Dinners and dining - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1976

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-673-113/114

Description: An elderly woman, Jeanne Renshaw, seated at a table Other Titles - Jeanne Beauchamp Inscriptions: Recto - Places in Thorndon where Katherine Mansfield lived. 88 Hobson St, 11 Tinakori Rd (now 23) KM and J Renshaw born there, 47 Fitzherbert Rd [i.e. Terrace]. Lived in only by her father after his 2nd marriage. Jean Renshaw, Katherine Mansfield's sister aged 84 at a dinner party given for her by Jeremy Commons and John [i.e. David] Carson-Parker at 36 Mcfarlane St, Mt Victoria, 9. xii. [19]76 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, pencil and ink inscriptions, 215 x 142 mm

Date: October 1998

From: NBR New Zealand Opera :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1041

Description: Costumes for opera, Otello, produced by the National Opera of Wellington, September/October 1998. Gala dinner on stage, October 1998. Prints contained in un-archival plastic housing which is already beginning to get sticky (2009). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1961

By: Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-WFS-1950/1960s

Description: Includes: 1955: Banquet to be held at Tangi Moana, 50 Queen's Drive, Houghton Bay, 15 November 1955. Invitation card 1958: Monde Marie Coffee Shop requests the pleasure of the company of Tony Murray-Clive, esq at a sherry party to mark its opening on Monday 24th November [1958]. Invitation card 1959?: Typecript blue invitation card signed J H W Peterson Cloer, for a monthly dinner on Thursday 26 March [1959?] 1961: Wellington Wine and Food Society Inc. Grand Hotel Wellington, 25 February 1961 [Menu] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card, mainly menus

Date: 1955 - 1959

Reference: Eph-B-DINING-WFS-1950s

Description: Includes: Undated: Catering & Hotel Publications Limited, 14 Collingwood Street, Wellington N.4., New Zealand. Box 2751. Letterhead sheet (2 copies) Facade de France. Box 2751 Wellington New Zealand. Telephone 27-464. 125 Grant Road, Wellington. [Letterhead paper] Monsieur Robert. Personal (Envelope with illustration of girl balancing fruit tray on her head) (2 copies) 1953: Inaugural dinner of the Wellington Wine and Food Society, Saturday 7 November [1953]. Invitation sheet (2 copies) 1955: First dinner of the Council of the Wine and Food Society of Wellington. Helen Lowry Hall, 31 Messines Road Karori Wellington, 27 August 1955. Menu Second dinner of the Wine and Food Society of Wellington. Saturday September 3rd 1955, at Helen Lowry Hall, 31 Messines Road, Karori. Wellington New Zealand. Menu with guest list on back page (3 copies) Third dinner of the Wine and Food Society of Wellington. Tuesday November 15th 1955, at Tangi Moana, 50 Queen's Drive Houghton Bay Wellington New Zealand. Menu with guest list on back page (4 copies: 26, 28, 32 and 120 of a limited edition) Monsieur Robert (chef Robert Beasley). 14 eme Decembre '55. [Handwritten dinner menu] for Mrs A Mackintosh "et cinq amis distinguees" 1956: Ticket announcing a gala evening in the French style, 14 July 1956. 1957: Monsieur Robert. 29 eme Mai 1957. [Handwritten menu]. (3 copies: Mr A.D. & Mme McIntosh; Mr D A Bryan O.B.E. with 3 friends; Lesley Stohn & Mmd Stohn and with 3 friends) Monsieur Robert. Juin 1957. W Basil Honour avec quatre collegues [Handwritten menu] Monsieur Robert. Menu a la carte. 14 eme juillet 1957. (3 copies including two with pencilled name at top right: Staffan, Parker) Monsieur Robert. 26 juillet 1957. L S Stohn et Mme Stohn avec quatres convives. Menu 1958: French gala day, Monday 14th July [1958?] at Monsieur Robert. Head waiter Raymond; wine butler Beresford. Card (2 copies) Monsieur Robert, 125 Grant Road. The membership is now open once again ... October 1958 [Small card] R J Beasley requests the pleasure of the company of .... at a private pre-Christmas sherry party to be held at Monsieur Robert, 125 Grant Road. 12 December 1958. Invitation card (2 copies) The Wine & Food Society of Wellington. [List of events Oct-Dec 1958?] 1959: Dinner by the New Zealand military adviser in honour of Military Advisors attending the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation Tenth Military Advisers' Conference. "Monsieur Robert", 125 Grant Road, Wellington, 3 April 1959. Menu & toast list (2 copies) Dinner by the Secretary of External Affairs in honour of delegates attending the Fifth meeting of the Council of Ministers of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation. "Monsieur Robert", 125 Grant Road Wellington, 8 April 1959. Menu & toast list (2 copies) Monsieur Robert. The private dining club will re-open on Tuesday 3rd February 1959. Flyer Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card, mainly menus

