New Zealand - Rehabilitation Department

Date: 1946

From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records

Reference: 80-307-57/15

Description: Includes two letters re Australian transfers The scheme originated owing to concern over the housing shortage in the Auckland area. The scheme planned to build houses in the new suburb of Tamaki for the rehabilitation of returned servicemen Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1942]-1946

By: Orsman, Harold William, 1928-2002

Reference: MS-Papers-5828

Description: Six lectures on letter writing in the Public Service delivered in May 1946 to Head Office Staff, Rehabilitation Dept, by A H O'Keefe and Professor Ian Gordon; and pamphlet, `The Soviet dictatorship, facing facts about Russia' by Max Eastman (ca 1942-1943) Source of title - Supplied (transcribed in part) Accompanying material - Note supplied by donor re lectures Relationship complexity - Copy of pamphlet in Printed Collections at Pam 1944 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Duplicated Provenance: Material was received with papers relating to the magazine `Comment', but has been described separately Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr H W Orsman, Wellington, Feb 1997 Transfers: To Book Collections - Two pamphlets, `The Soviet dictatorship; facing facts about Russia' by Max Eastman (c1941-1943) and `The "Body-snatcher" and the "Seagull"' by D Mundy (1945) - To Photographic Archive - Photograph of `E Phillips Turner, 2nd director of Forestry caught in typical gentleman-botanist pose - asleep under an exotic tree - ?oak' c1920s.

Date: 1939-1954

From: Stagg, Geoffrey Troughear, 1913-1971 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11874-6

Description: Correspondence with the Rehabilitation Department, State Advances Corporation, New Zealand Railways and Post and Telegraph Department relating to his house and property at Strathmore, Wellington. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927-1954

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-20

Description: Includes wool appraisals, job applicants, annual financial assessments, leases, stock sales etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1965

From: New Zealand Parliamentary Library: Research papers

Reference: MSY-8186

Description: Writer unidentified. Includes servicemen from World War II, occupational troops inapan, and those who served in the forces in Korea and Malaya. Archives reference WA-II 21/79a Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume, typescript

Date: [1942-1946]

From: Duthie, Alastair Simpson, 1912-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8117-2

Description: Letter from Ron B [?] Alley, Gisborne, relating to plans for `Blondie' (yacht); memorandum re uniform from NZ Military Froces; certificate of service, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (1933-1942); military identity card (1942); Rehabilitation Department notice (1945); information on Vickers machine gun and use; information pamphlet re war services gratuity Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1935-1946]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-105

Description: Includes Rehabilitation Dept circulars (1945); blank nomination form for warrant for guiders; `Artificial respiration' (pamphlet, 1940) and accompanying circular letter; stock lists; syllabus alterations; report, Dominion Commissioners' Conferences (1945, 1947); 11th and 21st annual reports (1935, 1945); deputy Chief Commissioner's report (1945); Chief Commissioner's report (1940-1941) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1948-1951

From: Vercoe, Antony Arthur, 1919- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8932-1

Description: NZ Government Rehabilitation Department bond re travel to London to attend Royal College Music; photographs and other material from the Trinity College of music; the winning of the Ernest Palmer Opera Scholarship (1948); labelled photographs of performances in the The Magic flute, Cosi fan tutte, The clandestine marriage, Savitri (by Holst), Martha and The Two bouquets; also photgraphs of the RCM opera and drama group (1950). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1941-1993]

From: Nolan, Iris Evelyn, 1916-2011 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7301-09

Description: Letters, cards, invitation and Charlotte Dickens' record of garments spun and knitted from home-grown wool, Riverside Farm, Wairarapa (1941). Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letters from Glenys, Surrey ACT, and Muriel; and cards from people who gave the Nolans wedding presents. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1945-1946

From: Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners : Records

Reference: 78-131-13/14

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces).