Drowning

Date: 1961-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-010

Description: Photographs relating to road accidents and sea rescues, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1961 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 2003

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-739-014/026

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Quantity: 13 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1952-1954

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/19

Description: Correspondence and papers include Royal Humane Society of New Zealand re awards; office machinery, 1953; Westminster Abbey Appeal; G D Lintott & Co Ltd, Auckland and Marketing Services (NZ) Ltd, New Plymouth re decorations for Royal Visit ; coronation celebrations; Banks Theatres Ltd re Anzac Day screenings of movies at Paraparaumu and Paekakariki, 1953; The Greater Wellington and Hutt Valley Public Relations Bureau Organising Committee report, 1953; New Zealand Library Association Inc re archives and boundaries of the county; Hutt Valley Prevent Drownings Committee re campaign, 1952-1953; Hutt Valley Returned Services Association Inc Building Appeal for new building in Dudley Street designed by Structon Group Architects; England to New Zealand Air Race Appeal by Canterbury International Air Race Council; Chatham Islands County Council re county overseer, 1952; The British Empire Christian Crusade, 1952; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1854

Reference: C-008-011

Description: A shipwreck showing people being swept into the water, the sails of the ship in tatters Source unknown Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted ; image 253 x 403 mm on sheet 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1958

From: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :[Illustrations for Heroes of peace and war by A. H. Reed. 1958 or 1959]

Reference: A-060-014

Description: Huria Matenga leading two men swimming out to the shipwrecked Delaware to rescue crew members in Delaware Bay. Extended Title - Reproduced in: Reed, A H. Heroes of peace and war in early New Zealand. Wellington, Reed, 1959 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, b&w, 336 x 307 mm

Date: 1946-1991

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-5921-3

Description: Articles about topics of interest to Strewe including letter written by Marsha Bennett on the back of a photographic poster (n d); `In print' with annotations (7 Jul 1943); articles about the rescue in which Strewe took part at Bethell's Beach (1963); article on beards (incl Strewe) (1969); article on the Cook Islands and editorial on race from the `Sunday news' (1964); `Sojourn in Sunny Nelson' (Southern Cross, 1946); and article on Karl Popper (1991) Language - Article on Popper is from `Die Weltwoche' and is in German Accompanying material - Issue of `Die Weltwoche' with article about Karl Popper Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1969

From: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010 :[Bolton Street cemetery] 1968-1969

Reference: C-104-010

Description: A study of a memorial cross to Wadsworth Busk, and close behind it a partly obscured stele to the memory of a woman or girl named Elizabeth Joh[...] who died in 1869. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink sketch, 299 x 230 mm

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Explorers of New Zealand", by A H Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]

Reference: A-406-015

Description: Shows explorer Jacob Louper grieving over the body of his drowned friend Henry Whitcombe, at a beach near the mouth of the Taramakau River. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 381 x 240 mm.

Date: 10-24 Aug 1998 - 10 Aug 1998 - 24 Aug 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Cairns, Beth, active 1991; Warburton, Warren Gilbert, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0464/18

Description: Warren Warburton was born in Invercargill in 1921. Recalls his childhood in the suburb of Heidelberg and his schooling. Mentions local small farms, Chinese gardeners, rabbiting and ferrets. Discusses home deliveries of bread, fish and milk. Talks about playing cricket and being a junior representative. Describes going to the Dunedin Exhibition [1926]. Talks about the drowning of his brother Len in 1925 while rowing on the estuary. Mentions his mother was a foundation member of the croquet club and his brother Lloyd was a mountaineer. Talks about his other brothers Wally, Ralph and Allan. Discusses the establishment by his father, Cuth Warburton, of the family jewellery business in 1913 and his retirement in 1944. Talks about the Gore branch of the firm. Mentions buying Campbell's Jewellers, other jewellery shops trading in Invercargill, repairing watches and clocks, records kept and family members in the business. Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008621 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2695. Photos of Warren Warburton in 1942 (at Burnham) and in 1998

Date: 20 May 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Cairns, Beth, active 1991; Henderson, Muriel Jane, 1917-2011

Reference: OHInt-0464/08

Description: Muriel Henderson was born in 1917. Describes her schooling. Talks about her brothers Gordon and John who were drowned at Omaui. Mentions the Riverton Rocks area and Thomson's Bush. Discusses motorbike racing, boxing, school picnics and opera. Discusses broadcasting at 4YZ radio station. Mentions Bill Cherry. Describes her interest in duck shooting, the fishing hut at Awarua and rabbits and ferrets. Mentions kauri trees planted at Stewart Island for the brothers. Talks about the De Cliffords at the Wallace County Hotel, prohibition and the breweries. Discusses her career nursing and as a sales representative. Recalls the Huia Club and gondolas on the Otepuni River. Mentions fencing with her daughter Jane. Describes the family's musical involvement and the music lessons of brother Alex Lindsay, first violinist with the Symphony Orchestra. Mentions Thomas Anthony, the O'Byrne School of Music, May Jones and Billy Ferguson. Talks about learning cello. Discusses the Alex Lindsay Music Suite at Southland Boys High School. Discusses Alex Lindsay's scholarship to the Royal Academy in London and his MBE for being leader of the orchestra. Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns Accompanying material - Article on Muriel Henderson `Gran with a gun'; obituary of Alex Lindsay by Douglas Lilburn Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract, OHA-2685. Photo of Muriel Henderson duck shooting, photo of Muriel Henderon in 1936 and more recent photo; photo of Alex Lindsay playing the violin

