New Zealand Oral History Awards - Award Recipients 1991-2010
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Awards in Oral History for 2010
A total of $94,738 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:
- Shona McCahon, $15,000
Australian conservation covenants - Athina Tsoulis, Evangelia Papoutsaki, $30,000
Greek female immigrants to NZ – 1960s - Bronwyn Hanna, $5,000
Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter - Alison Laurie, $11,300
Australian influences on lesbian and gay communities in NZ - Honiana Love, $12,500
Taranaki iwi in Australia - Penny Brander, $ 5,000
Funeral directors in Australia and NZ - Linda Hepburn, Ruth Low, $5,953
Cross Tasman migration from a small community – 1950s - Gareth Watkins, $ 9,985
AIDS Memorial Quilt – NZ/Aus
Awards in Oral History for 2009
A total of $101,500 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:
- Loreen Brehaut, $ 5000
Interviews with six Picton train drivers, past and present - Nigel Hampton, Chairperson, $5000
Saving Knowledge – Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum - Caren Wilton, $6000
Selling sex: the NZ sex industry - Paulette Wallace, $1500
Somes Islanders: A social history of life on Matiu/Somes 1965 - 2005 - Whangarei Libraries (Friends of the Library), $ 10,000
‘Honouring Seniors’ Whangarei District OHP - Northland Parents of Deaf Children Inc, $12000
Northland Mothers of Deaf Adults - Rev Rangi Nicholson, $5000
Maori language interviews in the Anglican Diocese of Te Hui Amorangi o Te Manawa o te Wheke - Lyne Pringle, $8000
Riding the Crest of a Wave: Early Members of Impulse Dance Theatre and Limbs Dance Company - Gareth Watkins, $8000
So Now We Are Legal (Post Homosexual Law Reform –
Interviews with younger LGBTI community members) - Shelley Seay, $6000
The effect of the Wahine disaster, April 10 1968:
Personal stories from survivors, crew and rescuers - Helen Frizzell, Judith Fyfe, Megan Hutching, Pip Oldham, $35,000
Mrs Schumacher’s Gems: Domestic life in New Zealand
In the 1940s and 1950s
Awards in Oral History for 2008
A wide range of communities and aspects of life in New Zealand will be explored by this year’s recipients of Awards in Oral History. A total of $60,500 has been granted to the following groups and individuals:
- Arts Foundation of New Zealand, $ 6500
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Heritage Project Interviews with eight recipients of the Icon Awards – including Diggerress Te Kanawa, Maurice Gee, Margaret Mahy and Ans Westra. - Otaki Bank Heritage Preservation Trust, $ 2000
The Changing Face of Te Horo - Roger Smith, $11000
Composing New Zealand – life histories of six senior composers in Aotearoa/New Zealand – including Jenny McLeod, Jack Body and Gillian Whitehead - AC Productions (Anna Cottrell), $12000
Facing the Future – stories of new New Zealanders Histories of refugees from Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq and Burma. - Damian Skinner, Tairarwhiti Museum of Art and History, $ 3700
Watersheds: Nga Wai Pupu – an oral history of the Tairawhiti Region - Megan Hutching, $12000
Bridge 4232: and oral history of Auckland Harbour Bridge 1959-2009 - Margaret McClure, $ 5800
‘When a happy marriage turns to custard’ Women’s divorce stories form the 1950s and 1960s - Shona McCahon, $ 7500
The founding of landscape architecture in New Zealand
Awards in Oral History for 2007
- Jane Moodie, Hungarian oral history project: a record of Hungarian refugees who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution, $7450
