Shipping - Pacific Area

Date: 1983

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-200

Description: Shows Muldoon standing up to his waist in a pond holding on to an ailing duck. Looking on are a group of Pacific Islanders. Extended Title - This is not a dead duck, it's just very lame and I refuse to let it sink - anyone know how to give a duck mouth-to-mouth resuscitation? Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink and crayon on paper, 332 x 420 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1840-1902

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0062

Description: Unpublished history, describing the establishment of the company, its Circular Saw Shipping Line and Pacific island trade interests. Includes references to Handley Bathurst Sterndale and `Bully' Hayes, the `seige' of the Suwarrow fort built by Sterndale, and the 1890 Pacific cruise by Robert Louis Stevenson on the `Janet Nicol'. The history finishes in 1902. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1950 - 1960

Reference: Eph-E-SHIP-1955-01

Description: Advertises the Matson Lines' cruises, showing photographic scenes at the various locations visited. Shows illustrations of the passengers' quarters and public areas on board. Includes plans of the all the decks. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on folded brochure.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on brochure, 603 x 900 mm. (unfolded) Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books, catalogue 65, June 2000, lot no 15.

Date: [1990-1997]

By: Ernst, Pauline Fargher, active 1990-1997

Reference: MS-Papers-5934

Description: Comprises copy of `Book relics from HMS Bounty, comprised of two monographs' by Ernst, extract from `Voyage of HMS Imogene', two letters by Ernst about her research and about queries re some items from the Turnbull collection, MS-Papers-0145-21 and MS-2148, and a list of items cited from Turnbull collections under correspondence, art and manuscripts. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (photocopies)

Date: 1928

By: New Zealand. Cook Islands Dept.

Reference: Eph-D-SHIP-1928-01

Description: Plan shows decks A, B, C and D. Deck A has a smoke room and a room for the wireless operator and purser. Deck B, the bridge deck, has the officers' quarters and two lifeboats. Deck C, the upper deck, has the dining saloon, bathrooms and seven passengers' quarters. Deck D, the raised quarter, contains lifeboats. Two copies held. Other Titles - Samoa, Niue and Norfolk Islands. Berthing plan. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 403 x 660 mm. Provenance: One copy purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in May 2015.

Date: 1925

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1925-03

Description: Pamphlet advertising the attraction of Honolulu with sepia photographs of the island, and of the deck and second-class dining room of the R.M.M.S. Aorangi. Date estimated from the date the Aorangi began its service to Honolulu. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pages of pamphlet folded to 225 x 198 mm.

Date: 1948, 1956

From: Boivin, Victor George, -1964: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12821-1

Description: Three items comprising a journal numbered 1 and dated 1948, a set of speaking or travel notes related to Europe, and a flip notebook related to the ‘Joyita’ investigation dated through February 1956. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 3 notebooks.

Date: 1911

From: [Ephemera, menus, programmes of quarto size, relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly used on voyages to New Zealand. 1900-1919]

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-1911-02

Description: Booklet relating to voyages by steamers "Aorangi" and "Maitai" sailing from Wellington, Auckland, Rarotonga, Papeete and San Francisco every four weeks. There are descriptions and photographs of the islands visited, a map of USA railway lines, and photos in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Washington, Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 282 x 225 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1904

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1900/1904

Description: Includes: 1901: Northern Steamship Co. Auckland to Thames. (Not transferable). Excursion saloon [ticket] available to 18 Feb 1901 Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Limited :Royal Mail Line between London & New Zealand, Tasmania & Australia. R.M.S. "Gothic", from London 30 August 1901, and Plymouth 31 August 1901 [Passenger list] Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. Pocket guide to the company's steam services and the government railways of New Zealand, May 1901 [New Zealand Shipping Company Limited] :R.M.S. Gothic. Concert October 12th, 1901. Programme [and] Soames Island / C.K.S [cartoon]. 1902: Williamson's Musical Comedy Company :The Elingamite disaster. Ladies' cricket match and garden party given by Williamson's Musical Comedy Company in aid of sufferers by the above disaster, to be held on the Wellington College grounds, Wednesday, 19 November 1902 1903: SS 'Mapourika, Commander Geo Crawshaw. Cook Islands trip, Souvenir 16 April 1903. Officers, government officials, legislative councillors, members of the House of Representatives [Card with front cover illustration engraved and copyrighted by J A Lowell & Co., Boston 1879] 1904: Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Limited :Royal Mail Line between London & New Zealand, Tasmania & Australia. R.M.S. "Athenic", from Wellington NZ for London, 10 November 1894. [Passenger list] White Star Line. grand concert and presentation of addresses to Miss Marsh and Miss Moody, on board SS 'Runic' at sea, 8 November 1904. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, letterpress, on pamphlets, booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera, menus, programmes of quarto size, relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly used on voyages to New Zealand. 1900-1919]

