Meteorological Service of New Zealand

Date: 1960

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/19F-Acc.

Description: Copied from NZ Metworological Service 1960. See folder R1/16a-c-R7/26 for tracing of same map. Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 32 x 24 cm.

Date: 20 August 1993 - 20 Aug 1993

From: British assisted immigrants oral history project

By: Perrott, Stephen Finch, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0817-08

Description: Oral history interview with Stephen Perrot, born 27th March 1927 in Sevenoaks, Kent. Talks about family background. Details schooling in Sevenoaks - mentions Falconbury Primary School and Clifton College, Bristol. Talks about family being evacuated during World War II. Mentions joining the Army at eighteen - refers to being demobbed in 1948. Talks about members of his family who emigrated to New Zealand. Discusses applying for the New Zealand assisted immigration scheme. Talks about travelling on the 'Rangitoto' from Tilbury to New Zealand - describes the cabin accomodation and the route taken. Recalls arrival in New Zealand - mentions staying in the transit camp at Trentham. Talks about his first job at Eastons Orchard in Nelson. Discusses adjusting to life in New Zealand. Details social life and recreation activities - mentions smallbore rifle club. Describes training in Meterological Service - mentions course of study taken at Victoria University of Wellington. Mentions working on Raoul Island. Talks about sentimental attachment to New Zealand. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Biographical information relating to Stephen Perrott; Project questionnaire; interview questions and topics. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014988 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 0.55 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5437. Search dates: 1927 - 1993

Date: [1901-1975]

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-12

Description: File of correspondence, telegrams, personal papers, notes, reminiscences etc including correspondence with the Turnbull Library relating to earlier deposits of Mowat material Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1997 - 1998

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-1997

Description: Includes calendars: Biodynamic farming and gardening calendar 1997-1998 Cleo / Durex Bachelor of the Year 1997-1998. [Calendar] (2 copies) East Harbour Kindergarten. Eastbourne historical calendar 1997. Feline friends 1997 calendar.Pictorial Publications Limited Images of New Zealand calendar 1997. Craig Potton Publishing. Sara Macready's New Zealand country gardens calendar 1997 National Provident. The Provident year 1997 New Zealand country life calendar 1997. Craig Potton Publishing New Zealand's Eye on the Sky weather trivia calendar 1997 New Zealand's whales, dolphins, seals & seabirds calendar 1997. Craig Potton Publishing Surf New Zealand calendar 1997, with tide tables. Ocean Fun Unlimited Nancy Tichborne's favourite cats, 1997 [Calendar] Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 5 calendars. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: Some items donated from the collection of Dr Margaret Bailey. One donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998.

Date: 2008

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-D-WEATHER-2008-01

Description: Chart shows photographs of 13 different cloud formations: Cirrus, Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus, Altocumulus, Altocumulus Lenticularis, Northwest arch, Alto stratus, Nimbostratus, Stratus, Stratocumulus, Cumulus Humilis, Towering Cumulus, Cumulonimbus. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Commander Denis Fairfax, Plimmerton, in 2012.

Date: 08 Feb 2001

From: Raoul Island oral history project

By: Olsen, Karen Louise, 1966-

Reference: OHInt-0927-05

Description: Interview with Karen Olsen, born in the Hutt Valley in 1966. Outlines her family background, childhood in Silverstream and Maungaraki, and training as a Meteorological (Met.) Service observer in 1985. Discusses working as a briefing officer at Wellington Airport, the number of women in the Service, and the differentiation between observers and forecasters at the time. Talks about going to Raoul Island in 1988 as the first woman sent by the Met. Service, and preparations including a baking course and training in the hospital Accident and Emergency Department. Discusses travelling to Raoul Island on a fishing boat, being transferred by helicopter, and taken straight to the green lake [a volcanic crater] for training. Describes the accommodation, learning to milk the cow, the abundance of food, and rats as a problem in the garden. Comments on mail drops by Air Force helicopter. Refers to visiting yachts, diving and fishing, and the Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve being established after she left. Recalls picnics on rat-free Meyer Islands where the bird life was abundant. Mentions her leisure activities, the importance of celebrations, home made presents, and using the radio regularly to maintain contact with home. Discusses her work - weather observations, balloon flights, making hydrogen for the balloons, providing early warnings of cyclones approaching New Zealand, and recording weather statistics. Refers to training colleague Chris McCarroll to do the meteorological observations. Describes the work of other members of the team including maintaining the deisel generators and the water supply and mowing the lawns. Comments that the four person team worked well together, sharing tasks and learning new skills. Comments on earthquakes being a daily occurrence and taking lake measurements during an eruption alert. Mentions the impending transfer [of control of the island] from the Met. Service to the Department of Conservation (DOC), the building of an airstrip for emergencies, and road maintenance. Comments on DOC's removal of farm animals and the passionfruit vine. Reflects on how her experiences on Raoul Island changed her. Interviewer(s) - Kim Morton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016811 - OHC-016812 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5993, OHDL-001031. Search dates: 1966 - 1988 - 2001 - 1989

