Shannon
Wartime oral history. Interview with Neil Smith
Date: March - April 1997
By: Smith, Neil Gibson, 1921-2002
Reference: OHColl-1575-01
Description: An interview with Neil Smith about his experiences as a conscientious objector in New Zealand during World War Two. Speaks of his detainment in military defaulter camps 1942 - 1946. The interview was conducted by Dylan Kirschberg for his third form social studies oral history assignment at Auckland Grammar School, filmed by Liz Kirschberg. Title supplied by Library. Interviewer - Dylan Kirschberg. Camera operator - Liz Kirschberg. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract(s) Available - awaiting processing.. Search dates: 1997
Maori Women's Welfare League - Wairarapa District Council, Hanana Isolated Branch, Kahu...
Date: 1952-1968
From: Maori Women's Welfare League : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1396-070
Description: Contains administrative and memebrship records of various branches of the Maori Women's Welfare League, and related correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Tourist post cards
Date: ca 1900-ca 1925
From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-6712-4
Description: Most of the images in this collection are photographic postcards. The largest group are of the Wairakei thermal area taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Others are of Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa, Shannon, a view of the Wellington wharves and Custom House, Mount Egmont, and the Skippers road. One group are of the war memorial erected by Roseneath School, Wellington. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Gabites & Beard, architects :County Town Office, Shannon. Job no. 424. December 1967.
Date: 1967
From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[51 volumes of architectural plans]
By: Gabites and Beard (Firm)
Reference: E-928-f-027
Description: Includes exterior perspective drawing, site plan and drainage, floor plans, elevation of court wallroof framing plan, ceiling framing plan, details of units A to K, schedule of doors and interior finishes, plan of floor slab and upstands, plan of block courses. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Red bound volume of diazo prints, red spine, 510 x 285 mm.
Garden diary
Date: 1943-1944
From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-9479-2
Description: Details daily activities in detention camp garden, vegetable crop produced, weather etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Album relating to World War I
Date: 1914-1917
From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1552
Description: Photograph album compiled by R V Kay for his future wife Sybil. Includes photographs of automobile travel, gardens, picnics, parties, golf, suspension bridges, motorcycles, New Zealand soldiers on troopship, military training in England, soldiers at Stonehenge and family and friends. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Sybil, with love from Reg Aug '17 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm
Wylde, Henry James ca 1850-1933 :Plan of part of street to be closed under 'The Public ...
Date: 1904
By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944; Wylde, Henry James, 1850?-1933; Grover, Raymond Frank, 1931-2019
Reference: MapColl-832.4397gbbd/1904/Acc.36351
Description: Cadastral map of part of George Street and Bryce Street, Shannon, showing the surveyed section of George Street that is to be closed under the Public Works Act, highlighted green. Shows immediately surrounding blocks with numbered sections, those visible are all owned by James Wallace (465-469 and 439, 440, 444, 446, 448 and 450). Map signed by HJ Wylde, Authorised surveyor, 2 Dec 1904. Ink annotation on map declaring Horowhenua Council Council chairman authority for road closure (unsigned). Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 584], 47 x 51.2 cm. Provenance: Donated by Raymond Grover.
Notes and personal accounts (part iii)
Date: Apr 1945
From: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6309-19
Description: Detailed diary entries from various inmates at Whitanui; also includes pamphlet by NZCER on standardized tests Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Garden reports
Date: 1943-1945
From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-9479-1
Description: Reports on vegetable gardens at the detention camp. Details growth of crops, surpluses, reasons for success and otherwise Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Cooper, E & T :Album of photographs of the Mangahao Electric Power Station, Shannon, ea...
