Bibliography of Childhood in New Zealand
BIOGRAPHIES AND REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD
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AUTHOR: Jennings, Sheryl, 1949-
TITLE: The middle bridge : a New Zealand childhood
PUBLICATION: Auckland, N.Z. : Tandem Press, 1994.
SUBJECT: Jennings, Sheryl, 1949- --Childhood and youth.
SUBJECT: Adult child abuse victims--New Zealand--Biography.
SUBJECT: Abused children--New Zealand--Biography.
SUBJECT: Child abuse--New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV6626.5.J46 1994
Childhood in the 1950s and 60s.
AUTHOR: Spence, Richard J. (Richard John), 1941-
TITLE: Whakaaria mai : the biography of Canon Wiremu Wi te Tau
Huata / Richard Spence.
PUBLICATION: Palmerston North, N.Z. : Dunmore Press, 1994.
DESCRIPTION: 241 p. : maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
NOTES: In English, with songs by Canon Huata in Maori and English.
SUBJECT: Huata, Wiremu Wi te Tau, 1917-1991.
SUBJECT: Church of the Province of New Zealand--Clergy--Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: BX5199.H82S75 1994
Life at St Stephens College in the 30's.
AUTHOR: Edmond, Lauris, 1924-
TITLE: An autobiography / Lauris Edmond.
PUBLISHED: Wellington [N.Z.] : Bridget Williams Books, 1994.
SUBJECT: Edmond, Lauris, 1924- --Biography.
SUBJECT :Women poets, New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9692.E23Z463 1994
Hawkes Bay , 1930's and 1940'sAn autobiography
AUTHOR: Ireton, Olwen.
TITLE: I saw a flower move : a biography of Avis Acres / by Olwen Ireton.
PUBLISHED: Tauranga : Publicity Print, [1993]
SUBJECT: Acres, Avis, 1910- --Biography.
SUBJECT: Authors, New Zealand --20th century --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9686.A187Z72 1993
Childhood 1910-1925, also wrote children's books in the 1950's.;
AUTHOR: Mulinder, Olive Cecelia Anderson, 1907-
TITLE: A pioneer family / compiled by Olive Mulinder
PUBLICATION: [Auckland O. Mulinder] 1977
DESCRIPTION: 50 p. ill., facsims, geneal. tables, ports 25 cm.
NOTES: Biographical details of Carter, George and Anderson
families, early settlers in Wellington Province
SUBJECT: Carter family.
SUBJECT: Anderson family.
SUBJECT: George family.
SUBJECT: Wellington Region (N.Z.)--Genealogy.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU436.W4M957 1977
Short descriptions of childhoods between 1850 and 1900
TITLE: Remembrances and reminiscences of the members of the New Zealand
Pioneers' and Descendants' Club.
PUBLISHER: The Club, 1993.
SUBJECTS: Pioneers--New Zealand--Anecdotes.
SUBJECT: Pioneers--New Zealand--Biography.
SUBJECT: New Zealand--History--Anecdotes. New Zealand-
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: DU402.R386 1993
Collections of reminiscences from the 19th to mid 20th centuries, includes some mentions of childhood, and shipboard diaries.
AUTHOR: Stirling, Eruera, 1899-1983.
TITLE: Eruera : the teachings of a Maori elder
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, 1985.
SUBJECTS: Stirling, Eruera, 1899-1983.
SUBJECTNew Zealand--History.
SUBJECTMaori--Biography.
SUBJECT:Maori--Social life and customs.
SUBJECT:Maori--Land ten
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU436.A83S861 1994
An East Coast Maori childhood from early 1900's, includes accounts of Te Aute College 1916-1917
AUTHOR: Busch, Glenn.
TITLE: You are my darling Zita
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit Press, 1991.
SUBJECT: Aged --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Old age --New Zealand --Case studies.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HQ1064.N45B87 1991
Reminiscences from 6 people, born around 1900
AUTHOR: Fyers, W. B. (William Buckley)
TITLE: My memoirs. Part 1 / by W.B. Fyers.
PUBLISHED: [Christchurch, N.Z.] : W.B. Fyers, [1991]
SUBJECT: Fyers, W. B. (William Buckley)
SUBJECT: Farmers --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Country life --New Zealand --North Island.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: S521.F941 1991
Childhood memories from the 1920s
AUTHOR: Pollock, Mabel, 1927-
TITLE: The children from the lighthouse
PUBLISHED: Auckland [N.Z.] : Pollock Books, c1993.
SUBJECT: Lighthouse keepers --New Zealand --Biography.
Lighthouses --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Pollock, Mabel, 1927-
SUBJECT: Jameson family.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: VK1122.5.P777 1993
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 387.155092 POL
Childhood in a lighthouse, 1930s
AUTHOR: Grave, Shirley, 1924-
TITLE: Waiting for the sugar-water
SUBJECT: Auckland, N.Z. : Benton-Guy, c1992.
SUBJECT: Grave, Shirley, 1924-
SUBJECT: Women --New Zealand --South Island --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU402.G775 1992
A South Island childhood 1920s 1930s.
AUTHOR: McEldowney, Dennis, 1926-
TITLE: Shaking the bee tree / Dennis McEldowney.
PUBLISHED: Auckland [N.Z.] : Auckland University Press, 1992.
SUBJECT: Greenhough, Zoe, 1912-1990.
SUBJECT: McEldowney, Dennis, 1926-
SUBJECT: Women --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Authors' wives --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Greenhough, Zoe, 1912-1990 --Health.
SUBJECT: Heart --Diseases --Patients --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9688.M141Z476 1992
An invalid's childhood, 1910-1930 .
AUTHOR: Axford, Ted, 1898?-1976.
TITLE: A childhood in Te Aroha, 1907-1913.
PUBLISHED: Wellington [N.Z.] : Sirius Press, 1992.
SUBJECT: : Axford, Ted, 1898?-1976 --Correspondence.
SUBJECT: Axford, Sidney, d. 1912. --Correspondence.
SUBJECT: Axford family.
SUBJECT: Te Aroha (N.Z.) --Biography.
SUBJECT: Te Aroha (N.Z.) --History.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Genealogy.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU440.T262A97 1992
AUTHOR: Park, Ruth.
TITLE: A fence around the cuckoo / Ruth Park.
PUBLISHED: Ringwood, Vic. : Viking ; Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books , 1992.
SUBJECT: Park, Ruth --Biography --Youth.
SUBJECT: Women novelists, Australian --20th century --Biography.
SUBJECT: Women novelists, New Zealand --20th century --Biography.
SUBJECT: Novelists, Australian --20th century --Biography.
SUBJECT: Novelists, New Zealand --20th century --Biography.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Social conditions --20th century.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9688.P23Z463 1992
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 PAR
Te Kuiti in the 1920s and 1930s.
AUTHOR: Fairburn, G. E. (Geoffrey Earl), 1905-
TITLE: Growing up with Rex : a memoir, 1905-1923 / G.E. Fairburn.
PUBLISHED: Hamilton [N.Z.] : G.E. Fairburn, [1991]
SUBJECT: : Fairburn, A. R. D. (Arthur Rex Dugard), 1904-1957 --Biography--Family.
SUBJECT: Fairburn, A. R. D. (Arthur Rex Dugard), 1904-1957 --Biography--Youth.
SUBJECT: Fairburn, G. E. (Geoffrey Earl), 1905- --Family.
SUBJECT: Fairburn family.
