Retail trade

Date: 1981-1992

By: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999

Reference: OHColl-0547

Description: J.M. Thomson interviews Archie Dunningham, Phyllis Gant, Eric McCormick, Bill Pearson, Dorothea Turner and Janet Paul on Blackwood Paul and Paul's Book Arcade which was run by Blackwood and Janet Paul. Includes tapes of a seminar on Blackwood Paul in 1991. Other interviews are with Gabrielle and Paul Day, Jeanette Wood and Barbara Rogers, Jean Alison, Eleanor Spragge, Molly Leathem, Dennis McEldowney, Lois Luke, Gerd and Ian Free, Evelyn Page, Challis Hooper and Elsie Beaglehole. Interviews and talks about art by Janet Paul, who was Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Alexander Turnbull Library. Interviewer(s) - Janet Paul Interviewer(s) - John M. Thomson Quantity: 31 C60 cassette(s). 19 interview(s). 5 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 2008

By: Infratil Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-2008-01

Description: Advertises an innovative way to pay for merchandise at selected Wellington stores and the Wellington buses. The Snapper card can be loaded with credit up to $300 and can be topped up at a Snapper merchant. The card is touched to a Snapper Reader, thereby deducting the required amount of payment. The card can be used at CityStop stores, Kirkcaldies bookstore, Unistop, Toll New Zealand ticket office, Wishbone cafes and other cafes. The cards can be ordered from the website of Snapper only. Two copies held. 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 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 55 x 600 mm, folded to 55 x 86 mm.

Date: [1950-1986]

By: Frankl, Johann, 1904-1996

Reference: MS-Group-0552

Description: Comprises correspondence, financial records, tax returns (including descriptions of overseas travel to buy goods), catalogues of stock sought and carried, stock sold, wages books and other papers relating to Frankl and his wife, Olga's, business, The Cadeau, in Wellington, and their export-import business, Crest, for the years ca 1950-1986 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 8 box(es) (58 issuable items). 3 volume(s). 5 folder(s). 2.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Programmes for Wellington theatrical and musical productions (1940-1980).

Date: 1960 - 1989

Reference: Eph-D-BAGS-Poynton

Description: Includes plastic bags for: Canon, Extra Elegance (fashion boutique for size 16 and over), Eddie Fletcher Pharmacy, Katies, Kirkcaldie & Stains, Levene, London Bookshops, Mainly Tramping, Mittons (for the fuller figure), Paulls, Rembrandt Suits, Stickybun (at James Cook Centra). Includes paper bags for: Mode Apparel (Lower Hutt) Quantity: 16 bags. Physical Description: Photolithographs and relief prints on paper and plastic, sizes varying from below A2 size.

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1980

Description: Includes: 1980s: Briscoes. Hear ye! Hear ye! This Briscard is your inbtroduction to bigger profits; [and] flier advertising new self-service wholesale warehouse in Palmerston North [1980s?] 1980: D.I.C. A store is born (2 copies) D.I.C. in store for your family this summer L V Martin & Son. Mail order catalogue. April 1980 Merchant Adventurers of Narnia. Warehouse sale. Garments & fabrics at cost and belwo, [25 February - 7 March 1980]. 104 Dixon St. [Illustration by] John Pratt Graphics. Flyer. Mobil summer savers. [Flyer advertising Woodcraft model kits, chilly bags, Sonic wrenches, canvas shopping bags, canvas hammocks, sun/frost screens for cars, extension leads, car cleaning kit, barbecue sets, steak knives, hydraulic jacks. 1980] National Association of Retail Grocers & Supermarkets of New Zealand (Inc). Annual conference, May 17-19 1980 at the THC International Hotel, Rotorua. Registration form Group of Unions Opposing Weekend trading. Saturday trading ... the end of the weekend. [1980] NZ Shop Employees Association. Saturday shopping; it costs more than you think. Don't weaken the weekend (2 copies) Welcome to Courtenay Place, your shopping centre of service where prices are competitive and service is outstanding (Zifferilis, Shop 'n' Wine, Paramount Butchery, Super Liquor Man, Kahns reconditioned radios, TVs, stereos, A1 Trading Mart, Alco Aluminium Ladders, John Watt Menswear). Flyer / entry form for free Christmas stocking Wayne Wentworth (NZ) Ltd. Wayne Wentworth's mail order materials [ca 1980] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1960-1969

