Brussels

Date: [Circa 1850s-1900s?]

From: Parker, Robert, 1847-1937 :Cachemaille albums. Scenic views of India, England, New Zealand and Europe

By: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898

Reference: PA1-f-016

Description: Scenic views of various countries, including India, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand. The New Zealand images are chiefly in the Christchurch region. Many of the English and European images were photographed by English photographer Francis Frith as part of Frith's Series. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, black cover embossed with gold initials "R.P.", 32 x 38 cm

Date: [1910s]

Reference: PA1-q-187

Description: Postcards from the 1910s, with one of the ship RMS Ormonde at the beginning. Most of the views are taken in Britain and Europe, with a few of Australia (inserted in an envelope in a pocket inside front cover, and at the end of the album), and one of the Invercargill water tower and water works (p 046). The British postcards are all tourist views of landscapes, university colleges (Cambridge), churches and other historical buildings, including Hampton Court Palace. Many of the European postcards are again of historical buildings and landscapes, but one sequence shows scenes of war damage in Belgium (pages 058-076). Many of the views show the environment before the first World War, with the same view at the end of the war. Examples of these are at Dixmunde [i.e. Diksmuide, or Dixmude], Ypres, and Ostende [i.e. Oostende]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, stylised decoration of flowers in green and black, entitled `Post Card Album' in golden lettering; 28.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1951, 1957

From: New Zealand Nurses Association : Records

Reference: 79-032-17/32

Description: Also includes loose letter and FNIP Report for 1951 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1920 - 1925

From: [Ephemera relating to World War I. 1919-1930]

By: Thomas Cook Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1920s-01

Description: Pamphlet lists tours to: 1. Malines and Louvain with Tervueren 2. Namur and Dinant via the Meuse and Molignee Valleys 3. Ypres and the British front 4. City of Brussels 5. Waterloo and the Forest of Soignes Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset, on sheet 165 x 280 mm, folded to 165 x 93 mm.

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Fallaise, P W, active 1917-1933

Reference: PA1-q-057

Description: Album of photographs interpersed with coloured, and black & white postcards, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera. The photographs relate to an area shown in many of Gerald Rainsford Craddock's albums at Tauraroa; to outings by boy scouts; and to various sites in Egypt and the Far East during World War II. These include an image of a bridge of boats at Baghdad, and photographs taken on an air armada from Egypt to the Far East in January 1942. A few coloured photographs are taken at the Blue Baths in Rotorua in 1965. The postcards are taken by various photographers including Muir and Mooodie (Dunedin, New Zealand), David James Aldersley (Wellington), and P W Fallaise (Sydney). Most of the postcards show scenes in Sydney, but there are a number set in New Zealand, some in Brussels, and some in Egypt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover, grey pages, 28 x 38 cm

