Places

Date: 1988 - 1993

By: New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade; New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information

Reference: Eph-D-TRADE-1990-01

Description: Shows a world map in the form of a jigsaw, with pieces for United Kingdom, Italy, New Zealand, Japan and California still to be put in place. The statistics of land area for each of these regions is given; all are comparable to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 595 x 840 mm.

Date: 30 June 1943-31 Dec 1944

By: Hanrahan, Pauline Noele, 1917-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-5545

Description: Hanrahan qualified as a registered nurse in 1940 and joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in July 1943. She sailed the same month from Wellington as a nurse aboard the Dutch hospital ship `Oranje'. During 1943 and early 1944 the `Oranje' made several trips between Port Said and South Africa and Australia and New Zealand. In the later part of 1944 the `Oranje' travelled mainly between the United Kingdom and Italy carrying wounded military personnel. Hanrahan left the ship in Cairo in Dec 1944 and served in the Cairo Number One General Hospital for the remainder of her war service. The diaries cover the period 30 June 1943-31 December 1944 and describe her experiences aboard the `Oranje'. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1961-1983

From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984:Photographs and postcards

By: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984; Vogt, Birgette Marie, active 1950s-1990s

Reference: PA1-q-570

Description: Most of the postcards date from 1980-1983. Nearly all are in colour. Most depict European countries Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1871-1970

By: Little family

Reference: MS-Papers-2133

Description: Papers of Ernest Charles Little, Richard Gordon Little, Little and Jennings family. Include letters from Ernest Charles Little while serving in the South African War and after arrival back in New Zealand, to his parents and his wife Natalie, letters to Ernest and Natalie realting to family affairs and genealogy; letters from Richard to his parents Ernest and Natalie, while serving in North Africa and Italy 1940-1944; miscellaneous documents, genealogical material, and press cuttings Ernest Little emigrated to New Zealand in 1902, settling in Motueka Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Braithwaite, Warwick 1896-1971 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5473-3

Description: Braithwaite continues his narrative describing his return visit to NZ, then a tour to South Africa and his return to London and problems at Covent Garden. He writes of the disagreements in the musical scene and the difficulties of getting work, gives his opinion on homosexuality (pp369-373). He describes various tours of Italy, Spain, France and Austria. Braithwaite discusses many of the important people he meets, including Karl Rankl, David Webster, von Karajan, Edward J Dent, Ricardo Blamey-Lafone and Vaughan Williams. Finally, he visted Finland where he met Sibelius, and had more world travels (1953-1956), visiting and working in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. (This part comprises pages 263-409) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1943-1944, ca1980, 1984

By: Stichbury, John Stannus, 1921-2003

Reference: MS-Papers-4166

Description: The papers comprise a war diary, a short history of Lowry Bay and `Taumaru', and newspaper articles and cuttings Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Accompanied by biographical and bibliographical notes by the donor Stichbury grew up in Wellington and lived at `Taumaru', Lowry Bay after it was purchased by his family in 1936. In May 1943 he left New Zealand and saw action in Italy with the 6th Field Regiment. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1957-1962

By: Griffiths, R J, active 1950s-1960s; Tauranga District Libraries

Reference: PAColl-6415

Description: Aerial views of New Zealand, India, France, and Italy taken by helicopter pilot R J Griffiths between 1957 and 1962 Arrangement: Negs at 35mm, 33285 to 35mm, 33696. Information from each negative group can be found at PAColl-6415. This gives basic identification of places in each negative group, and negative numbers relating to negative groups have been written on each sheet of information These photographs were taken by a helicopter pilot, R J Griffiths, who had retired to Te Puke. Quantity: 413 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 2,065 images. Provenance: After Griffiths death the photographs were presented, by a person whose name has not been recorded, to the Tauranga District Libraries.

Date: 1942-1946

By: King, Gilbert Arthur Newman, 1923-2006

Reference: PA1-o-1453

Description: Album of photographs taken and collected by Gilbert Arthur Newman King (1922-2007) while serving with 2NZEF 1942-1945, and with J Force in 1946. Comprises: 87th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Lyttelton and Mt Pleasant, 10 June 1942 to 18 August 1943. Scenes in Florence, Siena, Pisa, Bari and Naples, 18 October 1945 to 21 February 1946. Voyage from Naples to Japan aboard "Strathmore" via Port Said, Suez Canal, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, 21 February 1946 to 19 March 1946 Scenes in Japan, showing views of Kure, Yamaguchi and Kiwa Voyage home from Kure to Wellington aboard "Chitral", via Guam, 24 August 1946 to 8 September 1946. At home with family, 8 September 1946. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black card bound album 24.7 x 30.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr W R Schofield, Christchurch, in 2009

Date: ca1918-1964

By: Taylor, Lewis Francis Paul, 1907-1997; Taylor, Lewis Francis Paul (Mrs), active 1995

Reference: PAColl-4936

Description: Two albums cover Lewis Taylor's school days at Wellington college, his friends and their exploits - swimming, tramping, hunting and boating. There are also a number of photos of people - probably family members. A third album covers Taylor's trip to Britain and the Continent during the late 1920s. The purpose of this was to try and join the RAF. There is another album of much the same period of a trip to the Pacific Islands. The fifth album records the Fourth Informal Meeting of Directors of Civil Aviation in Asia and the South Pacific, Tokyo, 16-20 November 1964 Arrangement: Albums housed at PA1-o-742 to 744, PA1-q-566 and 567 Quantity: 5 album(s).

Date: 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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-219

Description: Assortment of photographs (mainly captioned) of General Freyberg in the Middle East, Greece, Crete, Italy and London. Also a series of photographs taken during his visit to Rotorua; the Prime Minister Peter Fraser's visit to Italy; on the steps of Parliament Buildings, Wellington as Governor General; during Rt Hon R G Casey's visit to Middle East. Group photo of voluntary workers, NZ Tuis, General Freyberg, Brigadier Park and Countess Jellicoe at the Fernleaf Club, London Quantity: 91 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960]

From: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8262

Description: 20th century Italian architecture, and one view of Roman ruins. Views of state flats, New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Maria Newman, Lower Hutt, 2004

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Braithwaite, Warwick 1896-1971 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5473-2

Description: Braithwaite continues with his narrative with notes on opera at Sadlers Wells, his study time at La Scala Milan before the war, wartime conditions, his work in Britain where he conducted many of the important orchestras and made recordings, a spell with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra (and visits to Belsen) and with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1945. He describes broadcasting to the forces, personalities in the music world, and his visits en route to Australia and activities there prior to his visit to New Zealand. Includes newsclippings of letters from Braithwaite to the `Glasgow Herald' re the Scottish National Orchestra and one from J Barnes, secretary and manager of the Choral and Orchestral Union of Glasgow re season of the orchestra. (Pages 104-117 are not included; this section therefore comprises pages 118-262) Arrangement: On re-sorting the autobiography, which was not completely in order, it was discovered that pages 104-117 were not there Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1926

By: Prouse, John, 1855-1930

Reference: qMS-1664

Description: Mainly relating to his musical career and trips with Antonia Dolores and others, but also containing details of his early life in Wainuiomata New Zealand concert singer Quantity: 1 volume(s) (68 pages). Physical Description: Mss (20 cm; ¼ dark green roan, marbled boards)

Date: 1940-1945

By: Anson, C H, active 1977

Reference: PAColl-0094

Description: Consists of photographs of Nursing and Dental units, World War II, North Africa and Italy. Also one view of 4 shops in Epsom, Auckland. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948 - 1949

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-311-6-001/057

Description: New Zealand topics include school holidays, overloaded trams, parking offenders, shop assistants' spelling shortcomings, hot weather, the performance of jockeys, building material shortages, a fun map of Auckland, raising money for rugby, long turn-arounds on the wharves, mortgage rates and housing rentals, womens' rights and strikes, unionism, road rules, food parcels for Britain, womens' role in parenting and education, schoolgirls wearing makeup, aeronautical research, Walter Nash's travels, New Zealand lifestyles, national defence policies, delays in constructing the Mangakino power scheme, school homework, power and fuel cuts, aluminium industry prospects, bids by Auckland and Christchurch for the 1950 Empire Games, communism and duck shooting, national economic performance, introduction of radar at Auckland airport, passenger transport, strikes, house building, defence of the British Empire, shortage of taxis in Auckland, traffic problems in Auckland, Aucklanders' lack of a sense of humour, car conversion, deteriorating cars, the siting of Auckland International Airport at Mangere, conscription, weekend family life and the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge. International topics include the Cold War, food parcels for Britain, the Five Nation Alliance against Soviet Russia, Commonwealth research into rocketry and aeronautics, British Empire defence zones, the Atlantic Pact, the reluctance of the USA to share defence secrets, New Zealand's place in international affairs, and Finance Minister Walter Nash's travels. Quantity: 57 Newspaper clippings. 57 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to card approx 245 x 165, plus A4 photocopies. Image sizes approximately 132 x 163 mm. Transfers: Newspaper clippings are at A-311-6 and photocopies of these at H-634-001/057.

Date: 28 Apr 1998

From: I am a dark river (Bob Lowry Oral History Project)

By: Churton, Meme, active 1955-1998

Reference: OHInt-0589/09

Description: Meme Churton talks of her background in Italy and China and opening the first coffee shop and gallery in Auckland. Recalls settling into New Zealand society and gives her impressions of the lifestyles of intellectuals with whom she met. Talks of the freedoms of the time including parties and drinking. Mentions Bob and Irene Lowry and family, recalling his personality and death. Interviewer(s) - Tessa Mitchell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-009023 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) summary notes. 1.17 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2834. Search dates: 1950 - 1963

Date: 6 July 1993 - 06 Jul 1993

From: National Council of Women: Narratives from a century - oral history project

By: Sandford, Gladys Anne, 1909-2002

Reference: OHInt-0387/22

Description: Gladys Anne Sandford (Sandy) born Napier. Gives details of her parents who were South Islanders, her father's jewellery shop which burnt down and the family farm in Taranaki. Was only member of family to have secondary education - refers to Government financial assistance. Describes Manaia School, the large Maori roll, sport and the curriculum. Recalls soup kitchens, general unemployment and being out of work herself for a year during the Depression. Mentions New Zealand Wars with reference to Ernie Betts, a neighbour, who fought. Describes her family, the Manaia community and leisure including birthdays and picnics. Discusses nursing career and training in both theatre and maternity nursing. Worked for Army Base Hospital, taking her to Fiji, Cairo and Bari, Italy (3 years). Recalls introduction to penicillin. Describes typhoid outbreak in Cairo and gives details of nursing in Cairo. On returning to civilian life took job in charge of Maternity Annex in Lower Hutt for nineteen years. Comments on nurses' pay. Talks about working for Plunket and helping set up the nursing degree. Talks about involvement with the National Council of Women in the Hutt and her experience as President of the Hutt Branch. Describes input into health issues in NCW. Gives reasons for the setting up of the Polynesian Festival. People mentioned include: Mary Dowse, Hilda Burke, Mrs Murphy and Marion Akroyd. Discusses importance of women's demands for Equal Rights. Mentions looking after her mother from 1946 to 1970. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Howick Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Venue - Howick Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1458.