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960s undated: D.I.C. Autumn for a change; come to the DIC now while autumn is really in fashion ... and so easy to pay for. D.I.C. Another D.I.C. record, from D.I.C. the record centre [Record sleeve for 45 rpm vinyl record. 1960s?] 1963: Paraparaumu Businessmen's Association. Win 15 [pounds]. Paraparaumu Township window spotting competition, 7019 January 1963. Free entry 1966: Co-Op Instant Rebate Stores [Hutt Valley]. Newsletter 6 December 1966 Hutt Valley Consumers' Co-Operative Society Ltd. Rebate warrant 1965/66 - not transferable 1967: Co-Op Instant Rebate Stores [Hutt Valley]. Newsletter 7 February 1967 Hutt Valley Consumers' Co-Operative Society Ltd. Hurry for these specials at all Co-Op shops from week commencing 5 December [1967] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1976 - 1978

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-337-087/103

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand economic and political issues. Quantity: 16 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, approximately A4, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1867-1985

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: 93-215

Description: The records include minutes, annual reports, share registers, financial records, staff registers, pay books, scrapbooks and records relating to the affairs of members of the Smith family. Quantity: 7.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by James Smith Ltd, Wellington 1993 Transfers: Collection taken as a whole into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here - To Other - Curios; one cup, one statuette of jockey - To Photographic Archive - Display photographs of sinking of 'Wahine' ferry (PAColl-3332-18, part of PA-Group-00039).

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/20H-Acc.

Description: See folder R1/16a-c-R7/26 for tracing of same map Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 63 360] 60 x 36 cm.

Date: 1966

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-516

Description: In the first scenario, a man unwillingly gives his wife and children more money. The next shows men lining up at the bank seeking instant credit. The comment is that - In view of the serious economic imbalances this extra shopping time will create it is hoped that the retailers have negotiated with the banks - for peaceful settlements. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 280 x 360 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Thorp, Nigel, active 1978-2018

Reference: Eph-C-THORP-04

Description: Shows arrangement of text inside paved and floral border. Colours of border are orange, blue and red. Extended Title - Who are Lester and Co? Why, the realisers and cash buyers of bankrupt estates, which enables them to almost give goods away at such prices that people stand and wonder. N.B. Our grand stock consists of drapery, fancy goods, American novelties, etc. Remember, we only stay a short time in each place. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed at the Wairarapa Daily office. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint on tissue, 368 x 368 mm.

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/20i-Acc.

Description: See folder R1/16a-C-R7/26 for tracing of same map Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 63 360] 60 x 36 cm.

Date: 1967

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: MSO-Papers-4590-1

Description: Album contains material relating to the James Smith centennial celebration held in 1967, including lists of people involved in the centennial committee's, newspaper articles, advertisements, display cards, ephemera, photographs and a history of the store, James Smith and James Smith's family. Also contains a number of loose display cards used in various store displays. Source of title - cover title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 2 albums of photographs of James Smith Christmas window displays.

Date: 1981 - 1984

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons, some for the "New Zealand times", and "Listener". ca 1981-1984]

By: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-

Reference: B-154-168

Description: Shows a man in an elf costume sitting at a cash register and singing "... on the first day of Christmas..." Refers to Christmas-time consumerism. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on card, 320 x 450 mm Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

Date: Oct-Nov 1986 - 01 Oct 1986 - 23 Nov 1986

By: L D Nathan & Company Ltd; New Zealand Oral History Archive; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHColl-0083

Description: Collection consists of 20 interviews and a recording of the McKenzies Anniversary (1960). The interviews are the personal views and memories of people associated with L D Nathan and Co Ltd, including long-service employees, senior executives and descendants of the company founders. Included are discussions of the companies that contributed to L D Nathan and Co Ltd, eg. Bond and Bond Ltd, J R McKenzies Ltd, Woolworths (NZ) Ltd. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Quantity: 62 C60 cassette(s). 20 printed abstract(s). 20 interview(s). 1 event(s) Recording of J R McKenzie Anniversary, Skyline Cabaret, 1960. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 14 Jan 1982

