MASSEY October 05 V1.indd - Massey University

The magazine for alumni and friends of Massey University • Issue 19 • November 2005Oh islands in the sunPet storiesFact and fiction from vets in Britainwww.massey.ac.nz1

How many New Zealanders are there? Fourmillion? Add another 100,000 and you havethe population resident in New Zealand,but not the number of New Zealanders. Forthat you need to add the 460,000 or so NewZealanders currently living overseas.New Zealanders and Australasians havealways had headed off explore the world inpursuit of adventures, experience and careeropportunities.As the New Zealand poet, ARD Fairburnacerbically put it over half a century ago in his poem I’m Olderthan You. Please Listen.If you’re enterprising and able,smuggle your talents away,hawk them in livelier marketswhere people are willing to pay.But for Fairburn’s generation things were in some ways markedlydifferent, and not just because ‘overseas’ was a long sea voyage away.For him, New Zealand was a place of stifling conformity:“a lumpwithout leaven”, “a sort of second-grade heaven, with first-gradebutter, fresh air, and paper in every toilet”.That New Zealand has gone. You can stay in New Zealand andyet achieve great things. You can live overseas and yet remain a strongmember of the New Zealand community.And your choice need not be once-andfor-all.Able and qualified people are higlymobile. Of those 460,000 New Zealandersliving overseas, studies show that around halfthink they will return.Massey’s own overseas community isconsiderable; at last count we had nigh on5,000 overseas alumni on our database. In thisissue, courtesy of Massey journalist PatrickMorgan, who was on a personal odysseyto see Lance Armstrong win the Tour de France, you will meetCorinne Rivoallan and Don Jones (whom MASSEY last met inLaos) in Paris, and Robyn Farquhar and Andrew Robinson whoare in London.Thanks to Massey’s extramurally offered travel writing courseyou will experience in lightly fictionalised form the experience ofa vet in London. Fiona Dalzell’s short story, The Land of Babel, waswritten as a course assignment and the accompanying illustrationis by Massey design student Lawton Lonsdale.The lesson in all of this? If you are heading off overseas, forhowever long, don’t lose touch, and if you have been havingadventures – be they family, career, travel or intellectual – then ouralumni and friends office would love to hear of them.Professor Judith KinnearVice-Chancellor2

Thoughts2 Saving some seatsIf there is to be debate about the Māori seats, then let it be informeddebate writes Senior lecturer in Social Policy Dr Richard Shaw.Directions4 News from around the University.Feature11 Oh Islands in the SunProfessor Kerry Howe investigates the unreliable histories of Oceania.Extramural18 The Land of BabelA short story by Fiona Dalzell.21 Road ScholarsJohn Muirhead, the architect of Massey’s travel writing course, writes.22 Pure PoetryDr Bryan Walpert, once a health and business reporter, now teachescreative writing.Alumni Profiles23 First LadyEnid Hills, Massey’s first female student, is going strong.24 Pet OccupationWhat value do the British place on their pets ? “Recently a client spent£2,500 on a kitten,” says expat New Zealand vet Robyn Farquhar.24 Business in BritainRising London-based accountant Andrew Robinson.25 Boston BoundJoshua Feast is the first recipient of the first recipient of the $141,000Fulbright-Platinum Scholarship in Entrepreneurship.26 Cité LifeLast time Massey met Claudia Rivoallan and Don Jones it was inVientianne, Laos. This time it is Paris, France.Reviews29 Humming • Storms and Dreams: Louise de Bougainville, Soldier, Explorer,Statesman • Ngā Tai Matatū: Tides of Māori Endurance • Coastal SeaKayaking in New Zealand: A Practical Touring Manual • The Sky Soldiers •The Sandbar SessionsNotes and news33 News from the Alumni and Friends Office as well as from Massey’salumni around the globe.CONTRIBUTORSPatrick MorganPatrick Morgan, who interviews Massey alumniin Paris and London in this issue, returned touniversity study this year, taking an extramuralpaper in travel writing. In July he combined hislove of travel, cycling and pastries with a dreamtrip to witness the Tour de France.“While in France I helped friends restore a 15thcentury house in Sancerre, a village famous forits crisp white wines. On Bastille Day everyonedines outside on a terrace overlooking the Loire.Watching fireworks while listening to the bandplay La Marseillaise was unforgettable.”Tony WhincupThe cover photo for this issue has been croppedfrom one of Tony Whincup’s photographsof Kiribati. From January of 2006, Whincupwill head the School of Visual and MaterialCulture. He remains an active and muchadmired photographer, particularly noted forhis work with Kiribati and its people. (Thecover cameo illustration is by design studentRosie Colligan.)MASSEY is published twiceyearly by Massey University,Private Bag 11-222, PalmerstonNorth, New Zealandwww.massey.ac.nzCopyright: You are generallywelcome to reproduce materialfrom MASSEY, provided youfirst gain permission from theeditor.Current news: For current newsfrom Massey University andpast issues of MASSEY visitmasseynews.massey.ac.nz.Director of Communication andMarketing:Rachel Donaldr.j.donald@massey.ac.nzEditor:Malcolm Woodm.wood@massey.ac.nzWriters: Di Billing, Fiona Dalzell,Stephanie Gray, Leanne Hills,Amanda McAuliffe, PatrickMorgan, Alan Samson, RichardShaw, Malcolm Wood, RayPrebblePhotographers : Graeme Brown,Phil Crawford, Patrick Morgan,Dionne Ward, Tony Whincup,David WiltshireDesign : Grant BunyanThanks to: The ElectoralCommission, Anne Ford, StefanMessamPicture this243 A selection of student work submitted to illustrate Fiona Dalzell’s storyThe Land of Babel.1431. At the Zonta Design Awards held in Wellington in May, fashion designerTessa Benham was presented with with the supreme award by PrimeMinister Helen Clark. Benham is employed by Bonds in Sydney. 2. DanPoynton has had a good year. The accomplished pianist turned journalismstudent has won the New Zealand Tui Music Award for the year’s bestclassical CD, the Dominion Post‘s $500 Alex Veysey journalism prize, and thissummer, thanks to the Asia New Zealand Foundation, he will be one threestudents heading to Cambodia to work at the Phnom Penh Post. 3. Studentsfrom the Bachelor of Design degree test their 3rd year design projects headto-headin competition off Takapuna beach on Auckland’s North Shore. 4.The brief put before students of the Albany-based marine transport designoption was to design a single seat craft that could be powered by an eighthorsepower motor as fast as a possible over a set distance. Ms Julia Whelan,recipient of a Mauriora ki te Ao Scholarship for excellence in entomology,is pursuing an interest in forensic entomology.1

T H O U G H T SWhat about the argument that separaterepresentation offends against the liberal notionthat everyone should be treated equally? Well,historically, being treated differently underelectoral law has not been to the advantageof Māori. Anyway, depending on how oneunderstands the notion, equality needn’trequire treating all people in exactly the sameway. In fact, if equality is understand as sameIn recent times, and particularly since the introduction of MMP, the percentage of Māorienroled on the Māori roll (depicted by the lightly shaded area in the figure above) rather thanthe general roll has risen.Māori MPsor similar outcomes, and if what is soughtis a Māori presence in Parliament whichreflects the presence of Māori in the widerpopulation, then different treatment maywell be justified.In the end, the debate about the Māoriseats is really about the form which Māoriparliamentary representation should take.electorate list total % all MPs2002 10 9 19 15.82005 7 11 18 14.9Determining the number of Māori electoral seatsElectorates are meant to have similar populations living in them, regardless of how large or smallthis ends up making the area an electorate covers. There are 16 South Island general electorateseats, a number fixed by law. To find out the population quota for South Island general electoratesthe general electoral population of the South Island is divided by 16. In 2001 (the date of the lastcensus) with the population of the South Island being 868 923 this came to 54 308. The nextcensus is to be held on 7 March 2006.With the general electorate population quota known, it now becomes possible to calculate thenumber of Māori seats that should be allocated: simply divide the Māori electoral population bythe general electorate population quota. But there is a complication. Māori can choose to belongto either the general or Māori roll, so this entails a further calculation.To work out the Māori electoral population, the proportion of Māori who are on the Māorielectoral roll (around 55 percent in 2001) is applied to the total population identifying as Māori(671 696 at the 2001 census).In 2001 the Māori electoral population worked out to be 371,690, which when divided by theSouth Island general electorate population quota meant seven Māori electorates (6.84 roundedup to 7). Source: Electoral CommissionThe Grand Dame turns 40Alumni are invited to join in celebrating theSchool of Journalism’s 40th yearMassey University’s School ofJournalism, which began life as part ofWellington Polytechnic in 1966, is aboutto turn 40.A red carpet of distinguished alumniinclude Pulitzer Prize winner Dr AlisonMcCulloch (currently a backfield editorwith the New York Times), TVNZjournalist and news reader Judy Bailey,Fair Go presenter Kevin Milne, SeanPlunket, broadcaster and columnist KeriWoodham.But we want to know about more:course alumni are invited to send in theirnames, year of attendance, contact details,and, if possible, names of any coursecolleagues and lecturers for us to approachor add to our list. Please send details toorganiser Di Billing at d.e.billing@massey.ac.nz or contact current lecturer AlanSamson at a.m.Samson@massey.ac.nz.Commemoration details will be postedcloser to the time.Current head of school Grant Hannissays the milestone is momentous. “I’vecalculated the number to have passedthrough the school must be at least 800,with our graduates working in all areas ofjournalism, both here and overseas.“The course benefits enormously fromthe partnership we enjoy with industry.Our students spend many weeks in realnewsrooms, and it shows: an amazing 90per cent of our graduates quickly get jobsin the industry.“We are immensely proud of ourcourse and all it has achieved. We lookforward to many, many more years ofsuccess.”The oldest journalism school in thecountry, its teaching actually began in1964 when part-time day and eveningclasses were offered in the polytechnic’sgeneral studies school.But in 1966 these were turned intoa full-time one-year course, initiallyproviding the only independent journalismtraining available in New Zealand.3

DirectionsAppointed member ofthe New Zealand Orderof Merit in recognitionof more than forty years’service to veterinaryscience:EmeritusProfessor Bob JollyElected Presidentof the InternationalEpidemiologyAssociation: ProfessorNeil PearceExternal research investment andpostgraduate numbers climbsMassey external research income is projected to break $60 million in2005, up from $50.7 in 2004. The research funding attracted by medicalresearch – an expensive and well-funded activity – skews the totals forresearch funding across the universities. If this funding is excluded, however,Massey can be seen to attract more research and contract income fromexternal sources than any other New Zealand university.While not quite as dramatic as the rise in external research income,the number of postgraduate students undertaking study at Massey hasalso climbed steadily.According to the most recent (2003) Ministryof Education statistics, more than 18 percent of Massey University’sstudent population are postgraduates. And year-on-year the number ofpostgraduate students enrolled has grown.At the pinnacle of postgraduate education are research postgraduatedegrees. Here Massey falls second only to the University of Aucklandin the numbers of enrolled students.In research degree completions – a recognised indicator of researchperformance – Massey betters every other New Zealand university.Number of postgraudate EFTs3,5003,0002,5002,0001,5001,000500Extra heft for NMRspectrometerA new $500,000 instrument that cools MasseyUniversity’s 700-MHz nuclear magneticresonance spectrometer will allow better-qualitydata to be obtained in a shorter time.Designed to match the capability of the700-MHz machine, the most powerfulspectrometer in the country, the CryoProbeuses ultra-cold helium gas (25K or minus 248degrees Celsius) to cool the spectrometer’selectronic detecting systems.Professor Geoff Jameson, who leads theCentre for Structural Biology, says the coolingfunction of the CryoProbe reduces theamount of thermal noise in the spectrometer– the equivalent to static in radio reception.“At room temperature the electrical circuitryis noisy; minimising this type of noise improvesthe sensitivity of the instrument about threeto-fivefold,” says Professor Jameson.PhD student Jo Claridge and chemist Dr Pat Edwards withthe new Bruker CryoProbe.02000 2001 2002 2003Postgraduate Equivalent Full-time Students50Recipients ofgovernment awardsfor excellence inteaching for 2005: DrRegina Scheyvens fromthe School of People,Environment andPlanning, and AssociateProfessor in VeterinaryAnatomy Dr AlexanderDavies.Income $ millions4030201002000 2001 2002 2003 2004Total research and contract income awardedTheoretical physicist Professor Tony Signal in the Instituteof Fundamental Sciences has been awarded one of twoNew Zealand Science and Technology medals. Establishedby the Royal Society of New Zealand, the medals recogniseand honour those who have made exceptional contributionsto New Zealand society and culture through activities inthe broad fields of science, mathematics, social science,and technology.Massey Medalists 2005Early Career Early Career Early Career Early CareerDr Nikolaos Kazantzis,psychologistDr Justin O’Sullivanmolecular biologistDr Stephen Marslandapplied mathematicianDr Mark Waterland lecturer inphysical and inorganic chemistry4

DirectionsPartnerships for ResearchAgricultureNew Zealand may no longer be Britain’sfarm but the $17 billion New Zealandagriculture industry remains crucial to thelocal economy.So the news that a trust is to be set upto advance research in the agricultural andbiological sciences and funded to the tuneof $22 million – $8.95 million from theGovernment’s partnerships for excellencescheme, the remainder from industry partners– has been widely welcomed.“Enhancing New Zealand’s internationalcompetitiveness is vital if primary industryis to remain a foundation of our economy,”Prime Minister Helen Clark told a gatheringon the Palmerston North campus.The Agricultural and Life SciencesPartnership will integrate the research andeducation capabilities of Massey and Lincolnwith the requirements of industry. Thepartnership will “ensure that the on-farmand near-farm sectors of the agricultural andbiological industries continue to be led andmanaged by outstanding individuals whoare consistently upgrading their skills andcapability, are sustained by a steady influx ofNew Zealand’s best and brightest minds, andare supported and informed by leading-edgeresearch”.The trust will be established by Masseyand Lincoln Universities, with the privatesector partners to include Meat and WoolNew Zealand, Dairy Insight, Fonterra, theNew Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation, andthe Agricultural and Marketing Research andDevelopment Trust (AgMardt).The equine industryA new $5 million research partnership betweenMassey University and the New Zealandequine industry will educate more people inequine science, technology and business.“To date,” Prime Minister Helen Clarksaid at the Palmerston North announcement,“investment in equine research has beensmall compared to that in other land-basedindustries.” The Towards a Future-FocusedNew Zealand Equine Industry Partnershipaims to change that via education and researchto help the equine industry achieve its fulleconomic potential.“A feature of the high-performing sectorsof the agriculture-based economy is thetremendous value they place on an educatedworkforce and good-quality research to keepahead of the international competition,”said Professor Grant Guilford, head of theUniversity’s Institute of Veterinary, Animal andBiomedical Sciences. “We want to facilitatea similar integrated suite of educationalopportunities for the equine industry throughthis partnership.”One goal is to increase the number ofpeople with in-depth knowledge of equinescience, technology and business entering theNew Zealand equine industry to manage andgrow equine enterprises. Another is to increaseknowledge of equine husbandry and trainingto improve the skill and ability of persons toraise and train winners. The partnership isintended to reduce the incidence of injuriesthat reduce a horse’s performance or push itinto retirement.Professor Elwyn Firth of Massey will leadthe research programme, which will enlistthe collaboration of researchers at ColoradoState University; Lincoln University;Matamata Veterinary Services; OtagoUniversity; the Royal College, London; theUniversity of California, Davis; and UtrechtUniversity. The researchers will also workwith Bomac Laboratories to develop moreequine pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.At the opening of the New Zealand Guitar Centre on Massey’sWellington campus during September’s InternationalGuitar Festival. From left, Professor Benjamin Verdery ofYale University, eminent New Zealand classical guitaristProfessor Matthew Marshall and Chair of the WellingtonCity Council Arts Committee Ray Ahipene-Mercer.A highlight of the Guitar Festival, Australian group GuitarTrek.A new psychology clinic has opened as part of theWellington campus. The clinic will be used for research,to support the postgraduate clinical psychology trainingprogramme, and to provide a clinical service. Massey hasthe largest clinical psychology training programme of anyNew Zealand university, with students studying at eachof its three campuses. Pictured from left: Professor JanetLeatham, Professor Ian Evans, Hon. Annette King, Dr DuncanBabbage and Professor Ken Heskin.Individual ResearcherSupervisorResearch TeamProfessor Robert McLachlan, applied mathematicianProfessor Robert McLachlan, soilscientistThe Riddet Centre, foods research5

DirectionsA robotic jawA robotic human jaw is being developed and built on Massey’s Aucklandcampus.The jaw is being made for Associate Professor Andrew Pullan of theUniversity of Auckland by a team led by Massey’s Dr John Bronlundand Associate Professor Peter Xu of the Institute of Engineering andTechnology. The jaw will be used to supply information about themechanics of the jaw muscles and the forces used in chewing andbiting.Professor Jules Keiser at the University of Otago’s School of Dentistryhas contributed data on the shape of the jaw and teeth. This informationwill be combined with research by Dr Kylie Foster at Massey’s Aucklandcampus measuring the movement of a jaw as it chews, to provide acomplete picture of a jaw in motion from which to base the roboticmovement.Dr Bronlund says the ability of the jaw to mechanically replicate thechewing actions of humans has applications across medicine and foodtechnology. Dental researchers can use the jaw to study how dentalimplants respond to different foods and to test how impaired dentitionaffects chewing efficiency. The jaw is designed to be fitted with a varietyof teeth, such as the sharp, pointy teeth of a six-year-old or the bluntermolars of an adult.For food technologists, the jaw will be useful in tracking the texturechanges in foods during chewing. Dr Bronlund says robotic testing ofthis type will be valuable when combined with sensory food evaluationtechniques.It is planned to teach the robot to adaptively chew food. It may bemade to make its own decisions on how to chew a new food product.If it loses a tooth, it will adjust its motion accordingly.Massey master’s student Jozsef-Sebastian Pap has designed the robotand the six actuators which drive the bottom jaw (the top half of thehuman jaw remains fixed). PhD student Jonathan Torrence is working onthe control of the robot. The team estimates the first prototype roboticjaw is six months from completion.A better blood pressure monitorA wrist blood pressure monitor developed by lecturer Dr OlafDiegel (pictured), promises a significant step forward in home healthmonitoring.Dr Diegel, a lecturer in the Institute of Technology and Engineering atthe Auckland campus, has a successful track record in developing healthrelated products. He recently made headlines with the development ofa tiny refrigerated unit for transporting insulin.The discrepancies between the accuracy of recordings taken byprofessional devices and recordings taken by home devices were a majorfactor in the challenge he faced to design a more sophisticated homeblood pressure monitor.The rigid cuff wrist monitor has been developed in consultation withan international company that specialises in medical technologies forthe home healthcare market. Existing wrist monitors look very muchlike a watch and have Velcro fastenings. Both of these qualities lead toproblems in using the monitors for accurate readings, says Dr Diegel.Having the appearance of a wrist watch is a fundamental flaw, hesays, because users wear it with the monitor face upwards, rather thanon the inside of the wrist, where it should be worn.He says the Velcro fastening system was not ideal because usersinvariably fasten them to differing levels of tightness. The rigid cuffmonitor Dr Diegel has developed ensures that the monitor is always onthe wrist with the same tension and in the same position.A tilt sensor and LED indicators tell the user their arm is in the rightposition to take an accurate reading.Take-home fertility testingA take-home fertility-testing kit under development in a Masseylaboratory will give women and couples further control over pregnancyplanning.The fertility testing kits, which are under commercialisation byManawatu BioTech Investment Ltd, test urine in a similar way topregnancy testing kits. The technology aims to pinpoint the most fertileperiod of a woman’s menstrual cycle by measuring the metabolites(excreted components) of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone.This, scientists believe, will enable a greater degree of accuracy comparedwith methods now used to pinpoint ovulation and optimum periodsof fertility.Massey graduate Dr Delwyn Cooke says the take-home kit willreduce the amount of stress involved in laboratory-based fertility testing,and will also reduce the cost of this type of testing. “Unlike laboratoryassays it becomes feasible to monitor whole cycles on a day-by-daybasis, and I also think it is appealing to the women as it does give thema feeling of control.”The kit is expected to be available within the next two years.6

DirectionsCrocodile trackerAt 2.00 am on a mid-July morning, Massey master’s student Bindi Thomas and team captured,satellite-tagged and released their first crocodile, a 4.2 m male Crocodylus porosus now nicknamedSputnik, into the estuaries of the Adelaide River, 100 km east of Darwin, Australia.The work, which will go towards Ms Thomas’s thesis, is a collaboration between the Universityand Australia’s Parks and Wildlife Service, Northern Territory and the Queensland Parks andWildlife Service.In a procedure developed and fine-tuned by Dr John Holland and postgraduate students inthe University’s Natural Resource Management programme, the estuarine crocodile was taggedwith a six-inch transmitter with two aerials. Attached painlessly and safely between scales on thecrocodile’s neck, the waterproof transmitter will communicate with a bi-polar satellite, allowingdata of its location and movements to be collected regularly over the course of a year.Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), the location data will be combined with variousother types of meteorological data to gain a greater understanding of the range of the crocodile,ultimately improving the management of the interaction between the crocodiles, humans andlivestock.Since the species was granted protection in 1971, its numbers in the region have steadily increasedfrom 3,000 to 70,000, bringing many more interactions between people and crocodiles.Dr Holland says Ms Thomas’s success has been extraordinary. “You give her a couple of wordsand she comes back with gold, a real adventurer and an up-and-coming croc-ologist.“This research is important on a global scale, but it is especially important for the NorthernTerritories because it will fill a gap in the information about this shy, elusive creature. We knownext to nothing about their home ranges. With this information managers will know wherethey are, and where they move around, both to protect people and also to ensure they have areasreserved for them.”Dr Holland’s team in the Natural Resource Management group have used transmitters and GIStechnology in similar projects with the New Zealand falcon and with elephants in Africa.Ms Thomas has designed a website that enables the public to watch Sputnik’s movementsthemselves, and has received positive feedback from international scientists as well as children.Visit http://www.croctrack.org.nz to see Sputnik’s movements and to read more informationabout the project.Pounamu recoversYoung out-of-towner Pounamu might haveexpected better. Awaiting release onto CodfishIsland the six-month-old kakapo was attacked ina pen by an older male kakapo. The consequence?The male was banished to another island, whilePounamou was flown North to the WildlifeWard.Jenny Youl (pictured), a resident in avian andwildlife health at the ward, says Pounamu, one of 86of the world’s largest and most endangered parrotshas made good progress under treatment. “She wasvery subdued and sore, but is eating better now andseems more cheerful.”Kumara chunks and green grapes have beenamong her favourite treats and she growls healthilywhen handled for her twice-daily treatment.The kakapo is receiving anti-inflammatory andantibiotic medication, and is being fed a specialparrot mix via a feeding tube.Pounamu has nerve damage to one wing,thought to be soft-tissue damage which willeventually heal. Although the birds are flightless,they use their wings to ‘float’ a little when they leapto the ground from the trees they climb.Avian and reptilian specialist Dr Brett Gartrellknows Pounamu from happier days as a fledgingunder care of the Department of Conservationand wildlife vets in Nelson. He says the attack bythe adult male is normal territorial behaviour forthe solitary species.7

DirectionsWe like it hereMost New Zealanders are proud to be Kiwi and want to live in NewZealand for the rest of their lives.The 2005 New Zealand Values Survey, conducted by the Centre forSocial and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE) inAuckland and the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Workin Palmerston North, is part of the World Values Survey which aimsto provide cross-country comparisons.Of almost 2,500 people over the age of 18 asked in a randomtelephone survey, nearly 70 percent said they were ‘very proud’ andone-quarter said they were ‘quite proud’ to be a New Zealander.When asked to rank their commitment to spending most of theirlives in New Zealand from one to five, 78 percent responded in the toptwo categories while 11 percent chose the least committed categoriesand the remainder were neutral. Those aged between 18 and 24 wereless likely to be committed to living in New Zealand (66 percent),than tertiary-educated people (75 percent) and those with primaryeducation (80 percent).Regardless of their level of commitment, all respondents were askedwhat factors they considered important to a decision to live in NewZealand. A good public health system topped a list of eight factorsin their decision, with 96 percent considering it was important. Ahigh-quality natural environment was second, considered importantby 94 percent, and a good work/life balance and good education forchildren were factors for 93 percent. A low crime rate was a factorfor 92 percent of those committed to staying in New Zealand, 82percent deemed high employment important, while low poverty andpossible earnings were a factor for 79 and 77 percent of respondentsrespectively.“Only three factors were significantly different between those whowere committed to staying in New Zealand and those less committed,”says Professor Sally Casswell, director of SHORE. “Those verycommitted to spending the rest of their lives here are significantly morelikely to value a high-quality natural environment, a good work/lifebalance and New Zealand’s artistic and cultural heritage.”The survey is one part of the country’s most substantial study ofthe nation’s political, social and moral opinions.Young people and alcoholIn New Zealand between 1990 and 1999 therewas a series of liberalising alcohol changes. Themost conspicuous of these was the lowering ofthe minimum purchase age from 20 to 18 yearsin 1999. But there were other major shifts as well.The number of liquor outlets rose steeply afterthe relaxation of the conditions for obtaining alicence to sell alcohol and the sale of wine beingallowed in supermarkets and grocery outlets. (In1990 there were 6,000 licences to sell alcohol;in 2002 there were 14,000.)An analysis conducted in 1995 found fromFebruary 1992, when the advertising of brandsof alcohol was allowed in the broadcast media,to 1995, when an analysis was done, televisedalcohol advertising increased fourfold.Additionally, the alcohol industry becamemore sophisticated at addressing their productsand marketing to young people; the extensiverange of ready-to-drinks (premixed spirit-baseddrinks often flavoured to suit a youth palate)introduced to the New Zealand market in 1995being a good example.What, then, have been the consequences?Taisia Huckle, Megan Pledger and ProfessorSally Casswell set out to analyse alcohol-relatedharms and offences from 1990 to 2003.They found that the liberalisation of alcoholthrough the 1990s may have influencedyounger people and that this may be expressedin increases in disorderly behaviour and drinkdriving. They also found – as is tellinglyillustrated by the accompanying graphs – thatthe lower minimum purchase age may beassociated with a rising incidence of fatal roadcrashes among 18-19-year-olds.25014–15-year-olds25016–17 -year-olds25018–19-year-oldsRate per100,000 150peopleRate per100,000 150peopleRate per100,000 150people50505001990 1995 2000Year01990 1995 2000Year01990 1995 2000Year25020–24-year-olds25025 years and overFatal crashesRate per100,000 150peopleRate per100,000 150peopleAll crashes505001990 1995 2000Year01990 1995 2000Year8

DirectionsMore moa or fewer?How many moa species were there? Since theEnglish anatomist Richard Owen first identifiedthe existence of the moa in 1840 the number hasfluctuated. By the 1890s Hutton had identified26 species. In 1949 Oliver had the number at29. In the 1970s it had fallen to 11. But certaintyabout the actual number was always going to beelusive as long as bone anatomy was the basisof identification.In 2003 this changed. By copying ancientnuclear DNA extracted from moa bones up to6,000 years old Professor David Lambert andhis team were able to identify 10 species, in theprocess folding together two ‘species’ with thediscovery these were simply the smaller maleand the much larger female.But 10 has not lasted long. Now, there are 14species of moa. Professor David Lambert and hiscollaborators – Professor Allan Baker from theRoyal Ontario Museum and the University ofToronto and Dr Craig Millar from the AllanWilson Centre at the University of Auckland– have identified five more species of moa,including one giant of more than 140 kg, andat the same time another two ‘species’ have beenfolded into one. (Hence the two identical moato the right of the diagram.)Again, the identification of the new specieshas been enabled by the extraction and analysis ofDNA. Samples of ancient DNA were extractedfrom 125 moa bones and genetically typed. Theresearchers have been able to construct the mostaccurate family tree of moa available to date.It shows that evolution of moa is much morerecent than had been thought.“Not only does this tell us who was related towhom but it also tells us how long ago they allseparated. It’s commonly thought they evolvedtens of millions of years ago but our evidencesuggests in fact it was from four to ten millionyears ago. In scientific terms, that is quite recent,”says Professor Lambert.According to the researchers, the differentmoa species began to diverge about four tosix million years ago, when New Zealand’sland mass was broken up by the advent of newmountains and there was a general cooling ofthe climate.“This resulted in the isolation of lineagesand promoted ecological specialisation. Thespectacular radiation of moa involved significantchanges in body size, shape and mass. The moaradiation provides another example of the generalinfluence of large-scale palaeoenvironmentalchanges on vertebrate evolutionary history,similar to that of the Galapagos finches and theHawaiian honeycreepers.”The paper on reconstructing the tempo andmodel of evolution with the extinct moa hasfeatured in the Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences USA.AAB C D EFGHIII J K1K23 4 56A Pachyornis mappiniB Pachyornis elephantopusC Pachyornis australisD Pachyornis sp.E Euryapteryx geranoidesF Euryapteryx curtis (triangles in the Euryapteryx clade)G Emeus crassusH Anomalopteryx didiformisI Dinornis robustusJ Dinornis novaezealandiaeK Megalapteryx didinus10

FeatureOh islands in the sunProfessor Kerry Howe investigatesthe unreliable histories of Oceania.Malcolm Wood meets him on theAuckland campus.Professor Howe by one of theNational Maritime Museum’sdisplays.Photo courtesy of theNational MaritimeMuseum11

Oh islands in the sunHe fell for the Pacific early. From Narrow NeckBeach, close by the family home, the boy wouldgaze out past the pohutukawa, past the volcaniccone of Rangitoto, to where the ships came andwent, their destinations distant and exotic.He had an uncle, a merchant seaman, whowould tell him tall, sometimes macabre tales.One tale from the tropics, he remembers, wasof sharks, fed newly boiled whole pumpkins,churning the sea in their death throes as thepumpkins burst.Around the bays, beaches and mangroves northof Auckland he fished, snorkelled and messedabout in small boats. He read Defoe’s RobinsonCrusoe, Melville’s Moby Dick, Stevenson’s TreasureIsland, Bligh and Christian’s [Edward Christian,Fletcher Christian’s brother] The Bounty Mutiny(some in the Classic Comic editions) and ThorHeyerdahl’s The Kon-Tiki Expedition. He tracedCook’s voyages on the map.In hindsight it seems inevitable that he wouldone day light out for the Pacific islands.In 1971 Kerry Howe made it. The boy was nowa PhD student undertaking his field work, andthe Loyalty Islands had all the travel-brochuretropical trappings: atolls fringed with expansesof white-sand beach, azure water and coral reefs.But it was a strait-laced paradise.“Sunday you basically went to churchfor the entire day,” says Howe. “I remembersitting in these dreadfully hot churches andnot understanding a word of what was goingon with the singing and preaching. You’d lookout the windows and there would be theseabsolutely glorious beaches with not a soul onthem.” Beside him in the pew Merrilyn, his wife,sweltered in the neck-to-knee Mother Hubbardpropriety demanded of her.What is the Pacific like? It is not a question thatcan really be asked without asking another: Howhas the Pacific been imagined to be?For centuries the West has projected its visionon to the Pacific and its islands, which havevariously been seen as paradise and as paradiselost, as a paradigm for man living in harmonywith nature and as cautionary examples of whathappens when environmental destruction goesunchecked.The peoples of the Pacific have been depictedas noble and as brutish; as the hapless victims ofcolonialism and as participants in the colonialenterprise. Their epic journeyings aroundthe Pacific have been depicted as controlledand purposeful, and as little more than theconsequence of drift and chance. They havebeen cast as one of the lost tribes of Israel, andas Johnny-come-latelies who have usurped theplace of older, more sophisticated civilisations ofAtlanteans, Celts, Egyptians or what-you-will.What is the Pacific like? How would youlike it to be?Kerry Howe – now Professor Kerry Howe – istalking to me in his office on the Aucklandcampus at Albany, not far from where he grew up.The boy who messed about in boats has becomean academic who in his free time messes aboutin sea kayaks. (On a wall map the red line ofHowe’s kayaking travels snakes up the coast fromEast Cape to North Cape, and he has recentlypublished Coastal Sea Kayaking in New Zealand:A Practical Touring Manual.) And while he is nolonger as absurdly youthful as he appears in hisphotos from the Loyalty Islands, there is still acertain exuberance to him. In a well-manneredway he is still a bit of a stirrer, a debunker ofreceived opinion.For 40 years he has been studying the historyof the Pacific and the historiography of thePacific – the history of the writing of the history.The histories of the Pacific tell us as much aboutthe historians and the times they lived in as theydo about what happened, says Howe. What wethink of as histories are, more often than not,thinly veiled morality tales.If history is as much about the teller as the tale,then who is Kerry Howe?Kerry Howe, the kid from Devonport, headedto university in 1965, the first of his wider familyto do so. “It wasn’t really until I got to universitythat I became conscious of things called ideas:economic ideas, political ideas. It was quite amind-blowing experience. There were peoplethere who had written books – I’d never metpeople who wrote books.”He reels off the names. Historians like KeithSinclair, Keith Sorrenson, Russell Stone andHowe’s thesis supervisor, Judith Binney. Hebecame aware of painters like Don Binney,Ralph Hotere, Colin McCahon and Pat Hanley.Poets like Hone Tuwhare and, again, KeithSinclair. Writers like Maurice Shadbolt, whowas exploring the nature of postcolonial New12

Zealand society in novels and short stories.Looking to them and their like, Howe became,as he puts it, a romantic nationalist.The sixties also ushered in the VietnamWar and accompanying protest, the Americancivil rights movement – which Howe creditswith having had a huge and still largelyunderestimated influence in New Zealand – anda swag of ideologies, among them feminism,anti-racism and anti-colonialism.But the greatest ‘ism’ – the one that left itsimprint on his generation – was optimism. “Wegrizzled about the world and we grizzled aboutthe Vietnam War and we started to grizzle aboutthe environment, but there was always this sensethat the future was only going to get better andbetter and better,” says Howe. “By being involvedin mainstream politics we would make the worlda better place.”examine the interaction of Māori, missionariesand civilisation in the upper Waikato from1833 to 1863. Superficially the examination ofa thin slice of history, the thesis would allowHowe to delve into one of the controversiessurrounding contact history: the validity ofthe ‘fatal impact’ interpretation. In essence, thefatal impact version of contact history followsa simple narrative in which a superior culturemeets and overwhelms a primitive culture;perpetrator meets victim.Howe’s supervisor, Judith Binney, leanedtowards a fatal impact interpretation of thecontact between Māori and European. Howe’sbelief – which his thesis would turn out tosupport – was that contact histories tend torepresent a more complex interplay, witheach culture learning from and exploiting theother.University had pioneered an ‘island-centred’perspective, placing island events in the contextof the indigenous culture.Howe’s field research took him to the LoyaltyIslands, which lie in a band along the east coastof New Caledonia, to which they belong. ForHowe the islands looked like an ideal place fora field study.For one thing, unusually for Melanesia,the Loyalty Islanders had responded to theovertures of the missionaries in the nineteenthcentury and become ardently Christian – whichinterested Howe. For another, blessed with anabsence of covetable resources, the LoyaltyIslanders had been left largely to their owndevices, unlike mainland New Caledonia,where the exploitation of the island’s hugereserves of nickel was accompanied by massdispossessions and social disruption. (BeingIt was a good time to make one’s mark as aPacific historian. Hallowed orthodoxies werebeing overthrown. The Great Migration with itsGreat Fleet of canoes was no more, demolishedby Andrew Sharp and David Simmons as beingthe product of a nineteenth century historian’sefforts to tidy up oral traditions. (As a guestlecturer Sharp would declare to his AucklandUniversity audience: “I stand before you as aheretic.”) Archaeology was being revolutionisedby carbon dating, and instead of solely addressingmaterial culture it had begun to take a broaderecological approach.For his masterate thesis Howe chose toHis MA thesis completed, Howe headed toCanberra and the Department of Pacific Historyat the Australian National University to dohis PhD. Well resourced and internationallystaffed, the Australian National University wasan amazing place, Howe remembers, whereeveryone was writing books. (A visiting fellowwho particularly impressed Howe was DavidLewis, who studied Polynesian navigationalmethods and had sailed single-handed aroundthe Antarctic.)In place of imperial history – history asseen through the eyes of missionaries, tradersand administrators – the Australian Nationalobviously non-French speakers did the Howesno social harm.)The Loyalty Islanders took the Howes intotheir lives. “They fed and clothed us and tookus around. They did everything for us. Thiswasn’t just courtesy or custom. It genuinelywas a very welcoming society,” says Howe, forwhom the experience was life-defining. “Peoplelived very simple lives. None of the roads weresealed. People were still cooking on primuses,and there were Coleman lamps at night. In ourromantic youthful way we thought this all wasquite wonderful.”Howe would visit sites unchanged from13

