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[Ephemera, programmes and booklets relating to rugby union football played by New Zeala...
Date: 1985
Reference: Eph-A-RUGBY-1985
Description: Includes: North Island v South Island. Rugby Park, New Plymouth, 11 May 1985. Programme (2 copies) Probables v Possibles. All Black rugby trial. Rugby Park Invercargill, 14 May 1985. Programme. NZ Combined Services v Manawatu. Showgrounds Oval Palmerston North, 18 May 1985. Programme Ranfurly Shield. Canterbury v King Country. Lancaster Park Oval, 19 June 1985. Programme Wanganui v New Zealand Colts. Spriggens Park Wanganui, 22 June 1985. Programme Ranfurly Shield. Canterbury v Taranaki. Lancaster park Oval, 25 June 1985. Programme New Zealand Colts v Manawatu. Showgrounds Oval Palmerston North, 25 June 1985. Programme Ranfurly Shield. Canterbury v Southland. Lancaster Park Oval, 6 July 1985. Programme Marlborough v Nelson Bays. Marlborough Rugby Football Union, Lansdowne Park, 20 July 1985. Programme. Ranfurly Shield. Canterbury v Marlborough. Lancaster Park Oval, 31 July 1985. Programme King Country Primary Schools Rugby Union. 58th Auckland Provincial Primary Schools rugby tournament for the Northern Roller Mills Shield. Rugby Park, Te Kuiti, 25-31 August 1985. Programme. Hawkes Bay v West Coast. Nelson Park Hastings, 31 August 1985. Programme Nine fliers and pamphlets urging the public to boycott the tour by South Africa, to picket the NZRFU on 18 May and 12 July 1985, and to mobilise on May 3. Includes a sheet of "Boycott" stickers, and a sheet of protest chants. Quantity: 22 publications, plus some duplicates.. Physical Description: Sizes varying below 25 cm.
Industrial
Date: 1974, 1979-1982, date unknown
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11672
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :(Upper left) Pimelea tomentosa. Nan Parks, Te Kuiti, Sept...
Date: 1972 - 1974 - 1980 - 1975
From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]
Reference: A-437-086
Description: Shows leaves and flowers of varieties of the pimelea shrub. Artist's list: Page 165: P tomentosa. Flowers & fruit Sept 1972 from Te Kuiti, Waikato, coll. Nan Parks Page 157: Pimelea aff. aridula (iii): Flowers Sept 1979, cult. orig. from Waima River area, fruit Jan 1980 from Chalk Ra. both Marlborough and both supplied by Tony Druce. Page 165: P buxifolia. Flowers male Oct. 1974 from Waipahihi Res. Taupo, supplied by Ngarita Travers. Female flowers Mt Ruapehu, coll. Norman Judd. Fruit Jan. 1975 from Waipahihi. Individual images appear on pages 157 and 165 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - Reserve, September Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 262 x 210 mm.
Interview with Annie Kiernan
Date: 4 Jul 1985
From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project
By: Kiernan, Annie, 1885-1986
Reference: OHInt-0004/01
Description: Talks about her family background, education in England and meeting her boyfriend, who became her husband. Describes his emigration to NZ to save for their marriage, her arrival in 1912 and reaction to New Zealand. Recalls Auckland before World War 1, working in Milne and Choyce, clothes and her social life. Describes moves to Te Kuiti, Wellington and Greytown. Other - Incomplete life history because of Mrs Kiernan's frail condition Venue - Brookleigh Home, Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Brookleigh Home, Masterton Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB173. Search dates: 1985
Interview with Eric Thompson
Date: 16 and 17 Dec 1985 - 16 Dec 1985 - 17 Dec 1985
From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project
By: Thompson, Thomas Eric, 1904-1996
Reference: OHInt-0070/23
Description: Eric Thompson recalls family background, childhood in Coromandel and Auckland, education, selection as engineering cadet in 1921, subjects taken for BSc, salary, hours, duties in Engineer's Office Telegraph Office Auckland, learning morse, preparing the Wellesley Street Automatic Exchange from 1925, training aspect of work, telegraph office in Auckland early 1920s, involvement in wiring, fitting, adjusting, longterm advantages of university background, wiring multiplex and quadriplex systems, cable testing, skills needed, methods of localising faults, systems adapted from British Post Office, move from bronze wire to cadnam copper, difficulties with overloading long distance telephone lines, explanation of twisted circuits. Describes working as assistant engineer in Hamilton in 1926, division of time, lack of overtime, social life, working on telephone lines at Tokaanu during visit of Duke and Duchess of York, effect of Royal tours, installation of Rhysselberg system, Te Kuiti floods in 1920s, work as automatic engineer at Dunedin in 1928, advocacy of world dialling system, reference Grant Milne, explanation of New Zealand dialling system, duplex toll dialling between Auckland and Hamilton, catching malicious callers, intalling first rural automatic exchange at Oparau, first unit automatic exchange at Kerepehi, the rural party line regrouping system, problems with Head Office. Discusses Post Offices charges, flat rate option controversy, own view and Grant Milne's view, planning difficulties, problems with Te Awamutu and Matamata exchanges, work building lines to radar stations during World War II, the cable jointing staff at Hamilton 1926-1928, reliability of radio inspectors, work as research engineer at Post and Telegraph Laboratory, Wellington, duties, work as automatic engineer in charge Auckland in 1932, equipment unable to be used during Depression 1930s, scope of work, tolls, faults staff, installing carrier equipment in Auckland, work as telegraph engineer in Hamilton in 1937, circumstances around being appointed Regional Engineer, retirement, impressions of Directors General - P N Cryer, G McNamara, conflict between Postal and Engineering branches. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Eric Thompson's home at 48 Water Street, Otahuhu Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001230 - OHC-001232; OHC-001244 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.26 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 165. Search dates: 1904 - 1985
Farmland near Te Kuiti, King Country
Date: 17 Sep 1981
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-75768-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Farmland, King Country near Te Kuiti
Date: 17 Sep 1981
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-75767-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate