----------------------Newsletter of lhe Professional Historia ns' Association of New Zealand/ Aotearoo

Vol. 8, no. 2, July 2002, ISSN 1173-4142

www.nzhistory.l'lel.nz/p hanza/index.htm

B)' thc time you are reading this 1he elecdon will be over. While we harl no intention of~uggcuing "'ho t~ ha•·e ' 'Oted for - lhere ilre p lenty of1>cople around lo du that - whar we should say is thm there 11 no political party sa}ing and doing enoug h lO promote h islury. By that we mean lh"

teaching of history. the v.Titing of history. history on tck••ision mu.I ti!m mid the con~noation of our

heritage in all iu; mmyform~. It is 1·erycviden1 that in panic11lar 1he teaching ofhism11· has declined in this coullll)'· Much, m uch mon• can be done and we need tn m:ikc our political leaders aware what is needed.

One thing that won'! be clashing with the election i5 our conterence, which was scheduled for aboul the time a n dection migh t have been expected. With four months 10 go, planning for liu: conference continu...s apace. There is an upd:iie in~ide. I' lease remember li1aL the la.,t day rou can get a1"'rr.ict.• ro usis31July, butif youarea hitlat.,rouwill stillbeconsideredfora s\ol.

111 li1i,; is•uc we feature an intcn·icw"~th jocl Philli~, the ucwly appoimcd editor of the ie-<:ocyd opaedia, and a p rofile o f Amerit<lll historir::il filmmaker Ken Burns, a.• "·ell a.• our regular featu res. including an updatt: on the com rm·eny o\·e r the Inner-City Bypass in lh:ritage.

ENZ-cyclopc-lia

Profile: Ken Bums

TheEl1niveMa~ Website Review: Jazz

Heritage

Inside

N-• Memb.r Aetivilies

PHANZA an the Mainland Conference update Conlerbury Community Hi1lorion

10

11 11 12 12

PHANZA, PO Box I 904, THORNDON, WE LLING TON

ENZ-cyclopaedia: an interview with Jock Phillips Former Chie f Histo rian Jock Phillip s ho s been a ppointed to the po sition o f e dilor of the New

Ze aland On-line Encyclopaedia, a nine·yeor project with o commitment of $10 million from the Government. He remains within the Hirtory G ro up, Ministry for Culture o nd He rilage.

David Yoong aske d him oboot his change o f role .

H"s this pro/ea com e along ot Q goqq' time /Dr µ>v - )'<JU¥1'heeflifltertnedintht!wel!ondhistorrfor some tfme - ore )'OU hoppf to mol'1' onl'

r, . ., been C hiefHiw.nian for 13 years. The Hi<t.<>ry Group is a completely d ifferent institution from wha1 i1waswhen I st."Uted . J had a .son of,ision for the p lace .. .it 's booming. We ha~·e a 1·ery, 1•ery able uaff.w I feel 1"111 ka>ing thr.m a t a gQOd time. It's not a $inking ship; its going fl:it out and there are po!<!ple here q uite l-.ipahk of1eading it. I'm nm nearlyas dgn ifkant in a fense as I wu. T he cncyclopaedi;i isa huge challenge and it"swmo:­thing that we 'an lead the world in - no one has done 1.his before. No one's s.at down and started frum •Cr.I ch to do an onlinc cm:ydopacrlia. People ha1·e mken writte n r.IK)'dopacrlias and digi1;...cd 1hem and looked for new iUustr.itions. but no one's said 'Right, we' ll do an on line e ncyclo pal-dia·. We're leading the world in it and it's a famastic

opportunity to have a oomplr.te look tl1ruugh all o r th " lm uwkdge abom Lhi• so~i"t~· · Wh>1t a mouth­watering prospect rha1 is. I sec m yself fin!t look.ing a1 narnrol history. then I 'll be looking ac the law, thr.n I'll be looking al rhe hi<tory of sport, 1hcn a t t uhural things. so iL·s going to be a wonderful walk

tJmmgh. K1iy ho~ fOU <l«tdetl to <di! it (/fl Mqdo-poctllol

I ha1·cn't )·e1, tha t.'saworkin11: title. 0/Jj«riMs woultl I!~ t/iQt 1~ sovnds "/J1~ ilkr,,lionl What we w.in\ Lo do i~ giv<~ th~ idea that ii is a

foll reference book 3bout c\"cryching to do 11i1h New Zealand <1.m l it io! hard lo kno"· ex>1Ctl)·what to call it. I think in the end we "111 ha•'<': to add .ome ltind or commercial slogan. BuL tl1e otl1er i"5u" i~

that in Mlme ways it i1 much more than a m1diriona\ "ncyrJop:ir.d ia . A tr01di1ional encyclopaed ia is cntirelr newl)· deriv<.:d "'":o ndarl articlt:s, whereas wirh 1his, therev.ill <1.l.wbe 1heprimaryrc!IOurccs tha1,.ill beattachedl0 t1u: " ntri"" and tl1eywill hc as important a5 the <1.rtide~ themselves. You'll get an in troduction co a $Ubjec1, a nd then you ·u get a whole l!Ct of o ther rewura:s 1hat }"0\1 can foll°"' up an<l 1L•c and experience a bit of tJie confronta1ion witJ1 the raw matc1fal. So we m:e rl a word that can cover 1heci.:panded oom cnt.

2

CrmPM totion - w!ltJt S hopµ niilr &,.,, is on op­portundf for people not usetl to I( to 111',rin to he­hal'1' as sdwlors! Yes. I've become intcrem:d m·cr the last coupk

ofyea l'l! in the '"'Y h iuorians -1..he en11'Clopaedia is more than 1.hat. bm history ,.111 be invokL'<I- the

way they will be<:ome as much o rchesu-.itors and org-.miscl'l! and facilitamrsofpeoplo:•,.s accessw1he primary m:ucrial. as tei.:t writers. We want to make ,<Ure lhal pt>npleget thatscn.-.:ofcxcitcmem in confrontlngprimarymatcrial.

And wc\-e got also a \'Cl)' nice thing in 1ha1 wc\·e

got McLintock [An EM~ of New Z ctllt1111J. Wellington. 1Yti6. in th ree ~-olun1C$] . We haw tl1e copyright, ""' we ' ll digi1ise the ,.·holc o f that. We' n: guing lo ha,·c the pos.o;ibllilJ of an entry of today and th e n we rnn d ip o n the ~kLinlod; cnlr}'- So you' ll get a .sense of the w.iy people's \ision O\'Cr time has cha.nged - o ver th" last 4-0 Jean.

Tht!'rc is olso tht!' s t!'nJC of fl()t hlowiill! 9uit1' w11.,,.,, oH this 1s eoin,r "'µ! Absolm ely. You a re really m rfing" breaking

wa\'eand you don't kno w where it's going 10 break - a nd you have that terrib le b\lsineu of St:l)ing on top of it witJ1uu~mming down cra$h? - 1ha1's what

l feclche'''hok time Is this biJtfy ofwo'* ()/so pllrtt, IJ&nr IC"t'/'Ot~ fDr tl!ot M.Xf /tl1t'l'Odo1' who tlon't seem to tit! o lot of

rtotlinrl It ·~ got LO be for :1 multitude of autlie11<:c1. Anti

one of che g rut challenges is mak ing the encyclopaedia work 50 tlmL whate>er aud ience you >1re, you're no! going Lo gr.t >1nnoyed by oonfronr:ationv.ithanotheraudicnce'smaterial. \t's goc to work for people who dun ' L read much -short, snap py. with a lot o f mo\i ng images and ca.noon~ an d visuals. Flut it's alw got LO wo rk for " scholar: up to da te. s\lCCinct knowledge about a p~nicular aspect and for someone who doesn'1 \'."<lnl 10 get deflected by a ll the media hype.

h '.•gnt to work a t bm h k'\·cl~. And 1hechallenge is to find easy ways of 11avi1r.iting so th>1t if you're o ne $Ort ofpt:llOll you ~:rn find where you want lo go and if you're another, ~'Ou cau go romewh<:re else.

Some ha\'e suggested that you could :ictually log inwith a self-de!Cription.Thent11c11t".ly that}UUaft' prcscn ccd wh h die m:u crial rkpetul~ w ~OOH: exten t o n the pc non that yo1.1 arc. So if )'OU :ire a l!">-p:ar-okl kid the first thing you get is a simple summary and lots o f the images :mrl rhings and if )'Ou areaschol:tr}'ougotothc longer cssays. lryou are Maori. rou go to th<: Maoii language \"ersio n. It would be po'l.'ihlc lO do llmL. lechnically

Wll,r wt1t1ld µoplc ,fO to tliiS ;n preference to o s;re-spedfK pool of erpertrSel Well, the re's not a lot of sill.~spccific pools of

experti..c on the ,.cehabout Kew Zealand. rhaf s o ne of the reasonswllywc"re doing it. Thcre"s an a"fol lo! of people who'\'C decided they'll put up a "eb site about i.omething, but a lo t of the resulting sic cs a re $hOt through with c rrol'< - therr:'• no q uality control at a ll on the web. no g-atd.cepers. And ll1ere rc:1lly isn't a loL o f accurate 1m11erial abo1u New

Zealand o n th e ..,·eb. If there was, the case for th is p roject "'Ouldn ·, lK> anything like as strong. What .-.·e·re going m do is lead pt:0ple to si1c1 o f expertise when:· they cxi$t. Some ~icei; a re idiosynuatic and a 1o1 arc not acc.::.,.ihlc to people who don"t come wiLh ahod.yoflmowledge a\Jou t thc.ubjcct.

So ,rovr conci!ptvol bovndories ore thi!"f(Jrl! defined /J,r thi! stotvs of the p er.Jon l!nterinrl

Yes. Do ,rov think tMt thi! lodr of.s;tl!S is bl!covsl! Ni!w Zi!olond is s1Kh o smoll covntr,r? The main comparison i~ l\-ith the US . .-.·h ere

par1Sofsocic1y, partieularlypartsofthc academic world. took up 1he web re latfrely orly. T here's probably been :ibout four years o f d.e•·clopmeut. h1 mos1 other ~ocie1ie$ that'• not u·uc. If you go to :\unralian hi$tOry sices there aren't any <Ill good as nzhis1o ry.ne1. Jn Bri1ain there are huge holes in tenm uf CXfl"' rli'1C. So ii"s two things. O ne ~a Lad. of time • the web is still a very young medium. Second ly I think. the university community"" a .-.·hole in New Zealand ha• l>ccn very backward in i!.i re~ponsc to the web. I would h ot>'C thought that mmc uni>oersity departmcnlS \\-UUld han: put a lm of ene rgy into creating im ereuing and useful websi1es both to attrnCI people and !o publici•e their own rCM:arches, hu t they're •·cr;· d isapµoilll· ing. Thcre'sabitofacnltur .. !lag.

Aml~l ~ h4.-e t4ken up l!/ectnmk tech,,olog with suchtt!acrit,r! Well, it"s patChy. Wt.:"\'C got the Dictiomuy of

New7.eal.ind JJiogr.iphron line. Australia is ollly now thinking ahom th:ot. When they saw what "'c had done 1.ht.-y wt::re absolutely bowled over . There arecertainaR:aswh<:re we"rc well ahead. But it is

patchy. Tiierc arc place• in the United Stale~ like George Mason Univenity or the Unl\·ersit)' of Vif1!iniawhcrc 1iveorsix ~'Carsago, thcyi;;u dm"n and !laid 'Look. wr.'re going to th.in~ about issues of using the weh for signilicant schol:lrly purpOM!f. And they'\'C pio neered i t. In Britain the people who"~e pioneered h igh quality sitt.'5 tend m be tl1c llllC and muJt:um~. Tli~-y"r.:: \"Cl")' g<X>d. British uni,·c~tiei;aren"t particularlrguo<l atll1 iseither.

Is it ,roi"I! to take mone,r o woy from other l!11t ()ric4/ ent..,-pn11!sl I don"1 think so. bccau•e this is a special gram.

l t.• 110Las if thcrc is a pool ofmone}· that ifi1 hadn"t gone imo this would have gouc w mcwhcre e lse Thi~ is a. specialone-off elTort and it 's nol seen a,o;a particularly historical em erprise. And for the last almost W >"ears wc·\'C had money for tl1c Oiclionary of New Zealand l!.iography whkh is a lot more expcnsr.·e 1h:m 1he enqdopaedia is going 10 be. And one couldn"t ha\'C anumcd that when the DNZB cume to :m end a grc(tl pool of money was going to come into history

How doe.s thi! prfrotl! ll<lOr feel 11/xwt this! It depends on what 1cctor ;uu'rc talking ahom

If you're talking ahouL IT compan ies. they arc que uing up to hoc ;u helpful as po111iWe at th.is puinL In a sense we' .-e ho ld ing tlie ..,·ot.'t'> at bay .•.

ff thrrt 11 (i!ar in tile commerc;al JMW thot t/111 is going to tole otwJ,r ".-enuel I don"t think so because all of our publications

here, and 1hc same .-.uuld be true of the cnC)-clo­pacdia. arc put om to tcnder. Th e puhlllhe,.,, rcalise tha t w mething as farge as an encydo paedia wo uld noi he funded other than Uy publk fonding and che mosl ardr:tll i up1>0rters of the pruj ect han~

actually been 8a1emans who have a competi1h-c produc1 the &1rem11n t:ncyclop.wc/fa

Wllyorrrhey 1okeenl They rea lise that their encyclopaedia ll 0111 of

dale. It's been a huge l d ler for them. Thcy"•·e looked around for w .. ys am! means of doing a new V<:rsion and rcaliM:d that they cau"t afford to do il - .w they'd be inLerested in seeing if 1hey can publish this. McLintock was published by the Government Printer - totally unprofo,.,.io nally. Obviou~ly we woo., do it like thaL

How many wh~ )'Oli t/Jfrlk ;1 would be m the enr.I! rm no1 emircly sure. My o"..., •iew is 1hat once

we\·e got a hod)' of digiti~d matc1ial up. therc·s lou of different .-.;iys you 1:an 1lice it. At 1hc end there will be au A·Z which will primarily be the ne.-.·ly -..·r ittc-n en tries and l\·e been working in tenns of a length of about the siic uf Mcl..in tock -about i.-.·o rnillionwnrds.