Oh islands in the sunthe nineteenth century – the hill where therehad been a battle between the Catholic andProtestant factions of the Islanders, or thebeach where the sandalwood trade had beenconducted – and talk to Islanders for whom thelast century’s events lived on.“The Islanders could remember stories goingback to the 1840s and the 1850s and the namesof traders and which island women they hadmarried. These were aspects of their history thatwere part of their everyday world.”Why had the Loyalty Islanders proven sosusceptible to Christianity when their nearneighbours in New Caledonia had not? Theanswer lay in the structure of their societies:the Loyalty Islands had tribal, chiefly structures,which New Caledonia largely did not, andChristianity could be used to a chief ’s politicaladvantage. Some chose English Protestantmissionaries, their enemies then chose FrenchCatholic ones.Back in Palmerston North courtesy of a MasseyUniversity postdoctoral fellowship, Howe turnedhis PhD thesis into a book, The Loyalty Islands: AHistory of Culture Contacts 1840–1900.Now he nurtured wider ambitions. Hewas wary of micro-history: writing ever moredetailed monographs about ever more esotericsubjects. He yearned for some larger synthesis,to pull back from cinematic close-up to a moreinstructive wide focus.These days he quotes the New Zealandphilosopher Peter Munz. Had Darwin been ahistorian rather than a naturalist, Munz wrote, hemight well have described the different shapesof finches’ beaks on the various islands of theGalapagos and left it at that. Instead, because hewas looking for more overarching explanations,his observations helped form and support hisideas about natural selection.Howe looked at the Pacific and its host ofdifferent societal interactions and wonderedwhere he might make some attempt at explaininghuman cultural interaction more broadly.Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea IslandsHistory (1984) was the result, a wide-rangingsurvey and synthesis which found patterns in thedetailed research findings of others. Howe found,for example, that through much of Polynesiathe early period of contact with Europeanstended to bring about a political centralisationby indigenous leaders.But one of the lessons of Where the Waves Fallis that no one narrative holds true. Each island’scontact experience and subsequent history areuniquely its own. If, for example, Christianityin the Loyalty Islands had been driven bychiefs seeking political advantage, then in NewZealand and Samoa the tendency had beenfor ordinary individuals to convert first andthe upper echelons to follow. Howe describesWhere the Waves Fall as the most influential ofhis books.Howe now struck out into a new genre witha biography, Singer in a Songless Land: A Life ofEdward Tregear, 1846-1931, though his choiceof subject would still involve him in hisspecialist interests – contact history and Pacifichistoriography – and in much else.“One of the attractions of writing a biographyis that you are dealing with the smallest unitof history: a person. But you can’t just writeabout that. You have to write about the life andthe times. So I ended up having to write anenormous amount about New Zealand’s historyduring Tregear’s lifetime.”Born in England in 1846 and raised incomfortable circumstances, Edward Tregear hademigrated to New Zealand in 1863 at age 17.With him he brought his family, which was innewly parlous circumstances; Tregear’s father, asea captain, had died two years earlier after firstsquandering the family wealth.Tregear became a soldier and thena surveyor, spending months at a time inMāori communities. It was a hard scrabble forexistence in an alien land, but one to whichTregear brought his own peculiar sensibility.Classically schooled, Tregear had been able toread and write Greek and Latin at age seven.From his early years he had been captivatedby Celtic, Nordic and classical legend. Now, ashe acclimatised, Tregear set about applying hislearning and his passion for the new sciences ofcomparative mythology, religion and linguisticsto his new land and its people. In 1885 hepublished The Aryan Māori, which was able tofind relics of Aryan heritage embedded in Māorilanguage, mythology and custom.Tregear was one of the founders of thePolynesian Society. He compiled well-regardeddictionaries of Māori and Polynesian languages.This is Tregear the interpreter of matters Māoriand Polynesian.The other Tregear is the civil servant andsocial reformer. In 1891 he was appointedSecretary to the Department of Labour. Helargely administered the Industrial Conciliationand Arbitration Act of 1894, and he becamethe leading publicist and theoretician of NewZealand labour reform.Did Howe find himself liking his subject?The question is off the point. “You don’t haveto like them, but you have to connect. Youneed to understand why they did what theydid,” he says.“I didn’t approve of a lot of things that hebelieved in; he was a creature of the nineteenthcentury and I am one of the twentieth. In manyways he is an archetypal kind of New Zealander;some of the values and concerns he stoodfor you can see continuing on through NewZealand society: his concern that we should havean ordered and a decent society. A society thatwould have none of the evils of the old world. Asociety that would have no class conflicts. He wasan idealist, but he was a practical idealist.”It isn’t hard to see Tregear as Howe’s spiritualkin: both romantic idealists, both nationalists,both authors, both followers of literature andthe arts.The times in which it was written alsogave the biography a personal resonance. “It’swhat we now call ‘presentism’,” says Howe,“the sub-agenda I had in the 1980s gave thebook a particular slant. I often think that hadI written it in the 1970s it might have beenquite different.”Even as Howe was writing, the welfare state,which had nascent beginnings in Tregear’s timesand which Howe and his parents had grown upin, was being dismantled by Roger Douglas andDavid Lange. “It was quite jarring. It wasn’t justinstitutional change. It was a change in valuesfrom those of the collective common good tothose of the market and the individual.”Within the universities the change was alsovisible in a new managerialism that challengedthe primacy of older, more academic values.Writing Singer in a Songless Land broughthome to Howe how shallow the time frame is14

Different legaciesRace relations in Australia and New Zealandfor New Zealand history and how close-knitthe political scene. Howe tracked down two ofTregear’s grandchildren and one of his nephews.All had adult memories of Tregear, who livedinto his eighties, dying in 1931. “I got anenormous amount from them.”The book was launched at Massey inPalmerston North by former Prime MinisterBill Rowling and with Tregear’s relatives present.“I rang him to see if he would read the bookand then launch it, and he said ‘Yes, yes, I’lldo that’,” says Howe. “So we had the Tregearextended family there and Rowling, who wasthe last representative of a particular philosophy,beginning with Tregear and the Liberals, in NewZealand political behaviour.”There may be another reason why it was agood time for an excursion into biography: forthe moment the writing of contact history hadbecome highly politicised, to the point of beinga no-go area.Who ‘owns’ history? Writing from withinthe nineteenth century colonial enterpriseTregear had, of course, ‘appropr iated’Māori history without qualm. In nineteenthcentury New Zealand the ownership of historywas not an issue. Come the mid-twentiethcentury and there was a consciousness that theissue existed. Yet even in the 1970s there werevoices from within Māoridom urging Pākehāhistorians to do more to incorporate Māorihistory into their accounts of Aotearoa. However,in the late 1970s and early 1980s factionswithin Māoridom began to argue vehementlythat non-Māori should not be writing aboutMāori history at all.One of the most famous exchanges, saysHowe, took place in 1978 between the historianMichael King and Professor Sydney Mead in thepages of the New Zealand Listener. Mead tookPākehā to task for, as he put it, “reaching intoMāori culture and pulling out features withwhich they can identify, taking hold of quitegenerous portions which they then try to fitinto a Pākehā cultural world”.Within factions of Māoridom, Pākehāhistorians were accused of being cultural raiders,too arrogant to realise that as Pākehā they wouldnever understand tikanga Māori.“King never went back to Māori history inthe same way even in later years,” says Howe.“There was what amounted to censorship. Thehistoriography of cultural contact as it waswritten in this country came to an end in theIn 1970, three months into his PhD at theAustralian National University, Howe and hiswife skived off from Canberra in a Holdenstation wagon for an extended trip to see thecountry. Outback Australia, with its immensityand beauty, enthralled him; the condition of itsAboriginal inhabitants left him distressed andappalled. Their lives were afflicted by poverty,drunkenness and brutality.His response, “partly my own way ofsorting out things in my own head”, was ashort book, Race Relations Australia and NewZealand: A Comparative Survey 1770s-1970s.Why were the contact histories of Australiaand New Zealand so different? “Perhaps morethan any other single factor, the respectivenatures of Māori and Aboriginal societiesin pre-European times help to explainwhy Māori and Aboriginal relations withEuropeans have been very different in thetwo countries,” writes Howe in the book’sopening sentence.In turn the societal differences were in partan expression of the physical environment:New Zealand, rugged, fertile and temperate;Australia, largely flat, infertile and arid.The Māori practised agriculture – as wellas hunting, fishing and gathering – and livedrelatively settled existences; the Aborigineshad no agriculture, moving their campsitesaccording to the seasonal availability of food.Māori society was stratified and hierarchical;Aboriginal society was not. The Māori werepractised warriors whose object was oftenland; such Aboriginal intertribal warfareas took place was mainly skirmishing, andterritorial conquest was virtually unknown.These very different societal characteristics– combined with European ethnocentricityand racism – put the Māori far closer to theaccepted British norm.The stark difference in European attitudesto Māori and Aborigines is made flesh in theperson of missionary Samuel Marsden, whoarrived in Sydney in 1794 and would latermount a series of voyages to New Zealand.“He was only too keen to proselytize amongMāori [he favoured the idea of the Māoribeing one of the lost tribes of Israel], but hewanted nothing to do with Aborigines, whohe thought were cursed with the mark ofCain,” says Howe.For their part, unlike the Māori, theAborigines initially had little use forChristianity – or indeed for many of theEuropean beliefs and trappings.The book led to Howe teaching a coursein comparative race relations at Massey formany years, until the Springbok tour madethis untenable. “Many people felt obligedto nail colours to wall. It was all tied upwith post-colonial mentality. It becameimpossible to hold a rational discussion aboutcontact history when there were such heatedemotions all tied up in an explosive mix ofrugby and race.“I don’t think you could teach a course likethat now. Unless you were taking a line thatindigenous people were universally damagedand dispossessed all to the same extent youare probably on a hiding to nowhere. Anyattempt to say that New Zealand has a betterrecord on race relations than Australia and Ithink you’d just be screamed down.”Nor, despite approaches from publishers,has he any inclination to update the book. “Ithink books are creatures of their times. Youwrite them and move on.”15

Oh islands in the sun1970s and it only got going again in a differentguise, with what I call grievance history, whenthe Waitangi Tribunal came along. It is only nowthat we are moving along again.”In other Pacific islands – usually those whereindigenous people were heavily outnumberedby later immigrants and their descendants– there was a similar backlash. During a periodof teaching at the University of Hawai’i, Howereceived death threats from extreme nationalists,which he now understands were more a matterof form than of intent. Elsewhere the sentimentwas present but muted.“You would get up at conferences and thelocals would berate all the white faces in theaudience for being white academic imperialists,then have a cup of tea with you afterwards. It wassometimes an uncomfortable time. You had tomaintain your own sense of integrity and get onwith it. Some people survived and some peopledidn’t – they gave it up.”Howe’s next book was a return to Pacific history,or, more accurately, to historiography. Nature,Culture and History: The ‘Knowing’ of Oceania isa mature-career book, an erudite meditationbuilding on decades of careful reading andresearch, and expanding on his MacmillanBrown Lectures.Just as Howe had bucked against theorthodoxy of the fatal impact, now he wouldtilt at postcolonial extremism, first because ofits insistence on a grand narrative – the riseand fall of imperialism – and second becauseof its reductive moralising: colonialism bad;postcolonialism good.“It can be a shallow game,” Howe says.“Instead of reading Cook’s entire journal, forexample, you only have to read and deconstructa single paragraph and find in it every possiblesin such as racism, sexism, culturalism. Cookbecomes the personification of all modernistevil.”Howe is less dismissive of that other majormovement to sweep through the humanities,postmodernism; in fact he has taught coursesin it. In the postmodern understandinginterpretation is everything; reality only comesinto being through our interpretations of whatthe world means to us individually.Postmodernism, Howe says, was useful inits insistence that the question not be, ‘Whatis history?’ but ‘Who is history for?’ But thenhistory, Howe says, has always had a scepticalapproach, and the race relations and contacthistory Howe wrote had always had anawareness of the ‘other’. And no matter whatapproach postmodernism brings, things (deaths,wars, acts of Parliament) indisputably happen.But he has his criticisms. Postmodernism, hesays, can be a cul-de-sac that disables historiansfrom talking outside of their tribe. It has hada corrosive effect on the traditional teachingof some disciplines, notably English. And therehas been a flavour-of-the-month character toit. He remembers conferences, Howe writes,where “every young presenter (and some ofthe older ones) fell over themselves to spendthe first half of their papers wallowing in theirideological positioning. I used to seethe atthe waste of time as they went through theconvoluted arguments of dozens of crazedFrench poststructuralists, before turning theirattention to some event in the Pacific – andthen there was usually no connection.”If Howe disagrees with some of the orthodoxiesof academic historians, then he is more thantesty about the strains of Pacific ‘history’ thatfind evidence of visits by Chinese caravels, ofsettlement by Peruvians (sorry Thor Heyerdahl)or Celts, or, for that matter, of the existenceof advanced civilisations that flourished tensof thousands of years ago. Notions like theseshould not stand without challenge.“When there are issues of public commentthat historians – or anybody else – knowsomething about, then they should be sayingthings on the radio or in the columns of thenewspaper,” says Howe.The Quest for Origins: Who First Discoveredand Settled New Zealand and the Pacifi c Islands?,the bestseller that is the most recent of Howe’shistory books, was written in part as a responseto the proliferation of nonsense history. Questfor Origins sets out the linguistic, archaeologicaland biological evidence for the pattern of NewZealand settlement, as well as presenting thetheories that once held sway and locating themwithin the context of their times.As to the examples Howe looks to, hesuggests that historians would do well toattend to writers outside of their profession.“The history that has made the most impactin recent years has been history written bynon-historians,” he says. “I am thinking ofJared Diamond [Guns, Germs and Steel andthe recently published Collapse], SimonWinchester [The Map that Changed the Worldand Krakatoa], Dava Sobel [Longitude andGalileo’s Daughter]. They are all writing abouthistorical things in a way that strikes a chord.People find it accessible and they respond toit.”Howe’s current project is a collaboration withfive other academics that will result in a hightechexhibition, which will tour internationally,and an accompanying scholarly, large-formatlavishly illustrated book, for which Howeis the general editor and the author of twochapters.An initiative of the Auckland War MemorialMuseum, Waka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestorswill be of a similar scale to the much-laudedTe Māori exhibition of 1990. Waka Moana willset the Pacific islands and New Zealand in thecontext of global settlement. Oceania was thelast region on earth to be settled and NewZealand, settled just 700 years ago, truly is, inthe words of Kipling, “last, loneliest, loveliest”,says Howe.The exhibition will explore the origins ofthe peoples of Oceania and how and whensettlement took place. It will illuminate someof the debates. And it won’t be, says Howe, justa white man’s scientific story. “We’ve goneto a lot of effort to present how indigenouspeoples may have thought about the cosmosand their place within it.“So the stars, for example, are not justnavigational instruments. They represent16

such things as ancestors,” explains Howe. “Thenames people gave things can be traced all theback way across, the Pacific. These are culturalfootprints.”How does Howe feel about the current state ofOceania: the failed state of the Solomons, theFiji coup, the depopulation of some islands, thepollution and overcrowding of others?In many ways, says Howe, we shouldn’thave been too surprised that these thingshave happened. “Most of us didn’t see that inthe sixties, seventies and eighties because wewished for something else.“When the new nation states in the Pacificachieved independence, which was late inglobal historical terms – it wasn’t really mostlyuntil the 1970s that it happened – there was thisenormous sense of optimism. All you neededwas a constitution. Pull down the colonialflag and put up a new one and it would bemarvellous, and of course it wasn’t.“The sort of divisive tribalism that peopletalk about and the lack of a ‘national’ cohesivesociety in a Western sense was always there. Itwas just masked by the overlay of colonial ruleand colonial control.”But it is simplistic to finger colonialism forthe woes of the Pacific, or to blame the natureof Pacific island societies. For many of thePacific islands the geographical disadvantagesof being small, resource-poor and isolated areoverwhelming, yet their inhabitants are stillsaddled with the expectations of modernity.“Something is happening to human societieseverywhere on earth. We had the industrialrevolution and the electronic revolution. Weare a technologically and industrially drivenworld community, and some countries have thecapacity to benefit in a way that others don’t,”says Howe. “You can’t give everybody theability to go to The Warehouse and put goodson the credit card. It isn’t going to work.”Kerry Howe would like to show me something.From among volumes that line his walls heexcavates his battered talisman: Pirates, Shipsand Sailors, a Giant Golden Book. This isone of the books he credits with snaring hischildhood imagination and starting him alongthe path that would eventually lead him to hisprofessor’s office.The enchantment of history is theenchantment of stories, and stories – successfulstories – set up and meet certain expectations,conform to certain templates. Many first-timereaders of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Expeditionmust still be enthralled. So Easter Island wassettled by South Americans. Extraordinary! Thedaring adventurer is vindicated.Who can blame them? Even readers whoknow that Heyerdahl got it wrong must catchthemselves thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it have beengreat if Heyerdahl had been right?’ It wouldbe more satisfying, a better campfire story.But if enough people believe them, stories– factual, ill informed or flights of fancy – haveconsequences. Tregear’s writings claiming –erroneously – an Aryan ancestry for the Māoripeople affected the way generations of Pākehāand Māori viewed themselves and each other.If we want to change the world then it helpsto understand it accurately.Do we now have truth in history, or at leastin history as practised within academia? Notinvariably, says Howe. Some history has beenwritten to conform to fit the critical theory ofthe day, some to comply with what he termsa lazy political correctness. Some misappliesthe standards of the present to the past. Someshows little evidence of the requisite readingand research.Howe, who started out in his careerpuncturing the orthodoxies of his day, still hashis work cut out.In an age hungry for simple verities, Howeis one of those who believes the truth to beseldom pure and never simple. Good history isself-aware, complex – sometimes to the pointof being contradictory and confused – andseldom deals in moral certainties. That’s whatmakes it so interesting.To My MotherTill the last six months she kepton the shelf above her beda tiny lighthouse carvedfrom a slab of Cornish granite.Formally composedthe Longships and the Wolfhung on the sitting room wallkeeping the harsh Atlanticdomestic and subdued.In a photograph my uncleposed with a penny farthingby the stone mill where the Hoskingsfor generations ground cornin high fly-to-Jesus collarsand stiff respectable serge.She in her severecloche hat well pulled downkept a clear and level eyesteady in the mercilessblaze of the southern sun.Into it I frownhair slicked flat as glassmouth down at the cornerswhite shirt itching shortssocks around the ankles.Recorded on the backin her careful hand‘Bill last day at school193712 1/2 years.’From Poems 1946-2005 by Massey emeritusProfessor Bill Oliver. Published by VictoriaUniversity Press 2005.17

