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Earth ovens, Maori

Traditionally, food cooked in an earth oven. During World War II method taught by the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction as a means of having hot food after dark without a give-away fire.

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World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. Units. 28 Battalion (Maori)

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-151

Description: Includes some multiple copies; most are captioned. Includes list for series of numbered photographs `Return of the Maori Battalion from overseas' - 3 sets. Return of the Maori Battalion from overseas - Reception on Aotea Quay: men preparing meat and chicken for hangi and women preparing food at Porirua Pa; Battalion en route from Pipitea wharf to Aotea Quay; old Maori woman (Ngawaina of Ngati Toa) smoking `The Pipe of Peace'; Battalion at the gates of the marae; haka (Ngati Tuwharetoa) in support of chiefs address; Kia Ora to the Committee. Return of the Maori Battalion - The `Dominion' approaching Pipitea Wharf; disembarkation; Rev M Bennett; pipes and bands of the 1st Wellington Battalion; quayside welcome (Maori MPs T P Paikea, Hon E T Tirikatene, Hon R R Mawhete, T Omana, & M Ratana); welcome haka Ngati Tuwharetoa; Rangi Te Hana & Turei Papanui (Ngati Tuwharetoa haka party); Hinga with women of the Ratana Party in the dining hall welcome; official guest table; Hepi Te Heuheu addressing the Battalion; Ngati Poneke Club members.. Series of photos of visit to Rotorua and Ohinemutu; members of Maori Battalion having a snack on the Tewfick station prior to embarking; series of photos taken 23 May 1940 on day of departure; sing-song after disembarking in England, 21 Jun 1940; three soldiers with A-tank gun; soldier with captured German Tommy gun near Gazala, ca 1942; two bren-gun carriers manned by members of Maori Battalion in England; sightseeing in London. Quantity: 144 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Clark, Fiona, 1954- :Kai Moana, Taranaki. 1982 calendar. Printed by Executive Printing ...

Date: 1981 - 1982

From: [Calendars for the year 1982, of approximately A3 size. 1981].

By: Clark, Fiona M, 1954-; Executive Printing (1977) Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1982-01

Description: Each of twelve pages shows a photograph by Fiona Clark of a seafood, or activity involving seafood. The focus is on the Te Atiawa hapu of Taranaki. Each opening has recipes, including recipes for pupu, pipi, kakahi, kina, mussels, karaka berries, maize, kotoretore, rori, limpets, wheke, starfish, piharau (lamprey eel), puha, eels, kouka, ti ti, parengo, watercress, whitebait, trout, paua, mussels, mango maroke (dried shark), crayfish. There are also instructions for a hangi with poaka tahu. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on both sides of 12 sheets, spiral bound, 425 x 312 mm.

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New Zealand - Miscellaneous photographs published in 1950

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Hangi being prepared in a skip bin on a construction site, Wellington

Date: [ca 20 December 1974]

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

Reference: EP/1974/7746-F

Description: Photographs of a group of workers preparing a Christmas hangi in a skip bin on the Woolworths construction site, Lambton Quay, Wellington, taken ca 20 December 1974 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :No, I haven't seen Maori TV yet, but Elsie's been watching the...

Date: 2004

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[27 cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times between 1 and 31 March 2004.]

Reference: H-738-096

Description: While a man chats over the fence to his neighbour his partner Elsie is digging a deep hole for a hangi in their backyard. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopy of black ink drawing.

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World War II Official album. Internal, 438-

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

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Photograph album relating mainly to Rotorua

Date: 1890, [ca 1900]-1904

From: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942 : Photographs, negatives and photo albums

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-o-1912

Description: An album containing prints relating to the Rotorua District and Maori tourism in particular. The images were taken by Leslie Hinge, ca 1900-1903, except for one image taken by Josiah Martin in 1890. Many of the images have short captions written by Hinge giving subjects and locations. Images show various subjects, including: - The whare whakairo (carved meeting house) Tokanganui-a-noho with a sign 'Ko Rawaho' for the ancestor Rawharo at Te Kuiti. - Games of bowls being played on the green at the Government Gardens, Rotorua, showing the band rotunda in the background. - Whare at Te Ngae pa, with Maori families sitting and standing outside, including a woman weaving baskets. - Mud pools and steam vents at Tikitere (Hell's Gate) and Whakarewarewa. Also the Wairoa geyser hole at Whakarewarewa being "soaped", with tourists looking on, and subsequently spouting. - The bush-lined Kaituna River and the Okere Falls, including a flume for a hydroelectric plant servicing Rotorua. - A small motor launch pulled up on the shore of Lake Rotoiti, with tourists aboard and Maori captain. - Scenes at Whakarewarewa village, including children penny diving from bridge and bathing in hot pools, kettles and kete (baskets) for cooking, and views of houses. Also images of the whare whakairo Rauru, one with Sophia Hinerangi and a man who may be Mita Taupopoki outside; and another with the caption "Sold to Berlin - 1904". Also portraits of Sophia and Bella Papakura. - Scenes at Ohinemutu, including interior and exterior shots of the whare whakairo Tamatekapua, bust of Queen Victoria with St Faith's Church beyond, children bathing, and a woman named Merepaea Paea washing clothes. - A waka taua (war canoe) being paddled on Lake Rotorua and shots of canoes being manoeuvred over obstacles in races. - Broad views of Waimangu valley with steam rising from vents, Lake Rotomahana with Mt Tarawera beyond, and the inlet on Lake Tarawera below Te Wairoa. Mud from the 1886 Tarawera eruption is still visible. - Hangi (earth oven) being prepared. - Men performing a haka near Whakarewarewa (this image taken by Josiah Martin). Three of the photographs are composites of two images, arranged one above the other. Other - Two prints formerly loose in this album are now at PAColl-10392 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, 20.5 x 26.5 cm

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Seven photographs of Maori at Stewart Island. 1896]

Date: 1896

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1891-1896]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-496-q-068

Description: 068-1 shows two views of the same Maori family, including a kuia, outside a house, with two visiting European men standing in the background; 068-2 shows a picnic or hangi with European and Maori women; 068-3 shows the group outside the house, another view; -068-4 shows the group outside the house, another view. The oldest Maori woman in the photographs wears a rain cape Quantity: 7 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, sizes vary, glued to two sketchbook pages, page size 111 x 183 mm

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Stones for hangi to feed land marchers

Date: 10 October 1975

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

Reference: EP/1975/4289-F

Description: Hangi workers beside a pile of boulders which they will use to cook food for the Maori land marchers. The location is Te Rauparaha Park, Porirua. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 10th of October 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative

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Adkin album 27

Date: 1931-1934

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Law, Dora Isabel, 1894-1982

Reference: PA1-f-009

Description: The Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua together with a pictorial record of Maori artifacts and customs. Also place names etc elsewhere in New Zealand (Vol 1, figures 147-334). Includes maps and diagrams. Images show eel weirs and traps in the Hokio Stream; stake-fields in Lake Horowhenua which were constructed by Maori to impede enemy canoes, and which were exposed above water level by the lowering of the lake in 1926; artifacts in various collections, including kumete, waka-huia, stone adzes etc.; views of the Takihiku meeting house belonging to the former pa called Pua-o-Tau (figs 198-202); porch of Poutu meeting house at Whakawehi kainga near Shannon (fig 204); site of Pakakutu Pa, Otaki; site of the Wairarawa Maori burial area where artifacts were found by Arthur Black in Feb 1932 (figs 210, 213, 223-224); carved meeting house Te Poho-o-Kahungunu at Porangahau (fig 233); funeral ceremonies on 17 April 1932, after the death of Hema Te Ao, at Raukawa meeting house (undergoing reconstruction at the time) and Rangiatea Church, service taken by Rev. Temuera Tokoaitua, funeral procession through Otaki, preparations for hangi; Titahi Bay; site of the former Korohiwa Pa; copy of a picture of Wellington Harbour by T Allom, showing place names and former Maroi sites; sites and place names along the Paekakariki-Pukerua Bay coast; sites & features at Titahi Bay, Whitireia Peninsula & Porirua Harbour.

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Railways album 1

Date: [Circa 1930]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-050

Description: Photographs of large groups of people taken on tours run by New Zealand Railways, using rail and road transport. The album covers various trips taken by large groups of unidentified people, mostly in the North Island, and only as far south as Tokaanu and the Whanganui River. They travelled by rail, by road and by ferry. Very few of the photographs have captions, but several are labelled "Commerce trip", and include images of farming, ploughing, stock sales yards, and a large group of men picnicking around a hangi (p. 14). There are a few South Island views, including Lincoln College and Akaroa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled "Tours Book B1"; 36.5 x 49.5 cm

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Photographer unknown: Views of Christchurch and the Canterbury area

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

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Ki Mana Whanau :Maatua Whangai. Aotearoa maramataka 1990. Rangatiritanga.

