Victoria University of Wellington

Date: 18-24 Nov 1997 - 18 Nov 1997 - 24 Nov 1997

By: Ilott, John Virtue, 1913-1999

Reference: OHColl-0756-1

Description: John (Jack) Virtue Ilott born December 1913 in Wellington. Describes family background, parents and grandparents: grandfather John Ilott started the family firm, J Ilott Ltd, later Ilott Advertising in 1892; mother Hazel Ilott nee Hall an opera singer. Talks about childhood: live-in housekeepers, discipline, Sunday school, holidays in Taupo, homes in Dixon Street and 'Wyndcliffe' on the Terrace. Recalls visits by Sid Holland and other guests to the house. Recalls 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, death carts to Karori and illness of both parents. Describes education at Montessori school then Wellesley College. Talks about attending Christ's College, bullying, classical music evenings, chapel, sport, discipline, leaving school aged 17 to join the family firm as an office boy. Talks about the family firm: office personalities, other firms dealt with, effect of the Depression on the firm. Recalls studying accountancy part-time at Victoria University, involvement in University Extravaganza and Easter tournament - describes participation in boxing, names of trainers and successful fights. Describes working his way up in the company - an account executive by the 1950s, taking over in approximately 1970. Discusses the advertising business: competition between agencies, impact of television, annual conference and agency association. Recalls Ilotts as the leading agency from 1922 until 1982. Describes role of Harold (Harry) Austed in the company. Describes impact of Korean War and EEC on businesses in New Zealand. Talks about overseas experience in England, joining Arks Agency and visiting the continent for holidays. Recalls World War II, employment of women during and after the war, social life during the war. Describes relationship with father, and recalls father's management style and personal interests. Talks about becoming interested in philanthropy. Describes Ilott Charitable Trust and talks about contributions to Victoria University, St Andrews Church, Hutt Golf Club, Ilott Concert Chamber and other gifts. Describes difference between Trust and personal donations. Discusses involvement in New Zealand Association of Philanthropic Trusts, attitudes of owners of big firms to philanthropy, Jack Ilott Oral History Education Fund. Talks about involvement in Marriage Guidance in the 1960s and promoting the training of counsellors. Talks about sister, Suzanne McKellar, her education and family; fathers declining years and death of mother. Describes involvement in Heart Foundation, Rotary, Junior Chamber of Commerce, then Jaycees. Discusses overseas trips and current home at Broadwater Appartments, Oriental Bay. Talks about interest in mental health issues, not being married and friendships with women. Describes relationship with Anne Stidworthy, living in appartment at time of interview. Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Accompanying material - Project report Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012918 - OHC-012924 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4502. Copy of colour photograph of Jack Ilott, undated. Copy of black and white photograph of Jack Ilott aged 10 Search dates: 1913 - 1997

Date: [ca 1963-1965]

From: Laing, Don, fl 2007 :Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PAColl-9233

Description: Photographs of Victoria University student forums, taken ca 1963-1965 by Don Laing. Speakers include Roger Boshier, Tony Ashenden, J McKinley (?), David Butler, Peter Blizzard, Tony Taylor (Psychology Department), Professor Colin Aikman (Law Department), David Shand, Russell Campbell and Tony Haas. Professor Aikman and Tony Taylor have just been hit by an egg thrown at another speaker. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 digital print(s). Finding Aids: Contents sheet housed with collection.

Date: 2010 - 2011

Reference: Eph-C-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-2010/2011

Description: Includes: Country City Home: New photography from China. Presented by Confucius Institute, Victoria University, Wellington. St James Theatre, 6 April-6 May 2011. Hard on the Heels: Peter Bush capturing the All Blacks. Museum of Wellington city & Sea, 27 August-30 October, 2011. Passing by Nature: Shaun Matthews. Blackmore Jean Gallery, Wellington, 7-20 October 2010. The Match: Portraits of New Zealand Rugby Players by David Matches. Shed 11, Wellington, 18 August-16 October 2011. Thomas Ruff: The 2010 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture, Massey University Wellington Public Lecture Series. Museum Building Theatrette, 31 March. Wellington Photographic Society Annual Photo Exhibition. St James Theatre, 9-23 November, 2011. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

Date: [1941]-2002

From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7349-128

Description: Comprises McLeod's birth certificate, educational reports and certificates, personal references, correspondence relating to the immigration of David Roupell, greeting card from Dorothy, discharge certificate, letter from Vera, Ohakune, appointment diary with addresses, correspondence and papers relating to change of ownership problems with car, computer malfunction, Radio Wards and US Information Agency certificates and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1984

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites Porter & Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2006-058-450/453

Description: Includes a plans and site plan of the building development. Original file numbering was: 004.01.10.002 Other Titles - Waiteata Quantity: 4 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on draughting paper, 590 x 840 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: [ca 17 Apr 1972]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1972/1975-F

Description: Liz Frizzell (left) and Joan McCracken, Victoria University students from Hastings, inside their room at Bowen Hostel (formerly Bowen Hospital), Wellington. Shows them holding a rug belonging to Joan. Photographs taken circa 17 April 1972 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1989

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1707

Description: Includes - Weekend at Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University, Wellington, April 1989. Seaweed harvesting project, Kaba Peninsula, Fiji. Sunset over Tabarua Island, Fiji. Group at the Lady Norwood Rose Garden, Wellington. Children, Sanya and Shabnil Singh. Women in a kitchen, and a dinner party. Teenagers on skis. Groups of tourists in a resort, Fiji. Te Herenga Waka Marae at Victoria University of Wellington, 46 Kelburn Parade, Kelburn. Construction completed in 1987. Carvings associated with the marae were made by two groups under the Master Carver Takirirangi Smith. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1967

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1967

Description: Includes: Sumner Community Centre present their 1967 revue "Thru time and space", produced by Mollie Gibbons. 9-11 March 1967. Programme [Victoria University] Extravaganza, 26 April - 6 May 1967. Director Peter Debreceny; Producer Bill Sheat. Music director Gilbert Haisman; choreographer Deirdre Tarrant; stage manager Warwick Smith; set designer Allan Lees. Script writers Steve Whitehouse and Roger Hall. Programme Quantity: 2 theatre programmes. 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Programmes, various sizes under 250 mm. Provenance: Various donations.

