Shanahan, Foss, 1910-1964

Date: 1971-2003

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

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-204

Description: Research material and other papers relating mainly to Paddy Costello and Ian Milner. Includes correspondence with SIS, James McNeish and Prime Minister's Department. Also, copies of `Gallery' television transcripts (1971), released reports and newspaper clippings Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955-1957

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: PA1-q-318

Description: A Mr Peter Cooper was sent to Malaya during 1955-1957 as an official photographer, he may have taken the photographs in this album. Album consists of snapshots and passport-style photographs (6 x 6 cm) showing members of the New Zealand Special Air Service in Malaya between 1955 and 1957. Most captions handprinted in the album. Many personnel names are listed above, but there are over 100 more individual passport-style photographs in the album which have not been listed. Subjects covered include Eban (Iban) trackers from Borneo; life in the jungle including camping with hammock and ground sheet, and erecting a "Basha" or overnight shelter; jungle training; rubber & canvas jungle boots with an average life of 7-10 days; details of food and equipment needed for long periods on patrol in the jungle; cutting tracks through bamboo; checking for CTs (Communist terrorists); fording rivers. Views of Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malay villages; families of the SAS in their army houses; leave in Kuala Lumur; shopping; an Indian temple; the 22 SAS Museum in Kuala Lumpur with examples of Malaysian tools and weapons including CT guns and hand-made saws; and a parade at Coronation park in Kuala Lumpur; various sporting activities. The bulk of the album shows paratroopers in action with NZ SAS members boarding a naval helicopter; practice helicopter landing drill; practice loading of casualties (helicopters being used chiefly for casualty evacuation); guiding helicopters to land; native people wathcing helicopters land; clearing in the jungle for landing strips. Troops preparing for parachute jumps; parachute packing hangar; donning parachutes; troops inside Vickers Valetta transport aircraft; aerial views from plane; jumping at 800 ft. Later in the album there are more images of parachute training indoors from a "FAN" trainer (so called because harness was attached to a wind fan which gave resistance equal to a parachute on a jump) from a platform about 30 ft high. Earlier training was taken at Takapau and Waiouru; use of camouflage nets; field cookhouse; wading a creek; night exercise; jeep ambush; "Angus" the goat (the squadron mascot); flying fox training; Bren gun training; paratrooper training in a gym; clothes and weapons; volunteers for the Special Air Service; followed by parades and farewell march through Wellington before leaving for Malaya. Note that the NZSAS departed from Malaya in Dec 1957 and were replaced by the NZ Regiment Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "N.Z. Army Dept. S.A.S. No. 17"; 36.0 cm x 23.5 cm

Date: [1943-1944]

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: PA1-q-302

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Many scenes show NZers in training exercises in New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, including Bren carriers crossing rivers on raft & trestles erected by military engineers; signals; road construction; thatching and constructing buildings (the Works Construction Unit); amphibious training from invasion barges; unloading and landing supplies; transporting guns and equipment; bridge building; digging fox holes and camping in the jungle; jungle warfare; maintaining wireless communication; organising camouflage; repairing damaged weapons; use of local canoes for transportation; ordnance workshops; and weapon training. Many scenes show parades, and inspections, including the King's Birthday parade in New Caledonia; a church parade; the Hon Mr F Jones visiting NZ troops; visit of Hon W Perry; visit of General Freyberg; visit of Admiral Halsey (US); and visit of the Governor of New Caledonia. Sporting activities, including individual players and group portraits of various teams of rugby players, soccer teams, hockey teams, swimming teams and a carnival, boat races, athletics, jockeys and horse racing, wrestling and boxing; surf clubs including the Engineers' team, Infantry No 2 team, and the Signals' team. Daily scenes including food preparation and coking; an anti-mosquito campaign; a leave centre for pacific troops; a dance sponsored by the American Red Crosss Service Club, and a celebration of New Zealand Day at the club; casting votes for NZ elections and a visit of scrutineers overseeing the voting; NZEF Base Repertory Players and the Kiwi Concert Party; a Base Camp reception at the hospital in New Caledonia; a garden party held by the Officers' School; Xmas parcels for NZ troops in the advanced Pacific Base. Images linked with medical care in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal and Treasury Islands include hospitals; medical personnel including dental surgeons, opticians and nurses; convalescent depot; and evacuation and transportation of the sick and wounded; and scenes of funeral services and graves of NZ soldiers in the Solomon Islands. Transportation of equipment and troops loading and embarking for the north from New Caledonia; landing craft; Liberty ships; New Zealanders in Guadalcanal. The NZ Brigade arriving in Guadalcanal, and the move from Guadalcanal to Vella Lavella on board L.S.Ts (Landing ship, tank); climbing up nets on the side of transports; bulldozer drawing heavy vehicles and equipment from the L.S.T.; New Zealand soldiers with Fijian commandoes; use of outrigger canoes; capture of a Japanese armed coastal barge, a Japanese supply boat and camp equipment left by retreating Japanese. Treasury Islands campaign in which a small group of NZ worked with native guides; two native chiefs who were extremely helpful; a NZ camp at Malsi on Mono Island; Falamai Village; water collection at Saveke River on Mono Island; tree cutting to provide wood for pump bases and flooring; unloading drums of petrol; NZ troops consolidate on Treasury Islands. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: May-Jul 1987

