Q.S.R. NUD*IST Power version, revision 4.0. Licensee: History Department. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Text search for 'games' 'games' +++ Searching document int. Allen, Stan... MP: AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU DESCRIBE, YOU KNOW, THE FOOD AND THE GAMES AND THAT SORT OF THING? 491 SA: Salt water, yeah. No, no, they had some big do's with the school. Well, GAMES and [434 inaudible] all that at the school itself, yeah. 501 +++ 2 text units out of 581, = 0.34% +++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 1... ZR: Make funds and Euchre GAMES to make funds for the church. Because that's another thing you might be interested in to have a look at the little Orthodox Church. 351 +++ 1 text unit out of 1954, = 0.05% +++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 2... OB: And then he visited some people's places and they would go in and have a game of cards. You know, friendly GAMES. Or he would sit with the people like that. You know, people were different. Now you can't go out. You couldn't even open your door now. You're frightened to open. 2059 +++ 1 text unit out of 3416, = 0.03% +++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 3... ZR: Amunis. They all did you know. They raffled things and they had wee GAMES and things like that. Then they all sort of helped. They must have all put a wee bit in extras you know.276 OB: Yeah. Well I used to remember playing GAMES. 290 +++ 2 text units out of 1816, = 0.11% +++ Searching document intJ B... Then I got a job in a primary school for boys. But I didn't like it. I was only there one year. The Headmaster I thought was a bit Ð I would call him dishonest. He had a son who looked after the GAMES part and the son would go down to... 617 +++ 1 text unit out of 777, = 0.13% +++ Searching document int.Mrs JB... JB: And ... Mr Molloy did it, he was great. And without that operation I would have died. So you can imagine, I wasn't allowed to swim or play GAMES, I wasn't allowed to do anything. 415 +++ 1 text unit out of 572, = 0.17% +++ Searching document int.Mrs JB 1983... INT WHAT SORT OF GAMES DID YOU PLAY?164 JB The usual children's GAMES. Hide and seek. I can remember my cousin had a magic lantern that we thought was wonderful. We used to watch that thing for hours on end. I think I used to play with dolls and things. 166 +++ 2 text units out of 535, = 0.37% +++ Searching document int.Mrs RB, & Whitty, J... SB: DID YOU GO AND WATCH THEM? DID YOU GO AND WATCH SOME OF THE GAMES?381 +++ 1 text unit out of 1278, = 0.08% +++ Searching document int.Caird, Myrtle... MEG: SO WHAT KIND OF GAMES WOULD YOU PLAY WITH YOUR BROTHERS? 280 +++ 1 text unit out of 1197, = 0.08% +++ Searching document int.Campbell, William... I: RIGHT, AND UM, WELL, WE'LL START OFF WITH CHILDHOOD PERHAPS. IF YOU COULD TELL ME JUST SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD, WHAT YOU CAN REMEMBER ABOUT THAT. WHAT SORT OF THINGS YOU DID, GAMES, THOSE SORT OF THINGS LIKE THAT. 7 I: AND WHAT ABOUT UM, DID YOU PLAY AGAINST OTHER GROUPS OR OTHER, ANY SORT OF TEAMS OR ANY GAMES LIKE THAT? 19 I: YEAH. WHAT SORT OF GAMES DID YOU PLAY? 23 I: YEAH, GAMES, [WC: YEAH] WHAT SORT OF GAMES WERE PLAYED THEN?63 WC: Just a game, the ordinary GAMES played about now, nothing much.65 I: ANY BALL GAMES? 67 I: DID BOYS AND GIRLS PLAY THE SAME SORT OF GAMES? 79 I: YEAH. NOW, DID YOU EVER DO MUCH ACTIVITY WITH YOUR PARENTS, LIKE GAMES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? 207 WC: Oh, just, ordinary kids GAMES. [I; yeah] Nothing very spectacular at all. 320 I: YEAH. AND SO YOU DIDN'T GET MUCH OF AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GAMES OR THAT ON SUNDAYS? 325 +++ 10 text units out of 583, = 1.7% +++ Searching document int.Colbert, Leslie... INT DO YOU REMEMBER WHETHER YOUR PARENTS PLAYED ANY GAMES WITH YOU?292 INT DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT GAMES YOU PLAYED WHEN YOU WERE THAT AGE?428 INT YOU DON'T REMEMBER THEN IF BOYS AND GIRLS PLAYED THE SAME GAMES OR IF THEY PLAYED TOGETHER? 