Date: 17, 31 Mar 1996 - 17 Mar 1996 - 31 Mar 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Nolan, Desmond Joseph, 1920-2001

Reference: OHInt-0419/01

Description: Des Nolan was born in Hokitika in 1920. Describes how his paternal grandparents arrived in Jackson's Bay from Ireland. Comments that the community was a `fiasco' and they moved to Okuru. Recalls growing up in the homestead there, his father's vegetable garden, eating wood pigeon, and his first schooling at home being taught by his cousin. Recalls fishing and playing music for entertainment. Describes high school education at St Kevin's in Oamaru. Recalls riding out to Haast on a horse and then going by bus and train to Oamaru. Mentions that prior to this he had been out of Haast once to Hokitika on the `Gael' (boat) to go to the dentist. Notes that the `Gael' came up the Okuru River about every two months. Mentions that mail was by pack horse every fortnight and the priest and minister came every few months. Comments on trips made over the Paringa Saddle when people were sick and had to leave the area. Mentions that Mrs Nolan and Mrs McPherson helped with births. Comments on the difficulty for women moving in to the area. Describes changes with the air service which meant that conditions such as appendicitis were no longer so dangerous. Mentions Dr Jean McLean. Describes meeting and marrying Eileen in Hokitika and their honeymoon in Christchurch. Mentions movies once a week at Haast and occasional dances. Describes cattle farming as their main livelihood. Discusses the cattle being driven along the Paringa Track to market. Describes mustering. Mentions cattle were originally driven to Whataroa and later to Cromwell. Mentions the butter and cheese factory, cheesemaking and their 160 cows. Describes the difficulty of weather conditions and drownings in the area. Mentions the local roadmen and swaggers during the Depression. Describes the need to be a jack of all trades. Mentions the steam engine which ran the sawmill. Discusses local settlers including the Cron family, Donald and Jimmy McPherson and the Harris family on the Turnbull River, the Nisson family, and Mrs Cowan at the Okuru store and post office. Recalls Arawata Bill. Describes the beginning of the whitebait industry and his father's purchase of canning machinery in Australia. Recalls catching 130 kerosene tins of whitebait one day in 1944. Discusses the `whitebait wars', learning to fly and flying whitebait out for a number of years. Mentions his Tiger Moth and Miles Messenger aeroplanes. Describes stopping flying in 1970 after the road went through. Mentions that his wife Eileen nursed in Hokitika, ran a whitebait buying business and a motel in Okuru after the road went through. Comments on the benefits of the road. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2905.

Date: 6 July 1840-15 July 1840

From: Ellott, Gerald James, 1926- : Papers relating to John Hewgill Bumby

Reference: fMS-Papers-12712

Description: Comprises copies of letters collated as a single bifolium manuscript (one folded sheet of paper with four pages). The letters, copied by an unidentified person, relate to the sudden death of John Bumby on 26 June 1840. The auction catalogue entry identifies the copy as "handwritten contemporary text". The document header reads "Mangungu, New Zealand, July 15 1840", while dates copied from the original letters range from 6 July 1840 to 12 July 1840. Correspondants include Reverends Richard Taylor, William Woon and John Hobbs, George Clarke, and William Thomas Fairburn. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ink on wove paper, bifolium, 44 x 28.5 cm. Transfers: Separated for storage reasons from Library reference MS-Papers-12712.

Date: [1938-1970]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5921-6

Description: Comprises articles mostly about Strewe including anti-tour protest; `Fur freiheit, recht und ehr starben sie' (Telegraf, 1969); `Berlin; a divided city' by Strewe (NZ Listener, 1958); articles about the rescue at Bethell's Beach (1963); `Was sagen ihre handlinien uber die charakter - und schicksalsdeutung?' (Das Neue Zeitlater (1954); `Landscaper joins brain drain' (Sunday Times, 1970)e by Strewe, `Railways, roaring to the top' (Sunday Times, 1970); Aufbau subsriction form with pictorial article on couples (Look, 1938) Language - Two articles in German Relationship complexity - Photocopied articles; originals of these, annotated by Strewe, at fMS-Papers-5921-6 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 20 Oct 1897

By: Stainton, Eleanor Eveline, active 1897

Reference: MS-Papers-3201

Description: Letter from Stainton, Khyber Pass, Auckland, to her American cousin, Annie E Whitehouse describing her mother's death from breast cancer and the drowning of one of her brothers; also mentions her sewing and fancy work, in particular a white wax bridal wreath and bouquet for her youngest brother's fiancee Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Letter and notes from donor re the Whitehouse family, etc. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1921

By: Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: H-705-030

Description: The Prime Minister throws a book on "How to Swim" to a New Zealand farmer drowning in a river of "Depression". The farmer's horse, representing "High Prices", has earlier thrown him in the water. Bromide made for book "The Unauthorized Version" held by Ian F. Grant. Published in 'Grant, Ian F. Public Lives - New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 (Book title)' 2003. Exhibited in the 'Line Up (Exhibition)'. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A5 size bromide.

