World War, 1914-1918 - New Zealand

Date: 1829-1956

By: Burnett family

Reference: MS-Papers-1454

Description: Collection consists correspondence, diaries, ledgers and legal documents covering a wide range of topics relating to the Burnett family in England, America and New Zealand. Subjects featured in collection materials include: - business, legal and family matters, especially relating to Utica, Cincinnati, London and Whanganui - abolition and the anti-slavery movement (Cornelius Burnett Snr and his sons were members of the Underground Railroad in Cincinnati, Ohio) - American politics, education and human rights, including slavery, the Civil War and the Mexican War - the confectionary and bakery trade in the United States and New Zealand - religion, spiritualism and churches - music, drama and comedy performances (including theatre programmes) - property, land ownership, conveyances and deeds - farming and farm management - domestic service, wages, employees and tenants - shipping voyages, migration and international travel - the New Zealand Wars in Taranaki and Whanganui - the First World War (including nursing, training camps, the home front) - health, illness, epidemics (cholera, smallpox, flu or influenza) Source of title - Supplied title Whanganui Regional Museum holds handwritten copies of correspondence made by Cornelius Burnett (1805.360.2 LETTERS), the diaries of Joseph Augustus Hornsby Burnett and Cornelius Burnett (1975.83 DIARIES) as well as a deed, photographs and family items. Joseph Burnett and Mary Ann (née Burnett) emigrated from England to America circa 1830, and then to New Zealand in 1856 with their children Cornelius, Josephine Augusta, Alfred, and Emma. They had lived in Oneida County, New York State, known as a centre of the abolitionist movement, and in Cincinnati where they were involved with the Underground Railroad, helping runaway enslaved people. In Wanganui they opened a confectionery and bakery. From 1870 they lived at 'Oneida' homestead and farm property (also known as Trenton House), in Fordell, east of Whanganui. Quantity: 116 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Processing information: Record updated 1 August 2023 with additional information on the Burnett family and the content of the collection materials.

Date: 11 Jan 1917

From: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004: Family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11809-04

Description: Complaint laid by the Commissioner of Police against Hubert Armstrong accusing him of making seditious statements in a speech he made on 31 Dec 1916 (typescript of this speech is located at MS-Papers-11809-03) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: July 2019

By: New Zealand. Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Reference: ATL-Group-00485

Description: The Facebook archives of the WW100 NZ project (2014-2019) and the Tuia250 Commemorations programme (2019). Downloaded and supplied to the library by Matthew Tonks from Ministry for Culture and Heritage in July 2019. Manatū Taonga - Ministry for Culture and Heritage was the base for the the First World War Centenary Programme Office which oversaw New Zealand's First World War Centenary (WW100) programme marking the First World War centenary from 2014 to 2019. The Office ran an official WW100 Facebook acount during the programme. MCH was also the lead government agency for the programme Tuia – Encounters 250, or Tuia 250, whiuch commemorated 250 years since the first onshore meetings between Māori and Pākehā in 1769–70 and the voyaging heritage of Pacific peoples. The Tuia – Encounters 250 National Coordinating Committee based within the Ministry ran an offiical Facebook Tuia250 account. Quantity: 2 Electronic document(s) 2 zipped files.

Date: 1917-1918

By: Berntsen, Anton, 1898-1973; Berntsen, Paul, 1946-

Reference: PA-Group-00826

Description: Negatives taken by Anton Berntsen who attended the Walsh Brothers' Flying School in 1917/1918 and got his wings in early 1919. The images record his time at the Flying School and also family life and people on Niels Johan Berntsen's farm at Waipatiki, towards the coast from Dannevirke. The New Zealand Flying School at Kohimarama, Auckland, was established by pioneer New Zealand aviators, Vivian and Leo Walsh; it opened in October 1915. Its purpose was to train New Zealanders as pilots so that they could go on and join the Royal Flying Corps in England. From 1915 to 1919 the school trained 110 pilots. After the war the school struggled as civil air services did not exist at the time. Pilots from the school pioneered air mail delivery, and attempted to survive by providing popular entertainment like joy rides for the public. In 1924 the school was bought by the Government, and the Walsh brothers ceased to be involved in aviation. Seaplanes were used as trainers at the school, the first of which was a Curtis flying boat from the USA. The Walsh brothers subsequently remodelled this, and then began designing and building their own improved flying boats which evolved from their experience with the Curtis. In 1916 they also purchased the first two aircraft produced by Boeing, USA. These were B&W Boeing seaplanes designed by William Boeing and Navy Lt Conrad Westervelt. Source of descriptive information - Group record and item records use information from prints and photograph albums lent by the donor, and from David Mulagan's book 'Kiwi's first wings" (Wingfield Press, Wellington, 1960) Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 74 b&w original negative(s). 62 photocopy/ies created by Library from prints lent by the donor. 1 photocopy/ies of an album lent by the donor. Physical Description: Film negatives Provenance: Donor is son of Anton Berntsen.

