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+++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 1...
ZR: It would be CLOTHes. 
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OB: CLOTHing. 
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OB:  He'd bring orders from the country.  If anybody wanted their  orders.  Then 
he would get what he would think he would sell like cottons and cups or  tea-
sets.  You know, CLOTHing and things like that.  By the time they'd got all that 
and  packed them and got all prepared then they'd go away again you see.  1111 
OB:  He would wash his CLOTHes and do cleaning, and hang them on  lines at 
people's places. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 3...
OB: We would come home and change out of our Sunday School CLOTHes  and then we 
would go and play. 
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OB: Oh yeah we'd be all dressed up. We had to put on the best of  CLOTHes.
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ZR: You had your Sunday CLOTHes. 
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+++ Searching document intJ B...
       RB:  I'm blowed if I know, but everything was boiled.  The  sheets and 
pillowcases and if there were any white table CLOTHs.  We had big white table  
cloths.  They all went through the boil.  667        And you see to do the 
washing it used to take all of Monday  morning by the time you had these things 
boiled and rinsed and hung on the line.  Then  they had to be ironed.  
Everything, sheets, towels. Oh not the towels.  But  serviettes, table CLOTHs, 
everything had to be ironed. Some things were starched.  Table cloths  went 
through the starch.  serviettes went through the starch.  Doilies went through  
the starch.  You had a doily on every plate.  You didn't put biscuits or 
anything on a  plate unless you had a doily underneath it. All those doilies 
were mostly handmade.  We used  to do a lot of fancy work.  I made doilies with 
fancy work around or sometimes a bit  of crochet around the edge.  There'd be 
cross-stich we'd use.  We did a tremendous lot  of fancy work.  I don't think 
I've got anything left now.  I've given most of it away to the grandchildren. 
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       RB:  No.  There was a cold water tap over the copper.  She'd  fill it 
from that. No lifting to fill the thing you see.  That was a big thing.  She  
would fill the copper with cold water and a fire underneath and that would boil 
it. It had  to boil for a certain time.  I don't remember how long.  But you had 
to keep the  fire going until your white washing was boiled.  After it had 
boiled so long she had a long  stick and she would lift it out into the first 
tub which would be half full of cold  water.  She couldn't get it all out at 
once, she'd do about half of it at a time  you see.  Then she would rinse that 
twice and then it would go into the blue. Eventually  she'd have it all out.  
Then in would go the towels and you'd boil all those up.  When  the towels were 
out she'd put the floor CLOTHs in.  So everything was boiled. 
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       MC:  BUT NOT CLOTHES? 
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       RB:  Oh no.  They didn't boil CLOTHes. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs JB...

+++ Searching document int.Mrs JB 1983...
JB	Do you know David Street?  It's where the lights are.  You  may have 
noticed there's a Chinese grocer shop there.  That was the soup kitchen.  People 
used  to queue up there for soup.  I saw them.  They also gave out CLOTHes.  You 
took a sugar  bag in and got old clothes.  Round the corner in David Street 
about the second house down they did something with milk there.  The 
impoverished people used to go there  and get skim milk. I can remember that, 
that's what always made me fight for the  underdog.  I believe the Christian 
principles of the Labour Party.  It was wicked.  They say  there's a depression 
on now, but there's not.  People don't know what it was like.  482
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+++ Searching document int.Boulton, Miss...
	B:No.  We did wear woollen underCLOTHing, woollen bloomers  and things.  
But still we were sitting for all those hours in a cold room.  75
	I:TAILOR-MADE GARMENTS MUST HAVE PARTIALLY BEEN GOING OUT OF  FASHION AS 
MANUFACTURED CLOTHES BECAME MORE POPULAR.  DID YOU FEEL THAT? 
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	B:No, they don't go out of fashion.  They're still in  fashion.  The only 
thing is you buy things off the peg now because you have much better patterns 
than  they had then. They didn't have good patterns in the earlier days.  If you 
bought a  man's suit from town in the early days it looked really sloppy.  Now 
you can get them  very nice.  Just like with women's CLOTHes.  You can get good 
tailored coats now.  This is an English one I've had for years.  That's a well 
made coat you see.  You wouldn't  have got one like that back then.  I'll show 
you one I made myself a few years ago. 
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+++ Searching document int.Caird, Myrtle...
          MC:  My eldest sister worked at Sargood's CLOTHing Factory.  My 
younger sister worked at Somerville Wilkie. 
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          MC:  Well of course see we were all sort of in the same  boat.  I 
don't think we were over dressed or smart you know.  We were tidily dressed.  I 
had  a lot of my sister's hand-me-downs and things like that.  I know my 
youngest  brother was always smartly dressed because he worked at the woollen - 
he had to go in a  suit every day. But no you do.  You weren't buying CLOTHes 
all the time.  And then  during the war of course we had clothing coupons.  You 
couldn't, you just had to watch  the coupons.  I know a friend of mine, she had 
to make her dresses out of crouton.  If she just wanted to make a little sun 
frock or anything she made it out of furnishing  crouton because she didn't have 
a coupon. 
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          MEG:  YOU ACTUALLY BOILED THE CLOTHES, DIDN'T YOU? 
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          MC:  Well I think more in our day say anybody just sort of  had a bit 
of hard luck or something like that you'd just bake and take it to them.  I  can 
always remember one of the neighbours had a bit of a fire.  I can always 
remember mum  and dad getting in the garden.  Mum was baking and gathering 
CLOTHes.  You know, you  just helped each other.  You didn't do anything for 
money. You just more or less gave  it.  To me looking back now you were sort of 
a big family.  If anybody had grief or  anything you shared it with them.  No I 
don't ever remember having to do something for somebody to get something. 
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+++ Searching document int.Campbell, Amelia...
AC: Yes. He was. He had a warehouse. He had a CLOTHing factory. Made  shirts and 
pyjamas and all of that. Yes he was.  
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+++ Searching document int.Campbell, Ronald J....
". . . we're not putting any table CLOTHs on the table" - it was a  great big 
dining table. "And we're going to sit around it and we're going to come in  in 
procession". Oh and another thing, once we got there, you didn't get round in 
your  ordinary --- like this, you had to wear a gown, even your dressing gown, 
if you had  one. You had to wear that all the time you were there. And then he 
said, when they arrive,  we'll process in with their meal, which was a piece of 
dry bread - I forget what it  was on - a saucer or some pretty small bit of 
crockery anyway, and a glass of water. And  that's all he gave them. [laughter]. 
And he would sit down at the table and say Grace  with them. Oh, he was a hard 
shot! Oh dear! But that was just some of his pranks. 
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+++ Searching document int.Campbell, William...
	WC:  Oh no, no.  In fact you didn't see anybody about in  their old 
CLOTHes.  I often think now, even the Chinaman used to get pinched for working 
within  sight of the public in those days.  Chinaman wouldn't work in the garden 
on the Sunday,  it was quite rigid as regards that.  [I: gee] Oh yeah, a 
Chinaman, I don't exactly know  how much they got fined or anything, but it 
wasn't a done thing to work in sight of the  public.               327 	WC:  Oh 
that applied to everybody.  I got, when I got a wee  bit older, I used to run to 
the grocer's in Caversham, one of the boys there and me were good  cobbers, well 
I used to cut down the hill and come into the back way and home, so as  nobody 
saw me in old CLOTHes on a Sunday because you know, everybody else sort of 
dressed  up.  Perhaps dad and mum would walk to St Clair or something like.  It 
wasn't the done  thing to be knocking about, not sort of dressed up on a Sunday. 
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+++ Searching document int.Colbert, Leslie...
INT	WERE YOUR CLOTHES BOUGHT NEW? 
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INT	DID YOU PUT ON GOOD CLOTHES TO GO TO CHURCH? 
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+++ Searching document int.Crossan, Phyllis...
       PC:  It was something I was always keen on, playing around with  dolls 
CLOTHes and things like that.  I'd always liked dolls clothes.  My mother did 
and  I suppose that brushed off on to me too.  105        *But he used to be 
away such a lot in my younger days when he  was in the Harvester Company to me 
he was like a stranger coming to the house.  He'd be  away all week or more at a 
time.  I can remember my Mum going out with the next door  neighbour one night.  
Her and Mrs Todd used to go perhaps to the pictures.  Dad was looking  after me 
and it was time for bed.  I would only be perhaps about 4, I can't remember.  He  
said, 'righto, it's time for bed.'  I wouldn't let him put me to bed because to 
me  he was a stranger. I kicked and yelled and shut the door and put my back up 
against it.  So he said, 'well get into bed in your CLOTHes' which I did. So you 
know when you  didn't see anybody like that and he wasn't a great one to show 
his affection by having you  sitting on his knee and having a yarn to you. So 
perhaps that sort of made it harder for  me too.  They often used to laugh about 
me putting my back to the door. 
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+++ Searching document int.Cummings/Manson part 2...
	CC:  But they'd come round, burning hot day, baskets of  lemonade.  Start 
off in the mornings, packed with ice, with a CLOTH over it and all day long  
they'd come round, "you like a bit of ice, lemonade with ice".  You'd get it and 
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int.Davidson, Andrew...
	AD:  Oh, a good deal.  The industrial school in those day  the, I can 
remember that industrial school, they were ran by, owned by the government.  (I:  
mmm)  The head at Caversham was a man called Burlinson, Major Burlinson.  He had 
been  an officer in, in, some, in the British Army I think.  He had been an 
officer in the  British Army.  He was the head of the industrial school.  Now, 
the, the boys in the  Caversham industrial school were boys of, from, either, 
were out of beyond parental  control or boys who had no parents, there was no, 
ah, ah, beneficiary scheme to help assist  parents, a widow mother or widowed 
father and the result was that, ah, ah, the boys  who couldn't, children who 
couldn't be provided for were put out and the only  place, the only place 
available to them was the industrial school.  It was called the  industrial 
school because, and in that industrial school the boys who had been before  the 
court for misbehaviour, juvenile offences, and boys who had no parents, whose  
parents who had either died or lost them, kept them, that was generally, it was 
very  easier. It was common for a mother to frighten her children if they 
weren't  behaving, you'd send them to industrial school.  She would send them to 
industrial school if  they didn't behave. (I: yeah)  And that's exactly what 
happened and in that industrial  school the, the, discipline must have been 
cruel, must be harsh because on a numbers  of occasions when I was working on a 
farm in the country, boys, escaped boys from the  industrial school, I used to 
enquire from them, they got bread and scrape for dinner, for  breakfast.  Bread 
and scrape meant bare bread and grease.  Bread and divvy, that was  their dinner 
and breakfast -bread and scrape and the, the meals were very frugal  indeed.  
