<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:36 and i can remember the port <{1><[1>bowen going down do you remember the port bowen the ship that went aground off castlecliff <{2><[2>in about nineteen thirty nine well we SAW it <[1>mm <[2>yes did you <{><[>actually see it mm <[><.>i i can remember it i was about five mm and um tut i can remember my <{1><[1>parents coming and saying look look there's the port bowen she's stuck on the rocks and of course <&>3:00 they never ever got her <{2><[2>off and i think the remains of her probably are still there <[1>mm <[2>mm mm possibly yes tut but then of course the war started <{1><[1>and i can remember the day war started my MOTHER was in tears and my father had been away to the <{2><[2>first world war <.>he he wasn't young when i was born and so he was <[1>mm <[2>mm mm tut um <,> tut he wasn't of an age where he could have been conscripted or anything so he wasn't worried i can remember him saying don't be so <{1><[1>silly mary they don't want somebody my age and then of course er <,> oh was it nineteen forty one forty two the japanese came into the war and THAT sent my mother into an absolute tangent <{2><[2>because here we were on the coast and <{3><[3>we had a crazy old neighbour <.>who who was convinced that the japanese were going to <{4><[4>land you know in their back doorstep and er they had a car and we didn't have <{5><[5>a car at that stage and um i can remember her saying to my mother of course mary we won't have any room for you in the car you know i <{6><[6><.>there i'll have myself and my children and what have you <.>a <.>a and i'm very sorry but we won't have any room in the car for you and they were going about ten miles up the road to where her sister was and this woman had <{7><[7>buried her silver in the back garden in case the japanese came <[1>mm <[2>well no wonder <[3>mm <[4>mm mm <[5>mm <&>4:00 <[6>laughs <[7>mm no she was going to go back after the war and reclaim her silver so of course that sent my mother off again <{><[>she was a very nervous sort of a woman and um <[>course word were you afraid of the japanese no well i didn't really <{><[>know much about them <[>you were too young you were too young um <.>i i was too <{1><[1>young i can remember the excitement we had at school we had to do all this <{2><[2>air raid drill and we all had to have a little box a little tin <{3><[3>box full of first aid equipment <[1>mm <[2>mm <[3>mm mm and i thought that was rather fun having all these little bits and pieces there the bandages and <.>the the <{><[>iodine and the one thing and another <[>mm mm yes and we all had to practise getting under the desks when <.>the oh <&>5:00 alarm was <{1><[1>given but i mean that was all <{2><[2>it was <[1>mm <[2>you'd be school age tut yes i was five i'd just <{1><[1>started school and er i went to school at westmere which was quite a <{2><[2>few miles up the the road and i used to go to <.>school <[1>yes <[2>mm how did you get there with the paper woman <{><[>we had a paper woman a woman a missus johnson <[>yes oh that was an idea yes who drove a little black english <{1><[1>car and she not only delivered the wanganui <{2><[2>chronicles but she delivered the bread as well so i would be heaped in the front seat with the bread and <{3><[3>the papers and she used to <.>dri and i remember <{4><[4>this she used to drive in her slippers and her dressing gown she actually wasn't dressed when she <{5><[5>was driving that car and delivering papers laughs <[1>mm <[2>mm <[3>laughs <[4>mm <[5>no she was straight <{1><[1>out of bed <{2><[2>laughs <[1>but <.>in <[2>yes yes but in <.>the and that was <.>about <{><[>oh i suppose she came at about half past seven something like that and then in the er after school <[>mm mm mm um i used to have to WALK home until i <.>s i got <&>6:00 my first bike i was very proud got a little bike mhm i remember <{><[>mine mm <[>but it <.>was yes but it was quite a long while till i got that bike and i had to walk quite a way it must have been about two or three miles and i was the only <{1><[1>child for seven years <{2><[2>and of course i was very lonely <[1>yes <[2>oh yes well you had it made didn't you well i did have it made but i wanted someone to <{1><[1>play with and there was a little girl called mary anne smith tut who lived near me and i think her father later became the curator of the wanganui museum or art gallery <{2><[2>one or the other tut and she was an only child and she had lovely things to play with and i used to go to her place after school as many times as i was <.>allo <{3><[3>well i wasn't allowed really i knew what would happen <{4><[4>when i got home i knew i was <.>going word there was going to be a hiding er cos of course my mother was worried <{5><[5>SICK <[1>yes lonely mm <[2>mm <[3>mm <[4>yes <[5>of course she would be here it was half past five <{1><[1>and i still wasn't home from school and i can remember missus smith saying now are you sure it's all right anna your mother knows where <&>7:00 you <.>are oh oh yes i LIED like a flat <{2><[2>fish yes of COURSE i know where she is i mean she knows where i am and but <.>i i knew as soon as i got home i could see my mother with a wooden <{3><[3>spoon waiting for me and i knew i'd get a hiding sniffs but it didn't stop me wanting those two or three hours of enjoyment and playing <.