St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Hastings, N.Z.)

Date: Oct 1983

By: Chalmers, Jocelyn Margaret, 1951-; Smith, Ann Gladys, 1905-1996

Reference: OHColl-0695/1

Description: Ann Gladys Smith was born in West Otago in 1905. Describes her childhood, family and moving from Glenkenich to Tapanui when she was five. Recalls schooling and attending Sunday School. Describes being housekeeper at the age of twelve, returning to high school, becoming a student teacher at the Glenkenich School and then going to Dunedin to work at the Nisbet Home for children in Andersons Bay. Talks about her decision to become a deaconess and training before going to St Andrew's Church in Hastings in 1932. Comments on the effect of the 1931 Napier earthquake on local people. Recalls her time at Auckland at St David's Church during World War II. Discusses the Emergency Precautions Services (EPS) for civilians in the event of a Japanese attack. Describes going to Inglenook Home for children in Gore in 1948 and then to Knox Church in Dunedin. Discusses her work as a deaconess particularly at Knox Church in Dunedin. Publication - Entry in 'Southern people : a dictionary of Otago Southland biography' Interviewer(s) - Jocelyn Chalmers Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come.

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-P-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940: [Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union. Presbyterian Women's Centenary Commemoration Service 1840-1940. St Andrew's Church Christchurch, NZ, 14 March 1940. Order of service (cover design by J Fitzgerald, designer) 1940: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Centenary 1840-1940. Town Hall Dunedin, 10 March 1940. Order of service. 1940: St Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Avondale. Dedication of Sunday School Hall by the Moderator, the Right Rev J Lawson Robinson. [10 March 1940]. Order of service 1942: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Campaign for Christian Order 1942. Bible reading card 1945: Miss M Chappell, Dominion Executive. Pres Women's F/ship, May 24-25 1945. Name tag 1945?: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Service of thanksgiving on the occasion of the cessation of hostilities [1945?]. Order of service 1948: Unveiling and dedication of Centenary Memorial at Knox College. 20 March 1948. Order of service Synod of Otago and Southland. Centennial mommemoration and thanksgiving service, conducted by the Moderator the Rev W Allen Stevely. Town Hall Dunedin, 21 March [1948. Order of service] 1949: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Parish of Hastings (St Andrew's and St John's). 60th Anniversary celebrations, 1889-1949. Souvenir programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: [1900s?]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-015

Description: Album of images from various areas in the North Island. Includes images of Hawera, including streets, swimming baths, bowling greens, church buildings, the post office, hospital buildings, and public school. There are a several views inside caves, including caves and rock formations at Marakopa and Waitomo; views of coal mining at Mokau, the regatta at Ngaruawahia, cement works at Limestone Island in Whangarei Harbour, tree-felling in kauri forest. Images of Hastings include church buildings, school buildings, and other public buildings. One image shows a young man at a burial site in a cave, surrounded by a number of skulls. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound volume, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1896-1945

From: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0011-26

Description: Includes: New Hebrides Mission annual reports, 1896-1901; British & Foreign Bible Society annual reports, 1923, 1925; NZ Bible in Schools League annual reports, 1937, 1941; National War Funds Council of Wellington, annual report, 1923; Auckland Presbyterian Orphanages and Social Services Association annual report, 1945 (includes 31st annual report of Auckland Presbyterian Social Service Assn & 34th annual report of Leslie Presbyterian Orphanages, 1945); Presbyterian Church, Hastings & Clive annual reports, 1901 & 1903; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hastings annual report, 1929; Columba Church, Oamaru annual reports, 1931, 1932; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Gore, annual reports, 1938, 1939; Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church 7th annual report, 1936; Roslyn Presbyterian Church 31st annual report, 1932; Maori Hill Presbyterian Church, 25th annual report, 1929 Quantity: 1 folder(s).