Letter carriers

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1 Jul 1994 - 01 Jul 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Geeves, James Edward, 1914-2002

Reference: OHInt-0616/15

Description: James Edward Geeves born at Seacliff, Otago 1914 - family moved to Kuri Bush while still young. Gives details of family background. Recalls childhood memories; location of Kuri Bush; Kuri Bush cheese factory; home deliveries of groceries etc; wildlife; horse and buggy transport; first cyrstal radio set owned by mother; arrival of electricity to Taieri Mouth and Depression, with reference to swaggers. Refers to improved conditions following the Labour Government coming to power in 1935. Recalls move to Green Island ca 1942 and working at Methven's Foundry. Talks about industrial pollution problems of Kaikorai Stream. Backgrounds getting position as postman at Green Island, a position held for 23 years. Briefly outlines postal runs, hospitality from homes at Christmas time and describes in detail items of uniform. Talks about women in the work force. Mentions: Campbell's store; Mrs McKay's shop; fruit shop owned by Mr Gardiner and Raymond Murphy, proprietor of `Tasty Tucker Takeaways'. Gives a personal account of Abbotsford slip and briefly details fate of some of the homes. Mentions offer of sponsored holiday in Tauranga for slip victims. Refers to Sunshine Club lost in slip. Continues to discuss pollution and changes in birdlife in own garden. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010083-010085 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3365.

Date: 7 August 1993 - 07 Aug 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Mann, Elsie Margaret, 1921-2000

Reference: OHInt-0067/037

Description: Elsie Margaret Mann born Reefton. Moved to Greymouth when six weeks old. Outlines family background - paternal grandfather was Rev John Mann who worked for the Charles Wesley Missions in England and moved to Australia. He met and married a widow (Mrs Fry) and came to find gold in the West Coast. Explains that when the Waimungaroa river ran out of gold, father moved to Waihi for more prospecting. Talks about mother's family who ran a boarding house (Gordon's boarding house) at Waitekauri. Describes happy childhood and work experience on leaving school - got contract for delivering post and the Herald to farms at Waitekauri on horseback - eventually becoming postmistress of Waikino Post Office until it was closed down ca 1944. Recalls working for a Government Home Aid Service in Auckland for two years - going to homes helping mothers who had babies. Recalls the closing of the mine in Waihi (1952) and describes the effect it had on the town. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005848B; OHLC-002317; OHV-0277 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 videocassette(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1658.

Date: [ca. 1901-1971]

From: Casey, Mary, fl 2013: Papers relating to baker Joseph Newman and postmaster Joseph Frederick Jobson

Reference: PAColl-10195

Description: Comprises prints relating to baker Joseph Newman and postmaster Joseph Frederick Jobson. - Includes images of Joseph Newman and his bakery business in Wellington at 261 Willis Street, which operated between circa 1920 and 1943. Photographs taken circa 1920s-1930s by unidentified photographers, and include group portraits of the Wellington Master Bakers and participants in the Wellington bakers' picnic 'tug of war' competition. The collection also includes photographs of the bakery's delivery vehicles, including a Bedford delivery van, and an image of Joe Newman sitting on a motorcycle with a side delivery van. - Other photographs relate to Joseph Frederick Jobson's career with the Post and Telegraph Department. Most taken circa 1940s and 1950s, by unknown photographers, including a photograph from the Evening Post, published 28 September 1955, showing Mr. and Mrs. Jobson posing with a pile of telegrams received from former pupils congratulating him on his retirement. Other photographs show group portraits of students and teachers at the Telegraph Training School in Trentham. Some photographs include names on the reverse. Also includes photographs taken in 1971 when Jobson was awarded the British Empire Medal, Civil Division, for services as a member of the Post Offices. - The collection also contains two photographs of Post Office telegram message boys with bicycles, taken in Christchurch circa 1900. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). 2 newspaper cuttings. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler prints

Date: 2017 - 2018

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Macready, Sara, 1950-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2018-01

Description: Scope & Contents - Calendar on the theme of rural postal delivery, reproducing the artist's sketches of birds, letterboxes, a postman on a bicycle (a repeated motif), ripe fruit, sheep. Many of the letterboxes show the names of the owners; these may be actual residents of Golden Bay. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on calendar of 12 openings, 210 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sara Macready, Motupipi, in 2017.

