Places

Date: 1964

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1960s].

By: Universal Printers Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1964-01

Description: Booket outlining the Palmerston North Maori War Effort organisation activities in World War II, with proposals to erect a new community centre on an adjacent site. Contains photographs and clippings from the Manawatu Standard, 29 June 1964 about the opening of the memorial. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopied booklet of 12 pages, 210 x 148 mm.

Date: [ca 1941], 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: Boyer, Charles Percy Samuel, 1902-1973

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-180

Description: Series of captioned photographs taken by Netherlands Indies Government Information Service (Film & Photo Unit) of Dutch evacuees arriving in Australia from Java on board the Dutch hospital ship `Oranje'. Includes ex-internees released from Japanese camps; Dutch family groups (all named); general views of the ship with walking wounded; nursing and medical staff; hospital facilities on board; Captain and officers. Series of photographs of returning soldiers from on board `Oranje' (no captions). Series of photos taken for The Dominion (Wellington) showing groups of nurses; military personnel; official welcome home; soldiers and their families (no captions). Series of photographs taken by C.P.S.Boyer of Wellington showing soldiers being welcomed home. Includes Lady Newall welcoming a NZ officer; Governor General chatting with a soldier at the Clearing Hospital; Mrs C A Bennie and Lady Elliot handing out cigarettes to invalided men. Series of captioned publicity photographs of Australian and Dutch personnel from the Oranje on leave at the hotel, Chateau Tongariro, skiing, horseriding, relaxing at the hotel and during a dinner party. Photographs taken during a military parade in Wellington, possibly 1941 Quantity: 110 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1943

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-4161-01-158

Description: Photographs of 1 New Zealand A Tank Battalion in training at Ohakune and Waiouru between 1939 and 1945 (A F V School). Includes Governor General's inspection Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: Photographs were transferred to NZ Army HQ on 26 February 1943 (see photocopy of envelope housed with collection)..

Date: ca1945-ca1955

By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002

Reference: PA1-f-240

Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.

Date: 1946

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to dance parties, social dances, discoes]

By: New Zealand Returned Services Association

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-Social-1946-01

Description: A dance ticket, of various typefaces, with the logo of the Returned Services Association at the top centre. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on card, 60 x 94 mm. Provenance: Part of a purchase from Nigel Thorp, 1995.

Date: 1939 - 1945

From: Jackson, E R C (Lieutenant), 1907- :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War II

By: Jackson, Edward Robert Campbell, 1907-1973

Reference: PA1-o-572

Description: Album compiled by Lieutenant E R C Jackson (New Plymouth), which includes views of Waiouru, departure of the 2NZEF and voyage; Athens, Egypt and Italy. No names are given for any portraits or group portraits. Towards the end of the album there is a series of propaganda posters and leaflets; a copy of a Safe Conduct leaflet; and the British military identity document in the name of Edward Robert Campbell Jackson. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound volume with coloured decorative Egyptian motifs; 20.5 x 29.0 cm

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

Date: [ca 1915-1979]

From: Buckley, John David, 1901-1983 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10087

Description: Contains photographs relating to Buckley's sister, Agnes Buckley, who served as a nurse during World War II. Many are of, or include, her. Images are taken by unidentified photographers (possibly including Agnes Buckley and Ron J Moore) with identified photographers John Buckley and Lieutenant C J Justins, ca 1915 to 1979. Photographs mainly relate to Agnes's service during World War II. These feature the time leading up to her departure (including the Waitomo Caves exhibition at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and family scenes), tourist sites and street scenes in Egypt (including the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza), fellow nurses and soldiers, and Agnes's funeral in Italy in 1944. There are a number of formal portraits. Miscellaneous images include a Wellington Bomber aircraft crashed on railway lines in Libya and the troopship 'Aquitania' docked in Wellington. Some images of Egypt are hand coloured. Additionally, Agnes's nursing training and work at Taihape Hospital before the war, and family life, are covered. These images include formal portraits. Images of the Taihape War Memorial, and an unidentified group gathered around her framed portrait in the 1970s, are also included. Contains two original enclosures, both of which are annotated. Some prints contain information on the rear. Other - some of these prints have come loose from albums PA1-o-1804 to PA1-o-1807. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1936-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1794

Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1521

Description: Photographs of artillery training at Waiouru, 1940; practice amphibious landings in Vanuatu; and NZ troops at Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Nissan Island, taken & collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 190 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive other material transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Programme - The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' 1944 (Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02).