SUBJECT: Poets, New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: PR9682.F16Z58 1991
Detailed account of childhood,1905-1920 (Parnell and New Lynn)
AUTHOR: O'Regan, Pauline, 1922-
TITLE: Aunts and windmills / Pauline O'Regan.
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 1991.
SUBJECT: O'Regan, Pauline, 1922-
SUBJECT: Nuns --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: BX4483.N45O66A3 1991
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 ORE
A West Coast childhood 1920s, 1930s.
AUTHOR: Parker, Wesley, 1907-
TITLE: It happened in Eketahuna : four years in the life of a boy
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Mount St. John, Press, 1990.
SUBJECT: Parker, Wesley, 1907-
SUBJECT: Methodist Church --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU436.W4E36P244 1990
Childhood in Ekatahuna 1918-1922.
AUTHOR: Peacocke, Isabel Maud, 1881-1973.
TITLE: When I was seven.
PUBLISHED: London : Ward, Lock, 1927.
SUBJECT: Peacocke, Isabel M. (Isabel Maud), 1881- --Biography.
SUBJECT: Authors, New Zealand --Biography.
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: [TMC] 920 PEA
AUTHOR: Edwards, Mihi
TITLE: Mihipeka : early years .
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 1990.
SUBJECT: Edwards, Mihi.
SUBJECT: Women, Maori --Biography.
SUBJECT: Rural women --New Zealand --Biography
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU412.E26 1990
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920.7209931 EDW -
Rural Maori childhood, 1920s
AUTHOR: Frame, Janet, 1924-
TITLE: An autobiography .
PUBLISHED: Auckland {N.Z.} : Century Hutchinson, 1989.
SUBJECT: Frame, Janet, 1924- --Biography.
SUBJECT: Authors, New Zealand --20th century --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9687.F81Z476 1989
Childhood in Oamaru in the 1930s
AUTHOR: Davies, Sonja, 1923-
TITLE: Bread and roses : her story .
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Australia and New Zealand Book Co. ; Masterton, N.Z. : Fraser Books, 1984.
SUBJECT: Davies, Sonja, 1923-
SUBJECT: Trade-unions --New Zealand --Officials and employees --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HD6935.5.Z55D3 1984
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 DAV
AUTHOR: Dunstan, Peggy, 1924-
TITLE: The other side of summer / by Peggy Dunstan ; illustrated by Jonathan Dunstan.
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.
SUBJECT: Dunstan, Peggy.
SUBJECT: Children --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9686.D92Z474 1983
Continues accounts in A fistful of summer on her childhood in Christchurch and later in Wellington from 1924 to 1935.
AUTHOR: Dunstan, Peggy, 1924-
TITLE: A fistful of summer / Peggy Dunstan ; illustrated by Jean Oates.
PUBLISHED: Christchurch, N.Z. : Whitcoulls, 1981.
SUBJECT: Dunstan, Peggy, 1924-
SUBJECT: Children --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9686.D92Z466 1981
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 DUN
A collection of stories based on the authors childhood in Christchurch and Wellington in the 1920s and 1930s
AUTHOR: Holloway, K. M. (Kathleen Mary), 1911-
TITLE: Beta plus
PUBLISHER: Griffin Press, 1992.
SUBJECT: Holloway, Kay, 1911-
SUBJECT: Teachers--New Zealand--Biography.
Describes childhood in Auckland in 1910--1920s.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LA2394.H65H745 1992
AUTHOR: Linscott, M. H.
TITLE: The honey tree : childhood reminiscences of early New Zealand farm life.
PUBLISHED: Invercargill [N.Z.] : Linscott, 1975.
SUBJECT: Linscott, M. H.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: S521.L56 1975
Difficult to determine dates and places but describes childhood probably prior to the the turn of the century in the South Island.1890s
AUTHOR: Bonheur, Leigh.
TITLE: Hand me down; the autobiography of an illegitimate child.
PUBLISHED: Sydney, Ure Smith [1971]
SUBJECT: Illegitimate children --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV875.B66 1971
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 BON
Childhood in the depression years, and her grim life with her adoptive family, particularly at the hand of her cruel adoptive mother.1920s
AUTHOR:Marsh, Ngaio
TITLE: Black beech and honeydew : an autobiography /
EDITION: Rev. and enl. ed.
PUBLICATION: Auckland : Collins, 1981, c1965.
SUBJECT: Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982--Biography.
SUBJECT: Authors, New Zealand--20th century--Biography.
SUBJECT: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--New Zealand.
RECREATIONAL READING
CALL NUMBER: PR9688.M365Z6 1981
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9688.M365Z6 1981
Childhood and adolescence in Christchurch at the turn of the century. Attended St. Margarets in Christchurch..
AUTHOR: Blaiklock, E. M. (Edward Musgrave), 1903-1983.
TITLE: Between the valley and the sea : a west Auckland boyhood
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press, 1979.
SUBJECT: Blaiklock, E. M. (Edward Musgrave), 1903-1983.
SUBJECT: Auckland (N.Z.)-Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU414.B53 1979
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Childhood in Titirangi, 1910-1919.
AUTHOR: Hood, Lynley, 1942-
TITLE: Sylvia! : the biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner / Lynley Hood.
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Viking, 1988.
SUBJECT: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, 1908-1984 --Biography.
SUBJECT: Teachers --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Authors, New Zealand --20th century --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9686.A82Z67 1988
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 371.100924 ASH HOO
Includes biographical account of her childhood in the lower North Island from 1912 to the 1920s
AUTHOR: Stirling, Amiria Manutahi, 1896?-1983.
TITLE: Amiria : the life story of a Maori woman / Amiria Manutahi Stirling ; as told to Anne Salmond.
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z.: Heinemann Reed, 1988.
SUBJECT: Stirling, Amiria Manutahi, 1896?-1983.
SUBJECT: Women, Maori --Biography.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Maori --Social life and customs.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU436.A83S7 1988
Amiriawas born on the East Coast in the late 1890s Recounts her childhood in Tuparoa, her school days and the typhoid epidemic.
AUTHOR: Somerset, Gwen L. (Gwen Lucy), 1894-
TITLE: Sunshine and shadow : the life of Gwendolen Lucy Somerset,
born Gwendolen Alley, in Springfield, North Canterbury,
N.Z. in 1894 : sister of Eric, Rewi, Philip, Geoffrey,
Kathleen and Joyce / told by herself ; edited by Naomi Morton.
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : New Zealand Playcentre Federation, 1988.
SUBJECT: Somerset, Gwen L. (Gwen Lucy), 1894-
SUBJECT: Women teachers --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LA2394.S66A37 1988
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 371.100924 SOM
Childhood remembered 1897- 1907 firstly in Amberley near Christchurch then later in Riccarton where she attended Christchurch Girls High School.
AUTHOR: Woollaston, Toss, 1910-
TITLE: Sage tea : an autobiography / Toss Woollaston.
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Collins, 1980.
SUBJECT: Woollaston, Toss, 1910-
SUBJECT: Woollaston, Tosswill, Sir, 1910-
SUBJECT: Artists --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: NC1260.W6A38 1980
Born at Toko in Taranaki in 1910 to dairy farming parents. Describes his childhood and schooldays.
AUTHOR: Toogood, Selwyn, 1916-
TITLE: Out of the bag
PUBLISHED: Auckland : Methuen, 1979.