Date: 1922, 1923
By: Cooper, Enid, active 1974?; Cooper, Thornhill, active 1974
Reference: PA1-o-108
Description: Shows construction of powerhouse, and dams at Mangahao and Arapeti Other Titles - Cooper album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 22x17 cm red buckram covers entitled "From my camera" in green slip-case
Papers relating to conscientious objection
Date: [1941-1987]
From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-7655-02
Description: Correspondence and other papers relating to Megget's time as a conscientious objector in World War Two including including reunions of detainees (1987-1994) and notebook of carpentry instructions (1943). The papers relating to Whitanui include minutes of the Whitanui and Paiaka educational committees, the inter-camp educational committee, the Shannon inter-camp committee, materials required for vocational training classes and WEA correspondence. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Encylopaedia of NZ. Geographic Section - Research notes arranged by place - R-S
Date: [196-]
From: Dollimore, Edward Stewart, 1904-1973 : Papers
Reference: 83-145-114
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Letters from Wilf Foote
Date: 14 Dec 1942-2 Jan 1944
From: Gormack, Robert Sydney (Bob), 1918-2006 : Papers
Reference: 91-083-1
Description: Comprises six letters from Wilf Foote to Gormack written from the Defaulters' Detention Camp at Whenuaroa near Rotorua and from Paiaka near Shannon (1942-1944); also hand-drawn Christmas card from Foote Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 17)
Date: [1940-1944]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks
Reference: MS-Papers-6061-18
Description: Contents comprise scheme of classification of Horowhenua and other adzes; examples of types and varieties of this classification; adze types VIB, IIA, IIIA, IA or IIIA, IIB all found in the Horowhenua area; locality plan of Muhunoa East adzes and other data; adze, type VB, from Kingstone Rd, Shannon and locality plan; adze, type IB, from gravel plain east of Levin and locality plan; type VA, from Queens Street East, Levin and type IIA from dunes north of Lake Papaitonga and locality plan; adzes, type VIB from sandstone upland north of Papaitonga, type IIIA from Muhunoa East, Ohau, and VA from Tahapu Rd, Manakau Arrangement: Notebook no 1 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).
Annals of the Tararua Range
Date: [19--]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries
Reference: MS-Papers-0261-01/4
Description: Untitled small notebook containing certain agreements re style for `Horowhenua'. Reporter's notebook labelled `Tararua', containing list of "Illustrations", and pencilled notes on Tararua trips. Exercise book containing large number of loose sketches and maps of Central Hawke's Bay; Hastings and Cape Kidnappers; Palmerston North (fossil bed); Plimmerton area; Lyttelton and Quail Island; Port Nicholson/Hutt/Wainuiomata; Wairekei Geyser Valley; Kapiti Island; Foxton/Shannon area Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces].
Correspondence
Date: 1941-1945
From: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6309-16
Description: Letters written by Scott describing his experiences in detention camp to his family from Mt Crawford, Wi Tako, Whenuaroa (1941-1943); from Whitanui (1944, 1945); inward letters to Tom and Lou Scott from C T [?] Furey, Whitanui, Sigmund (Rotorua) and from Sigmund to Mac from Auckland; anonymous letter to Mike re camp conditions (n d); and letter from Rex, Linton Military Camp, to Scott Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Specifications and contracts - Shannon, Church of England
Date: 1898
From: Swan family : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0109-013
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Sleepy Hollow Farm, Shannon
Date: 1976-1977
From: GirlGuiding New Zealand : Records
Reference: 88-130-09/01
Description: Papers relating to the bequest of Mr & Mrs J S Johnston to the Girl Guide Association of the 85 acre farm known as Sleepy Hollow Farm Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript
Papers relating to conscientious objection
Date: [1942-1946]
From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-7655-08
Description: File relating to Megget's time in Whitanui Detention Camp; includes correspondence, notes, parole leave warrant, arts and crafts exhibition notice etc Other Titles - Defaulters' digest (1 Dec 1941) Other Titles - Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors' newsletter (1945, 1946) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Production of Sarsparella and other papers
Date: [1940-1946]
From: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6309-20
Description: Script for `Sarsparella', described as an extravagant pantomime in three spasms, and written by Scott and John McCreary (1942); rules relating to the control of defaulters' detention camps (1941) on verso of employment vouchers; `New Yorker' extract (12 May 1945); copies of testimonials from J J Stevenson, F C Lopdell, R G Lockhart, H B Kirk, S M Kemp, D Rust, R Sheffield; revision authority for Scott (1946); declarations re Scott for his release; copy of correspondence between Scott and R Semple; instructions for camp Other Titles - Sarsparilla In Jonathan Scott's `Harry's absence' the title of the production, `Sarsparella' is given as `Sarsparilla' Quantity: 1 folder(s).