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Merchant navy convoy 4
Date: May 1918 - January 1919
From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys
Reference: PA1-o-1394
Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm
Correspondence
Date: 1875-1916
From: Crooks family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6243
Description: Correspondence between Crooks family members, mostly between James and Harriet Crooks before their marriage and later, while James was working in the North Island (Wanganui, Patea, Hunterville, Halcombe, Feilding, Akitio, Masterton, Featherston, including a kisses receipt for the family `so I wont have to put it in my letters' (1875-1888); with Jim Bugg and James Crooks; and Manon John Crooks and his cousin James Also letter from Charlie Crooks to his niece and nephew, Bob and Annie, from London, giving details of the Crooks family back to 1588 (1916) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Merchant navy convoy 5
Date: February - June 1919
From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys
Reference: PA1-o-1395
Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 5 February 1919, called at Colombo (24 February 1919), Bombay (27 February - 9 March 1919), Karachi (11 March 1919), Suez and Suez Canal (20 March 1919), Port Said (21 March - 10 April 1919), Alexandria (11-15 April 1919), Gibraltar (21 April919), Southampton (25-26 April 1919), arrived Liverpool 28 April 1919. She carried 98 passengers from Bombay to Port Said; 1800 officers and men from Karachi to Port Said; 750 British soldiers and 60 passengers from Alexandria to Southampton; and 11 passengers and 7 ambulance cases from Gibraltar to Southampton. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with 1124 New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 17 May 1919, called at Colon (31 May - 1 June 1919), Panama Canal and Balboa (1 June 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 23 June 1919. Includes views of Suez Canal, wharves at Colombo. Bombay, Karachi, Port Said and Alexandria, Panama Canal locks and gates, French and British warships, soldiers embarking to return home, and Peace Day celebrations in Port Chalmers and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album with brown morrocco spine and corners, 21 x 19 cm
[Memorial card]. France, 25th Sept., 1916. Arthur Roy Chivers, Fifth N.Z. Reinforcement...
Date: 1916
Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1916-06
Description: A folded memorial card, with text on the front, beneath the flages of New Zealand and Britain. A quotation from St Paul is below: "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card. Physical Description: Offset print, on folded card, 153 x 102 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.
Edward prince of Wales presenting medals, Rotorua, New Zealand
Date: 29 April 1920
From: Creator unknown :Photographs of visit of Prince of Wales to New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-9163-07
Description: Edward Prince of Wales presenting medals to returned sevicemen, Arawa Park, Rotorua, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer 29 April 1920. Inscriptions: Verso - Presenting medals, Arawa Park, Rotorua Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 15.2 cm