By: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925-2019

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-1900-01

Description: Brochure outlining the attractions of visiting Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. One page shows deck plans of the three new twin-screw steamships "Sierra", "Sonoma" and "Ventura", and of the "Mariposa", Alameda", "Zealandia" and "Australia". The back page gives a tariff of fares which include fares to New Zealand destinations Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Date estimated to be 1900, from launch date of "new" steamers 'Sierra', 'Sonoma' and 'Ventura'. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 232 x 200 mm. Provenance: Donated by Alison Hunt-O'Keefe in 1999.

Date: 1930 - 1960

By: Tombs, Harry Hugo, 1874-1966

Reference: Eph-B-PRINTING-Tombs

Description: Includes letterheads for the following companies: Compagnie Maritime des Mers du Sud, Noumea (5 copies) C Flockton & Co Ltd, Wellington (3 copies) Hadfield, Peacock, Tripe & Sim, Wellington King, Cook & Dawson, Wellington (3 copies quarto size, 2 copies folio size) G D Little Ltd, Wellington Music in New Zealand (Harry H Tombs Ltd, Wellington) New Hebrides Trading & Shipping Company, Port Vila & Santos (7 copies) New Settlers' Association, Wellington New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington Oxford University Press, Wellington Sladden & Stewart, Wellington Smith's Bookshop Ltd, Wellington Societe Industrielle et Commerciale, Noumea (2 copies) Telecommunications Ltd, Wellington Harry H Tombs Ltd, Wellington Wellington Free Kindergarten Association Also includes forms: Aggreement between a cadet and a surveyor, Bank of New South Wales deed, Agreement between Scott Motor Agency ("Austin" car dealer) and customer. Other items: Book cover for "The first Christmas", by Robina Green, illustrations by Rachel Miller. ca 1960 Hot water in constant supply; Ngaio sink and water heater, manufactured by R H Freeman & Co Ltd, Wellingtonl [1950s?] Massed marching festival presented by the Wellington centre to farewell the Blair Atholl (Dunedin) team prior to their departure for Great Britain. Petone and Lower Hutt, Wellington. 29th March, 1952. Let us not forget our brave allies of the South West Pacific 1942 Navy Army and Air Force of the United States of America (appeal for money to raise a memorial plaque at Aotea Quay) [ca 1952?] The British-American Co-operation Movement. Dinner to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. 5th May 1956, Blue Room, National Art Gallery [Menu]. (2 copies) NZ Marching Association. Official dinner tendered by the New Zealand Executive to the Blair Atholl Team (Dunedin) on the occasion of their departure for Great Britain. State Lounge Petone, Saturday, 29th March 1952.l [Toast list]. Gallipoli veterans, here is your timetable. Monday April 25 ... [1950s?] New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers. [Questionnaire form for use in compiling 1950 edition of "Directory of New Zealand scientists"]. Bodoni type faces for book work and display, in stock by Harry H Tombs Limited. [ca 1950]. (2 copies) New Zealand's national memorial to the United States Navy Marine Corps. Unveiling ceremony by the Rt Hon the Prime Minister of New Zealand, S G Holland ... Wellington, December 2nd, 1955. TVL Nitrofurazone concentrate. prevents and controls coccidiosis / Tasman Vaccine Laboratory Ltd, Upper Hutt. Quantity: 35 colour photo-mechanical print(s) plus duplicates.. Physical Description: Colour prints and photolithographs, sizes varying below 350 mm. Provenance: Part of the collection of Harry H Tombs.

Date: 27 Jul 1907

By: Coffee, Frank, active 1907

Reference: MS-Papers-1177

Description: Letter written from Sydney to Cannon in Danville, Illinois, enclosing a printed appeal urging that the American governemnt subsidise steamers trading and carrying mail between America and Australia else the trade will be lost to British, German and other ships Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: [1878-1879]

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-13

Description: Notes, newspaper clippings re Fiji and the Pacific Islands including steamer communication between Queensland, New Caledonia and Fiji; and report of Conference Committee on Islands in the Pacific (n d) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 1840-1914