Date: 1999 - 2000

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2000-03

Description: Includes calendar as listed above. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s) (calendar).. Physical Description: Photolithographs in 26 page calendar, 235 x 320 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phil Barton in 2001.

Date: 2000 - 2001

From: [Calendars for the year 2001, of approximately A3 size. 2000-2001].

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2001-06

Description: Includes calendar as listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in 26 page calendar, 235 x 320 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phil Barton in 2002.

Date: 1994 - 1999

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-NZMS-1995/1999

Description: Show photographs of weather phenomena and give notes for each day about significant historical meteorological events that happened on that day. Quantity: 5 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Calendars with 12 openings, approx. 230 x 330 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phil Barton in 1998, and 2000.

Date: 2002 - 2003

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand; Craig Potton Publishing

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2003-04

Description: Includes photographs of weather phenomena (clouds, storms, snow, rainbows, etc), and historical notes of unusual weather events on specific dates. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (calendar).. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages each 235 x 320 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phil Barton in 2004.

Date: 2005 - 2006

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand; Craig Potton Publishing

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2006-02

Description: Includes photographs of weather phenomena (clouds, storms, snow, rainbows, etc), and historical notes of unusual weather events on specific dates. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (calendar).. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages each 235 x 320 mm. Provenance: Acquired on legal deposit, 2005.

Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Meteorological Service of New Zealand; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2002-03

Description: Each opening shows an example of a weather phenomenon. The cover shows a cloud in the shape of New Zealand. Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pages of calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs in 12-pages calendar, 237 x 323 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phil Barton in 2003.

Date: 2013

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025268

Description: The manager of a supermarket telephones the Met Office. The supermarket has a surplus of bread and milk which he wants to sell. The Met Office will oblige by predicting 'heavy snow' down to sea level over the South Island. 'After that you are on your own'. The threat of heavy snow and other weather disruptions influenced panic purchases of basic food supplies by many in the South Island in June 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025428

Description: At the MetService office a man looks out the window and comments to his colleague: "Hey, indicators are for a prolonged cold snap... The supermarket carpark's chocka!" Refers to a number of cold weather warnings in winter 2013, in particular, to reports on 19 June that Christchurch supermarket shelves had been cleared of bread and other essential supplies as residents prepared for a forecast polar blast. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 28 February 2023

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0042348

Description: Digital cartoons by Guy Body on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Cartoon depicts a couple watching television and talking about watching a "gut-wrenching thriller" on Metservice rather than Netflick or Neon streaming services. File metadata reads "guy body editorial cartoon february 28 2023 yet more bad weather". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 4 September 2020

From: Yeo, Shaun, 1974-: Digital cartoons

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0041336

Description: Digital cartoons by Shaun Yeo on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Cartoon depicts a man sitting at a computer reading a notification saying, "The MetService is currently experiencing technical difficulties due to ongoing cyber attacks. For an update on your weather we suggest you look out your window." Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0028916

Description: Shows two men at a pub. One of them says "Some geezer demanding the Metservice put an 'H' in 'Wanganui'". His friend replies "Whe can assume the wheather office has more than that to whorry about!" as they both look at a newspaper with the headline 'More storms on the way'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008147

Description: Show two black clouds, each representing NIWA and Met Service, shaking hands relunctantly. In the background is a rainbow. Refers to the disagreement between NIWA and Met Service. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008146

Description: Shows two clouds clashing together and clausing thunder and lighting. One cloud represents the Met Service and the other NIWA. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0006483

Description: Shows the buildings of NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research) and the Met Service getting weather forecasts. Refers to the collaboration between NIWA and Met Service in regards to weather forecasting. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).