New Zealand Workers' Educational Association

Date: Aug 1978-Nov 1980

From: Federation of Workers' Educational Associations Aotearoa New Zealand : Further records

Reference: 2003-032-04

Description: Notes, minutes, notices, papers relating to courses, correspondence (most correspondents entered under Name below), timetables etc; includes notes from Marjorie Trim's diaries Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1948

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1948

Description: Includes: Otago University Dramatic Society presents "The ascent of F6", by W H Auden & Christopher Isherwood. Production manager Helen Paine. Allen Hall, Otago University, 7-10 July 1948. Programme Auckland University Drama Society. "The tragicall historie of the life and death of Dr John Faustus". Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber, 2-6 August 1948 (2 copies) Dargaville Players present three one-act plays ("Up to date"; "Tea for three"; "Riders to the sea"). Church of England Parish Hall, 25 November [1948]. Programme Dargaville Community Centre Repertory Society presents "Quiet wedding", by Esther McCracken. Royal Theatre Dargaville, 28-29 July 1948. Programme "The devil's disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. Produced by Pat Lowe, set designed by Frank Dean and Roy Cowan. July 1948. (2 copies) Gisborne Repertory Society. "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. Opera House, Gisborne, 20-22 November 1948. New Zealand Drama Council. [Booklet]. Wellington New Zealand 1948. New Zealand Theatre. A repertory of plays. ("No medals", "French without tears", "Fools rush in", "The light of heart", "The man from the Ministry"). South Island tour sponsored by Kerridge Odeon. 1948. Programme. New Zealand Theatre presents "The man from the ministry", a comedy in three acts by Madeleine Bingham. Directed by Gabriel Toyne. Playhouse Auckland [1948]. Programme (2 copies) New Zealand Theatre presents "Fools rush in", a comedy in three acts by Kenneth Horne. Directed by Gabriel Toyne. Playhouse Auckland [1948]. Programme. Old Vic Theatre Company. Australian and New Zealand tour 1948. "Richard III". (With Peter Cushing, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh et al) Programme (2 copies) Old Vic Theatre Company. Australian and New Zealand tour 1948. "The school for scandal" (2 copies plus a note from the St James Theatre advising that Laurence Olivier was indisposed and his part was to be taken by Mr Derrick Penley, 12-14 October 1948). Old Vic Theatre Company. Australian and New Zealand tour 1948. "The Skin of our Teeth". (2 copies) The Oliviers' a brief chronicle as featured in the Saturday Book no 6, here produced as a tribute to the British Council and to assist the Food for Britain appeal. (Illustrated booklet about Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh). The New Zealand Theatre presents the Pasadena Players in "Charley's Aunt". Auckland Playhouse Theatre, 1948? Training College Drama Club. Training College One-Act plays, April 30th, 1948. "Cathleen ni Houlihan" (produced by Derm Sullivan); "Two gentlemen of Soho" (produced by Marion Chappell); "The shewing ip of Blanco Posnet" (produced by Klaus Neuberg). (2 copies) "There'll be a spring", a play by Claude Evans; produced by Neta Neale. Radiant Theatre, 8-15 May 1948. Programme W.E.A. Dramatic Club (Auckland). "The beautiful people" by William Saroyan. W.E.A. Theatre, 26-30 June 1948. (Card only) Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society presents "Goodness, how sad!", a comedy in three acts by Robert Morley. Produced by Nola Millar. [1948] Programme (2 copies) Whangarei District Federation of Women's Institutes. 11th annual play festival ("The signal", and "Snowed up with a duchess" presented by Poroti Women's Institute; "Oh Mr Smythe", presented by the Portland Women's Institute; "Too much Bluebeard", presented by the Omana Women's Institute; "The patchwork quilt" present by the Kamo Women's Institute; Mime, presented by Whangarei Centre Women's Institute; "No count boy", presented by Whangarei Repertory Society; "Anti-clockwise", presented by Dramatic Four; "Peace in our time", presented by Whakapara Women's Institute; "Mother's Day" sketch presented by Dargaville Women's Institute; "Merely Miranda sketch, presented by Whangarei Centre; "According to instructions" presented by Onerahi Women's Institute ... "Beauty for sale" presented by Titoki Women's Institute, etc. Town Hall Whangarei, 21-22 July 1948. Programme Quantity: 12 theatre programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1935-1939]

