INSIDE 2 Naenae and me 4 Heritage Festival 5 Summer holidays and heritage Phanzine 6 Improving protection Newsletter of the 7 Feminist engagements Professional Historians’ Association of /Aotearoa 8 Comment Vol. 24, No. 3, December 2018 ► ISSN 1173 4124 ► www.phanza.org.nz 9 Members’ publications

Spreading the load: Makatote Viaduct and train, circa 1910. Mount Ruapehu is in the background. William Beattie & Company. Ref: PAColl-7081-09. Alexander Turnbull Library, , New Zealand. / records/23078548

Editorial The Future of PHANZA

Our AGM has come and gone and a new committee, of committee members this year and filling the with some old and new faces, has begun work. This committee and getting all our necessary work done coming year will be a challenging one, with a confer- is becoming increasingly challenging. Seeing first- ence in April 2019 and other initiatives to get across hand just how much work has to be done just to fulfil the line, including our member grants’ fund, which Companies Office requirements does make me won- we have had to defer until the conference is done der whether we need to rethink the burden on our and dusted. committee, particularly office holders. Do we need to Next year PHANZA will turn 25 and this will be consider creating new positions to spread the load, something to celebrate. Such a milestone seemed or even paying someone to manage the organisa- a long way off to those of us who attended the very tion’s affairs? If any member has a view on this, feel first meeting to set up the organisation. The fact free to contact me via email at president@phanza. that PHANZA has survived and thrived is down to org.nz. the many people who have volunteered their time to We hope all our members have had a successful keep the organisation going. It’s a long roll-call and 2018. I hope to see as many of you as possible at our some of those people are no longer with us. conference in April next year. Is this model of a volunteer-run organisation sus- — Michael Kelly tainable? We have had an unusually high turnover President ►► Ben Schrader in action, promoting the heritage values of Naenae.

Naenae and me : a public history journey

Ben Schrader writes about his engagement with zoned. Believing metropolitan life to be socially Naenae, past and present alienating, he also included community centres to foster sociability. The first garden city was built at One of the things I love about being a public histo- Letchworth in 1903 and the garden city model spread rian is its unpredictability. Whether it’s questioning around the globe. It was best realised in New Zealand informants, giving a community talk, or advocating at Naenae. for a historic place, it’s always foolish to forecast the Naenae’s lead planner was the famous Modern- public response. An indisputable fact can be con- ist architect Ernst Plischke. He followed garden tested by an informant; a seemingly minor detail city principles, setting aside plenty of green space, can dominate a post-talk Q + A, and buildings of great providing for low-density housing, and designat- heritage value can be considered dumps by their lo- cal communities. One councillor called me an egghead I used to leave these situations thinking people are and said it was up to the people of morons. I’ve subsequently realised that I was the idiot for failing to understand how the public sees Naenae to work out what they valued. and uses the past. I gradually reached this conclu- I thought him a philistine but then sion over 20 plus years of public engagement with the history of Naenae, Lower Hutt. realised he was right. I’d researched the planning of Naenae as a state housing suburb for my MA history thesis in 1993. ing space for industry. At its centre he placed the Such was the 1930s housing shortage that the Labour community centre, inspired by Venice’s San Marco government decided whole suburbs of state houses Square. The centre was to Naenae’s social hub and were needed. Building on this scale was unprece- included shops, cafes, a cinema, offices, and pub- dented and planning for such communities in Lower lic amenities. Plischke even included a campanile Hutt began in the early 1940s. It was informed by the (tower) as a landmark. The post-war housing shortage garden city planning model. The theorist Ebenezer meant it wasn’t built until the early 1950s. By then Howard formulated it during the 1890s in response Plischke had moved on and his design was modi- to the squalor and congestion of Britain’s large cities. fied. But it still included pedestrian courts, a com- He proposed relocating urban workers to smaller mon Modernist architecture, and a campanile in the and lower-density cities in the countryside. These form of the post office tower. It was New Zealand’s would have a park-like setting and be functionally first mall and was named for its most recent hero:

