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Date: 1988

By: Metzger, David Leslie, 1928-2000

Reference: C-155-003

Description: These seven photographs show students and staff taking part in a cartoon competition referred to as 'IDS 1988'. The photographs from top left and moving clockwise show: students working on their entries in a classroom, a man 'Owen won a prize' presumably called Owen completing his cartoon, the judges, a woman and David Metzger himself examining cartoons on a wall, a photograph of a Ronken cartoon that shows a dole queue in which stand a Teachers' College lecturer and a Minister of Education, two photos showing entries on a wall, and lastly a woman completing her entry. Quantity: 7 photograph(s). Physical Description: 7 photographs glued to paper 660 x 440 mm

Date: 1998 - 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-539-063/086

Description: General Pinochet complains about not being allowed to travel freely. Comment on the Minister of Defence's policy. Opposition Leader, Helen Clark, tells the public about National's intended defence spending. New Zealand's energy resources are put up for sale. Vultures gather around National's leader, Jenny Shipley. Jenny Shipley celebrates her first year as leader of the National Party. Boris Yeltsin reassures Russians he is still alive and running the country even though he is on an intravenous drip of Vodka. Finance Minister, Bill Birch in a pool after his attempt in the NZ Economic Free Fall Competitions. Jenny Shipley passes his togs, which he forgot to put on. Comment on the commercialisation of professional cricket. The House Judiciary Committee sit in judgement over President Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal. New ACC law allows victims the right to sue. Paul East quits politics to take up a cushy post for Foreign Affairs in London. Leaked conversations of Gilbert Myles. US military are relaxed about Iraqi missiles aimed at US Republicans. Jenny Shipley visits Bill Clinton. The world tryys to understand why Serbian security forces commit such terrible atrocitities. The Serbians say 'Because they can' Rachel Hunter and Jerry Hall discuss why they got rid of their rock star husbands. Pam Corkery quits politics. Bill Clinton tells the nation about the state of his relations with his wife Hillary following the Lewinsky allegations. The International Olympic Committee get 1st, 2nd and 3rd for Corruption, Greed and Arrogance. Monica Lewinsky is called to Washington for a high-level debriefing. The Government's response to people's needs following the storms in Northland. Sweetwaters festival leaves a mountain of unpaid debtors. Jenny Shipley advocates her favoured MMP option. Quantity: 24 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 9 February 1976

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/0541-F

Description: Member of the Wellington Ladies Surf Life Saving Club works the reel at the Wellington Surf Life Saving Championships, Paekakariki, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 9 February 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [1927-1965]

By: Gilberd, Edward Browse, 1904-1991

Reference: MS-Papers-6020

Description: Comprises Q-A-M-R admission ticket to afternoon tea in the officer's mess; menus for 1st Battalion of the Wellington West Coast Regiment (autographed on verso); letters from Colonial Mutual Life Assurance to Gilberd re his achievements in contests within the company (1927-1929); letter from friend with the St John Ambulance, Yorkshire, re operation and family news (1957); letter from Edmund Lodge, St John Ambulance, Yorkshire, re visiting that division (1946) and from St John Ambulance Overseas re trophy given by Gilberd (1946); two letters to Zea Lough written from Verdun and Egypt (nd); St John clippings and menu (1946, nd); testimonial from H Harle, Steward of Wanganui Collegiate for Gilberd (1927); letter, Royal Life-Saving Society re Wanganui City Council by-laws (1931); letters from Gustav Robus, Brotteorde, Germany and photograph of family (1944, 1965); Dewsbury and district short Thanksgiving Service (1946); letter, Jack Hutchison, thanking Gilberd for helping his daughter (1927); receipt for silver cup (1946) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1904

By: Greytown and Lower Valley Horticultural and Industrial Society; Wairarapa standard (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-SHOW-1904-01

Description: Poster of text in different lettering, announcing the spring show of 1904. It lists a catalogue of all the exhibits in the competition sections, for: pot-grown plants, cut flowers, fruit and vegetables, local productions (butter, baking, eggs, honey, sweets), home produce (bottled fruits, pickles, jams and jellies, dried fruits), home work (crochet, knitting, darning, lace, embroidery, watercolour and oil painting, carving, amateur photography), children's classes (sewing, doll-making, painting, plasticine modelling, egg collections, short story writing, flower collecting, copy books), children's cooking, children's flower arranging. Below are printed the by-laws governing the judges, exhibits, prize-money and place of exhibition. The secretary of the Greytown and Lower Valley Horticultural and Industrial Society was E A Laery of Featherston. The president, vice-presidents, and executive committee members are also listed. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on orange paper, 597 x 460 mm.

Date: 1914

By: Dunedin Expansion League

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Dunedin-1914-01

Description: Lists the special committees of the Dunedin Expansion League, and the entertainment events that were held (including "The Kennedy Entertainers" at His Majesty's Theatre, with full programme). There was a motor gymkhana and floral fete, and a meeting of the Caledonian Society. The motor gymkhana and floral fete took place at Tahuna Park on Saturday 28 March 1914, and included competitions of motor cars, side cars, motor cycles - competitions for best decorated cars and bicycles, a car balancing competition (on a see-saw), musical chairs for cars and side-cars, rescue races and steering competitions, banana catching competition for bicycles, flower-catching competition for motor-cycles. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 52 pages, each 220 x 139 mm.

Date: 1912

By: Dunedin (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Dunedin-1912-01

Description: Booklet lists the executive committee and sub-committees, the list of stallholders (refreshments tents, early settlers' tent, sweets and confectionery tent, tobacco tent, fruit and produce tent, jumble tent, post card stall, aerated water tent, floral tent). The centre spread shows a programme of band performances by the Mornington Band, Kaikorai Band, Dunedin Citizens' Band, 4th Regiment Band and Caversham Band. The afternoon performances included: wand exercises, highland fling, Indian club swinging, gymnastic display, poster advertising competition, maypole dance, Spanish fandango, dumbbells, tug-of-war, ribbon exercises, golf putting competition, floral competitions, guessing competitions, grand fireworks display, motor wagon rides for children. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, each 182 x 125 mm.

Date: 1946

Reference: Eph-D-EDUCATION-1946-01

Description: An arrangement of text. Entries closed on Saturday 16 March. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress, black on cream poster, 535 x 400 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand Educational Institute in 1998.

Date: 4 February 1974

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1974/0647-F

Description: Two women being carried on a frame by four men at the surf life saving championships at Paekakariki Beach. Photographed by an Evening post staff photographer 4 February 1974. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1925 - 1926

From: [Ephemera relating to carnivals and celebrations in New Zealand. 1920-1929]

By: Maranui Surf and Life Saving Club

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1925-01

Description: Includes programme details for the "Miss New Zealand, 1925-1926" National Bathing Beauty Contest" (controlled by the Lyall Bay Surf and Life Saving Club). Boxing Day, December 26th, at 2 pm. 12 contestants are listed. Other events were children's fancy dress competitions, baby shows, sand modelling contests, children's races, side shows. The final of the bathing beauty contest was on 2nd January 1926. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 210 x 142 mm. Transfers: Transferred from MS-Group-1139 in 2002. Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives in 2002 (MS-Group-1139).

Date: 1926

By: Wanganui Competitions Society Incorporated

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Wanganui-1926-01

Description: Lists events and competitors in all the categories of performance, including elocution, oratory and debating, vocal, dramatic, instrumental music, fancy dancing, and national dancing. The judges were Harrison Cook (Wellington), Bernard Page (Wellington), A Stanley Warwick (Wellington), Miss Daphne Knight (Auckland), R W Haddow (Wellington), and Harold Whittle (Wellington). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 92 pages, each 213 x 140 mm.

Date: 1924

By: Feilding Star (Newspaper); Feilding and District Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Feilding-1924-01

Description: Lists events and categories of performance, including instrumental music, vocal items, elocution, fancy dancing, with the pieces for recitation reproduced at the back of the book. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 211 x 138 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1986.

Date: 1971 - 1974

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: B-187-001

Description: Shows Neville Pickering(?) relaxing in a garden on a deck chair. Over the fence, two men (possibly Sir Dove-Myer Robinson and Frank Kitts) are shaking a plum tree, and Robinson raises a spade in anger. The tree has a single fruit ('the Games') which looks set to fall into Pickering's garden Christchurch hosted the 10th Commonwealth Games in 1974, with Pickering in place as Mayor at the time Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick / NZ Herald, 16.11.71 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 277 by 413 mm on sheet 390 x 495 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera (Eph-D-LOCAL-Christchurch-1971/1973); other items transferred to Manuscripts, Photographic Archive and published collections.

