Civil service - New Zealand

Date: 2004 - 28 Apr 2004

By: Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. State Services Commission

Reference: OHColl-0852

Description: Six interviews with former long-term public servants. The aim of the project was to record the experiences of those who had a long career in the public service before the reforms of the 1980s, particularly in departments which no longer exist. Topics discussed include the way in which departments were organised and how work was done, along with the social life and customs of departments. Interviewees discuss their own experiences as well as recalling colleagues, Ministers and MPs with whom they worked. The interviewees are Harry Holden, Joyce McBeath, Jock McEwen, Kara Puketapu, Barry Tucker and Robin Williams Abstracted by - Megan Hutching and Alison Parr Awards/funding - Commissioned by State Services Commission and carried out by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 22 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 6 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4434 - OHA-4439, OHDL-000001 - OHDL-000005, OHDL-000008. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by State Services Commission Search dates: 1935 - 1990

Date: 7 May 1998

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1998/1336-F

Description: Department of Social Welfare staff open copies of the social responsibility questionnaire. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Craig Simcox 7 May 1998. Published in the Evening Post 8 May 1998 Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at Social-Children-Adoption (Cabinet 15, drawer 2)..

Date: ca 1910s, 1928, 1941

By: Cox, Benjamin Shatford, -1947; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Lambert, M, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7795

Description: Group portraits of Post and Telegraph Department staff, taken ca 1910s-1941, including telegraph engineers, Wellington, 1928, and senior controlling officers, Wellington, 1941. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by M Lambert, Karori, Wellington, in October 2003

Date: 1934, 1960-1978

From: Kitt, Watson, d 2015: Photographs

By: NZ Camera-Craft Company

Reference: PAColl-10344

Description: Photographic prints relating to Kitt Watson, 1934-1987. Contains four group portraits of the Chemistry Division of the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), taken in 1960, 1965, 1970, and 1978. Photographers unidentified. Staff in 1978 photograph are listed on document stored with the corresponding photograph. Also contains a standard five class portrait of students at Manaia District High School, taken in 1934 by NZ Camera-Craft. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 26 Jun 1991 - 12 May 1992 - 26 Jun 1991 - 12 May 1992

By: Tolerton, Jane, 1957-; Atkinson, Leonard Allan, 1906-1998; Hunn, Jack Kent, 1906-1997

Reference: OHColl-1152

Description: Interviews with three career public servants who, during the 1940s-1970, worked as inspectors, commissioners and chairmen of the Public Service Commission, which became the State Services Commission in 1962. The interviewees all entered the Public Service in the 1920s and they describe their early lives and education, and their time working in the Public Trust, Housing Corporation, Internal Affairs, Maori Affairs, Agriculture, Customs, Defence and Inland Revenue departments. They describe the work and evolution of the State Services Commission. Subjects discussed include job training, studying while working, Diploma of Public Administration, women workers, equal pay, staffing during World War II, rehabilitation of returning servicemen, strengths of the old Public Service, George Bolt, Hunn Report, 1962 Royal Commission of Inquiry into State Services, comparisons of management in the public and private sectors, remaining non-political, wage-setting and the PSA (Public Service Association). One interviewee describes his Public Trust work with estates, mortgages and properties, while another details his Customs work dealing with immigration, opium, liquor laws, indecent publications, and sales tax and duties. Interviewees are Leonard Allan Atkinson, Adrian George Rodda and Jack Kent Hunn Accompanying material - Adrian Rodda's farewell speech on retirement 1970 Abstracted by - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-022262 - OHC-022270 Abstracts: OHA-7562 - OHA-7564 Quantity: 9 C60 cassette(s). 3 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - State Services Commission Search dates: 1906 - 1992 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 05 Mar 2000

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Whitcombe, Judith Ethel, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0556-10

