Barrister and Queen's Counsel, and distinguished soldier. With Bamford, Brown & Leary, barristers and solicitors of Auckland, in 1938. With Leary & Giesen, barristers and solicitors of Auckland, in 1940. Name transcribed from print at PAColl-0785-1-059. Queen's counsel in 1952. For fuller details see `The Makers of Auckland', 1971
Leary, Leonard Poulter, 1891-1990
Personalities
Date: [ca 1890-1950]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-059
Description: Photographs of men and women, including politicians and their wives, singers and clergy, circa 1880 to 1950, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
New Zealand. Army. NZEF. Samoa. (NZ) Expeditionary Force :Saturday and Monday 28 & 30 N...
Date: 1914
From: [Ephemera relating to World War I. 1914. Folder 1]
By: London Missionary Society
Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1914-06
Description: Programme for a variety concert probably held in Apia, featuring performers of the Samoa Expeditionary Force, including Pvt L P Leary, Gunner G M Silver, Pvt G P Hanna, Gunner C Freyberg, Pvt Cliff Baker, and others (Chapman, Robert Vial, Neill, Wickson, Bark, Wakelin, Watson, Pierard, Orman, Kirby, Smith, Turnbull, Dodgson, Walker, Jesson, Saxon, Pearce, Griffin, Thompson, John Fuller, A E Sodder, Cole). Part 1 was a miscellany of song, recitation and dance, and Part 2 was a three-act farce titled: "The snaring of Samoa", or "Don't kill the lizard". The cast is listed as is a synopsis of scenery (the setting is Apia, Samoa) The back cover shows a hand-drawn caricature of a German, possibly Kaiser Bill. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on green paper, folded to 211 x 136 mm. Provenance: Purchased from J R Mowbray, Wellington, auction, 12 March 2013, lot 3450. previously from the Startup collection.
Correspondence - Hornblow-Morgan
Date: 1938
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-197
Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Selection of cuttings mainly from The Independent
Date: 1986-1993
From: Fathers, Michael Allen, 1941- : Papers
Reference: MSZ-1587
Description: Scrapbook mainly contains newspaper cuttings of articles written for `The Independent' relating to major political events in countries of Asia and the Western Pacific. Includes editorials, obituaries of notable New Zealanders (Leonard Leary, Lord Porritt) and others, photographs, book reviews, an outline for a book on Benazir Bhutto, and pieces relating to Fathers' years on the Foreign Desk of `The Independent'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs
Correspondence - Field Ambulance-Maori Battalion
Date: [1943]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-225
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Hamilton-Kaukapakapa
Date: 1938-1940
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-205
Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Kemp-National Party
Date: 1939-1940
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-206
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Duigan-Murray
Date: 1939
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-200
Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).