Date: 1938-1949

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-4161-01-054

Description: Includes aerial photographs of: Camp Russell and Camp MacKay at Paekakariki; Linton Military Camp at Kairanga 1949; Te Awaiti Bay (Marlborough Sounds), 1942 (Series 20/3); Manukau Heads showing South Head gun position (Series 13/2); Rerewahine [Point], (Otago Peninsula), 1943 - general view, gun emplacement & camp (Series 18/1); Tapeka Point; Rangiora Drill Hall (Series 18/3); Rotorua Drill Hall (Series 18/4); Russell, 1942 - camp & battery position (Series 18/2) Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938

From: Kelly, Raymond Alwyn, 1917-1998 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1635

Description: Photograph album relating to holiday photographs of Christmas vacation in 1938 at Chaso's Joint in Tariki, Taranaki Inscriptions: [Inside front cover] Holiday shots during Xmas vacation 1938 at Chaso's Joint in Tariki, Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album 20 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1944-1949

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-4161-01-028

Description: Views of Polish children's camp, Pahiatua, of life in the camp, of the children and officials associated with the camp Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s).

Date: 1939-1941

From: Marriott, Forrest Aitken, 1904-1960 :Photographs relating to World War Two

Reference: PAColl-8288

Description: Photographs taken and collected by journalist and photographer Forrest Aitken Marriott. Included are troops parading in Wellington in 1940; the 1st and 3rd echelons leaving Wellington on troopships; troops training at locations around the Wellington coast; troops training and parading at Trentham Militaty Camp and Waiouru Military Camp; photographs of the Dominion Monarch, the Rangitira, and the Strathaird. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: [Pamphlets, programmes, flyers relating to wood-chopping and sports meetings, collected by Eric Warner. 1915-2009]

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-Warner-1940s

Description: Includes: Undated, possibly 1946: New Zealand Championships. Professional cycling, woodchopping and athletics at English Park. Friday 26 January - Saturday 27 January [1918, 1924, 1929, 1935, 1946?] (2 copies) 1940: Rangataua Axemen's & Athletic Assn. Thirtieth annual chopping carnival, Easter Monday, 25 March 1940. Official programme Rangataua Axemen's 30th annual sports to be held on the Rangataua Domain, Easter Monday 25 March 1940. Pocket programme 1941: Owhanga Axemen's & Athletic Assn. Twenty first annual sports, Owhanga Domain. Easter Saturday, 12 April 1941. Official programme [chopping athletic and cycling events] AND Pocket programme Rangataua Axemen's & Athletic Assn. Thirty-first annual chopping carnival, Easter Monday, 14 April 1941. Official programme Urenui Combined Districts Sports Club. Fourth annual meeting, to be held in Urenui Domain, Saturday 17 May 1941. Patriotic meeting. Official programme [chopping, cycling, athletics, Highland dancing] 1944: Green Island Allied Axemen's Carnival at South End Bomber Strip [Kure Atoll, Hawaii], 1030 hours. Sunday 2 April 1944. Programme 1946: Owhango Victory sports meeting to be held on Owhango Domain on Easter Saturday, 20 April 1946. Pocket programme [chopping, sawing, cycling, athletic and horse events] 1947: Central King Country Axemen's Association. 1st annual carnival to be held on Taumarunui Domain, 28-29 March 1947. Pocket programme 1949: Central King Country Axemen's Association. Third annual carnival to be held on Taumarunui Domain, Friday and Saturday, 1-2 April 1949. Pocket programme [chopping, sawing, cycling, girls' team marching, national dancing events] Quantity: 10 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1945

By: Bollard, Albert Ernest, 1912-1993

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-1945-02

Description: Programme for production of 'The beautiful people', with plot synopsis, and profile silhouettes (of cast members?) by A Bollard. Producer R Kennedy, stage and properties by P O'Neill. Cast included K Mulrennan, N Ginn, D Dubbelt, N Bennett, W Lawry, J O'Neill, H Scott, N Pierson. Two copies held Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Stapled booklet, of typescript, collages and relief prints, 217 x 190 mm. Provenance: Both copies donated by the Megget family, Auckland, in 2008-2009.