Ah, the were very frugal, and all, the industrial school, at the industrial 
school  they tried to be self sufficient and the result was it all had a good 
vegetable  garden, vegetable were grown. And the boys had baths once a week, and 
that was in the bath  up the hill, water was, ah, swimming baths, what we called 
swimming baths where they  were bathed once a week.  That was the ah, the 
discipline was very cruel and the food,  the CLOTHing was um, clothing was the 
cheapest kind and the discipline was cruel.  The boy  was never given, was any 
shown any love or affection.  He was ah, if they were ever  called by their 
first... 
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+++ Searching document int.Denford, Frank...
	FD:  It wasn't, she couldn't of course, she had too much to  do to look 
after the family.  But it wasn't the custom, ah, or yes, I suppose you'd say  
the custom, for the women to work a lot, except as in domestic service.  Um, and 
there  weren't the same avenues.  There weren't the, even the, factories or 
industries that,  apart from um, say in the CLOTHing trade, tailoress's or 
machinists, that there weren't  the openings that, of course, that we're so used 
to accepting today. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mr KD F L...
KD: It would be - you had your Sunday CLOTHes then. It was a treat to  get 
dressed up in your Sunday clothes, and everybody walked to church. They --- as a  
group usually. Sometimes someone would be running late and they'd catch up with 
the  group. But it was meant to be a group all the time. And we went as a family 
to church  in the morning, Sunday school in the afternoon. And I don't remember 
--- I never went  at night --- I don't know whether anybody else did or not - I 
was still reasonably  young then. And I might have been --- there'd be someone 
home for babysitting and  what-have-you. But the normal thing was 11 o'clock 
services and 7 o'clock evening services,  Sunday school in the afternoon.                                                      
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KD: Yes. My parents had gone into that - I don't know. But I assume  my father 
was still working and had a wage coming in and when that side of it broke down  
it left a big burden on my mother - probably a big mortgage and four young kids 
to  feed. And CLOTHe, which was a major hurdle.  
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+++ Searching document int.Mr BD...
        Bert:  Well we always had to do a certain amount.  Like they  rely on 
one of the others, the eldest, and if there's kids running, one, two, three or  
four, I used to take them out with me when I went back to (47) or when I did, 
play with  them and all that sort of thing and I used to change their CLOTHes 
when necessary.  It  didn't worry me.  I sort of grew up that way. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MD...
       MD:      Oh, well, there were a lot of people - oh, well, if  people that 
had had perhaps a higher education or worked in, in town in different places, 
they da - [indistinct] going to work in worker's CLOTHes, like our fathers  
were. And they, they seemed to us to live in better homes, not that I'm binding 
for the  home we were in because we thought it was wonderful, about dad making - 
building the  house.                 225
       MD:      Oh, up High Street, wait a minute ... I can tell you a  lot of 
the things they did there too, the [indistinct] process too, but never mind, uhm  
... was it Findlay's? Have you ever heard any mention of Findlay's? Well, it was  
mainly menswear ... cutting out trousers, shirts, those - it was mostly menswear 
they  went in for. And when they - these CLOTHes in the factory they came around 
in a big  bundle, I'll tell you what my first job was in the factory was to sew 
the narrow hem around  the bottom of men's shirts.  
369        MC:      WAS THAT AFTER YOU WORKED IN THE SECOND CLOTHING  FACTORY? 
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       MD:      'Cause they - I don't know, I suppose they got an hour  for 
lunch but if they used that and travelled there as well in their working 
CLOTHes,  and men did do that.  1273
       MC:      YES, OR, OR CLOTHES THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE FAMILY HAD  GROWN OUT 
OF.            1335
       Somebody came and asked them one day could she use a rooster,  and she 
said, 'Oh that would be nice', yes, she could use a rooster, but it was only a  
chicken, you know, it was a rooster, but a wee, wee fellow, so she said she 
would have  to wait till it grew, so it was winter time and they had left it out 
in the cold, the  kids had been trying to play with it, they'd left it outside, 
and they went out and  she said, 'Ah, the wee thing is dead', and she said, they 
were going to have a, a, you  know, a post-mortem to see what had killed the 
chicken and found it was only cold, but  first she plucked all its feathers off, 
they all plucked the feathers off, she said, 'Oh,  it will make a pot of broth, 
it will make some broth', so she got them all to work,  picked all the feathers 
off, and of course in the warmth of the kitchen it came to life  again, it was 
only sort of too cold for it to, to be alive, they thought it was dead, and she  
felt sorry then for it because it had no CLOTHes, and she made it a wee jacket 
and a  pair of pants.        1379        MD:      With boots and things - with 
CLOTHing mostly. I'd love  to tell you this naughty thing, but you're naughty 
too, so I won't.  1393
       MD:      He thought [indistinct], you know outside some of  those shops 
they had isolated showcases, you know, showy things, CLOTHing and stuff, he  
thought he was waiting his turn to get something out of one of them.  1878        
MD:      But she was working anyway, and it needed a, a whole  weekend at least 
to come to her own home, and so we got the baby all ready and CLOTHing  packed 
up for her, oh, no she liked the wee girl. They were nice kiddies.  1942        
MC:      RIGHT. WAS THAT SOMEONE THAT YOU GOT - DID THEY GIVE 
YOU AN ALLOWANCE TO PAY FOR THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND CLOTHING? 
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       C:      Haven't you had the round one that goes like that and  then you 
push it all through the wringer, you know, the wringer is attached to the 
washing  machine and you swi - you could swing it between your tubs and then you 
just pushed  you CLOTHes through the wringer. 
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+++ Searching document int.Fountain, Kathleen Vere...
       KF: No, no we wore good CLOTHes and of course hats always. I  remember 
when it came in that women didn't have to wear a hat in church.  1202        KF: 
I know we couldn't. But I, you know, we didn't have to do  without anything in 
the way of food or CLOTHes or anything, but - 
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       SB: YES. YES. I FORGOT TO ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR SUNDAY BESTS. DID  - WOULD 
YOU, YOU HAVE A SEPARATE CLOTHES? 
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       KF: But I know at that time of the poverty they wouldn't,  wouldn't have 
decent CLOTHes to go to church with, because the women were making clothes  for 
- underclothes out of flour bags.  2067
       KF: But I know that there was one woman who used to go to  church, and 
she would make sure she was the first one up at the rail to have the sip of  
wine after the vicar, because she didn't want to have it after all the other 
people. He  used to wipe it with a nice, white CLOTH -  2159
       KF: But the trouble was he used the same part of the CLOTH each  time. 
[laughter] And of course the Roman Catholics believe it is Christ's body and  
blood, don't they? They're real cannibals!  2163
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+++ Searching document int.Miss DF. & Miss GB....
	GB:	And the CLOTHes all used to go on there, up with the  pulley, well, 
I often think now, you know, there was a lot of cooking done and that, must have  
smelled, must all have gone up to the clothes, mustn't it?  
1035	MC:	WERE THERE MANY - LOOKING BACK ON IT, DO YOU THINK  THAT THERE WERE 
A, A NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN A SIMILAR SITUATION, WHO, YOU 
KNOW,  YOU COULD LOOK AT THEM AND YOU COULD SEE THAT THEIR CLOTHES WERE SHABBY 
OR THAT, YOU  KNOW, THEY REALLY COULD DO WITH A NEW PAIR OF SHOES IN WINTER - 
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	GB:	And, and their people, like the hotel-keeper's girl,  she was more 
[indistinct] spoilt and she'd have these beautiful CLOTHes on, you know, and 
then  wear a new - with a fur - white fur coat and that, you know, we never 
forgot that, I used  to - every year that white fur coat and white boots she 
used to wear, they were  beautiful. If only I could have had those, it would 
have been lovely. 
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	DF:	Decent CLOTHes. We had warm clothes in the winter  time, and always 
well fed, so that was the main thing. 
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	GB:	Remember mother used to say they used to love getting  a - the 
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+++ Searching document int.Fraser, Pat...
      CF:  Well I think if you were going by tram car you'd perhaps  have your 
good CLOTHes on.  For the bike you'd just have your ordinary. 
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      MC:  YOUR WORK CLOTHES. 
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      CF:  Your work CLOTHes more or less. 
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      CF:  Mainly in those days of course the grocer would call for an  order.  
Your butcher would call and it was all delivered you might say.  But as  far as 
ordinary household goods and CLOTHing went it would be my mother, yes. 
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+++ Searching document int.Gilbert, Mary...
G	We went to Sunday School and then we came home and we weren't  allowed to 
play cards or anything like that.  We just had to relax.  We didn't have the  
CLOTHes that we have today.  On Sundays we'd have beautiful tussa silk smock 
frocks.  They  were for Sundays so they were washed and put away.  We had aprons 
which were all  starched.                    
35 G	No he was too old.  He had a lovely CLOTH he won in the  territorials for 
the Boar War way back then.  We were all too young to go.  I had a cousin who 
was  killed in the First World War.  Three aunts had a homemade collection of 
tearooms here in  Dunedin.              158 G	No they weren't.  His father was 
a tailor.  They had all  gorgeous CLOTHes and suits to
wear. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MG...
      MG:  My grandmother I remember as a tall stately lady, a very  good 
manager.  I think they must have worked very hard even in those days because she  
had a lot more things than I had when I went down to the Clutha Valley. But on 
the  other hand washing day was a big day.  It was boil the CLOTHes.  Even my 
mother who had  a gas copper.          
178       MG:  My mother to begin with had a gas copper.  That compared  with my 
grandmother who had I think a wood copper.  She had a gas copper which you just  
put the thing in and it went away and the water boiled.  Of course the washing 
day was a  day.  Mother's was Thursday.  She didn't have Monday. Everyone else 
had Monday but  mother had Thursday. Washing day was their day.  Nothing else in 
the morning stood in its  way.  Sheets were all boiled.  They were not polyester 
cotton, they were real cotton  white sheets and they were boiled, they were 
rinsed and they were blued.  And the  tableCLOTH was starched.        
317        When I was old enough sometimes I used to come home and do the  
ironing and the blasted starched tableCLOTH and serviettes had to be damped. 
When we  were still at home and mother was doing this we sometimes used to get 
on the hand  wringer.  But then later I do remember my mother having one of 
those Whiteway ones.  They  still are about.  I don't know what year it would be 
but there was always a great  business that all the buttons had to be folded in 
otherwise they got popped off with the  electric wringer. And you had to be 
careful you didn't put your fingers in.  We weren't  allowed to work it until we 
were old enough.  That's about all.  I didn't have to do the  washing.              
318       MG:  Yes.  Some people use them sometimes as a potter's wheel  now.  
But they're still about and yet people in farms like them because you can put 
the  clean things through.  Not that we had any dirty CLOTHes because Dad was 
professional and we certainly didn't roll around in the paddocks.  But there was 
a  routine.  You put the sheets through and then the towels and then the 
coloureds last.  Not  that the coloureds always came out. 
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       No, it was a full day on washing day and as I say it would have  been 
much harder for my grandmother than my mother and now I think that I could 
really  go down town and leave it on.  It's not all that long and I'm getting 
dressed or  something while it's on. I still hang my CLOTHes out although I've 
got a drier.  I suppose I'm a bit old-fashioned but I like it out in the 
sunshine and I've got the room  and the air's clean.   
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       *But my mother used to take us to town to buy us CLOTHes.  I  can 
remember those days.  You'd go in.  There was always a chair at the counter.  
You  could climb up on a chair.  In those days I think the people were paid on 
what they sold.  You never stood waiting wondering who was going to serve you.  
They'd come rushing  up.  I can remember one experience where someone was 
serving us and another person came  up and took her job and she was given a 
short shift.  If you filled in the docket and had  your name on it I think you 
got an extra bonus in pay.  So everyone rushed to serve  you.  They kept you. 
They didn't go off and leave you dreaming while they were serving  someone else.  
But I can remember one instance in DIC where someone went away for a few  
minutes and another one came up and she told her to get out of the road because 
it was  her customer. These lovely machines where they put the docket in and 
sent them flying to  the office and it came back.  That always fascinated me. 
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      MG:  No.  But I can remember mother going through our things and  our 
CLOTHes were given away if they were still wearable to appropriate people.  All  
our toys and books that we grew out of went over to the convalescent home over 
the road.  There was a big one on Forbury Corner.  Books and things, pack up 
things you'd  finished with.  My mother was a very tidy organised person. You 
have to be though to help my  father all day long. Well she answered the phone 
and the odd call. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs RG...
      But no, it's - the washing machine made all the difference in  the world, 
because before you had to light a copper and boil up the water and that sort  of 
thing, and that was the thing, you boiled your sheets and your towels and that 
sort  of thing, cause we don't do that today and ... eh ... evidently it wasn't 
necessary,  cause I don't think our health is any worse for it. Perhaps it is, 
perhaps that's why  there's so much cancer and we don't put it down to that, I 
don't know. But they reckon, you  know, you boiled your CLOTHes to kill the 
germs on them, the sheets and the pillow  slips and the towels and anything like 
that. 
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      Yes - and then had to put them through a wringer, lot of hard  work, 
because once the washing machine came - well, you did have a wringer on the 
first  washing machines that came, they had wringers on them. Mine didn't 
because mine, my -  mine had had a - mine was a Bendix, now I think that must 
have been in the early  1950's, because my husband had been for a trip to 
Australia, and they - friends he stayed with in Melbourne, they were very up and 
with-it people, and they had a  Bendix washing machine so that nothing would do 
him, but he had to buy his wife a Bendix  washing machine, and I think one of 
the funniest episodes was, oh yes, he was going to do  the washing all right and 
that sort of thing, and he came - I had the machine going and  that, and he came 
in with something, you know, soiled, and he put, put it in, he just  opened it, 
opened the door, and of course the water and the CLOTHes went right across the,  
the floor, made a great old mess of it, he didn't do that twice. You can just 
imagine  what it would be
like. 
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      RG:     Oh, dad had his own interests and that, but he, he would  always 
go out to a sport in the, you know, in the  wintertime, we'd always go to  
Carisbrook and watch football and I can remember when I was quite young walking 
to  Carisbrook to see the football matches with my father and mother, and - oh, 
mother did all  the buying for the household, and she didn't buy his CLOTHes, 
because he was in a - he  was dealing in - that was his job to deal with men's 
wear, but ... apart from that  mother had a free hand to do what she wanted to 
as far, as far as I remember. 
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      MC;     RIGHT. AND OUT, OUT OF THAT SHE RAN THE HOUSE AND  CLOTHED ALL THE 
CHILDREN
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      RG:     No, not ... making exchange, but I know that CLOTHes  would be 
made down, you know, you'd have somebody bigger or older than yourself and that  
you, you'd get a dress made out of their old dress or mum's old costume skirt 
was some  - you know, that was very much done. 
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      RG:     Oh, a lot depended on if a family had no use for it,  then it was, 
it was mainly within a family, and - but then when you grew out of old  CLOTHes, 
you grew out of your clothes as children did, there was always a poor family 
that you  passed things on
to. 
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+++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert...
      BG:     It's a jump, but ... wasn't easy, you know, because when  we got 
married on four pounds five a week we had, we had two mortgages, and that took  
twenty-seven and six a week on [indistinct] and you know, had to live on the 
balance, that  was to CLOTHe yourselves and pay insurances and mortgages, and 
,you know,  everything was - it was a pretty tight squeeze. Some weeks I might 
get a ... enough to buy one packet of cigarettes or something. So what, we, we  
... I don't think we could  have existed without my father, he was a builder and 
he built our first house, eh,  not just far from here, which we stayed in for 
two years, and we were nearly blown out  of by the wind, so I bought this 
section here and - although he didn't work on the house  he oversaw the ... the 
man that daddy knew - he had retired by that time and - so he had  - made sure 
everything - good material went into the house, you know.  
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      BG:     It used to be an old A & T Ingalls, the same, well  CLOTHing place 
and everything, you know. No, she didn't go, excuse me, to secondary  school. 
She was - stayed home to help her mother. Her sister went to secondary school  
and her brother went to Technical College, he was a very clever ... engineer, I 
think, you  know, she didn't, didn't go, so she only had an, an  education up to 
the sixth standard  and that, stayed home and helped with the house, you know, 
quite a bit  [indistinct]cause she had - her father died when she was very 
young, she was four I think, and then  her mother married again, and he brought 
two children into the fold, eh, son and a  daughter. So it ended up it was - her 
step- father had a son and a daughter, and her mother  had two daughters and a 
son, and later after those two got married the step-father and her  mother were 
having a daughter, so they had step-daughters, step-sons and half-sister.  But 
they all - happily, very happy they were, you know. The stepdaughter - the  
half-sister, she still lives in Wellington, and Rena's sister lives down - she's 
the same  age as me, she lives down Clyde Hill, she's the one who lost her 
husband. But eh ... no,  that where I meet my wife, and never ever went out with 
anyone else, that's strange. 
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      BG:     She worked in ... I think she worked in - it was  Stafford Street, 
one of those places round the main [indistinct].sort of CLOTHing place.  593
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was to CLOTHe yourselves and pay insurances and mortgages, and  229 CLOTHing 
place and everything, you know. No, she didn't go,  1192 [indistinct] sort of 
CLOTHing place. 
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+++ Searching document int.Harris, Bill & Frances...
       WH:      But it was a tremendous experience you - one that you  never 
forget, you know, you - one minute in St. Andrew Street you'd be sat - selling  
D'arcy porcelain all the way from Ireland and, and another big store that closed 
down in  Gore, all the foot-ware was there and shoes were selling at two-and-
six- pence and  five shillings for a man's shoes, and of course you'd have 
CLOTHing sales and, and every  year there was always the pre-sale of stuff that 
was all left in the  railway-carriages and it was a fascinating world - 
225
       WH:      No, no I didn't. All I did with that was of course buy 
my CLOTHing and all that. 
303
       FH:      Tram ticket there was nothing left out of - there was  just for 
your CLOTHing. 
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       WH:      Mother wasn't in good health, she had a very bad  diabetic, and 
it was just that we had such wonderful close-knit family that we just - this  is 
what it was in those days, now of course it's, it's not the case, you know, muhm  
goes one way and dad goes the other, 'cause they're both working, but you always 
came home  if it was a cold day your mother would have a cup of cocoa for you or 
some soup, get  your wet CLOTHes off, she's always there after you came home 
from school. 
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       MC: AND THAT WAS WITH THE CLOTHES IN THERE. 
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       FH:  Yes, CLOTHes and - 
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       FH:  No, that was to wash the CLOTHes with. 
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       WH:  Yes, to wash the CLOTHes... 
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       WH:  It was mostly for washing CLOTHes. 
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       WH:  Uh Muhm always. [MC: RIGHT.] Yeah. Muhm did all the  shopping, the 
CLOTHing for the family and ah, that was all done and of course in those days  
your, your grocer and your baker came to your door and your milk was delivered 
to your  door, it was always and you put your billy out.  It was always dipped 
out of a, a big  [FH: Can.] can and there was no pasteurised at that stage, but 
Muhm always did all the  shopping.              3433
       WH:  Oh well it was all CLOTHing and all sorts of stuff.  It  was a real 
warehouse. [MC: MM, MM.] Like Ross & Glendinnings. 
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+++ Searching document int.Harrison, Ellen...
      EH:  Ah, well, we didn't really, we didn't really go to work  such as.  
After I left school I wanted to go nursing and um you couldn't start nursing 
until  you were 18 and the Otago University ah had started a Home Science 
Department and  they were very short of funds, they had a Professor Strong who 
came out to New Zealand to  start the Home Science school and um to raise funds 
they offered tuition in  specialised subjects.  You didn't have to sit any 
exams, you took what they called CLOTHing,  which was dressmaking and um 
cooking, then science subjects like History of Costume and History of 
Architecture and that type of thing and I was there for two years,  and my 
father who always objected to my request to, when I say request, you always had  
to request father for anything you wanted to do, to go nursing and um so he had  
encouraged this two years that I spent at Home Science, hoping that I would 
decide to go on and  do a degree but at that time the only opportunity available 
with a Home Science Degree was to be a dietician, or a teacher.  I think there 
was a third option but I  can't remember.             62       EH:  Oh I was 
only getting 15 shillings a week and um 15  shillings a week, and we were taxed, 
I think it was a shilling in a pound, so that would be  nine pence.  I was 
paying nine pence in tax and the shop would be open until 9 o'clock  on a Friday 
night and my evening meal would be one and thrupence, my car fare, my tram  fare 
for the week would be half a crown, and because it was a penny a section and it  
was three sections down to, from St Clair down to George Street and I paid my 
mother ten  shillings.  (MC: RIGHT)  But that included all my food and she used 
to still buy my  CLOTHes and things, um, it was just sort of a token gesture I 
suppose. 
208
      EH:  And another thing going through these photos, I noticed  when 
Valmay's mother used to take us to various places like Waikaouiti and Outram for  
school holidays, we seem to be in our school uniform.  It seemed to be the only 
good  CLOTHes that we had, and you know when we went on holiday... 
232
      EH:  Yes.   He had a special law of Parliament passed so that he  could 
own these three hostellers between Christchurch and Greymouth, and the oldest  
son told me that they used to charge a shilling a night for bed and breakfast 
and they  would have clean sheets on the bed, starched tableCLOTHs and starch 
serviettes on the  dining room tables and the father would have to get up at 
four o'clock in the morning  and check the river for a smooth crossing for the 
coach and they were Cobb & Co coaches  that had six to eight horses and the road 
would be so windy, my husband told me this  because he used to go home to Otara 
for school holidays and other holidays and he said  that the road was so narrow 
that some of the lead horses would be out of sight of the  coach and the men 
would have to get out and walk up the steeper parts and leave the ladies  
sitting in the coach.     