3

Attached to that would be a huge K gmcnL o f digitised 111a1erial. At the moment I'm thinking o f starting i.itl1 something about the people of New 7..1..-aland: the diffe rent group$ tlun h:we sculed here and 1he rliffettnl iwi. You coulrl M!e h!'lwyou could pui that together as a l0>·clyliulc\'olumestandi11K on iu.own

I think Lliat tl1crc will be a number o f tliffcl''-'ILI forms of publication. There will evenwall}' be an A·Z but that doesn't prncnt I here being other '"'<l}'S

of cu tting i t up. Om, of 1.hr. th ings wc have to do,

and what l"m veir keen o n, is lO create regional structures .. ·iL.hin the project. Sothatfor.-xample. alongside generalarticles,sayonforeitry,there might be a Non hland entry o n buri milling or somcthing aboutbecchforestryin theSouthbland. Whm you"regoingto build up is:iscriesofregional entries so that ~-ou C\'Cntu:1lly ha\'t! ~lm<»t <1 rcgion111I cncyclopa<'o:lia r.hat cau grow out o f the larger en terprise. You 1night cutit that ""~}'

lfrouwtdoc11titlilretho'itrollesowholt> series

Profile: Ken Burns

ofother possibilitles· )'OU couldjllstoseosilydo town plgnninr on c rc:Elong/ basis.for txgmple.

YC!I, that", wh•u you"d do, exactly. Vptiuillr - h"w <'re µu p;nr to m'1illttlin it <met>

yo11'n!ptltup tlltrtl Well 01.J,,iously 11Lc grc'1l thing about the web i.s

that it is const::..1111)' updat<:able. O nce we·1'e put up tJ1c first sectio ns and before .. -e\·e finished ... c"rc going to hal'f: 10 ha1-e sritem~ .90 that cnurs can be corrected. pick lhem up before we go inm prim. Second, when someone finds a •nale tooth in C...cnu-.il Ot:.1.go. we\·e gm w g._..1 it in ll1e rc. You don ·1

"".inttoha1'Can encydopa.ediathat infn'tyears 1ime isnoiawaretl1attl1ercweres.nakesinNt:"·Zcaland. You·\"e got to find a ,,.-ayof rc,ponding m those kind:; ofreiearch developments. And new imerprerntions - 1hm'sol;r.iouslya challenge bm an exciting one. From the momcm tli<' fint S<.'Clion goes up l\~·u have 10 providt." for that tJ1e 1't!1i~ion process. TI1e idea i.s to have !iOmct.hiug up by the end of next ytar. probably about 100,000 words.

In o p revious Phom:.ine (Vol.6 No.3 ) we looked o t New Zeolond's e fforts ot putting history on television. Two years on, Micha e l Ke lly tokes o look ot on Amer icon who is arguab ly the world 's most influential historical docume nta ry maker.

Wc"~e all s....en the classic path of the music anin who reka.s.:san 'indi' record early o n. gcu a1'·ards and good review!, scores a biggtr hudge1 and an even beu erreception, then get.• ~igned to a major record label and sell• load_, ofrnorcls, naturally all the while maintaining his or h er artistic in1egri1y. Ken Burn> remarkablysucc.,.,,fulfilm career hai; follo-..•ed a limilarly upward pattern and along tht.: way his expanding budgets hal'e allowed h im wracl: le r.hc bigsubjeo~

K<'n Burns (b.1953) ha> bee11 making d ocu­ment•ur film~ for •n<Hc than ZO yea n. He has taught more Amcricam about their histoir than ani· o ther individual. but he didn "t study history p;c1ttJ1eageoflG.

Burns wan ted to he a Ho lly-w<tod director, hul while Studying for a n .... be developed an incercu in history and began working on a documcnt>iry

o n thcBroollyn Dridge. It took 11ve years LO m ake a nd was r cleaseo:I to c ritica l accla im i n 1982. It still looks good 1oday. Hc collcctecl a hunch ofawardnuminatiuns and ""'"on his way. He r.irdy thought small. c•·en in tlie beginning, and the subj .-cu he has tackled along 1hc way show his exrraordina11· confidence Three years after Brooklyn Brlrlre he made The St1U11e oflibu ty (198~). closely followed by Tilt> Shg/rers (the r eligio us com munity who make funli lun: anrl hoxcs) and Lh<'n, The Conrress in 1988.

He was just cutting h i• 1ecth. Tiit Civil W4r ( 1990). 11 hours of commercial-free p ublic history

relcasedinthemiddleofGeorge RushSnr's reign. cap!il'll.te<I Amc1ka. It made him a household name nnd thereafter funding w:u ne1•er a problem.

4

de>pit~· the fan his doaimcmari..,.< have alwa)~ been made for public tclt:"i.<icm. (n facr (~ncrnl Mo1ors. Uurn5" principal sponsor. halj lK·cn o n hoard .<inc<: l9R7.

Al!hough he did not know it at lht timc. Tiie Cioi/Wor. liisfilmon1hr keycvc n1inl!:l'"ccmuq· American hb tory. w.u LIL<: b;;i-:innini-: of what he now consider• hi• Am.,rican tri logy. Bos,.,holl

( 1994). w:H his 18'h hour tak;; 0 11 lhe gTeal

American game. Lil e •o<:u:r it i• a •imptc gllmc LO follow. "·hich is perhaps it5 apJ>'"al. altlmugh it n.,vc.-r tool off in New zc,.land (nocwithmuu.liug L11c •UCC<:~of ...... flball) .ThcthiTdlegof Uurm"uilogy

isjozz. rd" a.""d bst year to yet more acclaim. alt.hough nor rJJmple tel)' uuivcn;.al. More o n thai

Baseball a.ud j a:a a i·c two of Amrric:l"s de fining culmrnl 10cem,. From thi• pcn•p CLtivc it'~ d ifficult rn under~cand j uM how signifirnnt t.he~· are to Americ:;m5, but ba~ball occupies J co::n trality iu 1\ meric;rn life akin co rugb(s hold on New Zealanders and as for_i:JJ.:.r. . .. well th ere is no pm'alltl. Jatt "·as. " ·ith md; mu~ic, 1hc greaten mi1skal denlopme111 of U1c 20'" c1:nl•ll)' and i i r.ould not ha\'C been created atL}'Wl1ere el"'' other 1han America. In Louis Armstrons jan had ti"' mo'<! im JMinam figure in 20"' centmy Au1crkan mwic. Bums' affoction for hi• •uhjccts is well chronicled. am! he is happy m rake a seance, bm during t.he mal:.ing of this doctllnt:'lllal)' Ji., fcll for I.hr mn.'!ic hard and now li1cen~ to nothing dsc. Well. there are voo111c wa)'S of spending ~our dar

Jou copped him pkmyof critici1m though. Ifa main Lommentawr durin g th e documenrn~·

{filmt"<l talling to an umccn inreniewer, 'h"ho may o r mar not Jia,·e bc<:u Bum•} v.--a• Wvnton Marsalili, a brilliantjanor clau ical Lrumpctec audaman wlull'cjv.l'. S<:nsibility is steeped in the pa'<!. lloih llurn~ and Marsalis appear co think that the tle,•d opmcnl o f j an stopped about 1975 and \\'hatci·cr ha.~ h:lpf>'!ned since then is of liulo::

5

111omcnLButcha!"~ano1her110ry.

lliograpliy is Jiurn.< ocher grea t lo'c and his choice o f subjccui i• suiiahly weigh tr; among 1hem Tllomos /t!fferso11 ( I !Y.l6). Fronk tloyifWrif*t ( 11:198) and Milrk TWl1ill (2002). He"s al:iU m;uk films ;1lK11U m<lio pio n re rs, the Wc~1. Gctt~bmg . .,xplorer5 L<:wis and Clark and. rallicr odd I)' giwn hi~ o~on ""itl1 America. lhe conflict hc lw<""" lsrnrl and its Arab neighbours. in a docu111e11l.a1)· en ti llo::d Tiie St) li!ors ~·ls!W!I amf tl!t! Arobs ('.'1)00)

Bu rns' succc•.• ;., derived not only from his dioiLeofmhjcn<,hi!inddatigableenergy. and hi• ability to att1'ilCl •ponso r!\hi p from 1ightfi8tcd corpon:at.,s, Uutaho from hi~ panicular technique in docume11ta11• making. lie ;, '"Jiard cd as the master o f mixin g still photographs. new film footag" . period music. evocati••e 'cddll"i t)'~

n arr.uion and authentic sound d l"e cts. The whok

ofkr~ lm lh an aurhori ty and an in10xicati111: glimpso:oftl1e past.

l\urns is not qui t<: a one man b:md - for instance, he ne\·er appca1"llinhi~film~ -hu1.cogive an " xamplr: or his undenial;k umnip1-...•o::nce, rn .. CiYilWor lists him a.• d irc>nor, producer. co.wril.,r. chi,.f cinemawgraph.,r, music di recto r and executi>"e prode1ccr. Phc". Bui why not? The docum.,11ta1y camccl him rv;o trnmy Awanh. lwo Gr.immy Award.<. Prnduet:r o f the Ye<tr A"ard fmm 1h" Producer's Guild. l'copk's Choice A>o'atd. l'eabody Award. t'lC. t'lC. uot to mcn1jo11 a grca1 deal

o f money fi"om video oaks. It bccaiuc Llic highc.<1 .-ating r rogramm c C\'Cr on PBS, 1hc _.\.i,,.,rican public 1clcvision network.. The Woslli1>rto1> Post

dt.scril,.,..! i1 lhus. ·This is no tJU!I good tele\'ision. nvr e\•cn j un great tclcviiion. T hi" i.< heroic te le"ision." Can yo11 imagiuc: a rc\icwer in New Zealand dii hing that oul~

II'~ the lind of succc:is o n a gn111d M.'ill., 1h>11 i~

achicYablcinamarke1 a~ largeas AmericabUl >"OU ha"" Lo bc goo<\ at what you do 10 make it and, while he attracL• pknly of i:riti~.i~rn, and academic h isl0ri01ns l1a•·c cen;iinly had ~ piece of him . he nc,·cr pretend~ that it is anything otli,.r than his intnprct:ition. Perhaps 1hat is hi.I genillli. This is public hi,lory writ fargc, b1.11 on 1crms 1hat the pn hlic understand~ and cnioyi;. "'All ffiJ" wo rk." he s..rs, "i, aboulw;iking lhcdcarl_"

Bun n was tl1e fir.;t filmmaker m hi' incluoed into 1hcSociet)·ofA.iu.,rica11 Hi.•L<Hians, ye1 he is r.omempmous ofmon academic historians for tl1eir imthilityto make th l'irwork reJC,';llll w a wider iuu!ic:m:!·.For thcirpan: hisioriansdaimhegot'$ for tht e"~y~ul\j•~t:u and won 't touch i~iUCS like ract" and poverty. and 1hci' reg1rd hi~ approach to

fihnmaking u fonnulaic and pitched to attract lhc corpor:ue dollar. There is alw this •~pidon tll:ll. because hi55uccen ha1 ma<lc him 1'id1. iL's a.lso madehim 110ft..

For all the de bate it is intcrening 10 dwe ll on the crumbs we ha1·e IO c1\joy hcrc;J amcs J\clich 's New Zeaft!mf W<7r.r four ycan ago and a history o f Kel'I' Zealand a a mple of)·ear5 frum now. And in between a few documentaries o n subjects such as tl1c Tangiwa i Disaster and ... e r. air hostc:Mcs. il' s not much 10 ge t excit.e<1 abom. T he reasons we don"t prod oce public hi5tory documentaries lilc Burns· films are myriad . Ther" do.,sn't appo..-ar to he all)'Olll' in this counlry with Bur11• ,;_,inn. d ri1'e and skill. The n there is the old bogey of perception. We are 1old that there isn't the audience. there isn'I ihe money, ic just isn "t in teresting. Perhaps che biggest proble m is that the :\'ew Zealand tele.;~ion industry tre at5 this couutry·~ populatio n lile idiol.S.

America might he 1.hc hmm: o( <:r<1.'l:I oommer· cialism but. su11>risingly. it is alma baslion o r pu blic tele>i~ion. Burns" documem.uies are made undet the auspice-.i o f th.;- Public Broad<::~uting Scn•icc (PnS). which ha! iM hcadquarteu in Alexandri41, Virginia.ltisa prh'atc, non-profitmcdiaenterprise owned a n d operaled by Amer ica'.• 349 public televisio n SUI.Lions. PBS claims that it "uses the J>O"·er o f no n-commen;ial television, the intem i:t

The Elusive Marsden

and other media w enrich the !i\"t:~ of all American• through qualily prngr.1.m1 and e<lm:aiion services that infonn. i1upire and delight." It is a1"3.ilablt: LO 99 percen t of American homes and reaches about 100 million Americans each ~ck. hs l'l'Cbsitc hu heau1ifullr rlesign ed a nd presented mini-l'itcs devoted to each of Burns· mo re recclll docu· menmries. (~our re1·iew of l'llS"sjaawd1.Yl-: on p. 7). What each of these )itcs fCl'Cab is just how man}' people arc invol\'(xl in the dornmenmries: thelistof crcdit5go<:•on fore1·er.

Is o ur principal public television network enriching our lives? Not m uch. and for all Marian Ho bbs' effons to change the d iren ion of New Zealand"s principal television broa.dcaster. it isn"t happe ning in a hurry. Ken Burns would get nowhere in this<:ountry.

• ""'~loro . ..ith Gm.rol ................... ~ .. -,,,nn.. i.gtMary~""'·~"""&um.'woriUnU/t87.

Margot Fry costs a c ritical eye over the Marsden Fund, which Is proving difficult for historians to prise open.

The quc<il for funding tal cs many guises bnt 1he ro:­

a re two th ings I.hat <:an h., stated "'ilh abrolute ce r tai m y. The proces.• will take a n inordinate amount or your time and the c hances are yon will fail. In a country like New Zealand. t.hal i.s probably as it sho uld be. There will nc1·cr be e nough mone)' to satiifyeveryonc and compcti1ion is good for 1he soul and ccm1inly sharpcnsthef)Cn .