432 LC Yes, it would have been my father. We had to be just the best. He used to cry us down. If we mentioned so-and-so he'd say they'd got on well. But we never got on well, we were nothing to him. But I know very well that outside our earshot he'd be skiting about how well we were doing. But he thought if he told us we were doing all right we'd just lie back and go to sleep. He'd try to make us better. It sort of rubbed off on me when it came to sport. I took up tennis for instance. I represented both Otago and Southland at tennis. The same sort of thing with table tennis. I was second top in Southland. Then it came to bowls and I won all the things at bowls. I was nominated for the Empire GAMES at one stage. So billiards was the same.566 +++ 4 text units out of 667, = 0.60% +++ Searching document int.Cummings/Manson part1... I: CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY GAMES YOU USED TO PLAY PARTICULARLY? YOU KNOW, WHAT SORT OF THINGS DID YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE A KID FOR YOUR LEISURE TIME WHEN YOU WEREN'T DOING CHORES? 283 I: CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY OTHER GAMES APART FROM MARBLES? [JM: AH] LIKE TOPS, SHANTY? 355 JM: Yeah, that's right. Ah, mainly jokers like, there was only marbles, tops, played tops a lot [CC: hoops, hoops], yeah, those GAMES. 363 I: DID YOU EVER PLAY A THING CALLED KINGS SING? [NO] IT WAS A KIDS SORT OF A GAME, DID YOU HAVE ANY SORT OF ROUGH AND TUMBLE GAMES, SORT OF LIKE, KIND OF, UNORGANISED FOOTBALL, DID YOU PLAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT, UNORGANISED RUGBY?379 I: SO YOU HAD THE ODD ROUGH GAME HERE AND THERE. THERE WASN'T MUCH ORGANISED SORT OF GAMES, WAS THERE? 387 +++ 5 text units out of 1849, = 0.27% +++ Searching document int.Mr KD F L... KD: Oh it was just party GAMES. They uh . . . dancing was --- I don't think it was ever thought of. Great for sing-songs. You'd perhaps go to people's houses and all around the piano and sing songs. They were very popular. And later on they --- as a result of the --- those singsongs used to be very prominent. 141 KD: Not really no. Going back to the party times there were sort of party GAMES that that sort of came into, but it was very much a, just a party thing as a, you know, a party joke, but no one was serious about it. 335 +++ 2 text units out of 694, = 0.29% +++ Searching document int.Mrs MD... But when we went to St. Clair their headmaster down there had had to take the children to learn music and he only knew the [indistinct] and we didn't know that from a bar of soap. We learned what we thought we called proper music. And of course going back to this other we could never get our do-re-mi's right. And they played different GAMES there, the children there were all old enough to have made their own friends through school, to standards worked in the same room, and every other year they used either the six standard reader or the fifth standard reader, and we'd already been through the fifth standard reader, and to get it again, it was old stuff to us.217 Anyway, the - it was one of those things, now in Caversham we were playing in standard 5, we were still playing ring-GAMES like the children play, high - I could name half a dozen of them all, but what's the use? 227 MD: Apart from men then it was around us, now and again we had team-GAMES now and in the new area that they bought for the, for the boys games, and in the end they had a fight [indistinct] not when I went. 231 MD: Playing ÒOn the ThroneÓ then, because we - all us children - it must have been George the 5, or what was it, we were all given a badge - medal, all the children were given a medal because of the new king. Anyway we played all the ring-GAMES. 235 MC: WHAT KIND OF GAMES DID THEY PLAY AT ST. CLAIR?241 MC: WHAT KIND OF GAMES WERE THEY PLAYING AT ST. CLAIR?245 MD: They would be two bruised legs. They were all organised GAMES like that you know, like that. Team games.251 MC: WHAT - GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF RING-GAMES THAT WERE PLAYED AT CAVERSHAM. 