Transportation - Tickets

Date: 1931-1938

From: Hampton, Richard George, 1906-2006: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-9462

Description: Scrapbook, kept from 1931, when Hampton attended the Shanghai Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, to 1938 and his return to NZ, after studying at the University of London, working as an economics tutor and lecturer, travelling to Berlin for the Olympic Games and touring Europe. Includes travel tickets, menus, invitations, receipts, programmes, telegrams, occasional letters, including a card from Rewi Alley, applications for work and other papers. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter

Date: [1930-1931]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-055

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways circa 1930 to 1931 by unidentified photographers. Some subjects have images dotted throughout the album, including the arrival in New Zealand of Lord and Lady Bledisloe in March 1930; the arrival in 1931 of Sir Francis Chichester after his crossing of the Tasman in his bi-plane; various activities at the Hillside Railway Workshops, including a group portrait of staff; and various images relating to Railways ticket offices, advertisements for railway tours and excursions, photographs of tickets, and an advertisement for house removals by train. A series of views show athletic sports including running races, hurdles, cycle racing, and long-jump. There are scenes showing the international sportsman Dr Otto Peltzer winning the 880 yards, handicap race at Wellington, on 8th February 1930. Team sports are shown in two views of a women's hockey team playing on the field below Victoria University College, and a series on rugby football, including views of the 5th test between Britain and New Zealand at Athletic Park in 1930. Railways head office picnic, including races by men, women and children (p 35-36), and a huge crowd at Paekakariki Beach, picnicking and swimming (p 70). Official occasions include scenes of the Empire and Australian Farmers' Tour, a view of the cortege at Sir Joseph Ward's funeral outside Parliament Buildings, the opening of Massey Memorial, and various views of unidentified railway officials in personal and group portraits, including one of the members of the New Zealand Railway Commission. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book. C1'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: 1970s

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to buses, bus companies, and bus transport services in Wellington City and region]

Reference: Eph-A-BUS-Wellington-1970s

Description: Comprises: Wellington City Transport timetable effective October 1970 Wellington City Transport timetable effective May 1971 Wellington City Corporation scenic bus tour pamphlet, circa 1970s (two copies) Time to Talk Trollies, pamphlet produced by Friends of the Earth (FOE), circa 1978. 25 ten-trip concession cards including: - One-section ten trip tickets are for prices 50 cents, 55 cents, 60 cents. - Two-section 10-trip tickets are for 90 cents, 95 cents, $1.00. - Three-section ten-trip tickets are for $1.10, $1.20, $1.25. Duplicates are kept to show a good range of clip marks. All tickets are fully clipped. Tickets dated from the time when K Crompton was an official in the Transport Department - his signature is printed on the tickets. The name Wellington City Corporation was used in the 1970s. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 30 pieces of ephemera.. Physical Description: Letterpress on coloured card tickets each 45 x 109 mm. Processing information: Description record updated to include full contents of folder, May 2023.

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: Eph-A-TRANSPORT-1940/50-01

Description: A child's scrapbook comprising transport tickets which have been pasted into pages. Also includes two envelopes of miscellaneous loose tickets which accompanied the scrapbook, and one New Zealand Express Company envelope. It is unclear whether this envelope accompanied the scrapbook. Scrapbook contains pages of tickets in the following categories: Wellington tram; Christchurch tram; New Plymouth tram; NZR Road Services; Wellington-Eastbourne by ferry and bus; Wellington-Johnsonville by train; Wanganui tram; Wellington bus; Wellington tram; Christchurch tram; Christchurch-Richmond-Burwood-New Brighton-East belt-Buxtons Corner tram; Old Christchurch tram; New Brighton Tram Co.; Napier tram (Hawkes Bay Motor Company); Wellington train; Wellington bus; North Auckland bus; Devonport Steam ferry Company; Soldiers all day ticket. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Exercise book, with tickets stuck to pages, 210 x 165 mm. Processing information: Description enhanced February 2023 to improve clarity of dates and contents.

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-366-380/430

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. Quantity: 51 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

Date: 1937-1946

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11977-10

Description: A scrapbook compiled by Robert Martin, covering his career from his service with the 1st Field Ambulance, New Zealand Medical Corps in 1937, his enlistment in the New Zealand Army in 1940 through to his discharge in 1946. Includes invitations, cuttings, receipts, travel vouchers, tickets, samples of Italian and British and Allied Military Authority banknotes, programmes, bank passbooks, leave notices, and greeting cards. Rear of book includes all of his personal official details, account numbers etc. Also pasted in are 18 'Airgraph' letters from his brother Graham Martin, and 12 'Airgraph' letters from his friends Colin John Arroll and Burnie Neville. All of these were written in 1944. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1919-1974

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11886-3

Description: Various ephemera items. Comprises: Durban urban municipal tramways pass (Alexander Bruce), RAF identity card for C S Cooper dated 1994 (includes a photograph of Cooper), Cooper's RNZAF certificate of discharge dated 1 Dec 1945, US navy certificate relating to 'Operation Deepfreeze' dated 1965, and Queen's Birthday Parade press pass 1974. The Durban urban municipal tramways pass belonged to Alexander Bruce, who was the uncle of Kathleen Cooper, nee Bruce (wife of Charles Cooper). Bruce was an All Black and this ticket relates to the New Zealand Army rugby team's tour of South Africa that Bruce participated in. The dates of the pass are 25 Aug - 29 Aug 1919. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Photographs (PA-Group-00204).