2 PHANZINE December 2018 Edmund Hillary. A swimming pool and a commu- nity hall were also built across the street. After completing my thesis I was periodically asked to give public talks about Naenae’s planning. I’d mention that Naenae was our first mass-built suburb; remained our best example of the garden city ideal, and had places that merited heritage pro- tection. But the Q + As typically concerned a missed detail or whether the 1954 Mazengarb enquiry was a beat up; the idea that Naenae’s built environment held cultural value was met with bemusement. Why can’t these people see the bleeding obvious, I’d ask myself? If those who came to these talks did not value Naenae’s built heritage, some planners in the Hutt City Council became receptive to it. In 2012 the Council and Heritage New Zealand (HNZ) commis- sioned me to write a report on Naenae with the view to making at least some of it a historic district. This was presented to Council, which promptly dismissed Clock tower on the Naenae Post Office, Lower Hutt. Dominion the proposal. At the meeting where I gave a talk, one PAost. Ref: EP/1960/0587-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, councillor called me an egghead and said it was up to Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30656400 the people of Naenae to work out what they valued. I thought him a philistine but then realised he was Towering over Naenae right. Without local support the protection of Nae- The Modernist Naenae Post Office was the last building nae’s heritage wasn’t going to fly. to go up in Hillary Court and is its most architecturally A few months ago I was contacted by a Naenae accomplished. Its most striking feature is its clock tower, resident. She said she and others were concerned a surviving element from Plischke’s original 1944 Naenae about a Council proposal to replace the Naenae plan. Clock towers had been a feature of New Zealand community hall with a new ‘community hub’. The post offices since colonial times, but were deemed (former) post office in Hillary Court was also at risk. hazards after the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake and She invited me to her group to talk about Naenae’s discontinued. Improved technology in the 1950s led the heritage. At the meeting I agreed to give a couple government to include a freestanding one beside the of public talks at Naenae’s Library to raise public Naenae post office. awareness. Council officials were also getting in- volved. The owner of the post office was wanting to At its 1959 opening the Prime Minister and local MP, demolish its tower because it needed strengthening, Walter Nash proclaimed he was delighted to see the but its loss would seriously undermine Naenae’s return of the post office tower. ‘Not only will the clock heritage values. The officials contacted HNZ to pro- mark the time of day for all who see it, but the 47-foot pose the building be listed. HNZ suggested I write high tower is undoubtedly the architectural focal point the listing proposal, which I did and it was accepted for the whole Naenae community centre.’ by HNZ and Hutt City. It’s presently going through The building also featured a stunning wall mural by the public consultation stage. Meanwhile, my pub- prominent artist Guy Ngan. This was taken down in a lic talks attracted good crowds. For the first time 1980s renovation and ‘lost’. The post office closed in the Q + As focused on Naenae’s physical and social 2015 and sold to a private buyer. He initially wanted fabric. There was a palpable sense in the room that it to open a liquor store in the building, but this sparked needed some protection. Discussion then centred on a public outcry and was defeated. It’s presently being how this might be done. leased as a community art space, but the owner now I was pleased that locals were finally awakening to reportedly has plans for a pizza parlour. If it’s listed as a Naenae’s historical importance. The whole process heritage building it would be eligible for public funds to had shown me that the public historian has an im- have the tower strengthened. This needs to happen. portant role in informing the public, but then has no say over the moment the public decides that infor- mation is useful to them. I like that.

