Places

Date: 1926-1959

From: Hull-Brown, Ian Norman: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Hull-Brown

Description: Includes a collection of ball programmes: Undated: Eastbourne Carnival Football Queen No 3 dance programme. Perfumed with Muguet. 1926: Public Trust Office. Annual dance. St Francis Hall Wellington. 11 June 1926. Programme. 1928: Government House Wellington. 25 September 1928. Programme. Government House. 12 October 1928. Programme HMS Dunedin. 27 November 1928. [Programme] Annual Charity Ball. Town Hall. 6th (17 July 1928), 8th (11 June 1930), 9th (17 June 1931), 10th (15 June 1932), 11th (7 June 1933), 12th (20 June 1934), 13th (26 June 1935), 17th (21 June 1939), 18th (5 June 1940) 1929: St Patricks College Old Boys Association. 4th and 6th annual ball programmes. 1929 and 1931. Government House Wellington. 13 August 1929. Programme. 1930: Post & Telegraph Department. Town Hall. 31 July 1930. Programme. [Vivienne Riddiford engagement party - identified in pencil on back, and with the initials "V&M" on front]. 21 October 1930. Programme. [Dr Herbert's 21st party for his daughter - identified in pencil on back]. 12 November 1930. Programme. Featherston Golf Club annual ball. 15 July 1930. Programme; and Menu. Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club. 8 May 1930. [Ball programme] [Palmerston North Golf Club?] Palmerston North. 1 August 1930 (shows humorous illustration of golfers on the front of programme) Masterton Golf Ball (identified in pencil on back). Programme 1930. 1931: B (Dr Herbert's daughter's coming out dance). 27 April 1931. Programme. 1932: Lever Brothers (N.Z.) Limited. Founder's Day celebration. Kirkcaldie & Stains' Ballroom. 16 September 1932. Programme. M.S. [and] J.N. [marriage?] 10 March 1932. Programme. J.P. [and] J.W. [marriage?] Dances. 21 April 1932. Programme Plunket Ball. Town Hall. 15 July 1932. 1933: Programme with red musical stave on the front. [Dr Herbert's daughter's arrival from India. 17/1/33. [Dance card]. 1935: B D G and F N G. 19 September 1935. [Marriage?]. Programme. 1936: Queen Margaret College. 22 August 1935. Programme (front half only) Public Works Department annual staff dance 1936 1937-1938: Marsden School. Debutantes' dance. 21.5.1937 and 6.5.1938. Programmes. George R. J. [and] Elizabeth R. [Ball] programme. 7.5.[19]38. 1939: Mayfair Cabaret. Shell Social Club dance. Thursday 29 June [1939] Post & Telegraph Department annual ball. Dance list and supper ticket. (5 different, including one dated 1939) Queen Margaret College. Debutantes' Ball. 18 April 1939. Programme. 1946: A T Young 22/5/46. Programme. General Motors. "Assembly line" of all those who have served General Motors for ten or more years. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George Wellington. 12 December 1946. Programme. 1948: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. 65th presentation of prizes and annuall. 17 July 1948. Wairarapa Hunt Incorporated. Annual ball. 30 July 1948. Programme. 1949: General Motors. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 15 December 1949. 1950: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 14 December 1950. 1951: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 13 Devember 1951. Programme. General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. [Three badges worn by Norm Hull-Brown at these events] Includes programmes: Wellington Orphans' Club. Annual ladies' night. Masonic Hall, The Terrace. 7 August 1930. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Bright and breezy". Majestic Theatre 23 May 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brighter and breezier". 11 July 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brightest and breeziest". St James Theatre Wellington. 17 October 1935. Programme. Disabled Soldiers Civil Re-Establishment League presents its 1941 monster revue, "Britannia". Opera House, 1-10 May 1941. Programme. 2YA Camp Entertainers come to town with a non-stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 25 March 1944. Proceeds to Wellington Red Cross. 2YA Camp Entertainers return to town with another Non-Stop Variety Show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 November 1944. Programme. Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association. Smoke concert. Town Hall, 8 September 1950. Programme (autograph B C Freyberg) New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Non-Stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 September 1950. For the UN Appeal for Children. One day of your pay will save another child. Compered by Selwyn Toogood. Includes invitations: Nga Tawa Old Girls and Wanganui Old Boys. Ball at Drill Hall, Feilding. 14 June 1937. Invitation. Ohingaiti Citizen's [sic] annual Ball. Friday 12 August 1938. Music by Wellington's foremost dance band, Henry Rudolph's Dance Band. Flier. Wellington College Old Boys' Cricket Club. Annual dance. 9 March 1940. Invitation. Also includes a receipt from the Wellington Performing Musicians Industrial Union of Workers for membership, Mr Hull-Brown, 3 May 1927; and a business card of Jack E Michel, trap-drummer and xylophonist, Fuller's Vaudeville, Ambassador Cabaret. (in "Programmes" folder) Quantity: 30 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) invitations. 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (programmes, etc).