Date: 1990

By: Ki Mana Whānau

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-1990-01

Description: A calendar showing photographs of activities involving Maori: roadworkers, committee members, a hangi, a haka party, groups of young people and families. Other Titles - Rangatiratanga Other Titles - New Zealand calendar 1990 Other Titles - Matua whangai Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pages of calendar, each page 215 x 302 mm.

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Photographer unknown: Views of an old Maori oven and midden at Lyall Bay, Wellington

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: PAColl-6593

Description: Four photographs of an area of Lyall Bay showing the pile of stones remaining from an old Maori umu and the site of a midden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-017435 to 017438 Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

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Morris, C H album 3

Date: [1920s]

From: Beauchamp, Judy (Mrs), fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Morris, C H, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-350

Description: Photographs, all lacking captions, of a holiday in the Ureweras in the 1920s. Included are scenes of preparing a hangi; groups opf people standing at the entrance to a meeting house; groups sitting in the sun awaiting the meal; and scenes of people seated on the ground on either side of a long tablecloth laden with food. One photograph shows a woman milking a cow, with a cat drinking milk from a bowl alongside. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Small album with mottled brown cover, entitled "Holiday snaps" in gold lettering; 9 x 14 cm

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Auckland Star album 4

Date: [1900s?]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-015

Description: Album of images from various areas in the North Island. Includes images of Hawera, including streets, swimming baths, bowling greens, church buildings, the post office, hospital buildings, and public school. There are a several views inside caves, including caves and rock formations at Marakopa and Waitomo; views of coal mining at Mokau, the regatta at Ngaruawahia, cement works at Limestone Island in Whangarei Harbour, tree-felling in kauri forest. Images of Hastings include church buildings, school buildings, and other public buildings. One image shows a young man at a burial site in a cave, surrounded by a number of skulls. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound volume, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

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Sites and features at Titahi Bay, Whitireia Peninsula, and Porirua Harbour

Date: 1933

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-009-54

Description: Photographs by George Leslie Adkin Top left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-301) Carved wooden bowl showing details of carving. Photographed 5-3-1933. Top centre photograph (PA1-f-009-54-302) Toa Rangatira, meeting house at the Takapuwahia kianga on the south west shore of Porirua Harbour. Photographed 12-3-1933. Top left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-303) one of two old native ovens (umu or hangi) shown in section by the road cutting at Titahi Bay. Photographed 12-3-1933. Centre photograph (PA1-f-009-54-304) Maori cultivation terraces on the hills near Mount Cooper. Photographed 12-3-1933. Centre left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-305) Site of the former Kaitawa kianga at the south head of Porirua Harbour. Photographed 12-3-1933. Bottom left photograph (PA1-f-009-54-306) Bay at northern end of Whitireia Peninsula, site of the former Onehunga kianga. Photographed 12-3-1933 Bottom right photograph (PA1-f-009-54-307) The church at Pahautanui, the site of Te Rangihaeata's pa in 1846. Prior to the 1855 earthquake the flats on the left were covered by sea water. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Uncovering a hangi at Mt Cook School, Wellington.

Date: May 1974

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

Reference: EP/1974/3105-F

Description: Parents and teachers of Mount Cook School, Wellington, uncover a hangi at the school. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in May 1974. The hangi was the climax of six weeks of Maori studies. Each term the pupils of Mount Cook School spent six weeks studying the culture of one of the school's 14 nationalities. Then parents and children are invited to take part in a traditional meal. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

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Cambridge Summer School of Music

Date: 4-14 January 1966

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 :Photographs of musicians, musicians groups, singers and choirs

Reference: PA1-o-1328

Description: Photographs taken at the Cambridge Summer School of Music from the fourth to the fourteenth of January 1966. A lot of images are of orchestral and other group instrumental performances. As well there are women artists painting canvasses, men working at potters wheels, Maori performing traditional wood carving, a haka group practising, a hangi being opened and people lining up for food. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Photographs

Date: [1960s-1980s]

From: Rowling, Wallace Edward, 1927-1995 :Official photographs

Reference: PAColl-9589-5

Description: Photographs of Rowling visiting his Tasman electorate and other electorates in New Zealand. Includes photographs of a Gold Badge presentation. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).