Date: 1960 - 2011 - 1966

By: Loretta (Restaurant)

Reference: Eph-C-DINING-2017-01

Description: Daily menu for a restaurant at 181 Cuba Street, listing Bites, Woodfired pizza, Bits + pieces, First, For one or more, Wet risotto, Pasta, A pie, Salads + grains, Sweet things. Text is superimposed over an image of a rooster. Times for the evening's sunset and the following morning's sunrise are given at the top. Day 313 for 2017 was 9 November 2017. The restaurant printed a menu daily. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet, 420 x 297 mm Provenance: Donated by Barbara Lyon, Wellington, in 2017

Date: 1998-1999

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-56

Description: Farwell dinner for Dennis Haswell, retiring chairman of directors of architectural firm Stephenson & Turner, at the Wellington Club, 29 March 1999. Trip on a boat in Auckland Harbour during the 1998 annual general meeting of Stephenson and Turner. The ATS Raiders under 11 soccer team, East Coast Bays Soccer league. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 29 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

Date: 27 April 1949

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10038-4

Description: A public dinner in the Winter Show buildings, Wellinton. This event was a Wells System money raising promotion probably for the parish of St George's, Seatoun. In one photograph Mr E M (Everard Maunsell ?) Stace is speaking, and in the other the speaker is the vicar Jack Rushworth. The Wells System was developed in the United States as a way of raising money. It was applied in the Anglican and other churches in New Zealand in the 1950s, in particular as the means for establishing the idea of planned giving to support the church, or to raise money for projects such as new church buildings or parish halls. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1998

From: St George's Church (Seatoun, Wellington) : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1782

Description: Exterior and interior views of St George's Church, Seatoun, Wellington. Centenial birthday cake. People at events celebrating the centenial of St George's Church. These include a dinner. Many of the people depicted in the photographs are identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1972-1980s]

From: Curriculum Oral History Project Committee: Photographs relating to the Curriculum Development Unit/Division

Reference: PA1-q-881

Description: Album contains photographs relating to the Curriculum Development Unit/Division of the Department of Education, collected by those who worked at the unit in Wellington. Photographs chiefly taken circa 1972 to circa 1980s. Photographer(s) unidentified. Some views (possibly many) taken by Frank Mahoney who worked in the Unit. Some photographs identified and/or dated. Chiefly shows staff at social functions; Christmas parties, lunches, morning tea, farewells, a clown costume event, and a pot luck dinner. Includes views of the staff on a marae visit circa 1980s, the demolition of a large villa (possibly the former workplace), and large group portraits. Identified staff are Doug Gunn, Jack Cox, Don Welch, Dudley Wills, Ormond Tate (back view), Bill Mabbett, Barbara Mabbett, Lyall Perris, Don Ferguson, Paul Vincent, Harvey McQueen, Diane Crew, Jane Mahoney, Russell Aitken, Bob Stothart, Steve Benson, David McDonald, Michael Keith, Lorne Davidson, Chris Davidson, Helen Shaw, Peter Bleakley, Bruce Ramage, Guy Jansen, Delphine Cox, Anne McKinnon, Ken Millar, David Wood, Gill Patterson, Jenny Aitken, Roy Phillips, Margaret Campbell, Judy Chambers, Gail Andrews, Ray Hollis, Barbara Collins, Ro Griffiths, Andy Begg, Bevan Werry, Russell Frampton, Ian Bassett, Janet Winter, Bev Abbott, Peter Morrow, Margaret Mooney, and Beverley Bell. Views include men wearing shorts and long socks, a man smoking a pipe, and a man using a polaroid camera. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red vinyl album with floral gilt motif on corner of front cover, 31 x 35cm