'You win ~omc. you kuc some' i• -:•·cry contra<:\ histo ria11·s mono and repea11::d a pplications do hone that great idea in to someth ing more man ageable . Bu1 there i~ a p ro blem with gol'c rm111:n t funding, particularly the Marsden

6

Fund . Tht: proceu u ill seems geared to fund scicncc,orar lcasl!oOCialscience.ThcfollJ13tofthc application fonn makes this very app;1renL Mon him>rians do not work in teams in 1he ""Y that scientisl5 do. Our comact5 arc often local n.rhcr 1.ha11 intenrnLional (}<>U ha,·e tn pro,;de a minimum of tl1ree intt:n1aLional referees. none of l'l"hom c.an have bccu aSS<Jei<i.tt:d with )'OUT l'l'Orl) and. in any ca.~c, ihc m<)del or travelling 01·er$eas 10 work ·under" someone is not reali,.· rele•-am. That docs not. mean thac ourresear<:h is 1101 relc1'ltnl in the imemational area, one of the key ingrcdicnt5 in 1hc Mar5den mi~. o r groundbreaki ng, but rather

ren.,cts tl1e reality of being a working hiotorian in N~ Zealantl o uu itle academia

The sta ti!tlo on hi~torians getting accw !O 1he Marsden Fund's purse arc woefully thin. lf you d iscoumLhc:1c:ulcmic him1rians, thentl1efigure iSVC')'small. ki~harrlwfinrl 5uccc!ISful applicants

•·•ho arc not i:ithi:r academic historians, or~ ciatcd in wme way wh.h an a<::\dcmic institution. The cxcc:ption is of COil™= the Hool: l'rojcr.t tha1 "-as auached to the Alexander Turnbull Library Ilic RO)'lll Society undcn;tamfably ""nl• to .,·ork with an instimtion. And for big projects· the 1hrt:e­)'ear $100.000 prcajccts ·that i• probably llt"Cessary. The Society also wants to ensure that the Fund's money is well spent and accoumed for; again H rl"asonablt: position to take.

Bui could not some :thernacil"c arrangement be made? Coulrl the monq· no 1 be chan nelled through the rcposi•O')' where the rescan:h i~ being done for example? And could sm;1llt:rgr;u1L• be made t0 allO\<o' for puri: re11.".tn:h to bc dom: b)' th~ of us outsidt' ac.i.d~·mia? Unh·ersities do not ha\'C a monopoly on ground breaking ideas. although the nC\O· project aimed al kick ~tarting new academics

imo research. implies lhal tht: Sodety may think they do. Wl1at about new gr.i.duate• who ei1,hcr do not wam lO or cannol ge1 e111ry into academic life?

Andofcoune. the wont sin of all. is that having ~pcm da~ completing the form, conrlcnsing your idea into the one page required. and trying 10 •leciphcr e){actly what it is !he Ro)':ll Societ)' w.tnt, )"OU get absolmely no feedback. As historians. we are encouraged Lo uy omd Lr)' air.Un, buc franl:ly, there is little incenti"e to do 10. We do not necessaril)· nccd a letlereKplainingwhywe faih."(I, but some inrlication a.1 to how we could imprm..: the applica1jon would be really useful. I applied threetimcsfortlie r.ameprojecl. l stilldo n'tl:now whetheri1jm,\<".t-•notgoodenough in thelight1}f the competition, whether I ne.,ci,ed to give more references. or whether I limply failed to mmpre­h1"utl the Soc.ie1y's ins1mctiou~

Phanza is considering writing lO organisations such a1 the N.oyal Society of Kew Zealand about 1heir funding policies. If you ha\'e a story)"OU would like 10 tell us. of either a posi1ive or nega1il·e uutcomc, plea~e kt u1 l:now. You can com.act Margo1 Fry 011 margot.fry@par.i.disc.11~·1.1u.

Website Review: Jazz To accompany our p rofile of Ken Sunis, Michael Kelly looks ot the site devoted to his lores!

docvmentory. www.pbs.org/joz:z:/index.htm

Thelirstthing routhinkofwhen you lool:at any of PBS's mini-sites i~ tha1 1Ju .. 'Y go 10 0001id-en1ble trouble to gel the look aod feel r ighL 11 is hard nol lo immediately be imerened in tl1rir from pages and tl1e ~ilr 011 faais noexception. lt'sbusy. bu1 that's fineas>'Oul:nowtherc'sw much to ahsorh an}'\\':I.)'. and they an.'alwa)'SStylish. The website is there lD promote Lh c }()..part M:ri<.'S onja1.z, Bums' la1c.i in a long line o f historical docu· mentaries. j llll. :l.!I he pu!J it, is the ·only art form created by Amc1kans" and the wet»ite dot$ iube:stlOcxplainwhy.

rhe key linkllarcon tnc left of 1hefrontpagchut1h.,titlesare intriguing r.uher 1han ob,fous :mdthe inteulionistoofTerthc viewer a chance w learn througli inlcrnction. Take , for instance. the lint link., Places. Spa.:cs a nd Changing Faces. The page prom· i.sc$ to allow rou 10 "explore the places where jv.z music came of age, enter the spaces\\·hcre 1hc cady !l(nmrl of j a1.z would lake root :.ud spread. and meet the changing faces who made jau what it is todar." Jan Lounge explains whatja·u is mu~ically and thcdifTcrcntstylcs 1ha1 have evol\·ed. MQl!t Ofthc linl:sare lil:e

7

1hat - o lknngachancetoleam as well as be entertained.Jazz no•·ices "ill lcarn plenty.

Apart from lh" wrluen linb thcre arc brgc i111aga, "t1ich !ICr."' as virnal intcren and a linl: to ano1her page. Click on Louis Annstr0ng.jau.·s greal£St practi1-ioner. and )'OU go to his bio­graphy. A nd there are more· almosl every ocher imponamjau player;, "'rillcn up 011 the site. There are C\'Cn mmS<:ripcs of the imecviews 1he show's pro<im:ers had with kc)' individu:.h e.g. players, family. friends, crili«. listcnersetc. l t's'\\"aruand all'and afonn of i.mrne(\iateornlhistor;.

Heritage It's been o diffiOJlt few months for the Historic Places Trust, He re's the pick of o keep of recent controversies, ond the news is not too positive ..

The Inner-city Bypass At lcasl tJ1., council has had some sort of excuse. As reponed in the pre,ious Phonzinethe Tn1st was however miserable, but the Trust docs not C\'cn facing an awkm1!'d dedsion on wheLher or nol to ha,·e that comfort It wo uld seem lliat registration gr.1111 an authority to Transit New Zealand to "-as first mooted in tJie late 1980:; and came up al dc~trO)' the archaeological site in the path of the \ouious intervals thereafter bnt nothing "'M e'·er proposed roar! 1.hrough Te Aro in Wellington. Despite some optimism that rhe Trust would do the decent thing and tum down the application. it tool;. the paLl1 of leastresi•taut:eancl granter! the authority. In i!S press rd ease defending its decision the TrustsaidtJial gr.i.nting theauthority .,.,-as"the best outcome for heritage"; an interesting way of it1Lel'Jlrcti11g the destruction of a hugely important archaoologiul ione and the herding wgether of::l dis par.ate group of old hou:>es.

