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Manawatu Conversations

Local people giving recollections of the past, sometimes opinions of the future. Hear about the lives of people in your local community, where they are from and what they have experienced. Discover how the area has changed over the years.

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Manawatu Conversations 19-12-2023 - Episode 292 -...

Manawatu Conversations ·

2023/12/19

An oral history interview looking at the past and present of Palmerston North and the Manawatū, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand On Air.

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0:27:19

Manawatu Conversations 12-12-2023 - Episode 291 -...

Manawatu Conversations ·

2023/12/12

An oral history interview looking at the past and present of Palmerston North and the Manawatū, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand On Air.

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Manawatu Conversations 05-12-2023 - Episode 290 -...

Manawatu Conversations ·

2023/12/05

An oral history interview looking at the past and present of Palmerston North and the Manawatū, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand On Air.

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0:25:53

Manawatu Conversations 28-11-2023 - Episode 289 -...

Manawatu Conversations ·

2023/11/28

An oral history interview looking at the past and present of Palmerston North and the Manawatū, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand On Air.

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0:27:57

Manawatu Conversations 21-11-2023 - Episode 288 -...

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2023/11/21

Billie Chote QSM Part 3 of 5. Awapuni School, teaching children from difficult homes, basketball cake league, cross country. Moved on to Riverdale School, very different. The Tartan Clansmen. School camp. 1989 moved to the Ministry of Education a Visiting Teacher. The work of a Visiting Teacher. Picot and Tomorrow’s Schools. A truancy case. Formation of Special Education Services. Team leader for the region’s visiting teachers. Dealing with severe behaviour problem cases.

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0:27:13

Manawatu Conversations 14-11-2023 - Episode 287 -...

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2023/11/14

Billie Chote QSM 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 years later when they both settled back in the Wanganui area. Married a year later. Both got a job in Blenheim at different schools. Shifted to Taikorea school. School damaged during the Wahine storm (10th April 1968) and a new one was built. Became principal at Opiki school. Obtained a Commonwealth exchange

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Manawatu Conversations 07-11-2023 - Episode 286 -...

Manawatu Conversations ·

2023/11/07

An oral history interview looking at the past and present of Palmerston North and the Manawatū, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand On Air.

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0:27:57

Manawatu Conversations 31-10-2023 - Episode 285 -...

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2023/10/31

Brian Bates Part 2 of 2. Flew to New Zealand, 1963. First few days in NZ. Sent to PN, first impressions. Settling in, basketball and surfing. Married, transferred to Wellington. Managing Boots in Dunedin, then in PN. Senior management position in Wellington for 2 years. Regulated, so Boots couldn’t expand. Bought pharmacy business in PN. Changes in medications. Falling number of pharmacies in central PN. Set up pharmacy in Cook St, there until retired. The future for pharmacies – more healthcare

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0:26:23

Manawatu Conversations 24-10-2023 - Episode 284 -...

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2023/10/24

Brian Bates Part 1 of 2. Career as a pharmacist. In Dagenham until 26 (1962). Young child in WWII. Memories of the blitz, DC3s towing gliders, Morrison shelter, Anderson shelter, V1s, V2s, rationing. Post-war - the Marshall Plan, Cold War, first banana. The 11+ exam. Grammar School. 6th Form specialization, choice of pharmacy apprenticeship with Boots Chemist. Qualifying in Sunderland. Working in SE England. Posted to New Zealand at 25. Pharmacy work in 1960s, making up medicines and ointments

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0:27:2

Manawatu Conversations 17-10-2023 - Episode 283 -...

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2023/10/17

Owen Rogers. Always lived in Palmerston North. Started school about 1950. Catholic school. Playing behind the YMCA in Grey Street. Family bought State house in Ascott St. Building standards then and now. Heating homes. Marist Brothers school. Single sex schools, little mixing with girls. Learning ballroom dancing. Rock and roll. Few dancing opportunities now, but RSA 20 years ago. Newbury Hall dances. School bands. Jazz. Most school friends left Palmerston North. Childhood meals, growing own

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0:28:29

Manawatu Conversations 10-10-2023 - Episode 282 -...

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2023/10/10

Mike Lawrence, Part 3 of 3. Early days of personal computers. IBM PCs, dot matrix printers. Learning programming with punch cards, no graphics. Working for Advantage Computers. NZ Disabilities Resource Centre. NZ Fire Service VHF radio servicing. Househusband in late 1990s. Remarried. In Seniornet for 25 years now. Seniornet peaked at 600 members. Since declined and activities have changed. Voice recognition. Computer/phone familiarity. Decline of the voluntary sector. Few people to take a lead

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0:27:57

Manawatu Conversations 03-10-2023 - Episode 281 -...

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2023/10/03

Mike Lawrence, Part 2 of 3. Radio advertising, recording on vinyl. Cartridges and cassettes. Working in Taumarunui (mini-stations). AM and FM stations. Outside broadcasts. Transistors, technical staff redundant. Integrated circuits. Automation using videorecorders. Back into broadcasting after retirement, community radio. Current broadcasting software. Broadcasting over the internet. Moving on to computers.

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0:29:9

Manawatu Conversations 26-09-2023 - Episode 280 -...

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2023/09/26

Mike Lawrence, Part 1 of 3. Early interest in radio (about 1950), especially the technical side. Crystal sets, then battery operated valve radios. Career options, chose radio broadcasting. To Wellington as a technical trainee when left school. Short wave radio. With 2ZB in Wellington for 6 months. Limited international communication about 1960. Radio hams. Several years training, receiving news from the BBC and other overseas radio, then passing on to Broadcasting House. First person in New Zealand

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0:23:31

Manawatu Conversations 19-09-2023 - Episode 279 -...

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2023/09/19

Anne Eggers 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 Joseph’s. Teachers being graded. After 2 years, went to England on a ship, Northern Star. The sea journey and ports of call. Flatting in London. Impressions of Britain – terrace houses, cold weather, coal fire. Relief teaching. Steel playground fence, small concrete playground, school dinners. With Nigel,

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0:27:54

Manawatu Conversations 12-09-2023 - Episode 278 -...

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2023/09/12

Anne Eggers, Part 1 of 2. Grew up on a dairy farm. 1950s, milking cows before and after school. Long journey to school. Fitting in homework. To Teachers College in Palmerston North. No clear expectations of future life. Hitchhiking from Taranaki to College. 1 year teaching in 1963, then to Australia, waitressing. A temperance hotel in Brisbane. Hayman Island. Collecting shells. Her future husband (Eddie Eggers). To Cairns, Rockhampton, Mt Isa, Alice Springs. No student debt, and pre-OE (Overseas

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Manawatu Conversations 05-09-2023 - Episode 277 -...

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2023/09/05

Bronwyn McManus. On an 18 acre lifestyle block for 19 years, several on the road. Wanted country living. How lifestyle blocks are used. Community spirit. Work involved, livestock. Lifestyle appeals to young families. Country schools. Access to schools and town. Teacher aid work so fits school hours. Septic tanks. Quiet environment (mainly sheep and beef area). Lifestylers and farmers getting on together. Lifestyle networks. Diversifying lifestock. Coloured sheep, goats, deer. Stocking rates on small

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