<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>11:50 does it take long to pick them er exhales i started <,,> no i only <.>picked er er no no not very long at all cos there were <.>s so there were so many hanging on each there's still <.>a quite a few to pick <.>or no <.>i well er yes <{><[>but <.>i i'm <.>not not too er worried about deep freezing at this stage see some of them are quite <,> young <.>and <[>don't want to waste them oh they're beautiful i find it more awkward here on the table at the table out at do you want to <{><[>sit here <[>we <.>sat we <.>sat no we sat in the sitting room i'll give you a cushion <{><[>oh <[>i have a cushion thank you i have a cushion no <,> <{><[>okay <[>i used to always sit on the table you don't have to sit here <.>i <.>i when we used to shell peas and i'll always sit up ON the table i came here to give you <{><[>more room <[>you can sit on the table we don't mind laughs laughs yes that's what <{><[>she used to do <[>we used to say er you sit on the table and the <{><[>first boy that comes through the door <,> you'll <.>probably you'll marry <[>when she was eighteen is THAT what happened no it wasn't laughs i was gonna say i heard differently laughs who told you differently oh i didn't know that was <.>how you know how you ended up marrying pa how i ended up <{><[><.>marrying i proPOSED to him <&>13:00 <[>just imagine if i sat on the table daniel nixon'd probably walk through the door i proposed to him did you why he didn't propose to me what did <{><[>you say <[>i waited and waited and he didn't say anything so i said how would <.>you would you like to marry me and he said oh <,> hadn't thought of it <&>13:16 <&>14:22 we'd load the boot up we had a vanguard with a curved <.>lid boot lid it was very hard to fit what's a <.>vangua oh the guard motorcar it was very hard to fit the <.>rectangular <,> <.>suitca sorry ports all laugh into a rounded boot oh yes i heard <.>the them say on the t v <.>tonight oh on the er <,> weather you'll need your jerseys YES I heard that mm <{><[>i <[>what instead of you'll need your jumpers yeah well that's <.>what that's what they say i mean <.>that's yeah i think it's more common to say jerseys than jumpers isn't it WELL you know <.>i i was just so surprised when i heard <&>15:00 <,> what's the er what's the name of <{><[>word <[>i immediately thought of what anna had said laughs mm? i immediately thought of what anna had said yes I did <,> it <.>was it was <.>just <,,><&>3 it was doctor jim macmurray <,> in one of his moments i think melvin <.>though really er kids along with some of the stories about the farm i don't know <{><[>he's pretty consistent <[><.>well is he laughs <{><[>oh <[>well you know he'll tell the story a few times and it <{><[>seems to <.>be <[>oh well it must <{><[><.>be <[>I like the stories like <{><[>um <[>i just wondered if he pulled your <.>le <{><[>pulled your leg <.>so <[>how he used to take the horse to school and he didn't always tie it up so <{><[>one <.>day one day papa <.>came he'd used when he used to take the horse to school so papa came along one day and took it home again <[>he <.>took laughs and dad said he came out from his classes <{1><[1>and thought the horse had run off <{2><[2>and he'd have to walk home <.>and and papa said where's the horse laughs <[1>yeah well <.>i <.>i <[2>i wouldn't know that i didn't ride a horse <.>i i don't think he usually did but he just <{><[>happened to <&>16:00 <[>i think he had that old horse <.>that <,> <.>that er greyey bluey one the one that used to hold her stomach in when they put a saddle on it? <,> so that <.>when <.>when <.>the when he hopped on and then she'd breathe out and the saddle'd slip around and he'd fall off the opposite she'd <,> yeah she'd hold her breath no she didn't she blew out and then <{><[>her <.>s <[>well hold her breath so that it's full of air oh yeah oh yes that's right yeah exactly right yeah <.>you of course you're right i should've known you'd be right laughs <&>16:30 <&>17:55 oh yes we used <.>to what did we used to do we used to er <,> was <.>it no it wasn't peas what <&>18:00 was it we used to <,,> make <{><[>go flying across the room <[>who's we wendy mm? wendy from peter pan and wendy oh warwick <{><[>no no <[>well she used to go flying across the room no <.>we <.>we no it wasn't <{><[>beans it was <[>tinkerbell laughs <.>no we used to break <.>the that's how we break our <.>b we used to do our broad beans <{><[>word <[>oh show me i asked pa <{><[>how do you do them <[>yes well he doesn't know <{><[>word <[>oh he's doing a twist thingie so you just oh snap <.>each <{><[>laughs <[><.>mine mine go into the container not always <.>you you hit <.>one you hit me with <{><[>one <[>no you just <.