Date: 28 Nov and 5 Dec 1984 - 28 Nov 1984 - 05 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Reid, Maurice Sydney, 1910-1992

Reference: OHInt-0070/13

Description: Maurice Reid recalls his family background and childhood in Invercargill, education, joining the Invercargill Post Office in 1924 as a message boy, layout of the post office, his first day, the chief clerk - Mr Blick, duties, salary, bicycles, dismissals, training in morse, work in the telegraph branch in Invercargill, telecommunications in the district in the 1920s, the telephone versus the telegraph, status of the postmaster, female employees in the Post Office, Maori employees, importance of good handwriting. Describes why he had no desire to be a telegraphist, work as an exchange clerk at Woodlands Post Office in 1929, effect of the Depression in 1930s, work as an exchange clerk at Invercargill Post Office in 1933, discipline, salary, work as a postman in 1936, work as a lineman in 1937, the exams, duties, type of men working as linemen, erecting poles, digging holes, wire tension, effect of weather, relationship between the general and clerical staff, social life, brief Army service during World War II - most line staff not released by Post Office, work as foreman in charge of lines in Gore late 1940s, duties, work as senior foreman at Invercargill early 1950s, details of job. Talks about work as lineman overseer for Clyde District in the 1950s, size of district, transport, duties, effect of snow breaks in Canterbury in 1945, difficult lines, callouts for faults, climbing poles, work as overseer for Invercargill District in early 1960s, describes area, interest in early telephone history, work as a delegate to the Post and Telegraph Association, union and administration friction in 1930s, relationships between the union and the Directors General, work as inspector of lines in Wellington in early 1960s, duties, work on submarine cable at Stewart Island, Foveaux Strait, retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Plimmerton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Maurice Reid's home at Plimmerton, Wellington Accompanying material - Example of handwriting mentioned on Side B of tape one Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000784 - OHC-000786 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.58 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 124. Black and white photographs as follows:. Maurice Reid at Whatamonga Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound. Maurice and Verena Reid, ca 1940. Maurice Reid, 1980 Search dates: 1910 - 1984

Date: 24 Nov 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Sinclair, John Douglas Joseph, 1907-1993

Reference: OHInt-0070/16

Description: Jack Sinclair recalls his family background, childhood, influenza epidemic in Te Aroha. Describes education, joining the Te Aroha Post Office as a message boy in 1923, daily work routine, delivering the telegrams, the uniform, layout of the post office, delivering letters, learning morse, salary, work as a postman at Napier Post Office in 1926, social aspect of being a postman, work as operator at telephone exchange at Napier Post Office in 1926, discipline, female employees, work as exchange clerk at Hastings in 1927, personal service, waiting for toll calls, interest in radio. Recalls Napier earthquake in 1931, experiencing the earthquake, getting communications going again, digging for bodies, the impact on the post office building. Outlines duties as mechanician at Hastings Telephone Exchange 1928-1945. Mentions privately owned party lines and private linemen, slow promotion, the Creed teleprinter, trade certificates, interest in ham radio. Recalls marriage to Elsie Barclay delayed by Napier earthquake, duties during World War II at telephone exchange, Strowger automatic telephone exchange, work as chief technician at Nelson in 1945, radio telephones in taxis, playing banjo in the Garth Simpson Orchestra, social life, installing the automatic exchange. Mentions introduction of 111 emergency dialling into Masterton in 1958. Discusses duties as Chief Technician in Dunedin in mid 1960s, retirement, Jack Churchill of Post Office Association, retirement work in radio and television servicing. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Nelson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Jack Sinclair's home at Stoke, Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000774B - OHC-000777A Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 127. Black and white photographs as follows:. Jack Sinclair, undated. Installation staff at Hastings' first automatic telephone exchange, 1932. Installation staff at Nelson automatic exchange, 1951. Nelson Post Office Orchestra, 1953. Doug Skelton, Clay Cusdin (?), Jack Sinclair, undated. Jack and Elsie Sinclair on Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1981. Nelson manual exchange in 1950 Search dates: 1907 - 1984

Date: 05 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Lavender, William Fretwell Alma, 1909-1991