Date: 01-31 08 2006

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Lochhead, Arthur William Allan, 1915-2008

Reference: OHInt-0920-11

Description: Lived in Ashburton 1915-2008. Backgrounds parents Arthur Osborn Lochhead and Kathleen Alma Lochhead (nee Ruddenklau) who ran a mixed farm at Mount Somers. Recalls leaving farm at ten years to come to Methven when his father went shearing. After leaving school worked at Hobbs seed cleaning store. Details sewing bags on tin mill and poisoning rabbits while working at Rangaitata Island farm for Frank Ruddenklau, his uncle. Says he then drove tractor and plough at Springfield estate farm for his grandfather Frederick Ruddenklau. Refers to being held back from World war Two service for 12 months because he was head sewer on the header. Says he left in 1941 from Wellington on board the Aquitania after three months training as a driver at Trentham. Refers to his three brothers going to war. Describes voyage via Fremantle, South Africa, the Red Sea to arrive at Port Tewfik, Egypt. Talks about training at Maadi Camp to be in 6 RMT (Reserve Mechanical Transport). Discusses transport of petrol and water and conditions in the desert, food, snakes, flies, clearing mine fields. Refers to taking 26th Battalion to Sidi Rezegh. Mentions brother George Lochhead in battle of Sidi Rezegh, being taken prisoner of war and getting the Victoria Cross medal. Talks about being present at El Alamein battle, everything bursting into fire at night, and being at Tobruk. Brief mention of Battle of Minqar Qaim, and a bullet through his radiator. Describes drinking sprees in Cairo, the Club, sightseeing at Pyramids and Nile River, Aswad Dam, hiring gharries. Talks about Methven and Districts reunion dinner in Cairo. Refers to getting pneumonia and having to go to Alexandria Hospital, then going to Palestine to recuperate. Says the whole DIV (2nd NZEF) went to Aleppo, Syria for six weeks working with refugees and road making. Mentions meeting Bedouins in the desert. Describes returning to Mersa Matruh with 23rd Battalion on board. Discusses mail and food parcels from home. Mentions role of Major Hood, the commander. Talks about driving at night time over the Apennines mountain range in Italy where the 6 RMT broke up. Talks about working in Mobile ambulance company on Italian front during winter. Says took wounded from the field and from the Casualty Clearing station and RAP, and took locals to Italian hospitals. Mentions Methven local nurse Natalie Currie bringing wounded. Talks about being based in Forli, sleeping in his ambulance and mortar bombs hitting it. Recalls General Freyberg visiting the 6 RMT and Winston Churchill coming on parade. Talks about playing cards, rugby, trying Italian wine. Had leave in Florence. Says sent pay home for his family. Talks about going to Trieste and being in Udine when the war ended. Describes hitch hiking via Milan, Genoa, Turin, Lake Como to Bari. Expands on trip on the 'Georgic' to Maadi Camp, Egypt, and on the 'Strathaird' passenger liner home. Says post war he worked at Mid Canterbury transport, Pudding Hill timber mill, Jackson's limeworks, Staveley. Refers to working for Arie Van Dyke and Lofty Chambers, and then becoming partners with Chambers in a potatoe farm. Says he set up own business in the 1960s. Recalls building a brick house in Methven when he married his first wife Jean in 1958 who died in 1972. Talks about remarriage to Alma Rowney. Says bought 84 acre triangle Cambrose Village and sold land for the Methven Motor Services building. Describes land improvements. Says he rented the Methven race course to grow potatoes and wheat on rotation. Refers to growing cocksfoot, white clover, barley, wheat, French oats and ran sheep. Refers to growing grain on contract. Says was first to grow Rua poatatoes in Methven. Refers to Dakota potatoe and keeping potatoes in pits against frost. Describes transition from horse teams to tractors, headers replacing thrashing mills, changing from manpower to a transport hoist for lifting potatoe 70lb bags. Refers to snow storms, impact of droughts, Lyndhurst irrigation Scheme. Talks about using sprays, arsenic, reglone. Mentions topdressing with fertiliser. Says retired in 1988 to garden. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016760 - OHC-016765 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 6 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6033, OHDL-001828. Search dates: 1915 - 2006