Date: 1951

From: New Zealand Nurses Association : Records

Reference: 79-032-17/30

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1945 - 1967

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Natzka

Description: Includes programmes and flyers for concerts overseas: [1940s?]: Palais des Beaux-Arts. Grand gala de l'U.F.A.C. 1914-1918, sous le haut patronage de S.M. la Reine Elisabeth [ie Queen Elisabeth of Belgium], en reconnaissance aux artistes dramatiques et lyriques de Belgique. (With Frank Olsen, Gaby Altman, Oscar Natzka, Michel Zovianoff, Ruth Naylor, Ballet d'Henry VIII, etc). Programme 1945: Harold Holt Sunday concerts. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Royal Albert Hall, 1 April 1945. Programme 1946: London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Warwick Braithwaite; soloists Oscar Natzka and Rhea Perren. Harold Holt Sunday concert. Royal Albert Hall, 5 May 1946. Programme Henry Wood promenade concerts. 52nd season. Programme (Oscar Natzka featured in concert for 14 August 1946; other NZers are listed as featuring on other days) Ayr Amateur Orchestral Society. Oscar Natzka, bass. First subscription concert. Ayr Town Hall, 19 November 1946. Programme Season 1946-47 International Celebrity subscription concerts. Programme 1947: Borough of Colne. 22nd series of Corporation concerts. With Ceinwen Rowlands, Oscar Natzka. Municipal Hall, 12 January 1947. Programme Ian Johnson presents "A breath of fresh air". (Concert). Royal Albert Hall, 26 January 1947. Programme The Co-Operative Society. Workmen's Hall Ystradmynach, 22 January 1947. Programme London Music Festival. the first annaul London Music Festival 1947. Season booklet London Music Festival. With Elda Ribetti, Oscar Natzka, Raffi Petrossian. Harringay Arena, 14 June 1947. Programme Gala concert at Arundel Castle, (with David Ponsonby, Elda Ribetti, Campoli and Oscar Natzka) 5 July [1947]. Programme 1948: Singers' Club of Cleveland Ohio. 151st concert. Severance Hall, 7 December 1948. Programme Concordia sixty-ninth annual fall concert. Guest artist Oscar Natzka. Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 10 December 1948. Programme 1949: The Community Concert Association presents Oscar Natzka basso; Walter Bricht at the piano. [New York?] 1949. Program Ottawa Choral Union presents "Chorally yours" with Oscar Natzka. Capitol Theatre, 2 February 1949. Programme Singers' Club of Cleveland Ohio. 152nd concert. Severance Hall, 29 March 1949. Programme Ottawa Choral Union presents "The messiah". With Frances James, Mary VanKrik, Thomas Johnston, Oscar Natzka. Odeon Theatre, 14 December 1949. Programme 1950: The Community Concert Association presents Oscar Natzka basso; Joseph Seiger at the piano. [New York?] 1950. Program New York City Opera Company. "Die Meistersinger", Aida", and other operas. New York City Center of Music and Drama, October 1950. Programme for season 1951: The Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Tuesday series sixth concert. State Fair Auditorium, Dallas Texas, 23 January 1951. Programme Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra. Fourth subscription concert. Fort Wayne, 24 January 1951. Programme National Symphony Orchestra, Washington DC. Howard Mitchell, conductor. 14-21-25 February 1951. Programme 1967: Oscar Natzka memorial concert. Te Awamutu Arts Festival 67. With Hannah Tatana, Anne Rasmussen, George Wikaira, Susan Smith. Regent Theatre, Te Awamutu, 6 November 1967. programme Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets and flyers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 5 Sep 2008 - 05 Sep 2008

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: O'Neil, Barry Desmond, 1956-

Reference: OHInt-0975-16

Description: Interview with Barry O'Neil, born in Feilding in 1956. Talks about growing up on farms near Feilding and Te Puke, and studying veterinary science at Massey University, graduating in 1978. Mentions working in a veterinary practice in the Bay of Plenty, then travelling through Asia, and working in the United Kingdom for two years, becoming interested in exotic diseases. Comments on working in a practice in Tauranga when he returned until he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) in 1984. Describes his job as MAF veterinarian at the port of Tauranga, inspecting animals before they were loaded onto ships, and having responsibility for disease control. Mentions trips to the United States to accompany horses coming to New Zealand. Refers to going to work in Wellington in 1989, and being appointed as New Zealand Veterinary Counsellor in Brussels in 1991. Talks about this role, his responsibility for Africa and the Middle East as well as the European Union (EU), and the impact of EU directives on New Zealand trade. Recalls his involvement in GATT (General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade) negotiations and the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement under the World Trade Organisation. Comments on his involvement with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE, International Office of Epizootics), its role in setting international standards for trade in animals and animal products, and New Zealand dependence on trade agreements made through OIE. Talks about returning to New Zealand and being chief veterinary officer in MAF 1994-1999. Comments on concerns with BSE [bovine spongioform encephalopathy], rabbbit calicivirus and fruit fly infestations during this period and how they have affected the way biosecurity is managed. Recalls the introduction of infringement notices and instant fines. Backgrounds the making of the television series Border Patrol. Comments on the introduction of x-ray machines and detector dogs at the border. Refers to working with Customs when non-biosecurity risks are found with x-rays. Discusses the Biosecurity Act 1993 and how it is working. Refers to the appointment of a Minister of Biosecurity in 1999, the establishment of the Biosecurity Council, and the lack of investment in raising public awareness at the time. Comments on the division of MAF's regulatory authority into two groups, biosecurity and food regulatory, in 1999, and being appointed Group Director of the Biosecurity Authority. Comments on the establishment of Biosecurity New Zealand in 2005 and its roles and accountability with regard to pest management being clarified. Explains the thinking behind the merger of MAF Quarantine Service and Biosecurity New Zealand in 2007 to form MAF Biosecurity New Zealand, and becoming deputy director. Mentions the relationship between Biosecurity New Zealand and the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the assistance provided to Pacific nations for biosecurity and border control. Reflects on why Customs and Biosecurity services should not be merged in New Zealand. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001105 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract, form. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001104, OHA-7311. Search dates: 1956 - 2008