>with <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>yes oh well i can <{><[>understand that <[>other children mm so what about you where were you born cambridge quite a way away <{><[>mm <[>er in pukekura just out of cambridge up near where the karapiro dam is tut oh <{><[>yes <[>and as children we used to swim there it's a wonder we weren't drowned <.>we so it was still a dam then yes no it was a river oh it was made into a dam many years <{><[>afterwards <[>that was for the games wasn't it <{1><[1>one of the games <{2><[2>mm <[1>yes <[2>yes but um tut yes my father was left with <.>four i was the youngest tut four under nine but we had a wonderful life he lived for us <&>8:00 mm mm we had a nana and a housekeeper till i was five <{><[>mm <[>then we just had a housekeeper tut had a variety had a wonderful aunt some of them didn't stay long some <.>were stayed for quite a few <{><[>years <,> but er my father was all out for us to have outdoor life he was threatened with his health he had a profession in auckland although he was tut born in cambridge <[>mm mm um and he decided to come back to cambridge and bought a hundred acres of lovely land and had a stud farm of jersey <{><[>cows <[>oh beautiful beautiful animals with their liquid brown eyes show cattle and he imported a bull from england and he had a double fence around it it was so vicious it <{><[><.>was <[>mm mm er teased coming out on board ship but masterful was his <{><[>name but we had our ponies tut we used to go riding had our show ponies tut i just adored them er when i first went to school i went on the pony and i sat on the back <[>mm <&>9:00 mm my brother on the pony and then i was able to have my own pony which was the pride of my life mm i LOVED <{><[>my pony <[>mm what was he called er starlight oh and then i got too big for the pony tut and my father got me another one ruby little chestnut thing <.>n er bigger than starlight mm we had a wonderful life tennis court mm always for opening and then the day came when we were told we were going to go to boarding school in auckland everyone said what lucky children you are <,> i didn't think so <{><[>but we <.>went <[>so how old were you then lucy i was twelve <&>10:00 mm mm <{><[>where did you go to secondary school <[>my sister <.>went mm mm this was secondary school tut she was in <.>w saint cuthbert's college <{><[>in auckland she was in one cubicle in the dormitory and i was in the other BOTH were homesick we never let on to one another when auntie came to see us we never seen where she lived we both burst into tears <[>mm mm if only we'd told one another tut <{><[>yes <[>but we settled in and looked forward to our term holidays rush home get home off that train out to the animals <{><[>just loved it and of course i'd left my cat behind <[>mm mm but um no they were very very happy <.>day <{><[>my childhood days were happy <[>mm mm and er then of course i reached the stage i went nursing and i couldn't complete it on account of health oh but i came out of it after many years and just went back and tut i <.>wor came down to wellington worked in the health department in <&>11:00 the nursing division tut they were lovely days war years mm mm the war years to me were lovely days mm mm we had our anxieties yes but no they were very very lovely i was leading a normal life again yeah and er <,> then i had a break of some years when i didn't work <{><[>i was ill again <[>mm mm but i got back and i just worked with doctors as a and er <{1><[1>word word <{2><[2>mm <[1>practice nurse <[2>mm mm but they <.>were oh they were happy days mm very happy now do you think i've said enough mm that <.>was <{1><[1>yeah i think so yeah <{2><[2>yes <[1>yeah yeah <[2>but um my father LOVED the land he just loved it cos it's a beautiful area <{><[>around there a lovely part of new zealand <[>oh beautiful i didn't realise till i left it mm <{><[>mm mm <[>and i came down to wellington you see in the war <{><[>years tut and er now i go back every year go all around cambridge <[>mm mm in my car visit <&>12:00 mm <{1><[1>have you still got friends and <{2><[2>family there have you yes <[1>word <[2>oh yes still got friends and i've got family in the <{1><[1>waikato in hamilton <.>we er <.>we er only a few of them <{2><[2>left but <.>we and we're all very close and we word <{3><[3>and <,> have a lovely time <[1>yes <[2>yeah <[3>oh that's great mm yes but i go all over cambridge visit the old <{1><[1>haunts go out to our farm <{2><[2>still there it's <.>a now a horse stud farm <[1>mm mm <[2>word mm mm and tourists visit and i call i say to tell them i was born on that property and er they make a great fuss <{><[>take us in and have morning tea and they've got a big bronze horse <.>s lifesize <[>mm mm oh and a foal suckling as you come up the drive and the beautiful drive when my <.>father he planted all the trees and his <{1><[1>shrubs still there i him around before i went to school tut er before i you know <{2><[2>schooldays and i was with him every he <{3><[3>planted <[1>and they're still there yeah <[2>mm <&>13:00 <[3>mm mm so those trees mean a lot to me a lot of <{><[>memories there yeah <.>and <[>mm mm oh a lot <&>13:08