Mackenzie, Clutha Nantes (Sir), 1895-1966

Date: 20 Oct 1994

From: New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind 50th Anniversary Oral History Project

By: Morris, Thomas, 1912-

Reference: OHInt-0330-20

Description: Thomas Morris was born in Rangitaiki in 1912. Details limited education in a sighted school and registering with the Jubilee Institute in 1924. Talks about new director, Clutha Mackenzie, a former Minister of Parliament who succeeded Charles Frayling. Discusses Eric Frayling. Names Institute Board of Trustees chairman H.E. Vale, replaced by A.J. Hutchinson in 1928. Discusses the Jubilee School, learning Braille, boarding at the Foundation, school routines, staff, meals and outings. Mentions school bell that came from Governor General John Jellicoe's warship the Iron Duke. Recounts different housemasters including Bob Byres, Mr Watford, George Pilgrim and Harry Wayne. Recalls beginning work in the Foundation workshops around 1932. Lists different products manufactured and other Foundation industries for blind workers. States he worked there for forty five years. Talks about Wally Christiansen. Discusses the procession of matrons including Mrs Whellan, ex matron of Mt. Eden prison. Outlines the division between staff and residents. Mentions permissions process to get married. Details the arrest of Clutha MacKenzie in 1938 on indecent assault charges, the Supreme Court trial and his leaving the Institute. Mentions Tom Sneddon, the arresting detective. Discusses other directors Joe Broadfoot and Wally Christiansen in detail. Talks about Jim May. Talks about Morton Aldis and his article 'Betrayal of the Blind', 1932. Discusses the formation of the Dominion Association of the Blind in 1945. Outlines decision not to join the Association and the gradual improvements in working conditions in the workshops under Wally Christiansen. Details the 1931 strike by basket workers. Talks about involvement in the Blind Band and fellow musicians Alan Morton, Julian Lee, Bob Martin, Stewart Gordon and Joe Papish. Talks about his wife Blanch McKenzie who worked in the library with Gladys White. Outlines life after retirement in 1975. Interviewer(s) - Greg Newbold Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009802 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3277.

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-057

Description: Correspondents not added to Name Field include: Constance McAdam; John McAlister; Eugene McCarthy; A C McClurg & Co (Chicago); J D McComish; Mrs C McCulloch (Hobart); J P McDavitt; J MacDonald; Jean Macdonald; Rev R L McDonald; Thomas C McDonald; M McDougall; Margaret McDowall; J B McEwan; A M Macfarlane; J C McGill-Nutt; W J McGlone; Frederick MacGregor; A H Maciver; George Mackaness (re William Bligh); Gozza Mackay; Kathleen McKay; Rosa McKay; S & W Mackay (booksellers); W McKay; T J McKee; D C McLachlan; A W McMillan; J McNaught; Ailsa J McPhee; D McRitchie. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940 - 1999

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to demography, population, statistics of population density and growth]

Reference: Eph-B-POPULATION-1900s

Description: Includes: 1947: Dominion Settlement and Population Association (Inc). Immigration and Population Conference, Wellington, 22 July 1947. Agenda; [and] List of Association members as at 1945; [and] Statement from Mr Leigh Hunt Dominion Settlement and Population Association. Australasia for the Asiatics?; the challenge of under population", by John Hogan. Reprinted from "Democracy", June 15th 1947. "Portrayal of a fool's paradise", by Lieut-Col. Sir Clutha Mackenzie, Dehra Dun, U.P., India [ca 1947] 1966: Appeal for population control. Published by E Geiringer. Printed by John Milne Ltd, 166 A Cuba St., Wellington. 1997: The Population Conference; people, communities, growth. Te Papa Tongarewa, 12-14 November 1997. Programme / registration form Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, in 2015.

Date: 1912-1970

From: Seddon family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1619-160

Description: Some of the identifiable correspondents entered in the name field. Includes an annotated copy of `A Countrywoman's verses' by Beryl Osborne, 1965 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1941-1948

From: Hunt, Arthur Leigh, 1876-1968 : Papers

Reference: 73-145-04/08

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1950-1975]

From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-7655-17

Description: Leaflets, pamphlets etc relating to Megget's interests; `Peace is our answer' has linocuts by Noel Counihan, poems by Jack Lindsay with further prefatory poems by Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon and a foreword by J G Crowther (published by Collets Holdings, 1950) Other Titles - What New Zealand must do about abortion by Rona Calvereley (1975) Other Titles - A superannuation scheme for New Zealand by Ron Megget Other Titles - Sve 3 Niuean lives by F H Haigh Other Titles - Report of the Sopecial committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents (1954) Other Titles - For whom the bell tolls Other Titles - If it's treachery, get Tuohy! Other Titles - Manifest (vn, n9 Oct 1957) Other Titles - Peace is our answer (1950) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014068-G

Description: New Zealand High Commissioner Sir Thomas Noble MacKenzie drinking coffee with son Clutha Nantes MacKenzie, left, at an outdoors YMCA 'canteen' resembling those near the front line on the Western Front. (The display may be associated with the Lord Mayor's Show) A uniformed woman stands with them (daughter?) and another woman. A soldier stands in the middle. Crowds appear in the background. Photograph taken London possibly November 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - 226 Clutha Mackenzie was blinded at Chunuk Bair in 1915. Invalided to England, he eventually edited the Chronicles of the NZEF. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014031-G

Description: New Zealand High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Noble Mackenzie, standing outdoors with his son Clutha Nantes Mackenzie (in a soldier's uniform) and two unidentified people. An older man stands on the left and a woman in a military uniform on the right. Near them is a 9.2 inch howitzer on display with other World War I exhibits. May be at the time of the Lord Mayor's Show in November 1918. Photograph taken in London by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK225 Clutha Mackenzie was blinded at Chunuk Bair in 1915. Invalided to England, he eventually edited the Chronicles of the NZEF. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014032-G

Description: New Zealand High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Noble Mackenzie, takes coffee at a YMCA 'canteen' at a World War I outdoor display in London. The canteen built largely of sandbags resembles the roadside YMCA stops on the Western Front. Women serve the coffee. With Mackenzie, is his son Clutha Nantes Mackenzie and a woman in uniform (daughter? or Doris Sawyer, later Clutha's wife?) A policeman stands nearby. The event possibly part of the Lord Mayor's Show. Photograph taken possibly November 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK227 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca October 1931]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-6303-49

Description: Clutha Nantes Mackenzie and (Mrs?) Chapman, Days Bay, Eastbourne, circa October 1931. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014035-G

Description: New Zealand High Commissioner Sir Thomas Mackenzie with his son Clutha Nantes Mackenzie (in uniform) and two other people in England. The older man and the woman in uniform are unidentified. The group is standing close to a 9.2 inch howitzer that is part of a World War I outdoor display. Photograph taken probably London 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK230 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014033-G

Description: Clutha Mackenzie, son of High Commissioner Sir Thomas Mackenzie, attending an event in England, possibly part of the Lord Mayor's Show. Wearing his World War I army uniform, he holds the railing on a bandstand (band in background). View taken from the crowd below in the foreground. Photograph taken possibly November 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - UK228 Clutha Mackenzie was blinded at Chunuk Bair in 1915. Invalided to England, he eventually edited the Chronicles of the NZEF. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1962

By: Mackenzie, Clutha Nantes (Sir), 1895-1966

Reference: MS-Papers-3532

Description: Personal history of Lady Mackenzie, the wife of the Hon Sir Thomas Mackenzie GCMG Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with ms annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs L Greig, 1964