- Susan Foster, Recorded interviews with New Zealand cartoonists, $8250
- New Zealand Theatre Archive, The emergence of professional theatre in post-World War II New Zealand, $4000
- Hanna Scott, Studio La Gonda: a large-format legacy (photography), $4000
- Kirsty McCully, Cleaners – standing up and speaking out, $5000
- Lyne Pringle, Dancing competitions in Dunedin, 1940-1990, $5000
- Catherine Tracey, An oral history of tradeswomen in Aotearoa/New Zealand, $5000
- Kotare Trust, The people behind the poster: reflecting activism in Aotearoa, $5000
- Charlotte Museum Trust, Charlotte Museum oral herstories training project, $2000
Awards in Oral History for 2006
- Beverly Kearse, NZ Association of Psychotherapists 60th celebration project, $2000
- Kelburn Municipal Croquet Club, An oral history of Kelburn Municipal Croquet Club, $2000
- St Andrews on The Terrace convenors, An oral history of St Andrews on The Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington, $2500
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, 21 Infantry Battalion Association oral history project, $5000
- Vincent Ward, The worlds of Puhi Tatu, $5000
- Loreen Brehaut, Tory Channel whalers' families and Whekenui School project, $5600
- Mary-Lou Harris, 'We will fight them on the beeches' – an oral history of Native Forest Action, $6000
- Ruth Low, Droving in the South Island, $6000
- Friends of the Police Museum, Maori Police project, $6000
- Te Hui Amorangi ki Te Manawa o te Wheke, Maori language interviews in the Anglican archdeaconries of Waiariki and Waiwhakaari, $6500
- Nicola Robertson, NZ Ski Heritage oral history project, $7000
- Wellington Girls' College Jubilee committee, 125th Jubilee oral history project, $7000
- Paul Diamond, An oral history of Maori who served in the Vietnam War – a pilot study, $9000
- GridHeritage, An oral history of Maori linemen working on the national grid, 1945-2005, $10,000
Awards in Oral History for 2005
- Lyne Pringle, Dancing competitions in Dunedin, $2000
- Thames, School of Mines Museum,Thames School of Mines oral history project, $3000
- Cynthia Matthews, A place in the sun: 50 years of the arts in Kerikeri, $3000
- Christine Tuapola, Alofa Atu I Kalaisetete – Bring on the 60s (Samoan migration to Christchurch in the 1960s), $3520
- Te Rawhiti oral history group, I Tupu Ake Au Ki Te Rawhiti – an oral history of Te Rawhiti, $4500
- Sally Schoon, Herbert Gardens oral history project, $4520
- Tairua Oral History Group, Tairua local history project, $4600
- Susan Foster, Interviews with New Zealand cartoonists, $4900
- Kitty Chang, Oral history of Chinese women in New Zealand, $5000
- Matthew Leonard, The Burmese community in Aotearoa/New Zealand, $5000
- Max Quinn, An oral/visual history of New Zealand's early role in Antarctica, $5000
- Tasman Bays Heritage Trust, Nelson Provincial Museum oral history project, $5000
- Waitakere Library & Information Services, The Crown Lynn story, $5000
- McKenzie Centre Community Trust, Power & Passion – Waitaki hydro scheme, $5500
- Fiona Clayton, Footloose & Fancy Free (people with physical disabilities), $6000
- Seahorse World Science Heritage and Education Trust, Oral history of Cook Strait whalers based in Tory Channel, $6000
- Waipuna o Hokianga, Oral history of Lake Omapere, Tai Tokerau, $6200
Awards in Oral History for 2004
- Carly Pokaia, $1000, Grassroots (whāngai adoption)
- Anand Naran, $1420, How the tables have turned (oral history of DJs)
- NZ Theatre Archive, $1500, The emergence of professional theatre in post-World War II New Zealand
- Rowan Taylor, $2500, People of the lake: interviews with Pakeha fishers of Lake Ellesmere
- Erolia Ifopo, $3000, Alofa atu I Kalaisetete: From Samoa to Christchurch with love
- Phillip & Andrew Moore, $3000, A golden era in NZ skateboarding
- Martin Rumsby, $3000, Film artist interviews
- Ruth Greenaway, $3500, Otautahi/Christchurch peace stories project
- Helen Beaglehole, $3900, Lighthouse keepers
- Adele Broadbent, $5000, Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers of the 60s and 70s
- Patrick Coleman, $5000, Loyal Orange Institution in the South Island
- Jacqui Foley, $5000, Project Aqua oral history collection
- Pip Oldham, $5080, Mike Walker: Levin-based film maker and photographer
- Henry Chan, $5800, Chinese war refugees who arrived in NZ 1939 and 1940
Awards in Oral History for 2003
-
Lois Webster, Siu ki moana, $1000
- New Zealand Theatre Archive, Development of professional theatre in the early ‘60s, $2000
- Paekakariki Informed Community Inc, Paekakariki—Telling Our Story, $2140
- Patricia Wallace, An oral history of Ngati Porou weaver, Nanny Whai Pooti Hitchiner, $2500
- Friends of Porirua Hospital Museum, Oral history project, $3386
- Denis Grennell, Ngati Kinohaku: Recording the oral histories of the last generation to grow up on Ngati Kinohaku marae, $3500
- NZ Cartoon Archive Trust, New Zealand cartoonists, $3916
- Helen Bollinger, West Coast oral history project: Hidden Treasure, $4050
- Jacqui Foley, Harbour/Tyne St oral history project, Stage II , $4426
- Sydney J Shep, Documenting Wellington’s rural heritage: An oral history of the Horokiwi rural community, $4735
- Museum of Transport & Technology, Aviation Memories, $4750
- Ruth Low, An oral history of the lives and works of drovers in Feilding and district, $5295
- Tung Jung Assn of NZ, An oral history of Chinese migration to New Zealand, $5330
- Wellington Niue Island Assn Inc, ‘We came to work and educate our children in this strange land’ , $5550
- Auckland Sexual Abuse Help Foundation, Auckland Sexual Abuse Help oral history project , $5850
- Amnesty International NZ, ‘Pacific Solution’ refugee interview project, $8000
- Mary Donald, Art Taranaki, $8000
Awards in Oral History for 2002
- Rex Bloomfield and Glen Rowling, Sandy Bay Marahau oral history project , $800
- Godley Head Heritage Trust, Oral history project, $1000
- Jane Reeves, Tying the knot with tangata whenua, $1200
- Te Ora Hou-Te-Tairawhiti, Nga korero maumahara, $1500
- Wellington Rugby Football Union, An oral history of the WRFU, $3230
- Picton Historical Society, Marlborough Sounds oral history project, $3650
- Ngaroimata White-Winiata, Nga korero o nehera o Ngatiwai, $3700
- Carmen Dalli, Maltese emigrants to NZ, $4000
- Linda Cassells, Oral history of NZ publishing, $4134
- Sandra Kay Robertson, To Rest in Peace, Stage 2, $4250
- Anthony Haas, Being Palagi, $5000
- Samoa Project, Samoan stories of migration, $5154
- Jonathan Kennett, Cycling in New Zealand, $5632.50
- Hunter Productions and Galue Malosi, Alofa atu I Kalaisetete—from Samoa to Christchurch with love, $5800
- Nicola Robertson, Lyndhurst Country Women's Institute, $5900
- Liz Catherall, PHG's war: NZ sappers in World War II, $6000
- Women's Electoral Lobby (NZ), WEL Women who made a difference, $6180
- Sarah Gaitanos, The life and theatre of Nola Millar, $6600
- Shear History Trust, Life in the Sheds, $7000
Awards in Oral History for 2001
- Zana Bell
Alice Horley: Auckland's first woman doctor — $1500 - Hauraki Maori Wardens Assn
Aroha ki te tangata — $2615 - Agricultural Heritage Museum