PHANZINE December 2018 3 News from the North Auckland Heritage Festival

Sandra Gorter reports on a landform from her photographs festival Julie Benjamin and I went packed Auckland Heritage showing where the stream went, to ‘Onehunga presents: Charac- gave insights of politics among ters, costumes and comedy.’ Jan Festival Europeans in the 1840s and 1850s Saussey and Jocelyn McQuaid With more than 180 events from as they established the settle- talked about the development of Helensville to Franklin to choose ment, and gave background to amateur (for the love of it) theatre from, for historians, this year’s the reasons behind place names in Auckland at Mairangi Bay, the Auckland Council’s Heritage such as Freeman’s Bay. It was a Bruce Mason theatre and at One- Festival was a bit like being a kid lively talk and I came away curi- hunga’s Dolphin theatre, amply in a lolly shop – you found it hard ous to know if there was a correla- decorated with anecdotes of their to choose! tion between the name given for experience of amateur theatre in My first pick was ‘The history of the stream that still flows today Auckland theatres. “Wandering Kate”’ an old cable- and the displacement of then- driven digger that had built roads resident, Tainui-affiliated tribes When you come away in the Kaipara. These machines from Auckland and southern ar- from a historical talk had been described to me as, ‘you eas by European settlers? Was the always got the cables in a birds spelling correct? Was it a person’s totally inspired with nest!’ and I could imagine the name perhaps, referring to early questions it is time well health and safety issues associated Māori politics? If that were true, is with that. But with time commit- that tradition now being contin- spent indeed! ments Helensville was a bit far, as ued by foreigners in the commer- were events at Manukau Heads cial skyscrapers that stand above I also got to walk B of the En- and Pukekohe, so I may go to their the stream today? After talking to gineering New Zealand Heritage museums another day. Lisa on the phone that night she walk hosted by IPENZ, who sup- I got to a talk by Lisa Truttman assured me there was no way to plied a detailed illustrated infor- at the central library on ‘The peo- determine definitive answers to mation booklet. Starting from ple of Te Waihorotiu: the Queen any of these questions. When you underneath KZ1 at the Maritime Street stream.’ Loaded with sar- come away from a historical talk Museum, John Higham showed casm and very European-oriented, totally inspired with questions it us the remains of the old slip at Lisa nevertheless raised fascinat- is time well spent indeed! the base of the ferry building that ing questions about the original On the final weekend of the had been used to haul and clean sailing ships in the early days. He described the sewerage and Hi – story! drainage system in the vicinity of Queen Street – which tied in A concern I noted when looking around at the events I was attended, were perfectly with the earlier talk on the number of ‘cotton tops’ present. Those without grey hair were generally how the Waihorotiu Stream had bald, or like myself ‘colour assisted.’ Teachers tell us that New Zealand history been used – amply illustrated is lightly taught in high schools and is not part of the primary curriculum. with before and after images of Our stories of declarations of independence, wars, streams, buildings and construction IPENZ had sourced so on, really are gripping and if they are not to be lost to upcoming young from the Auckland Library generations they need to be told in schools. Our own stories, stories of research centre. Our walk up people our own children may have a connection to, and places they know, Queen Street highlighted hand- could be told in a new context, perhaps inspired by Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip, some buildings such as Endeans, whose survival weapon was story. At the moment these stories are overlaid Dilworth, the old AEPB building, and replaced with the stories of other country’s claims for independence and and the Civic. It was amazing how civil wars, and could easily be lost and buried. It is high time our children many of the buildings had been learned our own exciting heritage of stories. built by James Fletcher’s company after a Fulton Hogan-type move

4 PHANZINE December 2018 ◄◄ Auckland, January 1842, showing the Waihorotiu stream alongside Queen Street, including the outline of then, government house and grounds to the right. Note that the ‘roads’ only extend from Shortland to Victoria Street and the scene was as later described by John Grainger, ‘a few boats and canoes on the beach, a few tents and break-wind huts along the margin of the bay, and then – a sea of fern stretching as far as the eye could reach’ (The Auckland Story, AH & AW Reed, Wellington, 1953, p 19).

– it was amazing to imagine the size of the trees that would have supplied the timber. The Supreme Court with its gargoyles opened in 1868 alongside the original ‘Shedifice’ Parliament building on the corner of Anzac Ave and Par- liament Street. The small group were people with a knowledge of construction and John had us enthralled describing buildings and underground constructions all along the way as he and others added their bits to the narrative. When asked about the repeated reference to James Fletcher’s from Dunedin. One of the people by the Japanese in WW2, then the company, John commented that a on the walk contributed another remains of the Albert Barracks key element to their success was Dunedin link when he said that wall, the rest of which had been that he kept the various aspects the construction of the Town Hall taken away to build things like the of construction, even including had been funded from Dunedin. foundations of the Parnell railway quarrying, in-house. It was a re- Next were the tunnels under bridge, which he later showed us ally enjoyable event where peo- Albert Park built to house 20,400 at the end of the walk. Old Gov- ple just wanted to stay and keep people in anticipation of invasion ernment House was built of kauri talking.