Reference: OHInt-0070/18

Description: Bill Lavender recalls family background, childhood in Oamaru, scarlet fever epidemic in ca 1919, work as a message boy at Oamaru Post Office in 1923, hours, amount of telegrams, uniform, lighting, transport, salary, telegrams and secrecy, status of Second Division as opposed to the first in the Post Office, morse training, promotion to postman in 1925, daily routines, postman's uniform, mail priorities, Post Office socials, busy periods, changing to telephone exchange operator Oamaru 1927-1942, reasons for change, salary, hours of work, training, equipment - Western Electric Rotary, toll calls, party lines, procedures, public reluctance to use telephones, compares manual and automatic exchanges, night shifts, discipline and paid holidays, improvements made by Post Office Association. Describes call up in World War II, reasons for selecting Air Force, in Wellington as telephone operator, posting to Guadalcanal, accommodation, climate, type of work, becoming instructor at Herd Street Post Office Training School in 1944 teaching telephone operator recruits, return to Oamaru as a supervisor after the war, recalls changes that had taken place, satellite exchanges, duties, details of shifts, Post Office as a career, anecdotes of incidents while a postman, telephone exchange loyalty, women in exchange work, social life, retirement, marriage. Venue - Oamaru Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Bill Lavender's home at 246 Thames Street, Oamaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001246 - OHC-001248 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.14 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 158. Search dates: 1909 - 1985

Date: 18 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Mahony, Francis Patrick, 1909-1999

Reference: OHInt-0070/09

Description: Frank Mahony recalls his family background, family mail delivery and carrying business - J Mahony & Sons Ltd, childhood in Napier, education, influenza epidemic 1918, early memories of the Napier Post Office, work as rural mail contractor, sorting and delivery procedures, the changes from horse to truck at J Mahony & Sons Ltd, competition, goods carried, early Post Office work, the Arapawanui mail and wool run in 1930, the routine, the hazards, reference to Archie Curtis, Stan Evans, Ella McKinnon (nee Dobson), Jack McKinnon, Petane, Tongoio, types of trucks, the depression 1930s, work on transformers, the Napier earthquake in 1931. Talks about the rural delivery service, changes in the Post Office, attitude of the Post Office towards himself, hospitality on the mail runs, Mrs Manning, mailrun passengers, the Tongoio Post Office, work during World War II, social life, Ridgemount Station, flood in 1938, other services for clients. Accompanying material - Handwritten notes (4 pages) about the background of the Mahony family; copy of 'Floods, slips don't stop the mailman' from the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, 27 October 1984; copies of photographs of Frank Mahony and trucks, on Ridgemont (?) Beach 1936; sheet of blank memo paper with J Mahony & Sons Ltd letterhead. Venue - Napier Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Frank Mahony's home at Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000761 - OHC-000763 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.58 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 119. Search dates: 1909 - 1984

Date: 22 Nov 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Kirkwood, Ronald Ross, 1921-1987

Reference: OHInt-0070/25

Description: Ross Kirkwood describes family background, early childhood near Westport, education, early work 'snigging' for mine (Stockton), Charming Creek Sawmill working for Bill Mumm, rope boy at mine, work as local recruit Accounts Section Wellington in 1939, salary, social life, work on toll tickets, unemployment levy, the ticket system, Wally Thom, Stan Copeland, working hours, work as postman at Granity Post Office in 1940, clashes with postmaster Jim Pringle, routines, delivery times, reasons for resignation from post office, war service in Egypt and Italy during World War II. Discusses work as exchange operator at Westport Post Office in 1946, use of Ericsson equipment, party lines, views on manual system, hours of work, training, promotion to supervisor 1948-1952, salary, shift arrangements, problems with electric storms, work as clerk for Clerical Branch at Westport in 1952, Jack Coutts chief postmaster, return to exchange work, work as customs officer at Westport, working on the census, Westland earthquake in 1962, promotion to manager at Westport in 1964, salary, duties, responsibilities, Westport as a training ground for postmasters, work as secretary of Post Office Association 1965-1980, work on Welfare Committee. Recalls television action committee, Inangahua earthquake in 1968, damage and deaths, his tasks during the earthquake, repairs, looting, view of devastation from air, colleagues: Bill Wilson, Ernie Wilson, Lou McLaughlin, Brownie Mason, relationships with postmasters, view of post office as career, biggest achievements, retirement. Venue - Westport Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - RD 2 Utopia, Westport Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001252 - OHC-001254 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 191. Search dates: 1921 - 1985

