STANDPOINT: Police and occupiers at Pakaitore/Moutoa Gardens. PHOTO/FILE A-15-MAY-95-01
STANDPOINT: Police and occupiers at Pakaitore/Moutoa Gardens. PHOTO/FILE A-15-MAY-95-01
Trained volunteers putting together an oral history of the Pakaitore/Moutoa Gardens occupation have conducted 45 interviews, says co-ordinator Rosemary Hovey.
The group will have a stall at the Pakaitore Celebrations at the gardens on February 28, to show its progress.
They intend to have the Wanganui project wrapped up byMay, and have not had enough time and volunteers to talk to everyone who wanted to have a say.
"The working party regrets that some people who were hoping to be interviewed may be disappointed," Mrs Hovey said.
The interviews span a wide range of people - Maori, Pakeha, council, churches, police, politicians media and people working and living near the riverside gardens. The result will be lodged with the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wanganui Library and Whanganui Regional Museum.
There will also be a copy for Whanganui iwi. The project started in late 2012. It secured $37,000 in funding to buy high quality recorders and cover some other costs. It obtained a further $15,500 for an exhibition of Leigh Mitchell-Anyon's occupation photographs at the museum.
