New Zealand. Parliament. Legislative Council

Date: 1920

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-D-0822

Description: Group photograph of members of the Legislative Council taken on the steps of the General Assembly Library in 1920 by Muir & MacKinlay All names indexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 370 x 490 mm with mount 560 x 675 mm

Date: [Circa 1935]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-059

Description: Album of publicity photographs, taken by unidentified photographers, chiefly in 1935 At the beginning of the album there are a large number of photographs of the buildings, and crowds at a race meeting at the Trentham Racecourse. (See article by O.N. Gillespie in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue, 12, March 1, 1935). The album has many publicity photographs, designs for railway advertisements and posters, all showing the advantages of travel by rail. The advertisements include methods for travel savings: `Buy travel stamps. Travel savings N.Z.R. 1/-, 2/-, 2/6, 5/-, from railway stations & booking offices'; also `Start saving to-day for your trip away...'. Other posters advertise cheaper travel in the off-season, including summer holidays at the Hermitage, with low combined rail and motor fares" as well as advertising full season trips to tourist destinations. There is one photograph of a programme [?] for "New Zealand Authors' Week, 1936. Souvenir". Near the start of the album there is a large group of views at Flock House, agricultural college at Bulls. They show pig farming, dairy cows, sheep, lucerne for pasture and vegetable growing (See New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 12, March 1, 1935); and in one of these Lord Bledisloe is bending down examining pasture (See New Zealand Railways magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 11, February 1, 1935) There are a few individual and group portraits, but only one or two are identified. Interior photographs of Union Steam Ship Company luxury liners Rangatira and Aorangi, are shown as individual pictures, as well as in a montage (published in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, issue 4, July 1, 1935). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscelleous 5'; 41 x 59 cm

Date: 1853

Reference: MapColl-830fbe/1853/Acc.17893-17910

Description: Includes electoral maps for Provincial Councils as well as for the first election for the House of Representatives. Covers much of the North Island and top part of the South. Detailed electoral maps of the following areas: City of Auckland; suburbs of Auckland; Onehunga, Howick, Panmure and Otahuhu; the Northern Division; Southern Division of Province of Auckland; Bay of Islands District; Province of New Plymouth and Town of New Plymouth; City of Wellington; Wellington Country District; Hutt District; Wairarapa District; [Blocks in the Hawkes Bay]; Wanganui and Rangatiki District[s]; Town of Nelson; Waimea Districts; [Nelson] Suburban Districts; Waimea East District; Waimea West District; Waimea South District; Motueka and Massacre Bay District; Wairau District Relationship complexity - For complete coverage - see 'Electoral districts, House of Representatives, 1853' MapColl -830fbe/1853/Acc.4425-6 on the National Library Catalogue for a less detailed map of all the districts. Relationship complexity - Photocopies of folded coloured maps bound into 'New Zealand Constitution. Constitution of General Assemby New Zealand' 1853 (fMS-188) Quantity: 18 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, scales vary, 50 x 67 cm. or smaller.

Date: 1875-1887

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1630

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1922]

From: Lithgow, Robert William, fl 1980s :Photographs of buildings constructed by the Hansford & Mills Construction Co., and of the Kairuru marble quarry

Reference: PA1-q-144-013

Description: The Legislative Council chamber of the House of Representatives, photographed at about the time of completion of Parliament Buildings (ca 1922) by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - above image - The upper house - Legislative Council chamber Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 151 x 206 mm mounted on album page

Date: [1930s-1950s]

By: Williams, L, active 1930s; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-9777

Description: Photographs of a variety of subjects, including Wellington buildings, ships, and tourist scenes, taken ca 1930s. A number of the photographs were taken by The Dominion. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1876

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PAColl-D-0327

Description: View of the Legislative Council, a two-storey Gothic Rival building, and gravel driveway and grassed area, probably taken from Hill Street looking north-east. Sydney Street is on the far right. The harbour can be seen in distance on far right. Photograph possibly taken by James Bragge. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Parliament Buildings - 1876 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 260 x 375 mm