Date: 2017-2018

By: Hell Revolution Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-2017/2018

Description: Comprises menus and fliers of octavo size, advertising cafeterias and restaurants from 2017 to 2018, including the following businesses: Black Barn Bistro (Hawke's Bay) Lotus (Hawke's Bay) English Dhaba (Linden) 88Ra Cafe (Rotorua) Blue Baths (Rotorua) Wild One (Tauranga) Aro Cafe (Wellington) Buster's Wood Fired Pizza (Wellington) The Curry Pot (Wellington) Elements (Wellington) Fratelli (Wellington) Glasshouse (Wellington) Hell (Wellington) Hippopotamus (Wellington) Ka Pai (Wellington) Maranui Cafe (Wellington) Mr Go's (Wellington) The Library (Wellington) Sal's (Wellington) Swagat India (Wellington). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 48 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 31 August 1936

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: MS-Papers-12046-29

Description: Contains two copies of the menu and a photograph from "Staff Tea" at the Mayfair Cabaret in 1936. Text on menu cover reads "Staff Tea Tendered by R. Hannah & Co. Ltd to mark the occassion of the retirement of Miss S. MacDermott'. One menu includes typed copy of grace read during the dinner. Photograph taken by W. Hall Raine depicts guests in formal attire, seated at three decorated long tables inside Mayfair Cabaret. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Two cardboard booklets, both 17 x 11.5cm, and one photograph.

Date: [ca Dec 1958]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/4451to4452-3-F

Description: Pencarrow lighthouse keeper Mr R G Jones house, his two children are on the verandah. Photograph taken circa December 1958 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post article 27 December 1958 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 5.6 x 5.6 cm

Date: 1896

From: [Menus, up to octavo size. 1800s]

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1896-01

Description: Menu with two sides opening to reveal the inside spread, which displays a central menu in English and French. The inside left panel contains a poem about and an illustration of "our good old dog fox" ("Still going strong"), and the inside right panel has the seating plan for the 18 diners: R M Simpson, C P Skerrett, B Y Goring, T H Hanna, H D Crawford, D G A Cooper, A P Buller, J Webster, C Ewen, J Coates, Cap. Preston, N W Werry, T Y Wardrop, W Leo Buller, R T Turnbull, J Cahill, L Tripp, J C Hanna. 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 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card, gilt-edged, 84 x 215 mm, folded to 87 x 107 mm.

Date: 1943

By: Kwok, Frank William, 1929-2014

Reference: 1/2-174038-F

Description: Photograph of a Tung Jung Association dinner at their hall, 26 Frederick Street, Wellington, taken 1943 by an unidentified photographer. Shows people seated at four long tables. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 20 August 1962

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

Reference: EP/1962/2417-F

Description: Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand, and other diners at a State luncheon in Parliament Buildings, Wellington. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 20th of August 1962 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 1/20

Date: [ca Dec 1958]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/4451to4452-4-F

Description: Pencarrow lighthouse keeper Mr R G Jones, having a meal with his wife and two children. Photograph taken circa December 1958 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post article 27 December 1958 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 5.6 x 5.6 cm

Date: 1935

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-915-q-029

Description: Shows six figures seated at a long table. Rod Cook's notes suggest that the location is possibly Te Ore Ore. Loose in pages of scrapbook. Photographed in E-918-q, 112/165. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on linen, 234 x 320 mm.