Date: 11 Nov 1999

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: Van Kregten, Hans, active 1999; Wevers, Maarten Laurens (Sir), 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0484-02

Description: Maarten Wevers was born in the Netherlands in 1952. Gives details of his family's background and reasons for their emigration in 1953. Notes that his mother was English. Recalls travelling out on the `Rangitata' and adapting to New Zealand society. Comments on his awareness of being Dutch. Talks about family life and growing up in a home designed by his architect father. Mentions his practice in Masterton. Discusses having no relatives in New Zealand other than immediate family. Recalls his enthusiasm for sport, particularly golf, and being a Wairarapa representative. Talks about family discussions on political issues, including Vietnam, and political involvement at Victoria University. Describes doing maths and economics degrees, going overseas, living in Holland and learning Dutch. Comments on living in Holland and returning to New Zealand. Describes getting a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and arranging the tour to New Zealand of Princess Beatrix and Dutch parliamentarians. Talks about meeting and marrying his wife Louise, going to Japan from 1980-1985 and being ambassador there from 1994 to 1998. Recalls being private secretary for David Lange, travelling with the Prime Minister, his role as a public servant and the excitement of the job. Talks about working in Brussels. Describes chairing the officials' meeting of APEC in Auckland in 1998, the impact of the East Timor crisis on the APEC summit and vice versa and the unique character of APEC. Sums up his feelings about his Dutch heritage. Interviewer(s) - Hans Van Kregten Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2704.

Date: 1975 - 1978

Reference: Eph-D-RELIGION-C-1900/1979

Description: Includes: 1975: EuroFest '75. Eurofest is for you! We invite you to come - with your friends [Belgium, 1975] 1978: HCJB (Radio station, Quito, Ecuador). Menu for good listening; HCJB's English program service. March '78 Supplement to "Wavelength, May-June '78" [1978] Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs

Date: 1991-1992

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-22

Description: Published reports from working groups relating to Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, (PIANC) Other - original file - NZCS ARC AG01 S03 F03 T01-11 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Nov 1953-Apr 1954

From: Miller, S M, fl 1953 : Travel journals and letter

Reference: MSX-9145

Description: Journal relating S M Miller's travels in Germany, Belgium, France, and England between November 1953 to April 1954. Contains impressions of locations visited including Rhine River surroundings, Cologne, Aachen, Liege, Brussels, Paris, London and Stratford. Particular subjects and activities include vineyards, agriculture, hiking, destruction of buildings by bombing in World War II and the ongoing social effects of the war in Germany (food, shelter, attitudes), churches and other buildings, shopping, prices and costs, hostels, seeing Hitler's custom Mercedes, weather, art and art galleries, gardens, and monuments. Contains loose card with Scarlet Mistletoe illustration Quantity: 1 volume(s) with one enclosure of loose materials. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: 1923-1925

From: Gillies, Alexander, 1891-1982: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1973