Summer holidays father brought his two daughters ourselves over summer with our and heritage to the Treaty grounds because he historic places is a great way to had a great love of history and he learn about the past and to sup- When she visited and spoke at wanted us to learn the history of port the organisations that make the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi the place we were living and were those places available to us to earlier this year, Prime Minister lucky enough to call home.’ visit. It might feel a bit like a ‘bus- Jacinda Ardern remembered a It reminded me of a trip that man’s holiday’ to some, but we can holiday she took there as a child: my family took to the Far North do so much to teach young people ‘As I stand here, I have many one summer in the 1970s and the about the importance of our his- memories of the many times historic places that we visited on tory through visits such as these, that I have visited these beautiful that journey. I had the privilege of which can leave them with a life- grounds, not always a politician taking my own children to Wai- time of memories and a respect but once as a child. In fact, my tangi and the Kerikeri Basin a few for history that will hopefully rub first time here, I was probably no years ago. off on others. more than seven years old. My Acquainting or reacquainting — Michael Kelly

PHANZINE December 2018 5 Demolition of the main building, Erskine Heritage College, September 2018, taken from the rear of the former school. The chapel is to the left. Photo: Kari Beaven, courtesy of Improving protection Elizabeth Cox

Michael Kelly hopes that demolitions like that will be covered in housing and the chapel will have of the Erskine College main building will be a virtually no context left. All the rest of the buildings and most of its grounds will be gone. The role of the thing of the past. building’s owner, the Wellington Company (man- Our built heritage is often under threat and, occa- aging director Ian Cassells), in letting the building sionally, serious setbacks arise. The demolition of get into a state that was all but irretrievable, is also Erskine College’s main building (1905) in Island Bay, unconscionable. Wellington, which began in July this year, as granted What it shows, yet again, is that not even build- by the Environment Court, was a miserable end to ings with significant legal protection are safe. So, is it a campaign that started in the early 1990s. This was misplaced optimism to look forward to what might a building with significant legal protection; it was come of the Government’s ‘Survey on strengthening listed on the city council’s district plan as a heritage New Zealand’s protection system for heritage build- item and, even more importantly, it was the subject ings’? Released for public feedback in June 2018, the of a Heritage Order (the only heritage order held by survey’s primary focus was on how existing systems a private organisation – Save Erskine College Trust). may be improved to better protect heritage buildings. It was also listed by Heritage New Zealand as a Cat- (The exclusion of archaeological sites was clearly egory 1 historic place. deliberate.) PHANZA member Elizabeth Cox explains the The ensuing report, which will be with ministers recent legal sagas of the building in excellent detail by the time this issue of Phanzine is published, will and a dispiriting denouement it is (http://welling- reveal where officials feel changes can be made to ton.scoop.co.nz/?p=112776). The Wellington City strengthen protection. Of course, whatever recom- Council seems to regard the retention and restora- mendations the report contains may not be adopted tion of the adjacent chapel, which was built in 1930, by the government and we don’t know what the as, overall, a good heritage outcome, totally missing timeframe for any changes might be, but any stiffen- the point that without the main building there would ing of legal protection for built heritage has to be a be no chapel. Soon, the former college grounds good thing.

6 PHANZINE December 2018 Conference Feminist Engagements in Aotearoa: 125 Years of Suffrage and Beyond

Margaret Tennant, assisted by material supplied by fellow conference attendees Kate Jordan and Martha van Drunen, reports on a Suffrage Year conference