STORYThe Land of Babel© F.J.DalzellI had been in London a week, and was acquiringa certain feel for the place. I was staying withJoy, one of my friends from my vet school daysat Massey, in her Chelsea apartment. Each nightI would go for a run around streets lined withcream flats, adhered together like slices of cake. Thefirst night I returned, I thought I had developed aterrible skin condition. My sweat was blackened,as if I was afflicted with some plague. Joy laughedat my distress, and waved her hand in a desultorymanner about the pollution in inner London.I took to drinking filtered water when larvaeswarmed out of the tap one morning.Water seemed a big issue in London. The landlady complained bitterly about my excessive andunnecessary use of the bathing facilities.“Is it necessary for both you, and yourfriend, to wash every day?” she hissed at methrough gritted teeth. My obviously peculiarpreoccupation with soap was something I wasforced to keep private. Washing became a furtiveactivity. I was assimilating.Once I had settled in, I rang the AGVVeterinary Locum agency.“Yes, dear, we love you New Zealanders. Letme see, any preference for location?”“Ah, no, not really.”“Hackney? Would you fancy Hackney?”“Hackney, where the carriages come from?”“Yes, dear, quite so.”“Well, that sounds nice. OK then. So why doyou love New Zealanders?”“You are so socially mobile dear; we can sendyou anywhere and not have any problems.”I accepted the position, imagining the East Endto be a green oasis of ponies and traps driven bychaps in top hats.I told Joy that the locum agency had organiseda job for me in Hackney.“Well, that will be interesting for them!” Joycried, screams of laughter echoing round thepotted plants in the living room.“Call me at work on Monday, and tell mehow it’s going!”And so I set off early Monday morning. Isurvived the passage on the tube, avoiding thecontagion of rampant dandruff affl icting themajority of Londoners, and wondered if thewhole city was in mourning. Everyone woreblack. In my red checked swandri jacket I stoodout like a jersey cow amongst a herd of Aberdeenanguses.As we neared the eastern front I noticedthe nature of the passengers had altered. Blackcashmere knee length coats and briefcasesgave way to short black leather jackets andextraordinary amounts of gold ornamentation.Finally I arrived at my stop. I had directionsfor the practice and I trotted off through a mazeof bricks, wondering if maybe all the horses herehad to be stabled.As I walked on, high rise council flats eruptedaround me like triffids. So tall were these concreteweeds that nothing grew in their shadows. Dirtswirled in the vortices of wind at their roots,miniature tornadoes sucking litter and dust intothe air from where there should have been grass.Washing flapped greyly from balconies, like flagsof surrender in a war of tarmac. Packs of youngmen slunk in the shadows, and stared at mesullenly when I smiled and waved.Off Short Street, past a boarded up garage, Ifound Green and Partners. The practice managerwas delighted I had arrived, or more exactly,delighted that anyone arrived.“We never thought anyone would agree tocome, after what happened…” she said, andwhipped me through into a consult room toshow me the computer system before I couldask what had happened.A few minutes later she deemed me readyfor action, handed me a white coat and sent meinto combat.I looked at the consulting list.Fortunately, the first name on my list was easyto pronounce.I marched out into the waiting room, andlooked round.“Smith!” I called. No one moved. “FangSmith?”I started making random eye contact. “Smith?”I asked an individual clutching a Yorkshire terrier.He looked away, and pretended I was not there.I gave up and approached the receptionist.“Is Mr Smith here, or is he waiting outside?”“Who?” she peered at me, her expressionmystified.“Mr Smith, with Fang?”“Smeeth?”“No, Smith…S…..M…I….T…H….”“Oh, Smith!”I looked at her, wondering if she was havinga wee joke with me. I smiled, English humourno doubt.“Could you ask him to come in please?”Fang tottered in ahead of his master. His rigidgait, pained expression, and guarded position ofhis head suggested neck pain.“Hi, Mr Smith, it looks like Fang has a painfulneck, is that why you have brought him today?”“Neek? What is a neek?”I looked at Mr Smith carefully. Luxuriouseyebrows hovered over concerned eyes, the only18

example of hair on his head. He was completelyin earnest.I pointed at my neck.“The neck, this part…” I waved my finger overthe seven vertebrae in question.The eyebrows remained unmoving.“Ummm….the neck is between the head” Ipatted my head, and pointed again…”Head?”There was still no sign I was being understood,so I forged ahead, uncertain how else to makemyself understood.“The neck is between the head and theback….” I waved at all the appropriate parts ofmy body and the corresponding parts of thepatient’s body.Mr Smith peered at me.“Wot’s a “beak” on a dog then?” He lookedgenuinely confused. I did not like to admit defeatso early on, but retreat seemed necessary.“Excuse me one minute…”I dived out the back and found thereceptionist.“That chap, he is English, isn’t he?”She looked up in disbelief.“He certainly is!” she looked at me with agiggle flittering round her mouth.“It’s just he doesn’t seem to understand me…could someone come and translate please?”And so, in the land of my grandfather, I had toask for an interpreter.Nancy, the head nurse, was only too willing toassist. She had mothered a succession of Australianand Kiwi locums through the strange phonics ofthe east and delighted in watching us blunderingalong innocently, baby hippos in the convolutedtea shop society of the modern Empire.Fang was examined, and booked through foran anaesthetic and x-rays.I continued consulting with Nancy, whotook tremendous but mysterious enjoyment inmy history taking techniques, till morning tea.Then I was to start my operations.While we were nibbling biscuits, I askedNancy if the vet I was filling in for was onholiday somewhere exotic. Flights from Londoncrossed the planet in a spider-web of impossiblelocations, at unbelievable prices-opportunitieswhich seemed impossible to resist.“No, not really. James is still in hospital.”“Hospital? Why?”Nancy looked at her biscuit.“We had an armed hold up two weeks ago,and he was beaten up really badly. He will bealright eventually”James had offered no resistance and had takenthem directly to the dangerous drugs safe. It wasrather worrying that there was a practice policyon armed hold ups, along side the list of optionswhen dealing with stray cats and squirrels.“They beat him up when he gave them allthe drugs?”I was somehow shocked at such unethicalbehaviour.“Yeah, rather poor form. More tea?”After I had recovered from that little revelationNancy showed me round the theatre and x-raysuite. A huge and powerful machine of cuttingedge technology shone dimly in the lead linedx-ray room.I squeaked in pleasure at the thought ofilluminating Fang’s spine with such a fine pieceof equipment.“Fantastic! Where’s the on switch?”I started fiddling with dials, as my employerleapt from the darkness and in urgent tones,pleaded with me not to touch the buttons. Itwas our first meeting. Having never referred toany employer by anything other than their firstname, I naturally called Philip Green, Philip, orvariants of Philip at least.“Sorry Phil, don’t you want me to do thex-rays of this dog then?”No, Philip did not want me near his prideand joy. I was to get on with the cat spays andhe would look after Fang.Apparently he also preferred his hired help tocall him Mr Green. Interpreting his hesitancywith my familiarity as shyness, I made evengreater efforts to make him feel relaxed in mypresence. While I whipped through the list ofova-hysterectomies I chatted away to him ashe passed through, sharing my impressions ofEnglish life with him. As he was a fellow vet Iassumed that this bond between us would begreater than any possible cultural differences. Iasked him about washing, and the origins of thisEnglish aversion to soap.Nancy bit her lip while he fumbled over thereply. I found out that night he had installed acoin operated hot water meter in the locum flat.He was of the opinion that all those from DownUnder were genetically cursed with obsessivecompulsiveissues over personal hygiene.In the afternoon I was consulting again.Nancy was assigned to me for the duration. Imade heroic efforts to mimic Nancy’s accent,and although it felt like being an actor on astage production of Dad’s Army, my new vowelattempts appeared well received and Nancy hadto intervene less often.As the day progressed I noticed that therewere an extraordinary number of intact malescoming through the door. I started addressing19

The illustratorWith a story to publish, but no illustrationto run with it, who better to turn to thanMassey’s own talented students? TutorStefan Messam set the project as a classassignment. It proved a fascinating exercise,showing the many ways in which a storycan be read and how variously it can beillustrated.The student whose work was selectedwas Lawton Lonsdale, Originally from New Plymouth, Lawtoncame to Wellington to study film, however during his first threeyears at university his discovered a passion for illustration whichwould come to outgrow his love of film. Next year he enters hisfourth and final year as an illustration major, after which he looksforward to paying the bills by doing what he loves. He hopesto combine both his passions by entering the film industry as aconceptual artist and illustrator. lawsdale@hotmail.comThe authorBritain-based veterinarian Fiona Dalzell, – seen here with Sally– is doing a BA in English and Philosophy at Massey. She is also akeen paraglider pilot. The Land of Babel was written for Massey’sextramural travel writing paper.this problem, and discussed the advantages ofcastration at every frequent opportunity.I was so busy typing notes from theexaminations that these additional clinicaldiscussions were conducted while I waswrestling with the computing system, so myone way conversation bounced off the computerscreen and boomeranged over my shoulder backto the client.“Well, there are no disadvantages really, and itdramatically reduces the incidence of prostaticdisease. I mean, you are a bloke, you must knowabout prostates, and how unpleasant all thatbusiness can be. In humans they sometimesuse a miniature vacuum cleaner up the urethrato hoover out the prostrate from inside, but itcannot be pleasant, can it? So much better tobe castrated, don’t you think?”Nancy coughed. I looked up, wondering ifshe had swallowed something. She was hunchedover the sink, shaking, fist jammed in her mouth.Her eyes were watering.“Nancy, you OK?”She nodded, and busied herself by cleaningthe thermometer with vigour.The client had become strangely silent.I hoped he had been paying attention andturned round, giving him a sharp look. Dark,dilated pupils stared from a pallid visage. He wasclutching the dog lead defensively across hisgroin. He did not look well.“You OK?” I asked him kindly.“Yes, thank-you…” he scrabbledat the door handle, keeping his backto the wall.”Think I will just get the tabletsat the desk, do excuse me.”“Nancy, what is wrong?”Between bouts of helpless giggling, Nancyexplained to me the rather delicate nature of theEnglish male psyche. My attempt to develop anempathy with the middle-aged owner, over thematter of his dog’s possible health problems, wasdoomed to failure. He went into shock at themere mention of the word castration. Nancythought he was about to collapse when I breezedon to discussions of aspirant treatments.Nancy was an expert in antipodeanassimilation, and told me the numerous waysin which the English were less robust than mysouth Auckland clientele.By the end of the week, not only could Imuster a passable British vowel sound on asecond or third attempt, I also had a vague ideaof which subjects required verbal coyness andwhich I could approach more directly. Shockedsilences in the consult room became lessfrequent, although admittedly, even now theyhave never completely disappeared.However, Nancy never told me about Philip’snominal hang-ups. She let me carry on callinghim Phil till the last day.When my two weeks at Green and Partnerswas up, I rang the agency to ask for anotherjob, somewhere less exciting I felt might beappropriate.Linda the manager was delighted to hearfrom me.“Yes, dear, theyreally enjoyed havingyou, and they eventell me they havetaught you to speakEnglish!”The write stuffThe School of English and Media Studies hassubstantially increased the number of academicpapers available in creative writing. The Schoolbegan offering papers in creative writing in2001, and there are now a raft of papers coveringwriting for children, writing for theatre, lifewriting – you name it.There is even a new web site called TheWritery where students may share their workand discuss it with others. You’ll find it athttp://writery.massey.ac.nzMassey also offers a graduate diploma injournalism studies as an extramural option.For information go to http://communication.massey.ac.nzA health check for extramuralassignmentsAn online assignment pre-reading service forextramural student has been proving popular.The service reviewed 219 assignments betweenMarch and June in Semester 1, and over 360assignments in Semester 2.The service helps identify any problemsthere may be with the focus, structure, style,or presentation of an assignment draft andprovides feedback and advice on how theycan be fixed,The service was launched in March 2005,together an online connection service thatputs students in real-time contact with alearning support advisor, and a highly successfulprogramme of regional study and exam skillsworkshops.To learn more go to the OWLL (OnlineWriting and Learning Link): http://owll.massey.ac.nz/20

ExtramuralRoad scholarsUntil a few years ago, travel writing wassomething I read just for pleasure: forthe comfortable escapism of being anarmchair traveller, and because the writing wasoften very good. I didn’t know that I’d want tomeet him, but Paul Theroux could make me laughout loud, and it was impossible not be engagedby the heroic amateurism of Eric Newby, aman who, as he recounts in A Short Walk in theHindu Kush, was summoned out of a career infashion by a telegram, CAN YOU TRAVELNURISTAN JUNE?, and who practised for hisassault on the 20,000-plus foot peaks north-eastof Kabul by climbing boulders in Wales for all offour days, one of these rocks “about the size ofa delivery van.”I began to think about travel writing as apossible academic subject at a time when theEnglish programme at Massey, in which I teach,began to introduce papers in ‘expressive arts’to go alongside those devoted to the criticalstudy of literature. The idea was to combine thecritical study of texts with creative writing andperformance. Such papers now include theatrescriptwriting and performance, speech, poetry,fiction, media scriptwriting and production,and what is known in the States as “creativenonfiction.” That’s where travel writing fits,along with another paper in life-writing. Studentscan take these papers now within the Englishmajor in a BA, or as a discrete major withinthe new Bachelor of Communication. Sinceentry to the paper requires a 200-level paper inany subject, I often get students from differentacademic backgrounds; this year, I have at leasttwo qualified vets.The travel writing paper has been going forfour years now; I’ve taught upwards of threehundred students. I teach it to internal students atPalmerston North on a two-year rotation, but sofar it’s been available to extramural students everyyear. It’s particularly well-suited to extramurals,many of whom live and work overseas; this yearI have students in France, Bahrain, England, HongKong, and other countries. Some students are offon their OE and the only point of reference I havefor them is a hotmail address. It’s not at all unusualfor others, planning a more predictable journey,to ring me a year ahead to ask about assignmentdeadlines as they organise an intinerary.People living or visiting overseas use that timeto write the two major travel stories requiredfor the paper. These must be based on actualjourneys; as one critic puts it, travel writing“authenticates itself by actualities.” That’s whatmakes it nonfiction. Although I allow studentsto use recent travels if they remember them wellenough, it’s always best if the journey is made witha specific story in mind, so that the traveller hasdone some research and knows what he or sheis looking for. On the other hand, it’s sometimesalso a good idea to throw away all of the previousresearch and follow the opportunity for a goodSenior Lecturer in English Dr John Muirhead writesstory wherever it arises; serendipity is often agenerous provider.A handful of stories by extramural students I’vejust been reading include accounts of dancing“in a flame-red flamenco dress” at the feria inSeville, cycling in France as an act of homageto the heroes of the Tour de France, paraglidingthrough the air and through the politics of genderin Samoa, and negotiating an edgy checkpoint inSaudi Arabia on the 11th of September 2001.Students based in New Zealand are at nodisadvantage. Students can write about journeysthat may be unfamiliar to most of us – anexpedition to the Mutton Bird Islands – or theycan make the familiar new. One wrote me anaffectionate story recently about her home town,Pahiatua, focussed on its monuments to those lostand those retrieved (the Polish refugee children)in two world wars.The stories the students write are intendedto be short creative essays, rather than the kindof travel journalism you might read, say, in theSunday Star Times Magazine (“36 hours in …”);I want them to be topic- rather than itinerarybased.To prepare the students, I ask them, beforethey write the stories, to read a selection booksby contemporary travel writers and to writeshort critical discussions about travel writingas a literary genre with its own distinctivecharacteristics and issues.One issue is that of telling the truth. Travelwriting has been called “the literature of fact.”It purports to be a first-hand account of what atraveller actually did experience on the way to,or at, a destination. In theory, we could go thereourselves to verify the whole thing.Or not. Because, when we travel, the experienceis inevitably mediated through the perceptions ofan individual, shaped by personal idiosyncraciesand our cultural presuppositions. Then, whenwe commit the experience to memory, weinevitably give it the shape of a story, findingpatterns, filtering out irrelevances. When we goon to write about it, that process of falsificationis exaggerated. We try to convey the experiencenot simply through the reader’s understanding,in an unadorned exposition of the facts, butalso through the imagination, using many ofthe devices of fiction: a scene, characterisation,dialogue, and so on. Hence “the literature offact.” The writer Jonathan Raban concludes thatthe travel writer is really “a fabulist who onlymasquerades as a reporter.” That’s arguably true ofany writer, including my students, attempting toreconstruct experience. Bruce Chatwin insistedthat his book on the Australian outback,TheSonglines, should be classified as fiction.If it’s hard to tell the truth, it may be evenharder to find it. The critic Paul Fussell hasdeclared that we live not in the age of travel butthe age of tourism, and “Tourism is to travel asplastic is to wood.” In his book Abroad, he arguesthat in the post World War II era, genuine travelis impossible; tourists are simply transferred byair, rapidly and in a state of relative immobility,to “pseudo-places” like a resort in Fiji, whose“function is simply to entice tourists and sellthem things.” They find there either a localisedversion of the global monoculture or a kind ofsimulacrum: locals perform for tourists their ideaof the tourists’ idea of the locals. We live in theglobal village, in other words, in a condition ofutter inauthenticity.Contemporary travel writers deal with thisproblem in a number of ways. Two of the writersI teach explore their own countries from a premiseof detachment, if not alienation: Jonathan Rabanlamenting the condition of Margaret Thatcher’sBritain (Coasting), Jamaica Kincaid returning toher native Antigua to find the tourist (“an uglyhuman being”) just the latest manifestation ofa long, tragic history of exploitation (A SmallPlace). Others indulge in what Fussell calls “posttouristicmasochism;” in his ironically-titled TheHappy Isles, for example, Paul Theroux is neverso happy as when he observes a Pacific islandereating, not taro and fish, but Cheezballs.Still others insist that cultural difference isintact, that the world is “full of empty placesthat are nothing like home,” in Theroux’s words.To reach them, however, you must really travelin Fussell’s sense of the word: derived from theFrench travail, work. That’s why some of thewriters I teach make their journeys perverselydifficult: Theroux paddles alone in a collapsiblesea-kayak; Raban – having never sailed before– circumnavigates Britain in a thirty-foot ketch;Dervla Murphy walks around Cameroon withher daughter and a local pack-horse which getspride of place on her title page (Cameroon withEgbert). My students rarely have the opportunityto travel to utterly remote places. They must lookfor originality in their own perceptions, in theinfinite variety of people they encounter, and inthe freshness of their writing.The experience of travel itself is often asimportant to writers as the destination visited.That points to another important aspect ofcontemporary travel writing. In the sentence “Icontinued overleaf21

ProfileFirst ladyLeanne Hills interviews her grandmother, Enid Hills, the first female student at Massey.Growing up, we grandkids gleaned bits ofmy grandmother’s story over weekendvisits and summer holidays at Foxtonbeach. She told us of the lagoons and the blackmakatea [fossilised coral] of the Pacific Island ofMangaia, where her father, Fredrick Christian,an Oxford-educated explorer and linguist, wasthe schoolmaster at the native school. We triedto picture grandma running barefoot with thelocal children, speaking their language, scramblingup trees.Then there were her memories of Massey,where she was the first female student; as Ientered adolescence and dreamed of universityshe became my role model. She was afeminist forty years before the tag becamecommonplace.At 92, Enid Hills carries her years lightly. Aswe talk, she becomes 18 again entering the hallsof Massey on that first day in January 1932 tostudy poultry farming.“Down at the main entrance they’d madea guard of honour out of farm implements tomark my arrival. My friend Jeff told me to goin the back way,” she laughs.So Massey’s first female student entered by theback door. “On my first day in class, the men allstood up when I entered the room – there wasalways plenty of good humour to go around.”In March of ’32, three other women joinedEnid at Massey – although she remained the onlyone studying poultry farming – and once a termthey were invited to an afternoon tea held forthem by the wife of Principal Professor Peren.Nonetheless, the campus, with its combinedroll of 191 students, remained overwhelminglymale. Enid never had a shortage of girlfriendsfrom Palmerston North looking for invitationsto dances at the refectory - the women at Masseywere, after all, out numbered by 50 to 1.The gender imbalance also helped makerugby a major part of the college calendar.“Football matches against Lincoln were alwaysa bit of a bloodbath,” she says with a hint ofamusement.The course work itself was intensive, studentsworking Monday to Saturday with little timefor outside employment. Fees had to be metby families in the years before free educationand student loans, and many students workedon farms over weekends and holidays.At the end of the 48-week course, Masseyfound a job for Enid managing a poultry farmat Whenuapai, north of Auckland. “Masseyneeded to prove that their courses were asstrong on practical matters as theoretical, whichwas a concern amongst the wider community,”Enid explains. What better way than to havetheir first female poultry farmer out therewalking the talk?It was the heart of the Depression. “I was 19years old, a slip of a girl wearing jodhpurs andbrogues,” she recalls. And she had arrived in apoor rural community which viewed collegediplomas with understandable scepticism. “ButI knew I could cope,” says Enid. “Massey hadprepared me well.”“The area had just had the electricity puton, but shortly after I arrived, the power gotcut off. Supply still wasn’t very reliable. Thenext-door neighbours, with 200 milking cows– the town’s supply – needed all the help theycould get.” When Enid pitched in with herhand-milking skills, picked up during hercourse, word got around. She earned herstripes as a great milker and stripper. ‘In thosedays [stripper] referred to getting the last milkfrom the cow’, Enid is quick to add.During Enid’s four years at Whenuapaithe farm thrived and she enjoyed a warmrelationship with the owners. She twice wonprizes at the Papanui National Egg LayingCompetition, her studies in breed selection atMassey proving indispensable.She left to return home to PalmerstonNorth, where she would work as a journalistfor the Manawatu Times.In 1938 Enid married teacher Lincoln Hills.Over the next three decades the couple wouldhave four children while living in a variety ofrural communities. Enid’s knowledge of farmaccounting and animal husbandry would oftenprove useful.At the age of 67, two years after her husbanddied, Enid became a Justice of the Peace andmarriage celebrant - always up for a challengeand ready to learn new skills.What have been the chief influences in avery full and still highly active life?Her father, she says, is one: he raised Enidand her siblings to be free thinkers, gave thema classical education, and endowed them witha sense of wonder in the world.The other, she says, is her time at Massey.“I see education as the staff in your hand,” shesays. “It’s how you use it.”The first woman to graduate from Masseywith a degree was the remarkable PaddyBasset; her BAgrSc was bestowed in 1941.When MASSEY magazine caught up withher in 2000 she had recently been appointedan honorary staff member at the WellingtonSchool of Medicine and was collaboratingin research into connective tissue change.Paddy remains a strong member of theMassey alumni community, often attendingfunctions..23

