Archifacts April 1993
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ARCHIFACTS Journal of the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand April 1993 OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION The objects of the Association shall be: i. To foster the care, preservation, and proper use of archives and records, both public and private, and their effective administra- tion. ii. To arouse public awareness of the importance of records and archives and in all matters affecting their preservation and use, and to co-operate or affiliate with any other bodies in New Zealand or elsewhere with like objects. iii. To promote the training of archivists, records keepers, curators, librarians and others by the dissemination of specialised knowl- edge and by encouraging the provision of adequate training in the administration and conservation of archives and records. iv. To encourage research into problems connected with the use, administration and conservation of archives and records and to promote the publication of the results of this research. v. To promote the standing of archives institutions. vi. To advise and support the establishment of archives services throughout New Zealand. vii. To publish ajournai at least once a year and other publications in furtherance of these objects. ARCHIFACTS Published by the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand April 1993 ARCHIFACTS Editor: Jane McRae. Editorial Committee: Stephen Innes Bruce Symondson Jane Wild. Reviews Editor: David Green. Archifacts is published twice yearly in April and October. Articles and correspondence should be addressed to the Editor at: Te Hukatai, Maori Studies Library, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland. Intending contributors should obtain a style sheet from the Editor and are urged to provide their texts on a 5 V4" DOS formatted disk or Apple Macintosh diskette, in Word, Word Perfect, Macwrite or an ASCII text file. Printed by Uniprint Copyright ARANZ 1993 ISSN 0303-7940 CONTENTS PETER OETTLI The Papers of Johann Friedrich Riemenschneider 1 GISELLE M. BYRNES 'NO holidays are kept in the bush' 15 MARGARET CARR Archives and the Journalist 27 RUTH STODDART Security - Aiming to Stop Theft 32 Shorter Articles G. W. RICE J. M. Sherrard Award 39 Old World Meets New In Massive New Optical Storage Project 40 STEPHEN INNES Heritage Responsibilities Group 42 Tomorrow's History PAULINE PORTEOUS 43 LYNDA WALLACE 44 PETER MILLER 45 DAVID COLQUHOUN 46 News & Notes 49 Books and Book Reviews 54 Letter to Editor 60 Accessions 68 ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND INC. P.O. Box 11-553, Manners Street, Wellington, N.Z. PATRON Her Excellency Dame Catherine Tizard, GCMG, DBE, Governor-General of New Zealand COUNCIL PRESIDENT Brad Patterson 20 Khyber Road, Seatoun, Wellington. VICE PRESIDENTS Peter Miller 114 Evans Street, Opoho, Dunedin. Sheryl Morgan Massey University Library, Private Bag, Palmerston North. SECRETARY Thérèse Angelo Royal NZ Airforce Museum, RNZAF Base Wigram, Private Bag, Christchurch. TREASURER Jane Tucker 53 Moana Rd., Highbury, Wellington. EDITOR Jane McRae Maori Studies Library, Auckland University, Private Bag, Auckland. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Thérèse Angelo Royal Ν Ζ Airforce Museum, RNZAF Base Wigram, Private Bag, Christchurch. MEMBERS Phillipa Fogarty National Archives, P.O. Box 12050, Wellington. Jan Gow 18 Modena Crescent, Auckland 5. Michael Hoare 77 Spinaker Drive, Whitby, Wellington. Margaret Morgan 46 Skibo Street, Kew, Dunedin. Pauline Porteous 144A Upland Road, Kelburn, Wellington. Mark Stoddart 69 Kimberhall Ave, Mt Roskill, Auckland. David Thomson History Department Massey University, Private Bag, Palmerston North. Editorial In the 'Tomorrow's History' section of this issue we asked some archivists to consider what they would like of ARANZ as a professional association over the next decade. The retiring editorial team also reflected on this and came up with the following ideas. In the matter of public relations we think that ARANZ should initiate a survey to elicit opinion on the usefulness and effectiveness of archives and archivists. A more active involvement with related institutions is also proposed, with museums (especially local ones) and libraries, for in- stance. And discussion about whether or not archivists should have a code of ethics is, we feel, an important matter to tackle soon. Within the Association a survey of past and present members to determine levels of satisfaction and dissatisfaction would help deter- mine future planning and ways to attract new members. The recent establishment of another society for professional archivists prompts initiatives such as these in order to ensure a strong and active association. For our conferences we expressed the hope that from time to time we would be able to capture an excellent overseas speaker, in order to keep alive our international exchanges. For the same reason we consider that the discussions being held with the Australian Society of Archivists regarding a possible joint conference in 1996, could also be an incentive to develop permanent links at all levels across the Tasman. ARANZ's forthcoming education review will undoubtedly interest archivists in other countries, and could too become a basis for wider international links. In the area of publications, we thought that occasional papers on professional issues might be produced; that a comprehensive survey of national holdings be carried out to complement NRAM (Ross Harvey's invaluable Union List of Newspapers in New Zealand could serve as a model), and that the pamphlet to attract members might be upgraded to something stylish and arresting. Finally we hope that the style and quality of Archifacts will be maintained or even improved, and that there will be increased professional 'talk' in the journal, thus providing the back- ground and topical information to inspire and inform current and potential archivists, records managers, and members of the Association. 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What matters to the historian is what is said and the context in which it is said. As long as the source is reliable in terms of its accuracy, the conditions under which it was produced are often of secondary importance. There is, however, in most cases an important intermediate step between the production of a primary source and the use of its contents: it has to be made accessible to the user. This may require no more than adequate storage and classification, but it can also require an editor, who pro- duces, for example, a critical edition of a literary or historical source text which is transmitted in a number of variant MSS, or a transcriber (if the end user is not familiar with the script in which the source is written), or a translator. To these intermediaries whose task it is to ensure that the original primary source reaches the user with the minimum distortion possible, the conditions under which it was produced are of more importance and interest, since they are factors which may influence judgements about the reliability of a particular variant reading in a MS, or the preference of one translation over another. In this paper I intend to examine some of these factors in the light of the experience I have gained in the transcription and partial translation of a proportion of the papers of the North German Mission Society missionary Johann Friedrich Riemenschneider. Johann Friedrich Riemenschneider (1817-1866) has so far been one of the neglected figures in the history of Taranaki. From 1845 to 1860 he lived in Warea, a locality 35 km south-west of New Plymouth, and worked among the Taranaki people. After the closure, in 1852, of the Wesleyan mission station atHeretoa (Waimate) among the Ngati Ruanui people, and after the German-born Wesleyan missionary Schnackenberg was withdrawn