Date: 1 August 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1967/3661-F

Description: Victoria University students arriving in Molesworth street after a march from the University to Parliament grounds, protesting against the visit of a two-man American Vietnam mission to New Zealand. Note the anti-communist banner at extreme left. Photographs taken on 1 August 1967 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca1926

From: Pringle, William Pilliet, 1897-1984 :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PAColl-1505

Description: Large group of people photographed at Victoria University, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[2 newsclippings of cartoons on Wellington published in the Evening Post in 1974 and 1975]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: J-059-015

Description: While his wife talks to her friend, Frank has his telescope trained on bathing beauties at Oriental Bay. Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size laser copy on poster paper.

Date: 1905 - 1928

By: Forbes, Alexander, 1875-1945; Pearson, Joan, active 1940s-1990s

Reference: E-457-q

Description: Photocopies of pencil, pen & ink and watercolour sketches of Wellington scenes between 1905 and 1928, with some scenes from other parts of the country. Includes views of Island Bay, Evans Bay, Houghton Bay, Oriental Bay, Roseneath, Central Wellington, Melrose, Newtown, Kilbirnie, Carterton, Levin, Thermal area, Auckland and Gisborne. Includes introduction with biographical notes and copy of a photograph of the artist and his family, an index and location map for the Wellington sketches (the majority of the views). Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Photocopies (colour and black and white) of watercolours, ink and pencil sketches A4 size page in clear plastic covers with plastic spiral binding

Date: 1985

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: 88-070-07/03

Description: Contains a copy of a working paper by M K Watson and B R Patterson produced within the Department of Geography of Victoria University; the paper is entitled `The white man's right': acquisition of Maori land by the Crown in the Wellington Provincial District of New Zealand 1840-1876 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 20 March 1978]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: McCahon, Colin John, 1919-1987

Reference: EP/1978/1078

Description: Gate III, acrylic on canvas painted by Colin McCahon in 1970, at Victoria University. Photographs taken ca 20 March 1978 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1983

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites Porter & Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2006-058-108/118

Description: Includes existing site plan, existing sections, site features, development areas, site layout, cross sections and perspective drawings of the exterior. Original file number was 004.06.01.002 Accompanied by original brown envelope in which plans were contained. Quantity: 11 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings and photocopies, sizes varying around 297 x 420 mm and up to 420 x 595 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 3 May 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1967/2435-F

Description: Victoria University students taking part in a capping stunt, on the roof of the Taj Mahal, Courtenay Place, Wellington, watched by a large crowd. Police are climbing the roof on ladders to arrest the students. Photograph taken 3 May 1967 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1988 - 1990

By: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004

Reference: A-307-018/052

Description: Drawings from sketchbooks include sketch portraits from Katherine Mansfield centenary symposium at Victoria University, and from the Writers' and Readers' Festival, Wellington, 1990. Subjects are: Adrian, English Department Auckland University (2 copies); Barbara Anderson, on Continuing Education tour France; Australia professor ?Webby; Tony Bellette, and Prof W H New, Toronto (2 copies); Gillian Bibby; Gil Porter / Marjorie Bernard; Alastair Campbell; Chinese scholar, English Department Auckland University [Schfen Gro..]; James Fenton editor; Dr Cherry Hankin (2 different views, and one duplicate), Epeli Hau'Ofa; Keri Hume; Festus Iyay, Readers & Writers '90 Festival; Tama Janovich , "Slaves of New York" (2 views); Japanese professor "The use of 'and' in Katherine Mansfield"; Ian McEwan, Readers & Writers Week (2 copies); National Orchestra; Rehearsal Verdi Requiem; Maurice Shadbolt; John Mansfield Thomson "That which you give frees you; That which you keep is lost forever"; Entertainment in Wellington, Dr John [E] Thomson; Dorothea Turner at her 80th [birthday]; Villa Franche sur Mer; Geoff Walker; Albert Wendt; Lydia Wevers; and one untitled. Quantity: 35 photocopy/ies including duplicates.. Physical Description: Photocopies on white and tinted sheets, approximately 230 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Janet Paul in 1996. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives..

Date: 1953-1985

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: 2010-184-08

Description: Box contains seven folders of research and subject files. Includes material relating to archival repositories, Alexander Turnbull Library and Victoria University of Wellington; Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; Eastbourne; British Everest Expedition (1953-1955). Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed material

Date: 14 May 2002

By: Nielsen, Margaret Alison, 1933-2023

Reference: MS-Papers-7430

Description: Speech delivered by Lyell Cresswell on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate in music at Victoria University, 14 May 2002 Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph additions Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms M Nielsen, Karori, Wellington, May 2002

Date: ca1984

By: Friends of Hunter

Reference: PAColl-5061

Description: Photographs of an architectural model showing the reconstructed and refurbished Hunter Building, Victoria University, Wellington. Architectural model made by "Chandler Models" of Wellington Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).