SUBJECT: Toogood, Selwyn, 1916-
SUBJECT: Broadcasters --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PN1992.4.T6A35 1979
Childhood and schooldays in Wellington in the 1920s and 1930s
AUTHOR: Harsant, Florence.
TITLE: They called me Te Maari / Florence Harsant.
PUBLISHED: Christchurch, N.Z. : Whitcoulls, 1979.
SUBJECT: Harsant, Florence.
SUBJECT: Maori --Social life and customs.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Maori --Social life and customs.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU412.H324 1979
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 993.112 HAR
Early childhood in Taranaki in the 1890s . In 1905 her family moved to Waitahanui on the shores of Lake Taupo to live in a Maori community.
AUTHOR: Meikle, Phoebe C. (Phoebe Churchill)
TITLE: Accidental life
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press, 1994.
SUBJECT: Meike, Phoebe C. (Phoebe Churchill),
SUBJECT: 1910- Women teachers--New Zealand--Biography.
SUBJECT: Women publishers--New Zealand--Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LA2394.M39A31 1994
The first two chapters describe her childhood and schooling in Tauranga in the 1910s, 1920s
AUTHOR: McGill, David, 1942-
TITLE: The kid from Matata : memories of a post war pakeha
childhood / David McGill ; drawings by Roger Hart.
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : Grantham House, [1987].
SUBJECT: McGill, David, 1942-
SUBJECT: McGill, David (David Keith), 1942-
SUBJECT: Authors, New Zealand --20th century --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9693.M143Z47 1987
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: [TMC] 920 McG
Childhood in a small rural Bay of Plenty community just after the second World War.
AUTHOR: Langkilde Christie, Poula, 1906-
TITLE: Candles and canvas / Poula Langkilde Christie.
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : New Women's Press, 1987.
SUBJECT: Langkilde family.
SUBJECT: Danes --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Langkilde Christie, Poula, 1906-
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU436.A82L28L281 1987
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 993.10043981 LAN
Growing up in the Manawatu, Bay of Plenty and Otorohanga areas. Life in a Danish family between 1907 and 1931.
AUTHOR: Keene, Florence, 1908-
TITLE: Myrtle and Sophia
PUBLISHER: F. Keene, 1983] Baigent Print).
SUBJECT: Heath, Myrtle, 1883-1980.
SUBJECT: Matthews, Sophia, 1871-1955.
SUBJECT: Women--New Zealand--Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU440.K18K26 1982
AUTHOR: Papps, Roland J. (Roland Joshua), 1901-1980.
TITLE: Growing up in old Richmond
PUBLISHER: J.E. Smith, 1982.
SUBJECT: Papps, Roland J. (Roland Joshua) 1901-1980.
SUBJECT: Richmond (N.Z.)--History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU440.R53P36 1982
Childhood memories of the 1900s, 1910s
AUTHOR: Foote, W. J. (Wilfred John), 1919-
TITLE A bit over the top : and other stories of a Canterbury
boyhood, 1925-1936 / by W.J. Foote.
PUBLISHED: Takaka [N.Z.] : W.J. Foote, 1992.
SUBJECT: Foote, W. J. (Wilfred John), 1919-
SUBJECT: Boys --New Zealand --Selwyn District --Biography.
SUBJECT: Boys --New Zealand --Canterbury Region --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU430.F689 1992
Humorous account of growing up in Hazelburn, Waddington and Hook in Canterbury during and prior to the depression.
AUTHOR: Glover, Denis, 1912-1980.
TITLE: Hot water sailor
PUBLISHER: Reed, 1962.
SUBJECTS: Glover, Denis, 1912-1980--Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9682.G56Z6 1962
Contains anecdoted of poet Dennis Glover's childhood between 1912 and 1927 in Dunedin, New Plymouth, Auckland, and Christchurch. Written in an amusing style.
AUTHOR: Cox, Ian, 1934-
TITLE: Rutherford : the early years / Ian Cox & Mike Whittall.
PUBLISHED: Nelson, N.Z. : Nelson Teaching Resource Centre, 1991.
SUBJECT: Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 --Childhood and youth.
SUBJECT: Physicists --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Rutherford family.
SUBJECT: Nelson-Marlborough Region (N.Z.) --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: QC16.R8C877 1991
Part One: The Foxhill years, Part Two: The Havelock years His childhood, education and family tragedies.
TITLE: Through the looking glass : recollections of childhood from 20 prominent New Zealanders / selected and introduced by Michael Gifkins.
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Century Hutchinson, 1988.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU402.T531 1988
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920.0931 THR -- Book
1910s-1960s covered. Mostly the recollections of Europeans but includes one Maori and one Pacific Islander. Recalling what their childhood was like and particular memories.
AUTHOR: Beaglehole, Ann.
TITLE: Facing the past : looking back at refugee childhood in New Zealand, 1940s-1960s.
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : Allen & Unwin, 1990.
SUBJECT: World War, 1939-1945 --New Zealand --Refugees.
SUBJECT: i.Refugees; --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Refugees, Jewish --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Emigration and immigration --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: D809.N45B415 1990
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 940.5315909931 BEA
Children of wartime immigrants, their perceptions and experiences. Based on interviews and documentary evidence of immigrant children growing up between the 1940s and the 1960s.
AUTHOR: Howe, Amelia Josephine, 1890-
TITLE: Stamper battery : reminiscences of a goldfields childhood.
PUBLISHED: New Zealand : Blackwood & Janet Paul, [1964]
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU436.A82T3H56 1964
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 HOW
Life in Thames and the Kauaeranga Valley in the 1880s and 1890s Stories of schooling, visit to the dentist, hardships and celebrations.
AUTHOR: Du Fresne, Yvonne, 1929-
TITLE: The bear from the north : tales of a New Zealand childhood
PUBLISHED: London : Women's Press, 1989.
SUBJECT: Short stories, New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PR9696.D84B43 1989
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: F DUF
Growing up in the Danish-French Huguenot community of the Manawatu in the 1930s
AUTHOR: Ellmers, Judith, 1925-
TITLE: Born beneath a rainbow : memories of a country childhood
PUBLISHED: Auckland [N.Z.] : New Women's Press, 1983.
SUBJECT: Ellmers, Judith, 1925-
SUBJECT: Country life --New Zealand --Urewera Country.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: S522.N45E5 1983
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 920 ELL
Childhood on a farm in the Waioeka Gorge between Gisborne and Opotiki in the 1920s and 1930s
TITLE: Time was-- when the open road speed limit was 20 mph, and-- it took three months to travel from Auckland to Southampton : a collection of stories / told by the residents of the Everill Orr Homes, Mt Albert, Auckland, who call themselves the Elderly Tusitala Group.
PUBLISHED: Auckland [N.Z.] : The Group, 1991.
SUBJECT: Aged --New Zealand --Auckland --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HQ1064.N45T55 1991
A collection of oral histories with childhood memories included. Mostly around the turn of the century.
TITLE: Time was-- when women wore stays, cooked over an open fire and men wore braces and drank from a moustache cup : a collection of stories / told by residents of the Everill Orr Homes, Mt Albert, Auckland, who
called themselves the Elderly Tusitala Group ; illustrated by Bill Barnett ; edited by John Davy.
PUBLISHED: Auckland {N.Z.} : The Group, 1987.
SUBJECT: Aged --New Zealand --Auckland --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HQ1064.N45T56 1987
A collection of oral histories with childhood memories included.