Among the various Suffrage Danielle Ashby-Coventry (Archives NZ), Martha van Drunen (Ministry for Culture and commemorative events of 2018, Heritage) and Manying Ip () after the session on Asian women as which reached a climax around 19 citizens. September, was a key conference held over 21–23 September in in the first half of the twentieth- doesn’t exist!’) Else commented Wellington. Jointly organised by century, Hilary Stace on ‘Jacinda’s on the remarkable number of the Women’s Studies Association/ Labour mothers (especially Janet organisations in the 1993 volume Pae Akoranga Wahine and the Fraser), Monica Webb on mar- which are still in existence de- Stout Research Centre, Feminist ried women’s nationality across spite pressures on membership Engagements in Aotearoa also the British Empire, and Lynette organisations caused by the ‘work celebrated the 40 year existence of Townshend on key themes from crunch’ affecting modern lives, the WSA. Alongside many young the on-line exhibition Women, and the supplanting of service feminists there were familiar the Vote and Activism. Linda relationships by commercial faces whose attendance atWSA Tyler participated in a panel on imperatives. conferences dated back to the late the relationship between women 1970s and 1980s. As Kate Hunter artists and feminism in Aotearoa. The digital launch of Women Together and Ann Weatherall wrote in the Her focus was on performance art and additional essays for the conference programme, ‘the plan- over the past 50 years. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, ning for this conference began in One of the more enduring pub- as well as the 1893 Suffrage the early days of #metoo move- lic history outputs from the 1993 Petition database were celebrated ment, and entered the final stages centennial of women’s suffrage at a Parliamentary breakfast on as New Zealand’s Prime Minister was a volume on women’s organi- 28 November 2018, the 125th returned to work from maternity sations in New Zealand, published anniversary of the date when New leave. They were our constant by the Historical Branch of the Zealand women first voted. reminders – if we needed any – Department of Internal Affairs The Feminist Engagements that the ways women, and those (as it then was). Women Together Conference – four concurrent identifying as women, experience, Ngā Rōpū Wāhine o te Motu, has streams of papers, presentations see, shape, narrate, build, resist been updated and digitised in a and performances over two days – and represent their worlds are as Ministry for Culture and Heritage was a feast of feminist scholarship important and as sharp as ever’. project led by its original editor, and practice which showed the This was not specifically a his- Anne Else. She spoke at the Femi- continued diversity of research tory conference, and PHANZA nist Engagements conference on on and by women, and which members were, on the whole, the politics of the original project reminded those attending of many more evident as attendees than as and the changes which have led to areas of inequality which still need presenters. Those on the pro- the need for a digital presence for addressing. gramme included Elizabeth Cox, this and other forms of feminist talking about women architects research. (‘If it’s not digitised, it

PHANZINE December 2018 7 Comment Kate Jordan comments on the NZETC

The NZETC, believe it or not, has does not search for the term just by title or date. The database recently got worse. entered or even automatically returns the source that contains search just the NZETC – there’s the search term – but not where The New Zealand Electronic Text just a disconcerting blank page in that source the term is. Books Collection (NZETC) is a valuable with a search box and VUW brand- and journal editions cannot be resource, a collection of digitised ing. There’s no link to the new opened in a new browser tab and historical texts, manuscript docu- NZETC homepage – the user has when returning to the list from a ments, and contemporary texts, as to search this out under the ‘Col- book or journal, the list re-sets to well as born-digital resources. Un- lections’ tab. the top. fortunately, it has generally been On the homepage, the collec- The viewing screen is less than a bit difficult to use. Like almost tions are listed down one side, ideal – the large side bar and any archive, it had its idiosyncra- which makes for fairly easy navi- branding at the top do not resize sies, but it also had a high number gation – but that’s where the ease on smaller screens, leaving a of dead hyperlinks and the search ends. The blurb for each book or small area of text to view, espe- functionality wasn’t great. journal edition is next to useless. cially when working on a laptop. And now, somehow, Victoria There’s also no ability to search The ability to view either full text, University has made it worse. within a particular collection. The with hyperlinked sub-headings is The old website is still there, but list of items within a collection reasonably useful, as is the option when attempting to search, the cannot be re-ordered by title or to view JPG images. user is redirected to the Victoria date. It’s disappointing such a valu- University of Wellington (VUW) Search results are also frustrat- able resource has been rendered library catalogue. The redirect ing. They also cannot be sorted so inaccessible.