From: NZOHA Martinborough Project

By: Feist, Reginald, 1903-1991

Reference: OHInt-0005/09

Description: Reginald Feist born Masterton. Moved to Martinborough 1913. Outlines family background and refers to book containing Feist family details - Paternal grandfather, William Feist, came to New Zealand 1858 and was a grocer in Lambton Quay, Wellington. Maternal grandparents, William Wilton, came to New Zealand on the `Oriental' 1840s. Father, a plumber worked in Masterton for Beale and Parton? - worked on the original power house in Martinborough. Topics discussed include; domestic routines; childhood and pastimes; discipline/punishment; holidays, birthdays etc; religion; social status/ distinctions; school, with reference to Mr Edie (Headmaster); community activities, mentions Oddfellows Lodge, Fire Brigade and Martinborough Band; movies; depression (1930s); The Turning of the Sod Ceremony for the proposed Martinborough Railway (1914) which he remembers quite well; visit of school children to look over the warship `HMS New Zealand' given by the UK (1914); flu epidemic (1918); fire at Raetihi; driving a Model T Ford car for the first time; World War II - was conscripted into Army stores, spending three years at Linton and Trentham Camps which he describes. Local identities mentioned include; Pidgeon O Brien and Pedlar Palmer. Other people mentioned include: Dr Hugh Webb; Dr Harry Budd; Mr Charlie Poulter. Describes his employment with W F C A (Wairarapa Farming Co-op), with reference to bosses, Mr Ted Findlay and Mr Madson. Talks about the relationship between the Martinborough grocery shops. Was awarded Red Cross Long Service Medal. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Martinborough Venue - 68 Naples St, Martinborough Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0591-0594 Quantity: 4 5" reel(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 1.44 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0010. 1 photograph of Mr Reginald Feist Search dates: 1982

Date: 4 Feb 1988 - 04 Feb 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Daly, Aileen Winifred, 1917-1992

Reference: OHInt-0048/02

Description: Aileen Connor was born in Dunedin. Discusses her family and strict Catholic upbringing, church socials, her fear of religion and her parents. Discusses her mother's talents as a tailor, her grooming and Aileen Daly's views on clothes and appropriate dressing. Talks about her father Bertrand Stanislaus, his political beliefs and job at Hallensteins, her opportunities as a child, the family home and the Depression years. Discusses leaving school, Karitane nursing care and her mother's health. Compares the lack of sex education during her youth with more recent trends. Discusses being dux at primary school, wanting to do clerical study at secondary school and the Dominican Convent in Dunedin. Talks about her job in the clothing department of the DIC in Dunedin, social life, alcohol and double standards. Discusses her job as salaries and wage manager for EMI, Lower Hutt from 1957-1987. Recalls her husband, his tuberculosis infection after World War II, drinking and the deaths of two of their children from tubercular meningitis. Discusses difficult living conditions, sewing, to subsidise the family wage, negativity towards working mothers of young children and working at Kirkcaldie and Stains. Talks about her surviving daughter and son, attitudes to life and age, the advent of her love of marching and positions held in the Wellington Marching Association. Talks about the role of chief recorder and judge, marching competitions, the satisfaction of marching, commitment, technical skill and its competitive nature. Discusses the development of marching by Roly Hill, Joe Meldrum and Bill Smith, the magazine `Quick March' and the heyday of marching. Describes retirement, family and voluntary work. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Karori, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004155-OHC-004157; LC-2328-LC-2330; LC-3206-LC-3208 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-1639 and OHDL-000578.

Date: 14 Nov 1991

From: Rawene Public Library Oral History Project

By: Andrewes, Vida Leonore, 1901-1996

Reference: OHInt-0079/3

Description: Vida Leonore Andrewes discusses her childhood and education in Rawene. Describes working at the Post Office and community life, such as dances, flower shows and bazaars. Talks about the Andrewes store. Discusses child rearing, teenage years. Describes the timber mill, dairy factory and early telephone exchange. Venue - Rawene Interviewer(s) - Vilia Chisholm Venue - Parnell Street, Rawene Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004498 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-774.