TITLE: Women & children first : central Taranaki women, their reminiscences, stories and recipes / the stories collected and edited by Alison Robinson.
PUBLICATION: [Stratford, N.Z.] : Stratford Branch of Pregnancy Help, [1993]
NOTES: "A project to celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage in N.Z."
SUBJECT: Women--New Zealand--Taranaki Region--Biography.
SUBJECT: Taranaki Region (N.Z.)--Biography.
SUBJECT: Taranaki Region (N.Z)--Social life and customs.
Childhood memories from 1900 to the present from Taranaki
Clippings, recollections and accounts particularly of childbirth and child rearing practices between 1900-1970.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER:DU436.T2W87 1993
AUTHOR: Duff, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1914-
TITLE: Life at Edievale and "Gowan Braes" / by Herbert A. Duff.
PUBLICATION: [Mosgiel,N.Z.] : H.A. Duff, 1994.
SUBJECT: Edievale (N.Z.)--History.
SUBJECT: Edievale (N.Z.)--Biography.
SUBJECT: Country life--New Zealand--Clutha District.
SUBJECT: Duff family.
SUBJECT: Duff, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1914-
SUBJECT: Localities--New Zealand--Clutha District--History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: DU436.O8E23D855 1994
Childhood memories during 20's and 30's in rural area. Leisure activities of teenagers in the 1930s.
TITLE: My home town : New Zealand remembers when : a selection from the popular column in North and South magazine.
PUBLISHED: Auckland [N.Z.] : Collins New Zealand, 1991.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Social life and customs --Anecdotes.
New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU414.M995 1991
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 306.09931 MY --
23 recollections of childhood in the first half of this century.
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HEALTH
AUTHOR: Tennant, Margaret.
TITLE: Children's health, the nation's wealth : a history of children's health camps
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books and Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1994.
SUBJECT: Children's Health Camp Movement.
SUBJECT: Children --Institutional care --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Camps --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Children --Health and hygiene --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Health facilities --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: RJ103.N45T4 1994
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 362.73209931 TEN -
1919--1990s
AUTHOR: Butterworth, Karen Peterson, 1934-
TITLE: Mind over muscle : surviving polio in New Zealand / by Karen Peterson Butterworth, editor and author ; Jean Ross, and 44 polio survivors and their friends.
PUBLISHED: Palmerston North, N.Z. : Dunmore Press, 1994.
SUBJECT: Poliomyelitis --Patients --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Physically handicapped --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: i.Poliomyelitis; --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Post-polio syndrome --New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: RC180.2.B92 1994
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 362.19683509931 BUT
Memories of the polio epidemics of 1916 and 1956, told by polio survivors
TITLE: The history of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society's first twenty-five years, 1935-1960 / compiled ...by H. E. Carey
PUBLISHED: [New Plymouth : The Society, 1961]
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV907.N45C37 1961
AUTHOR: Allen, A. B.
TITLE: They hear with the eye : a centennial history of the Sumner School for Deaf Children, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1880-1980
PUBLISHED: Wellington : School Publications Branch, Dept. of Education, 1980.
SUBJECT: Sumner School for Deaf Children --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LG745.C5S81A45 1980
AUTHOR: Deem, Helen.
TITLE: Modern mothercraft : a guide to parents / [editors, Helen Deem, Nora P.Fitzgibbon]
PUBLISHED: Dunedin : Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, 1945.
SUBJECT: Infants --Care.
SUBJECT: Infants --Health and hygiene.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: RJ101.M6 1945
AUTHOR: Royal New Zealand Society For The Health Of Women And Children. Upper Hutt
Branch.
TITLE: Upper Hutt Plunket Society, 50th jubilee, 1925-1975.
PUBLISHED: Upper Hutt : Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children Upper Hutt Branch, 1975.
SUBJECT: Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children. Upper Hutt Branch.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: RJ42.N4R69 1975
History of the Upper Hutt Plunket Society
TITLE: Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children. Annual report of Council.
PUBLISHED: Dunedin.
SUBJECT: Medicine --Periodicals.
CENTRAL SERIALS
CALL NUMBER: RJ1.R887 -- 1946/47, 1959/60, 1963/64, 1967/68-1979/80
AUTHOR: Dobbie, Mary.
TITLE:The trouble with women : the story of Parents Centre New Zealand
PUBLISHED: Whatamongo Bay, N.Z. : Cape Catley, 1990.
SUBJECT: Federation of New Zealand Parents Centres.
SUBJECT: Parents --New Zealand --Social networks --History.
SUBJECT: Parenting --Societies, etc.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: HQ755.8.D63 1990
25 year history of Parents Centre 1965-1990
TITLE: A Healthy country : essays on the social history of
medicine in New Zealand / edited by Linda Bryder.
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 1991.
SUBJECT: Medicine --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Public health --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: R675.H434 1991
Chapter 7 "Missionaries of Health", the School Medical Service during the inter-war period. Child health and welfare in the early 20th century.
AUTHOR: Locke, Elsie, 1912-
TITLE: Growing points and prickles : life in New Zealand 1920-60
PUBLISHING: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1971].
SUBJECTS: New Zealand--Economic conditions--1918-
SUBJECT: New Zealand--Social conditions--1918- Poverty--New Zealand. Short stories, New Zealand
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU430.L814 1971 -- Book -- Available
Recounts anecdotes on the School Medical Service (around 1913). Mentions health camps.
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EDUCATION
AUTHOR: Cumming, Ian, 1912-
TITLE: History of state education in New Zealand, 1840-1975
PUBLISHER: Pitman, 1978.
SUBJECTS: Education--New Zealand--History.
CIRCULATION DESK COPY
CALL NUMBER: LA2121.C8 1978
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LA2121.C8 1978
AUTHOR: Chambers, Coral.
TITLE: Lessons for ladies : a social history of girl's education in Australasia 1870-1900 / Coral Chambers.
PUBLISHED: Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, 1986.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --Australia --History.
SUBJECT: Women --Australia --Social conditions.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Women --New Zealand --Social conditions.
LEVEL 2
CALL NUMBER: LC2481.C43 1986
Considerable New Zealand content .
AUTHOR: Snow, Dianne.
TITLE: Historical studies on girls' and women's education in New Zealand : an annotated bibliography / Dianne Snow and Toby Harfield.
PUBLISHED: [Auckland] : Education Dept., University of Auckland, 1993.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand --Bibliography.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand --History --Bibliography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: Z7963.E2S674 1993
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 376.993016 SNO
TITLE: The education of New Zealand girls towards the end of the nineteenth century.
AUTHOR: Cumming, Alan.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LC2492.C86 1981
TITLE: It's different for daughters : a history of the curriculum for girls in New Zealand schools, 1900-1975
AUTHOR: Fry, Ruth, 1923-
PUBLISHED: Wellington : New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1985.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand --History --20th century.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Education --New Zealand --Curricula.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LC2492.F79 1985
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 376.9931 FRY
TITLE: New Zealand schoolmaster.
PUBLISHED: Christchurch.
SUBJECT: Education --Periodicals.
CENTRAL NZC O/S
CALL NUMBER: L91.N532 -- Vol. 3 (1883)-6, 8-15, 17-26 (1907)
A monthly educational journal and review looking at schools and teaching, 1883-1907.
AUTHOR: Carryer, Basil, 1953-
TITLE: School in New Zealand : the twenties / Basil Carryer.
Published: Hamilton [N.Z.] : Waikato Education Centre, 1991.
SUBJECT: Education and state --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Education --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Children --Health and hygiene --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: LC96.6.C37 1991
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: [TMC] 370.9931 CAR
AUTHOR: Addison, Jon.
TITLE: A history of school buses / by Jon Addison.
PUBLISHED: Wellington : Dept. of Education, 1977.
SUBJECT: School buses --History.
SUBJECT: School children --New Zealand --Transportation --History.
SUBJECT: School children --Transportation --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LB2864.A32 1977
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: [TMC] 388.32209 ADD
Includes accounts of school children and school buses.
AUTHOR: Hooker, H. R. (Henry Ralph), 1913-
TITLE: Bead-frames to calculators : a teaching life / [H.R. Hooker].
PUBLISHED: Christchurch [N.Z.] : H.R. Hooker, 1983.
SUBJECT: Hooker, H. R. (Henry Ralph), 1913-
SUBJECT: Elementary school teachers --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Education --New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: LB1776.H66 1983
Teaching in the South Island 1920-1950.
AUTHOR: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, 1908-1984.
TITLE: Teacher.
PUBLISHED: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1963.
SUBJECT: Maori --Education.
SUBJECT: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, 1908-1984.
SUBJECT: Education --Experimental methods.
SUBJECT: Teachers --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LC3501.M3A5
Rural Maori children 1940s and 1950s?)
AUTHOR: Goulter, Mary Catherine, 1890?-1959.
TITLE: SCHOOLDAY MEMORIES/ by Mary Catherine Goulter ; with a foreword by Henry W. Cleary.
PUBLISHED: London : Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1922.
SUBJECT: Goulter, Mary Catherine, 1890?-1959.
SUBJECT: Sacred Heart Primary School (Timaru, N.Z.)
SUBJECT: Catholic schools --New Zealand --Timaru.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LC509.9.T6G68 1922
TITLE: Stories of school days in the Murchison district, 1883-1983 / collected by the Murchison District Historicaland Museum Society Inc.
PUBLISHED: [Murchison, N.Z.] : The Society, 1984.
SUBJECT: : Education --New Zealand --Waimea County --History.
SUBJECT: Teachers --New Zealand --Waimea County --Biography.
SUBJECT: School children --New Zealand --Waimea County --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: LG745.M97S88 1984
AUTHOR: Ritchie, Rayma, 1927-
TITLE: Shadow behind the blackboard
PUBLISHED: Ohaeawai [N.Z.] : Pukepuriri Publications, c1993.
SUBJECT: Woods, Eliza Jane, b. 1853.
SUBJECT: Bates, Norma.
SUBJECT: Ohaeawai Maori School.
SUBJECT: Teachers spouses --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Elementary school teachers --New Zealand --Biography.
SUBJECT: Maori --Education --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LB1782.R42 1993
Experiences of teachers and their wives in the 1880s, 1890s,1950s and 1960s
AUTHOR: May, Muriel Wallace.
TITLE: Freshly remembered : half a century of school
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombe, 1973.
SUBJECTS: May, Muriel Wallace. Education--New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LB1602.M29 1973
Memories of school days in the 1900s and as a teacher and pricipal , 1920s-1950s.
AUTHOR: Barrington, John Michael.
TITLE: Maori schools in a changing society : an historical review
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1974.
SUBJECTS: Maori--Education--History.
CIRCULATION DESK COPY
CALL NUMBER: LC3501.M3B3 1974
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LC3501.M3B3 1974
SEE ALSO INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL HISTORIES
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INSTITUTIONAL CARE
AUTHOR: Tihema, James T.
TITLE: A history of the Hodderville Boys' Home and Training Farm
PUBLISHER: Page Plus, 1991]
SUBJECTS: Hodderville Boys' Home and Training Farm.
SUBJECTS: Boys--Institutional care--New Zealand--South Waikato District--History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV1415.5.Z8H62 1991 -- Book
1917-1989
AUTHOR: Vincent, Carol.
TITLE:Special education as social control [microform] :the historical development of industrial schools and special classes : a thesis submitted to the Education Department, Massey Univeristy [i.e. University] in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts
PUBLISHED: 1985.
SUBJECT: Reformatories --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Exceptional children --Education --New Zealand --History.
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: [GLASS] 371.909931 VIN -- Micro
AUTHOR: Pennefather, F. W. (Frederick William), 1852-1921.
TITLE: Notes on the management of pauper and criminal children in Great Britain and in New Zealand
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers, 1900.
SUBJECTS: Poor children--Great Britain.
SUBJECTS: Poor children--New Zealand.
SUBJECTS: Juvenile delinquents--Great Britain.
SUBJECTS: Juvenile delinquents--New Zeal
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV887.G7P46 1900
Comparison of English and New Zealand institutions, with emphasis on English.
AUTHOR: McGrath, A. L.
Title: The "inside" story : the Mercy Jenkins Salvation Army Boys' Home, Eltham, 28th December 1909-26th January 1954 / by A.L. (Scotty) McGrath and Howard Wilson.
PUBLISHED: [Eltham, N.Z.] : A.L. McGrath, 1993.
SUBJECTS: Mercy Jenkins Boys' Home (Eltham, N.Z.)
SUBJECTS: Boys --Institutional care --New Zealand --South Taranaki District.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV1415.5.Z8E55 1993
AUTHOR: Crawford, Peggy.
TITLE: Only an orphan : first-hand accounts of life in children's institutions in New Zealand
PUBLISHER: MJC Pub., 1995.
SUBJECTS: Orphans--New Zealand. Orphanages--New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HV1415.5.C72 1995
Mainly this century.
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RECREATION
AUTHOR: Browning, Don, 1908-
TITLE: Scouting yesterday and today / by Don Browning.
PUBLISHED: [Hamilton, N.Z.] : D.J. Browning, 1982.
SUBJECT: Browning, Don, 1908-
SUBJECT: i.Boy Scouts; --New Zealand --Biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HS3316.N45B76 1982
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 369.43902 BRO
TITLE: Faces of boyhood : an informal pictorial record of the Boys' Brigade in New Zealand, 1886-1982 / by Michael E. Hoare
photography by Bruce Young.
AUTHOR: Hoare, Michael E. (Michael Edward), 1941-
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : The Brigade, 1982.
SUBJECT: Boys' Brigade in New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: HS3325.N452B6H6 1982
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 369.4209931 HOA
Contains history of the organisation of the Boys' Brigade Movement. Descriptions of boy's lives are mainly in the section on camping. 1880-1980s
Title: The first forty years, told in story, words and pictures: New Zealand Girl Guides / compiled by Girl Guides' Association New Zealand (Incorporated),
Dominion Headquarters.
PUBLISHED: Christchurch : Girl Guides' Association New Zealand, 1963.
SUBJECT: Girl Scouts --New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Girl Guide Association New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HS3353.G5F57 1963
Photographs of guides from 1920s to 1960s. Virtually no text.
AUTHOR: Iles, Marie.
TITLE: 65 years of guiding, 1908-1973 : the official history of the Girl Guides Association N.Z. (Inc.)
PUBLISHED: Armagh, Christchurch : The Association, 1976.
SUBJECT: Girl Guide Association New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Girl Scouts --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HS3353.G5I5 1977
Outlines guiding events between 1908 and 1973.
TITLE: Bay of Plenty Girl Guides 1923-1979 / compiled and edited by Phyllis Santon and Thelma Reid.