ProfilePet occupationPatrick Morgan writesWould you spend thousands onyour pet? With the introductionof pet insurance in the UK, it’snot uncommon.“Recently a client spent £2,500 on a kitten,”says expat New Zealand vet Robyn Farquhar.“Pet insurance has changed the face of smallanimal practice here.”“People come to vets much more readilythan in New Zealand. They are willing to putthemselves into financial difficulty to the sakeof their pets,” she says. “People think nothingof spending £100 on their pet. It’s a petindulgentsociety.”Robyn grew up on a dairy farm in Taranaki,and attended Opunake High School. Aftercompleting her vet degree at Massey andworking in Sydney as a house surgeon fora year, she travelled to Britain on her OE.Robyn worked in the south east of England asa locum and liked it enough to stay. Althoughshe says she now speaks like a pom, when shefirst arrived in the UK she stayed south as shecould not understand many northern accents.“After asking the client to repeat themselvesthree times, you have to guess.”“The benefits of living and working hereare enormous. I love the variety of people, theopportunities to learn, and the social choices. Inever get bored.”Since 1996 she has owned Fernside VeterinaryCentre, which occupies a high street shop frontin Borehamwood, an hour north of London.Home to Elstree film and television studios(Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars, TheShining, Big Brother), Borehamwood is a townof 40,000, built after the Second World Warto house London’s growing population. Itsstreets are lined with red-brick terraced homes,mostly ex-council housing after Mrs Thatcher’sgovernment sold them off in the 1980s.“Staffordshire bull terriers are currently themost popular breed among my clients,” saysRobyn. “Although they aren’t very good asguard dogs, they look the part – strutting downthe high street in a studded collar with a shavenheadedtattooed teenager in tow.The latest films inspire pets’ names. “There area few Charlies around (Charlie and the ChocolateFactory), but most of the Rambos and Tysonshave passed on.“One little boy named his kittens Harryand Hermione, but was distraught to learn thatHermione was male.”After 20 years in the UK, she says she missesNew Zealand’s clean air, uncongested roads, andaccess to rugged countryside. “It’s like a parkhere,” she says.But she describes the rewards as very adequate.“If I put the effort in, there’s due reward.”Robyn is planning to buy bigger premises forher business. She says there’s no discriminationagainst a woman when it comes to arranging aloan. “It’s not an issue – if you can demonstrateyou are committed to your goal, and have a trackrecord, the bank will help.”One of the benefits of being self-employed isthat Robyn gets to choose her working hours.Although the practice is open 11 hours a day,Robyn generally works 40 hours a week. Thisgives her the flexibility to spend time on herpassion – training and riding horses. She isespecially proud of Coronel, her dapple greyAndalusian stallion. “He’s striking to look at,and clever. He can trot on the spot, and is eagerto learn. Although he’s a stallion, he’s easy tohandle.”Coronel is stabled close by, so Robyn canBusiness in BritainPatrick Morgan writesFor rising accountant Andrew Robinson,working at the heart of Europe’s financialcapital is the highlight of a business career.Recently promoted to Partner at the Big Fourfirm of Deloitte & Touche LLP, he says he lovesbeing in the centre of the action.With 600 partners and 11,000 staff in the UK,Deloitte is a big fish in a big pond.The Deloitte building sits amid The City inthe London’s financial district. Before gainingadmission you must check in with reception orswipe your way through the security barriers.Even before the Underground bombings in Julythis was business as usual in Europe’s financialcapital.Andrew describes the financial rewards of hisjob as significant. “I have an enjoyable lifestyleand a challenging career.”The rewards may be many but so are theworking hours. During the working weekAndrew leaves home before 7am and returnsaround 10pm. Home is a 45-minute train ridefrom Waterloo and weekends are 100 percentfamily time.“There is much more to the UK thanLondon,” says Andrew. He lives with his wifeRebecca, and Jamie, 2 1/2, in the village ofMonk Sherborne. Their home backs ontofields. “Village life in Hampshire is absolutelyfantastic.”Although most villages in north Hampshirehave grown rapidly since the end of WWII,Monk Sherborne has managed to hold on tois rural character, along with its 12th centurychurch.For Andrew, entrepreneurship started early.“My father was a rural finance manager forWrightson in Wanganui. The accountants weknew were business managers.“My first taste of business was selling 4,000banana-shaped pens at the age of 17. I also hada lawn-mowing business.“I enjoyed economics and accountancy atschool, and my teacher helped me get a job at alocal accountancy firm. I studied towards a BBSas an extramural student at Massey for two years,then full-time for three years.”After two years each in auditing and financialadvisory services at Deloitte in Wellington,Andrew headed to the UK on what was meantto be an 18-month secondment. That was 11years ago.“Business is about having an edge. You needan academic background and solid rationale formaking decisions, in a structured and measuredway.“It’s much more than book-keeping. AChartered Accountant is really a business manager.You negotiate deals and run businesses.”Projects have taken him as far as Coted’Ivoire, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Brazil, Latviaand Thailand.Andrew is keen to promote the New ZealandInstitute of Chartered Accountants. CurrentlyChairman of the UK Branch, he says theInstitute has 2000 members in the UK, and theUK Branch has been around for 25 years. “It’slike Massey,” he says. “It’s all about continuingprofessional development. We see our role assupporting our members while they are in theUK. We run education and social events.”Outside of work, Andrew likes his sport. Hecompleted an Ironman triathlon in Auckland,and is a four-time finisher of the Londonmarathon.24

ProfileBoston boundMassey journalism student HeleneGarland meets Joshua Feastspend an afternoon with him when workallows.Dressage is Robyn’s favourite event. “It’s whereyou get to ponce about, and make the horse gosideways. It’s controlled riding. The horse andrider should look poised and elegant.“I once owned a young horse with quitea reputation. She had put half a dozen peopleinto hospital before I had her. She was whatwe call a ‘nappy’ horse. She would refuse to leta rider mount, walk backwards, or throw therider. That’s usually a reflection a horse has beenpushed too hard.“I took her on because I felt sorry for her.We got on very well, although I always had tobe careful with her.”She says riding is an antidote to the stresses ofthe day. “Clients often come in upset, concernedabout the health of their pet. Most days thereare tears.”On the other hand, when there’s a goodoutcome, clients show their appreciation. It’snot uncommon for Robyn to receive flowers orchocolates from pet owners. But although clientsthink that they can judge a vet’s clinical skills theyare far more influenced by bedside manner.He achieved his karate black belt while atMassey, and played inside centre for the MasseyRams, and “the odd game, as a bench warmer,for the Massey As”.In June Andrew completed one of theUK’s toughest tests of endurance, the WoodenSpoon Four Peaks Challenge. Teams visitedfour countries to scale four mountains witha total height of over 4,300 metres, inside 48hours. Peaks include Ben Nevis in Scotland,Carantouhill in Ireland, Helvellyn in England’sLake District and Snowdon in Wales. Teamsraised a total of £461,000 for disabled anddisadvantaged children and young people.However his greatest sporting ambition is towatch the All Blacks win at Twickenham.With stints in Indonesia, Switzerland,Singapore and Paris, at 28 BTechgraduate Joshua Feast has alreadyled a cosmopolitan life. Now he heads toBoston where as the first recipient of the$141,000 Fulbright-Platinum Scholarship inEntrepreneurship he will study towards anMBA in technology entrepreneurship at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology SloanSchool of Management.Feast first went overseas involuntarily at theage of eight when his father was employedas a civil engineer by an Indonesian oilcompany.“We spent a year in Jakarta and a year on asmall island off the coast, so it was a differentculture altogether. After that, we went on acampavan trip across Europe, which inspiredme to travel more,” he says.After attending Scots College, he spenta year in Switzerland as an American FieldService scholar.“It was an amazing experience thatbroadened my outlook. It was a totalimmersion in a different culture and language;I learnt a lot and met people from aroundthe world.”In his final year at Massey he was awardedan Asia 2000 Scholarship to Singapore’sNanyang Technological University. There hetook courses in business and engineering andworked on his final year project, the designand development of a barbecue componentfor Masport.He also faced a crisis: he contractedmalaria and was in intensive care in a criticalcondition for several weeks.“It was a big deal for me. When I gotthrough I figured I could get throughanything. It made me all the more determinedto do something useful with my life.He says his most difficult work experiencewas a two-year secondment to the Ministry ofFinance in Paris, when he was working for themultinational business technology consultingcompany Accenture.He led a team of French public servants,who were twice his age and on the point ofretirement.“I had never felt so discouraged. Although Ihad a reasonable level of French for a foreigner,to go to functioning at a professional levelwas quite a big step. I went into a very highpressuredwork environment with a projectthat was, basically, ‘going down the tubes’.But it made me stronger and was really, reallygood for me.”Feast’s perseverance paid off. Not only didthe project succeed, but it became a modelfor good consultant-client relationships andhe became good friends with his Frenchcolleagues, he says.Feast has recently completed a customsoftware development project at the Departmentof Child, Youth and Family, which “went live”on target in July.He says a fascination with business, sharedin common with his grandfather, unclesand father, has shaped his ideas about howcommercial activity helps society by creatingwealth and promoting innovation.He wants to make the most of his twoand-a-halfyear scholarship and to return toNew Zealand to set up his own technologybusiness, developing and commercialising hightechnologyproducts, aiming at internationalmarkets.“Once I have achieved that, I would like tohelp other companies do the same.”He mentions IT entrepreneurs and Googleco-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin asinspirations.“I believe in putting one foot after theother – starting small, and suddenly you’redoing something you didn’t expect. I don’tfeel driven as much as keen to see how far Ican go,” he says.The Fulbright-Platinum Scholarship inEntrepreneurship is funded by the outgoingUnited States ambassador to New ZealandCharles Swindells and other donors in theUnited States and New Zealand.25

ProfileCité lifePatrick Morgan meets Corinne Rivoallan and Don Jones on summer’s day in Paris.On a summery Sunday afternoon inParis, families picnic at the foot of theEiffel tower. A chic woman in highheels pedals her bicycle briskly along the broadAvenue de la Motte Picquet past the imposingEcole Militaire. Tourists of every hue line upfor photos in front of the landmarks. Hundredsof tanned Parisians rollerblade by in the warmsunshine. This neighbourhood has been home toNew Zealand Defence Force officer Don Jonesand his family for the past 18 months.We last caught up with Massey graduatesDon and his wife Corinne Rivoallan in Laosin 2001. He was working there as a technicaladviser, helping with the mammoth task ofclearing UXO (unexploded ordnance) fromthe war-ravaged countryside.Now they live in Paris, where Don studiesat the Collège Interarmées de Défense (CID).Located within the Ecole Militaire, the Collègetrains French and foreign officers destined forsenior military jobs.Don suggests we meet at Café Suffren forafternoon tea. He has to wedge his long legsunder our table on the terasse, which is closelypacked with the weekend crowd. There’s noway you could park your mountain buggynext to the table, so Don, Corinne and theirdaughter Gwenn arrive on foot. The café is aplace where friends embrace and exchangekisses, one on each cheek. The staff know Donhere – Thursday evening is happy hour for hisclass at CID, just a few steps along Avenue dela Motte Picquet.The family lives in a first-floor apartmentwithin walking distance from CID, whereDon has recently completed a postgraduatecourse. “There’s no need to own a car here.It’s expensive to park, and public transportis as good as it gets.” Each morning Corinneaccompanies Gwenn on her tricycle to preschool.As instruction at CID is in French, Don tooksix months of intensive French classes to bringhis language skills up to postgraduate level.“The main areas of study are strategy,geopolitics, defence management and planning.The French have a big defence force and aninteresting foreign policy; they really are aglobal player,” Don says. “There is extensiveinternational coverage and I had alreadycovered some of the topics at Massey withmy MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies,but here we naturally concentrate on theFrench perspective. They’re focusing verymuch on Europe for the moment, such asthe implications of the proposed Europeanconstitution. They also focus on internalsecurity issues due to terrorism and their recentenlargement, and also how they should actcollectively on defence with external threatsand challenges.”One third of the students are foreign. Theyrepresent more than 70 countries, includingUkraine, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and mostMiddle-Eastern, Asian and African nationsincluding former British colonies. Don is onlythe second student from New Zealand.Don has the rank of Major in the NewZealand Army. Back at Linton, he commandsa squadron of more than 100 engineers,carpenters, plant operators, plumbers andelectricians. In 2003 they spent two monthsin the Solomon Islands doing civil aid taskssuch as building police posts. “That was anunusual deployment—according to the termsof the Townsville Peace Agreement we werenot allowed to wear camouflage uniforms orcarry weapons. That was fine as my sapperswere happy to build in just their PT kit, butthen a week or so after we left, fully armedtroops from Australia and New Zealand arrivedon an operational mission to restore peaceand order.”Don and his family are due to return toPalmerston North in two days. They plan torenovate a villa there bought shortly beforethe trip to Paris. Corinne says she is lookingforward to getting stuck into the garden.She had been studying social anthropologyextramurally “but once Gwenn started walking,no more.”No one would call Paris a paradise foroutdoor sports yet Don, a keen runner, hastrained for and completed the Paris marathonas well as playing rugby for his college team.He polishes off his profiteroles with the gustoof a man who has spent the morning on along run. “The Champ de Mars and the Boisde Boulogne are good places to run,” he says.But they are not without their hazards—therecan be quite a lot of pollution and in a citywhere dogs are free to do their business, youhave to watch your step. “It’s like a minefield,”says Don, and he should know, having spentalmost two years in South East Asia as anadvisor to demining programmes in Cambodiaand Laos.What will they miss most about life in Paris?“The food, the amazing selection of wine,”says Don. “We can walk 10 metres to theboulangerie for a fresh baguette. And if they’reclosed, there’s another a few steps away.”But life in Europe has its drawbacks. It isjust four days after the London Undergroundbombings, and armed gendarmes are prominentaround the tourist sites and the Metro. “It’s afact of life,” says Don, “but after serving inCambodia and Laos it doesn’t seem so bad.”Gwenn, aged three and a half, has finishedher scoop of sorbet and exhausted her book.She is beginning to squirm. Don notes it’s oftensaid that in Paris it’s easier to take a dog to arestaurant than a child. Sure enough, at the nexttable an elegant Parisienne clad in sun dress,dark glasses and armfuls of bracelets sits with apampered miniature terrier at her feet.It is time to move on. Don and Corinnereturn to their packing. As I cross the riverSeine by the Eiffel Tower, 500 colourcoordinatedGreenpeace activists form a humanrainbow for the benefit of TV cameras. It is 20years to the day since the Rainbow Warrior wasbombed in Auckland Harbour.26

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ReviewsReviewers: Di Billing (DEB), David Balham (DB), Shannon Pakura, Malcolm Wood (MW)FictionHummingby Rachel McAlpine(Hazard Press $29.99)According to British novelist Fay Weldon, RachelMcAlpine is one of New Zealand’s liveliest andmost purposeful writers, the only one takingrisks and letting herself go.To our knowledge she is one of the fewanywhere who uses web sites as an adjunct to herwriting. You can, of course, read her latest novelHumming without afterwards checking out herexcellent Writing on the Web site. But you willmiss out on much. Humming is set in GoldenBay and was largely inspired by McAlpine’s ownexperiences in Puponga, near Farewell Spit.The beautiful location provides rich materialfor the novel and for the Humming web pagewhich links to photographs by Peter Black ofthe beaches, mountains, sea, gardens, cafes andother buildings that inspired McAlpine.You will also learn new things. Want toknow more about the famous local, native landsnails mentioned in the novel? Click throughto the relevant DOC site, which tells us thereare at least 21 species and 51 sub-speciesof Powelliphanta snails, some of the mostdistinctive – and threatened - invertebrates inNew Zealand.The adventurous and versatile McAlpine isa novelist, poet and playwright. For a day jobshe is also a web content consultant, authorof several books on web and business writingincluding Web Word Wizardry. She says shespends her time surveying, analysing and editingthe content of corporate web sites, and trainingpeople in business and government to write forweb sites and intranets. “I find that extremelyinteresting.”Humming is described as a comic novelabout happiness, healing and humming, with anundercurrent of spirituality. The humming of thetitle is in the head of artist Ivan who is plaguedby a low frequency humming noise. We areasked to consider whether this might be whalesong, tinnitus, electromagnetism, a CIA weaponor possibly the voice of God speaking very,very slowly. Other characters, including Ivan’slover Jane (who owns the wonderful SaltwaterCafé) have suggestions and/or problems oftheir own.Rachel McAlpine has lived in Geneva,Masterton, Taranaki, Golden Bay, Japan and,currently, in Mt Victoria, Wellington whereshe rents out a boutique furnished apartmentcalled Novella (check the web site). She hasbeen Writer in Residence at the University ofCanterbury and Maquarie University, Sydneyand was awarded a New Zealand Scholarship inLetters in 1991. She graduated from Massey witha postgraduate Diploma in Education.You’ll find her site at www.writing.co.nz.There is an excellent site map which willguide you to a list of school resources related toMcAlpine’s work or recommended by her. Andif you want to know how to find the SaltwaterCafé, the site will tell you that although, in fact,it doesn’t exist, there are some equally fun onesin Golden Bay and here’s how to find them.DBBiographyStorms and DreamsLouise de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer,Statesmanby John Dunmore(Exisle Publishing, RRP $49.99)In 1759 at the seige of Quebec, two great Pacificexplorers may have come within gun shot ofone another. One was Captain Cook, the Britishsailor, surveyor, cartographer and explorer; theother Louis de Bougainville, who would leadthe first official French voyage of explorationaround the world, arriving in Tahiti a year inadvance of Cook.At Quebec, Cook was ferrying troopsand charting the river in support of GeneralWolfe, while Bougainville, the aide de camp toGeneral Montcalm, was leading forays againstthe British.They make for an interesting contrast,Cook the son of a Yorkshire farm labourer,representative of the majesty of the British Navy,and Bougainville, a scion of the upper levels ofthe French middle class, who had to scrabble tofind support for his expedition. Cook has beenthe subject of a ceaseless torrent of books fromthe presses. Bougainville has been known untilnow to most Australasians except by associationwith things named after him, Bougainville theisland and Bougainvillea the flowering tree.Now the deficit has been made good. Twentyfive years on from the last biography, we haveStorms and Dreams, a masterful recounting ofBougainville’s life by emeritus Professor JohnDumore, an acknowledged world-expert inthe history of the French exploration of thePacific.What a life it is. Bougainville was presentat the fall of French Canada and at the birthof American independence. He founded aFrench colony (later ceded to the Spanish) onthe Falklands, and his global circumnavigationhelped found the enduring legend of Tahiti asa South Sea paradise. He survived and won aduel initiated by a nobleman who had accusedhim of gaining promotion through the favourof the King’s mistress. He was unjustly courtmartialled after French naval defeat by theBritish of Martinique. He narrowly survivedthe French revolution, circumstances seeinghim released just two days before he was dueto be sent to Paris to face the RevolutionaryTribunal and a likely death sentence. (In fact,Bougainville, described on his arrest warrantas “former noble”, would later be appointed asenator by Napoleon.)What was he like? That is more difficult.Although we know the trajectory ofBougainville’s life and can describe his qualities– that he was charming, accomplished intelligent,an expression of the enlightenment – the senseof the man himself is elusive. Does this matter?I don’t think so. There are some things wecan never know – the past is another country– and, oddly enough, the only very slightawkwardnesses in the book’s flow come whenProfessor Dumore ventures into present tenseand reconstructed dialogue as a dramatic‘hook’.No such hooks are needed. The strength ofthe book is to have set Bougainville’s life withinthe sweep and the particularities of his times;no one could be better fitted to doing this thanProfessor Dunmore.MW29