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1205

Description: Comprise legal papers, agreements, reports, notes on islands, some dating back to 1840, and press cuttings relating to the Company. Also, articles of association, leases on islands, papers re Jaluit Gesellschaft Nauru concession, account of the expedition of the `Rob Roy' to the Solomon Islands, 1900. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004

Date: 1930 - 1960

By: Tombs, Harry Hugo, 1874-1966

Reference: Eph-B-STATIONERY-Tombs

Description: Includes letterheads for the following companies: Auto Wreckers Limited, Wellington [1940s] Compagnie Maritime des Mers du Sud (New Caledinia) Co-operative Dairy Producers' Freezing Company Limited Wellington T J Davenport & Sons Ltd (Wellington) [1930s] Dominion Sawmillers' Federation (Wellington) H R Elphick reports ... 74 Lambton Quay (2 different) Farmers Co-operative Insurance Association of New Zealand Limited C Flockton & Co Ltd, Wellington Gray Sladden & Stewart, barristers and solicitors (Wellington) Hadfield, Peacock, & Tripe, Wellington Hercules Transport Ltd (Wellington) King, Cook & Dawson, Wellington (2 copies quarto size, 1 copy folio size) G D Little Ltd, Wellington Maadi Motors Limited, 364 Tinakori Road, Wellington Makower, McBeath & Co Ltd (2 copies) Modern Sheet Metal Works Ltd, 120 Park Road Auckland Music in New Zealand (Harry H Tombs Ltd, Wellington) New Hebrides Trading & Shipping Company, Port Vila & Santo New Settlers' Association, Wellington New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington New Zealand. Internal Marketing Division New Zealand War Amputees' Association (Inc), 18 Druids Chambers, Woodward Street, Wellington Ngati-Poneke Maori Association, Cecil Buildings, Lambton Quay Oxford Books Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Wellington William M Page, registered architect, 131 Karori Road Wellington Petone Baptist Church Rough & Bristow Ltd, joiners, stair builders, shop and office fitters. King Street, Wellington Sladden & Stewart, Wellington Smith's Bookshop Ltd, 34 Mercer Street, Wellington Societe Industrielle et Commerciale, Noumea Southern Union General Insurance Company, 149 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North Miss A Sutherland, Pitman's certificated teacher. 115 Lambton Quay Wellington T J Tiller, wholesale importer and supplier of Catholic literature, statuary and all church and altar requisites. 26 Aitken Street, Wellington Telecommunications Ltd, Wellington G G Tolhurst & Son, sharebrokers. Lambton Quay, Wellington Trinity College of Music, London Wellington Free Kindergarten Association, 196 Taranaki Street, Wellington [1930s] Wellington Marching Association Inc. PO Box 1043, Wellington Quantity: 42 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints and photolithographs, sizes varying below 350 mm. Provenance: Part of the collection of Harry H Tombs.

Date: 1966-1980

By: O'Conner, John Owen, active 1960-1985

Reference: 85-002

Description: Subject files relating to social issues and the South Pacific, including Amnesty Aroha, Pacific Women's Resource Centre, immigration, literature, civil aviation, education, aid programmes and shipping in the South Pacific; also files by country Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 27 folder(s). 0.60 Linear Metres.

Date: 1940 - 1969

Reference: Eph-C-SHIP-1940/1969

Description: Includes: 1944: I christen thee ... [Text of a launch speech]. SS New Zealand Victory; sponsor Mrs Walter Nash, launched March 20 1944 1950: Hilda Wiseman. [Black and white photograph of an illuminated address to the Directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, March 1950. Provenance the Nash papers] 1951: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. [Sheet on which are mounted three telegrams to Barbara Hill, a luggage label and a berthing slip, for a voyage on the Monowai leaving Auckland 27 December 1951] 1956: I, Neptunus Rex, ruler of the Raging Main and of the Doldrums ... do hereby certify that the holder hass crossed the Equator ... SS 'Otranto', 9 March 1956 / [illustrated by] Lynton Lamb 1960s: Shaw Savill Line. M.V. "Icenic", 11,240 tons [Photograph of the ship tied up at a wharf, with Morris Bros Four Square store in the foreground. 1960s] 1963: Blue Star Line. Equatorial passport [with red seal and tasselled cord], made out to Stella Barker on board the 'Catalina Star', 28 April 1963. 1964: Dalgety-NZL Travel Service. Aloft or afloat, No 8, August 1964 [Timetable of sailings to Europe, the USA, etc] Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photographs, sizes varying up to 500 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private vendor, 2009.

Date: 1890 - 1899

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1890s

Description: Includes: 1890s: Australian & American Line: Australian & American Line via New Zealand around the world. [1890s]. Brochure (Blue cover) Australian & American Line: Australian & American Line via New Zealand around the world. [1890s]. Brochure (Yellow cover) 1891: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. Pocket guide to the company's steam services and the government railways of New Zealand, June 1891 1893: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd :S.S. "Tarawera". West Coast Sounds excursion, 16th season. Preservation Inlet, Saturday, January 28, 1893. Chairman Capt W C Sinclair. [Programme]. Coulls, Culling & Co., Printers and Stationers, Crawford Street, Dunedin 1894: New Zealand Shipping Company Limited: New Zealand Line. R M S "Aorangi, 4,196 tons reg., 3600 H.P. to leave Lyttelton 17 May 1894. List of passengers 1895: New Zealand Shipping Company Limited: New Zealand Line. R M S "Ruahine", 6,127 tons reg., 5,000 H.P. to leave London Feb 7th, and Plymouth Feb 9th 1895. List of passengers Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited :Winter excursions to the South Sea Islands from both New Zealand and Australia. 1895 1896: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. Pocket guide to the company's steam services and the government railways of New Zealand, October 1896 Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited :Excursions to the West Coast Sounds by the Union Line. Nineteenth season, thirty-second trip. First excursion, 1896, from Dunedin on Wednesday, 22 January. S.S. Tarawera. 1896. Booklet, plus loose passenger list on pink paper (previously belonging to passenger Mr H J Baker) New Zealand Shipping Company :S.S. "Tongariro". Breakfast [menu]. 2.4.1896 1897: New Zealand Shipping Company Limited: New Zealand Line. R M S "Ruahine", 6,127 tons reg., 5250 H.P. to leave Lyttelton 29 April 1897. List of passengers Oceanic Steam Ship Company :Steamship Alameda, K Van Oterendorp, commander. Luncheon bill of fare. [Sunday April 25?, 1897?]. Schmidt Label & Lith Co. S.F. [1897?] Oceanic Steam Ship Company :Steamship Alameda, K Van Oterendorp, commander. Breakfast delights Bill of fare. [Sunday April 25, 1897?]. Schmidt Label & Lith Co. S.F. [Menu. 1897?] 1898: American & Australian Line :Standard publications for the tourist, the sportsman, the colonist, the invalid and the investor ... to be obtained from the American & Australian Line, the world's pictorial route to America, New Zealand, Australia and around the world. London Stereoscopic Co., Printers, 54 Cheapside, E.C. and New Southgate [ca 1898] New Zealand Shipping Company :R.M.S. Ruahine; programme of entertainment to be given by the Royal Ruahine Minstrels in the Saloon, on Friday the 4th Febr[uar]y 1898, by the kind permission of Commander John Bone. [Programme] R.M.S. Ruahine. Monday 14th February 1898. A concert will be held at the Beefeaters Hall, tonight 8.30 pm. Chairman Commander J Bone; pianist Dr L Crooke [Programme] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, letterpress, on pamphlets, booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1915 - 1919

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1915/1919

Description: Includes: 1915: Oceanic Steamship Company. Spreckels' Line (American steamers). Revised schedule of sailings for 1915-1916. Pamphlet Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand: Union Line. Dinner [menu and] Wine list [on board] H.M.N.Z.T. No 24. July 7th 1915 1916: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand: Union Line. Transport "Willochra". Dinner [menu card]. September 25th 1916 Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. Pocket guide to the company's services, July 1916. New Zealand coastal, intercolonial, South Sea Island, Trans-Pacific. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., Printers, Princes Street, Dunedin, N.Z. 1917: H.M.N.Z. Hospital ship "Marama", Christmas Day, at sea 1917. Dinner [Menu card/programme/toast list] Oceanic Steamship Company. Spreckels' Line (American steamers). Sailings for 1917-18. Pamphlet S.S.Sierra for Honolulu, Pago Pago and Sydney, sailing from San Francisco, 30 October 1917. Passenger list Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on pamphlets, booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1955-1956 - 1960

From: Boivin, Victor George, -1964: Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-12821

Description: Comprises various newsprint materials. A copy of the 'Samoa Bulletin' and a billboard for the 'Fiji Times' relate to the loss of people on the ‘Joyita’ in 1955. News clippings from London relate to Boivin’s trip in 1960. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: Includes two newspaper cuttings (from the 'Observer' and the 'Sunday Times') that were moved from MS-Papers-12821-5 for conservation reasons.. Processing information: These items have been housed together for conservation reasons.