417        Well then she got a bit bored with croquet because um she had  gone 
as far as she could go and one or two of her friends had died and she decided 
she  would play golf and because she had such an accuracy gained in the, you 
know, lining up  the balls for croquet and things, she was an excEHt putter and 
she got her golf  handicap down from 36 down to 21 in a very, very short while.  
So, she played at a small,  well St Clair first, and then she joined, she wanted 
to get onto a flatter club because by  this time she was getting about 60 I 
suppose, then abit older and um so she joined a  small club that played on 
Chisholm Park called Onslow and then Onslow was amalgamated  with Chisholm Park 
and she played for Chisholm Park, they played for a trophy, Haliday  trophy 
which is at Chisholm Park still and um and then she developed a bit of high 
blood  pressure and the doctor said that she should give up the golf, which  I 
thought was  stupid, but of course my father was into bowls by this time and he 
said, ah rushed into  town and brought her a set of bowls and got her to get 
CLOTHes and everything, joined her up  with St Clair bowling club, she said it 
was the most boring game, but however, she  played bowls and she was a good, and 
eventually enjoyed it but you know, it's not the  same as golf, it's just 
entirely different. 
459
      EH:  It had a cradle inside that was, a metal cradle that was  full of 
holes and you put the washing into the cradle and it had a lid on it and you put  
the hot water into the bottom of this copper thing, copper container and grated 
soap and  then you tipped this centre piece on its side and turned on the power 
so the centre  piece turned round like this, like a wheel and the CLOTHes 
flopped into the soapy water  like this, and after you thought they were clean, 
you stopped the machine and put  the cradle on the (MC: BACK ON ITS BASE) back 
on the flat, and then turned the power on  again, sorted the clothes out evenly, 
turned on the power on again, and that spun all  the water out and then you put 
the clothes into one of the tubs you see, and did the  next lot of washing. But 
if you got the clothes unevenly balanced, the jolly machine would  chase you 
round the laundry.  You had to be pretty quick on your feet and then,  mother 
had that machine for a long time. 
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      EH:  Oh yes, oh yes because when I was first married in 1940, I  didn't 
have anything like that, although they were available and most people just  had 
a copper and you boiled your CLOTHes and you had a copper stick that lifted the  
hot, boiling hot clothes, how more people weren't scalded, I don't know, but you  
lifted the boiling clothes out into a tub and then you had to use a hand wringer 
to get  them from that first tub into the second tub and then um you know wring 
them, ready  to go on the line. So, it was a time consuming job and of course at 
the beginning of the  war, we had to make our own soap and type of thing in the 
copper.  The old copper we  used for all sorts of things.  (MC: MMM, MMM)  Oh 
yes, it was, once they became  reasonably priced you know, they were great.  And 
some of the old fashioned machines that I've  came across now, this old holiday 
house that we had at Naseby, a friend of mine had a  cottage there, and she had 
one of the early Beatee machines and it was electric and um it  had a cradle 
thing in it too, that sat on the bottom of the, sat on bottom when you put the  
clothes into be washed and then it had a lever on the side and when the clothes 
were  washed you put your foot on the lever and lifted this basket thing up so 
that the clothes  could drain before you put them through the wringer.  And I 
thought that was a great  idea.  And you know there were a lot of interesting 
things, but I just had, the first  washing machines I had was just an ordinary 
one, just with the wringer on top. 
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      EH:  Both sides, mmmm.  Now a strange thing happened when I was  going 
through the old photos, I couldn't help seeing how, I mightn't have put enough  
tea in that because I don't take milk. (MC:  NO, THAT WILL DO ME JUST FINE, 
THANK YOU VERY  MUCH).  No, when I was glancing through these old photos i was 
really quite surprised to  find that even when we were going on holiday I was 
school uniform.  We obviously  didn't have other CLOTHes.  We had other clothes 
to wear to church but we only had our  school uniform.        517       EH:  Not 
when I was young.  We knew about the Chinese goldminers  and um, we used to pay 
regular visits to the museum and see the type of CLOTHing they  wore and that 
sort of thing but no, I don't. 
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+++ Searching document int.Horder, Vera May...
INT	ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE. WHO SEWED YOUR CLOTHES? THEY LOOK SO  BEAUTIFULLY 
MADE.             141 +++ 1 text unit out of 226, = 0.44%  +++ Searching 
document int.Ingram, C.W.N.... CI:Went roaming. I've been known to tear new 
CLOTHes Sunday best.  
744 CI:When he came here there was a men's CLOTHing store, a two-storied  
building. Colin Brown. Todd he would be a mayor of Caversham. And I was telling 
you  that when my grandparents came out, they came out in the ship 'Auckland', 
my  grandmother's brother and his family came out in the same ship and they 
lived on the  opposite corner of Thorn Street amd they took up land on the 
opposite corner and he was a  builder and he's built a terrific number of houses 
in the area particularly in College  Street, and they all seem to be the same 
design and they are still occupied and that but  he built quite a lot and he was 
an undertaker; he'd been a city councillor too and that's  why they named, when 
they had to change the names, there was a duplication of names,  they re-named 
the street from 
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SH:DID THEY HAVE ANY DRAPER'S SHOPS, CLOTHING SHOPS AS WELL? 
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CI:I wished you hadn't mentioned that. It was up there in Rockyside  and they 
had a Salvation Army Home for wayward girls and they used to march them down 
every Sunday  to the Citadel in South Dunedin, King Edward Street and one Sunday  
morning after I'd done the usual Sunday morning work in the fire station I went 
back to bed.  Now these girls you could time to a second when they were going to 
pass so the engine  room doors if you rattled them you could open the spring 
loaded fasteners so my mates  put wooden bars behind them and they put the key 
in the front door and ~^ the girls  got to the park and they stripped my CLOTHes 
off and put me outside and locked the door. 
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+++ Searching document int.Isaac, Bill & Alice...
       MC:  RIGHT.  SO WHAT DID YOU DO ABOUT THINGS LIKE BUYING  CLOTHES THEN?                
279
       AI:  Well I suppose that she brought them for me and she used  to make a 
lot of CLOTHes for me.  Buy material and make it up, that sort of thing. 
281
       MC:  RIGHT, RIGHT.  BECAUSE I SUPPOSE THE CLOTHES MUST HAVE  BEEN REALLY 
HEAVY WHEN YOU WERE LIFTING THEM OUT? 
1103
       MC:  SO YOU HAD THE COPPER WITH THE CLOTHES, AND YOU TOOK THE  CLOTHES 
FROM THE COPPER INTO THE FIRST TUB AND WRUNG THEM INTO THE SECOND TUB. 
1111
       AI:  We've only got one now, one tub but you needed the two  tubs because 
you took the CLOTHes and put them into, the whites into the cold water and  then 
you wrung them through into the other, the blue water.  (MC: RIGHT) You had to 
have  blue water (BI: you couldn't take them out, straight out to the copper 
into the  wringer because they'd be ruined, there'd be roller meant to hold, 
would affect) too hot. 
(MC: COURSE IT WOULD) You had to put them into the cold water. 
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       MC:  WOULD PEOPLE PASS ON CLOTHES IF THEIR CHILDREN HAD GROWN  OUT OF 
THEM?           1591
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+++ Searching document int.Jeffries, Margaret...
       MJ:      Everybody pulled together, nobody ... you know, we  were all in 
the same ... boat style of thing. You, you didn't have much. People ... and  
they shared. We wore se - we wore second-hand CLOTHing, and two of my sisters 
worked at,  uhm, oh, Alex Thomson's, they made tents and, and raincoats 
[indistinct] and they  were working part-time, and then when it got busy they 
were perhaps working  overtime.                    
113
       MJ:      No, I ... I think mum took me to town and I got some  CLOTHes 
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+++ Searching document int.Jones, Joyce...
       MC:  SO YOU WERE BUYING ALL YOUR OWN CLOTHES AND PAYING FOR  YOURSELF 
WHEN YOU WENT TO THE PICTURES AND THAT SORT OF STUFF. 
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       *MC:  OK THANK YOU.  THAT'S REALLY USEFUL TO KNOW.  WHEN YOU  LOOK BACK 
ON YOUR WAGES, WERE THEY ENOUGH FOR YOU TO PAY THE BOARD AND TO YOU KNOW, GO  
OUT WHEN YOU WANTED TO GO OUT AND BUY WHAT YOU NEEDED TO BUY IN THE WAY OF 
CLOTHES AND  ALL THAT SORT OF THING.  DID IT ACTUALLY COVER ALL YOUR EXPENSES 
COMFORTABLY? 
211
       JJ:  No not really.  We were well fed and CLOTHed.  I know Mum  and Dad 
went through it but it didn't seem to affect us. 
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       JJ:  There were four girls in the family and I think they must  all have 
shared the one bedroom.  Everybody had their own candlestick. Grandfather had  
his candlestick and there must have been one for the boys and one for the girls. 
Mum took the wrong candlestick to go to bed one night.  They weren't allowed out 
every  night so she'd say she was going to bed.  She'd get dressed either in her 
own or in her  sister's CLOTHes. It didn't matter whose clothes she took.  And 
she went out the window  and waited for one of her brothers to come home.  She 
go out and enjoy her night out.  She'd wait for one of her brothers to come home 
to let her back inside.  The boys were 
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+++ Searching document int.Jory, Rita & Wellman, Louise...
       MC:  DID YOU IMITATE THEM?  DID YOU IMITATE THEIR HAIRSTYLES  AND THE 
CLOTHES THEY WORE AND THAT KIND OF THING? 
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       RJ:  I remember you could get, when Myra and I were little, you  could 
get Shirley Temple - you mightn't remember Shirley Temple but she was a little  
girl in all the stories.  She had lovely CLOTHes.  I remember you could go to 
Brown  and Ewings when that was almost opposite the Chief Post Office in 
Dunedin.  I had quite a  few frocks made exactly like Shirley Temple's.  I had 
one and Myra had one.  It was  lovely, just like what Shirley Temple wore in one 
of her films.  It was lovely. 
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       RJ:  You had a copper and you had to light it and boil up all  the 
CLOTHes that you put in.  But it was later on before there were washing 
machines. 
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+++ Searching document int.Miss CJ...
       CJ:  I can't remember.  I think it was 10 shillings, you know,  half. 
Because at that time there was bus fares and you had to CLOTHe yourself, so it  
was really.  Course things didn't cost as much then.  It was just as well wasn't 
it?  238
       MC:  AND WERE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AS WELL? 
252
       CJ:  Yes.  I had a cousin who made all my CLOTHes.  I was very  
fortunate.             
258        CJ:  When I said my cousin, was mother's age, older than mother  and 
when I said I wanted to go to College and she found out, she said 'Chris, don't  
worry, I'll make your CLOTHes'. 
