Fairs - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1977

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

By: Wellington (N.Z.). Public Relations Office

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-Thorndon-1977-01

Description: Flier shows a map of the area on the recto, with the following streets marked: Tinakori Road, Bowen Street, motorway, Hill Street, Molesworth Street. The parade went along Hill Street and Molesworth Street. The historic walk covered Glenbervie Terrace, Ascot Street and a portion of Tinakori Road. The verso gives the programme, and a list of stalls and activities. Participants included the Fire Brigade, Thorndon School, Marsden School, Lynley Grover, Wadestown Red Cross, Guildford Terrace School, Impulse Theatre, Cook Islanders Association, Wellington Embroiderers' Guild, Red Mole Theatre, Lorna Rowland for the Herb Society, etc. The programme and map were sponsored by the Wellington Public Relations Office. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopies on both sides of sheet, 335 x 207 mm. Provenance: Acquired in May 1977.

Date: 1941 - 1946

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-B-CABOT-Scrapbooks-78

Description: Includes clippings about carnivals and fairs, 1941-1942, 1944, 1946. Includes Victory Carnival (1941, Wellington), Fighting Services Queen (Molly Mahoney), Public Services Carnival Week, Hollywood's Glory Box, City Mission Fair 1941, RSA Appeal 1941, Patriotic Fund, Nelson Happiness Club, RSA Christmas Carnival Christmas 1944 Newtown Park, Johnsonville Carnival, Lower Hutt Carnival, Kilbirnie and Miramar RSA Grand Victory Carnival 1945, Ngaio Queen Carnival at Nairnville Park, Clyde Quay Carnival. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck into pages of scrapbook

Date: 1980 - 1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5734

Description: Two essays on Gay topics. The 13th Gay and Lesbian Fair, and a record of the life of a gay couple and the house and garden they lived in, and made, over 19 years. Ngaio School's 90th Reunion and some of the people attending. Views of Wellington sites -- the new State Highway 1 motorway interchange at Newlands, the Burma Motor Lodge, Johnsonville Railway line, Khandallah substation site and Thorndon New World Supermarket under construction. Transparencies include Youth for Christ summer programme, El Rancho camp, Waikanai in January 1980, Children at Timaru Highschool (1980), a concert in Civic Square, Wellington, by the National Youth Choir of Britain (1992), and various Wellington sites mainly in the Ngaio area Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22294 - 22323, slides at PA12-1519 to PA12-1521 Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 65 colour original photographic print(s). 12 b&w original negative(s). 16 b&w original negative(s). 54 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1993-1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5623

Description: Views of VJ day ceremonies, 1995, opening of Te Papa (14 February 1998), moving state house from Ngaio site, Scout fair in Ngaio (1993) Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22115 to 22139 Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 12 images. 49 colour original photographic print(s). 22 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 79 images.

Date: 1969

From: New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation :Photographs of trade missions, trade fairs, and fashion shows

Reference: PAColl-8704-1

Description: Sir John Marshall and others speaking at a Wellington Chamber of Commerce conference. Members of the conference at a social event. Sir John Marshall and others at a conference associated with the New Zealand Manufacrurers Federation trade mission, 1969. An exhibition of New Zealand manufactured products for export, 1969. Sir Jack Marshall visiting the export exhibition. The Governor General, Sir Arthur Porritt opening a trade fair, 1969. The trade fair at the Winter Show Buildings, 1969. An exhibition of graphic and inustrial design by (probably) Polytech students. A new "Supershell" petrol pump. Moving a large unidentified machine. Asian customs officers visiting Southwoods factory and museum and the export exhibition, 1969. A Polytech students fashion show sponsored by the Clothing Institute, November 1969. A commercial fashion show. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970-1979

From: Young Women's Christian Association of Wellington & Hutt Valley :Photographs

By: Dominion (Newspaper); Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-7688-05

Description: Photographs of stalls at an international food fair, people inside and outside the YWCA hostel in Willis Street, pre-school music and gymnastics classes, and other activities associated with the YWCA in Wellington, taken during the 1970s. Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Detailed list available.