Date: 2008-2010

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-099

Description: Comprises inward and outward letters concerning public transport issues, Wellington bus and rail services, Devonport bicycle lanes. Includes letter about funding for libraries. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript Mss

Date: 1984

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-308

Description: Shows three vignettes. In the first Muldoon is leaving an aircraft acknowledging David Lange for arranging a trip to a third world country where he can campaign on world financial reform. In the second vignette he is going to confirm his flight back to New Zealand. In the final vignette he is angry when he finds out that he has not been booked a return ticket. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 370 x 390 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1865

From: Searell, Harriet Alice, b 1862? : Memoirs

Reference: fMS-Papers-8077

Description: Ticket for George Thomas Hawker, Mary Ann Hawker and Kate and Edith Hawker for a voyage on the `Tudor' leaving London 7 Jun 1865 for Canterbury Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 26 Jun 1874-21 Jul 1874

By: Muir, Robert, active 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-8276

Description: Passengers' Contract Ticket from London to Otago, New Zealand for Robert Muir and family. Also, includes receipt for ticket purchase Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by John Muir, Upper Hutt, 2005

Date: 1907-1934

By: Hensman, Thomas, 1855-1939

Reference: MSX-9439

Description: Scrapbook and visual diary created by Thomas Hensman for his family, 1907-1934. It contains mainly travel memorabilia and ephemera: tickets, stamps, programmes, and newspaper clippings. Also contains photographs, ribbons, letters, bookmarks, and short rhyming poems that describe events and explain mementos. Reflects an interest in family and friends, World War One, politics, news, bowls, twins and triplets, the British Royal Family, and local events. All pages contain newspaper clippings, and precisely arranged tram, bus, ferry, and train tickets collected from around New Zealand and internationally. Newspaper clippings contain trivia and famous quotes. Relationship between clippings and other content may be thematic. Two pages also contain small brush-point gouache paintings on crepe paper. Painting from 1929 is of purple poppies. Celebrated Hensman family milestones include Tom and Emma Hensman’s Silver (1909) and Gold (1934) wedding anniversaries, the Hensman childrens' weddings, the 50th anniversary of Tom’s arrival in New Zealand (1928), and the birth of grand-daughter Veda Hensman (1913). Also includes a brief genealogy. Material related to World War One includes an image of A. A. Hensman who died at the Battle of the Somme, a programme for the first Anzac Day commemoration in Shannon (1916), photographic prints of children and Mayor William Murdoch at the Shannon war memorial (25 April 1924), and Anzac poppies collected annually (1923-1934). Several of Hensman's short verses reflect on war and the deaths of soldiers. Other material relates to local events. These include the opening of the North Island Main Trunk and the Shannon Bridge (1908), concerts and charity shows (Wellington Professional Orchestra, Maoriland Theatre, Mardigras Art Union), the Dreadnought Bazaar (1914), weddings, debates, and Shannon Bowling Club activities. Images of people include scientists (Antione Lavoisier, Ludwig Mond, Alfred Mond, Justus von Liebig), local personalities (Henry Burling, Mr John Bell Taylor), politicians (John Robertson, Lord Kitchener, David Lloyd George, Sir William Massey, Sir Charles Ferguson), and members of the British Royal Family who toured New Zealand in 1927 (George V, Mary of Teck, George VI, Queen Elizabeth). Original tintype group portrait inside back cover shows three unidentified young men (circa 1880s). A loose photographic print shows three women in a garden, possibly Emma Hensman with two grand-daughters (circa 1930s). Mementoes from around New Zealand relate to sights and activities including the Durie Hill Elevator (Whanganui), Wellington Zoo, the First Royal Show in Palmerston North (1924), and various hotels (People’s Palace Hotel, Wellington; Hinemoa Private Boarding House, Te Aroha; The Carlton, Rotorua). Also includes business cards (R.G. Marsh, Rotorua; Cromwell Shepherd, Rotorua; Guide Molly, Whakarewarewa), and Hensman’s ticket to the 1913 Labour Party Unity Congress. Other travel memorabilia relates to a 1907 journey to England and Europe, including an extended account of the voyage aboard the 'Bremen' from Sydney to South Hampton via ports in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, and Italy. Possibly also visited Calais and Golfe Juan. Verses also describe a camel train near the Suez Canal. Mementos relate to English sights including Scarborough Castle, Sutton Park, and Tyringham Lodges. Activities include the National Trades Exhibition (Birmingham), a charity picnic for poor children (Bromwich Castle), a performance by the The Black Dyke Band, and a River steamer trip (Plym and Tamar rivers). Also includes a £50 baggage insurance certificate and a tag labelled "Made at Henshaw’s Blind Asylum". One photograph shows an unidentified family on a beach, possibly Blackpool. Arrangement: Scrapbook is chronological. Two photographs and other items found loose between pages have been housed in envelopes, numbered 1 - 16. Stored with volume. Thomas Hensman arrived in New Zealand in 1878 and settled in Shannon in 1888. He married Emma Smith in 1884. They had five children: Thomas Valentine (born 1887), Harry (1889), Ruth (1891), Oliver (1893), and Albert (1895). Hensman was a member of the Shannon Bowling Club and Shannon Debating Society. Eldest son, Thomas, married Mary Ingram in 1912. Quantity: 0.04 Linear Metres total. 1 volume(s). 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Volume consisting of two exercise books bound together, with leather spine and boards decorated by tram tickets, 22.5 x 18cm. Contains ephemera, manuscript and printed material, photographic prints, and one tintype. Provenance: Scrapbook was given to Veda Frances Roberts (daughter of Thomas and Mary Hensman). Veda passed the volume to her eldest daughter Ngaire Florence Roberts.

