Ballooning

Date: 1901-1904

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-o-054

Description: Views of Antarctica, including portraits of members of the British National Antarctic Expedition, aspects of their experiences on the expedition, and views of the Discovery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album entitled "Sketched by the sun", 245 x 165 mm

Date: [1900-1902]

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0428

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Balloon Corps Transport, with Lord Roberts' Army, advancing on Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph taken by Underwood & Underwood ca 1901. Inscriptions: Mat recto - left of image - Underwood & Underwood. New York. London. Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.; Mat recto - beneath image - Balloon Corps Transport, with Lord Roberts' Army, advancing on Johannesburg, South Africa. Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1960

By: Girven, Adam, active 1960

Reference: MS-Papers-3347

Description: Ascent by Oswald Wahrlich and Charles Christopulo in 1907 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1983 - 1985

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 2013

Reference: Eph-B-RECREATION-2013-01

Description: Flyer front shows a photograph of balloons in the air over Wairarapa farmland, with "Iwi the Kiwi", a balloon in the shape of a kiwi wearing an All Blacks uniform with silver fern logo, in the right foreground. The names of the sponsors of the event appear below: Wairarapa More FM, Wairarapa Times-Age, Carterton District Council, Marlborough Methode Traditionelle, Trust House Community Enterprise, Resene Paints, Destination Wairarapa, Masterton District Council, Printcraft, and Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferry. The verso shows the programme of events including a mass ascension of balloons, a parade, balloon races, and announces the launch of the "Iwi the Kiwi" balloon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of flyer, 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 2000-2009

By: New Zealand Community Trust

Reference: Eph-D-RECREATION-2000/2009

Description: Includes: 2000: Griffin's Summer City Cookie Bear's Picnic. Botanic Garden, 23 January 2000 2001: Why not walk to school? EECA. 30 minutes a day Push Play [2001] 2003: L J Hooker. Mr Hooker Bear's Teddy Bears' Picnic. Botanic Garden, 26 January 2003 (2 copies) Porirua City Council. Walking and cycling tracks in Porirua City 2004: Genesis Wairarapa International Balloon Fiesta, 24-28 March 2004 (2 copies) 2006: Meridian Energy Summer City Teddy Bears' Picnic. Wellington Botanic Garden, 29 January 2006. (2 copies) North Shore Lifestyle City. What's on; Summer on the Shore [2006?] 2007: Meridian Energy Summer City Teddy Bears' picnic. Wellington Botanic Garden, 28 January 2007 (2 copies) Wellington City Council. Feeling great! Recreation, fitness & outdoors [2007] 2008: Push Play Outdoor Festival, 1 October - 8 November 2008. Programme out now! 2009: Interislander. Teddy bears' Picnic, in association with NZCT Summer City Wellington '09. Wellington Botanic garden, 1 February 2009 NZ Community Trust. Summer City Wellington '09 [2009] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to around 600 mm.

Date: 5 Apr 1995 - 2 Dec 1996 - 05 Apr 1995 - 02 Dec 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Wells, Barbara Winifred, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0438-14

Description: Barbara Wells was born in Herne Bay, Kent in 1935. Recalls her father was a railway ganger. Mentions a business course at Canterbury (England) and bombing of Canterbury during World War II. Describes her first job, meeting her future husband, having four children and going to Malta with husband Peter who was in the Royal Navy. Notes his parents wrote glowing letters from New Zealand and she and Peter emigrated in 1965. Recalls living with his parents before getting a state house. Describes adapting to a new country. Comments on the confidence of New Zealand children. Describes weekends at Waimarama and Waipatiki beaches. Talks about running the country store at Putorino for two years, moving to Rotorua and running a business, and moving to Hamilton. Talks about her marriage breakup. Describes returning to England for a year, working at an hotel and returning to NZ as she missed her family. Recalls returning to Rotorua, involvement in a country store with family members then going to Hawkes Bay. Describes becoming custodian of Duart House, the Hastings District Council house, which is used for weddings, dinners and meetings. Notes the house was donated by the Greenwood family. Mentions trips to England in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1985 and 1995. Discusses hot air ballooning. Recalls events that occured while she was running motels. Recalls her most recent trip to England, a family wedding in Europe and travel mainly in Switzerland and France. Compares British and New Zealand attitudes to hospitality. Comments on her job with a physiotherapist in Hastings and involvement in Women's Refuge and Budget Advisory. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2145. Search dates: 1935 - 1996