Date: 2001 - 2002

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Ekers, Paul, 1961-

Reference: B-197-015

Description: Shows two dogs conversing at a gate, as a postie rides past on his bike, his satchel showing the words 'NZ Post' and 'Jim's bank'. New Zealand Post launched Kiwibank, the brand name of Jim Anderton's 'people's bank' initiative, in 2002 Other Titles - NZ Post could run Jim's bank Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy of original cartoon. Physical Description: Photocopy, encapsulated in plastic, 215 x 295 mm

Date: 1960

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-200

Description: Shows three frames containing illustrations of unrelated topics. The first frame is titled 'Bongo, bongo, bongo, what an awful mix-up in the Congo' and refers to the Congo Crisis. The second frame shows kiwis dressed in suits and refers to the cost of running parliament. The final frame is titled 'Territorials post a ewe!!' and shows Walter Nash packaged up like a parcel, sitting on the front of a postman's bike Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 29 May 1993

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Kilgour, Lewis James, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0104-58

Description: Lewis James (Jim) Kilgour born Whakatane 1934. Talks about his collection of stamps and historical records of the Pigeon Postal service, set up in 1897 to link Great Barrier Island to mainland New Zealand. Notes it was the first postal service in the world which used carrier pigeons to deliver mail, using stamps. Explains how and why he started this collection and gives history of the service. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012431 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4230.

Date: 1960 - 1962

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-088

Description: Two postmen delivering heavy sacks of Christmas mail. One gestures indignantly towards Santa Claus in the sky Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 7 Mar 1983

By: Munro, Edith, active 1925-1983

Reference: MS-Papers-3729

Description: Letter describes experiences as postwoman during World War II at Devonport Post Office. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Three photographs of Edith in her Post Office uniform, and with the truck that she drove Edith Munro was employed as a postwoman by the New Zealand Post Office from Feb 1942 to Jun 1946. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and photographs Provenance: Letter originally sent to Radio Pacific following a talk-back show, addressed `To whom it may concern'.

From: Darroch, Bob, 1940- :Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-296-122

Description: Shows a man storming down a path from his letter box with a bunch of bills in his outstretched hand. He his heading towards a very worried looking woman (probably his wife) who is standing at the corner of the house. There are a number of onlookers in the scene such as a neighbour and her child, the postie and a cat. Refers to the enquiry into the BNZ deals. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A4 size

Date: 1980

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[33 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in 1980.]

Reference: A-130-068

Description: Cartoon shows a postman wearing a stocking over his head. On top of that is his postman's cap. Other Titles - August Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 206 x 267 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: Clark, Russell Stuart, 1905-1966 :Cartoons on bureaucracy [1950s?]

By: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966; Wilson, George Hamish Ormond, 1907-1988

Reference: A-261-047

Description: Cartoon shows a businessman pointing an accusing finger at a postman, and calling him a bureaucrat. Possibly an original for a Listener cartoon Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 180 x 235 mm

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923-:Eight cartoons mostly published by the Dominion [late 1980s?].

Reference: A-290-065

Description: Cartoon shows the back of a Junk Mail Ltd delivery van as it careers at speed along a street of laughing nudists "pottering about" in their gardens with rakes, clippers, and brooms. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, image 205 x 273 mm, on sheet 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 1967-1968, [197-?]

By: Teague, Warwick Roger, 1940-1977

Reference: PA-Group-00648

Description: Photographs taken by Warwick Teague in the late 1960s and circa 1970s. Comprises: Photographs of the rescue of 'Wahine' passengers, taken 10 April 1968 by Warwick Teague. Transparencies of orchestral performances and rehearsals, taken circa 1970s by Warwick Teague. Photographs of Robert Oliver on his postal round in Wellington, taken for a Department of Education School Journal (Part 1, No 1, 1968) by Warwick Teague. Also a portrait of Teague taken in 1967 by an unidentified photographer, probably a self portrait. Photographs relating to Chamber Music New Zealand, featuring Andrea and Robert Oliver performing at a soiree at Wellington Teachers' College, and posing for publicity photographs for the Music Federation tour in 1970s. Also includes photographs of the Oliver family, taken by Warwick Teague, 1965 to circa 1977. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original transparency/ies strips with 12 images. 25 b&w original negative(s) strips with 68 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, dye coupler transparency strips