>pre press them with the back of <.>your put your two thumbs on them i've <{><[>only got one thumb <[>and push well you have two thumbs laughs i've got about four <{1><[1>okay now what do you do you put <{2><[2>your two thumbs on the middle of the bean <[1>actually it's quite good <[2>just push yes and just push oh i see it goes pop <,,><&>4 a bit like giving birth isn't it it is mm like giving birth <,> pops out <&>19:00 all laugh pops out of <{><[>the pod <[>it doesn't pop out as quickly as that usually though oh doesn't it no it's quite an effort yeah? <&>19:14 <&>23:45 i've got a feeling there'll be another bucket full of beans somewhere oh no somewhere round the house <{><[>laughs <[>makes me so tired the thought <{><[>of it <[>climb into bed and there'll be a bag of beans laughs a bean bag bean bag <&>24:00 that was bad though there's something wrong with that one somebody must have <.>s trodden on it cos it's all soft er <,> that er christmas or something and i made those trifles and we put everything out and we <{1><[1>had our meals <{2><[2>and in the end when everybody was going home i opened <.>the or i don't know whether the word but i was going to make <,> a cup of coffee or something or a cup of tea opened up the cupboard and there were the trifles <[1>laughs YOURS go in the container <[2>it popped out oh sitting there don't you remember that <.>i yes i was brokenhearted oh and you'd forgotten about them yes <{><[>yet i knew there should have been something else <[>you had <.>trif you don't <{><[>word till after inhales so did you have trifle for breakfast exhales <[>word i have no idea what i did <,,> i probably had somebody around <{><[>i <.>was i probably disappointed because <.>i i hadn't shared them with others <&>24:53 <&>26:40 <[>i remember um yes i always sort of imagined myself being really good at <,> cake decorating <{><[>word and <,> yes but the thing was it <.>was <.>wasn't wasn't something that i was going to do as a hobby you know i'd sort of seen other people doing it and thinking that it was too messy you'd have all your bench and then you'd have to clean it all up inhales oh it was horrible as i used to say to betty mcleod because um voc i didn't know your mother hadn't told her i thought it was quite sad really when lucy said <.>about when she was going to get married and so she said well there's one thing about it we don't have to worry about the er somebody to make the cake and ice the cake do we and and i said don't we and she said no she said i'll get missus mcleod to do that she said and we'll MAKE her accept money for it won't we and i said don't think you'll be able to because she's dead <,> voc poor lucy she was so upset <[>well you were did she do lucy's twenty first cake yes she was so shocked and she said when did she die because i'd sort of forgotten to tell lucy oh do you think that one will be okay <{><[>further down <[>no er <.>s it was like that <,> to start with no i think we'll <.>leave we'll leave that one we don't need to have that do we <&>28:00 so do you want us to <.>go hunting round the house for another bowl of beans no thank you are you sure there's none anywhere else forget about them no i put them all in there word i keep everything well i think i'd better ring this kid before she goes to bed cos she may have an exam tomorrow she's probably in bed she should be laughs how old is she sixteen and you think she should be in bed by nine oclock ten past tut TRUE i'm sorry i didn't realise ten <{><[>past nine <[>you <.>should you should be in bed by jove i'll be able to go to bed early tomorrow night <,> oh look yes you won't have a granddaughter to worry <.>about oh look two whole beans and we missed <.>th oh look here's another one <{><[>NANA <[>no no there's not <{1><[1>that was the one that was funny <.>i <{2><[2>i think somebody must have trodden on that one <,,> no these must have been joined together <{3><[3>they're twins some of the beans <.>i <.>i pull them off and two'd be together melvin told me about this one year <&>29:00 he grew beans and he <.>said instead <.>of instead of just having one bean there'd be <.>two <.>twos twos like that and those ones out there are like that <,> they're <.>out you know just hanging there two all the way down and i just pull them up really <.>just and we've been eating beans now for this must be the <.>e two months good two months we've been having beans <&>29:23 <&>side two <&>0:58 <[1>yes there is <[2>oh was it funny <[3>yeah <&>MR talking on phone not transcribed i was INfield from ruatoria er towards the k s <.>w towards mount hikurangi the k s williams estate er there's a school there called makarika and there was already a teacher there and his wife i can't remember whether SHE taught or not and i <.