ReviewsNgā Tai Matatū: Tides of MāoriEnduranceby Professor Mason Durie(Oxford University Press, NZ $49.95)Reviewed by Shannon Pakura (TeAtihaunuiapaparangi), General Manager ofDevelopment Services, Child, Youth and Family,Head Office, Wellington.“A highly recommended read for decision makers,researchers and policy analysts.”The final paragraph in the preface of Ngā TaiMatatū: Tides of Māori Endurance in my viewcaptures the heart, soul and essence of ProfessorDurie’s work. In great humbleness, Durie says“In writing about endurance, I had in mind ourmokopuna, our grandchildren and our beliefthat they should be able to grow up as Māori, ashealthy New Zealanders, and as global citizens.”What could be more important?Ngā Tai Matatū provides us with one lens fromwhich we can view the journey navigated byMāori from the Pacific to Aotearoa, to thesecontemporary times. It tells us eloquently ofthe endurance, resilience and infinite patiencerequired by our people to ensure that they retainthe right to enjoy our own traditions in a waythat makes sense to us.Chapter 7, ‘Papaki Rua Ngā Tai – Tide ofConfluence: Māori and the State’, reflectshow Māori have held steadfastly to a principlethat demands recognition of indigeneity, andtherefore challenges those who championequality to distinguish it from the creation ofhomogeneity or sameness. In the run-up to the2005 election it is of great interest to listen to thepolitical commentary on equality, sameness andindigeneity and to measure the words againstother promises made as far back as 1840.The impacts of public sector reforms on Māoriover the years have been significant. This chapterhighlights the strength, persistence, toleranceand courage of Māori throughout the centuries.Durie articulates the relentless determinationto assert our right to be recognised as theindigenous people and for self-determination.The chapter weaves us through the political eras,provides commentary on significant social policyand key strategies that led Māori to be wherewe are today. The tides of state intervention,devolution, integration and deregulation takeus through the rapids of time. The policymakers of today must read this book. They mustturn their minds to the possibility that Māorileadership may be about co-existence withothers rather than about control or power, andthat determining a future for our mokopuna– which allows the essence of Māori to exist– is critical.Māori are major players in service delivery.Māori have not only shown a capacity to engage;in most cases they have been able to provideservices that are holistic. The nature of someof the contracts has not recognised this uniqueattribute and the performance indicators havefailed to reflect the Māori world view or endorsedMāori aspirations for an integrated approach tosocial, cultural and economic development.Durie has provided an exceptional opportunityto government departments to reflect on theimpact of some of the past strategies and learnfrom the positive and unintended consequencesof public policy. Contract specialists, organisationapproval standards and relationship managerswould benefit from taking some time to readthe impact of the changing tides on our people.What a difference it would make if the publicsector were humble in their deliberations withMāori and understood that our world is notmore right than theirs; it is just different.Ngā Tai Matatū is a compelling read. Thisbook is a must for researchers, managers, servicedelivery organisations, policy makers and analysts.Shannon Pakura has an MBA, a postgraduatediploma in public policy and social work and iscurrently studying towards a master’s in social work.Coastal Sea Kayaking in New Zealand: APractical Touring ManualKerry Howe(New Holland $30.00)Twenty years ago, had you chosen to kayak the shoreof Abel Tasman National Park you would have foundyourself very much alone. Sea kayaks and sea kayakerswere unusual. Today that same shoreline is awash witha polglot fleet of seakayakers, paddling rental kayaks inlolly jar colours. Paddling or owning a sea kayak hasbecome if not common, then not that remarkable.What has happened? The arrival of cheap,near indestructible plastic kayaks is one thing.Another, the vogue for adventure sports.Historian Kerry Howe has been a sea kayakerfor twenty years, joining the fraternity in theearly 1980s after having read über seakayakerPaul Caffyn’s account of circumnavigating theSouth Island. Since then Howe has paddledextensively, including making his way fromEast Cape to North Cape by installment, HuckFinning with tent and sleeping bag on many anidyllic beach along the way.Coastal Sea Kayaking in New Zealand: A PracticalTouring Manual sets out what he has learned,what he has found works. Will it help you withchoosing a boat or learning how to eskimoroll? No, it won’t. Howe rightly supposes thatthese days you will find this information easilyenough elsewhere through other guidebooksor through the sea kayaking networks. What itwill do is advise you on how on how choosingthe the right emergency gear, on navigatingusing map compass and, increasingly, GPS; andon how to read the tide and weather. He willgive you his wisdom on how live comfortablywhile on the move. Howe’s writing style here ispersonable and friendly, and while he is evidentlypunctillious about his own training, preparationand planning, he is far from doctrinaire. (Howe’scustomary breakfast, a pre-dawn repast ofComplan and green tea, is unlikely catch on.)New Zealand is blessed with some world classsea kayaking. If you have been thinking abouttrying the sport, perhaps you should; if you area sea kayaker already, Howe’s book will help youbecome a safer and happier one.30

ReviewsChildren’s BooksThe Sky Soldiersby Glyn HarperIllustrated by Warren Mahy(Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd $14.99)Crete has unexpected ways of entering theconsciousness of young New Zealanders.Children in Wellington grow up swimming atthe Freyberg pool, without necessarily knowingwhom it was named after. A few years later, ontheir OE, they may be surprised at the warmthof feeling encountered among Greeks, whosefathers or grandfathers fought alongside NewZealanders on the mainland or on Crete itself.And yet the Battle for Crete, which MichaelKing has described as “the Gallipoli of its era”,is perhaps little-known among young NewZealanders. Glyn Harper, Acting Director ofthe Centre for Defence Studies, wants to putthis right with his latest children’s book, TheSky Soldiers.The book tells the story of Nikolaos, a boyfrom the Cretan village of Galatos. Nikolaoswatches the mesmerising arrival of the “skysoldiers”, the thousands of German troopsparachuted into Crete on 21 May 1941.The Germans suffer appalling casualties– more than 3000 are shot down as they floatto earth – but after fierce fighting take theairport at Maleme. This leads eventually toGeneral Freyberg’s controversial decision topull the Allied troops back over mountainsto the port of Sfakia, to be evacuated by theRoyal Navy.Among the many soldiers left behind are aNew Zealander and an Australian, who hidein a cave and are brought food by Nikolaosand his sister. They eventually lead the men toevacuation: Nikolaos cannot understand whyhis sister is so sad to see them escape safely, butunderstands when Kiwi Tom comes back afterthe war to marry her.The story is told simply, and somewhat inthe style of the war comics of some years ago:it is now unfashionable to portray any raceas “baddies”, but these Germans fit the bill,smashing old ladies’ pots and harassing thepopulation. Appropriately for a children’s book,more serious atrocities are glossed over.What isn’t glossed over is the failure of theAllied troops under Freyberg to successfullydefend Crete. “They did not win but we arevery grateful that they came to help us,” saysNikolaos.Harper has written elsewhere that “a scratchforce made up largely of New Zealanders andAustralians came tantalisingly close to inflictingGermany’s first land defeat of the war. It was atragedy and a serious defeat for the Allies, butonly by the narrowest of margins.”This is a nice book. The illustrations by firsttimebook illustrator Warren Mahy look slightlyunusual, as though they have been drawn ontracing paper, and are apparently computergenerated.They are an attractive complementto an affecting story. There is a good précis ofthe Battle for Crete at the back.Glyn Harper has written extensively onmilitary matters, including a biography ofKippenberger, and has also written severalother children’s books. “The Sky Soldiers” is agood way to introduce young New Zealandersto the important history of a place where theskies are happily now better known for theirpiercing blue than for their beautiful, lethal,rain of German paratroopers.DBCannes, tans and cansJamie Hitchcock writesOOne cold day in June Icame into the officeand saw something Inever thought I’d see inmy lifetime. It was mycreative partner Josh Lancaster with a tan.He’d just come back from a ‘sweatybut awe-inspiring’ trip to the Cannesadvertising festival in France, where as thisyear’s winner of the Fairfax New ZealandYoung Creative of the Year, he’d been sentto compete in the Cannes Young CreativeCompetition. And as an extra bonus he wasalso there with fingers and every other partof his body crossed while two of our ads,L&P ‘Stubbies’ and L&P ‘Bombs’ achievedfinalist status ahead of something like20,000 other ads.Now s a full ginger, he usually burns likea hot vindaloo and I had expected him toreturn all red, blotchy and grumpy. Clearlythe French sun was not as harsh as ours.Josh said he felt super proud that L&P gotup on a world stage although he reckons itwas a toss up whether he felt more proudwalking into a French bar full of Kiwis earlyone morning to cheer on the All Blacks’victory over the Lions.Anyway we think the reason why peopleseem to like our L&P ads is because theyrepresent people’s collective childhoods.Those fond memories of a simpler, morestress-free time.So when we wrote them, we rememberedour childhoods and the long, hot summersthat went on and on, we remembered doingbombs at the school pool, heading up tothe dairy with money nicked out of mum’spurse and even the shortest shorts of themall – Stubbies, and we remembered thatthese great times were always accompaniedby an ice cold can of L&P – World Famousin New Zealand since, well ages ago.31

ReviewsBy DegreesAfter the hospital visitthey string a necklace of lettersunder his name, he is nowthe authentic ownerof 5 or 6 degrees;Bachelor of ADHD(with honours),Applied Masters of Aspergers,Specific Learning Disorderin tourism and recreation.They wrap his chestin a boa constrictor,they cover his face in veilsof formulations, genetic mutationsa massive missive of prohibitions.He holds their strings of letters,lets their fables flyin a stout southerlyhe lets them tangle in the teethof gorse the boyruns home, so much lighter now.CDsThe Sandbar SessionsThe Kevin Clark Trio$24.99Let me confess, I bought the album partly outof a sense of duty. With it having a Masseyconnection and receiving the Tui Award for BestJazz Album of 2005 at the New Zealand MusicAwards (the Trio also won the award in 2003),I thought I had better. But duty is not what haskept it on my CD player on high rotate.This is warm, accessible, assured, highlyaccomplished jazz which stands on its ownmerits. From renditions of instantly recognisablestandards such as Cole Porter’s So in Lovethrough to original compositions such as KevinClark’s lyrical Once Upon a Song, there is not adud track on the album.The Massey connection? Bassist RowanClark and drummer Richard Wise who areregular members of the trio are both alumni.So too are guests trumpet player Michael Taylorand the stand-out young vocalist HannahGriffin. Saxophonist Colin Hemmingsen andpercussionist Lance Philip are both tutors. Andpianist Kevin Clark also tutors part time.Then there’s the sound itself, with all ofthe immediacy and verve of live performance– the album was recorded over two consecutivenights at Paremata’s Sandbar Pub on Wellngton’sKapiti Coast – yet somehow managing studioproduction values. Again a Massey connection:Conservatorium of Music tutor Neil Maddeverwas the sound engineer.My only complaint – petty , I know – is thatthe liner notes give very little detail about theindividual tracks.Buy the album, and, if you can, get yourselfdown to the Sandbar Pub in Paremata on anight the Trio are playing. You might see methere.DocumentaryAeonRichard SideyA project he completed in 2004 as a final year designstudent has won Richard Sidey the short documentarysection at the 2005 New Zealand DocumentaryFestival Aeon is a meditation on Wellington city andits moods, a 12-minute montage distilled from morethan 50 hours of recorded footage. It can be viewed athttp://digitalmedia.massey.ac.nz/exposure/student.php?id=6From Four French Hornsby Massey alumna JennyPowell-Chalmers. Publishedby HeadworX 2004.32

Alumni notes and newsI am very happy to announce that the establishment ofMassey’s network of Alumni and Friends’ Chapters hasnow begun. During the year a series of meetings wereheld around New Zealand and along Australia’s easternseaboard to discuss operational guidelines and possibleactivities the Chapter might undertake.The result of these meetings is that five New ZealandChapters will be officially launched around the countrybetween November 2005 and April 2006. Each chapterwill determine the activities it wishes to undertake andthe Office of Development and Alumni Relations willprovide centralised administrative support. The Australiannetwork of Alumni and Friends continues to gathermomentum with functions taking place in Melbourne,Sydney and Brisbane in November this year. For moreinformation on Chapter development, please see theChapter News section of these pages.Our connection with our alumni and friends in Asiaalso continues to strengthen, with alumni attendinglaunches of the New Zealand Alumni Networks inboth China and Korea. This connection will be furtherenhanced with the New Zealand Alumni Convention2006 to be held in November at Te Papa in Wellington.With the theme ‘Connecting Asia with Aotearoa’, theconvention promises to provide excellent opportunitiesto explore and strengthen personal, professional andbusiness connections between New Zealand and Asia.We invite you to visit the convention website to registeryour interest in attending. We hope that if you do attendthe convention that you will also take the opportunityto visit Massey in the two days following.Our brand new website and electronic newslettershave also been completed to coincide with the launch ofMassey’s Alumni and Friends’ Chapters. With our lines ofcommunication now well and truly open, I trust we inthe Office of Development and Alumni Relations youwill soon be helping you to be actively involved in theextended Massey community.Paula TaylorManagerAlumni RelationsChapter NewsThe establishment of an extensive network of Alumni and FriendsChapters is in full swing. Recognition of the mutually beneficialnature of the network is generating high levels of enthusiasm.The University values the benefits that you, our alumni andfriends, bring to the University in terms of your ‘reputational’capital, your support for, and promotion of, the University inthe wider community, your ability to advocate on behalf of theUniversity and your ability to assist the University as it interfaceswith the business community.Alumni and friends also value the benefits that remaininginvolved with the University bring to them. These benefits includesocial and professional networking opportunities, access to arange of discounted benefits and services, and opportunities forparticipation in University events and committees.The University wishes to ensure that participation by alumni andfriends is made as easy as possible. To this end operational guidelineshave been devised, in consultation with alumni and friends, andthe administrative services of the Office of Development andAlumni Relations have been made available to facilitate networkactivities.Progress to dateNew ZealandChapters are currently being established in Palmerston North,Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hawkes Bay and Waikato. Whilethese are geographical in nature, it is envisaged that groups based onqualification types and residency in Halls might also develop.AustraliaThe organisational program to establish an Australian networkof Massey alumni and friends has been launched at meetings inMelbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. These groups will be formallyestablished during 2006.AsiaDuring 2005, two major initiatives have been implemented. Tocompliment its strong academic ties with China, the University hasinitiated development of an alumni network there. It is plannedto build on the strong interest expressed by our alumni in otherAsian countries, including Thailand and Malaysia, during 2006with the coordination of alumni functions and University eventsbeing held in various Asian countries.The New Zealand Government also initiated the formation ofgeneric alumni networks throughout Asia in 2005, with Masseybeing well represented by its alumni at these functions. The workof the Government in this area is viewed as complimentary to theinterests of Massey and its alumni. An excellent and cooperativeworking relationship exists between the two groups.USASeveral alumni resident in the USA have approached the Universitywith a view to establishing a group in 2006. Work in this areaproceeds.EuropeA function to bring together alumni living in London is plannedfor mid 2006.For all the latest news from Massey’s chapters at home and overseasvisit our website: http://alumni.massey.ac.nzWeb: http://alumni.massey.ac.nz Telephone: (06) 350 5865 Email: alumni@massey.ac.nz Postal: Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North33

Alumni notes and newsAlumni and Friends Calendar to June 2006November2005College of Creative Arts Reunion9 November Alumni and Friends Chapter meeting,Christchurch9 November Visiting Fellowship in Industrial Design - GrantDavidson; public presentation, Wellington10 November Alumni and Friends Chapter meeting,Wellington10 – 11November Visiting Fellowship in Industrial Design - GrantDavidson; industry workshop, Wellington16 November Alumni and Friends Chapter meeting, HawkesBay21 November Launch of Alumni and Friends Chapter,Auckland26 November Palmerston North Graduation28 November Australian Alumni and Friends Networkmeeting, Melbourne29 November Australian Alumni and Friends Networkmeeting, Sydney30 November Australian Alumni and Friends Networkmeeting, Brisbane16 December Launch of Alumni and Friends Chapter,Palmerston NorthFebruary2006Alumni and Friends Chapter meeting, Waikato17-19 March Microbiology Class of ’76, Palmerston NorthMarchAg Science Reunion Class of ’76, PalmerstonNorthOur best wishes to CraigWhile in England on his OE earlier this year, Massey Business alumnusCraig Sweeney (BBS 2001) contracted a virus and the subsequentserious infection caused his heart to fail.Craig underwent a heart transplant in September and is nowrecovering. But it will be a long road for Craig until he is up andabout again and he will remain in hospital in England for somemonths yet.Craig gets a real boost when he receives cards and letters. If youknew Craig during your undergraduate days and would like to sendhim your best wishes, mail can be addressed to:Craig Sweeney, C/- E Ward, Harefield HospitalHill End Road, Harefield, Middlesex UB9 6JHUnited KingdomFor more information on Craig’s progress visit http://alumni.massey.acPlease note these details are provisional and should beconfirmed with the Office of Development and AlumniRelations. Contact alumni@massey.ac.nz or visit our websiteat http://alumni.massey.ac.nz to confirm. Please contact us too,if you wish to have a reunion or alumni and friends event youare organising published in this calendar.New Zealand China Alumni network in BeijingThe Prime Minister, Helen Clarke with New Zealand tertiary alumni at the launch of the NewZealand China Alumni network in Beijing, May 2005The Prime Minister, Helen Clarke addresses New Zealand tertiary alumni at the launch ofthe New Zealand China Alumni network in Beijing, May 200534

