Wellington Savage Club Inc

Date: 1936

By: Cook, Harison, -1947

Reference: MS-0605

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (10 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1932

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-009

Description: Shows a full-length portrait from the left, of a plump balding man in a suit, holding a drink in his right hand, reminiscing. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A S Paterson / 1932; Verso - centre - 2692 / Lyons Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet stuck to board, 270 x 190 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1925-1951

By: Marks, Marcus Francis, 1863-1951

Reference: MS-1552

Description: Greeting cards; inward correspondence, largely from the Savage Club; photographs, and newspaper clippings, mainly relating to Marks and members of his family Quantity: 1 volume(s) (160 pages). Physical Description: Ms and printed matter (27 cm; ¼ red roan, maroon cloth)

Date: 1909 - 1911

By: Richardson, Harry Linley, 1878-1947; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: G-502

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of an older gentleman in evening dress. The white chalk catches highlights of his face and the white evening shirt he is wearing. H Linley Richardson made a watercolour (gouache) sketch of Chief Savage Thomas Wilford, (he was Chief Savage around 1910), and this is likely to have been made at the same time. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: White chalk on board, 850 x 548 mm (sight) Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1909 - 1911

By: Richardson, Harry Linley, 1878-1947; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: D-030-001

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of Sir Thomas Wilford in evening dress, with a red ribbon or chain around his neck. Thomas Wilford was Chief Savage of the Wellington Savage Club around 1910. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache on board, 903 x 630 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1935 - 1959

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-010

Description: Shows a group of men friends cooking a chicken over a fire outside their snow-covered cottage in the mountains. One is operating a radio with headphones, another chases a pukeko, another talks to a stag, one is chased by a deer, whilst yet others climb the side of a mountain in the background. The radio operator says: (according to text stuck on beneath image): "Civilisation coming through at last! What message shall I give them?" The chicken-cooker replies: "Vote of thanks to the Matson Line for their excellent idea!" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on sheet 235 x 290 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1902

By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-123-080

Description: Shows an elderly Maori woman with chin moko, smoking a pipe and wearing a yellow scarf. She wears a greenstone earring. The image is cropped at the bottom immediately below the attachment of the gathered yoke of the garment she wears. Title and date taken from reproduction in Roger Blackley's "Goldie" (1997), page 53. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. F. Goldie / Auckland Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph stuck to board, 365 x 480 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1955

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-148-074

Description: Shows a map of Australia and New Zealand, Australia being covered with rabbits, kangaroos, snakes, explorers, dancers and bathing beauties. New Zealand is inhabited by a beer-drinking Maori. Down the left side is an alphabet rhyme with a verse for each letter of the word "AUSTRALIA". The original work was signed by members: Ray Kemp, Bill Sunley, W Pilliet Pringle, G T Mackay, J L Rogers, I A Nicol, {>?} Mclennan?, Robert Carruthers, {>?} Denis, S London, D S Campbell, A A Cooper?, Les Tyler, R R Hayman, Procter, J Stacey, S C Bender? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - L. C. Mitchell Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and pencil drawing, 280 x 374 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1923

From: [Ephemera from Savage Clubs in New Zealand, including Wellington and Manawatu clubs. 1920-1939]

By: Wellington Savage Club Inc; King, Marcus, 1891-1983; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-SAVAGE-1923-01

Description: Programme for a meeting of the Wellington Savage Club, where His Excellency Viscount Jellicoe was installed as the Chief Savage, by Savage J Hislop. An orchestral selection was followed by a performance of "The Savage Club", stage managed by Stanley Warwick, with musical director Frank Thomas. Illustrations on the front cover and the inside double spread are by Marcus King. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on programme.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on cover and inside of folded sheet 290 x 225 mm.