Date: 1867-1888

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-1545

Description: Letters and newspaper clippings related to Mantell's political activities including, Legislative Council, Wellington Cemetery, Sir John Logan Campbell's land claim in Auckland, and Wellington libraries Quantity: 1 volume(s) (70 pages). Physical Description: Ms (25 cm; green cloth, in blue case)

Date: 1940-1957

By: Holland, Sidney George (Rt Hon Sir), 1893-1961

Reference: MS-Papers-1624

Description: Opposition papers and correspondence; Ministerial and PM's subject files; National Party, policy, and campaign material; speech notes. Also some memorabilia and scrapbooks of photographs and press cuttings Member of Parliament (National) 1935-1957; Leader of the Opposition, 1940-1949; Prime Minister, 1949-1957 Quantity: 699 folder(s). 16 volume(s). 20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Sound and Music Centre - Recording of `To Elizabeth' by Miss Dorothy Stewart, New York - To Photographic Archive - Albums and loose photographs (some albums and scrapbooks have been kept with the collection. See Series 8).

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Neely, Paddianne Wallace, active 1988-2015; Yaldwyn, John Cameron, 1929-2005; Williamson, Peter, active 2006

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1930/1939

Description: Includes menus for: Rendezvous Luncheon & Tea Rooms. Purity ice cream sundaes & iced fountain drink specialists. Menu. [1930s?] 1930: Luncheon to the Hon Sir Thomas Sidey, Attorney-General and Leader of the Legisltive Council, by the Legislative Council of New Zealand, prior to his departure to attend the Imperial Conference, 1930. 21 August 1930. 1932: British Empire banquet at the Hove Town Hall on 20th May 1932, to inaugurate the Empire Shopping Week from 20th to 28th May, under the auspices of the Brighton and Hove Traders Association. 1933: New Zealand Society annual dinner, celebrating the inauguration of New Zealand Day, 8th February 1933. Savoy Hotel, London. Menu & programme, and index to tables. In the chair: Sir Thomas Wilford. Hotel St George. Dinner [menu]. 19th December 1933. (Donated by Mrs P W Neely in 2000). 1934: Hotel St George, Wellington. [Dinner menu. 6/12/[19]34. (2 copies with autographs, previously owned by John B Yaldwyn)) 1935: New Zealand Shipping Company. RMS "Rangitane". Fancy dress ball supper, May 4, 1935. [Menu]. Dinner given by the Ministers of State for the Commonwealth in honour of the Right Honourable G W Forbes, MP, Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Mrs Forbes. Hotel Australia, Sydney, 9th August 1935. 1936: Luncheon by the Government of New Zealand in honour of the visit of the Honourable Sir Archdale Parkhill, KCMG, Minister of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia, and Lady Parkhill. Parliament House, Wellington, 30th September 1936. Luncheon by the Government of New Zealand in honour of the visit of delegates to the fourteenth Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire. Town Hall, Wellington, 2nd October, 1936. 1937: Devonshire House, Rotorua, N.Z. [Menu]. Christmas Day 1937. A Merry Christmas to all my guests / C Morgan. 1938: Harker's Tea Rooms Limited. G R Harker, Manager, Greymouth. [1938]. Hotel Waterloo Wellington New Zealand. "Happy times". Christmas souvenir menu 1938. Hotel Milford, Milford Sound. Menu. 26 December 1938 (on letterhead sheet, with accompanying photograph) Quantity: 15 menus. Physical Description: Letterpress on cards, sizes varying below 210 mm.

Date: 1892

From: Blomfield, William, 1866-1938 :[197 copies of cartoons from the New Zealand Observer and Free Lance 1880-1896.]

By: New Zealand observer and free lance (Newspaper); Blomfield, William, 1866-1938

Reference: H-722-135

Description: New Zealand Premier John Ballance is hailing onto a small ship members of parliament, while bundles of 'electoral bill, land bill' wait to be loaded. Exhibited in 'Public Lives - New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 (Exhibition)', 2003. Published in 'Grant, Ian F. Public Lives - New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 (Book title)' 2003. Extended Title - Hon. E. Stevens - We shall certainly be swamped; the boat is overcrowded as it is. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1875

From: Wellington Historical and Early Settlers Association :Photographs

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PAColl-D-0020

Description: Exterior view of the buildings looking north-east. Photograph taken from Sydney Street by James Bragge, 1875 Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Houses of Parliament from Sydney Street, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 29.5 x 40 cm on card

Date: ca 1905

By: White, John Charles (Sir), 1911-2007

Reference: PAColl-2450

Description: One framed photograph of a group of men outside the Legislative Council with motor vehicle ca 1905 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) framed.

Date: 1983

Reference: PAColl-2972

Description: Participants at the History of Science Conference held at Parliament Buildings, Wellington in 1983. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) [120 format proof sheets containing 11 & 15 frames.].. Physical Description: 202 x 202mm, 202 x 253mm.

Date: 1865, Jul-Dec 1873, 1880-1901, 1902

By: Williams, Henry, 1823-1907

Reference: Micro-MS-0817

Description: Daily record of life as a farmer at Pakaraka, as Chairman of the Bay of Islands County Council 1876-1899, and as a member of the Legislative Council 1882-1905. Detailed descriptions of farming activities, road building in the Bay area, local church matters, and local society. Post-1882 diaries contain daily accounts of his work as a Legislative Councillor during the annual parliamentary sessions, records of meetings with politicians and government officials and references to legislation of the time, particularly that dealing with social and native affairs. Sir Patrick Buckley is referred to in the diaries between 1884-1896. Quantity: 7 microfilm reel(s) (25 volumes?). Physical Description: Positve microfilm

Date: 1882

By: Hutchison, William, 1820-1905

Reference: A-095-037

Description: Sir Frederick Whitaker, Premier, standing on a wharf marked 'Upper House', calling through a megaphone marked 'G. V. Shannon' to Sir Harry Atkinson, the Treasurer (and to be Premier in the following year), who is sailing a yacht marked 'State'. A reference to a proposed Government Vessel called the Shannon or possibly just to the Ship of State? All the punning words in the caption referring to boats or ships are in italics Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 230 x 280 mm

Date: 12 Sep [1863?]

By: Renwick, Thomas (Dr), 1818-1879

Reference: MS-Papers-3539

Description: The letter informs Renwick that he has been granted leave-of-absence from the Legislative Council and comments scathingly on the House of Representatives. Source of title - Supplied title Renwick, a former surgeon, had served on the Nelson Provincial Council and in 1863 was appointed to the Legislative Council. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1891

By: New Zealand observer and free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: J-065-024

Description: Sir Harry Atkinson as Nurse 'Member of the Legislative Council' is dosing the sick child, New Zealand, with a 'tory mixture'. JNew Zealand politicians John Ballance and Sir George Grey want to change the medicine to 'labour', 'co-operation' and 'land tax'. Extended Title - Dr Ballance - I have got the proper medicine to cure the little fellow, but that stupid old nurse persists in dosing him with her own rubbish. Nurse M.L.C. (nee Hobnails) - You shan't give the little dear anything but what I please. Dr Grey - You go ahead, Ballance. I'll find means of getting that old party out of the way! Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopy.

Date: 1882

By: Hutchison, William, 1820-1905

Reference: A-095-037-a

Description: Sir Frederick Whitaker, Permier, standing on a wharf marked 'Upper House', calling through a megaphone marked 'G. V. Shannon' to Sir Harry Atkinson, the Treasurer (and to be Premier in the following year), who is sailing a yacht marked 'State'. A reference to a proposed Government Vessel called Shannon, or possibly just to the ship of state? All the punning words referring to boating and ships are in italics Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 230 x 280 mm

Date: 1882-1907

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0025

Description: Contains correspondence conveying condolences on the death of Apirana Ngata, and certificates on his appointment to the Legislative Council Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typscripts and printed matter