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Date: 21 April 1983

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

By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978

Reference: EP/1983/1419-F

Description: Prime minister Robert Muldoon greets Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and Prince Edward at Wellington Airport. Photographed by Merv Griffiths on the 21st of April 1983. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 6-7 May 1998 - 06 May 1998 - 07 May 1998

From: Government House oral history project Stage I

By: Hawthorn, Raymond George, 1927-2007

Reference: OHInt-0636/4

Description: Ray Hawthorn was born in Wellington in 1927. Gives details of his family background. Describes spending school holidays with his maternal grandfather, a butcher, at Rongotea. Describes his work routine, killing a pig and making sausages. Recalls difficult times during the Depression and his father's unemployment. Describes time off school for infantile paralysis (polio). Talks about growing up in Owen Street in Newtown, Wellington, being a cub and a boy scout and attending Wellington South School. Describes employment as a telegram boy with Post and Telegraph. Discusses restrictions on telegrams during World War II. Talks about becoming Government House delivery boy then being transferred from the Post Office to the Internal Affairs Department. Mentions Albert Naulls. Describes the Official Secretary at Government House, David Fouhy, and comments on the formality. Mentions the Governor-General was Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall. Describes how the butler ruled one half of Government House, the Official Secretary the other. Describes lunches, etiquette, forms of address and curtseying. Discusses formalities at staff meals and explains the hierarchy. Discusses military hero Lord Freyberg who was the next Governor-General from 1946-1952. Comments on Lord and Lady Freyberg as a couple. Recalls visits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Field Marshall Montgomery and Lyndon B Johnson. Comments on politicians Sir Sidney Holland and Peter Fraser. Talks about the gardens at Government House and changes to the building before a royal tour. Discusses the 1953 Royal Tour, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mentions the Tangiwai disaster. Talks about getting married in 1956 to Shirley Goldfinch who worked at Government House. Describes his daily working routine, with reference to the mail, becoming senior orderly and later Administration Officer. Discusses the etiquette of presenting decorations. Talks about Lord Norrie, Governor-General from 1952-1957, and Lord Cobham. Mentions Lord Cobham's love of cricket. Discusses relationships between Governors-General and Prime Ministers. Mentions Walter Nash. Talks about English aides de camp before the time of Lord Porritt and changes with employment of more New Zealanders as staff. Describes the replacement of David Fouhy by David Williams as Official Secretary. Discusses the relationship between the Official Secretary and the Comptroller. Describes moving Government House to Auckland for three months each year. Talks about Sir Denis Blundell as Governor-General from 1972-1977 and then Sir Keith Holyoake. Comments on Waitangi Day and protest, Dame Whina Cooper and the 1981 Springbok Tour. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3398.

Date: [1970s-1980s]

From: Rowling, Wallace Edward, 1927-1995 :Official photographs

Reference: PAColl-9589-2

Description: Includes photographs of Red Cross Conference in September 1974; Trip to Antarctica; Opening of Richmond Coal Store in Rowling's Electorate; Campaigning in Northland 1980; Visit of Lee Kwan Yeu Prime Minister of Singapore; Visit to Paris, France; Visit to North Sea Oil Rig (Aberdeen); Laying foundation stone at the Invercargill Railway Station 1975; Visit of Crown Prince and Princess of Japan; Visit to Iran 1973 Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). 20 colour original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets.

Date: 1940-1957

By: Holland, Sidney George (Rt Hon Sir), 1893-1961

Reference: MS-Papers-1624

Description: Opposition papers and correspondence; Ministerial and PM's subject files; National Party, policy, and campaign material; speech notes. Also some memorabilia and scrapbooks of photographs and press cuttings Member of Parliament (National) 1935-1957; Leader of the Opposition, 1940-1949; Prime Minister, 1949-1957 Quantity: 699 folder(s). 16 volume(s). 20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Sound and Music Centre - Recording of `To Elizabeth' by Miss Dorothy Stewart, New York - To Photographic Archive - Albums and loose photographs (some albums and scrapbooks have been kept with the collection. See Series 8).

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]

Reference: D-005-017

Description: Letter thanking Mr Seddon for albums and pictures, and for hospitality whilst in New Zealand. Signed by 17 members of the suite. Undecorated. Inscriptions: Recto - Signatures: Alexander George of Teck, Wenlock, Charles [Nash?], Arthur [Bines?],Sydney Hall, J.W. Bor, John Neale Dalton, Roxburgh, Alan Reese Manby, May Lygon, Bridget Keppel, Derek Keppel, J. J. Byron, Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Brryan Godfrey-[Fansseto?], Crichton. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Letter in ink 396 x 254 mm, on board 540 x 398 mm. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]

By: Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; McGowan, James, 1841-1912; Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932

Reference: D-005-008

Description: Illuminated text flanked at top and right by New Zealand scenes painted by C.N. Worsley: Wanganui River, Pink Terrace, Mount Egmont, Wakarewarewa [sic], Wellington Heads, Tongariro, Lake Taupo, Maori Whare, Queen Charlotte Sound, Buller Gorge, Lake Te Anau, Franz Joseph [sic] Glacier, Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound. Also shown are kiwi, huia, tui and weka. Photograph shows that original was framed in carved wooden frame with Maori motifs. Other Titles - To his Royal Highness George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of Cornwall and York... Inscriptions: Recto - (At head of address): New Zealand June 11th 1901 / To His Royal Highness / George Frederick Ernest Albert; Recto - beneath image - (Signatures): R. J. Seddon (Premier);G. Hand (Colonial Secretary); J. Carroll (Native Minister); Wm. Hall Jones (Minister for Public Works); Jas McGowan (Minister of Mines); T. Y. Duncan (Minister 0f Lands); C. H. Mills (Commissioner of Customs).; Recto - bottom left - Wm. R. Bock delt.; Recto - bottom right - C. N. Worsley 1901 Dating: George V as the Duke of Cornwall visited with his wife in 1901. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white 470 x 300 mm, on board 562 x 455 mm, of original watercolour. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: 27 August 1962

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

Reference: EP-World royalty-Thai royal Family-01

Description: Lady Cobham representing Lord Cobham, the Governor-General, farewelling Queen Sirikit of Thailand at Christchurch International Airport. With them is the Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake. Photographed by a Christchurch Star staff photographer on the 27th of August 1962 The Governor-General, Lord Cobham was ill, so his wife represented him. The Prime Minister delivered the Governor-general's speech. The King and Queen left Christchurch for Canberra, Australia. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 17.4 cm

Date: 1901

From: Royal tour 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064-42

Description: A scene taken during the 1901 royal visit showing the Duchess of Cornwall and York leaving Whakawerawera. Richard John Seddon is on her left. Maggie Papakura is on her right. A horse is in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Departing from Wakarewarewa, Rotorua Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).