Date: 1960 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-SEWING-MACHINES-1900s

Description: Includes: 1965: D.I.C. Liberty sewing machines: automatic sewer; plain sewer [ca 1965] 1970s: Bernina Sewing Machines (N.Z.) Ltd. The balloon story [A history of ballooning in New Zealand. 1970s] 1978: Singer Sewing & Knitting Centres. 127th birthday sale at Singer; the celebrations are on with super savuings all through July [1978?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes up to 450 mm.

Date: 1950-1965

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs : An Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Sports and Pastimes Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-2000-04

Description: Includes badminton, ballooning, ballroom dancing, men's and women's indoor basketball, women's outdoor basketball, billiards and snooker, indoor bowls Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1911

By: Greig, James, 1936-1986

Reference: PAColl-3900

Description: Ballooning, parachuting and family photographs Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-166126-F, 1/2-52782-F to 1/2-52794-F Quantity: 13 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: n d

From: Hunt family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0221-7

Description: Notebook includes a photograph identifed as showing James Glaisher on left and Henry Coxwell on right, in a balloon basket. Photograph probably taken in mid to late 1860s (information provided by Caroline Marten, 15/4/05). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Notebook probably once belonged to Mrs F E Hunt

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0020652

Description: Shows two men looking at a hot air balloon ressembling the head of Gerry Brownlee, National MP for Ilam and Leader of the House. Context: A hot air balloon festival "Balloons over Waikato" ran between 28 March and 1 April 2012. On 21 March Gerry Brownlee said during a parliamentary debate that Finnish people are uneducated and disrespectful to women. This sparked outrage in Finland (Stuff 26 March 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0020651

Description: Shows three people in hot air balloon looking down at traffic. Context: On 25 March 2012 new traffic rules required all traffic turning right to give way to a vehicle coming from the opposite direction and turning left. NZ Transport Agency public education program featured a red car and blue car. A hot air balloon festival "Balloons over Waikato" ran from 28 March to 1 April 2012 despite concern over ballooning industry safety practices following the crash of a scenic hot air balloon flight in Carterton on 7 January 2012 killing 11 people. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027691

Description: Cartoon depicts people standing in the basket of a hot air balloon on the ground labelled 'politics'. Its sail is made of all the colours of New Zealand's political parties. A man tells them if they wish to take off to just "start talking". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027722

Description: Cartoon depicts a hot air balloon over dry arid farland. Two people inside the basket are unlucky in their search for rain. Refers to drought being declared in Northland and drought concerns in Waikato. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0026597

Description: Cartoon shows three politicians, New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key,Transport Minister, Bill English, and an unidentified politician, standing in a hot air balloon basket, blowing at the balloon to keep it up. The balloon is labelled 'Asset sales' and the basket is labelled 'Govt' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1958

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-133-050

Description: Shows Minister of Finance Arnold Nordmeyer and Prime Minister Walter Nash in a balloon floating above a crowd of worried people. Nordmeyer is holding an attache case marked Budget. Possibly a reference to Nordmeyer's 'Black Budget'. The title is a pun on 'Around the world in 80 days' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 450 x 301 mm Provenance: Donation:

Date: 1890

From: New Zealand Graphic & Ladies Journal

By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: PUBL-0126-1890-002

Description: A view of the Lancaster Park Grounds, Christchurch, with the main grandstand to the right, a group of three men standing, talking in the foreground, four soldiers reclining on the grass to the left, and a crowd standing around Captain Lorraine's balloon, in which Professor Jackson made an ascent from the park. Captain Lorraine was the professional name of Auckland-born balloonist, David Mahoney. He died as a result of a later ascent from Lancaster Park in November 1899 Extended Title - From New Zealand graphic and ladies journal. Vol 6, No. 28, July 1890, page 3 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, on page of newspaper