Description: Judy Whitcombe was born in Wellington in 1936. Talks about early years, relationship with parents, impact of education. Describes first employment, marriage in 1960, birth of two children, family life, and how Playcentre impacted positively on her career development. Explains formation of Society for Research on Women (SROW) and her 'Urban Women' research study. Comments on the value of practical skills as well as a good education. Describes studying University Entrance English in 1970, completing an Education degree and becoming a teacher. Talks about becoming a single parent, teaching years, work in Department of Education, and researching women in teaching. Talks about being a student on the pilot Women's Studies paper at Victoria University, Wellington. Describes work at National Research Advisory Council on social science research, and the State Services Commission's Management Development Division, becoming Training and Development Division Director. Mentions completing a Masters in Public Policy, describes work for Trust Bank New Zealand, New Zealand Council for Teacher Education, Ministry of Women's Affairs, and Children, Young Persons and their Families Agency. Mentions favoured working styles. Discusses development of her feminist consciousness with the 'Changing role of women' project. Talks about women she admired, including Beverly Morris, Geraldine MacDonald and Anne Meade. Comments on how different governments appointed women, and talks about the establishment of the Women's Appointment File in 1979. Comments on younger women's attitudes to feminism and 'left' politics, and the current role of the women's movement. Talks about the importance of friendship in life. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Biographical information form, curriculum vitae (2) Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2658, OHDL-001007. Photocopy of photo, late 1990's

Date: 01 Feb 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Goose, John Victor, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0593/23

Description: Vic Goose was born in Nottingham, England in 1921, emigrating to New Zealand in 1973, when the uniting parish was in its early stages of formation and recalls the ministers of the three centres. Talks of his roles on church committees, Methodist conference attendance, being a lay preacher, his faith, enjoyment of Sunday worship and social activities. Mentions the declining numbers and ages of the congregations, mission work. Talks of his family's membership of an Assembly of God centre. Describes the Sixties Up Clubs. Talks of his education, shift work experiences, a job transfer and changes in computers. Expresses his views on homosexuality in the church. Talks of what he would like the future of the church to be. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009266 and OHC-009267 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2986, OHDL-000943.

Date: 26 Jun 1945-6 Jul 1954

By: Doidge, Frederick Widdowson (Sir), 1884-1954

Reference: MS-Group-1525

Description: Contains newspaper clippings and photographs in a scrapbook which covers Frederick Doidge's career as New Zealand High Commissioner to London in the 1950s. The second scrapbook contains breavement letters to Lyle, Lady Doidge following the death of her husband, Sir Frederick in 1954. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 black and white photograph (PAColl-8119).

Date: 1913

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1913

Description: Includes: American champion athletes. Athletic Park. 27 December 1913. Souvenir programme (with photographs of American athletes James A Power (long-distance runner); Ruric R Templeton (hurdles, high jump, pole vault, javelin, broad jump, etc), E R Caughey (shot put, hammer throw, discus), George L Parker (sprinter). Third annual Civil Service Inter-Departmental Tournament: Athletics-Tennis-Swimming. Basin Reserve, 1 December 1913. Ticket (4 copies) New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Twenty-fourth championship meeting. Basin Reserve. 15 February 1913. Programme (2 copies) Wellington Centre, NZAAA. Wellington Provincial Championship Meeting. Basin Reserve, Sat Feb 1 1913. Official programme (2 copies) Quantity: 3 album(s). 1 Other printed ephemera item(s) ticket (4 copies). Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes and tickets, sizes varying under 150 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated by Athletics New Zealand in 2013.

Date: [ca 1940s-1960s]

By: Hall, William E, active 1940s-1960s

Reference: PAColl-9501

Description: Photographs relating to W E (Bill) Hall and his wife Ruby, and Hall's career with Department of Lands and Survey. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Provenance: Donated by Bob and Alison Stephens, Wellington, 2009. Alison Stephens was great-niece to Bill and Ruby Hall. Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive and items transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - 'Real photographs' envelope and prints (Eph-A-TOURISM-Christchurch-1940s-01).

Date: 1937-1977

By: Lang, Henry George, 1919-1997

Reference: MS-Group-1831

Description: Comprise personal papers of Henry Lang, including passports, educational certificates, naturalisation papers and other; also some correspondence and papers relating to the Plischke family Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - One photograph negative transferrd to Photographic Archive. Held at 1/4-120122 Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Anna Lang, Sydney, 2010 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - One photo negative.