Agricultural/colonial oral history project — $3000 - Anthony van Raat
NZ architects talking about their work — $3000 - Joseph Romanos & Don Neely
The Basin: A history of the Basin Reserve — $3000 - Noel Waite
History of printing in Otago — $3491.50 - Barbara Adams
An oral history of Tawa women — $3555 - Alana Burney
Tahae Trainor and the 28 Maori Battalion — $3571 - David Harrowfield
Historic sites in Ross Dependency, Antarctica — $3800 + GST - Grace Hutton
Sewn pictures: Tivaevae stories — $4000 - Janice Wilson
The stitch of history — $4000 - Ngati Kahungunu Iwi
Customary fishing research — $5000 + GST - Sue McCauley
Oral history of New Zealand TB sanatorium patients — $5400 + GST - Rachael Selby & Anne Thorpe
Otaki oral history project — $6000 - Moana Maniapoto
Nga morehu — $9750 + GST - Te Tai o Marokura
Ngati Kuri: traditional use of indigenous plants, $1000
Awards in Oral History for 2000
- Tararua Tramping Club
Oral history project with older members—$1000 - Peter Whitelock
Newtown, Old Town: aspects of the social history of the suburb—$1000 - Anna Soutar
Auckland Civic Theatre—$1400 - Ann Trotter
Little Company of Mary in New Zealand—$1500 - Hilary Stace
Thorndon School : 150 years of innovative inner-city education—$1650 - Christopher Bourke
The Tangiwai disaster—$2000 - Te Kahui Kaumatua Kaunihera o Nga Iwi o Taranaki
Taahuhu Korero o Taranaki—$3000 - NZ Jewish Council
Jewish women in education—$3170 - Dorothy McMenamin
Identity and status of Anglo-Indians in colonial India and New Zealand—$3500 - Deborah Dunsford
Childhood in the Kumeu-Huapai district—$3600 - Kim Morton
Raoul Island history project—$4500 - Janice Aplin
Vintage Years: the wine industry in New Zealand—$5000 - Sandra Robertson
To Rest in Peace: parents of people with intellectual disabilities—$5000 - Jill Abigail
Otaki Citizens' Advice Bureau oral history project—$5000 - Pukapuka Community of NZ
Pukapuka oral history project—$6000 - Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre
Kapa Haka O Te Tairawhiti oral history project—$6088 - Upper Hutt City Library
Oral history project—$6700 - Jacqui Foley
An oral history of Harbour/Tyne St, Oamaru—$7985 - Barry Rigby/David Young
Oral history of Waitangi Tribunal—$12,000
Awards in Oral History for 1999
- Heritage Hokitika Society
Heritage Hokitika oral history project—$500 - Governors Bay Heritage Trust
Oral histories of Governors Bay identities—$1000 - Kerry Sinclair
Glenorchy 'deer wars' project—$1000 - Mental Health Division Oral History Group
Sunnyside Hospital oral history project—$1500 - Joel Zwartz
Early years of cave exploration in New Zealand—$1500 - Mei Meri Solomon
Te Tatau Matua-our fathers' A Company, the 28 Maori Battalion—$1850 - Te Runanga o Te Rarawa
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa oral history project—$2000 - Hutt Valley Community Arts Centre
Oral histories from work sites in Petone and Lower Hutt—$2000 - Elizabeth Hakaraia
Interviews with William Kerekere and Henare Te Ua—$3000 - Whanganui Riverboat Restoration Trust
Riverboat stories from the Whanganui River—$3500 - National Dance Archive of New Zealand
Prominent New Zealanders in dance history—$4000 - Sunita Singh
Ocean Beach bach community project—$4500 - Anna Rogers
New Zealand women nurses serving overseas, Boer War to Vietnam—$4600 - Vera Egermayer
Oral histories of Czech immigrants to New Zealand, 1930s to present—$5000 - Margaret McClure
Women on Divorce, 1950–1970—$5000 - Wellington Women's Studies Association
Feminist oral history project—$5890 - Trade Union History Project
Toa Wahine: the changing role of women in New Zealand trade unions—$7000 - Anna Cottrell
Tales from the Pacific: New Zealanders in the Pacific in WW II—$8000 - New Zealand Society of Authors
NZSA/PEN oral history project—$11,000 - Phillipa Desmond
Te Aroha Trust women-then and now: the life stories of gang women in the 1970s—$11,000
Awards in Oral History for 1998
- Wairarapa Cultural Trust
Oral history of 5 Wairarapa artists—$1000 - New Zealand Family Daycare Association
10 year anniversary history—$1500 - Sharon Whittle
George Havell: 20th century reminiscences—$1786 - Tessa Mitchell and Ben Holmes
Biography of Bob Lowry—$1858 - Southland Oral History Project
Recording the past for the future—$2000 - The Women's Gallery
'Getting Free': oral history study of violence, resilience and recovery—$4000 - IHC New Zealand
Oral history project—$4100 - Damian Skinner
Theo Schoon—oral history project—$4100 - Patsy Deverall
Biography of Yvonne Rust—$4600 - Hamilton Public Library
Hamilton architects, 1930–1990—$5000 - Jonathan Kennett
Oral history of the Tongariro Forest—$5000 - NAC 50th Anniversary Society
NAC oral history project—$5000 - Piha Community Library
Piha oral history project—$5000 - Nga Taonga a Nga Tama Toa Trust
World War I Maori servicemen—$7000 - New Zealand CCS Dunedin
Oral history of CCS in Dunedin since 1935—$7500 - Jane Waddell
The player kings—$8000 - Te Wananga o Raukawa
Oral history of Rangiatea—$8000 - Haining St Oral History Group
Haining St oral history project—$8100
Awards in Oral History for 1997
- Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Oral history project—$2000 - Suzanne MacAulay
Oral history of 'professional' exiles in Wanganui—$2000 - Sisters of Mercy
Oral history project—$2420 - Adrienne Simpson
A social history of women's cricket—$2421 - Hirini Reedy
Biculturalism in the New Zealand Army—$2500 - New Zealand Association of Citizen's Advice Bureaux
Oral history project—$3000 - Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust
Reflecting on disaster: Reminiscences from the survivors of New Zealand's worst natural disaster—$3900 - Parekawhia McLean
Oral traditions and life stories of Ngati Mahanga
Waikato—$4660 - First Church of Otago
First church oral history project—$4749 - Jane Collins
Identity issues for people of mixed Maori/Pakeha descent—$4912 - New Zealand Medical Women's Association
Stories of diversity and success—women in medicine—$6318 - Gore Historical Museum
Gore community oral history project—$6859 - Kahungunu Maori Executive
Rakaipaka oral history project—$7119 - Elizabeth Catherall
Tui contribution to World War II—$10,000 - Tanenuiorangi Manawatu
Pu korero o Rangitane—$10,000 - Golden Shears Society
Past champions oral history project—$10,000
Awards in Oral History for 1996
- Te Aute College Archives Committee
Te Aute College Archives—$1000 - S.N. Berghan
Paroa Rugby and Sports Club 75th anniversary memories—$1200 - Project Port Lyttelton
Port Lyttelton oral history—$1670 - Mangawhai Historical Society
Memories of early families from Mangawhai and Hakaru—$2000 - Bainham Reunion Committee
History heritage of Bainham—$2050 - Alexandra District Historical Society
A Taste of Gold: an oral history of stone fruit growing Conroy's Gully, Alexandra—$2400 - Judith Holloway
Pincher Martin Seamen's Union President—$3140 - Tarewa Rota
Kaka Niao—He mau korero no te ao tauwhito—$3270 - Haining St Oral History Group
Haining St oral history project—$3780 - Jennie Gallagher
Women and mountaineering 1920-1950—$5000 - Julian McCarthy
What did you do in the war Daddy?—$5000 - Felicity Stacey-Clark
Onekaka Ironworks—an oral history—$5258 - Te Iwi o Te Roroa
Te Roroa Maori life histories project—$5300 - Barry Thomas
The Cuba Project—$9107 - Jerome Cvitanovich
Migrants of former Yugoslavia—$9213 - Jill Pierce
Life stories of single parent families—$10,000 - Punga Productions
Oral history of contemporary Maori theatre since 1960—$10,000
Awards in Oral History for 1995
- Te Awamutu District Museum
Recording memories of VE and VJ Days in Te Awamutu—$500 - Helensville and District Historical Society
Maori memories of the Kaipara—$1000 - Leslie Clare
Oral history of the New Zealand wool trade—$1500 - Hawkes Bay Oral History Project—$2000
- Vicki Jones
Ngahinepouri oral history project—$2000 - Rachel Lord
Artists and artisans of Banks Peninsula—$2000 - Maija Vasils
Latvians in New Zealand from 1950—$2000 - Lois Webster
Some oral histories of the Tongan community—$2000 - Dunedin YWCA
Y Auxiliary oral history project—$2000 - Museum of Transport and Technology
Oral archive of people who flew in or worked on the Lancaster Bomber and the Teal Solent Flying Boat—$2500 - New Zealand Education InstituteTe Riu Roa
Neville Lambert Memorial Oral Archive — $2500 - Michael Walsh
Whanaungatanga: Nga Rauru me Ngati Wehiwehi—$2500 - Senorita Laukau
The settling of the Tongan people in the Hutt Valley—$3000 - Adam Gifford and Shane Jones
Nga Rangatira: Maori leadership in the 1990s—$4000 - Sarah Gaitanos
Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa: New Zealand Drama School—$4800 - Julia Bradshaw
Haast oral history project—$5000 - Lois Cox
Life stories of older lesbian women—$5000 - Jacqueline Foley
Life stories of Northern Irish immigrants—$5000 - Helen Harte
Maori childbirth in the 1930s—$5000 - Tui and Evelyn Macdonald
Race relations then and now: Maori/Pakeha relationships—$5000 - Ian Robertson
Wellington City Transport European migrants project—$5000 - C Company 28 Maori Battalion Research Committee
C Company, 28 Maori Battalion history—$5000
Awards in Oral History for 1994
- R. and J. Paton
Labour movement oral history project—$1173 - Claire Loftus Nelson
Birth stories—$2000 - Jennifer Briars
Oral history of the German settlement of Sarau—$2300 - YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley
YWCA oral history project—$2156.50 - Wellington Maritime Museum
Fishing for history—$2500 - Gabrielle Huria
Life stories of Noeline and George Fife—$3000 - James Allan
Gay men in Aotearoa—$3000 - Greater Green Island Oral History Memory Bank
Oral history project—$3000 - Anne Noble
Takahanga Marae project—$2744 - Jeanne Lomax
Memories of Tokelau-born New Zealand women—$3200 - Wellington Huntington's Disease Association
Stories of those affected by Huntington's Disease—$3500 - Nari Shakti
Indian women in Aotearoa—$3650 - Prisoners' Aid and Rehabilitation Society
Oral history project—$4000 - R.T.V. Linnell
History of the army in New Zealand during World War II—$4000 - Hana Te Hemara
Nga Tamatoa: nga korero whakapuaki—$5000 - Te Reo Irirangi o Ngati Kahungunu
Ngati Kahungunu oral history project—$5000 - Te Runanga o Ngati Kuia
Oral history of Ngati Kuia—$5000 - Kerry Taylor
Participants in the 1951 waterfront lockout—$7000 - Pefi Kingi
Profiles of our Pacific mothers—$7000
Awards in Oral History for 1993
- Te Awamutu Historical Society
History of Pirongia—$1000 - Cleone Blomfield
Three women who came to Middlemarch—$500 - Peggy Crawford
A century of orphans and orphanages in New Zealand—$1500 - Susan Fowke
The Dames—$5000 - Jacqueline Gallagher
Reading, Writing, and Rosaries—$2000 - Bradford Haami
The life of Dr Golan Maaka—$7000 - Helensville and District Historical Society
Oral History research, Kaipara area—$1000 - Murray Hemi
Mangakino-Ngati Moe Heartland—$8000 - Hutt Valley Branch National Council of Women
NCW narratives from a century—$12,000 - Frances Katene
Oral Herstories of Ngatitoa women—$1900 - Colin McColl
Creation and development of Downstage Theatre—$4550 - Manawatu Museum
Manawatu and its people—$7000 - Merivale Community Group
Merivale-Tauranga Oral History Project—$7000 - Moana Moeka'a
Beginnings of the PIC Church in New Zealand—$1500 - New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially
Blind
50th anniversary history—$5000 - Otago Maritime Society
Merchant Navy Oral History Project—$1500 - Jane Poetsch and Natasha Hammond
Tukorehe and its people—$1500 - Rangahau-a-Iwi Trust
Traditional hoe waka in Te Arawa—$2500 - Straightline Youth Development Trust
Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana—the man, the prophet, the politician—$3000 - Jane Waddell
The Player Queens—$7000 - Whanganui Regional Museum
The men in our lives—$9000 - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Wellington Branch
Oral history of older WILPF members—$2500
Awards in Oral History for 1992
- Marie Burgess
Oral history of nurses and midwives—$7200 - Karen Davis
Oral history of Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa—$10,000 - Joy Green
The changing role of stock and station firms in North Otago—$3650 - Rawene Library
Rawene Oral Archives—$495 - Merania Kapete and Helen Frizzell
Women and work, paid and unpaid—$2852 - B. and I. Maguire
Catholic education in Gisborne, 1894-1994—$500 - Robyn Mason
Study of a bach community in the southern Wairarapa—$1500 - Halina Ogonowska-Coates
Oral history of J-Force members—$5530 - Alison Parr
Post-war psychological experience of World War II veterans and their families—$10,000 - Bruce Petry
Oral history of architecture post-World War II—$5589 - New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation
Oral history of Dutch immigrants—$10,000 - Pepe and Christine Robertson
Tama'ita'i Samoa: Ladies of Samoa—$10,000 - Turoa Royal
Oral history of Ngati Kikopiri—$1019 - Monty Soutar
Centennial history of the Hiruharama District, 1895-1995—$12,000 - Hilary Stace
Wadestown Playcentre, 1942-92—$300
Awards in Oral History for 1991
- Jan Bolwell
Some key personalities in New Zealand dance—$1466 - Hobson Wharf Maritime Museum
Oral history archive—$5000 - Taranaki Museum
Petrochemical industry—$5000 - Hamilton Public Library
Dinsdale Community Oral History Project—$4000 - Alison Gray
Mothers and daughters—$5000 - Waipatu Marae Committee
Nga tikanga o Heretaunga—$7500 - Rawene Public Library
Rawene oral archives—$1231 - Haare Williams
Recording the living repositories of whaikorero—$5000 - Helen Jordan
Great Barrier Island: a study of its people—$1576 - Women with Benefits Network
Women parenting alone, 1945-1990—$7500 - Maniapoto Maori Trust Board
Maniapoto Maori oral history research—$7500 - Paul Madgwick
Kati Mahaki kaumatua—$800 - Patrick Parsons
Nga morehu—$5000 - Barry Rigby
Remembering the Mau: E Le Galo Le Mau—$7500 - Jeremy Rose
Pakeha and Maori of the East Cape: their lives and relationship to the land—$4000 - Waikato District Committee New Zealand Historic Places
Trust
Huntly coalfields oral history project—$7500 - Jane Tolerton
Convent girls—$5000 - Masterton Public Library
Tinui Flood—$1000 - Ngati Koata Trust
The gathering of treasures for the iwi of Ngati Koata—$5000 - Sr Bernadette Mary Wrack
The early history of the Sisters of Compassion—$1500