266
       CJ:  I can't be to sure about that.  Always remember the old  copper and 
all the rubbish etc that was burnt in it to boil up the CLOTHes, and of  course 
mother thought that clothes could never be washed any other way, unless they 
were  properly boiled. Washing machines didn't wash clothes properly.  So it was 
a long time  before we got one.
 
657
       MC:  RIGHT, RIGHT.  I WONDER IF THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THAT  FEELING, YOU 
KNOW, ON THE PART OF SOME PEOPLE, THAT CLOTHES REALLY DID NEED TO BE BOILED  
PROPERLY TO BE CLEAN.        663
       CJ:  Oh tremendous.  You think of the old scrubbing board that  we had 
and all the rubbing and scrubbing that was done with towels and CLOTHes.  It 
must  have been hard on the clothes.  They say that washing machines are hard on 
the clothes  but I don't think they would be any harder than the rubbing and 
scrubbing and the  energy that what was put into washing in those days.  And I 
can remember when the blankets  were washed, getting into the tub and stamping 
them.  That was quite fun, I enjoyed that.  That's going back a few years too. 
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+++ Searching document int.Kennedy, James Ronayne...
RK: . . . No, I can't think of any.  . . . No, looking back . . . I  myself am 
involved with a St Vincent de Paul Society, which is the same kind of  
organisation who looks after the sick and the --- like Presbyterian Social 
Services and all  these others. We distribute food, we've got a shop here in 
South Dunedin, where we used to sell second-hand CLOTHing. We've got a furniture 
shop down the north end.  And people ring up the shop and say, "Look, I'm 
running short of food", or "I've got no  food for our family. Can you help?" And 
we help. People are continuously giving us  food which we store in town and uh . 
. . we go in there, or send them in there  which ever they prefer, some might go 
in themselves and we take food parcels out to these  people who are short. Same 
thing if somebody wants clothing and they just can't afford -  particularly we 
find now, with the school children, clothing and footwear is very, very  dear 
and uh, they find it rather awkward at times, or difficult, in not having enough  
money to buy these things, so we give them clothing and footwear and we give 
donations  of money to our St Patrick's School too, to cover any little out of 
pocket expenses that  might be involved with families and their clothing. 
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+++ Searching document int.Kenny, Frances...
       MC:      I MEAN, THE CLOTHES - THERE'S NOT MUCH - 
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+++ Searching document int.Lumb, Janet Stewart...
       JL:      Yes, after many, many years, my husband kept saying to  me, 'Why 
don't you have a washing machine?', 'No, I don't want a washing machine', I  
liked the CLOTHes boiled, you know, and they get all the stains out, but 
eventually,  oh, it must have been many years after we were married that I had a 
first washing machine,  yes.                   522
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+++ Searching document int.Maher, Hilda...
HM:      Well I think it was a feeling of pride she had in ... in  keeping - We 
were poor, and I think she would have a great feeling of pride in doing it  .  
We had wooden floors and they were scrubbed once a week with cold water and sand  
soap because the sand soap worked better with cold water and my mother, if those 
boards  weren't quite ... no she wouldn't have liked that at all. And that was 
if people came in  and you know ... and also, although we didn't have much, you 
always starched the pillow  slips and always starched the table CLOTHs and 
everything as you liked to keep  everything very very clean.  And she did that 
right up until the last.  Kept everything  clean.                   167
MC:      ... FACTORY CLOTHES ... 
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HM:      No, well I never had any, but I have heard of people being  burnt by 
scalding water and the copper but we used to have to boil the CLOTHes it  wasn't 
a case of heating them it was a case of boiling them.  I deal say they would be 
much  ... more hygenic than they are now (laughs).  But I'd tell you what there 
was no, ah, no,  ah, no young wives with neurosis in those days you never had 
time, you know, it's a  fact, you had floors to scrub or if you had lino, or 
were lucky to have lino, you had to  polish them, and you had those hours to 
spend at the washing machine and the ironing and  everybody baked and you know, 
and then when you went out for our messages you had to walk  and walk back 
again, so your time was occupied.  Where as now you have so much more  time, 
young people at home have a lot more time now, don't they?  So we didn't have 
any  ... no time to have a nervous breakdown (laughs). 
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MC:      ... AND THE CLOTHES MUST HAVE BEEN PRETTY HEAVY BY THE TIME  THEY'D ...            
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+++ Searching document int.Marlow, Kevin...
SB: Yeah. You did. Hmm. I remember --- I used to go there a lot in my  younger 
student days to get items of CLOTHing, it was always a good place to go. Got  a 
good place in Newtown too where I grew up in Newtown, they've got a big St 
Vincent  de Paul there.         143
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+++ Searching document int.Mr LM...
LM: No. And you wore your Sunday-go-to-meeting CLOTHes on Sunday  which had been 
prepared on Saturday night for you to put on.  
925 LM: Well, in the '20s, '30s, you would always wear your best to go to  
church. And it was colloquially known as your 'Sunday-go-to-meeting' CLOTHes. 
And that's  the only time they'd come out really. Unless there was a wedding or 
a funeral. What  you wore on Sundays, you wouldn't wear to school or anywhere 
else for that  matter. And you cleaned up your shoes on Saturday and have them 
ready to put on on Sunday.  And men would always wear a collar and tie and a 
suit, on a Sunday. And the women would  always wear a hat, and in my early days 
they wore veils as well. Because it used to be  --- the children's prerogative 
to watch the ladies when it came to taking the bread and  the wine to lift up 
their veil so they could take it and put the veil back down again. 
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LM: Yes, or some social reason. That they didn't have tidy CLOTHes to  wear 
would be one of the major things to stop them. 
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LM: And people were very conscious of that. I don't think it was  anything to do 
with class distinction. I suppose there might have been a certain amount  of 
that in it. That they felt the people who go to church are going to be there in 
their  best CLOTHes and we don't want to look like the poor relations beside 
them. I'm only  speaking personally on this point of view, but that would be my 
observations. 
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LM: Well in some cases they just didn't have the CLOTHing that they  associated 
with people going to church. And I know that for a fact. Uh, that's a  definite 
fact. I can remember a couple of boys that I went to school with. Didn't go to  
Sunday school because they didn't have any Sunday clothes. And the weekend was 
when their  school clothes were renovated, and washed and pressed and ironed and 
darned and all that  sort of thing, you know. 
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+++ Searching document int.Maskell part 1...
MW:DID SHE MAKE THE CLOTHES FOR THE FAMILY OR DID SHE BUY THEM? 
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RM:I would say so. A good seamstress. Right until she died in her 80s  when she 
mainly go down to knitting but my sister helped with any sewing - she made some  
of her CLOTHes and quite good at it. 
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RM:I think Dad would buy his own. He wore tailored CLOTHes in the  early 20s and 
he didn't realise he could get suits to fit him until he did a job for a  big 
firm who opened up and Dad did the work in the part of the shop had an opening  
sale and they offered them a cheap suit. Suits for half a crown. There was a 
queue  on opening day. I think he got a suit for a one pound which would 
probably be 8 or 9  pounds. Then he started after that getting the odd suit off 
the peg... 
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MW: AND WHAT ABOUT YOUR CLOTHING AND YOUR SISTER'S CLOTHES. DID YOUR  MOTHER 
MAKE OR BUY THOSE? 
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MW: CAN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE IN CLOTHING? 
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RM: No that would be shared. She would probably get housekeeping  money and she 
would be responsible for CLOTHing us, clothing herself and feeding us. 
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+++ Searching document int.McCracken, Ken and Velda...
       VM:      Oh, it'd be CLOTHes and - my father used to pay for my  singing 
lessons and uhm, he probably helped when I had the dentist bills too, I can't  
remember that.       1020        VM:      Mmm-mmm, I can because that - well, it 
must have been  while I was away because when I went overseas mother just had a, 
a copper, you know,  that, that CLOTHes were boiled in and a wringer, and when I 
came home, uhm, she had a  Whitewave washing machine that sort of stirred it and 
a wringer on it. 
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       GM:      People didn't wash as often, I don't think. I mean  they did 
their sheets once a week, and they didn't wash as much, I'm quite sure, they 
wore  CLOTHes that didn't perhaps need washing as much. 
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       GM:      It was a warehouse, CLOTHing warehouse in  Invercargill.
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       MC:      WHEN YOU SAY A CLOTHING WAREHOUSE, DOES THAT MEAN THAT HE WAS A 
WHOLESALER, WHO SUPPLIED RETAILERS? 
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       *MC:      WAS IT COMMON TO DO THINGS LIKE ... OH, I DON'T KNOW,  WHEN 
CHILDREN GREW OUT OF CLOTHES TO PASS THEM ON TO A FAMILY WITH CHILDREN OF THE 
RIGHT  - OF AN AGE THAT WOULD USE THEM? 
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       KM:      I can remember taking CLOTHes to [indistinct]. 
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       KM:      Yes The family were at the coal yard too and we used  to take 
our CLOTHes up there. 
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+++ Searching document int.Melville, Colin...
CM: Oh gosh! Did you hear that? She hit me on the head one day and I  said yes I 
will. [laughter] She came to Dunedin in 1931 ah from McNab near Gore and  she 
ah, lived in Kew, just above where we lived in Easther Crescent and ah, she came 
to  Bible Class and Sunday School at the church and ah, I think the first time I 
recollect  seeing her was when she ah, I was a Sunday School teacher and her 
youngest brother, younger  brother was in my Sunday School class and I said to 
the children that I was going to go  home after Sunday School and see their 
parents, just to show them who I was sort of  style and ah, her younger brother 
took me home to her place and much to the  embarrassment of the family because 
they were ah, washing their CLOTHes and of course the boy as  was fairly 
natural, took me in through the back door, didn't he, and here they are on a  
Sunday afternoon, which was very naughty, washing their clothes. I think, well, 
I knew  her there from then really on but we were in the church choir and she 
went to Bible class  and so forth.         277
CM: Oh well, the thing is, see you had the boiler as it were, and  then you had 
a tub. You boiled the CLOTHes up and then you just put them over to the tub  and 
then you put them through the wringer into the blue and you put it back through  
the wringer into another tub of hot water and then wrung them out and then put 
them  onto the line sort of style. So, you know, it was a real procedure and we 
did that a few  times, there was no girls in our family. We were well brought 
up. 
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CM: Yes, in fact I was helping my mother one day and we used the Star  paper to, 
you know, keep the boiler going, it's all right, they're cleaning the  street, 
[MC: is that what it is] ah, and I was stoking the boiler with this and the 
boiler  was bubbling and the copper was full and she said to our elder brother, 
"come on, put  this," we use this stick and keep the CLOTHes down. Well our 
elder brother got a bit  excited and started to push this down and the boiling 
water came over and down my legs.  Well, they heard me out at Seacliff. 
[laughter] I got all burnt down my legs so.... 
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SM:  And you swung the wringer round so that the CLOTHes would  go into the tub.       
994        SM:  The thing is that you see every day our kitchen floor was  
washed out with a floor CLOTH and a bucket of water.  That was part of the daily 
work.  The kitchen was always tidied up first.  The breakfast dishes were done 
and the stove  was wiped out and cleaned and polished.  The women took great 
pride in keeping their  coal ranges nice and bright and shiny.  Then the rest of 
the house but always the kitchen  was done first. There were no carpets.  You 
see it was linoleum and that was polished  you know and mats on the floor. 
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       SM:  No, no.  I knew how to polish a floor because we were, we  had to do 
that on a Saturday and wash the kitchen floor with a bucket and a floor CLOTH. 
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       MC:  HOW DID YOU DO THAT, IF THE CLOTHES WERE BEING BOILED,  WEREN'T THEY 
TOO HOT TO TOUCH? 
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       MC:  WEREN'T THE CLOTHES TOO HOT TO TOUCH IF THEY WERE BEING  BOILED?
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       SM:  Ah, you let them drain.  And don't forget you had a sort  of a 
lifting stick with little bits of it bent, ah they were special little sticks 
and  you kind of twisted the CLOTHes round and you always tilted the lid of the 
copper so that  you lifted them on to the lid of the copper and they drained 
back and then you just, as  they cooled off very quickly and you just put them 
into the rinsing tubs. 
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             SM:  You'd take a few dippers of hot water from the  copper and 
then add cold until it was (MC: THE LEVEL YOU WANTED IT AT) mmm, very often you  
see, the coloured CLOTHes were soaked beforehand. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '01...
MM: No we were pretty hard up. You know, with the Depression, no one  wanted 
their houses painted then. So he was out of work quite a bit. On the Dole and 
that  sort of thing, so we were pretty hard up. And mum did a bit of sewing to 
get a bit of  extra she took in a bit of sewing, did a bit of that too. But no, 
they didn't have much -  well, I don't ever remember being deprived of anything, 
but I know, you know, there just  wasn't money to throw around for anything. Mum 
was a good manager. Our CLOTHes were  all made of somebody else's unpicked, 
turned inside out and upside down, old material.  Somebody else's old coat, 
chopped up and turned inside out - I never got a new coat until  I went to Tech. 
And then it was a bit long and I didn't like it. The first new one  I'd ever had 
out of new material. Everything else was made out of somebody else's old  
clothes. But I was never ashamed of them, mum always made good clothes out of 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '98...
       LMM:      We always played - I played making dolls' CLOTHes and  she 
played playing offices. 
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       LMM:      And I've got a brother too, I don't know if I mentioned that 
[indistinct] yes, yes, that's right, yes, the ... yes, it was just -  no, they 
didn't go out much at all, you know, very seldom, you know, on, on odd ti -  
they went, they went to something, I think I was about standard four, and there 
was - in  an afternoon, it was something they went to ... I can't remember what 
it was, and we were  given some pocket money, and of course we were just playing 
around, you know, my sister  and I went and spent our four pence packet and 
bought a packet of cigarettes ...  then got told off good and properly when mum 
found them amongst our dolls' CLOTHes, so  that's how old we were. But that was 
one time I remember they were out, but I mean, very  seldom ever -              
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       LMM:      Oh, we just knew that they had a bit more money, you  know, to 
buy things like we never - I never felt deprived, with my mother's sewing I  
never felt I didn't have decent CLOTHes, although I never had a new coat until I 
went to  Tech, everything else was made out of somebody else's clothes turned 
inside out, and  you know, somebody would give something - 
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       LMM:      Cut down and re-made, mum would make them, she didn't  sort of 
make do with what they were, they would be adult CLOTHes and she would pull  
them to bits and turn the, you know, woollen material out the other way, and 
make new  things like that. But my sister had a new coat when - I would have 
been about eight, I  think, and we used to go out to my grandfather's, and it 
was made out of new material  and I thought, oh, Doreen's coat was new, it 
wasn't something out of - turned inside out  or made of something else, and it 
was a little blue coat with a piece of furry  stuff around the collar, and my 
uncle came to meet us, cause we got off the train at  the [indistinct] station, 
we had to walk a way along and way up, and he came, and he  piggy-backed Doreen 
all the way in her new coat, and he had an oil-skin coat on, and of  course that 
was the end of the little blue coat, it all got oiled, and that was the first  
bit of blue - bit of knit - new material that had been made into a coat for any 
of us.  So that didn't last. 
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       I, I don't say I was pleased or anything like that, but I was  horrified, 
you know, that this had happened to this new coat, and then when I got a new  
coat when I went to Tech, I didn't like it because it was down over my knee, and 
I hated  the length and it was, you know, it was a school coat, everybody had a 
school coat and  a double-breasted woollen navy-blue coat, and I wasn't too 
excited about this coat,  because it was a bit long for my liking, but never 
mind. I was grateful for - but I, we  never felt done out of CLOTHes because we 
sort of always had - we didn't have masses of  clothes but I never felt ashamed 
of my clothes, which I think was a great thing with mum  being a sewer, 
otherwise we might have sort of felt different. 
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       LMM:      But I do remember putting - being put on exhibition  one time. 
Friends of my sister's up the road, and we - I was up with them playing, and  
this lady had visitors and she called Doreen and I in and oh, you know, Mrs 
Bennett's made  these dresses, and I can see them yet, they were ... pink and 
greeny flo - little wee  florally pattern with plain yoke, and mine had a green 
yoke, I think, and Doreen had the  floral yoke, but anyway, they were made out 
of a shirt, and somebody else's dress and  Mrs [indistinct] was busy telling 
every - telling this lady, oh, Mrs Bennett's - and I  thought, oh, you didn't 
need to tell her it was made out of somebody else's - she was  skiting about it, 
thinking how wonderful, but I thought, she didn't need to know that  they were 
made out of somebody else's CLOTHes. But they were pretty, I can remember  that. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs NN...
       MC:      WASH THE CLOTHES? 
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       NN:      Oh, yes, oh, she had, uhm, sewing machine of course.  She made 
all our CLOTHes and she was a very good sewer. And ... but you know they  didn't 
have the conveniences that we've got these days, and they didn't have  
Electrolux or anything like that. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs NN...
       MC:      TO BUY THE EXTRA CLOTHING. 
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       So, but my mother bought my CLOTHes until I - oh, I'd be about  seventeen 
I think, and you know, when your mother buying your clothes and I got to a  
point where I didn't like the way my mother, you know, what, what I wanted to 
wear - what  she wanted me to wear, so I can always remember in the end, I, 
well, you didn't sort  of talk back to your mother or anything like that, but I 
can always remember not wearing  them. And she -         740
       MC:      RIGHT. AND WAS THAT, WAS THAT TEN SHILLINGS LEFT OVER  FROM THE 
POUND ONCE YOU PAID THE POUND, WAS THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU TO BUY YOUR OWN CLOTHES?  
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       MC:      WHAT WOULD YOU WEAR, WHAT KIND OF CLOTHES? 
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       JN:      That's right, yes, yes. And then, you know, you'd,  you'd see 
something you liked and, and, you know, and then you'd sort of, uhm, well,  
sometimes get the patterns from work or something like that, you know, it was 
quite, it  was quite good. But we used to make all our own, you know, the ones - 
or my friends  all made their own CLOTHes, and my fri - friend that I've still 
got that I worked with,  oh, she couldn't do it now, but she used - she made 
her, her daughter's wedding dresses  and beau - you know, beautiful. Yes, and, 
and, and it's strange, after a while you can't  sew, you know, you
wouldn't believe it, now I can hardly sew. 
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+++ Searching document int.Norman, Annie...
	AN:	CLOTHes in. I had two, it was only a small range, not  a big one. 
Well, then I had the wringer attached to the - 
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	TB:	CLOTHes-horse. 
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	AN:	Yes. He said, but if you need the doctor, he says,  you put out a 
white CLOTH on the gate, try and knock it on to a bit of stick. So my sister was 
there  and she put it out and a doctor come in and he says to my sister, he 
says, how did you  know about the white cloth on the gate? She said, well Dr 
Carswell told us yesterday, he  said, well that's just come out yesterday, the 
doctors were told to tell the patients.  And so anyway my husband died at night, 
and well, it was just as well because that  poisoning was going into the top 
jaw. 
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	AN:	No. No. No. But the boss's wife, Mrs Rutherford, she  was good when 
the twins were born. She brought CLOTHes, you know, because it was, they only  
thought I was going to have one, but I used to say to my husband I was going to 
have two. He  says how? I says, because I can feel two distinct movements.  1632
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+++ Searching document int.Paine, I.B....
*IP	Both my grandparents were born in Donaldson at ?? which is a  wee village 
somewhere near Glasgow.  Then he served his time as a watchmaker in Glasgow.  
His brother came out in the 1860s, I think he was the first Taylor in Dunedin.  
So he had  his brother out here and he came out about ten years later.  He came 
out in the ship  The Michael Angelo. They landed at Port Charmers and they came 
up by way of Old Josephine  the train to Caversham where the barracks were.  
They'd stay there until they could get some accommodation and work.  Grandfather 
being a qualified watchmaker  worked on his own from home.  They didn't come 
straight to this house, I don't know whether  they rented it but there was a 
house not very far away.  My aunt told me that they had  to get their water from 
a pond across the road.  They had to shoo the ducks off and let  it settle 
before they could get the water.  They probably had an open fire I think.  
Grandma used to boil up a kerosene tin and boil the CLOTHes outside.  She baked 
her  own bread.  Whether they had a cow or not I don't know, possibly.  I know 
that she cured  her own bacon so they must have had a pig.  Grandfather used to 
walk out to Mosgiel  and go round the people there and gather up the watches to 
be repaired.  He'd stay  overnight at a wee hut and walk back home.  He repaired 
them upstairs here and then take  them all back and get the money. 
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Int	DID YOU HAVE TO GET DRESSED UP IN YOUR BEST CLOTHES? 
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IP	She'd go to town to buy CLOTHes and bigger things, but she'd  do all her 
other shopping locally. 
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Int	WERE THERE CLOTHES SHOPS IN CAVERSHAM? 
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IP	Yes.  Quite often people didn't have bathrooms in the early  days or in 
the early 1920s.  They would have a bath out in the shed.  They'd heat the  
water in the copper that you stoked up to do the CLOTHes.  They heat the water 
in that  and they'd ladle it out into the bath. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mr TR...
TR: He was South Dunedin. He was one of the - let me think of it ---  white-
haired, distinguished man of the CLOTH. A man who was humble, I think. But  she 
would remember him better than I, because I had little enough to do with that 
one.  But we'd only ever see them at church you know. We had no contact with 
them privately.  That wasn't done. That wasn't done. 
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+++ Searching document int.Roberts, Rose...
Int	DID YOUR GRANDMOTHER MAKE YOUR CLOTHES? 
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+++ Searching document int.Roebuck, Lew...