As the decision "'3.S alwa}·s going to he appealed h)' either side (and opposition groups ha,·e dono: just that) the Trust would surely have been far h" uer off turning down the application and restoring the confidence and support of iu memhcrs and the public. Now it will haw to defend its position in the Enl'ironmenr Court and deserioedlyso.Meanwhilc,acrosstown ...

Well ington Hospital Front Block There arc all sorts of l'illains to identify in this heri1.age d~ter. Thehuilrlinginquestion is thl""

done. More urgc1Ky beg-.i.n to be shown from the mid·l990s onwards as the possibility of the hospital being redeveloped drew closer. But it ""J.s never quite enough m rlil'en the Trust. A registration proposal was written by the Trust's loC3l branch commiuee four or five )"ears ago but for some reason.,.,"alisenlbackto thebranchheG11L<e"more information" was needed. Finally. last )"ear a new proposal w;u .... -ritten br the bnmch and the Capirnl and Coas1 District Health Board was notified of the imention to reginer the building Caregory• I lase O<;tober. The Board objected, .wuglll ddar1>. tried to ncgoti;1te .. . ;mrl 1he months went by. l.as1 momh. the Wellington City Council. .,.,·hich had alread)· wriUen w th" Tru.•lsupporting the registration, was faced "ith ha1·ing to decide whether or not to li.~t

the building on it.1 own district plan. Thl"" Trust lill""n announced that it would not pursue the registration. Under pressure from the Health Board and takiug their (UC from the Trust the Council decided thC}' would not list the building and it is sel tobedemolished.

The T r ust has offered \'ario us excuses fo r its behaviour - it d id not want to "appear foolish ". it did not want to do an 11•• hour regist ration, it uw the inevitability of t he n ew hospital and did not "-ant to getinthcwayeLC. Trust acting regionalmanagcrl)a,id\\'a11 told the Coolf Smr1~ News thar "\\'e have to work ,.;m comm­ercial development a nd decide what is best for the region. !f it comes down ro

"' saving the old hospiLal and b ui lding a new one, ii h clearly best that we ha1~ t11e new hospital.~ These new rolesin rcgionaldt.'\·elopment and health policy ha\"c come

front block of llie hospital. huih in 1928 and a hand­some neo-Gcorgian struc­ture. hard on Ncwtown's Riddiford Street and the suburb"s icon. lthai hou5ed. among many ollier uses. !he outpatienu and casualty departments of the hospital since the building opened. It hasbecnvisited byjustahout <='"<!T}" Wellingtonian at some point in their lives anrl it is o ne or the most important health-rela1ed heritage buildings in the countrr. Despite thatithas neverbeen listed by the Welling-ton City Council-whichumilrecently had a roading designation o'-erit- andne\"Crrcgistered byllieHistoricPlacesTmst. ~Hoif>i<al-!lod:.2002.(M.Kdy) :u a surpris" to those who

8

thought 1.he Trust'• mis~inn was, as stated in the Historic l'la.ces Act 1993. the "identifi"llion pro1enion, preservation and consen<ition of the historical and cultur.tl heril<!ge of New Zealand".

lro1tically theTrnstitrnanagedtomsh through (thoroughlyu11new .. milj·)uC...tcgo1ylrcgiotration for the Embas.syTheatrc, in Wellington,jnst in time for !he premiere of Lord oft/Je !<in.rs and a t the ve11' time it was talking LO the Heal th Board about the

future of the hospital bu ilding. This confinns a g .. owing impression that the Trust chases soft targ•",;andhucklesin thefaceofoppmition.

The fault for all this should not be laid en ti rely at the door of the Tn~~t. The Council had plemy of opportunity to list the bui lding afte r the roading designation was lifted and did nothing. It did not m:ed to rely on Tn..r .rnpp<>rt although clearly th al would have helped. The Health Board and the Minister of He<1Jll1 must take respons ibili ty too. They made no effort to fund a future restoration and reuse of the building. Even if it could no t have been used for health purposes it most certainly could haw: bcenusedforadministl'ationorahealth related puipose. The local resid<.>ms' association asked fo r the building to be &aW:d and then ca,·cd in when presented wi1h the possibilily that the regional hospital might go somewhere ebe. The Go\'ern-ment has trumpeted i u concern for heritage but no Govemmentdepartment is o bliged to take heri r.age into account a< p;ut of its O]J"'r:.Llious, as they are iu the ca•l' of the k·dual go,·ernmenT in Aust.rnlia. There "ill ht: more on lliat subject in a future l'/Jonzin~.

Waianakarua Bridge TheWaianakaruaBridgeisa•l011c, archedhridge on State Highway I, near Herbert in '.'lorth Otago Regi.!tered Category I br the Historic Places Trust it ranlus a" ouc of Ilic lOU 1tt.ry'~ rarest and mon picturesque bridges. It was designed by 01ago Provincial Engineer.John Turnbull Thomson and cons tmr.tcd in 1874. lr w,.sbuilt forhn rsedra"Tt traflicandaoaresultisquitenarrow.Althoughthe arrfral o f the car and truck in the 20'" (emury increased the loads the bridge had to bear it has never needed strengthening

Following a fatal accident at the bridge in ~ovember'.!001, Lhecoronerrecommended that &afety ar the bridge be improved and Transit. New Zealand examined its options. Thankfully demolition seems 10 have been ruled out on account of the bridge's heritage significance. Transit plani imtead to ,.;den the bridge to coumer wha t ;, rlescribN< a< its "poor vcrt.ic:al alignmt:nT",

which might be lal:.en lO mt:an il'I arched decl:.. The widening "il l take the bridge from 6.6 to 8.5 metres, and will requ ire ast(m<-~hy.,.lone relocation ofllie rim of ihc bri rl g<" , with the mpporring arch<"s remaining in place. The Trust resisted anyy,ider expansion on the grounds tha1 the arches would n01 be seen

Thill may •eem a reasonabk compromise, but is it? Tran•it could have lm ih a nt:w hridge ancl realigned the road. thereby lea,ingthe old bridge (which woulrl have req uired rela tively little

maintenance) to become a ,;1itor attraction. This "·oulrl also have enwred the bridge would never suffer from ovnlo<lding. It cho>e not to do lliis 1(11

Another uption - cheaper and more logical -would lrnve been to slow appro:iching traffic down through speed restrictions and to erect blunt

1•oarning signs at both ends of the bridge. The hri<lge i• • lion and \'chides would only ha\'e Lo reduce speed fo r a short diHance. Sometimes conservingheritage,1tn1cturesmeansitisnecessary.· toliYewithcertaininconveniencesandthisissurdy one of those. The Tmst should have held out ro pre,·en t what amounts to ll1e unnecessa ry vandal· isingofthis 128yearoldbridge.