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0029188

Description: Cartoon shows leader of the Labour Party, David Cunliffe, carrying a large basket of old bus tickets, which he is throwing happily into the air behind him. Two men look on, and one explains that "he's practicing for when they're tax dollars". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1920 - 1940

From: [Ephemera including tickets and timetables for the Wellington tram service. 1900-1929]

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-Wellington-1920s-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with two clips taken out of it. Price for twelve trips was 1/- (One shilling). Serial number on this ticket is D 418048. Price for a similar ticket in the 1940s was 2/-, ie double this price. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on tram ticket.. Physical Description: Black letterpress, on pink ticket, 80 x 40 mm.

Date: Ticket dated 2 Jul 1856

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: PAColl-3060-045

Description: Photograph of a ticket issued by Henry H Willis & Co, for John Jesson's passage on board the ship Joseph Fletcher. The ship was to leave London, England, on the 2nd of July 1856, for Canterbury, New Zealand. Not published in 'Making New Zealand' Another photograph of this ticket is in the Manuscripts and Archives collection at reference number 78-078. It was donated by Ms D Jesson, Wellington, in 1978 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21 x 16.5 cm Provenance: Item lent by G A Jesson to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.

Date: 1933

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-9150-21

Description: Photograph of a receipt dated 11 January 1933, from Charles Kingsford Smith, for 100 pounds from his first paying air passenger S E Neilson, for a flight between Sydney to New Plymouth on board the 'Southern Cross'. Receipt written on letterhead paper from Tattersall's Club, Sydney, Australia. Photographer unidentified, possibly an Evening Post staff photographer. Text reads: Received from S E Neilson of New Plymouth the sum of one hundred pounds being fare for Tasman crossing Sydney to New Plymouth in Southern Cross. First commercial passenger. with thanks C Kingsford Smith 11 Jany 1933" Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.8 x 22 cm

Date: 1983

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Eph-D-RAIL-1983-04

Description: Shows an illustration of a ship, a bus and a train Other Titles - Travel pass; rail road sea Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 745 x 497 mm.

Date: 1983

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Eph-D-RAIL-1983-03

Description: Shows a map of New Zealand with the railways routes marked on it, and the Cook Strait ferry route. The price of a travelpass for 15 days was $180 and for 22 days was $240, available 1 February to 14 December 1983. Other Titles - Travel pass Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 745 x 497 mm.

Date: 1959 or 1960

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0106-F

Description: Scenes at Wellington Railway Station, photographed in either 1959 or 1960 by Ans Westra. Includes 6 images of a young Maori man working in the ticketing office; 3 images of a man with two children consulting a timetable; 2 images of young men on the railway platform; 1 image of a woman walking along the platform, holding an infant. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images.

Date: 2008

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0005593

Description: Shows Mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt, as a pole dancer. The word's 'Flight Mayor!' appear as text. Refers to Tim Shadbolt dancing around a pole and gyrating in front of the nation on television - all in a bid to secure 1000 $1 flights for southerners wanting to travel between Invercargill and Christchurch. Tim Shadbolt won the seats as the highest polling mayor. The mayors of Invercargill, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Dunedin were competing for top honours in the inaugural "Mayor Idol" run by Air New Zealand's grabaseat yesterday. There is a play on the words 'pole' and 'poll'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).