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-17/05

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1969-1973]

By: Condliffe, John Bell (Professor), 1891-1981

Reference: qMS-0511-0513

Description: Unpublished account of career in New Zealand with Workers' Education Association and as Professor at Canterbury College; records activities with Institute of Pacific Relations; League of Nations Secretariat; National Council of Economic Research, India; Stanford Research Institute; and as Professor of Economics at University of California. Source of title - Transcribed Economist and university professor Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript with ms annotations (photocopy) (30 cm; blue linen)

Date: 24 Oct 1943-8 Oct 1947

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2852

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1936

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1936

Description: Includes: Cairns Citizens' (31st Battalion) Band. Musical director Warrant Officer Jas Compton. New Zealand tour 1936. Souvenir programme N.Z. National Eisteddfod Demonstration concert (Withe Hazel Martin Studio of Dancing, Melvyn Aston, Zelda Corkhill, Peter Sellers, Joyce Smith, Mrs Alma Cowie, Jack Glennie, Nancy True, Charles Lawrence, Merle and Rex Jacobs, Daphne Violich, Phyllis Oliver School of Dancing, Victor Woodward, Freda Harris, Sybil Henderson, Wyn Chown School of Dancing). Concert Chamber Town Hall, 23 May 1936. Programme Webbe School of Music. 173rd students' recital [presented by] Mrs M Wilcox. Overseas Club, Queens Arcade Auckland, 7 November 1936. Programme / flier Wellington Male Voice Choir. Invitation to membership and circular letter to members (Typescripts) WEA Summer School 1936-1937. Musical programme - the Four Viennese Masters (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and offset print, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: [1953-1988]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-082

Description: Papers relating to Upper Hutt church and local affairs; includes correspondence, newsletters and circulars, and report on the management of the forest remnants in Trentham Memorial Park compiled by D J Campbell. Correspondents, churches and organisations entered in the Name field; includes Wellington Anglican Maori Pastorate. Other Titles - Southern Cross log; a journal of the activities of the mission and other notes (Jul 1953) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935 - 1940

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: A-091-064

Description: Prime Minister Michael Savage and Minister of Education Peter Fraser, each wearing a 'W.E.A' tie, are greeted 'G'day Mick!' and 'Howdy Pete!' by two men in the street. The greeting seems to offend Savage and Fraser who call the men 'cads'. Text reads 'The Prime Minister and several members of cabinet were at one time members of W.E.A. classes - it might not be a bad thing for our opponents if they were to go to W.E.A. classes now, but it might be a very dangerous thing for us if they did. Perhaps we should lay down a condition for a subsidy that you will not admit ex-cabinet ministers. Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education.' Context: Suggests anxiety about class origins by the PM and Minister of Education. Handwritten in ink on verso 'Original by Minhinnick (Auckland) in one of Wellington newspapers about 1932'. Librarian questions that date as Savage was PM from 1935 to 1940 which is clearly when the cartoon was drawn. There is also an address handwritten in ink on verso 'V.G. Newman, 40A Wright St., Wellington. April/64'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1934, 1939

From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-11651-546

Description: Contains promotional bill for theatre show `Those were the days' (Oct 1934) and programme for `Waiting for Lefty' (Dec 1939). Also leaflet advertising Workers' Educational Association Annual Summer School (1939-1940) in Feilding. John Reece Cole lived and worked in Palmerston North during the 1930s Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: [1967-1982]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: 2003-228-17

Description: Inward and outward correspondence relating to Starke's participation in a WEA course on the history of Lower Hutt; Hutt Bridge Club membership list; and notes Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1959

By: Smith, William Hart, 1911-1990

Reference: MS-Papers-0929

Description: Correspondence and reports relating to Hart-Smith's activities as an Adult Education Officer in Canterbury. Includes material on the South Canterbury Historical Society Museum programmes for educational activities, poetry, drama, painting, films, etc and Workers Educational Association Summer School programmes. 28 poems "produced by Betty French, 28 Martin Place, Sydney". Photograph and ms sketch (2 copies) inscribed Bill/P.O'H, 22 Feb 1946. Focus: official monthly bulletin of the Timaru Film Society (Inc) written and edited by W Hart-Smith, v.3 no 8, Mar 1953 - v.3 no 16, v.4 no 1 (numbered v.3 no 1) Mar 1954 - v.4 no 9 Nov 1954 Other Titles - Focus Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1948-1954