LR	When I worked for him it was coming near 1930ish.  When I  first went to 
him I answered an ad in the paper.  Instead of coming up here I was always  
looking for a job on a sheep station.  But of course they were always handed 
down most  jobs.  I used to look around when it came near the end of the season.  
It was just  easier on them.  They would have had me stay there mending bags.  
But I'd come up here and  work around for some of the farmers.  Then I had a 
good story to tell at night in the  evenings down there.  They had never heard 
some of these miserable old cockies I  worked for.  By Christ I'd sooner be with 
the Chinese any day.  In fact one of them I was so disappointed.  It was the 
first dairy farm I went to after I'd been  with the Chinese a while.  I was so 
miserable.  I'm ashamed to call myself a white man.  I can advertise it now 
because it doesn't matter two twopenny hoots.  So darned  miserable.  Like this 
particular farmer - I won't mention any names - he wanted a strong  willing 
youth. Willing to learn like.  I went to this particular farm down the  
coastline.  That night nothing was mentioned about what to bring or anything.  I 
had a great  dinner.  Mind you I'd been so used to Chinese style even now when 
I'm cooking I start  off colonial perhaps but end up oriental.  That's what I'd 
learnt you see.  So when I get  a bit of roast or steam pudding, something like 
that you see, even old Irish stew  that's something for me. I really enjoy it.  
So this meal was lovely you see.  I sat around in  the place with his wife, 
daughter and son.  We were just chatting away.  I thought I was  going to sleep 
upstairs in one of those dear little attics.  The house had two  little attics.  
Well he said 'Louie come on and I'll show you where you are sleeping'.  He  lit 
a lamp and I followed him outside.  I didn't know where I was going.  I could  
smell the dark, it was winter coming on.  I could smell the stables.  We passed 
the pigsty.  This hut, you should have seen it.  No union.  It was terrible.  It 
was really  shocking.  I asked where were the blankets?  There was just straw 
and 10,000 holes in  the old bags where the mice had rubbled in and rubbled out.  
He said I should have  brought my own blankets. I said he hadn't mentioned 
anything about blankets.  With what the  Chinese supplied me. That was the 
biggest come-down.  After a dreadful night he'd given me  a rug out of the back 
of an old dodge car that had recently been used but it stunk to  high blazes 
from dogs.  I got this rug, I can see it yet.  It was one with a tassel  end.  
This horse cover or cow cover, I forget which.  It was so darned miserable that  
night and the rain was coming down.  It was cold down that river land.  I turned 
over  and the buckle hit me on the side of the head.  Oh a dreadful pain.  So 
early the next  morning I packed everything up with the half miserable candle 
that was sitting there.  I packed up what CLOTHes I had and I was ready in the 
morning to push off.  But I got  his cows in because I liked the animals.  I 
told him the only thing nice about the place  was the animals.  I told him 
straight and I used some other words.  He said, 'ah laddie,  you were hardly 
here'.  I said, 'no, and I'm going'.  I walked along the road early  in the 
morning and I was going to head home.  It was at the Balclutha end and the river  
mist was still there. I heard the gallop gallop galloping of this horse coming 
along with  cans banging.  It was a farmer from further along the road.  He says 
to me 'how far are  you going'?  I said I was going up to Sterling.  He said I'd 
have to wait until 2  o'clock in the afternoon for the train.  He asked if I was 
from - well I won't  mention the name.  I said I was so he told me to hop in.  I 
gave him a hand unloading the  cans there.  He took me back to his place which 
was right next door.  I didn't know  until the mist and everything cleared up.  
He took me to his home and what a difference.  Here he was the same species of 
humanity, the same traditions.  But you see his  mother was a widow lady and 
these boys were working on the farm.  It was a young family.  It  seemed to be a 
habit of that farmer for sacking them.  It was cheap.  So we were out  pulling 
turnips just over the road but right next to this farmer.  As was the usual  
habit two drays would be each side of the fence and they'd have a yarn while 
they  were loading the turnips.  This time the farmer that I'd left due to the 
miserable  state of the place was way over in the paddock.  The young farmer I 
was with yelled out 'you  lost a good man when you sacked Louie'.  The old lady 
treated me very well too.  I  stayed there right through that winter.  I really 
enjoyed it.  But when I went back I  had a great story to tell them.  The 
Chinese never knew that. 
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+++ Searching document int.Shiel, Gerald...
I:WERE YOUR CLOTHES BOUGHT NEW OR SECOND HAND? 
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I:AND DID YOU WEAR DIFFERENT CLOTHES TO GO TO CHURCH? 
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+++ Searching document int.Shiel, Miss...
Miss S:My grandmother was alive when we were young, that was Mrs  Hagerty, they 
lived in Ings Avenue. You had to very fussy when you went down there. She was  
about 89 when she died. The first thing she'd do when I'd go in she'd say 'how 
many  CLOTHes have you got on under ' you know that sort of thing. 
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Miss S:Yes when they were in the Chinese gardens they had the brick  homes built 
for them and in fact there is white people living in them now but no they  moved 
around and they dressed quite well. They didn't go out in tattered CLOTHes or  
anything. When they went out they were well dressed except some of the old ones 
that might've  smoked but I think there must've been one or two of them you know 
they were a bit  scruffy looking but the young ones were very well in fact 
better dressed than the Europeans. 
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+++ Searching document int.Sidey, Stuart...
       SS:      I had ... a difficult schooling because in those days  
parliamentarians' families all went to Wellington and lived there for the whole 
winter,  because they didn't have breaks like they do now. And the job of 
getting to  Wellington was horrendous because you had to take everything, all 
your CLOTHes and God knows  what, and the performance of getting down to the 
train which left about eight  o'clock in the morning from memory, you know, and 
it took all day to get up, it was pretty  slow, took all of a day to get up to 
Lyttleton, so it was quite a business, so I went to school in Wellington a lot 
of my life.  93
       SS;      Oh, you haven't. Well there's a stable which is been  declared a 
historic place, and there's a laundry there which has a great big - or had a  
great big copper, you know, and this was quite a performance, and then the 
CLOTHes were  all hung on, on - inside it was a court yard at the back. And that 
building  incidentally is built with blocks of Caversham stone. 
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       MC:      RIGHT. NOT THE WAY IT TREATED THE CLOTHES? DO YOU  THINK THAT 
HOUSEWORK AS FAR AS YOU COULD TELL HAD CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY WHEN YOUR WIFE WAS  
DOING IT FROM THE WAY IT HAD BEEN DONE WHEN YOUR MOTHER WAS IN CHARGE OF IT? 
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+++ Searching document int.Smith, Jean...
	Mrs Smith:  Well, the home in those days was just home,  husband and 
children were everything (MC: mmm) as far as she was concerned and that applied 
to  the people that she knew I would think.  And um when I said to you that she 
kept my  brothers and me in cream until we started school, that was for our good 
CLOTHes, I think she  had to be pretty fussy for that and I can think of the 
house.  We had very little in  furniture and knick knacks, but everything was 
looked after and polished and ah they used  to be very proud of their washing 
and the good meals, the good plain meals but the food was very nourishing.  
I've, I'm still using some of her recipes and at one  stage she had a recipe 
book from those early days that she had written in, that had tissue  paper in 
between the leaves, and I was very sorry that she had burnt it, I didn't have it  
(MC: I can imagine) but I have a lot of her recipes.  143 	And I don't remember 
really very much what I did do when I  was there.  I remember playing out in the 
backyard and there was the usual CLOTHesline  there.  The long clothesline and 
the prop and the trams rattled by.  They went passed  the house there. It was 
all corrugated iron fence, high fence, so you could just see  the pole above the 
fence as it went by (MC: mmm, mmm) but if Grandpa Thorn sat out, he  must have 
been retired in those days, his son was running the business, he used to  sit in 
the little porch - you walked out straight on to the street, the front door -  
that's where the, any of the clients or customers came 
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	And then he did make, now that's one piece of furniture I do  remember.  
They called them box oddments but box oddments was usually a long sort of couch  
thing but these ones were made, kerosine used to come in tins and it was in, the 
tin in a  box, it would stand - how many - three feet high and those boxes would 
be probably white  pine, and three of those would make a container for your- two 
upright and one horizontal  in between and covered with prutong or britway or 
something like that and padded and  the two upright ones would have a shelf in 
where you would be your shoes and the  books.  You didn't have many CLOTHes, and 
the other things you would fold and put in.  And  that was home made furniture.  
(MC: right, right)  'Cause I can remember, and I suppose  it was what came from 
Baker Street when we came here, that my furniture consisted of a  bed, there 
would be lino with perhaps a rag mat and that otten type thing, called an  
ottoman and a tin trunk.  It was my father's tin trunk from the First World War 
and I  had that beside my bed with a doily on it.  And that was the furniture 
and the, one or  two pictures.  The pictures you see now sometimes in some of 
these museums, quite odd  pictures.  I've got mine still somewhere. 
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	MC:  SO, THE AREAS YOUR MOTHER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR IN  CONTRAST, I SUPPOSE 
WOULD HAVE BEEN THINGS LIKE PROVIDING ALL THE CLOTHING AND DOING ALL THE WASHING  
AND MAKING THE MEALS, AND ORDER THE FOOD, DOING THE SHOPPING, THAT KIND OF 
THING? 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs ZO...
       ZS:  Well my father being his own boss a professional, we were  very much 
on the borderline for quite a long time.  But this aunt, I remember having  to 
borrow a penny from Mrs, one of the neighbours, to go down to my aunt at 
Cargills  Corner, she lived in Reid Road and ah she kept two or three boarders 
so she always had  quite a lot of stuff, and I would come home with two, she 
used to make the sugar bag bags  with cratong on them and handle and I would 
standing in the bus or tram with these bags  and there would be bit of, perhaps 
a joint of, some of the meat she could only have a  couple of times, because 
mother would make a beautiful stew with it and some  vegetables or bits of this 
and bits of that, and things like that.  So ah, but you know, I  always used to 
say, we've often said that in later years, well at least he didn't desert  us or 
anything 'cause we had one or two people, relations, and they'd send round  some 
CLOTHes at times. It never worried us that we were wearing secondhand clothes.  
We were  delighted if anything fitted, but on the whole... 
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       But and the rest of it just kept us and when I wanted anything, a pair of 
stockings, only 1 & 11, or something in those days, no pure silk, and pants and 
undergarments, things like that, of course we wore black dresses.  The old man 
actually bought me one.  He was a great one for going to sales, he bought a 
whole lot of CLOTHing, I don't know what it was, or where he got it, it was all  
new and a couple of, I had a nice black dress from that, course they lasted for 
years. 
