Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 15 January 2019.
Colleen Crooks Part 1 of 2. Summary: How got into doll making. History of porcelain dolls. Runs a dolls’ hospital. Can reproduce antiques in her studio, porcelain and clothing. Method of prod...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: January 15, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu Peoiple's Radio 25 December 2018.
Part 1, John Ward. Started work as a photo-engraver, December 1953. Called in to work urgently after Tangiwai rail disaster, Christmas Eve. Description of event and photograph processing fo...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: December 25, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 22 January 2019.
Colleen Crooks Part 2 of 2. Summary: Porcelain doll making – after the porcelain stage. Traditional fabrics. Colours. Has hundreds of dolls, filled a granny flat. Dolls’ hospital. Still teach...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: January 22, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 18 December 2018.
Colin Dyer Part 2 of 2. Summary: Many Showgrounds events in the 1990s. League test where ran out of balls. National image of Palmerston North. Team announcement after All Black trial. Tina T...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: December 18, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 11 December 2018.
Colin Dyer Part 1 of 2. Summary: Origins of Showgrounds, A&P Association 1886. Nature of A&P. State of Showgrounds about 1950. 1972 bought by PNCC and redeveloped. 1974, Palmerston North Sho...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: December 11, 2018
Broadcast on Access manawatu, 12 June 2018.
Abbeyfield residents Beryl Ludlam, Bev Marsh, Elaine Morse and Peggy Pedersen describe their experiences. Topics include: School in the war years, air raid practice and shelters, power blackouts, fear ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: June 12, 2018
Broadcast on Access Manawatu, 5 June 2018, Abbeyfield residents talk about Abbeyfield, a residence offering “senior flatting”.
Summary: Part of a global system, started in England, 13 in New Zealand. Semi-independent living. Comparison to retire...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: June 5, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4 December 2018.
Alison Mildon. Summary: Family cars. Restrictions on overseas currency. Primary school. Localised communities. World War Two and ages of children. Getting to secondary school (Freyberg). Drivi...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: December 4, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 7 May, 2019. Trish Keiller on the history of Caccia Birch House, interviewed by Alison Mildon. Sound of cicadas in the background. Caccia Birch Trust Board member. House uses, history display. Original purchas...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 7, 2019
First broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11 June, 2019.
Working in the education psychology field 1974 to 2003. Scope of work in early years. Requests from schools for assessments of specific pupils and formulating strategies. Special classes...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 11, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 25 June, 2019.
Breanna McQuade and Gayle Moana-Johnson. Structure of Future Leaders programme, objectives. Participants. How they operated. Monthly meetings. Catalysts and a coach. Umbrella organization calle...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 25, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 4 June, 2019. Rosaline Putu, part 2 of 2.
Early life in Kairanga (1940s). Moved onto a farm when very young, stayed until turned 9. Early memories. Deaf brother and sister. Wartime, Home guard. Country schoo...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 4, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28 May 2019. Rosaline Putu, part 1 of 2.
Scandinavian origins, born in Palmerston North 1938, married a Maori in 1960. How they met. Speaking English. Acceptance into the family. Speaking Maori, evolution of...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 28, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 10th September 2019. Early life. Airforce cadetship. 1 year initial training at Woodburn. Further year at Wigram, then permanent appointment to Ohakea as instrument fitter. Time serving in UK.
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 10, 2019
A broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 2 April, 2019. Part 1 of 3. Cliff Simpson. Move to Feilding about 1948. Stock agent in South Island, then stock buyer for Longburn freezing works. Nature of the work and training. Father had dairy farm, 35 c...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 2, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 April, 2019. Tom Stoneley, part 2 of 2. With Gwen Stoneley. Gwen left school in 1950. Office work. Tom had identical twin brother. Little social life. Worked long hours. Ewe fairs. Holding paddocks. Size of ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 30, 2019
Broadcast on Access Manawatū on 9 April, 2019. Cliff Simpson, part 2 of 3. Focused on sport in school, athletics, rugby. Middle distance running, training methods, successes up to 1950 Empire Games. Racing Australian half-mile champion. Rugby for ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 9, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 16 April 2019. Cliff Simpson, part 3 of 3. Grandfather coming to New Zealand, coal miner from Australia. Great-great-grandfather a convict on the second fleet. Social life with children. Lost 3 children, effect...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 16, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 23 April 2019. Tom Stoneley, part 1 of 2. Stoneley Brothers general carriers 1951-1961. Type of vehicles, roads. Hours worked. Items carried. Stock crates. Loading goods by hand. Customers, orders. Driving plus...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 23, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 9 July, 2019. Raylee Murphy, Part 2 of 2.
Overcame early effects of polio. Polio support group, on the board, learning about late effects of polio. Doctors now unaware of polio. The Duncan family polio rehabi...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 9, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 2 July, 2019. Raylee Murphy, Part 1 of 2.
Bank work from age 15. Early effects of polio. Hospital experience. When in early 40s, took university papers. Married at 19, 3 children. Divorced about 40. Volunteer ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 2, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 23 July, 2019. Jim Esson, part 2 of 2.
Book on history of the Rotary Club of Terrace End, first 40 years. Catherine Hamlin World Understanding Award for the fistula hospital in Addis Ababa. Bringing buffaloes...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 23, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 21 May, 2019. Bruce Markwell and Malcolm Busch on the history of the Rotary Club of Terrace End, part 2 of 2. Rotary Club of Terrace End Memorial Educational Trust. Mike Hansen taking a team to Namibia. Intern...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: May 21, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 18 June, 2019.
Moved a bit when young, 10 schools. Remembers parents splitting when 4 years old. Effects of changing schools. Desire to finish school. Maori mother. Social background very mixed. Pregnant at ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 18, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 6 August, 2019. Kevin Burrows and Rod Watt, part 2 of 2. School in the 1950s. The cane and notches in belts. Pranks they would do: making bombs, smells from wattle seeds, rubber band guns. Making skeletons in s...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 6, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 14 May, 2019. Bruce Markwell and Malcolm Busch on the history of the Rotary Club of Terrace End, Part 1 of 2. Early membership, age, occupation, criteria. Formal meetings. Sergeant’s sessions. Family involveme...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: May 14, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 July, 2019. Kevin Burrows and Rod Watt, Part 1 of 2.
Time at school together from 1948. Polio epidemic. Discipline, mischief. Palmerston North Technical College. Burning the teacher’s cane. Palmerston Nort...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 30, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 16 July, 2019. Jim Esson, part 1 of 2.
Entomologist in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), 1950s. Structure of DSIR, relationship with Massey Agricultural College. Nationality of staf...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 16, 2019
The 10th Annual New Zealand Scouting Jamboree was held in Feilding in January 1984. Held between the 2nd and 10th, Scout groups from across the country were able to take part in events that taught skills (farming tasks, accident response training ...
Creator: Keith Malcolm
Place: Feilding
Date: January 1984
Interview with Barry Parker, Board Chairman of the Co-op from 1982. Interviews were made during the Reunion of former staff members. Interviewer Lee Matthews, reporter for the Manawatu Evening Standard. Length: 25 minutes
Creator: Lee Matthews, interviewer
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 12, 1992