Date: 2012

Reference: Eph-D-FESTIVAL-Wairarapa-2012-01

Description: Poster advertising an arts festival in Greytown, Wairarapa, shows a row of street frontages along the top, and text listing all the features of the festival, including: The Yoots, the Beat Girls, Urban Tramper Marionettes in "The kitchen at the end of the world" "The last piece" art exhibition A gigantic tape-art mural A string quartet Pop-up kitchens and blindfolded dining Exotic bellydancing performance An afternoon with Mr frank Sinatra The Fabulous Fair & Glistening Waters storytelling Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 595 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jocelyn Chalmers, Wellington, in 2012.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-1970s

Description: Includes: 1972: Sprott House Fair '72. Karori Community Centre, 11 March [1972]. (Flyer) 1974: New Zealand Industries fair 1974. Canterbury Court & Alston Pavilion, Christchurch, 24 August - 7 September [1974]. (Site plan and space lease rates) 1975: Pilot Book Centre. Jumble sale. 76 Dixon St, Saturday August 30, 11 am [1975] 1975?: Onslow College. Monster Bonzlow Auction, Saturday October 18th. [Flyer appealing for items to auction] 1977: Kelburn School fair. 5 March 1977. (Green flyer 1977: Aro Valley family fair. Community Centre & Matauranga School, May 7 [1977] (Green flyer, 2 copies) 1978: Chinese auction. Kelburn Normal School, Sat 29 April [1978] (Pink flyer) 1978: Mt Vic Community fair. Moncrieff St, Sat Nov 4th [1978] (2 green flyers, one with map of fair) 1978: Interested in craftwork? Sale of handcrafts. Saturday 16th Dec, 47 Boulcott St, City [1978] 1979: 1979 World trade Fair, 21 August - 2 September, Wellington Show Building. New Zealand Court official guide. 1979: Spring charity sale 10 am - 4 pm, Saturday 1 September at Aro Valley Community Centre, 48 Aro St. (Two yellow flyers) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers, pamphlet and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1999

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-1980/1999

Description: Includes flyers for: 1980: Brooklyn Community Centre, 20 September, in aid of St Matthews Church Brooklyn 1981: Mary Potter Hospice Fair. Calvary Hospital, 31 October [1981] 1981: Wellington High School Parents' Association mini mart fair. 19 September [1981] 1982: Announcing the Sixth great Mt Victoria Fair. Saturday November 6 1982. Moncrieff Street, Clyde Quay School grounds 1983: Asian Food Fair. Wesley Church Hall Taranaki Street, 12 November [1983] 1983: Wellington Hospital Sports Centre. Wellington Hospital grounds, 26 February [1983] 1983: Fair, Saturday 1 October, Nairnville Park, Khandallah [1983] 1983: Brooklyn Community Centre, 24 September, for St Matthews Church Brooklyn 1984: All Saints Fair, Moxham Ave, Saturday October 6 [1984] 1984: Asian Food Fair. Aro St Community Centre, Saturday May 26 [1984] 1984: Youth for Christ presents "Capital Carnival". Saturday 1st December, Wellington Show & Sports Centre, John Street Newtown (2 copies) 1985: Giant garage + jumble sale. Tararua T[ramping] C[lub], Moncrieff st, Mt Victoria, Saturday 8 June [1985] 1987: Karori Karnival. Lions Club of karori (Inc), 28 February, Ben Burn Park [1987] 1991: Asian Food Fair. Saturday 3 August 1991 ..., Wesley Church Hall, 75 Taranaki St 1992: Ngaio Plunket Toy Library. Toy & craft fair, Wednesday 4 November 1992, Ngaio Town Hall 1993: Wadestown Highland Park and Wilton Horticulture Society. Garden fair & flower show. St Lukes Church Hall Pitt Street Wadeston, Saturday 13 February 1993 1993: Christmas Bazaar. St Teresa's Hall Karori Road, Thurs 11th Nov [1993] 1993: Ngaio Plunket Toy Library. Toy & Craft fair. Ngaio Town Hall, 3 November [1993] 1999: Aro Valley Community Fair. Aro Park, Saturday 27 February 1999 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers, pamphlet and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1977 - 2009