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       ZS;  No, he didn't belong to any actually, the Sonntag's were  Catholic, 
but his mother was Scottish and she was an avid Scot, she had everything  blamed 
on the Pope. She, we weren't to have anything green, she go mad at even bits 
like  that.  We were never allowed to have green dresses or CLOTHes.  Everything 
was  blamed on the Pope, and funnily enough she was born on St Patrick's Day.  I 
think that's the  biggest joke of the lot.  'Cause she was very strong minded, 
and you never called her mum  or grandma, it was Mater.  She was Mater.  The 
father was a very reserved man.  He  wasn't a practising Catholic but they were 
all buried strangely enough, you know when it  came to the pinch, they were 
buried Catholics, not Mater of course, but ah the father  did.                     
501        ZS:  Yes, we worked damn hard for it and the caravan you see,  went 
to the three brothers here, well that made cheap holidays for us all and they 
did  have, they had Buick cars, always had good cars but that's all they had, 
they never  dressed, no money was wasted on CLOTHes for his mother and father 
and that.  But there  you are.               751
       And he said, the Major said to him, there is a bedroom going,  would you 
care for that and dad said yes, cause it suited him, (MC: mmm) they were  
marvellous, don't tell me anything against the Army, they were marvellous to 
him.  You know  he'd make a mess, and then towards end, I used to go out 
everyday or every second day,  and I even used to shave him and take him to the 
toilet and took all his soiled CLOTHing  back washed.  A lot of it went down 
this big gully out here, a lot of went down  there.  He had cancer, we didn't 
know that though and I would get him all cleaned up, and  I'd think, surely 
you'll be right for a day or two cause he was a steadiest person  personally, he 
didn't deliberately, do, make the messes, (MC:  mmm) and ah that was that,  he 
just couldn't help it. 
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       ZS:  No, well bending is alright, I'm alright on that.  I loose  my 
balance easily. I stand my walking stick on the CLOTHes line and I could hang on 
to  that you see but now I don't have to bend over and pick the things up and 
put on the line.  What I'll do tomorrow you see, Sharon is coming at one o'clock 
to do the luxing,  I'll put a wash out (MC: right) and she can put it out for 
me, but I find it hard doing  handwashing, because my hands are not good, I fell 
down the stairs at Arthur Barnetts, and  I had a collies fracture there and 
these, although I'm lucky I'm not disfigured.  My  sister, her fantox are all 
over here, and she's got the rheumatoid, I've got just the  osteo (MC: right).       
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MT...
MT:  And I would buy from them because they knew me and knew Dad and  Mum.  And 
I would buy the children's ... sometimes children's CLOTHing from them.  1138
MT:  You'd be poor money-wise and whatever else there was I suppose.  I don't 
know what there was that we were poor in.  Didn't have a lot of new CLOTHes,  
new shoes or anything like that. 
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+++ Searching document int.Thorn, Patricia...
       PT:      Eh, yes, that would be ... oh, now ... I would think  it would 
be, oh it would be in the mid 1940's, it would have to be, would have to be ...  
because I can remember, you know, for years you - doing the washing in the - and  
having a stick that lifted out the, the hot CLOTHes out and into the rinsing 
water and  then the blue into the tub and the next tub and then rung through a 
hand-wringer and  then taken out and put on the line. I did that myself, you 
know, and I would have been well  over - working ... by those times, so it would 
have been the 1940's I think. 
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       PT:      We survived quite well. She was always made sure we  were we 
were well fed and, as far as she was able to, well CLOTHed too, because it was 
all  right when I was working, I could get something, things myself, but - and, 
and she, she dressed comfortably herself, you know, quite well, she - things 
lasted a long  time, but she bought well and so they did. We were - always had 
good shoes, that  was something she always made sure when we went to high school 
that we had good shoes,  and - so that, you know, I suppose because she knew we 
were going to be walking, up and  down the hill, which was quite a step. 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MTd...
       MC:  WERE THOSE TO KEEP YOUR CLOTHES CLEAN WHILE YOU WORKED? 
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       MT:  No he worked in a CLOTHing shop in Dunedin before they  went up to 
Luggat.  He did lots of farm work and rouseabout work.  When Bill left school he  
worked on farms until he came to Dunedin.  
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       MT:  Only just.  We passed on CLOTHes in our street. 
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       MT:  I don't remember those.  But I can always remember  CLOTHes.  But we 
didn't have a lot.  You see there was no school uniforms or anything like  that 
so we didn't have a lot. 
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       MT:  Yes.  Or she'd unpick old CLOTHes. 
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       *MC:  DID PEOPLE EVER, APART FROM THE CLOTHES, EXCHANGE OTHER  THINGS?  
LIKE DID YOUR MOTHER EVER DO A BIT OF SEWING IN EXCHANGE FOR SOMETHING ELSE  
RATHER THAN MONEY?       644
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+++ Searching document int.White, J...
       JW:  Yes he was still working.  So, but they seemed to manage.  As I 
said, they had a garden.  They had hens.  You know, we seemed to manage. We were  
fed well and looked after well and CLOTHed well. 
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       MC:  SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO CLOTHES WHEN YOU GREW OUT OF THEM 
AND THAT SORT OF
THING?  384
       JW:  Yes, of CLOTHing. 
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       JW:  Mind you the CLOTHing then lasted.  It was different  material.  You 
know, different altogether.  398
       MC:  PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE AS MUCH CLOTHING EITHER, DID THEY? 
404
       JW:  No.  You had something.  Everybody had something good to  wear on a 
Sunday. Like we had our CLOTHing we wore to Sunday School. After Sunday  School 
was over we come home and took them off and put our old clothes on.  You looked 
after  your best.             406
       MC:  WERE YOU MAKING CURTAINS OR CLOTHES OR..? 
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+++ Searching document int.Wilkie, John ...
      JW:  Rode horses.  I tell you I had a great friend.  We went all  through 
school together.  He was at my place or I was at his place.  Next door to  his 
place there was this bit of an orchard there.  There were apples on the trees 
and  there was a board fence and then it had number eight wire running along 
that so it made  the fence high. We two boys looked at those apples for a long 
long time and we went  away and got a big box.  We stood on this box which gave 
us a fair bit of height.  We  got a prop off the CLOTHesline, a big long manuka 
prop and we got on top of the box and  poked this prop over next door underneath 
the apples.  The V went underneath the  apple and then we hit it on the wire and 
that apple came floating over the fence.  Ingenuity, it was like magic. 
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+++ Searching document int.Wilkinson, Isabel...
       *MC:      WHAT KIND OF CLOTHES WOULD WOMEN WEAR TO A DANCE? WAS  THAT 
FORMAL?          407
       IW:      Oh, yes, yes, very nice chiffon dresses or ... really,  quite 
evening CLOTHes. 
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       MC:      SO THAT YOU WERE WALKING HOME IN THE LATE HOURS IN  YOUR EVENING 
CLOTHES.     411
       IW:      Well, when the house was built it was a gas, uhm,  boiler. Then 
we got - later on we got a, an electric washing machine. With a gas boiler  
there was the two concrete tubs which had a wringer between two, and you took 
the  CLOTHes out of the boiler with a stick into this first tub of water, put it 
through the  wringer into the [indistinct] water. 
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       MC:      RIGHT. RIGHT. WAS THERE EVER ANY KIND OF EXCHANGE OF  OTHER 
THINGS OTHER THAN CHILDREN'S CLOTHES? 
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+++ Searching document int.Wilson, Florence...
	FW:	Well, of course I have no idea, but it was a case of  thrift. We had 
fruit trees and we had a vegetable garden and I think practically all the 
CLOTHes  that could be made were made in the house.  
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	*WL:	NOW INSTEAD OF GOING ON I THINK WE'LL GO BACK TO -  AND PICK UP A 
FEW POINTS THAT WE HAVEN'T DISCUSSED. WHAT ABOUT CLOTHING THAT YOU WORE? 
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	FW:	I really can't tell you but I don't know how ever she  coped with 
it. At first - this is just from hearsay she had to boil the white CLOTHes in a  
kerosene tin on the stove. And to think when those clothes had been boiled how 
she  carried that kerosene tin full with boiling water and clothes to a tub to 
rinse, it just really  appals me.            342
	FW:	Oh certainly. And of course in those days it was  Sunday best. The 
CLOTHes that you wore on Sunday were never worn during the week. 
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	FW:	Oh yes, yes. Then of course in time they would become  everyday 
CLOTHes.                494
	WL:	YES. YES. NO, HOW WERE THESE CLOTHES IRONED? WERE  THEY STARCHED AND 
THEN IRONED?       496
	FW:	And then of course as it was the custom then all the  women were 
plunged into deep-black CLOTHes. The men wore black ties. 
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	FW:	Returning to the matter of CLOTHes. Of course one  always wore 
gloves, no young lady went out without wearing gloves adequate, otherwise she 
was not  adequately dressed.         614 	FW:	Yes. Well, my great grandfather 
William Lyon was a  CLOTHmaker at Pembrooke Dock, Wales. Now his son, Sidney 
Lyon, he married Jane Gibbs on the 7th of  May 1848 in the parish of St. Mary, 
Pembrooke, Wales. Jane Gibbs's father was George  Gibbs, blacksmith. Now Sidney 
Lyon's occupation was office-keeper for army engineers at  Pembrooke Dock and 
that's how my father was educated in a military school there. Now it  comes to 
my father, Sidney John Lyon married Mary Elizabeth Tully on the 26th of December  
1874 at All Saints Church, Dunedin, New Zealand. So Sidney John Lyon was the 
second son  of Sidney and Jane Lyon, and as we have said, was born at Pembrooke 
Dock in 1805, is  there something missed out there? He was educated at a 
military college and then completed  his apprenticeship as a tailor. Now his 
mother must have died after four children were  born, and she was not very good 
- the stepmother was not very good to these four  children, so my father at the 
age of eighteen left Pembrooke and walked to London. There must  have been 
stoppages on the way. And we have a photograph her - him at that age wearing a  
frock coat, silk hat and walking stick, the complete gentleman. 
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	FW:	I don't know. I really don't know, but that's a  photograph of him. 
I supp - he would have working CLOTHes of course, wouldn't he? He was in the  
process of working his way around the world when he arrived in Dunedin in the 
first  steamship, Sealandia, which arrived here on the 11th of January 1873. It 
berthed at Port  Chalmers. He remained in Dunedin and married my mother, Mary 
Elizabeth Tully, and remained  here. His only trip overseas then was as a tailor 
with the 4th Contingent going to the  Boer War in South Africa, for they needed 
a tailor to complete the officers' uniforms. 
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+++ Searching document int.Wilson, Helen...
       HW:      They were conscious of other people not having as much  as they 
had, and you know, I know even in our own home we had a little girl for, uhm  
...dinner every day because her father was separated and uhm ... he was an 
alcoholic, she  tells me now, I came to your place for dinner every day, and of 
course going through  the Depression, we were sent with food and CLOTHing round 
about the district and we were  never allowed to take anything from anybody in 
return.  
245       HW:      But we had one of those new merry-go-round CLOTHes  line, we 
had the first one in St. Clair. Dad got that. But - 
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