Glen Innes

Date: 29 May 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Wren, John, 1962-

Reference: OHInt-0872-21

Description: Interview with John Wren, born in Auckland in 1962. Mentions his family background, and his father being a cabinet maker. Reflects on the strict discipline in the family with a pentecostal church background. Talks about his parents moving from central Auckland to a state house in Glen Innes in 1963 and living there for 20 years. Describes the two-storey house, the middle one in a block of three, its facilities and garden. Talks about family activities and not having television or going to movies. Refers to the film "Once were warriors" being an accurate picture of Glen Innes as he remembers it. Comments on the change of aspirations of Glen Innes residents from working class to middle class over time, but the community getting poorer from the 1960s. Discusses the family's move to a house in Mt Wellington and his father putting a fence around it. Comments that he believes the government should be involved in housing. Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015669 - OHC-015671 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.19 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5628 (draft). Search dates: 1962 - 2003

Date: 28 May 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Thompson, Thelma Alison, 1963-; Talagi, Mona, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0872-19

Description: Interview with Georgie Thompson, born in Auckland, 1963, and with Mona Talagi, born Taranaki in 1926. Georgie Thompson talks about her mother being of Tainui descent and her father of Scottish descent. Discusses growing up in a semi-detached state house in Glen Innes in a large family, and never feeling crowded. Mentions her father left when she was seven, and having to do the housework while her mother worked. Refers to fights among the children, discipline, parties and music. Comments on her mother and aunty speaking Maori, going to marae and tangi, and them teaching respect for elders. Mentions not having a car, and picking puha and watercress. Comments on a field at the back of the house that played a huge role in family life. Refers to changes in the community in the 1970s when there was an influx of pakeha, Pacific Islanders and gangs. Talks about her attitude to government involvment in housing, and the difficulties created by market rents. Mentions that Housing Corporation placed an eviction notice on the front door the day after her mother died, having a difficult time fighting for custody of her sisters, and taking over the tenancy as she was aged 18. Mona Talagi talks about her family background, Tainui descent, and growing up in Manaia where her parents were sharemilkers. Mentions moving to Auckland about 1952 and living in Papatoetoe with her partner Joe Ratene? Recalls applying for a state house in 1960 when she was pregnant with her third child. Describes the three-bedroomed house they were assigned and calls it a good family home. Talks about family life, Christmas being a big occasion with a hangi, parties and music, and the vegetable garden. Mentions having lived in a state house for 43 years, and needing an accommodation supplement in the 1990s during the period of market rents. Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015665 - OHC-015666 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.42 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5626 (draft). Search dates: 1926 - 1963 - 2003

Date: [1930s-1980s]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-010

Description: Aerial photographs taken by Leo White and Whites Aviation between circa 1930s-1980s. Images show the Auckland region particularly Henderson. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: 7 Oct 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-54200

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 1965

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Adams & Dodd (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2005-057-0252

Description: Includes plans by John S Swan and William E Lavelle; Toomath & Wilson, Stephen A Vincze and the Ministry of Works. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, 525 x 770 mm.

Date: 1957, April 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7773

Description: Transparencies of aerial views of suburbs in Auckland City, taken 1957 and April 1960 by Whites Aviation. Comprises views of Glen Innes, Glendowie, Kohimarama, and Otahuhu. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 7 October 1978, 20 February 1982, 26-27 February 1982, 5-6 March 1982, 27 March 1982, 3 April 1982, 30 June 1985,

By: Adams, Mark Bentley, 1949-; Real Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-1289

Description: Images published in: 'Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand art, global culture' by Mark Adams, Te Papa Press, 2010 and 'Tatau' by Mark Adams and Lisa Taouma , Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, 2003. Finding aid updated with information from staff, February 2016. Quantity: 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 25 Mar 1977

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-73867-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 Plate

Date: 17 Aug 1961

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-55670-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 14 Oct 1974

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-72232-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 16 May 1963

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-60318-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Negative sleeve reads: Ministry of Works Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 21 May 1964

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-62187-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 27 Nov 1964

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-63156-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 25 Mar 1977

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-73863-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 Plate

Date: 3 Sep 1969

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68701-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 4 Oct 1963

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-60764-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 25 Mar 1977

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-73865-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 Plate

Date: 11 Apr 1988

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-80298-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 12 Apr 1983

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-76796-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 12 Dec 1961

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-56409-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate