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Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979 : Time's lessening hill / by L M Monckton
Date: ca 1890-1950 (196-?)
By: Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979
Reference: MS-Papers-3869
Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in the 1920s and England in the 1930s and 1940s. Annotated in an unknown hand. Publication - Published in; Joblin, Dorothea. The colonial one ; Lorna Monckton of Newstead. Christchurch, 1975 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (107 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations
Vicki Joy Fissenden - Success or defeat? An immigrant's account
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-052
Description: The essay traces the Fissenden family of Birling, Kent, to New Zealand and documents their lifestyles subsequent to their arrival. Beginning in 1875 the Fissendens and their descendants built a new life in New Zealand buying land, opening businesses and raising their families. From Marlborough the descendants of the first nine Fissendens spread to a large part of the upper South Island, later moving to Hawke's Bay and Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 45 pages. Finding Aids: Published inventory available.
Embroidery relating to Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko
Date: ca 1951
From: Turakina Maori Girls' College: Records
Reference: Objects-0610-1
Description: Textile embroidery created by Mairatea Tahiwi circa 1951. Made up of a circular embroidery showing a Māori whare, with peripheral circle containing the words: "Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko I Te Ora [Maori Women's Welfare League]. Tatau Tatau". Possibly made from cotton fibre. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Circular embroidery on cloth, 2 x 180 x 180mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A92-051. Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-029-024-01. Previous title: Tahiwi, Mairatea, 1908- :Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora. Tatau Tatua. 1951.
Embroidery and weaving samples by Mairatea Tahiwi
Date: ca 1951
From: Turakina Maori Girls' College: Records
By: Tahiwi, Mairatea, 1908-1997
Reference: Objects-0610
Description: Three textile pieces created by Mairatea Tahiwi circa 1951. Includes circular embroidery of Maori whare, with peripheral circle containing the words: "Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko I Te Ora [Maori Women's Welfare League]. Tatau Tatau". The two weaving samples are small rectangles of brown and cream chequer pattern. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 3 object(s). Physical Description: Circular embroidery on cloth and woven rectangles. Processing information: Description edited and child records created as part of the Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-029-024. Previous title: Tahiwi, Mairatea, 1908- :[One embroidery and two weaving samples. ca 1951].
Chilton St James School : School records
Date: 1908-2008
By: Chilton Saint James (School : Lower Hutt, N.Z.)
Reference: ATL-Group-00845
Description: Includes school magazines hand-produced by pupils of Chilton House and Chilton St James School; Minute book for directors of Hutt Girls' School, for shareholders of company and minutes of special meeting and report of advisory committee (1923) (MSY-4099) School register for Chilton St James School, 1917-1973 (MSY-2456) Recordings of Chilton St James Choir and parts of service (1953-1958; 1962-1974) Reminiscences of former pupils and staff Source of title - Supplied In 1897 Chilton House School, a private boarding and day school for girls, was founded on The Terrace, Wellington. In 1918 Hutt Girls' School Ltd established an Anglican private school for girls, Chilton St James School, in Lower Hutt. When the Chilton House School closed in 1930, Chilton St James School purchased their goodwill, and incorporating the name into the school. Quantity: 16 volume(s). 10 12" disc(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 5" reel(s). 1 folder(s). 1 10" disc(s). 1 7" disc(s). 1 7" reel(s). 0.41 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Originally the records were collected by the Chilton Historical Trust which had been set up to administer the archives of Chilton House and Chilton St James Schools. This function has been passed to the Chilton St James School archives.
Hosing down a car body at General Motors, Petone - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 29 December 1987
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1987/7098-F
Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm
Scott, Tom, 1947- :Twenty-one cartoons published in the Evening Post between 1 and 30 J...
Date: 1999
By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: H-587-001/021
Description: Political cartoons. Shows a redneck's nightmare, ownership of the Whanganui River is given to Maori who loaded it onto the back of a truck and took it away. Comment on executive golden handshakes and reduntant workers having to sign up for the dole. Shows violent offenders at Paremoremo Prison selecting soft movies like 'The Sound of Music'. In the middle of a power blackout the family try and read the latest power bill, it's gone up. The effect on the opposition of Jonah Lomu being left on the reserve bench. Statue of Liberty calls for the poor and huddled masses but says 'no' to New Zealand lamb. Comment on New Zealand's response to America's tariffs on New Zealand lamb. The common man comments on Bill English upstaging Jenny Shipley at the National Party Conference. Maori MP calls for quotas in the public sector that will ensure employment for ethnic minorities. Hospital hygeine is called into doubt. A politician trys to sell the idea of deregulating the Dairy Industry. A woman comments to her husband that it's a good thing young men eventually grow out of wanting more sex. He wistfully agrees. Obituary for JFK Jr. 1960-1999 Comment on youth alcohol consumption. Auckland Hospital try to reassure the public all babies are born equally there but not necessarily treated equally after that. Comment on Christine rankin's over the top refurbishment of the dept of work and income. Celebration of three New Zealand triumphs. Mike Moore gets top job at WTO, the All Blacks beat the Australians and the Black Caps cricket team beat the English at Lords. Paul Holmes promotes his autobiography. F-16 fighter planes are promoted by an Air Force Officer. The lowering of the drinking age is debated in Parliament. Boys try to come to terms with the news that girls are better pupils than boys. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.
New Zealand Women Writers' Society: Photograph album, "Biographies of Members and Activ...
Date: 1932-1991
From: New Zealand Women Writers' Society :Photograph albums
By: New Zealand Women Writers' Society
Reference: PA1-f-172
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'Before I can give my wholehearted support to the Inver...
Date: 1975
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-134-718
Description: This cartoon features the Wellington bus depot. A bus driver who has a bandage on his chin is asking his friends to tell his wife that their intended strike is not against the rights of women cleaners Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 290 x 380 mm
Anti abortion march, ca 1970s
Date: ca 1973
From: Police Picture Sets , Bright Lights :Thirty-five bromides showing disasters, demonstrations and crime scenes
Reference: PAColl-3122-01
Description: An anti abortion march (place nor identified). Shows mainly women carrying SPUC banners and banners carrying anti abortion slogans, down the street of a town or city. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Baines family : Papers
Date: 1850-1909
By: Baines family
Reference: MS-Papers-1125
Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Photograph of Post Mistress Levenia Shine, Whangamomona Post Office
Date: 21 January 1988
From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs
Reference: PAColl-1302-09
Description: Levenia Shine, Post Mistress at Whangamomona Post Office. Photographed 21 January 1988 by Fiona Clark. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print
Address book and diary
Date: 1921, [1930-1950]
From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968 : Papers
Reference: MSX-6015-6016
Description: Address book kept by North. Also diary for 1921 kept by her while teaching at Pahiatua District High School and in London and Kentish Town at the beginning of her grant of one of the University Passages to Europe. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (two pieces in case folder).
Kahukiwa, Robyn, 1940- :Tukua mai he kapunga oneone ki a au hai tangi. Send me a handfu...
Date: 1999
By: Kahukiwa, Robyn Fletcher, 1940-; Wāhine Pasifika (Conference)
Reference: Eph-D-WOMEN-1999-02
Description: A reproduction of Robyn Kahukiwa's "Papa, 1991" showing the face of a women lying looking at the sky, as if her head is part of a landscape. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 417 x 590 mm.
Nisbet, Al, 1958- :1993 - What women have to celebrate in Suffrage Year... Broadsheet, ...
Date: 1993
From: Copies of cartoons published in Broadsheet between 1990 and 1997.
By: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958-
Reference: H-709-013
Description: National Party's top women, Jenny Shipley, the Minister of Social Welfare and Ruth Richardson, the Minister of Finance, gloat over the erosion to concessions toward equity for women in New Zealand across the social, health and work fronts. All this in the year of celebrating 100 years of suffrage for New Zealand women. Other Titles - Wages Down. Pay Equity Abolished. Benefits Cut. Increased Health Charges. Unfair Electoral System. Unemployment Up. 84% Male Parliament. Teen Pregnancies Up. Decreased Women's Health Funding. Education out of Research. Extended Title - 'let them eat camellias!' Quantity: 1 digital print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy
Folders in L R Wishart's shirt factory, Levin - Photograph taken by Ray Pigney
Date: 9 March 1994
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1994/0681-F
Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Delegates attending the conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractor...
