Entered work in Post and Telegraph Dept in Dunedin, 1896. With the General Post Office, Wellington in 1908. Became Staff Superintendent, 1914; 2nd Assistant Secretary, 1923; Secretary and later Director-General of P & T Dept, 1926-1939. Controller of Censorship (1939-); WWNZ 4th ed. Photograph published in NZ Free Lance, 6 Oct 1926, 13 Mar 1929
McNamara, George, 1881-1953
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Personalities - Men - Surnames, Mac - Mit
Date: 1924-1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-207
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names of subjects entered in Name Field. Photographs of the homes of the McLaren brothers, Peter, Robert, James and Donald who settled in Wairarapa buying a 15,000 acre farm at Ngakonui; and home of Peter's son, I M McLaren at Parimahau. Group photograph of seven Martin brothers who met to celebrate the birthday of the youngest aged 70 - S T S Martin (83 from Wellington); Hon W Lee Martin (79 from Hamilton); E A Martin (77 of Christchurch); S F Martin (74 of Auckland); E H Martin (73 of Auckland); W Martin (71 of Auckland); Rev F Martin (70). Article and photo published in NZ Free Lance, 18 May 1949. Guests arriving at the wedding reception of Annette Thorne George who married Walter Denzil Barker in Auckland in 1934. Group includes Mrs H E Vaile, Mr Denis Lawford, Dr H B Milsom, Mrs Milsom and Miss Mary Milsom. Also photographs of Flight Officer Massey, 1943; M Maiskey, 1942; D Marks with J H G O'Brien, 1951; T Marsland, W H McCullough & O M Watson at Railways Conference, 1950; Group Captain and Mrs Manson, 1945; C Masters of Auckland (born ca 1856), 1939; Victor Benbow McInnes, 1934; William Manson, head of H.M.V., 1931; Guy Menzies with Albert James, 1931; Mr Maxton at Hunger Marchers demonstration, Hyde Park, London, ca 1930s; President Masaryk and Joseph Wells; Mrs Caroline Milverton (in her 90s) with her son and two daughters; James Melrose (aviator), 1931; Sir William Marshall of London, 1934; Pandit Malaviya (ex-president of Indian Nationalist Congress); J J McMenamin (South African MP), 1930; Flight Lieutenant Major and Squadron Leader Jones Williams. Group photograph of directors of Union Steam Ship Co of NZ - A W Wheeler, C G White, G R Ritchie, D A Aiken, Sir James Mills, C W Rattray. Photograph published in Nz Free Lance, 18 Jan 1933 Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Jones album
Date: ca 1937-1950
From: Jones, Winifred, fl 1950-2004 :Photographs relating to Frederick Jones
By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966
Reference: PA1-o-1230
Description: Album containing photographs relating to the work of Frederick Jones as Postmaster General and Minister of Defence, including photographs of opening ceremonies for post offices around New Zealand, the Jones family, the Achilles arriving at Auckland, and Jones meeting various personalities. Album also contains souvenir items from the opening of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather bound album 24.5 x 31.2 cm
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Correspondence - Jenkins-Missing motor cars
Date: [1941]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-211
Description: Inward and outward correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Includes file on missing motor cars. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Plan of P Jerebine's farm, Tagnowahine (MapColl-832.11gc/[ca.1938]/Acc.46931.
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Departmental Secretaries and Directors-General
Date: Date unknown
From: New Zealand Post Office Union: Photographs and art work relating to people and activities associated with the New Zealand Post Office Union and its publication "The Katipo"
Reference: PAColl-10588-4
Description: Comprises photographs of men who were Secretaries of the Post and Telegraph Department or, after 1933, Directors-General. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Photographs were originally in an envelope labelled " Misc for sortation" A Post and Telegraph Amendment Act in 1933 changed the title of the head of the Post and Telegraph Department from Departmental Secretary to Director General. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographs of various sizes
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Scrapbook (part IV)
Date: [1943-1944]
From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5921-053
Description: Includes notes, clippings, circulars, menu for Pahiatua Camp, financial papers re Somes Island Internees' Canteen, photograph of Y Saraniyama of Thailand, group photograph of nine internees taken on Somes Island, poem in Italian, `Filosofia poetica contemporanea', `The USA marines hymn', pamphlet, `Do you know?' (pamphlet put out by the NZ Howard League for Penal Reform and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Group photograph of internees (copy in folder) and portrait of Y Saraniyama of Thailand (PAColl-5723).
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Portraits
From: New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department :Portraits of Members of Parliament and persons associated with the Post and Telegraph Department
Reference: PAColl-3768-2
Description: Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.
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Members of the New Zealand Public Service Superannuation Board, 1925-1928
Date: [ca 1925-1928]
From: New Zealand Public Service Superannuation Board :Photographs of members of the Board
Reference: PAColl-D-0209
Description: Portraits of Chairman and members of the Public Service Superannuation Board, 1925-1928. Names indexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Title; Recto - beneath image - Names of individual members Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted). Physical Description: 888 x 605 mm card with 12 x 145 x 98 mm photographs mounted