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-Thorndon-1970/2009

Description: Flyers announcing Thonrdon Fair, held annually in Tinakori Road. Includes flyers for the years: 1977, 1979, 1982, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2009 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets, around 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1899

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-1899-02

Description: Programme for a variety fair, which featured the following performers: Miss Beere's dance pupils, Ruby Peterson & Birdie Foley, Mr Chapman's limelight views the the principal sights in the world; Estudiantina Band conducted by Mr J G Turner; Mr J G Turner on Kentucky bells; Irish jig by Little Georgie Paterson; comic songs by Mr J Hay-Dawson; Mr C Forrest the wellington Dante; Mr Jepson dancing the Sailor's Hornpipe; Gertie L Bell directing the Maypole; E J King & Sons' Orchestra, Minifie's Orchestra; Cimino's Orchestra.. The sideshows are also listed: Franco-German shooting gallery, Punch & Judy, Gipsy tent, Target shooting, Bowling saloon, Football kicking, Bran tub, Aunt Sally, Fish ponds, etc, etc. The text is surrounded by advertising panels for the following: Wertheim sewing machines from H Oscar Hewett & Co., Cenci's Millinery Depot, Nelson "AK" ale, Leighton's shoe repairs, T Brown & Co (men's clothing store in Willis Street), Empire Co. teas, T Shields tailor, Dresden Piano Company, W G Meldrum picture framer; W Campbell grocer, Rash & Gooder watchmakers and jewellers, Quaker Oats, Wellington Fresh Food & Ice Company Ltd, J F Sutherland pharmaceutical chemist; Vitadatio; Winton & McLaughlan pottery depot; "Zealandia" shirts, Mrs H Mason tea merchant. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on pamphlet, folded to 286 x 224 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-1940/1969

Description: Includes: 1940: Tramways Band Christmas and New Year Fair, Evans Bay Foreshore, Saturday Dec 21 1940 to Saturday Jan 4 1941. Flyer 1960: Hutt Valley Industries Fair. Lower Hutt Civic Centre, 19th-27th August 1960. Prospectus and Exhibitors loading schedule Hutt Valley Industries Fair, 19th-27th August 1960. Eggs and milk. Issued with the compliments of (NZ) Egg Marketing Authority Wellington and the Hutt Valley Milk Treatment Station Taita. Printed by Universal Printers Ltd, 22-26 Blair St., Wellington 1961: New Zealand International Trade Fair 1961, 22 Aug to Sept 9th [1961]. Pamphlet and map (2 items). 1962: Wairarapa Industries fair. 29 September - 6 October 1962. Circular letters and conditions (Typescript sheets) 1963: Wellington Show Association. New Zealand Trade Fair 1963. Show Building, John Street, 2-18 May 1963. Prospectus. 1964: Waikato Trade Fair Committee. 1964, Hamilton's centenary year - 100 years of progress at the Waikato Trade Fair. 1968: New Zealand Industries Fair. Canterbury Court, Christchurch, 15-31 August 1968. (Circular letter on mimeographed flyer) Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers, pamphlet and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 29 Nov 2000

