Single men

Date: 2011

By: Twins Digital Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-2011-01

Description: Poster pastiche of the poster for the American movie "I am Legend" starring Will Smith. This version shows a young Wellington man, holding an automatic rifle over his right shoulder and a backpack in his left hand. He walks beside an Alsatian dog through the canyon of a city street, lit from behind by a fire of destruction. The poster was designed to find the young man a girlfriend, and was a component part of one of three similar campaigns for different individuals (involving billboards, billstickers, hoardings and radio coverage). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 435 x 227 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers, December 2011.

Date: 3 Sep 1996 - 03 Sep 1996

From: A taste of gold oral history project

By: Hanning, Stanley Jeoffrey, 1911-

Reference: OHInt-0446-04

Description: Stan Hanning was born in Owaka in 1911. Recalls arriving in Alexandra on foot in 1929 and going to work for Taylors in Conroy's Gully. Describes his preference for rabbiting over orchard work. Mentions that his father died when he was one and his mother brought up five children on a widow's pension. Describes living for a number of years in a stone hut built by Chinese near Conroy's Dam. Mentions Chinese man Lye Bow. Comments on the warmth of living in a stone hut. Talks about Scott McFarlane also living in a hut and mining during the Depression. Recalls either walking or riding a horse into Alexandra. Discusses local residents at the time including Alec and Evie Taylor, Andrew Davidson, Mon McGinnis, the Mathesons, Struan Robertson and Les Alexander. Mentions that he moved out of the hut in 1934 when he married. Describes buying and living in Lord Locke's cottage where he planted four hundred fruit trees. Describes the trapping of rabbits in detail. Comments that when the rabbits were killed off the noxious weeds, including briar and matagouri, returned. Discusses working for the Rabbit Board as a result of a `killer policy' adopted. Describes how he earnt a great deal more money as a freelance rabbiter sending three or four hundred rabbits off in a bag to Wright Stephenson's in Dunedin. Describes how the rabbits were gassed down their holes, shot or killed with strychnine carrots. Discusses climate change, the pulling out of fruit trees and the glut in the market which has meant that fruit prices have dropped. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Gough Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008555 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2662.

Date: 1918

From: [Christmas cards sent during the First World War, from soldiers and other service personnel. 1917-1918]

By: New Zealand. Army. NZEF. New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade; Prain, George Gordon, 1892-1959

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1918-05

Description: Greeting card from the New Zealand Rifle Brigade shows three cartoon illustrations by Prain, one unsigned on the front cover, and two signed on the inside spread. The back cover reproduces the sheet music of the refrain to the official march of the New Zealand Division: "Aotea Roa", the land of the long white cloud, [words by H S Ribbands], published by West & Co., Charing X [Cross] Road, London. Band arrangement by J Ord Hume - full military. The cartoon on the front cover shows a soldier in a hard hat eating a pot of stew: "A Merry Christmas stew". The inside spread shows two cartoons, titled "Our festive season I and II". On the left, the Gay Bachelor tells how he spent Christmas writing field service postcards. On the right the sober married man on a desolated battlefield thinks of writing to his wife "How could my Christmas be miserable, darling, while I had you to think about?". Other Titles - Christmas stew; To you Other Titles - Stay resolute Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, folded to 169 x 133 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at A-441-085/086, MS-Group-1943, and Photographic Archive.