Date: 16 Apr 1910

By: Baxter, G, active 1910

Reference: MS-Papers-2566

Description: Letter gives news about a number of settlers, including the death by drowning of Baxter's wife. Letter sent from Moville Farm, Southbridge, Canterbury to Lecamey, Moville, County Donegal, Eire. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: [1946-1970]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5921-1

Description: Comprises photocopies of articles mostly about Strewe including `Sojourn in Nelson' (1946); the Cook Islands and on race relations from `Sunday times' (1964); anti-tour protest; `Fur freiheit, recht und ehr starben sie' (Telegraf, 1969); `Grabstelle im Busch von Sudkatanga' (1961); `Berlin; a divided city' by Strewe (NZ Listener, 1958); `Nightmare experience for ketch crew...Te Rapunga' (NZ Herald, 1959); the rescue at Bethell's Beach (1963); `The Beard' (Auckland Star, 1969); `Was sagen ihre handlinien uber die charakter - und schicksalsdeutung?' (Das Neue Zeitlater (1954); and `Landscaper joins brain drain' (Sunday Times, 1970) Language - Two articles in German Relationship complexity - Photocopied articles; originals of these, annotated by Strewe, at fMS-Papers-5921-6 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 23 Mar 1993

From: Wahine Oral History Project

By: Hick, Shirley, 1939-; Sullivan, James, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0092-01

Description: Shirley Hick was born in Napier on 3 August 1939. Gives brief details of her education. Talks about travelling to Christchurch with her three children to visit a fourth child at the Sumner School for the Deaf and returning on the `Wahine'. Recalls the bad weather warning and rough, but not frightening conditions overnight on the ferry. Describes the first indications that the crossing was not normal. Details the activity when the ship hit the rock and initial assurances. Describes how there were no life jackets for the children. Comments on the fellowship amongst the passengers. Recalls being told to abandon ship and having help in holding on to the children. Recalls her terror as a non- swimmer, losing her daughter and no longer hearing the baby screaming. Gives details of being in the sea, being rescued by a lifeboat which then capsized and rescued again by a fishing boat. Notes that she was pregnant. Describes landing at the wharf, being taken to the Railway Station and then the hospital without knowing about her children. Describes accepting that her missing daughter had drowned, one son was rescued and the baby had been revived and was severely disabled. Describes the twenty four years of caring for this son. Comments on her attitude to this and the effect on her life of the `Wahine'. Venue - Shannon : 1993 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Shannon Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004952; OHC-004953 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 952. Search dates: 1939 - 1993

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-Water-1980s-2

Description: Includes: New Zealand. Small Boat Safety Committee. The how and why of engine safety [ca 1983] (2 copies) Huddle to survive in cold water. Produced in the interests of water safety by Firestone [ca 1985] (2 copies) New Zealand Ministry of Transport. Marine Department. IALA Buoyancy System 'A'; the combined Cardinal and Lateral System (Red to Port) "What a stupid place to put a buoy!!!" [1981] (Issued with "Blue water", no 47, 1981) In danger - grab one! It could save your life. Chilly bin, log, fising box, plank wood, ball, oar. If you can't stay with your boat, any of these objects would increase your survival time. Produced in the interests of water safety by Firestone [ca 1985] (2 copies) New Zealand Small Boat Committee. Know your buoys and beacons. "What a stupid place to put a buoy!!!". 1982 New Zealand. Small Boat Safety Committee. Launch wardens work for your safety [ca 1982] (2 copies) [New Zealand Water Safety Council]. Life is beautiful, don't dip out. Know your limitations. Swimming in jeans is out. Learn life-saving techniques. Swim with the crowd. Sponsored by the Bank of New Zealand in the interests of water safety [ca 1985] (2 copies) Accident Compensation Commission. Skipper responsibility. I'm a responsible skipper who will ensure ... Get more out of your boating; take a Coastguard Boating Education course. boatsafe [1980s?] Susan Applesmith. Nine months on-the-way, three years growing; 2 minutes drowning. what a terrible waste! ICI Tasman Ltd in association with New Zealand Plunket Society and New Zealand Water Safety Council [ca 1985] (2 copies) This position increases your survival time in cold water. The position prevents heat loss and increases survival time. HELP - Heat Escape Lessening Position. Produced in the interests of water safety by Firestone [ca 1985] (2 copies) New Zealand Small Boat Safety Committee. When you're in distress, Marine Search & Rescue is always ready to help. But ... think of the cost. The cost to you could be your life [ca 1983] (2 copies) Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 1958

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-163

Description: Shows a boy looking concerned for his father, who has just been rescued from the sea by four surf lifesavers. The lifesavers are carrying the man out of the water Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 255 x 318 mm