Park Terrace Houses, Christchurch Before anyone writes the Historic Places Trml off cornp\.,tely, 1he saga of the Park Terrace hou><es reminds us that it can still go the extra mile for heriTage. These 1.wo homes. on the prominent comer of llealey A1·enue and Park Terrace, were owned by the Methodist Mission. T he houses, registered CategoJ)' II by !he Tnnt and listed b}· the Chris1Church City O:nmcil. are regarded as cwo oft he he•t example.• of Arts and Crnfts architeCLu1'€ in Christchurch and were designed by two of 1he ciiy's most famous architens. One, the Mc.Kellar House, was de>igned by Sanrnd Hurst Seager in 1912, while Cecil Wood designed Fleming House,

9

built in 1926. They make a considerahle <.onrri­bu1ion 10 o ne o f1 hc city"s fine~t ~tree111

appealing the conditions which had heen placed upon it T he •:m·iiunmcnt Com• ded$iOn relem;(.-0 in Oc1ubcr ZOO! rukd tha t ),JcKd lar Ho use 1:0111<\ be demolished inunedilltdy:md the Fk111ing Ho uw. d emolished o nce a building consent for its rcplaccmcm had hccn gr.intf....:I. T he Trust. had COSIS

o f SSOOO a"·• nlcd again~t it.

Until recently th e ho u ,ei were used a~ t he Mcthorli$1 Mi~iou·~ We~lcy Home for the Aged. The ~lission dosed the llome in 1996-199i and tried lO sc:ll lit<.'. two housl"S in on:h:r 10. the public was lOld. raise ca.ih fo1· illl m i:111ionary \O"OJ"k. /u they

wereunable lolinda l.>U}'er. thcywughtcousem 10 demolllh ho1h ho1L~c~ in 21)()(). T he Tn1s1. along with 35 othn subminc~, oppo<;ed the application but p.-rmi,;,sion to demolish w"" g-r .. n tcd by the City Council, although with conditions

The Trusf$ regional otllce th rew illl energies i1110 the issue. It was heavily in\·oln,d in Liu;, legal pTOCt't:dings, hdd puhlk meetings and tried lO rewh·e the bsue "ith the Mi»io n. It h<l$ supponed a public group · Park Ten.,.ce Hcri1:1ge Trnst -formOO 10 help san: the houses. The maLt<;r went 10 the F .. rnironment Court in ~'(IO I "'ith 1h1: T rtcil :oppcaling lhe con~n1 to demolish and the Missio n

T h e h uus<:• were so ld LO a d c\'dopme n1 company last momh a nd it is intem on remo,ing them to make way for .$20 million of nco-Gcorgian townhou~s. It ha.~ since lodgt"l an applica tion for a demolition C(m..,nt for ,\kKdlar House, although loca l campaigners are st i ll tf)ing to sa\·e th.­buildings. It is dHlicult to see how 1hcy will lie su1:cessfulbmno-onehasgfrcn upyct.lnc:asc a nyo n.- feels conside ra ble s)·mpathy for the Me1hcxlisc .\ lission. it i5 worth record ing that the morigagC"r for the developer - to lhc tune of S2.2 mill ion - was, you"ve guc!~d it, the Melhodllc ,\fosion.

News LI NZ response LINZ ha~ decided Lo defer a

decision on the fuwre of its paper land records, follov.ing a review tha1 included submiu ioiu from a number of organisations, includ in g PHAN7.A (~ee a summa1yof our submission on the options paper in March"• Phon;dn~}. A pre!S release fro m t he offi ce of Mau Ro bson . l.lini.Mer for Land lnformallon.

sa.id ade1:isiun""ll>nowC"Xf>CCLed inSep1.,mber.

It would seem that Cabiue t v.11sconcerne<I thatan>'dC"cision

made by LI NZ on p<iperrccords it held (alone or together "ith oll1er departments) could haw:

considerable implications for 0 1her o riginal Gol'ernment records no longer required by dep:iru nenlli. LINZ is meeting "ith Archivc5 New 7.caland to

In Liu.· mcanlim1: PHA.i"IZA hopes that any decision on the finure of LINZ"s paper records will abo include p roposals for

making the ir o ffices mon.: research friendly.judging from recem changes made to w me of theiroffic:cs th ey a re hoping 10

dri\'ee\'eryoneofftolnbscribcLo their e:iaremelyexpcnsin~on·!ine

scr.·icc. as tho•<' familiar with their chargc:s would know.

Goodbye Evening Post The demise of newspapers has been a oommon e\"em on•r the past f1:w decades. In a city such a~ Wellingwn. which had two newspape rs. the lo~• of ils ~··ening paper lhe E•-c11i1Jg l'ost may 1101 appear to bc t11e end of the world. bm rela1h"ely feweitie~ anywh1:re have bot h morning and afternoon newspapers and Welling1on was the h1~t in A.us1ral:t1ia 1odo$0.

number of reaso ns, but mosc

importan tly it was a \ "CIT old institution. It was fint publhhcd in J865 andhasappeared.forllie main pan.sixtiml-sawe1:ke\·ery week ~inc1: then. Ob\"io usly the O<J111/11/<JnA:ist"ill ne\'erha'"e1hc kind of combined read en hip enjoycrl hr the O<Jm/11/on and El!Min~ P<Jst(a bo u t J 25.000 at the end). They were different -delibt:ra1clyw -antlthcw:1r ll:1(1' we re consumed b)' thei r 1·ora­dous readers-'C'Cmed 10 suggest their futun:s .. -.:rc:.cc:un:.

While the k>Mof an hiuoric icon like this is a m;merofgreat rC"grct. hll1oriaus v.ill be gra1eli1l for l !J7 rears o f newspapers to research. What would be of even greater bendiL would be 1n;1king the newspaper's index a1'llilablc 10 an instiLutiou such M the Alexande r Turnbull Library. PHANZA will m ake e nqui ries abo ut rhis on beha lf of iu

lts lou is significan t fora membcn;.

10

PHANZA on the Mainland Jenny Murray reports on the birth o f PHANZA's fint b ranch.

Fourteen pcopk a 1t1:11do:d the fi~t bra11chmeeting ofl'HAN/'.A

o uuidc Wellington , in Chris(­churdi on S July. h "~a good turnoul, altho ugh fewe r than half of the auendees were members. There are 16 m embers in the C amcrbury n:gion and itaugu~ .,...,11 fur tin: fumre if 50manymorc historians a re in tert:sted in our organisation. ThaK who attend­ed were e nthu1iastic ahoul

h o ld ing another meetin g in a few weeks' time. T h e fil'$1 South

bland branch of l'HANZA ls off 1o a fl)ing.~ran.

Theinh: r""1aandacti\'iticsof I.he Oiriuchurch h inorians ••tho au cndcd are a good reprc·

>1Cn !a tionof1he kindof hi.s.unical

work done in the Cil)·. None of tho!e presemwcrc<loinga•ingle ~IJ.paid long-tcnn comrac1! The general rul" seems lO be that

h istorr is an additional extra to o ne's main source of income. The one or lwo ~ple who do manage 10 li•"C off their earnings as hinorian5 {nOI in cluding academic historians) do so by d o ing a range o f smaller contracu. of1cn simuh.anoously. Jenny Murray, who chaired the meeting, rai.'ll:d llu~ questio n of thc ratesofpayrccommendcdby l'HAN7.A. While we all apprec­iate th e fact thai rHA..l'li'ZA has i;et

ratc1 o f pay as g u id .. s , ii is dou btfu l whc1her any of t he

Member Activities

Chriuchurch m emben have succeedcd in beingpaidthcraic they are due. TI1isislikelytohc au iu ue that memloer• will

discut.Sin mortdepthatafumre meeting.

