British Empire and Commonwealth Games (5th : 1954 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Date: 1951-1954

From: New Zealand Olympic Committee: Records

Reference: 2014-103-089

Description: Contains files on travel arrangements for attending the Games, British Empire Games newsletters, team circulars, correspondence with competitors and official report of the Games Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1953-1954

From: New Zealand Olympic Committee: Records

Reference: 2014-103-091

Description: Contains Organising Committee correspondence, financial records relating to the New Zealand team and newspaper cuttings relating to their participation in the Games Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1954

From: New Zealand Olympic Committee: Records

Reference: 2014-103-088

Description: Contains nominations for contestants and officials, list of team members, reports of the Games, including from the New Zealand team manager and correspondence with competitors and officials Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1953-1955

From: New Zealand Olympic Committee: Records

Reference: 2014-103-090

Description: General correspondence file relating to the Games and file on outfitting and team uniforms Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1954

From: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994 : Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-9608-97

Description: Mainly consisting of papers and cuttings concerning Empire and Commonwealth Games held at Vancouver, Canada Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950-2002

From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9414-10

Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. Included are - Team for Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000. New Zealand team for Commonwealth Games, Manchester, 2002. New Zealand team for Olympic Games, Montreal, 1976. Team for the British Empire Games, Auckland, 1950. Team to Australian National Diving Championships, 1977. Under 18 water polo team 1981. Schoolgirls water polo team 1985. Schoolboys water polo team 1985. Water polo team 1950. Diving team to World age Group Diving Championships, Hamilton, New Zealand, August 1983. Team to National Age Swimming Championships, Hobart 1974. Gold medalists, British Empire Games, Auckland 1950. Swimming team to British Empire Games, Vancouver, Canada, 1954. Teams to New Zealand Summer Games, Christchurch 1981. Swimming New Zealand Development Camp North, October 1998. Swimmer Jonathan Winter from unidentified Newspaper. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1954

From: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994 : Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-9608-98

Description: Mainly consisting of papers and cuttings concerning Empire and Commonwealth Games held at Vancouver, Canada Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1946-1996

From: New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association : Records

Reference: 2004-231-03

Description: Material comprises a large number of programmes relating to New Zealand amateur cycling (1946-1996), international cycling (1948-1976) including London Olympics (1948), British Empire and Commonwealth Games (1954), Melbourne Olympics (1956), Rome Olympics (1960), printed material, newspaper cuttings and ephemera Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1892-1998

From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9414-1

Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. Groups of photographs include - Swimmers in the team for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Portraits of an unidentified medal winner. Groups of unidentified athletes. Members of the NZ Press covering the inaugural D.C.6 TEAL flight, 28 May 1954. Swimming coaches' forum, 1998. New Zealand swimming team, Hong Kong, 1998. Seventh Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Fukuoka, Japan, 1997. South Island swimming camp, Dunedin, 1998. North Island swimming camp [Hamilton ?] 1998. Central swimming camp, Tawa, 1998. Portraits of members of the swimming team for the Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, 1998. Photographs used in the book Swimming New Zealand 1890-2004. Most of the later are of teams and individual swimmers that represented New Zealand at international events such as the Olympic and Commonwealth games. There is also a small group relating to water polo, including a woman's team from 1918. Quantity: 89 colour original photographic print(s). 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 17/8/54

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-144977-G

Date: 1937-1948

From: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9721-5

Description: The Second World War, and the years immediatly after the war. War photographs show places and people associated with Arthur Porritt, and a group of photographs of Belsen concentration camp. The post war photographs relate to - International Olympic Committee meetings. 5th Winter Olympic Games in St Moritz, Switzerland, 1948. Olympic Games in London in 1948. The Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954. The photographs in this collection were loose prints in album PA1-o-1647. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by the Hon Mrs Joanna Meredith-Hardy, London, England, in 2009

Date: 17 August 1954

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-144978-G

Description: Don Jowett and Jean Stewart, members of 1954 Empire Games team, photographed on arrival back in New Zealand 17 August 1954 by a Dominion staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 10 x 12.5 cm