Powles, Guy Richardson (Sir), 1905-1994

Date: [1975-1976]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-04/08

Description: Outward correspondence relating to text of King's biography in progress and completed text. Letters to identifed persons entered under Name below. Also includes letters to Heeni, Bob re translation, Mrs Winiata, Mrs Thomas, Dr McDowall, Sir Henry [Kelleher?], Mr Ropiha, Mr Ihaka, Dr Meade, Dr Jones, Mr Metekingi, and the Cape Reinga lighthouse. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1959-1969, 1970-1985

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand : Further records

Reference: 90-387-09/2

Description: Includes N.C.C. North Shore Women's Sub-Committee minute books, 1968-1969, 1959-1969; correspondence with Sir Guy Powles, 1970-1975; minutes of other bodies, 1976-1979; etc Quantity: 1 box(es) (file).

Date: 1930

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0190/0191

Description: Shows ground and first floor plans, elevations and sections for a two-storeyed house. Also shows interior elevations of a buffet between the dining room and kitchen. Guy Richardson Powles lived at 10 Espin Crescent in the 1930s. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying

From: New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs :Photographs of Pacific Islands

By: Hopkins, Sydney, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0644-2

Date: 1959-1960

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/10

Description: Correspondence and reviews mainly relating to Leo Fowler's novel "Brown Conflict". Includes many fan letters, and a letter from Guy Powles, the then New Zealand high commissioner in Samoa. The letter, written on 12 Mar 1960 mentions that he was getting ready to leave Samoa for India, and "how hard it is going to be to leave after eleven years, but the time has come when self-government has been achieved...". Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 22 September 1999 - 22 Sep 1999

From: Race Relations Conciliators Oral History Project

By: Sharples, Pita Russell (Hon Dr Sir), 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0751-06

Description: Executive Officer of the Office of the Race Relations Conciliator from 1972 to 1980. Born in Waipawa, 1941. Discusses being the first appointed Executive Officer in 1972 and the reasons for establishing the Office in Auckland. Talks about his appoinment and the importance of the position of Race Relations Conciliator. Discusses what he learnt from Sir Guy Powles - talks about how Sir Guy handled policy submission from insurance companies. Mentions how Ken Mason took over as Race Relations Conciliator and the arrival of Harry Dansey. Discusses the work done by the Office during Harry Dansey's time as Conciliator. Also mentions Belinda Godfrey and Kay Gaylor. Describes the Office's system for investigating complaints and enquiries, and the nature of early cases. Discusses his contact with Samoan, Tongan, Nuie and Tokelau leaders. Talks about what was happening racially and ethically throughout New Zealand during his time at the Office - talks about the anti-English sentiment in New Zealand society during the 1970s - mentions Tim Bickerstaff. Mentions racist behaviour directed at him by some complainants. Discusses the media's portrayal of race relations in New Zealand - discusses how the press occassionally fuelled racial tension through what they chose to report. Discusses the work done with gangs by the Office in the late 1970s - talks about going to prisions to meet gang leaders, organising council programmes, and his observations of gang and police culture. Talks about how Maori society was stereotyped by the gang situation. Mentions the haka party incident of 1979 at the University of Auckland - discusses the event's importance in helping develop greater Maori cultural awareness within New Zealand and the Office's involvement in this. Recalls travelling around New Zealand to investigate complaints recieved by the Office - talks about a trip to Fox Glacier as being one of the highlights. Discusses international race relations in the early 1980s - talks about observing affirmative action programmes in the United States and describes how it supported what the Office was doing in New Zealand. Discusses travelling to Samoa during his time with the Office - mentions being a guest of Tupuola Efi while he was Prime Minister of Samoa. Describes how the demographic of complainants became more ethically diverse over the years - comments on the nature of racial complaints. Discusses the need for more education in the community on racial issues - talks about biculturalism and multiculturalism. Talks about current race relations in New Zealand - discusses New Zealand's national identity, Maori nationhood, and the national anthem. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from books, journals, magazines, and newspapers Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012718 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5446 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Photocopied articles include copies of photographs of Pita Sharples Search dates: 1972 - 1989

Date: 8 December 1997

From: Office of the Ombudsman oral history project

By: Aikman, Stuart, active 1963-1997

Reference: OHInt-0811-01

Description: Oral history interview with Stuart Aikman, former Senior Investigating Officer of the Office of the Ombudsman. Discusses his work as British Colonial Officer in East Africa. Details the structure of the Office from 1963 to 1983. Discusses the role of an Investigating Officer. Talks about the education initiatives employed to better inform the public on the role of the Office - discusses different attempts to publicise the Office. Talks about the various pressures of the workplace. Comments on the different personalities of the successive Ombudsmen. Discusses the development of the Official Information Act 1982 - talks about the responsibilities the Office acquired as part of the Act. Talks about the Office's relations with the New Zealand Police during his time there - details the Office's jurisdiction over the Police. Discusses the Office's interaction with the Public Service - refers to personal contact with ministers and CEOs. Mentions Sir Guy Powles and Sir George Laking. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Bryan Gilling Accompanying material - Interview questions Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014907 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 0.13 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5394. Search dates: 1997

Date: 12 December 1997

From: Office of the Ombudsman oral history project

By: Laking, George Robert (Sir), 1912-2008

Reference: OHInt-0811-03

Description: Oral history interview with Sir George Laking, Chief Ombudsman from April 1977 to October 1984. Talks about growing up in Auckland - details schooling at Auckland Grammar School, Auckland University and Victoria University of Wellington. Discusses his acceptance into the Public Service - talks about his work for the Customs Department, Prime Minister's Department, Organisation of National Security, War Cabinet Secretariat, and the Department of External Affairs upon its creation in 1943. Discusses his international work in the government sector from 1948 to 1967 - details his time as Counsellor of External Affairs, Acting High Commissioner in London, and Ambassador to Washington. Talks about his role as Secretary of External Affairs upon returning to New Zealand. Discusses his appointment as Ombudsman in 1975, and Chief Ombudsman in 1977. Discusses attitudes towards the Office of the Ombudsman - mentions Sir Guy Powels and A. Eaton Hurley. Discusses relations between the Office and the Prime Minister, Ministers and Heads of Departments during his time as Ombudsman - mentions Keith Holyoake, Sir Robert Muldoon, Jim Bolger and the New Zealand Police. Talks about his involvement in the Office's investigation of the Springbok Tour - refers to the creation of the Police Complaints Authority. Talks about the Office's acquisition of the Wanganui Computer privacy work in 1977. Details his involvement with the Human Rights Commission. Mentions Chief Ombudsman Lester Castle. Discusses the development of the Official Information Act 1982 - details his involvement in this process. Talks about the Commissioner of Police vs Ombusman case of 1988 - details the court proceedings. Discusses his management of the Office during his time as Chief Ombudsman. Accompanying material - Copy of transcribed interview Interviewer(s) - Bryan Gilling Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.13 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5396. Search dates: 1997

Date: [ca 1903-1930]

From: Harcourt, P (Dr), fl 1982 :Baldwin album and assorted photographs

Reference: PA1-o-032

Description: Album of family photographs of the Jasper Baldwin family. Most people are unidentified, except one photograph labelled Sir Guy and Lady Powles. Two yachts are named the Wairere and the Marangi. There are images of haymaking, fruit growing, a trip in the centre of the North Island, motorcycles, automobiles, and parts of the Tasman region. A number of loose photographs are stored in a pocket at the end of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown soft-covered album labelled "Photographs", 180 x 300 mm

Date: 1929

By: Hall, Walter James, active 1929-1970

Reference: MS-Papers-4790

Description: Account of tour by Victoria University College Debating Team of United States in 1929. Some chapters by William J Mountjoy and G R Powles. Relationship complexity - In the Ephemera collection are three programmes for the debating tour at Ephemera-A-DEBATE-1929; at the (1) British Empire Club, Providence, Rhode Island; (2) Hobart College and (3) Wells College (both autographed by team members) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (97 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (bound) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Brian Mountjoy, Paraparaumu, May 1993

Date: 1975 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-PEACE-1975/1979

Description: Includes: 1978: Background information on the National Consultative Committee on Disarmament (NCCD) and its statement to the New Zealand Government. [Presented by] the National Consultative Committee on Disarmament, David Buller convener media sub committee NCCD. April 1978. (Two copies). 1979: Disarmament Week, 21-28 October 1979. Seminar and Workshop; Action for Disaramament. University Union lounge and smoking room [Victoria University, Wellington]. 27 October. (Two copies) [ca 1977]: A Formula for world peace and Progress. [Published by the] Lucis Trust, London. Also the Googwill Association, Auckland, New Zealand. 1976: International Convention for peace action. Wellington High School. 18-21 February, 1977. (Three copies). 1979: Lord Louis Mountbatten on nuclear war, 11th May 1979. [Published by the] New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies, Auckland. (Two copies). 1979: A message from Sir Guy Powles supporting the establishment of the New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies. 1974-1975: New Zealand and the Search for Peace; A series of ten lectures. The University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education, March-May 1974, and September-November 1975. (Three copies for 1975). 1977: Q; "Together we shall save our planet - or togehter we shall perish in its flames (President John Kennedy). [Brochure urging people to press politicians to work for world government through a strengthening of the United Nations]. 1977: Sign the New Stockholm Peace Appeal - for banning all nuclear and other mass destruction weapons; general and complete disarmament; a United Nations World disarmament Conference. [Contains Peace Appeal statement and page for signatures of petitioners]. Petitions close 30 April 1978. 1979: Stop the arms race! World Peace council calls for action [during] United Nations Disarmrment Week, 24-30 October. 1979: Training for Social Change; skills of nonviolent action. Friends Meeting House, Moncrieff Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, 5-7 October 1979. 1978: United Nations Association of New Zealand disarmament and development campaign. [Booklet stating the issues and calling for public participation]. Published by the United Nations Association of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 13 offset printed pamphlets and flyers. Six duplicates.. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying below 240 mm.

Date: [196-?]

From: Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001 : Nothing much to do

Reference: MS-Papers-7553-1

Description: Describes Broadhead's visits to Fiji and Samoa, including his trip from Fiji to Western Samoa aboard the Royal New Zealand Navy survey ship `Lachlan'. During these visits he recorded material for possible radio documentaries and met indiginous people as well as officials, including Guy Powles the High Commissioner for Western Samoa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

From: New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs :Photographs of Pacific Islands

By: Hopkins, Sydney, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0644-1

Date: 1929

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1929

Description: Includes programmes featuring: First annual Children's festival of Music (Non-competitive) under the auspices of the Christchurch Training College Classes for Children. Three concerts, Caledonian Hall, 29-31 October 1929 [and] Folk dancing [in the] Archery Lawn in Botanical Gardens, 2 November 1929. Souvenir programme (With photographs of performers Alfred Bunz (piano) and Harold Beck (cello), and Derry's Military Band). Earthquake Relief Fund. Grand concert arranged by H Temple White. [Wellington] Town Hall, 14 July 1929. Programme / flier E J Gravestock Ltd presents the world-famous singer Dusolina Giannini, (by arrangement with Concert management, Daniel Mayer Inc., New York) Deutsch, violinist [and] Miss Molly Bernstein, solo pianist-accompanist. Programme no. 1, programme and words of songs. [1929] E J Gravestock Ltd presents the world-famous singer Dusolina Giannini, (by arrangement with Concert management, Daniel Mayer Inc., New York) Deutsch, violinist [and] Miss Molly Bernstein, solo pianist-accompanist. Programme no. 2, programme and words of songs. [1929] E J Gravestock Ltd presents the world-famous singer Dusolina Giannini, (by arrangement with Concert management, Daniel Mayer Inc., New York) Deutsch, violinist [and] Miss Molly Bernstein, solo pianist-accompanist. Programme no. 3, programme and words of songs. [1929] (2 copies) Grand farewell concert to Victoria College Debating Team, arranged by Mr Clement May, assisted by pupils of Madam Briggs and other local artists (Mr Leslie Muir, Miss Jeanette Briggs, Mr Clement May, Mrs Martin Smith, Mr W J Hall, Miss Mifawney [Mifanwey?] Davies, Mr W J Mountjoy, Ernest Glading and members of the Training College Dramatic Society. Includes debaters: W J Hall, G R Powles, W J Mountjoy, H R Bannister). Concert Chamber Town Hall, 17 September 1929. Souvenir programme (2 copies) E J Carroll presents Sir Harry Lauder (With performers "Tiki" Carpenter, Miss Beryl Wentworth, Rupert Hazel & Elsie Day, Fredo Bros and Don Julian). Country tour 1929. Programme Mr Bernard Page (city organist). Organ recital. Wellington Town Hall, 9 June 1929. Programme Trio evening. Ava Symons (violin), George Ellwood (violoncello), Gordon Short (piano), with assisting artists Mrs B B Wood (vocalist), Mrs Eric Meier (violin) and Mr Frank Crowther (viola. Concert Chamber Town Hall Wellington, 14 october 1929. Programme Wellington Chamber Music Players.(With Leon de Mauny, Desmond Lavin, Frank Crowther, William Bennett and Claude Tanner, Madame Evelyn de Mauny, A P Truda). Third concert, Concert Chamber Town Hall, 11 September 1929. Programme Edward Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers on world tour. First and second programme (2 copies) Edward Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers on world tour. Third and fourth programme Edward Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers on world tour. Fifth and sixth programme (2 copies) Mr Edward Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers [1923 or 1929 tour]. First, second and third programmes (1 booklet) Mr Edward Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers [1923 or 1929 tour]. Fifth, sixth and seventh programmes in 1 booklet Mr Edward Branscombe's Westminster Glee Singers [1923 or 1929 tour]. Seventh, eighth and ninth programmes in 1 booklet (2 copies) Quantity: 16 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated. Provenance: One programme donated by Mrs Alice Megget, Auckland, in 2008; one by Brian K Mountjoy in 2009.