Date: 1916

From: Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0297

Date: Jul-Dec 1917

From: Brebner, Robert, 1883-1958 : World War One letters

Reference: MS-Papers-8866-5

Description: Letters describe Brebner's experiences at the front during the second half of 1917. They contain an account of Brebner's activities during this period including receiving letters and parcels from home, living and working conditions, observations on local people and the current state of the war in Flanders. Also includes a letter to Brebner from David Glover, written from Dannevirke, 26 August 1917. Glover relates the fate of friends they both know in the war, the activities of men who have returned home from the war, local gossip and Glover's promotion in the postal service. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 81 digitised images

Date: 1907-1934

By: Hensman, Thomas, 1855-1939

Reference: MSX-9439

Description: Scrapbook and visual diary created by Thomas Hensman for his family, 1907-1934. It contains mainly travel memorabilia and ephemera: tickets, stamps, programmes, and newspaper clippings. Also contains photographs, ribbons, letters, bookmarks, and short rhyming poems that describe events and explain mementos. Reflects an interest in family and friends, World War One, politics, news, bowls, twins and triplets, the British Royal Family, and local events. All pages contain newspaper clippings, and precisely arranged tram, bus, ferry, and train tickets collected from around New Zealand and internationally. Newspaper clippings contain trivia and famous quotes. Relationship between clippings and other content may be thematic. Two pages also contain small brush-point gouache paintings on crepe paper. Painting from 1929 is of purple poppies. Celebrated Hensman family milestones include Tom and Emma Hensman’s Silver (1909) and Gold (1934) wedding anniversaries, the Hensman childrens' weddings, the 50th anniversary of Tom’s arrival in New Zealand (1928), and the birth of grand-daughter Veda Hensman (1913). Also includes a brief genealogy. Material related to World War One includes an image of A. A. Hensman who died at the Battle of the Somme, a programme for the first Anzac Day commemoration in Shannon (1916), photographic prints of children and Mayor William Murdoch at the Shannon war memorial (25 April 1924), and Anzac poppies collected annually (1923-1934). Several of Hensman's short verses reflect on war and the deaths of soldiers. Other material relates to local events. These include the opening of the North Island Main Trunk and the Shannon Bridge (1908), concerts and charity shows (Wellington Professional Orchestra, Maoriland Theatre, Mardigras Art Union), the Dreadnought Bazaar (1914), weddings, debates, and Shannon Bowling Club activities. Images of people include scientists (Antione Lavoisier, Ludwig Mond, Alfred Mond, Justus von Liebig), local personalities (Henry Burling, Mr John Bell Taylor), politicians (John Robertson, Lord Kitchener, David Lloyd George, Sir William Massey, Sir Charles Ferguson), and members of the British Royal Family who toured New Zealand in 1927 (George V, Mary of Teck, George VI, Queen Elizabeth). Original tintype group portrait inside back cover shows three unidentified young men (circa 1880s). A loose photographic print shows three women in a garden, possibly Emma Hensman with two grand-daughters (circa 1930s). Mementoes from around New Zealand relate to sights and activities including the Durie Hill Elevator (Whanganui), Wellington Zoo, the First Royal Show in Palmerston North (1924), and various hotels (People’s Palace Hotel, Wellington; Hinemoa Private Boarding House, Te Aroha; The Carlton, Rotorua). Also includes business cards (R.G. Marsh, Rotorua; Cromwell Shepherd, Rotorua; Guide Molly, Whakarewarewa), and Hensman’s ticket to the 1913 Labour Party Unity Congress. Other travel memorabilia relates to a 1907 journey to England and Europe, including an extended account of the voyage aboard the 'Bremen' from Sydney to South Hampton via ports in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, and Italy. Possibly also visited Calais and Golfe Juan. Verses also describe a camel train near the Suez Canal. Mementos relate to English sights including Scarborough Castle, Sutton Park, and Tyringham Lodges. Activities include the National Trades Exhibition (Birmingham), a charity picnic for poor children (Bromwich Castle), a performance by the The Black Dyke Band, and a River steamer trip (Plym and Tamar rivers). Also includes a £50 baggage insurance certificate and a tag labelled "Made at Henshaw’s Blind Asylum". One photograph shows an unidentified family on a beach, possibly Blackpool. Arrangement: Scrapbook is chronological. Two photographs and other items found loose between pages have been housed in envelopes, numbered 1 - 16. Stored with volume. Thomas Hensman arrived in New Zealand in 1878 and settled in Shannon in 1888. He married Emma Smith in 1884. They had five children: Thomas Valentine (born 1887), Harry (1889), Ruth (1891), Oliver (1893), and Albert (1895). Hensman was a member of the Shannon Bowling Club and Shannon Debating Society. Eldest son, Thomas, married Mary Ingram in 1912. Quantity: 0.04 Linear Metres total. 1 volume(s). 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Volume consisting of two exercise books bound together, with leather spine and boards decorated by tram tickets, 22.5 x 18cm. Contains ephemera, manuscript and printed material, photographic prints, and one tintype. Provenance: Scrapbook was given to Veda Frances Roberts (daughter of Thomas and Mary Hensman). Veda passed the volume to her eldest daughter Ngaire Florence Roberts.