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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Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in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

Date: April-September 1993

By: Bishop Julius Hall Association of Ex-Students; Hearnshaw, Victoria Annabel, 1946-; Hazelgrove, Daphne Janet, 1948-

Reference: OHColl-0326

Description: Recorded as part of the Association's suffrage centennial project. Comprises interviews with former residents of the Hall. Interviewees discuss their time at Bishop Julius Hall (Hostel), the influences and decisions that brought them there, and their lives after tertiary study. The Bishop Julius Hall was first opened in 1917 to cater for the growing number of female tertiary students in Christchurch. This site was the official residence of Bishop Churchill Julius, Anglican Bishop of Christchurch (1890-1925), named Bishopcourt. Due to its popularity, a new larger residence was found and opened as the Bishop Julius Hostel in 1924. This building was used until 1973 when a new Hall was built for increased student numbers. The first male resident was admitted to the Bishop Julius Hall of Residence in 1993. Awards/funding - the project received a grant from the Suffrage Centennial Year Trust Whakatu Wahine Interviewer(s) - Vickie Hearnshaw Interviewer(s) - Daphne Hazelgrove The Bishop Julius Hall Old Girl's Association was formed in 1958 with Beryl Wall as the first president. This organisation changed its name to the Bishop Julius Hall Assocation of Ex-Students, after the residence became co-ed. Quantity: 21 C60 cassette(s) - plus agreement forms, biographical information and photographs (19). 20. Photographs of 19 of the interviewees Search dates: 1993

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.

Date: Nov 1988

By: Wells, Stanley Peter, 1920?-; McAlpine, Rachel Phyllis, 1940-

Reference: OHColl-0277/1

Description: Stan Wells recalls being sent by Ada Wells to a Salvation Army orphanage for boys in Temuka when he was six. Describes the few privilages, the starvation diet, no play and the work. Explains having his name changed. Recalls corporal punishments. Talks of his sister Alice known as Bim, sister Edna, also the few women who sheltered him. Talks of money provided by the Masons' Lodge for upkeep of this once grand home and its deterioration. Recalls having top marks in drawing and talks of his inability to play cricket or rugby at school later. Describes memorable days when the boys were allowed out of the orphanage. Explains about his holidays in Oamaru, meeting the Fergusons with whom he went to live, the servant - master relationship with Mr. Ferguson. Discusses similarities in the personalities of Harry Wells and Mr. Ferguson, an organist, and talks about their purchase of an organ. Discusses differenes in attitudes between Hazel Armstrong, who took an interest in him, and Mrs Ferguson. Talks about his work as a 15 year old on a farm at Wanganui, his work on a poultry farm with poor pay, and the cost of meals. Describes his jobs as a gardener. Explains that Bim's work was as a masseuse, also a compiler for Stone's Directory, and relates that she cycled to the West Coast during the Depression. Recalls his schooling, going to war in Egypt in artillery and infantry units, his treatment as a prisoner of war when he worked in coalmine and on a railway. Explains that he was sent to a nursery garden in Temuka on his return. Describes his psychiatric treatment after the war, spending time at Hanmer and names Dr. Bevan Brown, Frank Cook, Len Booth. Talks about religion. Describes visiting Ratana Pa, Wanganui and mentions successful health treatments there. Explains about his love of native bush. Recalls Frank Milner of Waitaki School. Talks of cycling, piano playing and his appreciation of music. Relates about girlfriends, his wife and children. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - Rachel McAlpine Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002857; 002858; 002859 Quantity: 3 C90 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3852. Search dates: 1920 - 1960

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.

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].

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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).

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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

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

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