Posts by Hilary Stace
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Danielle, I agree re Endnote. So much it doesn't do.
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Giovanni, that is a fascinating post of yours. That image of the book cover This is New Zealand (Asian edition) reminded me of Max coming home with a pristine copy (and there may also have been presentation copies in boxes?) but it was just a work PR thing and I never took much notice at the time. I wonder if yours is the same copy or whether there are hundreds of them out there.
And that Wikipedia reference to Rewi Alley. I visited him in that house in Beijing in 1976. He couldn't say much to the visiting NZers and we just didn't understand why.
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at the DCM fair last year I found the fantastically entitled This is New Zealand - Asian Edition, and I've been fielding requests for it since.
Giovanni, if your copy looks like it might have been stored in a garage, it might be the one we donated. Oscar's father was involved in the translation and production of it (he was a Mandarin speaker) through the then Wool Board.
(And Russell, my natlib link doesn't go anywhere now, so perhaps delete?)
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The Taiwanese Ambassador's son, Brian Lew, was in my class at primary school. He had some quite startling morning talks about the communists which I used to go home and discuss with my knowledgeable mother. 'Mum, is it true that...?
And re the Values Party. As a Library School exercise in 1974 I compiled an annotated bibliography. There wasn't much material available by 1974 as the Party was only two years old, and it was mostly newspaper cuttings from then leader Tony Brunt's personal collection. But I must check it sometime in the Turnbull Library and see if that leaflet was included.
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Getting rid of corporal punishment was a big battle, heavily resisted by some entrenched interests, and took many years to fade as an issue. I think finally achieved by Phil Goff? as Minister of Education in 1989. I remember collecting signatures to stop it way back in the early 1970s.
Many male school teachers were given straps as part of their graduation (maybe even beating lessons?). But children these days are incredulous when you tell them that not so long ago teachers could hit the children with leather straps and canes - and even some prefects had that power. -
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bullying of an autistic kid really upsets me because it is so close to home.But - people intervened to help him. And it was worthy of reporting in a way sympathetic to the victim. Neither may have happened previously. Max Call, there was widespread school violence in the past - between students, and teachers beating kids, and bullying of students who were at all different - but it was seem as normal, not worthy of addressing and certainly not newsworthy.
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This is such an interesting thread.
Best wishes for a swift recovery Emma. And to the children too who must be just a wee bit anxious.
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On about 25 June 1970 a demonstration at parliament about the education system featuring an Onslow College student, Catherine Delahunty, was shown on the NZBC news. She was also interviewed by Brian Edwards on his Gallery current affairs programme. I would love to see those again.
I came across several index references to Onslow College in the TVNZ archives when researching a history of Onslow College for its 50th in 2006, but was unable to access them then. I'm sure Simon Wilson, Jamie Belich and other student activists over the years are hidden away there.
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My Broadsheet collection has just gone to the Downtown Community Ministry book fair (TSB arena, Wgtn, 5-6 Sept). I'm grieving, but moving on.
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Kerry, shows that academics should never underestimate 'lived experience'. And why oral history and personal interviews are valuable research methods. I can't understand why Linda Bryder didn't interview at least a few key informants.