Description: Photograph album compiled by Alexander Gillies, circa 1923-1925. Material relates to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, sightseeing in London, and a “Medical Tour” throughout continental Europe. Most prints include captions that identify locations or individuals. Some prints have been removed from album. Approximately 35 prints relate to the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925. Images show the exterior of Wembley Stadium, a man-made canal, brass bands, and views of exhibition pavilions (India, Burma, Palestine, East Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, British Malaya, and the Canadian Pacific). Other images show members of the British and Italian royal families visiting the exhibition, including King George V leaving in a carriage. Other British royalty photographed at the exhibition are Queen Mary, Prince Henry, the Duchess of York (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (Victor and Evelyn Cavendish), and Prince Arthur of Connaught. Photographs of Italian royalty show the King and Queen of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III and Elena of Montenegro). Material related to sightseeing in London includes three sets of tourist photographs showing famous sites and buildings around London. Other commercially produced photographs show “The King’s State Coach” and preparations for a court procession in the Royal Mews. Also contains one printed postcard advertising “Ye Olde George Inn, Southwark". Approximately 55 prints relate to a “Medical Tour arranged by Students International Union July - August 1925”. Images show medical equipment, hospitals and infirmaries in Leiden, Vienna, and Paris, as well as patients receiving treatments, including an “appendectomy under local anaesthetic” and “tuberculous children living on roof of hospital”. Other images show well-known buildings, sites, statues, and views of the places Gillies visited. These include: Leiden (Town Hall, geese, river and windmills); Potsdam (Sanssouci Park, the Orangery Palace, the New Palace); Berlin (Charlottenburg Gate, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Cathedral); Vienna (Rathaus, the Danube, museums and art galleries); Prague (public gardens); Paris (the Louvre, Versailles, Stade Pershing, "Statue to the Triumph of Medicine over Disease", "Grave of the Unknown Warrior"); Brussels (the Danube, Town Hall, Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula); Zurich (the Limmat); and Amsterdam (canals, Basilica of Saint Nicholas). Portraits of identified individuals include “Professor Barge, Leiden” and “Mrs Zoe Ashurst [Cawdry?] Club 20 Cavendish Square”. Other photographs of people show a sleeping toddler “left at the door of a public house while Mother gets a drink”, people queuing to see “Dr Fosdick at the City Temple” in London, and “street singers”. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 118 b&w original photographic prints and one postcard. Physical Description: One photograph album containing 118 black and white photographic prints, and one postcard, 25 x 31.5 cm.

Date: 1976, 1980

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6300-08

Description: Diaries for Aug to Sep 1976 kept by Freed while travelling in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Hamburg, Brussels, Paris, England (London, Kent), San Francisco and Jun 1980 while travelling in Trinidad Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1936

From: Moncrieff, Agnes Meikle, 1898-1988 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7492-02

Description: Comprises correspondence from Agnes Moncrieff to her mother in New Zealand regarding her work with the YWCA and travels in New York, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, England, Sri Lanka and India Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1911, 1916, 1940 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-040

Description: Photographs relating to military activities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes a series of photographs of the State Forest Air Patrol, Royal New Zealand Air Force, in 1947, and photographs of Captain J Forsyth at the Polish Army League premises in Palmerston North. Also includes photographs of soldiers, guns, Fort Ballance, Kallang Civil Airport at Singapore in 1950 and the helmet plate of the New Zealand Regular Force of 1880 to 1911. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1897

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

Reference: PA4-0683

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a colourful scene in Brussels, Belgium, taken by Underwood and Underwood ca. 1893. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - ....Catacombs, Brussells, Belgium. Copyright by Underwood and Underwood.; Recto - right of image - Underwood & Underwood. Publishers New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: 1941-[ca 1995]

From: Crook, Gordon, 1921-2011: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9986-3

Description: Includes:- Photographs of trips to Spain and Portugal, 1958-1959 Trip to Expo 58 (Brussels World Fair), Belgium. Beit Meri, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, 1942 and later. Friend with a child, possibly Morocco, ca 1960. Photographs taken by Linda Cocks during a trip to New York. Friends in England, 1960s. Gordon Crook holding a child, Damon Barnes, and Damon's mother, Rosina, 1960s. Photographs of children, a friend, and an art work, all in the form of cards, 1960s-1990s. Garden, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, 1941. Egyptians pulling a dhow along a canal, Egypt, 1941. Weatherboard hotel, England. Stone man on New Zealand beach, 1994. Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7071

Description: Photographs taken in the 1960s by John Ingle, when travelling from the outskirts of Lucerne, through France and Belgium to England. Views include countryside near Lucerne; May 1st holiday "fishing day" at a village in France; Government Buildings in Brussels, and the town centre; the Lion Monument at Waterloo. Views of England include a map of England, Wales and Scotland; Hampton Court and gardens; Kew Gardens showing a pagoda, pond, trees and bluebells; Windsor Castle; a map of south-west England; and the town of Mevagissey in Cornwall, with scenes of dicers and the coast. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069817-F

Description: New Zealand Liaison Officers and drivers in Brussels studying map. Photograph taken by 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm