Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th September 2023, Part 2 of 2. Hitch hiking, truck from Alice Springs to Adelaide. Then Melbourne, went to Melbourne Cup. On track betting. Sydney, staying Glebe, then home in Opunake. Teaching at St Jos...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 19, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 25th May 2021. Part 1 of 2. Grew up in Auckland, university then army officer for 7 years, logistics officer. Why left the army. Limited Services Volunteers. YMCA then diploma in teaching and became a...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 25, 2021
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th September 2022. 2 of 3. Friars Grammar School in Wales. School structure in Britain. Woodwork, recently carved furniture. The 11+ exam in Britain, grammar schools and secondary modern...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Ashhurst
Date: September 13, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 11th July 2023. Part 1 of 2. To university in late 1960s, common for her group of girls. Best at maths and English, specialized in sciences. Choice of university subject. Never planned to be a housewi...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 11, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 18th April 2023. Part 3 of 3. Married in 1948, stopped teaching. Glen Oroua School. Class of 48 and then 40 children. Coping with the big age range. Getting married. Farming in Taikorea. Had 12 ...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Taikorea
Date: April 18, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th April 2020. Part 2 of 2. Teacher training in Christchurch from 1951. Catholic Youth Movement. Teaching at Hokowhitu, then Marton Junction (51 children in the class). Then to Terrace End. Other ac...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: April 28, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th March 2023. Part 3 of 3. Horowhenua College top stream, wanted to be a teacher and a florist. Competitive class. 2nd stream more relaxed. Mixed ethnicity school, Maori, Pakeha, Chinese. Planting a...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Feilding
Date: March 7, 2023
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 "Cleared to Land," early days of aviation in Palmerston North / Graham Parsons
p. 15 Design for living: the Savage Crescent conservation area / Margaret Tate
p. 25 Atawhai / Patricia Keiller ...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2010
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 4th February 2025. Part 1 of 3. Rosalie grew up in Brunswick near Whanganui and began to work on the family farm in the late 1940s. Went to Brunswick school which had 40 pupils. Milked two cows by han...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Feilding
Date: February 4, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 25th February 2025. Part 1 of 2. Born in Palmerston North and lived in Bunnythorpe until she was 19 years old then moved to Hawkes Bay to teach. Father worked at electricity sub station at Bunnythorpe...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: February 25, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 4th March 2025. Part 2 of 2. She was bonded to the Ministry of Education for three years. She worked out her bond at Wimbledon then went to Norsewood in Hawkes Bay where she taught older childre...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 4, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st January 2025. All interviewees were teachers between 1967 and 1990s. Most went from school to teachers college except VickiMarie who went to university first. Dianne went to a trial trainin...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 21, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 19th April 2022, part 2 of 4. Why Bob moved about before settling here. Training for psychology. Job at Massey University in 1967, authoritarian culture. Getting into property. Boarding school experien...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: April 19, 2022
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th March 2021. Part 2 of 2. Teaching, Ross Intermediate for probationary year, then primary teaching at Terrace End, then secondary at Manawatu College. Not a rigid curriculum. Total eme...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: March 30, 2021
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 22nd September 2020. Part 1 of 5. Born in Richmond, Nelson. Great-great-grandparents arrived there in 1842. Moved to Karamea, whitebait, eeling, 1930s. Hokitika and West Coast. Independent childhood, ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 22, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 24th September 2019. Keith Clark, part 2 of 4. Serious illness, just survived. Recovery. Teaching, sole charge school, 9 children. Social life. Teachers’ College. Back into sport. Learning to swim. Returned s...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 24, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th October 2020. Part 4 of 5. Principal of school in Blenheim. Pupils’ backgrounds and later lives. Teaching style and activities. School swimming pool. Buying a house. Search and rescue (1960s). Sk...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 13, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 6th October 2020. Part 3 of 5. Marriage, parents approval, wedding and reception. Moving to Palmerston North, teaching at West End School for 3 years, 1950s. Wife working, then family. Travel to work....
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 6, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 1st October 2019. Keith Clark, part 3 of 4. Teaching experience. Bulls, then to a sole charge school. 22 children, 20 coming on horseback. Monthly school trip to Taumarunui. Injured kiwi at the school. Using t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: October 1, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 14th November 2023, Part 2 of 5. At age 16 strikes up a friendship with Emma in Wanganui. She went to Wellington Teachers College and he went to Christchurch so they parted ways. Romance resumed 12 ye...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Ashhurst
Date: November 14, 2023
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th December 2019. Part 2 of 4. Childhood, moving near Pahiatua, smaller homestead. Then on to sheep farm. WWII, family activities on the farm, schooling. Jack Salt and other teachers led her into te...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: December 24, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th Janary 2020. Partb 4 of 4. Teaching in Pahiatua, teaching seniors. Helen Loveridge, 3 sons, paraplegic after car accident, in hospital for 13 years. Teachers’ Institute, women did not attend (1950...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 7, 2020
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 18 September 2018.
Barry Slade, Part 2 of 2. Summary: 13 years teaching at Glen Oroua, then Principal of St James in P.Nth. Changed to fit the state system. Integration, school committees superseded PTA. Much...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 18, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 24 July 2018.
Anne Cheer Part 2 of 2. Summary: Teachers College, Ardmore. April 1st pranks. Accommodation. Activities. Teaching. Rose to Assistant Principal. Pupils changing, less respect later. Changes with T...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: July 24, 2018
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4 September 2018.
Ann Behrens, Part 2 of 2. Summary: Coming to Palmerston North with a young family. Teaching at St Joseph’s. Comparison to St Dominic’s in Dunedin. No problem having a young child with her. Hi...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Date: September 4, 2018
Jill White grew up in Feilding. Throughout her busy life she has been a nurse, secondary school teacher, Labour Party Member of Parliament and Mayor of Palmerston North. she has also been involved in many community activities.
Interviewed by Lea...
Creator: Ian Matheson City Archives
Place: New Zealand
Date: March 25, 2021
Pictured is the former Awanui building (left), student centre and cafe (centre) and library (right) at the Hokowhitu Campus. These buildings are unique examples of modernist brutalism in the city.
The buildings will be torn down an...
Creator: Ben Foster
Date: December 2021
Pictured is the former Biology Court building (left) and Awanui building (right) at the Hokowhitu Campus. These buildings are unique examples of modernist brutalism in the city.
The buildings will be torn down and replaced by a hou...
Creator: Ben Foster
Date: December 2021
Pictured is the Mataamua building at the former Hokowhitu Campus. This was the first building constructed in the campus. It has since been earthquake strengthened (metal frame around the exterior).
This face of the building overlooks the...
Creator: Ben Foster
Date: December 2021
Pictured is the former and Awanui building at the Hokowhitu Campus. The building is a unique example of modernism in the city.
This building was formerly used by the CED and the MUSAC. Signs and footpath of the new housing developm...
Creator: Ben Foster
Date: December 2021