Wright, Wynona Hope, 1913-1964

Date: Feb-Mar 1945

By: British Broadcasting Corporation; Sport and General Press Agency

Reference: PAColl-10173

Description: Photographs of the Commonwealth Conference on Broadcasting held in London, England, February-March 1945. Chiefly taken by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). Delegates from South Africa, Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom are identified on the rear of 14 of the prints. The New Zealanders pictured include Smith himself, journalist BBC TV news editor Tahu Hole, Professor James Shelley (Director of the New Zealand National Broadcasting Service), and Wynona 'Noni' Wright (BBC Pacific Service radio presenter). Most photographs in the collection are group portraits or of conference panels at Broadcasting House, but there are also two images from a visit to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford on Avon and two of a luncheon for the Australian and New Zealand delegation. Two further images taken by an unidentified photographer show a group of men on Manchester Canal and another group is identified only as 'S Kelton'. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Collection was originally owned by Smith then inherited by his daughter Lilias McKenzie. The collection was then passed onto Judith McDougall. In 1996 McDougall gifted the collection to the Theatre Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Eph-F-DOWNSTAGE-1969/1971: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): [Photographic display boards, advertising drama productions. 1969-1971]. - From Manuscripts & Archives - Theatre papers MS-Group-2272.

Date: 1954-1964

By: Wright, Wynona Hope, 1913-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-0234

Description: Most of the film scripts in this collection were written and the films made in Malaya and Singapore, where Noni Wright lived after the Second World War Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 18 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1935

From: Fox, Sylvia :Photographs of plays and actors from the Estate of Dame Ngaio Marsh

Reference: PAColl-0957-03

Description: Scene from 1935 production of 'Exit Sir Derek' by Ngaio Marsh. The cast are (from right): Betty Cotterill, Noni Wright, Professor Lewis Pocock, Dundas Walker, Roy Twyneham, Harold Taylor Smith and Judith Barker. Phiotograph taken 1935 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.7 x 20.8 cm

Date: 1942

From: New Zealand Listener

Reference: PUBL-0159-1942-001

Description: Photograph depicting the cover of the magazine "New Zealand Listener", dated September 25, 1942, with a photograph captioned: "Busman's Holiday: Pilot Officer Kingi Tahiwi, 2ZB announcer, broadcasting from London in the BBC's "Calling New Zealand" programme. Seen with him here are Pilot Officer Des. Lock, from Station 1ZB, and Miss Noni Wright, of the BBC, who comes from Auckland." Arrangement: File print of image in Turnbull Library Pictures Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: 1 b&w photograph