Manawatu Conversations

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.

Ian went to Anglican church until age of 19 when friends started a young adults group at Methodist Church. They met in people’s homes. Five or six churches joined to become Trinity Church on Cuba Street and St Pauls on Broadway. Trinity Church was an earthquake risk so joined with St Pauls to become Wesley Broadway. Ian was a schoolteacher, a public servant in the housing corporation for 17 years, owned a comic shop then became a Methodist lay preacher. He became a minister in Blenheim, Levin and

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.

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.

Sir Mason Durie and Hapai Winiata spoke during Marise’s training and made her think how she could make a difference for all the Maori people she worked with. Did curative and palliative work in the oncology ward in 1984 before there was a hospice. Had to sit hospital exams before sitting state finals – medicine, surgery and obstetrics. Low pass rate in Palmerston North she believed was political. She was one of the first nurses to administer IV chemotherapy. Maori were overrepresented in

Lived in the country and was not able to be sociable as a teenager. Was reliant on other people for transport. The only bicycle in the family was heavy with a wicker basket at the front. Was young when New Zealand changed from imperial to metric measurements so can work easily between the two. Several acquaintances died within a short time. Left school after the seventh form and went to the Palmerston North School of Nursing in 1980 for three and a half years. First experience was involved with