257 MD: 'He came here last night and the night before so you come along with me you little so and so', we yanked this child off and make him stand somewhere, and, and the boys used to play [indistinct] as soon as they got out, first up he [indistinct], and the one that was last up had to go catching the boys and - that was their main game they played. Oh, we played all sorts of ring- GAMES. 267 MC: WHY WERE THEY CALLED RING-GAMES? 269 MD: Because they were formed in a ring mostly to, to play. Eh ... I [indistinct] anyhow, the GAMES that are being brought by their mothers, because my aunty's mother, they knew what we were playing when we told them, so they'd say, oh, we played them when we went to school, so ... mattered where - what school you went to. 271 MD: Oh, we went into town as I've told you, our, our work made a difference. I'd love to tell you about my brother but I'd be wandering away from the subject. He ran away from school, he wasn't going to go to St. Clair neither, no way were they going to get him to go, and he wandered home after five o'clock at night, not knowing what the time was. And he did this once too often, and mum, mum said, 'Why don't you like your school?' And, well, he said, 'I don't know anybody', and he said, 'they don't want to play the GAMES we play', so he said, 'I'm gonna run away'. And she said, 'You'll have your father on you with the razor strap, that's what you'll have'.321 +++ 12 text units out of 2484, = 0.48% +++ Searching document int.Duncan, Dorothy... DD: I don't remember them so much when I was at primary school or even at high school perhaps. But my Mum and Dad did have people over sometimes for a game of 500. They used to like cards and they would have GAMES of 500. But you see you had to walk to get to where you were going or get a tram car. But often with the route of the tram car you had to walk anyway. 536 +++ 1 text unit out of 645, = 0.16% +++ Searching document int.Fountain, Kathleen Vere... +++ Searching document int.Fraser, Pat... MC: RIGHT, RIGHT. DID CHILDREN TEND TO PLAY IN THE STREET MORE? WOULD YOU GET TOGETHER AND HAVE GAMES? 893 CF: A lot of GAMES because David Street was not very wide and one tram used to run right down the middle every twenty minutes. Yes I can recall we played a lot of games because having so many children round about so forth. There was a lot of skipping and all this sort of games. 895 +++ 2 text units out of 1086, = 0.18% +++ Searching document int.Gilbert, Mary... G We played an awful lot of cards. We had plenty of GAMES. When my brother left home Mum's cousin who was a butter maker taught him how to butter make.170 +++ 1 text unit out of 410, = 0.24% +++ Searching document int.Mrs RG... RG: Oh yes, that was great fun. Yes we were always Ð Ross & Glendenings and the Mill, the Kaikorai Mill Ð they used to get a train and come out here to Wingatui race course. That was the great thing. They'd have races and prizes and GAMES. Three legged races and that sort of thing. I'm the same with the Sunday School picnics. 673 +++ 1 text unit out of 1829, = 0.05% +++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert... BG: Yes - when you look on back on them now it's laughable, you know, a bit childish, one of those sort of GAMES they used to play ... oh, heck. Oh, it was kids' stuff, really. And - but they didn't have dances, because my wife's family were Baptists, they frowned on dancing. [indistinct] So - and the Presbyterians were the same, in those days, but we had fairly good social evenings, you know, everybody was wound up and after - we went to a few and you were sort of let into the elite of the people that - to come on out and have a drink. A few [indistinct] out in the toilets. Oh, lot of fun. 121 BG: Well, sort of GAMES they played, and - a bit too - was it Postman's Knock and all those sort of things, do you remember? You wouldn't have heard that, I suppose. 