Date: 1848-1904

By: Parkes, Samuel, 1790-1863

Reference: qMS-1627

Description: Letters from Samuel Parkes written from Wellington and Wanganui comment on the voyage to New Zealand and life in Wellington and Wanganui. Also letters from Susan Weller, Woolwich to her grandchildren, 1865-1869 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 items). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1917-1930

From: Kensington, Jacqueline :Photographs, certificates and theatre programmes relating to the Reeve and Oxley families

By: Kensington, Jacqueline, active 1995; Kensington, Iris Merle, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-o-730

Description: A lot of Merle Reeve's relatives and friends, views of cities and towns, especially Palmerston North and Wellington, sports teams associated with Wellington Teachers College, Wellington Boys College, and All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North, in the late 1920s. Scenic views taken on holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 23 Oct 1931-26 Apr 1932

By: Hunter, David, active 1900-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1191

Description: Journal kept by Hunter while travelling from England to New Zealand on the `Rangitata' and his return to England on the `Makura' to Australia and the Orsova' from Sydney from 23 Oct 1931 to 26 Apr 1932. He travelled with Ena Hunter. He describes their preparations, embarkation at Southampton, the other passengers, food (including menus), sea sickness, entertainments, the comforts and otherwise of the ship, his cabin, their passage through the Panama Canal and Armstice Day. They disembarked at Wellington 24 Nov 1931, and left for Australia on the `Makura' 7 Mar 1932, and for England on the `Orsova' from Sydney, 13 Mar 1932. In New Zealand Hunter spent time in Wellington, visiting the Alexander Turnbull Library, describing the work of the League of Nations Union in Wellington, visits Christchurch, the West Coast and Nelson where he spent some time, Wanganui, the Waitomo Caves, Rotorua and Auckland and back through Taranaki where he climbed Mt Egmont; he visited farms and factories, observed the opening of Parliament (24 Feb 1932) and visited the Gear Freezing and Meat Preservation Company. He attended many church services in various churches including the Congregational, Church of Christ and Presbyterian churches. Folowing his and Ena's departure for Sydney he describes the new Sydney harbour bridge, their visit to Tasmania and the House of Commons in Hobart, visiting to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, the Suez Canal, Naples and Gibraltar, and an ANZAC commemoration service he declined to attend. The journal is illustrated and includes a water colour of the `Rangitata', newspaper clippings of portraits of various New Zealanders; and a copy of a letter from the Turnbull to the donor (1986). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm

Date: 1953

Reference: Curios-012-013-1/3

Description: Blue and white Pukeroa School jubilee badge 1903-1953 shows a photograph of the school building. Green and gold Victoria University of Wellington Alumni badge is rectangular. Circular Friends of St George's Chapel badge features a central red cross and a blue border. This St George's Chapel is probably the chapel at Windsor Castle. Quantity: 3 curio(s). Physical Description: Metal badges, circular and rectangular. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-172.

Date: 1932

By: Kilmister, Albert, 1881-1954

Reference: MS-1117

Description: Some early history of the Kilmister family and early Wellington as they remembered it. Details of voyage to New Zealand on the Lady Nugent, local Maori, and construction of houses and roads. Source of title - Spine title John and Frances Kilmister arrived 1841 on the Lady Nugent, lived in Wellington and Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red buckram)

Date: 1947

Reference: MS-1821

Description: Account of the life of Robert Parker, with particular emphasis on his career as organist, choir conductor and teacher in Christchurch and Wellington Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1968

By: Aitcheson, Muriel Mavis, 1919-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-1353

Description: Provides an account of Captain William Lewis' whaling activities at Kapiti, Waikopu and Cape Kidnappers; Douglas Mary McKain's account of life on board the `Olympus' in 1841 and her early days in Wellington. Also includes reminiscences of early settlers and settlement in Napier and Wairoa by Mrs Robina Roe (1929). Also copies of family letters (including letter from Thomas and Susannah Barben describing the voyage of the `London' in 1840), extracts from diaries, genealogical material etc. Includes brief biographical notes about Erena Wharekiri, Ngati Porou wife of William Lewis, and their daughter Harata `Charlotte' Torr. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (52 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)