Themes for Questions - June Hill17/5/95
June Hill
Introduction
- Birth date
- Family members - can you tell me about your immediate family
- Parents occupation - manpowered, brought to Hamilton from Auckland
- Area of Hamilton lived in- description of Hamilton East - Hayes Paddock,
- transport
- suburb/ city
a. Education
- Attitude toward school - enjoyed school - serious student
- Secondary school attended - Hamilton High School
- Subjects
- Other interests, - music at convent
- School activities
- sports (swimming, basketball - location? , skating)
- drama
- clubs
- Friends/ social circle
- Ambitions - University - funds
- conscious of war
b. Homelife
- Responsibilities to family - Mother had to work -
- Relationships with parents and siblings
- Religion - no family religion - but personal
- Holidays ?
- Extended family
- Food/ Drink
- Health
c. Entertainment and Socialising
- Amount of spare time
- What? Where? With whom?
- dances - dance steps - tap and ballet
- music, theatre, movies, concerts,
- picnics, lake- organised -singsong - gramophone
- Friday night in town,
- young co-eds, church run youth group
- Fads, Styles, Slang expressions
- Teenage idols,
- Importance of Radio and Film
- Books, Magazines, comics
- Courting and marriage
d. Employment
- First job
- part-time and/ or full-time
- Pay and money management
- Work conditions
- Workmates
- Clubs and sporting activities
- External influence on employment, ie, the Depression, War, Strikes
e. Awareness of Issues
- local events
- public figures (local, national and international)
- politics - 1945 election
- race relations
- crime - safety
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