Date: 1912

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1912

Description: Includes: Cape Egmont Athletic Club. Third annual sports. April 17th 1912, Recreation ground, Pungarehu. Programme. Wellington Centre New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association. Championship meeting, Basin Reserve. 10 February 1912. Programme. Wellington Centre New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association. Rules. rev ed 1911-1912. (2 copies) Wellington Civil Service Amateur Sports Club. Summer Sports Carnival. Basin Reserve, Saturday 27 January. Offical programme (2 copies) Wellington Civil Service Amateur Sports Club. Summer Sports Carnival. Basin Reserve, Saturday January 27, 1912. Gentleman's complimentary ticket (pink, 4 copies), and Lady's complimentary ticket (green, 4 copies) Wellington Civil Service Amateur Sports Club. Second annual Civil Service Inter-Departmental Tournament. Athletics, Tennis, Swimming. 2-5 December 1912. Programme. Wellington Civil Service Amateur Sports Club. Second annual Civil Service Inter-Departmental Tournament: Athletics, Tennis, Swimming. Newtown Park, 2 December 1912. Afternoon tea ticket (4 copies) Quantity: 5 album(s). 3 Other printed ephemera item(s) tickets (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes and tickets, sizes varying under 150 mm.

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

By: Bicknell, R, active 1983

Reference: PAColl-D-0103

Description: Photograph of an unidentified group taken on the steps of Parliament Building, Wellington. Possibly staff of the Marine Department. The group includes 12 women (typists?) and 2 boys. Name of the photographer is unknown. From the women's attire it would appear to have been taken in late 1920s or 1930s. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top left - Marine Dept (in pencil) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Print mounted on card, 318 x 380 mm

Date: 1984

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Original cartoons drawn for the New Zealand Times and the Daily News. 1983-1986]

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-188-001/017

Description: Original cartoons drawn for the New Zealand Times, 1 January to 4 November 1984 about political and social issues in New Zealand. Topics include: politicians, public servants, national debt, the 'Allen affair' (relating to Keith Allen the National Party politician who in August 1983 was allegedly attacked while walking at night), ANZUS policy, and Olympic Games boycott. Cartoon from 6 May 1984 withheld by cartoonist. Cartoon from 15 July 1984 held in Auckland Art Gallery. Quantity: 17 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, felt tip pen, letratone and collage on paper, sizes vary

Date: 1980-2019

Reference: Eph-C-PSA-1980/2019

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photolithographs, sizes varying below 240 mm.

Reference: Eph-A-PSA

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 4 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photolithographs, sizes varying below 240 mm.

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-236

Description: Parody of arcade game Space Invaders, with the game's aliens being replaced by "scuttling civil servants". The scoreboard reads "YOUR SCORE.... 0 BUREAUCRATS ..10 [to the power of six]". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 210mm x 250mm

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-240

Description: Shows Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard as a dalek (a 'Bollardalek'). He is saying "Interest-rate! Interest-rate!" instead of the dalek's customary "Exterminate!". The Bollardalek's abilities are listed as 'Prefers to stay in box'; 'Goes in circles'; 'Screams one phrase incessantly'; 'Completely autonomous'; and 'Erm ... that's it'. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - MONDAY CARTOON -- 11 CARTOON 186mm x 133 To Pix-on-hand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 220mm x 270mm

Date: 1920 - 1939

Reference: Eph-C-SPORT-1920/1939

Description: Includes: 1921: T E Donne. Sport in New Zealand. Reprinted from The Field, 31 May 1921 1933: Civil Service Inter-departmental Tournament for the Ward Memorial Challenge trophy. Basin Reserve, 17 March 1933 and Te Aro Baths on February 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd. Reynolds, Lewis, Henderson Ltd., 33 Bond Street, Wellington. 1993 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 4200 mm.

Date: 1982-1992

By: PSA Childcare Centre

Reference: ATL-Group-00834

Description: Records comprise papers relating to the running of the PSA Childcare Trust, including correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, newsletters, printed material, and ephemera. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 12 folder(s). 2 C90 cassette(s). 0.35 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Manuscript, typescript, printed matter, audio cassettes and digital material. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transfered to other sections from here..