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Date: [ca 1906-1975]

By: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975

Reference: MS-Group-1018

Description: The papers comprise correspondence with individuals, libraries and other sources of information on Coates; transcripts of interviews; newspaper clippings; photocopies and originals of official and private papers; pamphlets and draft chapters, with some commentary from the publisher's reader. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for other Sutch papers Arrangement: Approximately half of the records have been arranged and indexed in numbered files. The remainder are unnumbered papers and chapter drafts. From ca 1967 until his death in 1975, Dr Sutch collected material and wrote preliminary chapters for a proposed biography of Joseph Gordon Coates, under whom he had served as secretary between 1933 and 1935. Some of the papers he obtained from J M Barr, who had also collected biographical material. Quantity: 216 folder(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Index to the numbered files at MS-Papers-7170-001. Provenance: Found in basement of Shirley Smith's house.

Date: ca1922-1926

By: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993

Reference: PAColl-5588

Description: Photographs are part of a larger collection held in Manuscripts which comprise research material compiled by Barr for a biography of Joseph Gordon Coates and includes correspondence with W B Sutch, letters, miscellaneous material and an illuminated address given to Coates Includes notebook by Barr, `Notes of the memories of various people who were associated with late Hon J G Coates'; clippings on the opening of the Coates Memorial Church at Matakohe; correspondence between Barr and W B Sutch (1969-1975); miscellaneous correspondence (1969-1975); correspondence with R M Campbell with notes (1968-1973); notes (pp 5-30) including Maori friends of the Coates family, Douglas Hill, Edward and Thomas Coates, Charles H Porritt, Des Coates, William Betts, W B Souter, T E Coates, P I Wilkinson, J P Hare Crispe, Ian Cameron, R A Hill, W R Fee and others; further miscellaneous correspondence; `Reminiscences of....Coates' by M H Harding (1954); photocopies of correspondence and diaries (1886-1890) Quantity: 1 album(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 7 November 1928]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5469-054

Description: Joseph Gordon Coates speaking with the driver of locomotive Ab825 at Auckland Railway Station, possibly taken by Busson, circa 7 November 1928. This photograph was published in the New Zealand Free Lance on the 7th of November 1928. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - J G Coates improves his shining hour; Verso - top centre - [unreadable] improves the shining hour a [merry?] chat with the driver of his train Auckland Station; Verso - bottom right - Busson New Lynn Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1933

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: B-115-020

Description: Shows coalition partners J G Coates and G W Forbes reacting with shock to the appearance of Mrs Elizabeth McCombs, 1st woman M P, who took office 13 Sep 1933. Behind Mrs McCombs is an indignant jack-in the box figure, representing the Maori race, some of whom had objected to women in Parliament. The Maori figure is marked 'their troubles' and has appeared at the same time as Mrs McCombs, out of the box, but is much larger and more threatening than Mrs McCombs, and hence more of a problem to the Government See Mrs E R McCombs, N.Z.'s 1st woman MP (q920 McC) Exhibited in 'Harpies & Heroines: A cartoon history of the changing roles of women in New Zealand' Exhibition curated by Rachel Macfarlane and Cerridwyn Young of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at the National Library Gallery, 11 July - 26 October 2003. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 240 x 390 mm on sheet 310 x 490 mm