying a section of land. Describes her cooking techniques, her hospitalisation and death following childbirth. Relates that her brother was cared for by the Home of Compassion and explains how she and her siblings coped after mother's death. Recalls her stepmother and housekeepers, and being in an orphanage. Explains her father's background and surname, mentions the family sweet factory in Lyttelton, his job as a clerical worker at Army Headquarters, his long service medal, working for the Post Office. Recalls family picnics at Happy Valley and Wilton Bush. Describes soap making and the making of a clothes drying rack. Talks about her brother Joe, a favourite with grandmother, his poliomyelitis and Maori medicinal treatment, Scouts membership, his work as messenger boy with DIC department store, buying a new coat on hire purchase. Recalls the polio epidemic and the infant vaccine. Mentions the deaths of schoolmates from pneumonia, scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Explains making up stories, her enjoyment of reading and music. Discusses homework, sport, religion and confession in convent schools. Talks of values taught by nuns. Mentions contraception. Talks of her children's role in leaving the catholic church, joining the Christian Family Movement. Explains that she left school to look after her stepmother's first child who changed family relationships. Relates that her sister worked at Mecca Tearooms, talks of the minimum wage. Gives reasons for leaving home, describes being a nurse-aide, training at Masterton Hospital, talks about career options. Recalls meeting Johnny Leniston, his Fleet Air Arm and Army service, details war experiences, having a rehabilitation farm on his return from war, exploitation by a farmer at Awakino. Mentions kindly neighbours. Talks of pre-war engagement and post-war marriage, with a consent obtained from a magistrate. Explains the system of post war employment for returned servicemen. Describes living in army huts with a luxurious bath, country life, coping with stoves. Talks of her best friend losing her baby, childbirth, having her own children, explains their names, talks of a visit by the Plunket nurse, treatment for vomiting, mentions miscarriages. Names Dr. de Castro, Dr. Grantly Dick. Talks of the childbirth rate at Wainuiomata in 1950s. Explains the influence of Kate Harcourt on child rearing. Describes the Maori population at Awakino River area, the Maori Work Scheme at Mahanui and mentions the moko, pipe smoking and segregation. Explains the rise in land prices in 1950s, describes their time spent farming, water shortages, Johnny Leniston's poisoned arm causing the farmer to give notice, the move to Lower Hutt and his crash teaching course. Talks of managing on a trainee teacher salary, family benefits, state housing at Avalon, market rents. Recalls milk delivery at Happy Valley and the five bakeries at Island Bay. Details registration conditions of first car, a Chevrolet, insurance of a Vauxhall J, a van with built in benches loaned by a friend, and later owning a small bus. Explains how they gathered camping equipment together. Describes help with the children and later with Johnny Leniston's father from Assumption Sisters and neighbours. Explains extension to house before being offered 31 Glenbervie Terrace (The Moorings) and describes the state it was in, and talks of help in cleaning it. Relates the reaction of those around her when Johnny went to Perth, Australia for six months during the mineral boom with son Matthew. Describes her children and their various abilities. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - E-mails from Margaret Leniston to Judith Fyfe, sprigs of dried lavender, notes from preliminary interview Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3858, OHDL-001230. Search dates: 1926 - 2001

