New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR

Date: 1945-1946

By: New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR

Reference: MS-Papers-3826

Description: Comprises reports of the society's national conference (1945) and minutes of the National Executive Committee, correspondence with politicians, including Walter Nash; also the branch's Educational Monographs Nos 1, 3-5 Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - With typescript account of the society 1941-1948 (photocopy) by W Greenwood The society was founded in 1941 to improve bilateral relations between New Zealand and the USSR Quantity: 1 folder(s) (ca 70 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon and cyclostyled copies) Provenance: Records are from the files of the branch president, Mr W Greenwood

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: McLeod, Ida Gwendoline, 1912-

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1940/1949

Description: Includes menus for: 1940: Coker's Hotel Christchurch. NZ Trotting Cup, Tuesday November 12th 1940. Souvenir menu, dinner New Zealand Shipping Company. M V "Rangitane". Breakfast, Luncheon and dinner menus for either 13 or 23 July 1940. (3 menus in all) Luncheon in honour of His Excellency the Right Honourable Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, on his Excellency's retirement from the office of Governor-General. Parliament House, Wellington, 5th December 1940. 1941: French Maid Coffee House, 356 Lambton Quay, Wellington. Next Stewart Dawson's. [Folder]. 1941. and two menus, mid-late 1940s (shown on colour transparency 137415 1/2) Dinner by the Government of New Zealand in honour of The Right Hon R G Menzies, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. Grand Hotel, Auckland, 22 May, 1941. New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with Russia. Dinner in honour of guests from the U.S.S.R. Hotel St George Wellington. Friday, 10th October 1941. Menu. 1942: Grand Hotel Wellington. Souvenir menu, 25 December 1942. 1944: Coker's Hotel Christchurch. NZ Trotting Cup, November 4th 1944. Souvenir menu, dinner. H.M.A.H.S. "Wanganella". Dinner [menu] 31 August 1944. 1945: Mock banquet. Wesley Hall 6.6.[19]45. Menu 1948: Newman Bros Ltd Royal Mail Service. Reunion of past and present members of staff, Hotel Buller, Westport, October 30, 1948. [Menu and toast list]. 1947-1949: Royal Oak Hotel. Kodak annual dinner menus: 13 March 1947; 6 July 1948 (3 copies each differently autographed); 5 May 1949 Quantity: 19 menus.. Physical Description: Letterpress on cards, sizes varying below 210 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Two items transferred from MS-Papers-2333.

Date: ca 1855-1958

By: New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR

Reference: PAColl-0730

Description: Photographs and an accompanying booklet on Tolstoy's life and work to mark the 50th anniversary of his death in 1960. They cover portraits of him as a young man, his birthplace, colleagues and friends, his wife, productions of his plays, title page of Anna Karenina, annotated proofs of his novel The Resurrection, and illustrations from his novels. They are mostly copies of portraits and old photographs but include ones from 1958 of his birthplace museum, university etc. They are numbered and the numbers relate to entries in the booklet. There should be 47 photographs but 1, 23, 29, 31 and 33 are missing. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900-1945

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-294

Date: 1935-1957

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

Reference: 94-106-20/02

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1941-1942

From: Hare, Rene Oswald, fl 1950-1996 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5705-2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: July 1941-Nov 1945

From: Hare, Rene Oswald, fl 1950-1996 : Papers

Reference: MSY-4276

Description: Includes constitution of Society, agenda, Council minutes, National Executive minutes, financial statements; Report of conference held in Wellington, Nov 1945 Set up in July 1941 to foster closer cultural, diplomatic and economic ties with Russia Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1945 - 1957

From: [New Zealand ephemera of quarto size, pamphlets, flyers relating to international politics, conflicts and aid]

By: New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR

Reference: Eph-B-INTERNATIONAL-1940s-01

Description: A synopsis of the film with a blank membership slip for joining the Society. The Society began in the early 1940s and was operating in the mid-1950s. The film was released in 1945. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 2 cyclostyled typescript sheets 338 x 215 mm, stapled together.

Date: 1955-1976

From: Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0418-090

Description: Comprises papers relating to 1975 visit to Soviet Russia, includes telegram, copy of 1955 "Kiwis in the Kremlin" pamphlet, outward letters with poems, postcard, copy of "Soviet News", Russian publications, photograph of Denis Glover in naval uniform (post war) with woman. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950-1953

From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5010-1

Description: Contains papers relating to the New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with USSR, dated 1950-1953, including a statement of policy, flyer about name change, pamphlet produced by the combined committee for organising a delegation to the USSR, programme and papers from the 1951 conference and copies of the periodicals `Curtain Raiser', `Soviet Life' and the `New Zealand Building Worker'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927-[1940s]

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: 85-185-18

Description: Comprises Hemingway's correspondence School notes on the Chattels Transfer Act 1924; lecture notes by Professor Wesley C Mitchell, Columbia University, on economic theory (1931); university essays by Sutch (n d, ca 1931?); papers relating to Government Monetary Committee and currency (1933-1934); papers and clippings relating to Society for Promotion of Closer Relations with USSR (1940-1944); clippings and papers on civil liberties (1927-1941); folder labelled 'science correspondence' but containing papers on a generality of subjcts, including constitution of New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers (ca 1930-1940); correspondence while overseas (1936); personal papers, including testimonials, correspondence etc, relating to his career Quantity: 1 box(es). Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.

Date: 1931-1945

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: 85-185-04/2

Description: Field Service pocket book, issued to Sutch (1939); Research Bulletin NZFOL, Vol 1 No 8 and copy of letter to NZ Plumbers' and Gasfitters Union (1941); pamphlets by J A Lee (1940); Pamphlet on Reaction in the Railways, by J R Roscoe (1939); Statistical Summary of Reserve Bank of NZ (1939); collection of pamphlets on social and economic planning (1930s); Workers' plan for the Building Industry, by NZ Building Trades Federation (1941); pamphlets by the Peace and Anti-Conscription Council(Wellington) (1940); Left Book Club pamphlet on future of NZ Farming (ca 1930s); monograph by Sir Thomas Hunter on the Place of the University (1940); pamphlet by Dr G M Smith, Rawene Hospital (1940s); Works Councils in NZ,by A E C Hare (1943); United Nationa Charter (1945); European pamphlets on labour problems and unemployment (1927-1939)l official New Zealand publications on housing and the Labour Department and economic stablisation (1938-1940); mounted publicity photographs of New Zealand industry, agriculture and scenery (1930s) from various other pamphlets Quantity: 1 box(es).