Date: 1971 - 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989:Five cartoons by Lodge on the 1974 Commonwealth Games.

Reference: A-349-051

Description: A play on a short piece taken from a Christchurch newspaper, which reads: 'Christchurch, no one is going to nobble six Australian competitors in this month's national frog jumping contest - the organisers have arranged for an armed security guard.' The cartoon exaggerates this idea to the point where, in the last frame, a horse truck pulls up to the jumping contest, filled with seven armed security guards. The policeman asks the truck driver "Horse?", to which the driver replies, "No, just got a frog in my float" Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nevile Lodge 71 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, whiteout and letratone, and newsprint, 265 x 320 mm on sheet 315 x 373 mm

Date: 1900 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-SHEARING-1900/1969

Description: Includes: 1910: Levin and Company Ltd. Lister sheep-shearing machine. Illustrated catalogue no 6. All previous lists cancelled. [1909-1910]. 1935: Cooper Engineering Company (NZ) Ltd. Cooper combs, Cooper cutters [ca 1935]. Flyer Cooper Engineering Co. This E-B handpiece cuts shearing costs [ca 1935]. Flyer Cooper Engineering Coy (NZ) Ltd. Estimate for Cooper Master model friction gear sheep shearing plant. 1 July 1935. Flyer 1963: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears Royal Invitation Shearing Carnival in honour of the visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Fraser Park Lower Hutt, 11 February 1963. Programme 1966: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 2-5 March 1966. Programme 1968: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 27 February - 2 March 1968. Programme Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, November 2022; 1961: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing and wool handling championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 9-11 March 1961. Programme.

Date: 1970 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-SHEARING-1970/1999

Description: Includes: 1971: Golden Shears International Shearing Championship Society. International Shearing Championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 3-6 March 1971. Programme 1980?: Lister, for th world's best wool, the world's best shearing gear. Tested and approved by the New Zealand Wool Board Field Service. Flyer 1983: NZ Golden Fleece Fine Wool Shearing Society. NZ Fine Wool Shearing Championship. Stage 1 National. Alexandra Community Centre Theatre, Miss Wool of Otago. 16-17 September 1983. Souvenir programme 1985: Golden Shears International Shearing Championship Society championships. War Memorial Stadium, Masterton, 27 February - 2 March 1985. Programme 1993: 1993 World & New Zealand Fine Wool Championships. Alexandra 10-11 September [1993]. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1950

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1950-1954].

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1950-01

Description: Includes list of committee members, the programme for a grand Maori concert on Sunday 19 March 1950; for a Maori competition "Whakataetae" on Friday 17 March, advertisements for local businesses, and a photograph of some members of the Ngati Poneke Concert Party. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Programme, 25 cm.

Date: 1929

By: Gisborne Competitions Society; Gisborne herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Gisborne-1929-01

Description: Lists events and categories of performance, including dancing, instrumental music, elocution, with the pieces for recitation reproduced at the back of the book. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 73 pages, each 216 x 138 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1986.

Date: 1959-1960

From: Dickson, Decima, 1906-1995: Papers

Reference: MSX-4235

Description: Comprises the Ashburton Comeptitions Society annual festival programme (1959) and the Southland Competitions Society annual festival programme (1960) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (2 items).

Date: 1907

From: Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974 :[Cuttings of cartoons and caricatures from the "Exhibition sketcher" (Christchurch), the "Triad", and the "Sydney bulletin". 1906-1915].

Reference: A-350-020

Description: The recto shows number four in 'Our weekly competition' series, where readers were invited to guess the identity of a personality from a drawing of them; this drawing is of L Blake, Esq. On the verso, a drawing of Ethel De Costa (nee Benjamin), New Zealand's first woman lawyer, who had in December 1906 moved to Christchurch temporarily, to take over a large restaurant, The Cherry Tea Rooms, in the New Zealand International Exhibition. The scene is set in the tea rooms, with Miss Benjamin in full barrister attire, adjusting her hair before putting on her wig The full identity of L Blake, Esq is not certain. He is elderly, with white hair and walrus moustache. He wears a hat and is slightly stooped Extended Title - From: The exhibition sketcher, Feb 2, 1907, p 3-4 Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on journal pages, sizes vary Provenance: Donated by Ms Honiana Love, in 2000.