The 111ain his1orical intercsu andcurrcniworkin~give

an iruigh1 inw whal's happening in hinorical circles in Christdm rch,2002.Sce Mem™'r Acth•ities helow to see what ther arc up to.

Officeholders wer<'•'Otcd i11 :mct1heyare iufolla1>"1; Presidcnt: J e11nyM11m1y Secre1.ary: Marir.4rctl.o\'cll-.'imi1h Mcmbenhip/ Tre:uure r: John Mitchell

In conjunction w ith their inaugura l meeting, our Christchurch members recently up d a ted us on wha t they a re up to.

John Wibon h currently re•ising h is Lou Christchurch and gath­

ering informaiion on the :irchi1cct j.C. Maddison.

Margar"t Lo'\"Cll-Smith b comp­leiing the biography of Helen Connon (Macmillan Urown.)

Geoff Rice i~ currently working on a h iuory of th e Rh o d es Memorial ConV<1lescent Home and a pictorial history of Lyud ton a.-; ,.·o:ll as an o n-going in1crut in a chronology of Christchurch.

j ohn Mitchell lrn~ created a New Zealand his wry database, now in excess of I0.000 records. from wh ic h he has suppli ed infor· m ation 10 Radio Pacific, News1alk, and National Radio

(Soundll Historical). Ht intends 1ocontinue buiklingon1his.

Jenny Murray is curren tly ... o rk· in g on a chapter o n the Mao1i C h urch in Bishop H arper ' s period ( 1856-1890) for the Angl ican Diocese of Christ­church. and on a hiuory o f selecteddisuictsto thel880sfor th e "Origins o f New z,.,aland Engli.•h" project, Uni\·ersi1y o f Canterbury.

The l ma L"ggat is cu rremly rewriting her book, The Gardens o/Canter/wry.-A Hirtorr (1984) :m d add ing e x1e n sive n ew material

And fro m elsewhere in the

country . ..

11

Olive Bald ,..in is compkting a h~tor)' o f the consc1v.u ion of K.1piti!sland.

Pete r Franks hu recent!)" (No•• 2001) published P1ii1t om! po/ilks: Ahistoryo/tro</t!unit111isminthe

New Z eolond printin.f industrr. 18DS-190J.

Neil Atkin.wn is working on a history o f th" ~ote in New Zealand for Hiuory Group a t t he Ministry for Culture and Heritagt and hiu recently pul>­JishOO CrewCuhureand Rt!Wflrdin.f Stnkt.

Ben Sch rader wi ll &oon begin work on a hi~tO!)'Ofstatc housing in New 7.ealand for HiUOT)' Group at the Mini~uyofCulture

and Heri1agc.

Conference update Historywork - 23-24 November 2002 As the d<'adlinc for papi:rs for Lhe Hi~roryvmrk conference apprnad1c.~, 1hings are on track for ;on imcrcsting, posith·c and varied two days. The divcn h)' of pu\Jli<.: hi1lo1) ' will ~ the feature o f thb wnfncncc. Th., main papen; o!Tt"red .o far have been fmm Uwsc im oln:<l in historic heritage, history and landscape. and from those working on commissions. Ho.,.,·l'\-er we very much welcome further a'"U<iclS and remind all those imerested in pn:K"nling a paper ofth<: impending d <:adline o f th" end of Jul)'· We haw: had ln<"juirie~ from the United S1a1es. the United Kingdom anrl Awtralia as well as from all '"~'r New Zc" land

We haw brain.tonncd a .uitc of po»ibk field tripi to loo I; at h istork is.1UC$ and sites. There are a lot

ofhislOriat.I issues in the news a1 1..hc mom em and we would appreciate any comments as to what individual> would like to~ee. We arc ralk.ing wilh the Historic Places Trus t, N7.H A and nrg:ml!!ations im'Ol\"cd in lhc tribunal proccs.s. on porcmial panel dir.cu>sions. altlmugh 10: would welcome oihn suggestions fmm

PHAN7..A membe~. The •·enue ;, 1he ~me :~• for our i11augural conference - the 1\ ir New Zealand Suite of the Wellington

Olrl Town Hall. TI1i~ centi<Jll)· locatcd histo1ic building~ a tlioro ughly appropriate venue and it offe r:; a 1·e ry high m mdilrd of facilities. We are c urrcnlly arrd.nging a conforence d inner for the Saturd<ir night in an award-... ~nning resiauram/cafi: a<!.i:ice m to the n :nuc.

We look forward to ro11r abstr:1c1s. Keep them coming

If you have any queries ple a se email Tony a t tnightinga le@doc.govt.nz.

Canterbury Community Historian The Conte rbory History foundotion is now calling for a pplicants for the Canterbury Community Histo rian. The Foundation provides a stipend of $ 10.800. pl LU an allowance for research costs. Thill is to enable at lem1 12 weeks of full-time research and writing to aoka ncc , or to complete. an appro1·ed prq eci. Research must he on 10pics 1ha1 ui.e l<>~al hi,mrical ~urces. and mqjc:cu likely to be of bendlt and im erest 1<1 lhc Canterbury community will be preferred.

App lia nu m1u1 be ahle to ma1mgc and wmplcte a ~ignific:.i.m piece of rcKarch. and they m u)l ha•-e re:uonable prospec:u of t he final prochu:t lx:ing puhlish<.-d (1101 11cce.<Sa1ily in printed form) . The JC: heme

i~ 1101a''ailablt:10 full.Um;, universi1y acade mic ~tafT. The: Fo uu datio u exp;,0110 locat..: a hon irutitu tlon 10 pro•·ltlc wurking ,;p."l.cc in or near the research

material and o ther sources. l'rc-.-io us Community H istorians h:in : lx:t:n hmm:<! in tl1c H islOl)' Department at the Uni1-eoi1y of Canterbury.

Then: han; a lrcarlr been two C".ommunity Hi$tOrianl: Colin Amorl!!o, .... ho has 1•·ritt"n on tht: peopl..­who pn:ccded and prepared for t.be Canterbuiy Association settlement; and Marg-.uel LowU-Smitl1, who "'TOii! a biogniphy of Helen Connon.

Applications clo!oe on 31Augwt 2002. Forms and information rnn be obtained from: Camerbuiy HistOI)' Foundarion Secrctmy PO Box 19070 CHRISfCHURCH

Pbz•;s p..A>1;.n.GrNHtlm••oy.ar by t1,. Pro/.,slona1Hj11orlono' As•oclo•ic>nofN..,.znlond/A01.aroo. n.. .. d1torlolcommlttHio.wct-lhl!y, l)o.tdYou1>9<111dkt1Sdlrod• •·

YouconCQ<llOc:I u< by mo;I, Th9 Ed~or. Plto~O... PO~ 190~. Thorndori WeRlngl<ln. l>ho•o•ond<o""°"'"'ecred"9dwhere opplkable>

Cl'HANZA 200l

12