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Wilkins, Ina Frances, 1919-

Reference: OHInt-0593/54

Description: Ina Wilkins was born in Masterton in 1919. Recalls her mother's involvement in Knox Presbyterian Church as Sunday School teacher and with parish fairs. Explains that she received the Robert Raikes Diploma for Sunday School attendance and recalls picnics, sack races, sandwiches, creaming soda, lolly bags. Describes Khandahar, now a retirement village, once known as Burling. Discusses changes in decorating stalls at fairs, decorating tables, making toffee apples using Aunt Daisy's recipe, hot dogs, waffles and machines provided by Norm Sowry. Explains that she didn't go out at night or go to pubs, still belongs to a craft group, mentioning Mrs. Owen Johns, and goes to Mrs. Ronnie Alderley's sit dancing, also knitting for Kosovo. Recalls donations given at Association of Presbyterian Women (APW) meetings for Turakina Maori Girls' School and describes a day trip there and the Maori designs in the church. Recalls teaching Methodist Sunday School at Claudelands, Hamilton, and attending St Andrew's in Tawai Street and St. David's after moving to Trentham. Recalls Reverend De Bres, the Dutch minister, wearing a black hat, riding a bicycle when home visiting. Relates the size of Reverend McCaw's parish and the number of services taken in a day. Discusses the naming of the Wesley Centre. Recalls bagpipes played by Murray Wilkins during services and at weddings, funerals. Talks of attendance at other centres when St. David's closed, mentioning David Hercock, the author of local histories. Relates Ian Wilkins attitude to the beauty of the outdoors. Talks of regular visits by a Jehovah Witness. Describes her atheist neighbour's funeral, memorial plaques and discusses the range of emotions at funeral services. Recalls homesickness, morning sickness, having a baby to care for, grandchildren. Talks of Elderslea Home. Relates her husband's death of cancer, receiving communion from Reverend Fortune and Viti Olds, the support of Ann Thomas, Bob Herst and the Mary Potter volunteers. Explains the effect on their life of her husband's reserved occupation as a butcher, having happily married children. Describes the gift of a glass vase engraved with fuschias. Relates her attitude to prayer, liking her garden, moving to a flat and discusses the effect of widowhood on her life. Discusses wages, the dole, clothes and soling shoes during the Depression, keeping animals, making butter. Describes her engagement ring and discusses weddings, commitment, engagements, marriage. Mentions the White Ribboners' teetotal creed. Recalls walking and transportation used by her family, mentioning trains, taxi, horse and cab, the purchase of a bicycle and car. Recalls the orchard, and names all varieties of fruit, preserving and home cooking. Recalls caring for her brother. Talks of sickness in her family, TB spine, asthma, abortion, fumigation during the flu epidemic resulting in the loss of a baby. Recalls Lena Iorns, nurse and Olive Iorns, teacher and mentions a road in Masterton named after the family. Gives reasons for attending Masterton Technical School, mentioning houses named after Maori canoes, the teachers O. H. Yates, McNaught. Talks of her siblings' work. Discusses attitudes to education, fathers caring for children, mothers who work versus those who stayed home, involvement with Plunket and Kindergarten committees. Talks of changes in communion services, blessings and pews. Explains the importance of speaking slowly. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-009317, OHA-009318 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3017, OHDL-000972. Portrait photograph taken at time of interview

Date: 2006

Reference: Eph-C-ETHNIC-Chinese-2006-01

Description: Poster printed in white on a red background, with the top half written in English and the lower half in Chinese, lists events and attractions: Lion dance, cultural folk dances & martial arts, authentic home-made Chinese food, Chinese calligraphy of visitor's name, etc. There is an illustration of a dragon at top left and right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: [ca 1935]-2002

From: St Aidan's Church (Miramar, Wellington) :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10018-1

Description: Interior and exterior views of St Aidan's Church and associated buildings, ca 1930s-1950s. 35mm contact prints of clery and choir. Group taken outside the church on probably an anniversary as two of the women hold a card stating "1970-1979." Group of colour lazer prints recording people and stalls at St Aiden's Fair November 1988, St Aidan's Garden Party Easter 2001, Craft Day August 2000, and Bishop Tom Brown awarding Dioceson medals 2002. Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 21 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s).