PUBLISHED: Whakatane, N.Z. : Whakatane & District Historical Society, 1984.
SUBJECT: Girl Scouts --New Zealand --Bay of Plenty --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: DU441.W58W51 no.11
Most of this is to do with the administration of guides from an adults viewpoint. There are brief descriptions of camps
AUTHOR: Gambrill, Mollie D. (Mollie Dilnot)
TITLE: Girls' Friendly Society in New Zealand, 1882-1983.
PUBLISHED: [Wellington, N.Z. : The Society, 1983].
SUBJECT: Girls' Friendly Society (N.Z.)
CALL NUMBER: HS3365.N45G36 1983
Factual outline of this organisation, no indication of children's lives.
AUTHOR: Crooks, Dion.
TITLE:Cora & co. : the first half-century of New Zealand youth hostelling
PUBLISHED: Christchurch, N.Z. : Youth Hostels Association of New Zealand, 1982.
SUBJECT: Youth Hostels Association of New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Youth hostels --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: TX910.N4C76 1982
Youth hostelling for teenages and people in their twenties.
AUTHOR: Scott, W. J. (Walter James), 1902-
TITLE: Reading, film and radio tastes of high school boys and girls
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1947.
SUBJECT: Reading.
SUBJECT: Motion pictures and children.
SUBJECT: Radio and children.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: PN1009.A1S37
Results of a survey administered in the 1940s. Extensively researched and analysed. Gives an indication of teenage intellectual life in the 1940s.
AUTHOR: Cox, Jane, 1950-
TITLE: Please come prepared for anything : a social history of the Girl Guide movement in Otago .
PUBLISHED: Dunedin, N.Z. : Girl Guide Association of New Zealand, Otago Province,1993.
SUBJECT: Girl Guide Association New Zealand. Otago Province.
SUBJECT: Girl scouts --New Zealand --Otago Region --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HS3365.N45C69 1993
Gives some account of girl's lives between 1908 and 1970s.
AUTHOR: Armstrong, Peggy.
TITLE: Toys of early New Zealand / Peggy Armstrong & Denise Jackson ; {edited by Anna Rogers}.
PUBLISHED: Wellington, N.Z. : Grantham House, 1990.
SUBJECT: Toys --New Zealand --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: GV1218.5.A75 1990
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 688.70993 ARM
Many photographs of toys and describes modes of playing. Includes Maori children. 1840-1900.
AUTHOR: Jenkins, Greta Mary (Burnes), 1909-
TITLE: One hundred years : Dunedin Y.W.C.A., 1878-1978.
PUBLISHED: [Dunedin] : Y.W.C.A., [1978].
SUBJECT: Young Women's Christian Association, Dunedin.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: BV1360.N45J3 1978
AUTHOR: Coney, Sandra.
TITLE: Every girl : a social history of women and the YWCA in Auckland 1885-1985
PUBLISHED: Auckland [N.Z.] : Auckland YWCA, 1986.
SUBJECT: Y.W.C.A. (Auckland, N.Z.)
SUBJECT: Young Women's Christian Associations.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: BV1360.N45C65 1986
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 267.5993111 CON
AUTHOR: Simpson, Clare, 1958-
TITLE: The one hundred year history of the Christchurch Young Women's Christian Association, 1883-1983
PUBLISHED: [Christchurch, N.Z.] : The Association, 1983.
SUBJECT: Christchurch Young Women's Christian Association (N.Z.)
SUBJECT: Young Women's Christian Associations.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: BV1360.N45S56 1983
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CHURCH
AUTHOR: Lawry, Walter, 1913-
TITLE: Wesleydale : a tribute to its pioneers and workers ;: and especially to Cliff Chirnside ... and to Roy Macarthur ... : including some notes on the beginnings of the Methodist Bible Class Movement a personal reminiscence
PUBLISHED: Dunedin [N.Z.] : Mission Press, [1993]
SUBJECT: : Methodist Church of New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Church work with youth --Methodist Church of New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Church work with youth --New Zealand --Dunedin --History.
SUBJECT: Church camps --Methodist Church of New Zealand --History.
SUBJECT: Church camps --New Zealand --Dunedin --History.
SUBJECT: Wesleydale (N.Z.) --History.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: BX8326.N45L3 1993
Boys' Bible Class Camps in the 1940s-1960s.
AUTHOR: Tolerton, Jane, 1957-
TITLE: Convent girls
PUBLISHED: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 1994.
SUBJECT: : Catholic schools --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Catholic Church --Education --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Christian education of girls --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Women --Education --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Students --New Zealand.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: LC509.6.T65 1994
Contains accounts of Catholic Schooling for girls between the 1920s till the 1960s.
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MISCELLANEOUS
AUTHOR: Graham, Jeanine.
TITLE: My brother and I-- : glimpses of childhood in our colonial past
PUBLISHED: [Dunedin, N.Z.] : Hocken Library, University of Otago, 1992.
SUBJECT: Pioneer children --New Zealand.
SUBJECT: Children --New Zealand --History --19th century.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Social conditions.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HQ792.N4G739 1992
EDUCATION LIBRARY
CALL NUMBER: 993.02 GRA
An analysis of excerpts from the Colonial Childhoods Oral History Project. Theoretical and academic. Covers up to 1917.
TITLE: New Zealand children yesterday, today and tomorrow : the 1972 lectures delivered to the Association for the Study of Childhood
PUBLISHER: Association for the Study of Childhood, 1973.
SUBJECTS: Child development.
SUBJECTS: Children--New Zealand.
LIBRARY HOLDINGS:
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: HQ771.N4A8 1972
Play Centre type developmental talks.
TITLE: Pictures of childhood when our grandparents were young
PUBLISHED: Auckland Lodestar Press 1979
SUBJECT: Children --New Zealand --Pictorial works.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU430.L9134 1979
Very simple text, photographs of children in the 1920s.
AUTHOR: Graham, Jeanine.
TITLE: Country children
SUBJECT: Rural children --New Zealand --History --1876-1918.
SUBJECT: Rural children --New Zealand --History --20th century.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: LG741.5.W3R4 no.1408
Surveys different types of country childhoods, not just farmers 'children. Includes extracts from diaries, statistical information, government reports and origional sources.Early 20th century.
AUTHOR: Maclean, Sally Anne.
TITLE: Nga tamariki o te rohe o Waikato = Maori children's lives in the Waikato region, 1850-1900 : a case study
PUBLISHED: 1990.
SUBJECT: Children, Maori
SUBJECT: Children --New Zealand --Waikato District --History.
SUBJECT: Maori --New Zealand --Waikato Region --History.
SUBJECT: Waikato (N.Z.) --History.
CIRCULATION DESK
CALL NUMBER: DU436.A82W2M163 1990 -- Thesis
TITLE: Children in historical and comparative perspective : an international handbook and research guide
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press, 1991.
SUBJECT: Children--History--Cross-cultural studies.
LEVEL 3
CALL NUMBER: HQ767.87.C48 1991
Contains chapter on Australia and New Zealand
AUTHOR: Williams, William, 1858-1948
TITLE: A colonial boyhood / photos by William Williams ; text by Ian Bullock
PUBLISHED: Auckland Lodestar Press 1978
SUBJECT: Photographers --New Zealand --Dunedin.
SUBJECT: Photography of children.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: TR681.C5W55 1978
A collection of photos of two boys growing up at the turn of the century. Photographs cover leisure activities, hobbies and social occasions.