Certificates of fact which parent carried the baby for parent. When asked if this was nine months. Now with changing made clear on the birth certifi- social norms same-sex parents are cate, the answer was ‘no’, but that Peter Cooke comments on significant being listed on birth certificates, the department retains records so changes in the Births, Deaths and throwing up some uncertainty as the state will always know. Marriages area to who was the ‘gestational par- PHANZA might suggest that ent’. For two fathers there is no this is not good enough. What is The Minister of Internal Affairs doubt (clearly neither of them the point of a birth certificate if Tracey Martin recently changed did the hard work, though only it does not convey the most vital regulations about what could be one will be biologically related) information about a child’s start recorded on a death certificate. but for two women it is getting in life? It is not a ‘Relationship She had been lobbied to allow complicated. Earlier this year two Certificate’ but one that records the names of pre-deceased chil- women asked both to be described for eternity the vital facts of a dren to be listed on their parents’ as ‘mother’ on a birth certificate birth and the parents involved. death certificates. This might help (rather than ‘mother’ and ‘other The first listed parent should be future historians and genealogists parent’), and the Department clearly described as the ‘gesta- to put together family trees, but of Internal Affairs agreed. This tional parent’. was not really a major problem. raised an obvious question. Would Mothers are vital in such a That is because we rely on birth future researchers be able to tell scenario and there should be no certificates to tell us when people which women was the ‘gestational doubt (whereas investigating the were born and to whom. parent’? accuracy of fathers’ details on Traditionally a birth certificate The department confirmed birth certificates – or surrogacy listed a mother and a father (in that, in such a situation, the first- situations – would be like opening that order), leaving no doubt as to named women is the gestational a can of worms).

8 PHANZINE December 2018 This is a biography of one of New Zealand’s

Members’ publications: most colourful and persuasive politicians. James Macandrew

When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1851, other settlers were impressed by his energy and enthusiasm for new Notices initiatives. With his finger in a lot of commercial pies, he set about making himself a handsome income which he eventually lost, declaring himself bankrupt and ending up in a debtors’ prison for a time.

Politics became another enterprise at which he of Otago Although we do not publish book threw himself with a passion. Macandrew was a member of Otago Provincial Council for 10 years, during which time he held almost all the elected positions in that body. He was superintendent of Otago for a further decade, and at the reviews as such in , we same time he was a member of parliament for 29 years. Phanzine This is the warts-and-all story of a Victorian settler who was a devoted family man, a staunch Presbyterian and a consummate politician. It examines the numerous local institutions that benefited from Macandrew’s touch – the University of Otago, the Art School (now Otago Polytechnic School of Art), the are keen to give notice of recent Normal School (later the College of Education) – along with his contributions to the building of roads, railways, wharves, harbours, schools and churches.

Macandrew made plenty of enemies along the way, and has been severely judged publication of works by PHANZA by history. This re-examination of his life and political work reveals a man who both inspired and infuriated the citizens of Otago, and New Zealand, for almost four decades. members, especially since some R.J. (JO) BUNCE has held teaching and administrative SLIPPERY JIM or positions in most levels of the education sector, as well as public relations and liaison positions for government

departments, Otago Polytechnic, the University of Otago R.J. Bunce and the Royal New Zealand Navy. He has an MA from PATRIOTIC STATESMAN? commissioned works are not dis- Otago University and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and has gravitated towards full-time historical study and research: this book is the result. James Macandrew of Otago tributed via the usual commercial ISBN 978-1-98-853135-9 OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS WWW.OTAGO.AC.NZ/PRESS R.J. Bunce channels. If you would also like to 9 781988 531359 write a short, informative piece for Phanzine about issues in the book is now available for pur- Social Campaigner Rutherford Waddell writing of your book, we would chase (price $150). Saddle Hill Press, Dunedin, June 2018 welcome 800–1000 words to con- Sandra Gorter RRP$50, available to PHANZA sider for publication. HEB Construction, the history of a com- members for $30 post-free from the pany that helped build New Zealand publisher. ¶¶Sandra Gorter wrote about the HEB Land Holdings, PO Box 604, Saddle Hill Press, PO Box 90, process of researching her most Drury, Auckland 2247 Dunedin 9054 recent book in an earlier Phanzine. Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Supported by a huge library of im- ages, this publication is a record ¶¶Ian Dougherty has two recently ¶¶Also due over the next month is of changes to New Zealand’s ur- published titles: Jo Bunce’s study of James Ma- ban and infrastructure landscape, Dunedin: Founding a New World City candrew of Otago. Slippery Jim or the working lives of the people Saddle Hill Press, Dunedin, November Patriotic Statesman? is described as who built roads, subdivisions, and 2017 the ‘biography of a colourful and civil structures over the period RRP$30, available to PHANZA controversial politician, church 1975 to approximately 2007, and members for $18 post-free from the elder and convicted debtor’. It is the legislation and economic publisher. published by Otago University drivers behind the changes. The Pulpit Radical: The Story of New Zealand Press and will retail for $45.00.