Date: 1905-1984

By: Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: MS-Group-0557

Description: Minutes, circulars and newsletters, correspondence, papers of the Savage Club Orchestra, programmes, song sheets, files of club activities, lists of office holders, speech scripts, annual reports, short plays written by members, visitors books, scrapbooks, details of scholarships set up by the Club and other more ephemeral material. Source of title - Supplied The Wellington Savage Club, an all-male association linked to the original Savage Club in London, and whose goal was to provide an entertaining social club for middle-class \"bohemians\" interested in the arts and theatre, was founded in 1905. An orchestra was formed, premises were leased, and members were involved in activities such as amateur theatricals, concerts and visits to kindred clubs. Women were admitted as members in the 1970s. Many prominent Wellington citizens have been members of the Savage Club. Quantity: 6 box(es). 3 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos Finding Aids: Preliminary list available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes of photographs. Processing information: Not all items yet described

Date: 1949

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-005

Description: Shows an inset caricature picture in the left half, of a Maori sitting against a carved post, wearing a flax skirt, feather cloak and huia feathers, and holding up a crayfish. There is a kete beside him. The inset is surrounded by signatures of members present at the dinner. The right half shows the menu, with motifs of Maori carving. Those whose signatures appear include: A B Hamilton, J T Martin, W S Wauchop, Eric Johnston, D N Isaacs, W J McKeon, E A Allan, [...] Denis, [Andrew?] Fletcher, D A Hight, ... , A A Jenkins, G L Rogers, O N Gillespie, [G Mantell-Harding?], [W?] Stevens, G London, Robt Carruthers, R R Hayman, A E Hutchinson, I Watson, [...] Pringle. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - ASP Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet stuck to board, 278 x 354 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1931

From: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968 :Distinguished visitors at Korero of July 11th, 1931. Mark Hambourg [and] Peter Dawson.

By: Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-148-079

Description: Shows full-length portrait of the singer Peter Dawson in evening dress and holding a glass in his right hand. In a panel below is a cartoon shownig a woman approaching two men, while another two women look on, one saying to the other: "My dear - is THAT Peter Dawson?" Ephemera Collection has programmes of the visit of Peter Dawson and Mark Hambourg. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - A S Paterson / 31 Peter Dawson toured Australasia with the pianist Mark Hambourg in 1931. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s) originally framed with A-321-014.. Physical Description: Ink drawing, 340 x 190 mm (sight) Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1915 - 1935

By: Stanton, S Rebel, active 1915; Wellington Savage Club Inc; McKeon, William John, 1896-1973

Reference: A-321-011

Description: Shows a scene of devastation after the battle at Ypres, with the ruined gasometer partially standing. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S Rebel Stanton; Verso - centre - The gasometer at Ypres / Presented to the Wellington Savage Club by Past Chief Savage W McKeon / 1937 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 157 x 238 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1908

By: Macbeth, William, active 1908-1920

Reference: C-093-005-b

Description: Shows Wellington Savage Club members dressed in cloaks and grass skirts, assembled on beach with Chief Savage (Professor Thomas Hill Easterfield) making a speech. Macbeth may appear as artist at left, with the Club treasurer (George Toogood) to the right of him. One member reads "The king of the fortunate isles" (not listed in ATL pre-1984 catalogue, although William Pember Reeves wrote "The fortunate isles" in 1897). Other persons are not identified by name, but appear to be individual likenesses. Box in Manuscripts and Archive (85-027-4/07) contains envelope labelled as containing the key to this picture, but it is not in that envelope. A korero was the club's fortnightly meeting, culminating in an annual invitation korero at the Town Hall, where speeches and musical items took place. Minutes of the Wellington Savage Club 1905-1912 (MS 85-27 Folder 1/1) contains annual reports for 1908 and 1909, which feature the following: George Toogood, Thomas H. Easterfield, H? Plimmer, E. A. S. Killick, James Dykes, M. Myers, A. J. Wicks, Malcolm Ross, P. Hockley, A. S. Biss, W. Reuben Watts, J. F. Carr, A. S. Ballance, W. Beauchamp-Platts, Alfred Hill, J. M. Clark, Morris Fox. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - W MACBETH 1908; Recto - bottom centre - A Korero Wellington Savage Club 1908; Recto - bottom right - Registered in Copyright Office NZ See portraits of these people in Pictorial Reference Section file. See part of the original ink drawing at B-148-076. See another copy of this print at C-034-014. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on card, 410 x 545 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1900 - 1919