Date: 1920-1993

By: New Zealand Retailers' Federation; Retail NZ

Reference: ATL-Group-00705

Description: Material detailing the workings and decisions of various industry organisations involved in the broad retail and manufacturing sectors, affiliated to and predating Retail NZ. The bulk of the minutes and photographs date from the 1940s to 1970s, but includes material dating back to the 1920s.Shows the working of business in the highly regulated post-war markets, including discussion of price control, import controls, trading hours, and industrial relations. Related organisations include the Hire Purchase Association, the New Zealand Automotive and Cycle Wholesalers Association, the New Zealand Bright Steel Bar Guild, the New Zealand Commercial Stationers' Guild, the New Zealand Drawing Materials and Reprographics Suppliers' Association, the New Zealand Engineers Merchants Association, New Zealand Drapers', Clothiers, Milliners' and Boot Retailers' Industrial Union of Employers, the New Zealand Federation of Drapers’ and Clothiers’, New Zealand Fish Retailers Federation, New Zealand Galvanised Sheet Guild, the New Zealand Office Equipment Importers' and Distributors' Federation, the New Zealand Office Equipment Trade Association, the New Zealand Retail Florists' Association, the New Zealand Wallboard Guild, Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association, the Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association, and the Wellington Office Machinery Importers' Association. Comprises bound volumes of meeting minutes, conference proceedings and reports, photographs of conferences and retail stores, and ephemera. Most of the minutes are typed, signed, and pasted into guard books. Several books also include pasted in newspaper clippings about the meetings and conferences, price lists, pieces of legislation, card invites to annual general meetings, and notices of special meetings. Some minutes are handwritten, or annotated and highlighted. Title supplied by Library. Wellington City Archives took possession of several boxes of material related to Wellington. Arrangement: This collection is a sample of the full Retail NZ archives. As such it came to the Library in no defined order. The archivist created series to reflect the structure of Retail NZ and subsidiaries, trade groups, and associated federations. Within that the arrangement is chronological. The New Zealand Retailers' Federation was set up in 1921. The Federation comprised of 15 nationwide district associations, some of which predated the Federation. They remained autonomous. The Federation was managed by a council appointed by the associations. Several national trade groups representing the various types of stores in the Federation were established. They were subordinate to the council in matters of national policy, but autonomous in matters affecting their own trading sphere. There were also national retail federations, guilds and associations that affiliated with the Federation, such as the New Zealand Commercial Stationers’ Guild. A national secretary and staff looked after general administration. The Federation established a subsidiary organisation (the New Zealand College of Retailing) for training and a limited liability company (Retailer Publishing Company) to publish one of its journals. In 1987 the Federation was wound up and reformed as the Retail and Wholesale Merchants Association, which included retail, distribution and wholesale merchants. It became incorporated at this time. In 2015 it rebranded as Retail NZ. Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s) Mounted photographs, photographs, contact sheets and a panorama.. 42 volume(s) Guard volumes and minute books.. 9 folder(s) Insignia, booklets, correspondence, ephemera.. 6 colour original photographic print(s) One mounted photograph and four snapshots.. 2 cartoon(s). Physical Description: Volumes, photographs, cartoons, insignia. Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 3, 5 November 1999 - 03 Nov 1999 - 05 Nov 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Hampstead, Lois Ann, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0478/12

Description: Lois Hampstead born in Wanganui and moved to Glen Innes where she grew up. Describes living in a Transit Camp (Camp Bun) in Panmure after World War II. Refers to Judy Attenberger and Bruce Fowler (NDU organisers) who also lived in camp. Recalls family history of unionism. Mentions early involvement in union with reference to Shop Employees Union and briefly a member of the Clerical Workers Union. Explains how play centre politicised her. Recalls network of women in the play centre movement and influence of feminist movement upon play centre. Worked for Meadowbank Foodtown Supermarket and describes conditions. Refers to Dave Wicken. Recalls strike in the mid 1980s. Explains becoming union delegate and outlines progression through union, being elected to Butchers and Growers union executive, then vice president (Auckland) and then National Retail president. Recalls amalgamation with National Distribution Union (NDU) in 1987. Explains membership of Women's Committee of Distribution Workers Federation, setting up structures for women and Maori and mentions how these structures have gone since the 1991 Employment Contracts Act (ECA). Outlines work for NDU as retail organiser (especially supermarkets) and explains difficulties of being responsible for women's issues in the union and structures within NDU to represent women. Discusses Equal Pay and opportunities in supermarkets, also agitation over Saturday and Sunday trading. Describes structure of Distribultion Workers Federation; Drivers Union and General Workers Union. Outlines relationship with Foodstuffs (Northern) and Farmers Trading Company. Mentions Youth rates and Penal rates. Lists improvements since 1995: additional annual leave; protection of Statutory holidays; clothing and service allowances. Recalls and describes disputes involved in: Mangere dairy; Hydra Baking Company; Freightways strike; Farmers Trading Company dispute after the ECA - mentions they were the first retail company to lock their workers out; Foodtown dispute in 1994. Discusses impact of Rogernomics and deregulation. Recalls disharmony in the union over the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) and ballot on question of affiliation and NDU disaffiliating from the Labour Party. Discusses impact of 1991 Employment Contracts ACT (ECA) - huge loss of membership. Discusses the Labour Relations Act. Discusses role of women in the future union movement. People mentioned include: Sonja Davies; Maryan Street; Peter Conway (Secretary NDU); Owen Harvey; Kirsty Campbell and Glenda Hinchy. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007476-007479; OHLC-003561-003564 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1889.