Date: 1920, 1944-1997

By: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006

Reference: MS-Group-2284

Description: The collection comprises four folders on Robert Martin's career as a post office employee and telegraphist, while the rest consists of papers, scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings relating to his military service during World War II in North Africa, Italy, and the Solomon Islands with the Field Ambulance service of the New Zealand Medical Corps. Correspondence with his brother, Martin, and his sister, Valerie, are included, as is correspondence with two of his comrades in the Field Ambulance. Also included is a typed translation of a Japanese diary which he acquired during the Solomon Islands campaign, probably on Mono in the Treasury Islands, and a typed copy of the diary and other papers of his friend, Colin John Arroll, who also served with the Field Ambulance. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: Reflecting the circumstances of their accessioning, the collection is divided into three series. Quantity: 19 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: A descriptive list compiled by the donor of the contents of the second accession (A2014-183) may be found in the backfiles held in the Reference Section of the Alexander Turnbull Library.. Provenance: Donated in two lots by Mrs Janet Hannan, Wanaka, during 2014. The first donation consisted of Robert Martin's civilian career as a telegraphist for the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, and the second his photographs, correspondence and diaries from his military service in World War II. His friend, John Colin Arroll, who also served with the Field Ambulance, sent Robert Martin a copy of his diary, reminiscences and other papers. Donor is Robert Martin's daughter. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00859 - To Photographic Archive - Albums and other photographs - Photograph albums transferred to Photographic Archive..

Date: 16, 23 August, 13 Sept, 1994 - 16 Aug 1994 - 13 Sep 1994

From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project

By: Jones, David, 1914-1999

Reference: OHInt-0406-19

Description: David Jones born Wanganui, 1914. Outlines family background - maternal grandparents from County Cork, Ireland - mother born in Greymouth - Uncle Jack became Mayor of Greymouth. Talks about the West Coasters. Recalls the Chinese gold miners and the differences in their work conditions from the other miners. Describes growing up in Wanganui; family house in Keith Street; Masonic Lodge; father's fear of fire as a result of the great Raetihi bush fire in 1918. Recalls going to work in an electroplater's shop and at the age of 15 `doing a man's work for a slave wage'. Talks about the lack of a trade union covering electroplaters in Wanganui and the subsequent working conditions. Explains electroplating process. Moved to Wellington and recalls decent pay and work conditions and his first union meeting at the age of 22 when he requested that the Wanganui and Palmerston North area be covered by the engineers union which did eventuate. Explains that conditions had improved on moving back to his former job. Other recollections include: fishing; native school, Putiki; Maori canoes on the river; cherry trees planted by Mother Mary Aubert; influenza epidemic 1918; end of World War I celebrations; 1920s earthquake; big flood in 1926 and Foster's Hotel fire. Recalls declaration of World War II and joining Expeditionary Force, travelling in `The New Amsterdam' to Sydney, then to Singapore where they transferred to the `Aquatania' bound for Egypt. Was part of the 4th anti-aircraft regiment. Has vivid recall of events, relating many stories and mapping his movements during the war and comradeship. Talks about the dreadful living conditions during the war and gives his opinions on war. Mentions Battle of Alamein. Moved from the deserts to Bari, Italy and relates stories from the Sangro River. Talks about the fall of Cassino and experiences in Italy. Talks about life after the war and his research into rammed-earth building, using that method to build his own house which he describes. Talks about his book on the subject of rammed earth building that is being published at present. Recounts his involvement with RSA and Vietnam issues - was totally opposed to the Vietnam war. Gives reasons for living so long in Wanganui and the changes he has seen in the town. Recounts his involvement with the Four Seasons Theatre. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Michelle Horwood Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - 22 Ngatarua Road, Wanganui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007598-007600 ; OHC-006766-006767 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1917. Photocopies of 3 photographs: (1) David Jones Italy 1942; (2) David and Aunt Avril Jones and brother Lou; (3) David and Lou 1940.