By: Wellington Savage Club Inc; Wallwork, Richard, 1882-1955

Reference: Eph-B-SAVAGE-1900/1919

Description: Includes: 1905: Wellington Savage Club concert in aid of the fund for the Home for Consumptives (with Savages Collins, Hockley, Wilford, Towsey, Toogood, Hill, Carr, Ballance, Rayward, von Haast, Dykes, Levvey [sic], Watts, McBeth, E J Hill, Wicks). Town Hall, Wednesday 17th May 1905. Programme / flyer 1912: Wellington Savage Club. From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Tribe to welcome annually Te wahines to the hapu. Te Menu. Town Hall, Wellington, 20 July 1912. [Programme] Christchurch Savage Club. Ladies' night. Sep 3, 1912. E Hari tatau [illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. Order of the Korero (2 copies) 1913: Christchurch Savage Club. 1913; our 21st trip round the sun! Te Korero Wahine. Art Gallery, Sept 8th 1913. Order of the korero (Illustrated by Richard Wallwork) 1916: Napier Soldiers' Club concert, organised by Napier Savage Club. Municipal Theatre, "Anzac Day", 25 April 1916. Programme 1918: Christchurch Savage Club. Empire Korero, May 25th 1918. Ake! Ake! Kia Kaha! Programme / flyer (illustrated by Richard Wallwork) Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1939

By: Isaac, Wilfrid Nelson, 1893-1972; Larcomb, B, active 1920s; Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968

Reference: Eph-B-SAVAGE-1920/1939

Description: Includes: 1923: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies' night, July 13 1923. Programme 1926: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies' night, Oct 1st, 1926; Po mo nga Wahine; a night for the ladies. Rarangi / Programme Wellington Savage Club Orchestra. Orchestral recital. Savage Frank Thomas, conductor. Concert Chamber (Town Hall), Thursday 28th October 1926. Programme (2 copies) Wellington Savage Club 21st birthday dinner. Town Hall, Saturday 24th April 1926. Menu / toast list (Damaged copy plus inside spread mounted on coard) 1928: Manawatu Savage Club. Ladies night. Te Whare (Empire Hall), Palmerston North, October 5th 1928. Programme (Illustrated by Larcomb) 1929: Manawatu Savage Club Ladies night. Po mo nga Wahine. Te Wharepuni, Empire Hall, on Friday 27th Sept 1929 at 8 o'clock. Rarangi (Programme) (Illustrated by Larcomb) Wellington Savage Club. Ladies evening. Town Hall July 12th 1929. Programme (Illustrated by Nelson Isaac) (2 copies) 1931: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies night. Town Hall, 24 July 1931. Programme (illustrated by A S Paterson) 1935: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies' night, August 2, 1935. Programme (Illustrated by A S Paterson)(2 copies) 1936: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies' night July 31, [19]36. Programme (Illustrated by A S Paterson)(2 copies) 1937: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies' night August 13, 1937. Programme (Illustrated by A S Paterson) Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Savage Clubs in New Zealand]

By: Watkins, Tyler & Tolan Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SAVAGE-1890/1939