Alumni notes and newsAfter-five alumni function, National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Hamilton, June 15.With the theme of “People on Farms”, the fourdayevent attracted more than 122,000 people andwas an excellent opportunity for the Universityto highlight agriculture as a career option. TheUniversity’s contribution to the rural sector, tothe advancement of agricultural technology andto the skills of new graduates, was demonstratedat two sites at Mystery Creek, staffed by studentliason advisors, senior researchers and successfulgraduates.Director of the University’s programmes inagriculture, Ewen Cameron, says Massey graduateshad a strong presence at Fieldays, from across alldisciplines of a diverse rural sector. National Bankrural manager and agricultural alumnus ScottGordon enjoyed the opportunity to catch up withformer classmates at the Ravensdown FertiliserCooperative, and Balance Agri-Nutrients Ltdstands. Other Massey graduates represented banks,and companies such as New Zealand Meat andWool and Zespri International.Gathering the many Massey alumni present atMystery Creek, a function was held for about 100on the third day of Fieldays where they enjoyed arefreshing drink after a long day exploring morethan 1000 exhibitions.Julie Hanna specialisesin animal health as a farmtechnician for LandCorpLtd. A former employeeof Massey’s large animalteaching units and farms,she holds a master’sdegree in zoology fromMassey.Left - Carlos da Silva graduated with a BBS in 1981 and now apartner of of the Hamilton branch of Deloitte, a global providerof business services. He met up with David Glen (right) whograduated with a BAgSci in 1978 and who is the CEO of ICPbioLtd, an Auckland-based biotechnology business that exportsits products to 40 countries.Left – A sheep and beef farmer in Ngaruwhahia, Gerald Bull isBAgSci graduate and met up with Tim Harrison (right), a BTechgraduate and the owner of a meat exporting business.From left: Chancellor Professor Nigel Gould, Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Anderson and historian and formerMassey academic Dr Hazel Riseborough.Have you lived in a Hall ofResidence?Would you like to attend reunions with yourold friends from Halls?The Office of Development and AlumniRelations and Halls of Residence staff areworking together to organise gatherings ofalumni associated with the various Halls ofResidence on all three campuses.If you would like to register your interestin attending social functions focussed aroundyour Hall of Residence, drop us an email atalumni@massey.ac.nzPlease include your full name, qualification,year of residence and indicate the Hall you livedin. Alternatively you can contact Mrs KarenGreer on (06) 350 5865.New Zealand Alumni Conference 2006The next New Zealand Alumni Convention(NZAC2006) will be held from the 5th to the8th of November 2006 at Te Papa Museum inWellington.The theme of the convention is ‘ConnectingAsia with Aotearoa – New Zealand’The convention follows on from the successfulinaugural convention in Kuching, Sarawak in2004. It will provide an opportunity to connectwith former colleagues, be inspired by leadingNew Zealanders and commentators, share someof New Zealand’s most successful businessstories, and learn about New Zealand today andopportunities for business and investment.The convention will celebrate the lifelongconnections that alumni and students fromoverseas, particularly from Asia, have madewith New Zealand. Combining an interestingbusiness and enjoyable social programme, thisevent has plenty for everyone. And when thebusiness end of the convention is over, you mightlike to take the opportunity to visit MasseyUniversity.For more information and to register yourinterest visit:http://www.wellington.govt.nz/rd/alumniWeb: http://alumni.massey.ac.nz Telephone: (06) 350 5865 Email: alumni@massey.ac.nz Postal: Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North35

Alumni notes and newsThe Office of Development and AlumniRelations continues to work to improve itsservices and to expand the range of benefits ithas negotiated for you, the alumni and friendsof Massey University.Several of the benefits currently offered orunder negotiation were initiated by MasseyUniversity alumni. If you own, or are employedby a business or service that would like toprovide a benefit to Massey University alumniand friends, staff or students, please contact us.http://alumni.massey.ac.nzTelephone: (06) 350 5865Email: alumni@massey.ac.nzPostal: Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston NorthMassey LibraryMassey University Library offers alumni andfriends a 50 percent discount on membership.For only $100 per year, you receive the sameborrowing privileges as an undergraduatedistance student. You can borrow books inperson or have them delivered to you anywherein New Zealand.Karleri PhotographyKarleri Photography in Auckland offers Massey’salumni and friends a discount of 10 percent onthe cost of a portrait sitting plus print orderover $250, or the choice of an extra 18 x 12cm print. For every print order over $400,Benefits for Alumni and FriendsKarleri Photography donates $10 to the MasseyUniversity Scholarship fund. This offer applies toany individual, graduation, business, family, childand parent portraits in the Castor Bay studio orat a North Shore location.Westpac University Visa CardEarn great rewards with Hotpoints and supportMassey students at the same time. At no cost toyou, Westpac will donate 1 percent per annumof the interest earning balance or a minimumof $10 per annum for each card – whichever isthe greater – to Massey’s scholarship fund. Applytoday for a Westpac University Visa card!Kanuka Grove Book andResource CentreReceive a 10 percent discount at Kanuka Groveon all trade items. With fabulous books forchildren and an extensive range of educationalresources, Kanuka Grove has a product for you.Visit Kanuka Grove on-line http://kanukagrove.massey.ac.nz or send your query via e-mailto kanuka.grove@massey.ac.nz. The centre islocated on the Hokowhitu site, CentennialDrive, Palmerston North. Opening hours areMon- Fri 8.30am - 5.00pm, and Sat 10.00am- 2.00pm. You can contact the centre by phoneon (06) 351 3329 or fax (06) 351 3324.Duty Free Stores New ZealandDuty Free Stores New Zealand offers a 10percent discount (excluding items on special,electronic products and cameras) to MasseyUniversity alumni and friends at all of its storesacross New Zealand. For every $50 or partthereof that you spend in their outlets, DutyFree Stores New Zealand will donate $1.00 tothe Massey University Scholarship Fund. Allyou need to do is present the required couponwhen making a purchase, or use the requiredcode when placing an order over the Internetor telephone.Career MoveIn order to be a front-runner in today’s jobmarket, subscribe to Career Move, MasseyUniversity’s unique career managementprogramme. For only $125, the programmeprovides activities that will sharpen your careermanagement skills and accelerate your progresstowards your career goals. Visit http://careers.massey.ac.nz/careermove.html for moreinformation.Find a classmateWith a database of over 70,000 names, we canassist you to get in touch with your formerclassmates. The process for this is carried outadhering strictly to the Privacy Act (1993),so you can be assured that your privacy isprotected. Contact us with informationrelating to the person(s) you wish to catch upwith and, if it is possible, we will assist you tomake contact.NetworkingAttending Massey University alumni and staffreunions and other events, or being involved in aMassey chapter, provides excellent opportunitiesfor you to maintain and extend your professionaland social networks.ReunionsReunions organised by the Office of Developmentand Alumni Relations are held throughout theServices for Alumni and Friendsyear. Visit our website and check our calendar forthe latest details. If you are organising a reunion,there are a number of ways we can support youand help you to contact people you wish to attend.Contact us and we’ll let you know how.News from MasseyKeep up to date with the latest at Massey whenyou receive MASSEY magazine or when yousubscribe to the Alumni and Friends newsletter orto Massey News.• MASSEY magazine is posted twiceannually to all alumni and friends. If youdo not currently receive a copy, updateyour details via our website. Alternatively,contact our office (see details at base ofpage).• Massey News is an online news service,published every fortnight. Subscribeonline today at: http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz• The Alumni and Friends newsletter is abulletin with the latest information onevents and activities of particular interestto alumni and friends. Visit our website tosubscribe.Memorabilia and ApparelLooking for a graduation gift or for somethingspecial as a memento of Massey University?Massey-branded memorabilia and apparel areavailable for purchase at all three campuses orby postal order. Visit our website to view ourrange online.Share your newsMassey values the achievements and significantevents in your life. Share your personal, professional,cultural or other achievements with your fellowalumni and the university community online andvia Massey magazine. If you would like to submitimages for publication, contact us directly.For more information, visit our website or contact our office.Web: http://alumni.massey.ac.nz Telephone: (06) 350 5865 Email: alumni@massey.ac.nz Postal: Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North36

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Alumni notes and newsJames Warren (Captain), Professor Ian Warrington Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Palmerston North) and Dave Kidd (Manager)Old Intervarsity RivalryRevived!Being the two key centres for agriculturalscience in New Zealand, there has always beenfriendly rivalry between Massey and LincolnUniversities. One particular rivalry that goesback several decades was revived recently whenrugby teams played it out for the Mog Shieldand the LA Brooks Cup.These sporting grails were last fought forback in the 1950s and 60s. Their revival wasa great opportunity to invite our alumniwho played for Massey’s honour back then,to meet the team and wish them well. Quitea few stories from the past were shared at anafternoon tea hosted by Prof Ian Warringtonand the Office of Development and AlumniRelations at Massey’s Rugby Institute. Not leastof the tales was the claim that the rivalry cameto an end in the 60s when it had descendedto the level of tribal warfare! That story notwithstanding, the match held on 3rd Septemberwas a great success, with over 300 spectators inattendance. Several alumni suffered under theweight of divided loyalties (being both Masseyand Lincoln graduates) and alternated theirsupport for the teams during the game.Massey led at half time with a score of6-7, but Lincoln won the day, the final scorebeing 24-7. Lincoln opened the scoring witha penalty goal in the sixth minute and closedit in the final minute with a converted try.Massey’s backline, however, kept the pressureon Lincoln and theirs was no easy victory. Itwas a great day and the Massey team looksforward to hosting Lincoln next year here onNorth Island turf.Special thanks to Nicola Martin, EventsManager at Massey and Jane Edwards LincolnUniversity’s Scholarships Manager fororganising the match and to all our alumniwho could not attend the afternoon tea orthe match, but sent their recollections and bestwishes to the team.1948Len Scott JP, Diploma in Agricultural Science, writes:I appreciate receiving the magazine, which, although Iam somewhat “long in the tooth”, I do enjoy reading.I mindboggle somewhat at what I read, as in the short58 years since I studied for my Diploma in AgriculturalScience (Dairying option) the University has expandedterrifically. During my time the Massey consisted of theMain Building, a registrar’s office and a principal’s residence.The student accommodation consisted of the Pink Hostel,temporary army huts on the lawn, and the refectory andstudent common room. I occupied one of the army hutsfor my first year of study. You can imagine how ‘warm’ thatwas in a Palmerston North winter.After Massey I spentmy working life in dairying in the Kapuni District andI played a full part in rotary dairy platform developmentwork and in researching into energy use on dairy farms. Iwas instrumental in the formation of the NZ Large HerdsAssociation (I was the original secretary), and so the storygoes. Now retired, I would like to hear from 46/47 DairyDip. Students (who still read Massey magazine). Good luckin your work of editing a very good magazine.1972Maureen Gatenby, Bachelor of Veterinary Science,went on to complete a Bachelor of Business Studies(Accountancy) in 2001, a Postgraduate Diploma inBusiness Administration (Disputes Resolution) in 2004and a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Mediationand Arbitration) in 2005.1973Dennis Thorne, Bachelor of Education Professional, haspursued a career as a principal, Inspector of Schools andin the Education Review Office. He recently worked as avolunteer in Cambodia 1996-2001, 2003-2005.1975George Sutherland, Bachelor of Arts, taught atIntermediate Normal School for 29 years. He recentlycame out of retirement and together with partner Margaretsurvived teaching in inner London schools for a year. Theyspent the weekends exploring the local area, and travelledfrom Lands End to John O’Groats as well as holidays inScandinavia, Spain, France, Ireland, Belgium and otherwestern European countries. Highlights included trackingdown an ancestral home in Wishaw, Glasgow, the ChelseaFlower Show, a church service at Westminster Abbey, abirthday in Paris, a white Christmas with relations inSweden.1979Franco Bawang, Diploma in Horticulture, writes:“As a tribute to Massey University, here are my recentachievements. In December 2003 I was selected as oneof the Marquis Who’s Who in the World. Then on 25thMarch 2005, I was nominated as the Cambridge BlueBook Man of the Year.Jan Henderson, Master of Arts with Honours, joined theForeign Ministry after graduation. Her assignments haveincluded Bangkok, Thailand; Honiara, Solomon Islands;Washington DC, USA; and Ankara, Turkey.1980Pamela Blackman, Bachelor of Social Work, completed adoctorate in 2004. She writes: “I have recently completed apostgraduate award in inspection from Warwick Universityand taken up a post as lead inspector for the adult learninginspectorate. My organisation inspects all governmentfundedadult education in England. My most recent workwas inspection of the armed forces, and the report of theseinspections ‘Safer Training Managing risks to the welfare ofrecruits in the British armed services’ - available on the web(the stationery office - www.tso.co.uk/bookshop), was thelargest survey ever conducted for the military interviewing4,500 recruits, 2,000 staff and analysing 450 questionnairesfrom families. I live in Beverley, have four children and twograndchildren with another on the way!”1985David Cox, Diploma in Horticulture, is working at design,manufacture and installation of outdoor low voltage lightsin New Zealand.David Gordon, Bachelor of Arts, writes that he receiveda mayoral award a few years ago for teaching Astronomy,French, Spanish, Italian, Latin and Māori for the Taurangabranch of U3A (University of the Third Age) of which hewas President (500 members). “I also show classic filmsfrom my hobby collection to various charitable groupsand, thanks to seeds planted at Massey, am continuallyupdating my writings on modelling with differentialequations and on etymological approach to learning Kanji(Japanese characters).Derek Knighton, Doctor of Philosophy, worked for11 years in the Protein Chemistry section of The DairyResearch Institute, then at Tatua dairy company for threeyears in the Protein Products Development Group. He thenspent several years at the Meat Industry Research Institute,followed by Fonterra Protein Products DevelopmentCentre and finally the AgResearch Ruakura campus wherehe currently works. Purification of proteins for the foodindustry has been the constant theme. He is married withtwo children and lives in Hamilton.1986John McCardle, Postgraduate Diploma in BusinessAdministration, joined Tasman Pulp and Paper in 1980, afterseven months’ travelling. His work has included operationsanalysis and strategic planning and he was involved inpurchasing a 50 percent share of a shipping line for Tasman,and joined this company for a year as Planning Manager.He worked for three years in investor relations for FletcherChallenge before travelling to live and work in the UKfor four years. While in the UK he consulted in the capitalmarkets, and for a sale of council houses and subsequentset-up of a housing association. When he returned toNZ John consulted for a while before joining ManukauCity Council as Commercial Manager looking after thecouncil’s businesses and investments. He formed CapitalStrategy Limited in 2001 (www.capitalstrategy.co.nz). Thecompany provides consulting services to business, local andcentral government in the areas of corporate governance,strategic planning, project evaluation, policy and businessanalysis and economic development.1987Patrick Foley, Bachelor of Veterinary Science, built asuccessful vet practice with veterinarian wife Robin Atkins.He has completed eight Ironman triathlons including twoworld champs in Hawaii. He has two children, Jack threeyears and Rebecca six months.Jeremy Thomas, Bachelor of Technology, spent abouta year (1987/88) as an industrial engineer for FormwayFurniture Ltd Gracefiel, five years, from 1988 – 93, asproject engineer for New Zealand Pharmaceuticals Ltd,Linton, 15 months (93/94) as commissioning engineerfor ICI Adhesives and Resins, Mount Maunganui. For10 years he was director of his own business, Bay ProcessConsultants Ltd, with clients from pharmaceuticals toforest products manufacturers. In 2004 he became processmanager for Ravensdown Fertilizer Co-op Ltd.1988Stuart Campbell, Bachelor of Business Studies, is aChartered Accountant with his own practice in Feilding.He is a specialist in small business accounting softwareand has assisted with the setup of three charitable trustsproviding residential services for people with intellectualdisabilities.Gideon Clewlow, Bachelor of Arts, spent three years withThe Rural Bank in Wellington, then 10 years in Londonworking for BP. He managed a calf rearing unit on aKibbutz for nine months and did a lot of travelling. He hasbeen back in NZ four years and writes that he has two kids,Freya two-and-a-half and Noah one month. “I am verybusy with them but do a bit of off-road running.”James McKeefry, Bachelor of Agricultural Science,started work with MAF in Rotorua in 1988, then wentto work for the Rural Bank in Whangarei in 1989. Hewas employed by ASB Bank from 1992 until October2000, when he started his own company in Whangarei.He moved to Australia in 2004 and since then has beenworking with ANZ in Melbourne. He covers Victoriaand Southern NSW as an Agribusiness Specialist for the39

Alumni notes and news40Libby O’Connor, who featured in ????,has kindly sent in some magazinefeedback with two photos that begto be published. An adventurousspirit, Libby is still teaching inBrunei, where she is “enjoyingspending as much time as possiblewith Penan people deep in thejungle, so [I] hope to be here awhile longer.”bank assisting frontline relationship managers in buildingtheir agribusiness base and covers a variety of agriculturalproduction systems from rice to adzuki beans, from beefto wine grapes. “It is at times more challenging than themainstay of NZ agriculture systems of beef and sheep anddairying particularly with the large climatic influences anddecided lack of water from the sky in Australia. I keep intouch with a number of old mates from Massey and wouldbe happy to renew old acquaintances. If people want tocontact me via e-mail it is mckeefrj@anz.com”Elizabeth Scarlet, Bachelor of Education, writes: “From1962 until my husband’s early death in 1971, we lived inPapua New Guinea as a family. At last I’ve written our storyand had it published. My husband was a New ZealandPresbyterian minister employed by the United Church ofPapua New Guinea. His work was very practical - awayfrom home for long periods. I was a young mother of threedaughters. The book Oscar X-Ray Calling (the story ofthe Scarlet family in Papua New Guinea) is available fromme at $20.Contact bscarlet@clear.net.nz1990Julie Kipa, Bachelor of Arts, is currently Head ofFaculty - Arts and Visual Culture @ Te Whare Wananga oAwanuiarangi with 18 staff.1991Stuart Walker, Bachelor of Science, writes: “Hi I’m backin NZ after being overseas for seven years.”1992Roseller Fabros, Postgraduate Diploma in BusinessAdministration, returned to his employer, Civil ServiceCommission in Diliman, Philippines. He is currentlySupervising Personnel Specialist of CSC-Philippines’Examination, Recruitment and Placement Office (ERPO).He took his Comprehensive Examination in August 2005as final requirement for the conferment of the Masterin Industrial Relations-Human Resource Development(MIR-HRD) Degree at the School of Labor and IndustrialRelations, University of the Philippines. He writes: “I willbe retiring soon and will join my wife in Ontario, Canada,where I hope to get a job in HR.”Philip Judge, Bachelor of Veterinary Science, went on tocomplete a MACVSc qualification in veterinary emergencyand critical care (1999), and medicine of dogs (2003) and aMaster of Veterinary Science from Melbourne University in2002. He is currently the Senior Veterinarian at the AnimalEmergency Centre, Melbourne, Australia.Catherine Poolman, Certificate in Early ChildhoodEducation, writes that she is now a graduate of AucklandUniversity having completed a postgraduate Diplomain Special Education. She is currently finishing an MEducation (2006 completion) and is also completing a DipEarly Intervention (2005 completion).1993Jane Paul, Bachelor of Arts, flew to Brazil and cruisedthe Amazon, then crossed the Atlantic. She has left fulltime work to do supply teaching in small village schoolsacross three counties in the Chilterns. She completed apostgrad diploma in teaching reading, writing at ReadingUniversity and continues rambling, wildlife conservationand various societies.Jean Preddey, Bachelor of Science, writes that she has juststarted working at Kiwi Encounter, which is the premierkiwi incubating and hatching facility in the country.“Suzanne Bassett (ex Massey), lecturer Dr Brett Gartrelland Dr Murray Potter (PN Massey ecology) support egghandling courses we run in conjunction with RainbowSprings for DOC and other kiwi practitioners.”Janet Wilson, Bachelor of Business Studies, writes: “Atthe age of 70 I am still studying and working. I have justcompleted a BA (Humanities) from the Open Polytechnicin Wellington by distance learning again. I still continuewith more study this year.”1994Sara McFadden, Bachelor of Business Studies, lived andworked in the UK for eight years after graduating. Shewrites that she finally returned to NZ shores and has for thepast two years worked for Fonterra as PA to the Directorof Shareholder Services. “I am enjoying getting back tothe farming roots I came from!”1995Christine Briasco, Postgraduate Diploma in HealthService Management, completed a Master’s in PublicHealth (Tropical Health) at University of Queensland in2004 and is currently employed as programme manager of ahealth sector strengthening project in NW Cambodia.1996Stephen Arcus, Bachelor of Business Studies, worked forFarm Education Training Association (FETA) as SouthlandsManager after graduating. FETA became Agriculture ITO,and his work involved in some unit standard developmentfor NZQA at that time. He writes that a new veterinaryposition for his wife took them to Hawke’s Bay. “Countlessjob applications later, I took on a temporary four hectarevineyard position. After seven years, a change of ownersand additional purchases and development (24 hectares),I resigned to take a more challenging role as a youthdevelopment supervisor (Domestic Daddy), and my wifewent back to full time veterinary work.”1997Romulo Br itanico, Postgraduate Diploma inDevelopment Studies, writes: “Right after graduation in1997, I was designated as Economist of the World BankassistedAgrarian Reform Communities DevelopmentProject in the Province of Albay.Benjamin Irons, Bachelor of Technology, worked in ITin Australia and London, then completed an MPhil andDPhil in economics at Oxford University.1998Stephanie Chernishov, Bachelor of Applied Science,writes that after five successful years in agricultural researchand project management, she took a year out and studiedtheology and development studies. She is now workingfor Dunedin Budget Advisory Service on a Ministry ofSocial Development funded project “Financial Planningfor Change”.Anthony Meachan, Graduate Diploma in BusinessStudies, is involved in sponsorship and suppliership for:Axa IRB 7s Tournament, NZ Army Tour of UK, World ofWearable Art NZ, Marist Samoa RFU Sevens Team.Jennifer Woods, Bachelor of Arts, writes that she continuesto recover from a serious motor vehicle accident. “I ammore my old self, but my encounter with death has mademe more reflective and patient. I wish to apologise toanyone who experienced my anger and negativity, where Ipushed away those who had been loyal to me. My daughterMackenzie is turning seven in 2005 and we continue towork together to re-discover a new way to a better future.I would enjoy hearing from anyone who has had a lifechangingincident or trauma, as I am a survivor, which isan achievement in many ways.”1999Cynthia McCaughan, Bachelor of Education, completeda Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning(primary) with CCE in 2003, then taught English as aSecond Language for two years at South CanterburySchool of English Language in Timaru. She was appointedMuseum Educator with South Canterbury Museum(Timaru) in January 2005 to provide education servicesunder the Ministry of Education LEOTC programme.John Rombo, Bachelor of Education, is a student at theUniversity of Waikato.Caesar Salanio Jr, Postgraduate Diploma in DevelopmentStudies, is still working with the Department of Trade andIndustry, Davao City, Philippines. “Just want to say helloto my former classmates at the Institute of DevelopmentStudies and the kind professors and mentors: John Overton,Barbara Nowak, Regina Scheyvens, Anton Meister, JohnHolland, Katherine Davison and Tony Banks.”Jeffrey Vaughan, Bachelor of Social Work, has been inTaupo since finishing study in 1998, working both in AdultCommunity Mental Health and Older Persons Health(at Taupo Hospital). “In 2003 I had the opportunity tomove into the newly established Child, Adolescent andFamily Mental Health Team in Taupo, which has beenan exciting development. My wife (Fay) and I are reallyenjoying living in Taupo, and are expecting our first childat the end of August.”

Alumni notes and news2000Tracy Cannizzo, Bachelor of Social Work, writesthat she is currently graduating with a Certificate inAddictions. She recently sat a test to be licensed in Illinoisto counsel substance abusers. In June she began her MSWat University of Illinois, Chicago.2001Margaret Easson, Bachelor of Arts, completed BSc Honat University of Southern Queensland.Rowan Gillespie, Bachelor of Science, joined Cap GeminiErnst & Young as a consultant after graduating and waspromoted to senior consultant at the end of 2002. “Duringthat time I worked primarily as a business analyst on webdevelopment and data warehousing / business intelligenceprojects. In mid-2003 I left CGE&Y to experience SEAsia and India for six months, before moving to Japan.I currently work in Tokyo as a recruitment consultantspecialising in the IT industry.”Kenneth Williams, Diploma in Catering and Hospitality,writes: “When I finished at Massey Wellington in 2000 Iworked in town for a while then meet up with this coolchick, but she moved to Aussie. Well, you know how thatended! I moved six months later. I’ve been in Aussie fortwo years now. I’m still a chef and a pretty good one too(hello Ferdi Lutter). Now we have a three-month-oldbeautiful baby girl and life is good. Thanks to CateringDept at the Wellington campus for all the extra knowledge.Ka kite...”Yang (Bertha) Yi-Lun, Bachelor of Business Studies,writes: “I went to Australia for postgraduate studies in E-Commerce after graduating from Massey and adventuringin the Rear Seat Entertainment business world aftercame back to Taiwan from Australia. I have had quite alot of experiences going overseas for business travel andparticipating in CES held in Las Vegas each year. Old friendsand classmates are welcome to contact me and share yourlife/work experiences and fun stuff with me.”2002Evelyn Hulse, Bachelor of Arts, writes that when shegraduated with a BA in English people asked what shewould do with a degree at 84. “One mother asked if Iwould help her son, who was 26th in his class in English.Armed with a Rowe and Well grammar from 1933, theStrunk and White written by university professors to helpnew university entrants with their worst English errors, anda glossary of literary terms we began. First term my studentwas 5th. The next year I helped with his English in Historyessays. With this help he achieved third in Scholarship, onepoint below a tied top two. So what if I was 86 when Ifinished helping - what has age to do with it?”Mary-Anne Kindell, Bachelor of Business Studies, writesthat she is able to work two compatible jobs, with lots ofopportunity for expansion and new learning. “I hadn’tcounted on work prejudice and so it took nearly twoand-halfyears to get jobs. Opus is a wonderful employerand accepts flexibility well. PSA also gives me spheres andshares knowledge.”Roger McNeill, Postgraduate Diploma in BusinessAdministration, received a community award foroutstanding contribution working in partnership withNapier citizens as a community mentor and facilitatorin April 2005.2003Jodi Crawford-Flett, Bachelor of Design, writes: “InSeptember 2003 I gained my ‘foot in the door’ to thedesign and manufacturing industry with Konev Leather.The company makes a wide range of handbags, attachecases, wallets, binders and the like with top quality NZleather. It was an opportune time to join the company asthe established designer was looking towards retirement.Trained to take over his patternmaking, design and productdevelopment role, I was able to learn from a master ofleathercraft. And the best way to learn was hands-on,actually making the product. My role now includesdeveloping patterns for clients, sampling, making one-offsand special orders, designing new products; interspersedwith lots of hands-on production work. The quality of ourproducts can be seen in the Massey Alumni briefcases forsale, embossed with the Massey Logo.”Ronald Eric MunfordRon’s time at Massey extended from 1951 to 1993: a remarkable 43 years. He arrived asfresh young student and left after 23 years as a Professor.In his first undergraduate year, he was awarded the Lord Bledisloe Prize. While a student hewould accrue the Senior Scholarship in Agriculture, the Royal Agricultural Society Prize, the SirJames G Wilson Prize, the Shell Scholarship, and the George Terry Memorial Scholarship.Ron graduated wiht a BAgrSci in 1954 and joined the staff of the Department of DairyHusbandry as a Junior Lecturer in 1955. He studied for a masterate and won first class honoursin 1957.In 1960 he headed for England on a New Zealand National Research Fellowship to studyat the National Institute for Research in Dairying at the University of Reading pursuing hisinterest in lactation and endocrinology. He graduated with a PhD in 1963, then returned toMassey, where he would take charge of the Small Animal Research Unit, as fast as sea transportwould allow.At the end of 1968 he took up the the Chair of Physiology within the five-year-oldVeterinary Faculty, presiding over 11 academic staff and around 110 undergraduate students.Ron served as a University Council member from 1980 to 1988 and for a term as Presidentof the Association of University Teachers.Ron embraced computers as a means of handling data. These were huge affairs that occupieda whole room with other rooms full of card punching machines. Then a couple of mysteriousdesk models appeared in his room. A notice appeared on his door, that read “My troublesbegan when I bought a microcomputer”. But as long as he held sway over the mysteries ofFortran, he could generally keep all those he assisted with their statistics out of trouble.He retired at the end of 1993.John Bevan FordR e m e m b e r e dR e m e m b e r e dJohn Bevan Ford, (Ngāti Raukawa ki Kapiti) a Māoricarver, painter and sculptor earned himself a reputationas an international artist, with much of his work gainingrecognition overseas.His works have been exhibited as far away as Berlin,China, Amsterdam and London. Back home John’senthusiasm and love of Māori visual art initiated the Māorivisual arts degree programmes at Massey University.John Bevan Ford’s Māori carvings include the gatewayat Ōwae marae in Waitara, a wharenui (meeting house) in the Wairarapa as well as a full sizewaka (canoe) in the collection of Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth. He produced sculpturesfor local iwi Rangitäne as well as the Palmerston North City Council.His contemporary sculptures including the ‘kaitiaki’ series are still considered representativeof Māori imagery. His paintings are numbered in the hundreds.Mr Bevan Ford described his own work as being “greatly influenced by the cloak” whichwas traditionally made out of harakeke (flax).“The Māori and European branches of my families each needed the flax plant to carryforward their futures. As I contemplated the mix of outcomes from the 1840s, the rope works,the trading, the marriages, the continuing — Remembered migrations — and these thoughts became materalisedin twisting fibres that grew into great täniko (Māori weaving method and pattern) borderedcloaks.“Like birds who migrated as people did, the cloaks fly into the sky. The emphasis on birdsas symbols of the visits and migrations that have connected us, has grown and developed andcontinues today.”John Bevan Ford lay at Te Kupenga marae, on the University’s Palmerston North campus,a testament to his close association with Massey, and a legacy that will live on through today’sMāori Visual Art students. He is survived by his second wife Anne, five children and eightgrandchildren. Pictured is Eagle of Te Anau, 2003, Private Collection.41

Alumni notes and newsLeric Harvey-Smith, Bachelor of Applied Science, gainedemployment in chosen field at Dunedin City Councilafter graduation.David Jarman, Diploma in Agriculture, writes that he hastravelled extensively through Europe. “I am working hardto move up the chain of command. I rely on my Masseyeducation daily. I wish all DipAG students the best.”Anita Keestra, Bachelor of Education (Adult Education),completed Graduate Diploma in Economic Developmentat AUT in 2004 and a Certificate in Small BusinessManagement at Te O Waanga Aotearoa in 2005.Sanjeshwar Narayan, Bachelor of Business Studies,writes: “After graduating I completed a postgrad diplomain management and public administration from theUniversity of South Pacific and I am currently pursuinga management degree on part time basis. Since last yearI have been employed by NZ immigration service as avisa officer.”Gezina Parrish, Graduate Diploma of Teaching(Secondary), spent two years teaching in the outback ofWestern Australia at an Aboriginal boarding school ninehours’ drive from Perth and six hours from Geraldton.“It was very isolated but tremendously challenging andenjoyable. Now I am at Buller High in Westport.”Nehal Shah, Postgraduate Diploma in BusinessAdministration, writes: “Thank you for this space. For thepast two years I have been running my own business inthe field of imitation/costume jewellery and semi-preciousgemstones, and successfully exporting to countries like UKand USA. I am looking for business prospects in my fieldin New Zealand.Ilyas Syed, Postgraduate Diploma in BusinessAdministration, is working as part of the administrationteam for KMPG, Auckland, and also works as a volunteermember of New Zealand Red Cross.Terrance Wong, Bachelor of Aviation Management,writes: “South East Asia is following the pattern of Europe’sRyanair and America’s Southwest Airline to have its bestbudget carriers. After I graduated I joined Valuair, a mediumfrill company based in Singapore. I work at SingaporeChangi Airport terminal 1.2004Rebecca Alexander, Graduate Diploma in BusinessStudies, writes that since graduating she has set up herown online fitness consultancy, offering fitness advice toathletes in the United States and Australia. Although in itsinfancy, the business has received positive feedback fromclients, family and friends, she says.Andrea Corbett, Master of Philosophy, is in year twoof a PhD with Monash University, Melbourne. “I ambuilding on my MPhil (Nursing) completed 2003 atMassey. I was awarded an Australian Federal GovernmentCommonwealth Scholarship to cover fees. My subject is“Health Service Delivery for Physically Disabled Personsin Rural NZ: What constitutes a Sustainable Model ofCare”.Elizabeth Pardoe, Bachelor of Business Studies,completed her degree extramurally while living in Australia.“I have worked in the area of occupational health andsafety for four large Australasian corporations over thepast 14 years. To achieve a degree while working full time,managing an international transfer and raising two boys hasbeen challenging. However, by having an almost tangiblevision (I could almost hear the cork popping and taste thecelebratory champagne!) and keeping true to your actionplan, I believe anything is achievable. The next chapter inour lives sees me consulting in occupational health, safetyand environment under the trademark Uanican (you andI can achieve anything with a vision and a plan). I havealso enrolled to study towards my Masters Business Studies(OHS) for this coming year. We love living in Melbourne- it is a vibrant city that has much to offer an ex-pat witha Massey qualification.”Young Farmerof theYearThe third Southland farmer in threeyears to be titled the National BankYoung Farmer Contest champion,Massey graduate David Holdawaytook home a prize package worth$125,000.Originally from Pahiatua in theWairarapa region, the 27 year oldsharemilker graduated in 1999 witha Bachelor of Applied Science inagriculture, with distinction.Almost 300 young farmers contestedthe title this year.Now the owner of a shiny new FordCourier XLT flat deck utility, and aHonda 4WD ATV, Mr Holdaway alsowon an AGMARDT scholarship foran international executive immersionprogramme worth $40,000, and morethan $8000 in prize money andproducts.Mr Holdaway began dairy farmingin Mid-Canterbury shortly aftergraduating and has since progressed to50:50 sharemilker on the MeadowlandFarm Trust, Greenvale, near Gore with250 cows. With wife Lucy, he alsoleases 63ha at Mataura, which is usedto run dairy heifers, to winter cowsand to fatten beef. They have a goalof purchasing a 5000 stock unit sheepand beef property by 2012 and movingon to a 500-700 cow sharemilkingposition next season.2005Hemant Bhowan, Postgraduate Diploma in Education,writes: “Teaching and studying extramurally throughMassey has inspired my students and family to pursueacademically! Thanks.”Peter Brock, Bachelor of Business Studies, has startedemployment at PricewaterhouseCoopers.Dean Colwill, Bachelor of Arts, has begun a new careeras a policy analyst with Maritime New Zealand. He andhis partner, Debbie, were moving to Wellington after thearrival of their first child in June.Muriel Gooder, Bachelor of Arts, writes: “Miffed at notbeing accepted by CIT to do an A&D course in 1990,I decided to do a Certificate in Community & SocialWork and on attaining this I decided to press on and doa BA degree in my spare time. I did it and am gratefulto the fabulous extramural staff etc who encouragedme always.”Ranafewa Hewawasam, Bachelor of Science, hasreceived two scholarships for postgraduate study. Hereceived a $4000 Massey Sciences scholarship fromCollege of Sciences for Honours postgraduate studyand an Institute of Information and MathematicalSciences Scholarship from IIMS at the Albany campus.“I am thrilled about this and intend to take the MasseySciences Scholarship to study for a BSc (Honours) inComputer Science & Statistics part time. During mythree undergraduate years, I was included in the Pro-Vice Chancellors Merit List from College of Sciencesfor 2002 and 2003.”Janice Lloyd, Doctor of Philosophy, recently completeda PhD which examined why some partnerships betweena guide dog and its handler work while others do not.Karin Menon, Master of Arts, writes: “After a BA in2001, BA Hons in 2002, Master’s 2003 and MA in 2005I am trying to cut the Massey umbilical cord. I am backas a staff member (GA Psychology) and starting my PhD2005. And fully enjoying it!”Maria Papas, Bachelor of Engineering, writes: “I amhappy that I have completed my four years of engineeringat Massey. Working is my next step to the real world.Having to work for 900 hours to complete this degreehas helped me to gain some experiences before I jumpout to real industries. Even though I am not workingin the field of engineering at the moment, I have metlots of great, kind, smart people (friends, lecturers)during my study. I believe that apart from my academicachievement at Massey, maturity is something that I havegained the most.”Chris Reddell, Bachelor of Business Studies, writesthat after several years of contract work for MasseyUniversity while completing his degree and diploma, hehas now been employed by the University of Aucklandprimarily to manage its compliance of the Government’sPerformance Based Research Fund.Freddie Santos, Bachelor of Business Studies, iscurrently undertaking a postgraduate diploma inprofessional accounting.Bruce Thomas, Master of Business Administration, hasenrolled in a LLM in International IT Law at RobertGordon University, Aberdeen. “I have also providedsome tutoring to other MBA students and I have foundthis very rewarding. Otherwise, I have been enjoyingthe slower pace of life post-MBA with my family andfriends.”42

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