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A Queenstown To Glenorchy Day Trip
Dorothy – 9/2/01 After a beautiful drive Queenstown to Glenorchy at the head of Lake Wakatipu you will be ready for some exercise. I suggest that you follow the Glenorchy Walkway from the wharf around the lagoon and along the hillside and back to the lake edge. This is fairly level and offers great views…
Scilla Elworthy
Dorothy – 2/2/01 Scilla Elworthy Scilla Elworthy who comes from the United Kingdom is Director of the Oxford Research Group which she founded in 1982 – a group committed to working for peace and aiming first to find out how nuclear decisions are made and who makes them. She now travels widely bringing together those…
Threads of Tradition – Dunedin Public Art Gallery
An exhibition of Costumes and Textiles from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collections Dorothy – 01/02/01 Entry to the exhibition Photo source Margery Blackman Collection of small bags Photo source Margery Blackman Dunedin Public Art Gallery 17 November 2001 – 12 May 2002 A Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition Margery Blackman, Dunedin textile historian and…
Elric Hooper’s First Year ‘in retirement’
Dorothy – 01/02/01 Elric Hooper Photo source Elric Hooper Directing four major productions, two in Auckland and two in Wellington, teaching three theatre courses, researching and presenting five major broadcasts on musical subjects on the Concert Programme, and in December being awarded the degree of D.Litt. honoris causa by the University of Canterbury – all…
Farm Reflections
Article and photos by Verna Morris – 19/01/01 A Farmer’s Wife Looks Back On Life In Central Otago In The 1950s And 1960s I was a schoolgirl when I first visited the Maniototo district in Central Otago to stay on an uncle’s farm at Teviot. We visited neighbours three or four miles further on at…
Growing up in New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 10: Nowhere Far From The Sea
Part 10 – Nowhere Far From The Sea Four Fishermen – 19/01/01 You can read the previous part in the Growing up in New Zealand 1925 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. As Basil Dowling said in one of his poems, wherever you are…
Lifestyle Living – Lifestyle blocks, Farming in New Zealand
Written and illustrated by Zela Charlton – 08/01/01 Zela Lots of us these days have a yearning to be away from the congested noisy streets – even the trendy pavement cafes of Ponsonby cease to appeal after a time. More and more of us are actually trying to escape, hence the increasing number of so-called…
Growing up in New Zealand 1925-1950, Part 7: Home Schooling And Freedom
Part 7 – Home Schooling And Freedom On The Home Farm Foster Abilities An interview with Jackie Steincamp, Dorothy – 15/12/00 You can read the previous parts in the Growing up in New Zealand 1920 – 1950 series here, or read the articles from the original Growing Up in New Zealand series. What sort of…
Linguistics Department At The University Of Canterbury – Interview with Professor Lyle Campbell and Professor Elizabeth Gordon
Interview with Professor Lyle Campbell and Professor Elizabeth Gordon Dorothy – 15/12/00 Talking to these two Linguistics professors who are full of enthusiasm for their subject, their teaching and their research gave me the same feeling of excitement about what is offered to today’s students as I felt when talking to Professor Parkin in the…
Clean Vehicles Sought Worldwide – New Advances For Designline
Therese Banks – 15/12/00 Christchurch’s Electric Shuttle wins Resource Management Award Successfully operating now for almost two years, the designline Electric Shuttle has just been named joint overall winner of the Canterbury Resource Management Awards 2000. The judges said the low emission buses are part of an integrated approach to addressing significant urban transport issues…