Further successes for PHANZA member Dame

PHANZA member Claudia Orange has received two distinct forms of recognition from the Royal Society Te Apārangi in recent months. Earlier in the year she was made a Companion of the Society, an honour which recognises ‘outstanding leadership in science, technology or the humanities’. Then, at the Society’s Research Honour Awards dinner held on 17 October 2018 she was presented with its Pou Aronui award. The award is given to those who have made a distinguished contribution to the Humanities–Aronui over a sustained period of time. The citation acknowledged Claudia’s role in ‘tak- Claudia Orange receives the Pou Aronui Award from Royal ing the Treaty to the people’ over a long period of Society Council member Margaret Tennant – another PHANZA time, her importance to the development of the member. Photo: Royal Society Te Apārangi. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and its transla- tion into digital form, and her leadership at Te Papa It’s great to see public history, and one of PHANZA’s Tongarewa. It noted Claudia’s wider commitment earliest members, being acknowledged in this way. to making the past relevant and accessible to a wide Another PHANZA member, , previously audience in a variety of forms. received the Pou Aronui award in 2011.

PHANZINE December 2018 9 New Committee Member the 2018 Suffrage Centennial conference, Portsmouth, UK on Monica Webb Anna Stout. She has presented on married women’s nationality At a time when outgoing com- laws at the 2018 WSU/Suffrage 125 mittee members outnumber conference as well as completing a new recruits, we are delighted research project for the Chartwell to welcome freelance historian Literary Group, USA. She is the Monica Webb onto the PHANZA moderator of the New Zealand committee. Women Historians’ Forum. Monica gained her Master of Monica’s research interests Arts in History from Massey include Victorian and Edwardian University in 2015 on the life of periods, New Zealand, women’s Lady Anna Stout. Since that time, history, transnational connec- in addition to tutoring at Massey- tions among women of the British of English as a foreign language. Albany, she has presented papers world and migration history. She is currently writing the biog- at the 2017 NZHA conference and Monica is also a certified teacher raphy of Lady Anna Stout.

Annual General Meeting Phanzine is published three times a year by the Many members turned out for The president raised the sig- Professional Historians’ the PHANZA AGM, held at St An- nificant difficulty facingPHANZA Association of New drew’s on the Terrace in Welling- of attracting (and holding on to) Zealand / Aotearoa. ton on 1 November 2018. committee members. At the time You can contact us by mail : We were joined by Auckland of the AGM, the committee had The Editor,Phanzine , committee member Sandra just the six elected members at its PO Box 1904, Thorndon, Gorter, who kindly came down disposal. Up to nine people can Wellington just for the evening. sit on the committee. One mem- We farewelled committee mem- ber has offered to be co-opted but or at [email protected] bers Lucy Mackintosh, Martha more are needed. This issue was edited by van Drunen, Kate Jordan and Paul AGM documents are available Margaret Tennant and Husbands, who was also Treasurer on the website: https://phanza. Sandra Gorter. during his last year on the com- org.nz/annual-general-meetings/. Disclaimer : Opinions mittee. We welcomed Monica expressed in Phanzine are not Webb, who is based in Auckland. necessarily those of the editors. Significant outcomes of the Photos and illustrations are AGM were as follows: PHANZA Executive credited where applicable. ¶¶The move to raise subscriptions Committee 2018–19 was put off for another year. © PHANZA 2018 Michael Kelly (President), ¶¶The Committee will work historian and heritage consultant towards establishing a member [email protected] grants fund, for implementation in 2020. If necessary, the prospect Sarah Burgess (Secretary), Manatū of raising subscriptions (to boost Taonga Ministry for Culture and the fund) will be revisited in time Heritage [email protected] for next year’s AGM. Sandra Gorter (Treasurer), ¶¶There was considerable discus- freelance historian sion around how the member [email protected] grants fund might be adminis- Ryan Bodman, freelance historian tered, with several sensible sug- Margaret Tennant, freelance gestions from the floor. These will PO Box 1904, Thorndon, historian all be explored before the fund is Wellington established. Monica Webb, freelance historian

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