By: Hart-Smith, William, 1911-1990

Reference: MS-Papers-0929/1

Description: Day by day entries concerning domestic life and especially Hart-Smith's activities as South Canterbury adult education tutor organiser. Notes on lectures given and meetings attended. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 volumes). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies)

Date: 1915-1981

By: New Zealand Workers' Educational Association

Reference: 90-386

Description: Comprises minutes, reports, correspondence, circulars and subject files from the National Office. Also includes a large number of records from the Wellington District Committee. The records for the years 1938-1947 contain information about the Dominion and District Secretary of that time, the prominent pacifist and social activist, Archibald Charles Barrington. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - A list of WEA Trade Union Education Postal Education records held by National Archives is located in collection back file Quantity: 8 box(es). 12 volume(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typscripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Minninnick cartoon (Cartoon Archive) - To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs.

Date: 1989-1991

By: Gough, Maurice, active 1989-1993; New Zealand Workers' Educational Association

Reference: OHColl-0107

Description: Quantity: 61 C60 cassette(s). 28 printed abstract(s). 29 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete (no abstract for Freda Cameron).

Date: 17 March 1992 - 17 Mar 1992

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project

By: Meadowcroft, Annie May, 1919-

Reference: OHInt-0056/01

Description: Annie May Meadowcroft born Leeds, England. Recalls: travelling to New Zealand on SS Suffolk; early years in Shirley (Christchurch); politics - parents belonged to Richmond Branch of New Zealand Labour Party and had `politics for breakfast, dinner and tea'; social life before marriage in 1946 with reference to `Welcome Club' during World War II. Remembers joining Women's War Service Auxiliary, learning morse code and looking after allotment. Talks about New Zealand Labour Party. Discusses the gradual economic improvement from 1935. Mentions Labour Party Branch and Labour Electorate Committee activities - Labour Day picnics. Mentions Morgan Williams, Roger Drayton, David Caygill and Jim Anderton. Comments on; Church groups; Probus and Workers Educational Association. Recalls work as Marriage Celebrant and being a Justice of the Peace. Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Venue - Shirley, Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004230 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0903.

Date: 1-26 February 1980 - 01 Feb 1980 - 26 Feb 1980

By: Beaglehole, Elsie Mary, 1900-1995

Reference: OHColl-0222/1

Description: Mrs Elsie Mary Beaglehole talks about her late husband, Professor John Cawte Beaglehole. Venue - Wellington : 1980 Interviewer(s) - Frances Porter, Janet Paul, Ulsa Jacoby Venue - Mrs Beaglehole's house, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - 0HC-002228-002230; OHLC-001542-001544 and OHLC-002959-002961 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1976

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4175-024

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1915-1984

By: New Zealand Workers' Educational Association

Reference: PAColl-7687

Description: Photographs of events held by the New Zealand Workers' Educational Association and portraits of Association members. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-43641 and 43642, 1/4-107988 to 107996 Quantity: 139 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 2 images. 8 b&w original negative(s) bromides. 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Accession 90-386; New Zealand Workers' Educational Association records.

Date: [ca 1915-1983]

By: Shuker, Roy G, 1948-

Reference: 84-154

Description: Folders of research material compiled for a history of the WEA. The papers include Conference material, pamphlets, minutes, correspondence and both published and unpublished papers on various branches of the WEA. Also includes `Otago Workers' Educational Association, 1915-1950' by Les McKay, a history of the Otago WEA, using mainly annual reports, minutes and newspaper cuttings. It has been annotated by Shuker. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Provenance: Les McKay's history of the Otago Workers' Educational Association was given to Shuker as resource material for Shuker's `Educating the workers? a history of the WEA in New Zealand'. Processing information: Not yet listed

Reference: Eph-A-WEA

Description: See child records for details Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.