Date: 1992-1996

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1142

Description: Includes - Sunday school groups. A ceremony on Wellington Harbour that involved throwing a wreath into the water. Children in liturical robes (servers?) with the vicar. adults and children performing a nativity plat. Adults and children in a performance involving David and Goliath. Adults and children at a parish party, June 1993. Children performing in church. People at a parish fair. Children with bags full of plastic etc at a recycling centre. Two unidentified wedding groups. People at unidentified meetings and groups. An outdoor holy communion service, August 1993. Protestors standing on the coast holding banners calling for a nuclear-free and independent Pacific, december 1992. Parish picnic. Procession along a street with men carrying a large wooden cross, Good Friday 1995. Adults and children on the banks of an unidentified river. Children and adults singing. A parish picnic, February 1996. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950-1982

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1141

Description: Includes - Copy of the Service of Dedication for the new St George's church building, and a view of the interior, 1957. The new parish hall. New stained glass windows patterned with flowers, 1981. Sunday school children in nativity plays, 1980 and 1981. The Ladies Guild christmas party, the George and Dragon Lunch Bar, and the Community Club christmas party, all 1981. Women's Fellowship fashion parade, 1981. Ladies Guild jumble sales, 1980 and 1981. Views of parish fairs underway, 1981. Christmas carol service 1981. Group of teenagers (Neo-Adults) 1979. Musical and dance performances by the Goode and Godlie Companye, 1982. Parish fair in vicarage grounds, 1957. Views of the church and parish hall in the early 1980s. Three loose photographs of unidentified children. Parish news sheet, 10 December 1950. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2014

Reference: Eph-D-MARRIAGE-2014-01

Description: Poster for a fair in Civic Square, shows two smiling young men, each holding up one hand so as to combine into a heart shape. The fair was to include family fun and games, stalls, entertainment. In the evening there was to be a pool party at Thorndon summer pool in Murphy street, and then the next day, 19 January, a "Wild Jungle" after-party. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in March 2014

Date: 1963-1964

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2898

Description: Transparencies showing the Wellington Winter Show, taken by Cyril Beavis in 1963 and 1964. Includes portraits of people, promotional photographs of cars and machinery, and photographs of children's entertainment including a magic show and ride. Transparencies of the Wellington Winter Show 1963-1964 are continued at PA12-2898 to 2899, PA12-2913 to 2914, and PA12-2927 to 2929. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Fair FPS? on Ferrania. Poor" and "Wellintgon Show FP3 Reverlac". Note transcribed from original housing can be found in pocket of PA12-2897. Quantity: 24 b&w original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in April 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-04.

Date: 1980 - 1999

Reference: Eph-C-FAIR-1980/1999

Description: Includes the following posters: 1980: St Michael's Church Hall, Kelburn. See you at the Fair, Saturday 27th September; proceeds to Wellington Community Montessori Pre-School Inc [1980] 1982: Newtown Market Day. Wednesday 22nd September [1982] 1983: New Zealand Anglican Chinese Mission Church & Chinese Centre. Anglican gigantic Chinese Bazaar, the biggest bazaar in Wellington. 80th anniversary of the founding of the NZ Chinese Mission. Two Saturdays 3 & 10 September. To be opened by Mr Lindsay Yeo of 2ZB [1983] 1988: 2ZB Great Community Fair. All-day entertainment ... Sunday 16 October 1988, Wellington Show and Sport Centre The Thorndon Fair. Sunday 27th Nov from 11am. Traditional street entertainment, food. For a stall, phone 736-505 [1988] 1991: 1991 Thorndon Fair. Sunday 24 November 11am to 3pm. Tinakori Road if fine; Railway Station if wet. 1992: UNICEF International fair; food, crafts and fun from around the world. Saturday 14 November 1992, Wellington Show and Sports Centre, John Street, Newtown. 1994: UNICEF International fair; see the world in one day. Saturday 5 Nov 1994. Wellington Show Building (2 copies) Quantity: 8 Poster(s). Physical Description: Offset and screen prints, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.