Date: February 1931
From: Registered Master Builders Federation (New Zealand) :Photographs
Reference: PA6-692
Description: Group photograph of delegates and their wives attending the 31st annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors Industrial Association of Employers taken in Tuatapere Domain. Photographed by an unknown photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 81 x 18 cm, in mount, 90 x 27.5 cm
The Guthrie-Smith family and station farming in New Zealand
Date: 1905-1911
From: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Photographs of Tutira and district, Hawke's Bay
By: Guthrie-Smith, Henry Wallis, 1868-1932; Guthrie-Smith, Archibald Guthrie, 1874-1949
Reference: PA1-o-1642
Description: Includes a large section relating to Mangapapa Station, Mangatu, that seems to be particularly associated with Archibald and D Guthrie-Smith. Many of the photographs are taken by Archibald and Harry Guthrie Smith. Includes - Views of Mangapapa homestead in recently burnt over hill country. Horses and dray crossing ford at Campbell's Crossing on the Mangamaia Road. Whatatutu School. Whatatutu Hotel. Stockyards, Mangapapa Station, 1908. Horses crossing the Mangatu River. Sheep at Mangapapa Station, 1908. Mangatu Bridge. Horses packing posts for boundary fences, 1908. Forest cut through ready for burning, 1907. Bush camps. Horses packing sacks of grass seed for burnt over hill country, 1908. Flood at Mangapapa Station that washed away stock yards. Ox team pulling a mill engine out of the mud, 1910. Sawpit in timber mill opposite homestead, 1910. Archibald and D Guthrie Smith with their horses and sheep dogs, 1907. Horse "Roany" with Old Tom, 1907. Horses and men outside "Primrose & Leslie Bros. Saddlers" Whatatutu. Settlers whare, Mangatu. Maori group, Whatatutu. Farmhouse of Messrs Manders and Dods, 1907. Crop of turnips. Mrs Martin's house up the Mangatu River. W Barron's homestead, Mangahaumia, 1905. Hegarty's woolshed up the Mangahaumia River. Bush fellers at their camp. Men with horses fencing hill country. Bailed wool ready for loading, Aotearoa Station, Mangatu. "Bricky" driving cart drawn by four horses through river with the mail. Puha Railway Station. Maori children. William Herbert Guthrie-Smith's daughter, Barbara, August 1903, 1906, and 1910. Guthrie-Smith, his wife, daughter, and brothers Archibald and Harry, 1911. Children's birthday party, 1906. House and garden at Tutira Station. Views of Lake Tutira. Staff, work animals, and head shepherd's house, Tutira Station. Native pigeon and pukeko's nest, Tutira. Large Christmas group, Turira Station, 1906. Shearers and shed hands, Tutira Station, 1905. Freshly harvested and processed flax, Tutira Station. Mrs F Moore, manager, Mangapapa Station. Bert Russell with horse "Bluey." Sheep yards, Aotearoa Station, Mangatu. Bert Russell and station cook Tom Marchant with horses. First grass on burnt off land, and cattle yards, Mangapapa Station. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2010
Newspapers - Miscellaneous Maori topics
Date: 1934-1940
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60
Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Ellen Melville and Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall Appeal Committee :Caravanserai. Monday...
Date: 1952
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]
By: Reid, Beverley Elaine, 1931-2012
Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1952-01
Description: Booklet issued as part of an event to raise finds for a Pioneer Women's hall in Auckland, as a community centre for women. The project was started by Miss Ellen Melville, an Auckland solicitor and City councillor who died in 1947 [ie 1946]. The Caravanserai (based on the Turkish idea of a public building erected for the shelter of caravans) was an exhibition of goods from many countries of the world. The booklet gives a short account of the history and culture of each country. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 240 x 184 mm.