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51
ibid. The Bishop Suter Gallery in Nelson, for instance, had a craft shop which continued to operate
while craft exhibitions were being held.
52
In 1993 Craft New Zealand was owned by a company called Craft Print Limited set up by Peter
Gibbs and Julie Warren in 1992 to avoid the magazine’s assets being seized when the CCNZ was
placed in liquidation. Under the new ownership it produced seven issues.
53
Peter Gibbs, 'Hobbyists Hold Key', New Zealand Listener, March 4, 1989.
54 ibid.
55
ibid.

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1
For example, see Maurice Shadbolt, A Touch of Clay, London, 1974., T. S. Eliot, The Confidential
Clerk, London, 1954, p.39. and Ellie Smith, 'Caught in Clay', 2009.
2
Miles Fairburn, 'The Rural Myth and the New Urban Frontier: An Approach to New Zealand Social
History', New Zealand Journal of History, vol. 9, 1, 1975, p.3.
3 ibid.
4
ibid., p.4.
5 ibid., pp.4-5.
6
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, London, 1973, p.2.
7
Jan Marsh, Back to the Land: The Pastoral Impulse in England, from 1880 to 1914, London, 1982,
p.3.
8
ibid., pp.5-6. For a fictional account describing the lives of these people and their relationship with
craft see A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book, London, 2010.
9
Gillian Naylor, The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Study of Its Sources, Ideals and Influence on
Design Theory, London, 1971, p.170. The Settlement movement was a socialist organisation with the
goal of providing accommodation for rich and poor to live and work in the same communities to
alleviate poverty.
10
Not all workers were members but after a period of service they could join and take up shares. All
shareholders were entitled to attend meetings. Decisions were arrived at by consensus ‒ as was the
decision to move to the Cotswolds.
11
Marsh, p.149.
12 ibid., p.150.
13
Tanya Harrod, The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century, New Haven, 1999, p.137.
14 ibid., p.138.
15
ibid., p.140.
16 Harry Davis quoted in Helen Mason, 'Harry Davis', New Zealand Potter, 28, 3 1986, p.18.
17
Stewart Maclennan, 'Rural Crafts in Retrospect ', Design Review, 1, 1, April, 1948, p.5.
18 May Davis, May, Nelson, 1990, pp.121 - 2.
19
Harry Davis, The Potter’s Alternative, North Ryde, NSW, 1987.
20
'The Craftsman in Rural Communities and the Work of the Rural Industries Bureau in England and
Its Possible Application in New Zealand', 1960, p.1.
21 ibid., p.2.
22
ibid., pp.2 - 3.
23 Usually referred to as ‘Waimea Pottery’.
24
In the 1950s and 1960s the term ‘suburban neurosis’ was used to describe the psychological
depression or postnatal depression some women experienced as a result of living isolated lives in the
suburbs or after childbirth. In her writings Mason appears to be referring to her experiences whilst
raising children in the suburbs. See Helen Mason, Helen Mason’s Scrapbook: Fifty Years as a
Backyard Potter, a Memoir, 2nd edn, Waipukurau, 2005. Ironically, the suburbs were designed to
replica aspects of rural life including providing space and privacy. For more on ‘suburban neurosis’
see Margot Roth, 'Housewives or Human Beings?', New Zealand Listener, 20 November 1959, pp.6 -
7
25
Mason, Helen Mason’s Scrapbook: Fifty Years as a Backyard Potter, a Memoir, p.18.
26
Helen Mason quoted in Peter Cape, Please Touch. A Survey of the Three-Dimensional Arts in New
Zealand, Auckland, 1980, p.82. ‘Whānau’ translates as ‘extended family’.
27 Helen Mason, ' Helen Mason Looks Back', New Zealand Potter, 19, 1 1977, p.28.
28
Christine Ross to the Chairman, Buller County Council, 26 June 1981, CCNZ Records, 92-278, Box
56.
29
Christine Ross to unknown recipient, 1982, CCNZ Records, 92-278, Box 56. See also Appendix 7.
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