Reference: OHColl-0176

Description: Commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to collect resource material for the Ministry's historical archives in the form of life histories of a selected group of early and long-serving personnel. The object of the interviews was also to provide a human insight into the evolution of the Ministry. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Relates to an oral history proejct at Library reference OHColl-1261. Quantity: 14 C60 cassette(s). 3 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 7 April 1984

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part II

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

Reference: OHInt-0101/08

Description: Sir George Laking was born in Auckland in 1912. Notes that his personal details are recorded in the Customs Department oral history project (OHInt-0176/01). Describes transferring from Customs to the Organisation for National Security, in the Prime Minister's Office, in 1940. Talks about the role of Foss Shanahan in this transfer. Talks about his early death and the significance of his role in the Department of External Affairs, Cabinet Secretariat, civil aviation and in the immigration of Polish refugee children. Describes the work of the Organisation for National Security. Comments on the atmosphere in New Zealand particularly concerning possible Japanese invasion. Describes Sir Carl Berendsen and contrasts him with Sir Alister McIntosh. Talks about the role of Deputy Prime Minister Sir Walter Nash during the war. Notes that he was part of the Pacific War Council and that he and Berendsen were New Zealanders making an impact internationally. Talks about working with Peter Fraser in the absence of Shanahan or McIntosh. Lists External Affairs posts and describes the development of overseas representation. Mentions the Enabling Act (of the Department of External Affairs) in 1943. Discusses the role of J.V. Wilson in developing a core of professional people in the Department. Describes travelling the Pacific with Peter Fraser in 1944 and 1945 and the impact this had on Pacific Island nations. Comments on the New Zealand regime in Western Samoa. Discusses issues facing the United Nations including the future of its mandated territories. Comments on Fraser's influence on trusteeship for Western Samoa. Discusses NZ's changing relationships with Britain and the United States, particularly regarding its Pacific role and security. Talks about the development of the Department and staff members Frank Corner, Colin Aikman, Tom Larkin, Charles Craw and Malcolm Templeton. Discusses the time he spent as Counsellor at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington from 1949 to 1956. Talks about working relationships with Dean Aicheson and John Foster Dulles. Describes the key events during his period in the States as McCarthyism, the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Discusses the domino theory and southeast Asia. Talks about the government under Sir Sidney Holland from 1949 to 1957 and its emphasis on New Zealand's relationship with Britain. Discusses New Zealand's relationship with Australia and the development of ANZUS and SEATO. Comments on Sir Leslie Munro as Ambassador to Washington. Describes being Acting High Commissioner in London from 1958 to 1961, at the beginning of the British approach to the European Economic Community (EEC). Mentions C F Skinner visiting from New Zealand to make a case for preferential treatment for New Zealand butter and meat. Describes returning to the United States as Ambassador to Washington from 1961 to 1967. Discusses American and New Zealand involvement in Vietnam, Lyndon Baines Johnson, visiting Saigon and the role of the CIA. Comments on Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake, Sir Jack Marshall and Norman Kirk. Discusses New Zealand's recognition of China in 1972 and Ray La Varis' role in setting up trade. Summarises the evolving relationship with Britain, the USA, South-east Asia, the South Pacific and Australia. Discusses Vietnam, the UN charter, the veto, UN trusteeship, Western Samoa, the Korean War and and the EEC. Describes New Zealand involvement with the Australia and New Zealand agreement 1944, South Pacific Commission 1947, ANZUS, SEATO 1954, the Colombo Plan, ASPAC and ASEAN. Explains the role of a diplomat and assesses his own contribution. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Ombudsman's Office, The Terrace, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000500, 000504, 000504A, 000505A Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0094. Search dates: 1984

Date: 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2735-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 13 Apr 1950-27 Aug 1951

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-136

Description: Letters re McDonagh's death from E Dumbleton, C Furlong, J W H to Sir L Munro, F Shanaghan and G Burns Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1944-1946]

From: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6748-17

Description: Forms, Government department correspondence and forms, NPFB and other papers; includes several lists of equipment and supplies required by FAU personnel Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1959-Feb 1960

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-344

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1946

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-340

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: Sep 1958-May 1960

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-207

Description: Items 1-88 of personal correspondence between McIntosh and Shanahan while Shanahan was serving as Permanent New Zealand representative at the UN, New York and as New Zealand High Commissioner, London Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1956

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-203

Description: Correspondence with Shanahan while he was serving as Commissioner for New Zealand in South East Asia, Singapore Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1960

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-345

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: May 1960-Oct 1961

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-205

Description: Items no 89-196 of personal correspondence between Shanahan and McIntosh while Shanahan was serving first as New Zealand High Commissioner in Ottowa and later as New Zealand Permanent Representative, New York. The correspondence deals with a wide range of foreign affairs issues. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1949

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-200

Description: Items 112-155 of inward and outward correspondence, Foss Shanahan, Prime Minister's Department Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca 1944-1999]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-205

Description: Research material, copies of correspondence, reports and extracts from other publications. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1951-1961

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7518-03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1944-1949

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-341

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca 1944-1999]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-206

Description: Research material, copies of correspondence, reports and extracts from other publications. Includes copy of Lochore's history of the SIS, and intelligence report on Costello. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1942]

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-222

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; includes thank you letter to C D Smith, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, Washington DC Quantity: 1 folder(s).