Description: Includes: Undated: Auckland Savage Club. Envelope with ASC monogram 1895: "A ditty of the Flood", by M. L-S. Sung to the Christchurch Savage Club, at a Council of the braves, by a medicine-man of the tribe, May 13, 1895 1899: Christchurch Savage Club. Po mo nga Wahine. Art Gallery, 16 August 1899. Programme. Times Print 1905: Wellington Savage Club. Ladies' Korero. 15 September 1905. Programme. Free Lance Print 1909: Ye Sauvages of Wellington, their Ladyes' Evening, Saturday July 24 1909 [Folded card] / covers designed by Walter Leslie. [Printed by] Watkins, Tyer & Tolan Ltd [1909] ca 1915?: [Christchurch Savage Club]. "Ye that are sons of the blood attend". Empire Korero, 21 June [1915? - Card / invitation illustrated by Richard Wallwork shows lions on a headland with battleships offshore - perhaps reference to Gallipoli?] 1916: Christchurch Savage Club. Opening Korero, 20 May [19]16. [Card / invitation illustrated by Richard Wallwork] Christchurch Savage Club. Ake! Ake! Kia-Kaha! Empire Korero, 17 June [19]16. [Programme card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. 1917: Christchurch Savage Club. Ake! Ake! Kia-Kaha! Roll up 8 sharp! Opening Korero, 19 May [1917]. [Invitation card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. Christchurch Savage Club. Empire Korero, 9 June 1917. [Programme card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. 1918: Christchurch Savage Club. Ake! Ake! Kia-Kaha! Opening Korero, 11 May [1918]. [Programme card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. L.T. Print 45094 Christchurch Savage Club. Closing Korero of the 1918 season. Gilbert and Sullivan night. Saturday Sept. 7th [1918]. [Card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. 1919: Christchurch Savage Club. Opening Korero, 17 May [1919]. [Invitation card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. Christchurch Savage Club. Saturday July 26th, the Hapu will meet to celebrate Peace and Empire night. [Card / invitation illustrated by Richard Wallwork] Christchurch Savage Club. Opening Korero 1920, 8 May, when Prince Charming will awaken the Sleeping Beauty. [Invitation card illustrated by Richard Wallwork]. 1921: Christchurch Savage Club. Empire Night Korero, 4 June 1921. Programme card. L.T. Print 48820 1925: Wellington Savage Club. Korero in honour of the Officers of the United States Fleet. Town Hall Wellington, 18 August 1925. [Programme]. Evening Post print 1926: Hawera Savage Club offer for the approbation of the Hawera public, their annual Xmas Cheer concert, to provide comforts for the patients of the Hawera Hospital and the inmates of the Old People's Home. Opera House Hawera, 7 December 1926. Programme. Exdahl Print, Hawera 33222 Wellington Savage Club. 21st birthday dinner. Town Hall, 24 April 1926. Toast list / Menu (Back cover shows "The first Savage Club dinner, 2644 B.A." / A S Paterson. Per courtesy Dominion. Dominion Print [1926] (2 copies, one in two pieces) 1930: Gisborne Savage Club. Korero held at Rotorua, 19 September 1930. Souvenir programme. [Printed by] T Adams - 295 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and engravings, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1959

By: Thomson, Edgar, active 1959; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-148-073

Description: Shows portrait of Alan Highet's head, wearing headband, huia feather, and backed by crossed taiaha. Stages of his life are sketched in a horseshoe shape in the lower half. Medallions consisting mainly of New Zealand Breweries and James Buchanan & Co Scotch whisky bottle caps, are placed at each corner. Signatures of many members cover most available space. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) of certificate.. Physical Description: Photograph, 455 x 272 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1908

By: Macbeth, William, active 1908-1920; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: C-093-005

Description: Shows Wellington Savage Club members dressed in cloaks and grass skirts, assembled on beach with Chief Savage (Professor Thomas Hill Easterfield) making a speech. Macbeth may appear as artist at left, with the Club treasurer (George Toogood) to the right of him. One member reads "The king of the fortunate isles" (not listed in ATL pre-1984 catalogue, although William Pember Reeves wrote "The fortunate isles" in 1897). Other persons are not identified by name, but appear to be individual likenesses. Box in Manuscripts and Archive (85-027-4/07) contains envelope labelled as containing the key to this picture, but it is not in that envelope. A korero was the club's fortnightly meeting, culminating in an annual invitation korero at the Town Hall, where speeches and musical items took place. Minutes of the Wellington Savage Club 1905-1912 (MS 85-27 Folder 1/1) contains annual reports for 1908 and 1909, which feature the following: George Toogood, Thomas H. Easterfield, H? Plimmer, E. A. S. Killick, James Dykes, M. Myers, A. J. Wicks, Malcolm Ross, P. Hockley, A. S. Biss, W. Reuben Watts, J. F. Carr, A. S. Ballance, W. Beauchamp-Platts, Alfred Hill, J. M. Clark, Morris Fox. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - W MACBETH 1908; Recto - bottom centre - A Korero Wellington Savage Club 1908; Recto - bottom right - Registered in Copyright Office NZ See portraits of these people in Pictorial Reference Section file. See part of the original ink drawing at B-148-076. See another copy of this print at C-034-014. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured on board, 410 x 545 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1914 - 1963

By: McKeon, William John, 1896-1973; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: C-133-002

Description: Shows a group of four soldiers in the foreground, drinking from mugs in a small shell crater, while other shells are being fired on to the small town in the background. There is a gasometer in the left background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 504 mm (sight) Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..