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Date: 1950s

From: Holland, Sidney George (Sir), 1893-1961 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7587-1

Description: Holland visiting Pinewood Film Studios while in England in 1955. The publicity shots show him in conversation with the stars, producers and directors of "Value for Money", "Doctor at Sea", and "A Woman for Joe". During his visit to Malaysia in 1955 Holland is shown inspecting class rooms of students and being shown the process of tapping the rubber tree. There are a group of unidentified images which may be of Holland with members of his family. Two groups of images show him at leasure. The first, at the edge of a pond or stream with Sir Anthony Eden and a group of unidentified men and boys all in swimming togs. The second, fly fishing with a couple of other people and armed for the hunt. Two images record a visit to India with his wife and daughter. Quantity: 66 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-075

Description: Shows John Luxford standing on a hill showing a crowd of politicians a view of Auckland. Amongst the crowd are Prime Ministers Holland, Nordmeyer and Holyoake. Luxford is pointing out Mt. Albert, Mt. Roskill, Mt. Eden and Mt. Wellington to them. Refers to the group of politicians visiting Auckland. Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1840, 1941 - 1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Hardcastle, Peter Richard, 1921-1991; Whites Aviation Ltd; Ross, Neville, active 1959

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-025

Description: Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1954

By: R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-STATE-1954-01

Description: Toast list and menu for a state luncheon. Proposers of toasts included: Prime Minister Right Hon S G Holland, Mayor of Auckland J H Luxford, and the Leader of the Opposition the Right Hon W Nash. A yellow kowhai motif appears opposite the toast list, and there are also yellow motifs of pohutukawa and silver fern. On the second last page is a photograph of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, 255 x 180 mm.

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-103

Description: Photographs of yachts, yachtsmen and yacht racing, mainly relating to Auckland, published in NZ Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. Names of some individuals, race events and yachts have been added to Name field. Includes a series of photographs of Erling Tambs, his family and yacht `Teddy', 1931-1932. Also presentation of Tasman Cup to Tambs at Akarana Yacht Club, Auckland. Photos of yachts at Mansion House Bay, Westhaven (Auckland), Mahurangi Heads Regatta, and at Nelson. Photo of rough water canoeing in preparation for world slalom canoeing championship to be held in Italy, 1953; Sanders Cup Race held at Lyttelton, Jan 1954; National Party reception and civic reception held in Christchurch, Mar 1950 (S G Holland, E B E Taylor and other named guests). Several lists of photographs, dated 1929-1947 Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1954

From: Sheat, William Alfred, 1899-1982 (collector) :[Ephemera relating to the Royal tour of 1953-1954]

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-Sheat-1954-1

Description: Includes: 8 January: Programme of the visit of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh to Wanganui, 8th January 1954. Booklet. Plus typescript letter of 23 December 1953 from Wanganui City Council about the civic reception at Cook's Gardens in Wanganui, and leaflets showing seat numbers H5 and H6 on the dais. 8 January: Also includes an invitation to the civic reception in Wanganui, printed in gilt, erroneously dated Friday 8th January 1953 (instead of 1954) 9 January: Invitation to Mr and Mrs W A Sheat to attend the official opening of the Wellington Show and Industrial Fair, by the Right Honourable S G Holland 11 January: State luncheon at Parliament House Wellington, 11 January 1954. Invitation, seating ticket, card to admit to parking area (with covering typescript note); programme of "Toasts, menu, music"; plan of tables and list of guests. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, letterpress, sizes varying up to 345 mm.

Date: 1953

From: [Ephemera collected by Jocelyn Veale, relating to the Coronation of Elizabeth II. London, 1953]

By: Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1953-01

Description: Programme booklet contains colour portraits of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Princess Anne; a black and white portrait of the Governor General Sir Willoughby Norrie, a welcome from the Prime Minister Sidney Holland, and articles about New Zealand bird song by Johannes Andersen, and the Ballet in New Zealand by Poul Gnatt. There is a poem by Whim-Wham (Allen Curnow), an article about Auckland by Mayor Mr John Luxford, an article about Sir Edmund Hillary, "The million pound note" starring Gregory Peck and Jane Griffiths, an article about Selwyn Village, the Vienna Boys' Choir, New Zealand art by Eric Westbrook, Maori place names and their meanings, the film "The love lottery" starring David Niven, an article about Auckland by Sir John Allum, a page about comedian Norman Wisdom, a Minhinnick cartoon about country folk awaiting the Royal visitors on page 93, and many scenic photographs. Also contains (pages 48-49) programmes for cinema screenings at the St James Theatre Auckland on 26 December 1953, and the Regent Theatre Christchurch on 21 January 1954. Contains several pages of product advertising. Another copy in the ATL NZ&P book collection at P q394.4 ROY 1953 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 96 pages, each 280 x 218 mm.

Date: 1953

From: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: C-132-887

Description: Shows Sir John Allum, the Mayor of Auckland giving advice to a suicidal man, seated in a chair with a noose around his neck. He has already tried a gun, arsenic, prussic acid, and a razor. The reason for his dejection is a telegramme from Prime Minister Holland, rejecting a request for a loan for building the Auckland Harbour Bridge. At the top left is stuck a clipping from the Evening Post, 21 March 1953, page 10. Other Titles - No loan money for Auckland's bridge Inscriptions: Recto - top left - This cartoon was rejected by the Editor on the grounds that he did not think that the Evening Post should help contribute to the increase in the suicide rate in N.Z. - N.M.C. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon drawing, on sheet 290 x 434 mm.

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-109

Description: Shows Holland walking into his office and seeing his desk covered in objects. There is a parrot with a note around its neck which says "We want the Ranfurly Shield back", a sign from Auckland which says "Narrow bridge", a gas lantern with a tag saying "Power shortage", a box of potatoes, part of and car with a label that says "Auckland transport", the front of a train, a road sign that says "Motorway ends here" and finally a toy aeroplane with a tag that says "Too big for Whenuapai". Refers to the box of dirt sent as a protest to the Prime Minister. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1940-1957

By: Holland, Sidney George (Rt Hon Sir), 1893-1961

Reference: MS-Papers-1624

Description: Opposition papers and correspondence; Ministerial and PM's subject files; National Party, policy, and campaign material; speech notes. Also some memorabilia and scrapbooks of photographs and press cuttings Member of Parliament (National) 1935-1957; Leader of the Opposition, 1940-1949; Prime Minister, 1949-1957 Quantity: 699 folder(s). 16 volume(s). 20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Sound and Music Centre - Recording of `To Elizabeth' by Miss Dorothy Stewart, New York - To Photographic Archive - Albums and loose photographs (some albums and scrapbooks have been kept with the collection. See Series 8).

Date: 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-034/048

Description: New Zealand topics include Auckland Festival of the Arts, undercover traffic officers, the perceived threat of Japanese imports to local manfacturing, dental costs, Auckland's drainage scheme, national economic performance, youth behaviour, the construction of Auckland International Airport, the 1954 Budget, P.A.Y.E., Social credit and the appeal of quackery, the effect of British dockers strikes on goods imported for the Christmas market. International topics include Japanese exports to New Zealand, British influence in Gibraltar, Malta and Suez, Communist China and striking dockers in the United Kingdom. Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes approximately 110 x 172 mm.

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-074

Description: Shows Holland standing in a crowd on a platform at a train station. A number of other men, such as Nordmeyer, Holyoake and Luxford, are waiting on the platform with their suitcases aswell. Refers to the sixty nine politicians arriving in Auckland from Wellington. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001

Reference: A-369-088/098

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross which mainly relate to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies, as well as the New Zealand forces that were sent to Japan after its deafeat in World War II. Also contains cartoons that are specific to the Wellington region with particular reference to mayor William Appleton and the prison on Mt Crawford. International issues are also adressed; especially those relating to Britain's class sysyem and the social problems that the nation faced in the aftermath of World War II. Quantity: 11.

Date: 1954-1956

From: Holland, Sidney George (Sir), 1893-1961 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7587-3

Description: Publicity photographs showing Sidney Holland on the farm and as the deep sea fisher standing beside his catch. The rest of the images relate to his position as Prime Minister of New Zealand and include a reception for ANZAC veterans held at Parliament on 26 July 1955, a meeting with Sir John Kotelawala Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and with United Nations General secretary Dag Hammarskjold during his visit to New Zealand in February 1956, and with Mr Nehru, Mrs Pandit and Sir Anthony Eden at the Commonwealth Conference in 1955. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-099

Description: Shows Prime Minister Sidney Holland and one of his collegues sitting in a train. Deputy Keith Holyoake is sitting in the seat behind them and they are looking out the window at the view of the Auckland Harbour. Refers to the annual National Party conference in Auckland. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 180 x 280 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-072/088

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross that mainly relating to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies. Some cartoons are specific to the Wellington region; there is reference to a cannon test and the Wellington Baker's Association (president H.E. Fariey). International issues are adressed. This includes an Indonesian police coup and the continuing problems that Britain faced in the aftermath of World War II. There is also an advertisement for the National Savings Bank. Quantity: 13.

Date: 1940 - 1957

By: Silverwood, David - 1910-1972

Reference: J-064-001/023

Description: Cartoons of soldiers, the Second World War and social issues in New Zealand. Collection of some 100 cartoons held by Army Museum, Waiouru. Quantity: 23 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies of black ink drawings.

Date: 1955

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-036

Description: Shows a plump little man standing on scales (Govt. measuring scale in #). A man (Mr Holland) and woman are looking on in amazement as the arrow on the scales moves toward #300,000,000. Refers to the works project proposed of Auckland and four adjoining areas. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.