Date: 1960s

By: Black, Chris, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7472

Description: Photographs of street scenes, industry, schools and personalities taken in Wellington during the 1960s by Chris Black. Includes portraits of Keith Sinclair, Louis Johnson, Jack Shallcrass, Sir Guy Powles and Denis Glover, and a scene inside the soup kitchen. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0193/0201

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections, and details of a new bay window. Guy Richardson Powles lived at 10 Espin Crescent in the 1930s. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 06 Dec 1979 (broadcast)

From: Radio New Zealand Looking Back programmes

By: Powles, Guy Richardson (Sir), 1905-1994; King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004

Reference: OHInt-0040/13

Description: Guy Powles, New Zealand's first ombudsman, discusses his life, including joining the diplomatic service and working with Sir Carl Berendson, New Zealand's ambassador to the United States and then the United Nations. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000337 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 47 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1979

Date: 1984

By: Quinn, Kenneth Fleming, 1920-2013

Reference: PAColl-3233

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Photoprints 6 x 8 inch format

Date: 1964-1966

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-75

Description: Letters to mountain people, mostly general correspondence (1964-1966); most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes letters to Wynette and Garry; Mr Pearce; and to and from David, Opoho; and Andy Anderson, Christchurch. Other Titles - NZ National Park news (v7, n1 Feb-Apr 1975) Other Titles - FMC bulletin (n20, Nov 1964) Other Titles - NZAC Wellington newsletter (n243, 28 May 1965) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914 - 1954

By: Powles, Charles Guy, 1872-1951; Powles, Guy Richardson (Sir), 1905-1994

Reference: Curios-029-053

Description: Medals include: The Order of the Nile, awarded to Charles Guy Powles after World War I; Insignia of the Knight Commander of the Order; two Insignia of the Third Class of the Order, one the Companion of the order of St Michael and St George awarded to Lt Col Charles Guy Powles, Sept 18 1918; a Queen's Silver Jubilee medal, 1952-1977; a New Zealand 1990 commemoration medal; a Western Samoa Order of Tiafau medal; Masonic Lodge medals to Guy Richardson Powles, 1951 (Lodge Calliope no.252); a row of full-sized medals and its row of corresponding miniatures, plus two extras belonging to Guy Richardson Powles; and various single ribboned medals, buttons and badges Quantity: 100 curio(s) approximately, comprising boxed medals, ribboned medals, badges, pins and buttons. Physical Description: Gold, silver, bronze and ribbon memorabilia, sizes and shapes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-9351.