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ORAL ARCHIVES
TITLE: Oral history in New Zealand : a directory of collections, 1992.
PUBLISHED: [Wellington, N.Z.] : National Oral History Association of New Zealand in association with the Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, [1992]
SUBJECT: New Zealanders --Interviews --Audiotape catalogs.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --History --20th century --Sources --Audiotape
SUBJECT: catalogs.
SUBJECT: New Zealand --Biography --Sources --Audiotape catalogs.
SUBJECT: Oral history --Audiotape catalogs.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: D16.14.O66 1992 -
Mostly contains cassettes which are not available, but does list interviews containing pre-World War I childhood. (held Waikato University)
AUTHOR: Hamilton Public Library (Hamilton, N.Z.)
TITLE: Oral history programme catalogue of recordings 1983-
PUBLICATION: [Hamilton, N.Z.] : The Library, [1993]
DESCRIPTION: 1 v. ; 30 cm.
NOTES: A catalogue of records included in the library's Oral History Progamme. instituted in 1983.
SUBJECT: Hamilton Public Library (Hamilton, N.Z.). Oral History Programme--Audiotape catalogs.
SUBJECT: Hamilton Public Library (Hamilton, N.Z.).--Catalogs.
SUBJECT: Immigrants--New Zealand--Hamilton--Interviews--Audiotape catalogs.
SUBJECT: Immigrants--New Zealand--Hamilton--Biography--Audiotape catalogs.
SUBJECT: Immigrants--New Zealand--Hamilton--History--Audiotape catalogs.
AUTHOR: Malcolm, Madge, 1921-
TITLE: Tales of yesteryear : including oral histories of the North
PUBLISHED: Russell, N.Z. : Kororareka Press, 1994.
SUBJECT: Northland (N.Z.) --Biography.
SUBJECT: Northland (N.Z.) --History.
SUBJECT: Pioneers --New Zealand --Northland --Biography.
SUBJECT: Oral history.
SUBJECT: Oral biography.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION OUTSIZE
CALL NUMBER: DU436.A81M243 1994
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ALSO SEE
TITLE: The way we were.
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995.
SUBJECTS: --History--Pictorial works. Description and travel. Regions--New Zealand--
TITLE: Those were the days : a nostalgic look at the early days, from the pages of the Weekly news
PUBLISHER: Moa Publications, 1989.
SUBJECTS: New Zealand--Description and travel--Views. New Zealand--Description and travel.
Consists of photographs including many of children. Minimal text.
AUTHOR: Keith, Hamish, 1936-
TITLE: A lovely day tomorrow : New Zealand in the 1940s
PUBLISHER: Random Century, 1991.
SUBJECT: Popular culture--New Zealand.
SUBJECT: New Zealand--History--20th century.
SUBJECT: New Zealand--Social life and customs.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU410.K27 1991
AUTHOR: Smith, Paul, 1945-.
TITLE: Twist and shout : New Zealand in the 1960s
PUBLISHER: Random Century, 1991.
SUBJECT: Popular culture--New Zealand.
SUBJECT: New Zealand--History--1945-
SUBJECT: New Zealand--Social life and customs.
NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION
CALL NUMBER: DU410.S657 1991
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INDEX
(Numbers apply to pages in the printed 141 page document)
1850s, 2
1860s, 2
1870s, 2, 11
1880s, 2, 11, 12, 19
1890s, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20, 26
1900s, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 19, 20, 26
1910s, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16
1920s, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18
1930s, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 18
1940s, 1, 9, 11, 18, 22, 24, 27
1950s, 1, 2, 11, 18, 19, 24
1960s, 1, 11, 19, 24, 27
65 years of guiding, 1908-1973: the official history of the Girl Guides Association N.Z. (Inc.), 21
A bit over the top: and other stories of a Canterbury, 10
A childhood in Te Aroha, 4
A colonial boyhood, 25
A fistful of summer, 6
A Healthy country: essays on the social history of, 15
A history of school buses, 17
A history of the Hodderville Boys' Home and Training Farm, 19
A lovely day tomorrow: New Zealand in the 1940s, 27
Abused children, 1
Accidental life, 9
Acres, Avis., 2
Allen, A. B., 14
Amberley, 8
Amiria: the life story of a Maori woman, 8
An autobiography, 5
Anderson, 2
Armstrong, Peggy, 22
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, 18
Auckland, 6, 11, 23
Aunts and windmills, 4
Axford, Ted,, 4
Barrington, John Michael., 19
Bay of Plenty, 21
Bay of Plenty Girl Guides 1923-1979, 21
Bead-frames to calculators: a teaching life, 18
Beaglehole, Ann., 11
Beta plus, 6
Between the valley and the sea: a west Auckland boyhood, 7
Black beech and honeydew: an autobiography, 7
Blaiklock, E. M., 7
Bonheur, Leigh, 7
Born beneath a rainbow: memories of a country childhood , 12
Boys' Brigade, 21
Bread and roses: her story, 6
Browning, Don, 20
Busch, Glenn., 2
Butterworth, Karen Peterson, 14
Candles and canvas, 10
Canterbury, 10
Carter family, 2
Catholic schools, 24
Chambers, Coral., 16
Children in historical and comparative perspective: an international handbook and research guide, 25
Children's health, the nation's wealth: a history of children's health camps, 14
Christchurch, 6, 7, 11
Christchurch Girls High School., 8
Colonial Childhoods Oral History Project, 24
Coney, Sandra, 23
Convent girls, 24
Cora & co.: the first half-century of New Zealand youth hostelling, 22
Country children, 25
Cox, Ian, 11
Cox, Jane, 22
Crawford, Peggy, 20
Crippled Children's Society, 14
Crooks, Dion, 22
Cumming, Alan, 17
Cumming, Ian, 16
Danes, 10
Danish-French Huguenot, 12
Davies, Sonja, 6
Dobbie, Mary, 15
Du Fresne, Yvonne, 12
Duff, Herbert A., 13
Dunedin, 11
Dunstan, Peggy, 6
East Coast, 2
Edmond, Lauris, 1
Edwards, Mihi, 5
Elderly Tusitala Group, 12, 13
Ellmers, Judith, 12
Epidemics, polio, 14
Epidemics, typhoid, 8
Eruera: the teachings of a Maori elder, 2
Every girl: a social history of women and the YWCA in Auckland 1885-1985, 23
Faces of boyhood: an informal pictorial record of the Boys' Brigade in New Zealand, 1886-1982, 21
Facing the past: looking back at refugee childhood in New Zealand, 1940s-1960s., 11
Fairburn, G. E, 4
Foote, W. J., 10
Foxhill, 11
Frame, Janet, 5
Freshly remembered: half a century of school, 19
Fry, Ruth, 17
Fyers, W. B., 3
Gambrill, Mollie D, 22
George family, 2
Girl Guide Association, 21, 22
Girl Guides Association, 21
Girls' Friendly Society, 22
Girls' Friendly Society in New Zealand, 1882-1983, 22
Glover, Denis, 10
Goldfields, 12
Goulter, Mary Catherine, 18
Graham, Jeanine, 24, 25
Grave, Shirley, 3
Growing points and prickles: life in New Zealand 1920-60, 16
Growing up in old Richmond, 10
Growing up with Rex: a memoir, 1905-1923, 4
Hand me down, 7
Harsant, Florence, 9
Havelock, 11
Hawkes Bay, 1
Hazelburn, 10
Health Camps, 14, 16