>was <,> it was a reasonable sized school and i was the er <,> <.>assistant just for relieving for about three weeks while somebody was away quite a nice guy too pine stuart pine they tried to marry him off tried to marry who off evan <{><[>did they <[><.>they <.>they was <.>it <{1><[1>was that where <.>they they had a wahine for you the <.>wo the maori <{2><[2>woman <[1>laughs <[2>no that was the other side that was towards the <.>east <.>the <{1><[1>reporoa but i was the <{2><[2>registrar of births <[1>oh was it oh <[2>where was that reporoa i was at reporoa and that's where they tried to marry you off laughs who to <{><[><.>she <[>oh the wahine i turned up <.>by on foot because there'd been a slip and i think the taxi ran me as far as the slip and i had to walk for the rest of the way i can't remember how i got my ports down laughs your ports laughs <{><[>and er <&>2:00 <[>you mean your suitcases <[>how did you get bits of queensland speech in <{><[><.>your <[>so it was a bit unusual to see a white person there in a completely maori community and of course they knew <.>who everybody knew who i was as i passed and old grandmother puia came out and she had her daughter there <{><[>katy and she introduced me to katy <.>and <,> and er i was on my way to the schoolhouse <.>and and er grandmother puia said that <.>she'd she would lend me a couple of fowls <,> er so i could have some eggs and i thought this was very decent of her then one of the fowls turned out to be a rooster and the other one didn't lay eggs either and it turned out <.>that that ALL the fowls <.>the the whole twenty fowls belonged to the schoolteacher who had now gone i was just relieving and she had just helped herself taken <.>the the flock of twenty fowls and decided she'd lend me back two of them <[>laughs laughs oh they were there at the schoolhouse i was at the schoolhouse well er but the <.>fowls you were supposed to have the fowls <{><[>anyway <[>the fowls were left behind by the last teacher yeah and the cow so i'd milk <.>th i'd milk the cow and er but didn't <{><[>they offer you a wahine didn't they offer <.>you <[>so what <.>happened oh yes katy used to come visiting <.>and anyway i was the registrar of births deaths and marriages <,> er automatically and unfortunately only one person died in the <{1><[1>three three three weeks i was there and <{2><[2>i <.>got i got two and <.>six two shillings and sixpence <{3><[3><,> fee <[1>UNfortunately <[2>fortunately or unfortunately <[3>he would've got some money oh for <.>reg for registering the death er minus a penny social security charge oh so that wasn't bad that wasn't didn't cost much did it <{1><[1>the social security and <.>i i browsed through this thing and i saw that katy had given birth to a stillborn <{2><[2>child about a year earlier <[1>that's a lot of money <[2>oh that put him off i kept all my word pardon that put him off <,,> she'd <{><[>already had a <.>b a baby <&>4:00 <[>oh i think she had a word i think it was of a white father <,> father of the stillborn child somebody from the post office in ruatoria or something oh he was er well of course when they did did the voting they had the election you were there weren't you <,> or <{><[>were you up the other <.>s <.>s school then <[>er when they had the election yeah you know the new zealand er parliament <{><[>word <[>oh no i was at macintyres then in <{1><[1>from <.>wai in from wairoa ruakituri <,> <{2><[2>er <[1>oh <[2>and you taught at <.>another school on the east coast did you say inland from ruatoria in from <.>ruatori in <.>fr inland <{><[>from ruatoria was makarika and then on the seacoast from <,> ruatoria was reporoa <[>oh that was <.>maka <.>makari right makarika and then you taught down <.>at <,> reporoa right that was er that would be er <{><[>an aided school was it <[>not to be confused with <.>rep reporua yeah yeah the reporoa <.>o the reporua <{1><[1>one was a native school that was where <.>i the man and his wife were normally both qualified teachers <{2><[2>they normally took over cos they had to do the functions of sort <{3><[3>of a a local sort of nurse the visiting nurse used to <&>5:00 come once a week and er have a look at the heads of the children and put ointment <{4><[4>on <.>their on their sores and give them <{5><[5>a teaspoon full of treacle <.>or olive oil <.>or <{6><[6><.>s castor oil or something <[1>word <[2>yeah <[3>yeah <[4>laughs <[5>that's for the <[6>oh that was an interesting thing <,> the er er <,> <.>manuka <,,> er honey came over the air tonight a man had an ulcer on his leg <,> and the <.>naturopath the doctors had been treating it for some time and they found that the honey <,,> healed the ulcer straight away this was going to reduce their charges for <.