Date: [ca 1927]-1938

From: Turbott, Harold Bertram, 1899-1988 : Papers

Reference: PAColl-10760

Description: Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly between 1927 and 1938. Consists of 45 photographic prints containing 51 images, associated with H B Turbott's career as a Medical Officer of Health. These include eight small prints possibly cut from a proof sheet, and 37 quarter plate prints, 10 of which are pasted on paper with typescript captions. The photographs, taken in rural areas, show housing conditions in Māori communities. Many homes are small and in poor condition. PAColl-10760-36 shows images of houses without windows constructed from wood and corrugated iron. Annotations on the reverse of PAColl-10760-34 identify two tuberculosis hut images as taken on the East Coast. Other locations are not known and people are unidentified. Two pieces of photographic ephemera, envelopes, are also included. One envelope is addressed to "Dr. H B Turbott, Health Dept [Department], Hamilton", and originally contained two prints depicting tuberculosis huts. A postmark dates the envelope to 1938. The second envelope is stamped "Department of Health New Zealand". Pencil annotations read "Lambert's photos". This could be a reference to Dr Sylvester Maxwell Lambert who produced a report on Māori health in 1938. Title supplied by Library. The Library holds Dr Sylvester Maxwell Lambert’s 1938 report "A Survey of the Maori situation" at Library reference MS-Papers-9557. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s) 45 prints containing 51 images. 3 transcript(s). 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera envelopes. Physical Description: Photographic prints and photographic ephemera

Date: 1860 (1934)

By: Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: qMS-1860

Description: Contains memo on Maori custom as to land titles, a skeleton history of the Church of England in New Zealand and a report on the condition of the Maori in Canterbury for 1860 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (30 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (1934)

Date: 1990

By: Ki Mana Whānau

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-1990-01

Description: A calendar showing photographs of activities involving Maori: roadworkers, committee members, a hangi, a haka party, groups of young people and families. Other Titles - Rangatiratanga Other Titles - New Zealand calendar 1990 Other Titles - Matua whangai Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pages of calendar, each page 215 x 302 mm.

Date: 1992

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: J-060-008

Description: Shows Jim Bolger. Refers to the Los Angeles riots that followed police brutality against a black American and to the situation of Maori and Polynesians in New Zealand society Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size laser copy on poster paper.

Date: 1860-1861

By: Battiscombe, Albert Henry William, 1831-1916

Reference: MSY-6834

Description: Describes engagements, Maori defences and battle tactics during the Taranaki war, including some comment (mainly pages 26-27) on the condition of the Maori race and on their way of life. Also some press cuttings and sketches of fortifications. Preceded by official despatches from Battiscombe as Senior Lieutenant `Pelorus' Naval Brigade with replies, and a list of the Battiscombe family papers held by the Dorset Record Office. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (74 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (photocopies) (38 cm, green buckram hinged-lid box)

Date: 1858

By: Tanner, Thomas, 1830-1918

Reference: MS-2117

Description: In January-April 1857 Tanner journeyed with J D Canning and one MacDonald from Waipawa to Auckland via Taupo and the Waikato to study agricultural potential; he visited Maori settlements, met chieftain Pohipi and returned via Rotorua recording detailed impressions of its natural history, of the Terraces and of Maori life Prominent Hawkes Bay landowner and politician Physical Description: Mss

Date: 2003

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

Reference: H-714-001/012

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Topics include ACT list member of Parliament Donna Awatere-Huata's refusal to resign from her party, the peace movement rebuffed by the American White House, the dogs of war dragging Nato, the loss of the America's Cup in yachting, Dave Dobbyn's theme song for the America's Cup being re-worded as "We Are Oil", American President Bush's determination to bomb Iraq, Prime Minister Helen Clark's politically correct social agenda overwhelming the "Knowledge wave", Black Cap cricketer Chris Cairn's misdemeanour in Kenya, the investment of superannunation funds by the government, reaction to member of Parliament John Tamihere's pronouncement on maori social welfare beneficiaries, and fading memeories of milk in bottles, the proposed start of maori television and the America's Cup. Quantity: 12 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [late 1930s]

By: McNaughton, Henry Leslie, -1969; Woodward, Joan, active 1960s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-914

Description: Album showing housing conditions in Newton Gully, Ponsonby and Freeman's Bay, compiled by H L McNaughton, headmaster of Grey Lynn School in Surrey Crescent, as part of an investigation undertaken in the late 1930s into the living conditions of children attending his school. The album also contains H L Mc Naughton's report to the Department of Health. The area in which these photographs were taken is bounded by Nelson Street, Union Street, Fanshaw Street and Victoria Park Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Joan Woodward's father was headmaster of Grey Lynn School in the 1940s, after H L McNaughton.