125 +++ 2 text units out of 694, = 0.29% +++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert (2)... laughable, you know, a bit childish, one of those sort of GAMES259 BG: Well, sort of GAMES they played, and - a bit too -271 +++ 2 text units out of 1407, = 0.14% +++ Searching document int.Ingram, C.W.N.... SH:WHAT SORT OF GAMES AND SO ON DID YOU PLAY AT SCHOOL? DID YOU HAVE ANY ORGANISED GAMES?388 CI:No. No organised GAMES. 390 *SH:TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT AGAIN, OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS YOU'VE TOLD ME WHAT SORT OF GAMES WERE PLAYED IN THE SCHOOL, WHAT SORT OF GAMES AND RECREATION DID YOU INDULGE IN OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS? DID YOU PLAY IN THE STREET WITH YOUR FRIENDS? 598 SH:WHAT WAS THE FAMILY ATTITUDE TO WORKING OR GAMES ON THE SABBATH,ON SUNDAY? 738 +++ 4 text units out of 1385, = 0.29% +++ Searching document int.Isaac, Bill & Alice... AI: Yes, yes they'd always been against the dancing and had social evenings Ð GAMES and so forth. 913 +++ 1 text unit out of 1601, = 0.06% +++ Searching document int.Jones, Joyce... MC: CAN YOU REMEMBER EVER DOING ANYTHING LIKE PLAYING GAMES THAT WERE BASED ON THE FILMS? 301 MC: SO THERE WASN'T THE KIND OF COWBOYS AND INDIAN SORT OF GAMES THAT THE BOYS MIGHT HAVE PLAYED AFTER SEEING A COWBOY FILM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT?305 +++ 2 text units out of 1269, = 0.16% +++ Searching document int.Maher, Hilda... HM: Well we were mostly going to another couple's house and you know. Somebody that either my husband was friendly with, a couple, or people that I'd worked with and been friendly with, or family. We were fairly family orientated and um, and cards was a great thing, the game, you know. We used to play a lot of cards, or GAMES, and um ... 1319 MC: ... WHAT KIND OF GAMES?1321 HM: Oh well, um card GAMES and ludo and um snakes and ladders even all those kind of things and we'd have a lot of fun at it too even though we were adults. And um yes, and a Saturday and a Sunday we'd perhaps get on the tram and go to the gardens. Take some bread and butter and um, um perhaps fill a cold meat or something and have a picnic. 1323 +++ 3 text units out of 1353, = 0.22% +++ Searching document int.Maskell part 1... MW:YOU PLAYED RUGBY AND CRICKET - THEY WERE INTER-SCHOOL GAMES WEREN'T THEY? 390 RM: I was coaching in 1970. I tell the referees ... 40 years refereeing .... 1st XV ... form GAMES and also some of the junior boys playing. They played mid- week, Thursday afternoon I think it was and they could use us to referee then so I started off then and then the very next year when I went to the Forbury School. I'd referee there on a Wednesday afternoon. 400 RM: Secondary school. When I came to St. Clair in '34. You as a senior student would be referring the junior students' GAMES.404 We played two GAMES, all under 19, most of us were under 18 ... played two varsity teams . . .408 RM: No. Everybody was invited. Naturally they would be friends of people who worked .. but it wouldn't be open to the public. And they always had people about or they would be out playing cards, 500 .. card GAMES. Mum eventually played bridge.627 +++ 5 text units out of 722, = 0.69% +++ Searching document int.Maskell part 2... RM: Yeah and haunted house and all sorts of gambling, you know, GAMES of skill and "knock 'em downs". 276 MW:CAN YOU REMEMBER MANY INTERNATIONAL GAMES IN THAT EARLY PERIOD?379 +++ 2 text units out of 743, = 0.27% +++ Searching document int.Melville, Colin... CM: Oh, they had sort of social GAMES and ah, sort of party games things and that. I doubt, I don't know that I ever took a girl home after a social. You just didn't do that. You met them at the social but you didn't take them home.407 +++ 1 text unit out of 1096, = 0.09% +++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '01... MM: Oh that was way on. Oh well going from there - now, Roly, and then Lou Lowrie, oh, these ones going back. There was a Mr Thursdon, he was there for quite a long time. And who was the one before him? Mr Thursdon was the one we had when I was sort of in the Sunday school age. And then we had a Mr Goring, we Bible class kids used to go to his place a lot. He was a man --- he was a widower I think, wasn't he? And he had all the kids, he had evenings round there and we'd all go round there and play GAMES and that, you know. Sort of had board games and all sorts. It was good. Real open house you know, and that was good. And yeah, who was before that? That was . . . who was after that? The McCormicks. 