Historical studies on girls' and women's education in New Zealand: an annotated bibliography / Dianne Snow and Toby Harfield., 16
History of state education in New Zealand, 1840-1975, 16
Hoare, Michael E., 21
Hodderville Boys' Home and Training Farm, 19
Holloway, K. M., 6
Hood, Lynley, 7
Hook, 10
Hooker, H. R., 18
Hot water sailor, 10
I saw a flower move: a biography of Avis Acres, 2
Iles, Marie, 21
Invalids, 4
It happened in .i.Eketahuna, 5
It's different for daughters: a history of the curriculum for girls in New Zealand schools, 1900- 1975 , 17
Jenkins, Greta Mary (Burnes), 23
Jennings, Sheryl, 1
Jews, 11
Kauaeranga Valley, 12
Keene, Florence, 10
Keith, Hamish, 27
Lake Taupo, 9
Langkilde Christie, Poula, 10
Lawry, Walter,, 23
Lessons for ladies: a social history of girl's education in Australasia 1870-1900 / Coral Chambers., 16
Life at Edievale and "Gowan Braes", 13
Lighthouses, 3
Linscott, M. H., 6
Locke, Elsie, 16
Maclean, Sally Anne., 25
Malcolm, Madge, 26
Manawatu, 12
Maori, 2, 5, 9, 18, 19
Maori schools in a changing society: an historical review, 19
Marsh, Ngaio, 7
May, Muriel Wallace, 19
McEldowney, Dennis, 3
McGill, David, 9
Meikle, Phoebe C, 9
Mercy Jenkins Boys' Home, 20
Methodist Bible Class Movement, 23
Methodist Church, 23
Mihipeka: early years, 5
Mind over muscle: surviving polio in New Zealand, 14
Modern mothercraft: a guide to parents, 15
Motion pictures, 22
Mulinder, Olive, 2
Murchison, 18
My brother and I--: glimpses of childhood in our colonial past, 24
My home town: New Zealand remembers when; a selection from the popular column in North and South magazine., 13
My memoirs. Part 1, 3
Myrtle and Sophia, 10
New Plymouth, 11
New Zealand children yesterday, today and tomorrow, 24
New Zealand schoolmaster, 17
Nga tamariki o te rohe o Waikato = Maori children's lives in the Waikato region, 1850-1900: a case study, 25
Northland, 26
Notes on the management of pauper and criminal children in Great Britain and in New Zealand, 20
O'Regan, Pauline, 4
Oamaru, 5
Ohaeawai Maori School., 19
One hundred years: Dunedin Y.W.C.A., 1878-1978, 23
Only an orphan: first-hand accounts of life in children's institutions in New Zealand, 20
Oral history in New Zealand: a directory of collections, 1992., 26
Oral history programme catalogue of recordings 1983, 26
Orphanages, 20
Otago Region, 22
Out of the bag, 9
Papps, Roland J, 10
Parker, Wesley, 5
Peacocke, Isabel Maud, 5
Pennefather, F. W., 20
Photographs, 26
Pictures of childhood when our grandparents were young, 25
Pioneer children, 24
Pioneer family, A, 2
Pioneers, 2
Please come prepared for anything: a social history of the Girl Guide movement in Otago, 22
Pollock, Mabel, 3
Radio and children., 22
Reading, film and radio tastes of high school boys and girls, 22
Remembrances and reminiscences of the members of the New Zealand, 2
Riccarton, 8
Richmond, 10
Ritchie, Rayma, 18
Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, 1945., 15
Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children., 15
Rutherford: the early years, 11
Sacred Heart Primary School, 18
Sage tea: an autobiography, 8
School buses, 18
School in New Zealand: the twenties, 17
School Medical Service, 16
School memories, 18
Scott, W. J., 22
Scouting yesterday and today, 20
Scouts, boy, 20
Shadow behind the blackboard , 18
Shaking the bee tree, 3
Shipboard diaries, 2
Simpson, Clare, 23
Smith, Paul, 27
Snow, Dianne, 16
Somerset, Gwen L, 8
Special education as social control [microform]: the historical development of industrial schools and special classes, 19
St Stephen's College, 1
St. Margarets, 7
Stamper battery: reminiscences of a goldfields childhood, 12
Stirling, Amiria Manutahi, 8
Stirling, Eruera, 2
Stories of school days in the Murchison district,, 18
Sumner School for Deaf Children, 14
Sunshine and shadow: the life of Gwendolen Lucy Somerset,, 8
Sylvia!: the biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 7
Tales of yesteryear: including oral histories of the North, 26
Taranaki, 13
Tauranga in the .i.1910s, 9
Te Aroha, 4
Te Aute College, 2
Teacher, 18
Tennant, Margaret, 14
Thames, 12
The bear from the north: tales of a New Zealand childhood, 12
The children from the lighthouse, 3
The education of New Zealand girls towards the end of the nineteenth century. , 17
The first forty years, told in story, words and pictures: New Zealand Girl Guides, 21
The history of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society's first twenty-five years, 1935-1960, 14
The honey tree: childhood reminiscences of early New Zealand farm life., 6
The "inside" story: the Mercy Jenkins Salvation Army Boys' Home, Eltham, 28th December 1909-26th January 1954, 20
The kid from Matata: memories of a post war pakeha, 9
The middle bridge: a New Zealand childhood, 1
The one hundred year history of the Christchurch Young Women's Christian Association, 1883-1983, 23
The other side of summer, 6
The trouble with women: the story of .i. Parents Centre New Zealand, 15
The way we were, 26
They called me Te Maari, 9
They hear with the eye: a centennial history of the Sumner School for Deaf Children, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1880-1980, 14
Those were the days: a nostalgic look at the early days, from the pages of the Weekly news, 27
Through the looking glass: recollections of childhood from 20 prominent New Zealanders / selected and introduced by Michael Gifkins., 11
Tihema, James T, 19
Timaru, 18
Time was-- when the open road speed limit was 20 mph, and-- it took three months to travel from Auckland to Southampton: a collection of stories / told by the residents of the Everill Orr Homes, Mt Albert, Auckla, 12
Time was-- when women wore stays, cooked over an open fire and men wore braces and drank from a moustache cup: a collection of stories / told by residents of the Everill Orr Homes, Mt Albert, Auckland, who called themselves the .i.Elderly Tusi, 12
Titirangi, 7
Tolerton, Jane, 24
Toogood, Selwyn, 9
Toys, 22
Toys of early New Zealand, 22
Tuparoa,, 8
Twist and shout: New Zealand in the 1960s, 27
Typhoid Epidemic, 8
Upper Hutt Plunket Society, 50th jubilee, 1925-1975., 15
Urewera Country, 12
Vincent, Carol, 19
Waddington, 10
Waikato, 25
Waimea County, 18
Waioeka Gorge, 12
Waitahanui, 9
Waiting for the sugar-water, 3
Wellington, 6
Wellington Province, 2
Wesleydale: a tribute to its pioneers and workers, 23
West Coast, 5
Whakaaria mai: the biography of Canon Wiremu Wi te Tau Huata, 1
When I was seven., 5
Williams, William, 25
Women & children first: central Taranaki women, their reminiscences, stories and recipes / the stories collected and edited by Alison Robinson., 13
Woollaston, Toss, 8
You are my darling Zita, 2
Young Women's Christian Association, 23
Young Women's Christian Associations, 23
Youth Hostels Association, 22
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