>the the chemicals isn't it good though that they announce these things showed <.>him dressing it with the honey <,,> manuka <,> <{><[>that's it <[>manuka honey while i <{><[>was there <.>the <[>now how would you say it i don't know <{><[>while i was there <.>th <[>see <.>we we always called it manuka <&>6:00 <{><[>it <.>is <[>well it's supposed to be manuka <{><[>wouldn't wouldn't that be better <[>is it i don't know i don't know so in the southern part of the north island they commonly call it manuka i've <.>always heard it as manuka yeah that's what i've <.>always that's what i always call <{><[>it <[>er the minute hand of my watch <{1><[1>came off and i had to judge time by the hour hand in other words how far the hour hand had moved on between one mark and the next so i'd have no <.>i there was supposed to be forty minutes for sums and twenty five minutes for spelling and i was doing it by guess and by god if i ran out of <.>id if i ran out of ideas as to what to teach they'd say oh can we sing <{2><[2>and boy this was LOVELY <.>they'd they'd just take over they'd spend the rest of the day singing if i'd let them and <.>i i was going to say i almost did <,> <{3><[3>it was great <[1>they called it manuka on the word <[2>oh right <[3>laughs give away all your secrets and then another day they wanted to go swimming so i said oh okay and <{><[>so we went <.>swi swimming and they didn't have any <.>s well some of <.>them some of the girls had togs <[>they all took their clothes off how old was your class <.>ho <{><[>or was it the whole school <[>i had the whole school i was the only teacher right oh they'd be up to standard six be standard <{><[>six <&>7:00 <[>and how <.>many children <{><[>oh <.>maybe maybe twenty <[>fewer than nine no laughs well it couldn't have been an aided school could it yeah native school for two <{><[>teachers <[>oh a NATIVE school yeah oh no i mean an aided school where they have fewer than nine <{><[>pupils <[>no no no no no A NATIVE school <{><[>yeah <[>oh <,> oh <{><[>i see <[>but their previous teacher had er got them in the <.>s in a sewing lesson to make these swimming togs for the older girls laughs that er that was in murray weston's school they didn't qualify did you go swimming too yeah <{1><[1>you teach them <{2><[2><,> strokes <[1>i <[2>i had some togs <,> did i teach them teach them butterfly and freestyle <.>and oh i was only there for three weeks mm they <{><[>could all swim <[>suppose <.>i suppose i did <{><[>something <[>couldn't they the maoris probably mm they can swim <{><[>look at them up in rotorua <[>word so they paid <.>your train fares to go up there <.>and yeah your taxi fares around <.>and yeah wouldn't be any taxis yeah cos he used to get a <{><[>taxi <.>in into ruatoria <[>yeah <.>i i got a taxi from ruatoria it was the only way of getting in oh getting my er luggage <{><[>in <[>so there would've only been one taxi anyway <{><[>wouldn't there <[>probably yeah mm <,> oh how funny oh i know a <.>m a maori called <.>gr er aupouri graham aupouri took my stuff from where <.>the by from the slip where the taxi had left me and he er packed the stuff on his horse <,> in to the schoolhouse <,> and er charged fifteen shillings and the secretary of the <.>educati after i'd sent the claim into hawkes bay education board <,> and the secretary willy dunn wrote me a letter saying well of course i've no idea how much money you had but it does seem to me that fifteen shillings is a bit <{><[>excessive how about offering him five shillings or something like that <[>cessive laughs laughs which which i did and he accepted it <{><[>laughs <[>laughs it was a good <{><[>try <[>oh they were great but <.>he <,> <.>i've i've never seen a <.>maori turn white <,> er laughs no that's not quite right the <.>o <&>9:00 what's the <.>n negative of blushing <&>9:03 <&>10:14 <{><[>do you want to watch it in there <[>are you going to watch um er <{><[>what's her name <[>er yeah okay shall i <{><[>pop these the dishes <[>lynn of tawa <{><[>mm what are you going to do <[>eh the dishes the pots i've put them in the dishwasher <{><[>oh okay <[>well there's nothing much there there's just a few knives oh you were going to have a drink do you want me to make a drink yes we're going to have a drink yeah word let's <{><[>have a drink <[>what of um oh what'll we have kapu ti you gonna have a cup of tea i'll have a cup of milk and water did you know that kapu ti is maori for cup of tea and kapu kawhe what is that cup of coffee kapu kawhe oh een tas de een tas de cafe i'm getting stiff <,> i'm a little stiff is that right is that dutch <&>11:00 een <{><[>een tas een tas de cafe <[>yeah yeah does that sound dutch <{><[>yeah <[>no no it's not <{><[>dutch <[>sounds francais <&>11:10