755 +++ 1 text unit out of 961, = 0.10% +++ Searching document int.Mrs NN... JN: Oh no, no - oh, oh, yes, we would do it to a certain extent, yes, uhm, yes, Bill, he used to - like he'd come over to see me and sometimes I'd go over to his place to see him, uhm, that was up in Bridge Street, yes, and, and my mother and that, you know, we'd, we'd play GAMES, you know. 1154 JN: Sounds funny now, but we played Ludo and all those sort of GAMES. You couldn't imagine the young ones doing that now, could you? 1158 +++ 2 text units out of 2248, = 0.09% +++ Searching document int.Norman, Annie... AN: And he changed them one time, give the girls - well, the boys had like a ... what do you call it, like a merry-go-round and the girls had swings, well, the boys was on theirs and - where the boys had the swings and we had the merry-go-round. Like a Maypole thing, you know, used to go round on a rope, and oh, we had that for quite a while, you know, just a change over to let them play on our playground, and in playtime we had little houses, we built this - all macro-carpa trees underneath. Around the whole school. And we'd make houses in the playtime, you know, and then after school we'd play in them, this was our little house we played. We had all GAMES around us, Shinty and By-the-Door and oh, what else, marbles. We used to play marbles.2158 AN: Oh, no, you can't do - you cant play any of the GAMES in the street. We used all our games in the street. 2240 +++ 2 text units out of 3011, = 0.07% +++ Searching document int.Roberts, Rose... Int WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE WHAT SORT OF GAMES DID YOU PLAY? 147 +++ 1 text unit out of 353, = 0.28% +++ Searching document int.Roebuck, Lew... TB WHAT GAMES DID YOU PLAY AS A KID?341 LR I was never fond of GAMES. You were sort of forced into them. I was no good at running. 343 +++ 2 text units out of 438, = 0.46% +++ Searching document int.Shiel, Miss... AB:AND WHAT OTHER SORT OF GAMES WOULD YOU PLAY? 347 Miss S:At school. There was a lot of tennis at school ... tennis courts and then basketball was another thing. Those were the two main GAMES I think.353 +++ 2 text units out of 1349, = 0.15% +++ Searching document int.Sparkes, Shirley... SS: Yes. Yes, and my, uhm, my older sister Betty, her friend Etna, she was a wonderful pianist, and played the piano accordion, and I was seven years younger than she was and five years younger than my sister Pat, and they would often have parties with girl and boy-friends and play GAMES and a lot of music and I learned tap and ballet dancing, and sometimes I remember they'd roll up the carpet and I had to dance. But we had quite a fun time with that. But there was never any drink in those days with young people. It was just a nice supper and - 345 +++ 1 text unit out of 471, = 0.21% +++ Searching document int.Mrs MT... SB: YEAH. WELL EUCHRE'S ONE OF THOSE GAMES WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY EASY TO PLAY AND IF YOU'RE WINNING ALL THE TIME THEN, MMM... [LAUGHTER].2166 +++ 1 text unit out of 2483, = 0.04% +++ Searching document int.Wilkinson, Isabel... IW: Tennis and GAMES and we went to rugby matches.385 +++ 1 text unit out of 591, = 0.17% ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ +++ Results of text search for 'games' 'games': ++ Total number of text units found = 87 ++ Finds in 38 documents out of 89 online documents, = 43%. ++ The online documents with finds have a total of 47206 text units, so text units found in these documents = 0.18%. ++ The selected online documents have a total of 95427 text units, so text units found in these documents = 0.09%.