Date: [1942-1944]

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: PAColl-4161-01-051

Description: Includes: Waiouru Military Camp, 1943-1944 (Series 23/6) showing panorama and aerial views of the camp, erosion and gulleys (including inspection by Major Holmes and Mr Gorman), inspection of trees to gauge amount of growth, crop of Red Clover hay on Harding's property; aerial views of Wainui Battery on Akaroa Heads, 1942 (Series 23/5); aerial views of Waikanae, one showing Paekakariki in the distance (Series 23/4); Caterpillar tractor including technical drawings (Series 29/3); Portable huts (Series 28/1). Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1993

From: [Ephemera relating to Maori. 1991-1994]

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1993-01

Description: Booket shows a photograph of the King's Silk Union flag of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. It contains a short history of the Battalion, a list of those participating and officiating in the parade (Major General A L Birks, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles Bennett, Hon Warren Cooper, Hon Douglas Kidd, Colonel R R Ottaway, Lieutenant Colonel J Mateparae, Warrant officer P A McKeany, Rt Rev Whakahuihui Vercoe, Chaplain I D Hanley, and Chaplain W T Gray), a list of the Colours displayed, and the order of the Consecration Service. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 210 x 148 mm., with red cover

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

Reference: PA1-q-291

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. Views show the manufacture of various military weapons, machinery and vehicles and the men and women involved in the work. They include munitions (manufacture of hand grenades); Bren gun carriers, airframes, building navy trawlers and mine sweepers in Auckland; airplane construction at Rongotai, at the De Havilland Aircraft Factory; making caterpillar tracks; making sten guns; and constructing army huts. People from various military and civilian groups are shown working as fitters, flight riggers, flight mechanics; aircraft maintenance; welders, camouflage nets (made by Girl Guides). Activities include army exercises (p 106-110); river crossing exercises; preparation for a dawn departure of a New Zealand Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron; army training (p 76-97); and the New Zealand Air Training Corps for elementary instruction for youths aged 16 to 18 1/2. RNZAF training includes blind flying practice, Hawker Hind training planes, aircraft maintenance, flight mechanics, and Airspeed Oxford training planes. Other activities include the planting and growing of linen flax, used in the manufacture of planes, tires, gun covers and fighting equipment; agricultural and horticural work, including using bullock teams for breaking in new ground; army manouvres (in part in Franklin area, and in winter conditions in the South Island near the Southern Alps); territorial manoeuvres; coastal defence; Home Guard training; a remedial physical education training camp for recruits suffering from foot troubles, painful backs etc.; the making of a new raft designed in NZ which could be constructed in a few minutes and was easily transported; training despatch riders on motor bikes in the snow. Women, in different organisations including Women's National Service Corps, Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Lady Galway Guild, were engaged in driving and maintaining military vehicles; driving for Red Cross vehicles; digging trenches; on parade; as signallers; in clerical work; hospital duties; cooking and other branches of essential war work. Pages 63-75 show the arrival in New Zealand of the American forces; and pages 111-121 portray a visit to New Zealand of Australian and Netherlands personnel from the hospital ship Oranje when the NZ Government, as a mark of appreciation for their efforts in bringing Australian and New Zealand wounded troops, placed a special train at their disposal and took them to Chateau Tongariro for rest and relaxation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001386-F

Description: Father Wilmewczyc talks to a group of girls at a Polish refugee camp in Pahiatua. Part of the camp can be seen behind the group. Photograph taken in 1945 by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative