Places

Date: 1839-1965

By: Stevens, Kenneth Murdoch, 1892-1978

Reference: fMS-232

Description: Draft history of the Maungatapere district from the arrival of the Walton brothers in 1840, with descriptions of the Maori and their local wars, of early settlers and of social and economic activities during the years. Part two contains reminiscences of his fighting at Gallipoli in World War I and his visit to the area in 1961 Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (40 cm; black buckram)

Date: [1950-1980]

From: Cooper, Peter, 1918-2004 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-7388-4

Description: Two articles by Cooper about a visit to Turkey (Evening star, 1968); Milford Track walker's certificate (1968); and `Twenty important spiritual instructions' by Sri Swami Sivananda, Rishikesh Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914-1918

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9548-23

Description: Postcards of the First World War and New Zealand. One group are of the Gallipoli campaign dated 1915. Views of New Zealand include Napier, Woodford House School, and Manawatu Gorge. Foreign postcards, mostly of Egypt, are included for the messages from New Zealand soldiers. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1907-1918

From: Estate of Thomas Jackson Grant :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0130-1

Description: Views of the Helvetia ostrich farm, Pukekohe, Te Kuiti, Parawai, Auckland, and Gallipoli and the Dardanelles during the 1914-1918 war. Auckland Grammar School record sent to Ephemera Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [1890-1942]

From: Browne, Theodore Percy, 1872-1949 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1394-05

Description: Comprises `Notes on the life of Mr John Jones' (born 1844) which refers to New Zealand goldmining in the 1860s; marriage certificate, Browne to Martha Jones (1909); untitled anonymous mss notes on family movements and shipping in New Zealand covering 1884 to 1891; letter from Brother Harry re Gallipoli which describes the Battle of Anzac, and two typed extracts from the letter; newspaper clippings on William Franklin-Browne; and `Memories of a mission house' pamphlet about the 'Elms', Tauranga (1942) Other Titles - Memories of a mission house by Alice Maxwell (1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1915

By: North-East Valley School (Dunedin, N.Z.); J. Wilkie & Company

Reference: Eph-B-SCHOOLS-NEV-1915-01

Description: Certificate of attendance, sighned by the headmaster O D Flamank, and the chairman of committee D J Calder. At top left is an inset oval head and shoulders portrait of King V flanked by the draped British and New Zealand flags. Below are two scenes, one of the warship "Queen Elizabeth", and the other showing a battle scene on the beach at Gallipoli. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 230 x 304 mm.

Date: [1940-1990]

From: Cooper, Peter, 1918-2004 : Papers

Reference: MSX-6126

Description: Postcards from various parts of the world collected by Cooper (no messages etc); countries include Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, India, Nepal, Singapore, Goa, New Zealand, Germany and Russia; also postcards of paintings from various galleries Quantity: 1 volume(s) (case folder with postcards).

Date: 1786-1950

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1965

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1975

By: New Zealand Gallipoli Association

Reference: PA1-q-096

Description: `This Album contains a descriptive and pictorial coverage of the four day's events of the Diamond Jubilee Reunion, together with relative data on the Gallipoli - Dardanelles Campaign, and the names and units of the three hundred and ninety-eight veterans who attended. In order that the Heroism, Deeds and Sacrifices should ever be remembered, We, the undersigned, entrust this Album to the War Archives of the Alexander Turnbull Library for the Public to view', signed by D E Stacey (President), H Everett (Hon. Secretary) and W Murphy (Patron) Includes a commemorative booklet compiled by The Patron, New Zealand Gallipoli Association, 8/921 W. Murphy, entitled `New Zealand Gallipoli Association, 1915-1975, Diamond Jubilee Reunion ... to be held at Auckland, April 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 1975, to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli on 25th April, 1915' On title cover `Howards. Papakura, N.Z.' Also includes newspaper cuttings from the New Zealand Herald, Saturday 19 April 1975 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Brown plastic loose-leaf album, 30 x 31 cm

Date: 1970 - 1999

By: Flavell, Elsa Lila, 1917-2002

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Flavell

Description: Includes cards and postcards written to Miss Elsa Flavell in the 1970s to 1990s. Themes are New Zealand scenic postcards (mainly South Island), postcards from oversas (Australia, Middle East, Europe, America, Asia, Pacific), artwork by L Polglase (Takaka), Narelle Oliver, Edith Collier. Includes get well cards, 1990s. Arranged in nine folders with the titles: Art reproductions, Asia (Japan, India, Malaysia), Australia, Europe (including Turkey), Fiji Samoa Tonga Pacific, Great Britain, Greetings and Get well cards (mainly floral), New Zealand, USA (incl South America) Quantity: 9 folder(s) 200 cards. Physical Description: Photolithographs on cards and postcards, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 2015 - 1915

Reference: Eph-G-DRAMA-2015-01

Description: Sign advertises a play about New Zealanders' involvement in the Gallipoli campaign in World War I shows the silhouette of a soldier in a lemon-squeezer hat, and a craggy headland. The sky behind is gradated orange-yellow. Sign was previously bolted to a support down both sides (there are four holes on each side) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print on corflute, 1200 x 900 mm.

Date: 20 Dec 1985

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Moller, Jacob Randrup, 1891-1991

Reference: OHInt-0470/18

Description: Jack Moller was born in Napier in 1891. Describes how his father came out from Denmark in his late teens, worked in the Forty Mile Bush in the Wairarapa and then in Pahiatua and Palmerston North before moving to Taranaki after his marriage. Mentions he lived in Opunake, Otakio and Eltham. Talks about Chu Chong who started dairying in Taranaki. Recalls leaving school at fourteen and driving a five horse team. Describes departing for World War I on the `Arawa' and heading for Gallipoli. Recalls the landing at Anzac Cove and describes the fighting at Gallipoli in detail. Discusses the high number of casualties. Talks about being shot in both legs, rolling down a bank and being taken to the Australian hospital ship which took the six hundred injured men on board to Alexandria. Comments on the work of the nurses. Recalls some time spent in Egypt before returning to Wellington on the `Tahiti' in 1915. Describes the reception on the train trip home to Hawera, convalescence there and further convalescence at the King George V Hospital in Rotorua. Mentions the Lake House and Palace Hotel and fishing trips. Describes in some detail his involvement in the filming of the `Mutiny on the Bounty' by an Australian film company who hired some of the convalescing soldiers as extras. Mentions the involvement of Tai Mitchell and Ernie Svensen in roles. Recalls the leading lady was Australian Lottie Lyall. Describes filming at Whakarewarewa and Mokoia Island. Recalls a tangi at Whakarewarewa and a visit from the Governor-General. Mentions he was discharged from the army in 1916 and has been a member of the RSA since that date. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2866.

Date: 1975

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Garlick, Richard, 1893-1976

Reference: OHInt-0470/11

Description: Dick Garlick came to Rotorua in 1910 and worked at the old Rotorua Coaching Company stables with about eighty or ninety horses. Discusses going to World War I with the Mounted Rifles. Mentions Paddy Abbottt, Gallipoli, being separated from his horse, getting dysentery and a fever and being shipped out. Recalls recuperating in an English hospital before returning to New Zealand in 1917. Mentions going on the Waimangu run on his return and the eruption of the geyser which blew up two people. Gives some details of his family background including growing up in Taneatua. Describes how his English father married Tuhi Tapsell. Talks about Rotorua boarding houses and hotels including the Geyser Hotel, Lake House Hotel, Grand Hotel and Brents Hotel. Describes how the typical Rotorua holiday was a fortnight long and included the Round Trip, the Six Lake Trip, Te Wairoa, Tikitere and Hamurana Springs. Recalls that the last coach went to Tauranga in 1920. Describes how the horses were changed every fourteen miles. Mentions five horses to a coach. Mentions that the horse coach had to go on a punt at Ohiwa and Te Teko as there were no bridges. Recalls driving coaches from 1912 to 1920 apart from some time during the war. Notes that the Rotorua Coaching Company was owned by Teddy Robertson, then Carr and Walker and was taken over by L C Ryan and Andy Brown who changed the transport from coaches to motor vehicles and called the firm Rotorua Motor Transport Company. Describes how Kusabs Motor Service changed to Aard. Mentions coach drivers Sonny and Tommy Atkinson and Bert Gleeson. Recalls driving Governor General Lord Fergusson round Rotorua, Lord Bledisloe to Gisborne, the Queen Mother fishing and Zane Grey to Tokaanu. Comments on the state of the roads and cars getting stuck. Describes dance halls the Peerless, Kings and Dixieland. Recalls Charles Kingsford Smith landing the Southern Cross at Te Ngae. Talks about the beautiful colours of Rainbow Mountain and soaping the Lady Knox Geyser. Describes a timber mill at Mamaku, a prison camp near the Lady Knox Geyser and early Taupo. Describes being a driver in the Waimana-Ruatoki-Taneatua areas and delivering mail bags at the same time. Recalls the Rangitaiki swamp and the difficulty of the terrain from Kawerau to Rotoma. Mentions being a Roads Service bus driver and then getting his taxi licence in 1950 and drivng a taxi till 1962. Recalls moving to Paradise Valley. Mentions that he is divorced and remarried. Talks about sisters Mrs Bidois and Nessie Bennett. Mentions a number of local indentities and Count Montague who was tarred and feathered. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2859.

Date: 1999

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

Reference: H-558-001/020

Description: Political cartoons. Paralells between the Nazi ethnic cleansing of the Jews in the 1940's and the ethnic cleansing in Europe in the 1990's. Shows Milosevic soaking in a blood bath to take his mind off the Nato bombing raids. A Serbian soldier explains to the West via a reporter the reasons behind their present actions. The electricity reforms continue to cost the consumer more. The military invite refugees from Kosovo to return to their destroyed homes. Milosevic is prepared to destroy Kosovo in order to save it. Shows India testing a long-range nuclear missile off the back of a cow. Shows Nato commander explaining their strategy of punishing Milosevic by bombing Serbia. This resulted in mass destruction of property and life but no direct harm to Milosevic. New Zealand yachties receive large slaries but are not prepared to pay for weather data from Government Agencies. Serbs use human shields to protect their forward tank movement. Following sex scandals, the Scouts tighten up their screening of adult supervisors. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley fight over their respective attributes. They agree that women bring poise to politics even in an arguement. Max Bradford gets the country into trouble over electricity reforms. Minister of Tourism, Murray McCully, objects but does not intervene in large, secret and tax-free payouts to directors he forced to resign. Comment on Anzac Day commemorations. Shows two men in their respective backyards burning their Hurricanes supporters rugby gear, comment on another year where the Hurricanes have not played well. Comment on Tau Henare's behaviour of holding onto his Cabinet position when his party, NZ First, pulled out of the National coalition government. Minister of Tourism, Murray McCully, is encouraged to resign after a tourism related row adversely affects National's position in the polls. A new flag for America with a hand holding a smoking gun. Hillary Commission recommends 10 minutes of physical activity, three times a day for couch potatoes. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1999

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

Reference: H-587-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Jack Elder tries to explain his innocence in awarding a travel grant to a school cultural group containing colleagues' daughters. NZ First waken from political death in time to campaign for the 1999 General election. A green lipped muscle reads scary stories from the book 'Tales from the Lab' to his children. Refers to research into cancer cures. Infant looks suspiciously at mother's nipple and opts for the scrambled egg if there's any chance of the milk having been genetically modified or irradiated. NZ and Australian Ministers of Health have declared war on depression. A drepressed man says over the breakfast table, when politicians start slashing their wrist in large numbers, then he'll cheer up. Over a beer two men discuss All Black coach, John Hart's performance. Police warn the public of an IBM fugitive. Refers to the IBM scoop of public money for a Police computer main-frame that never eventuated. Politicians avoid the responsibility of the INCIS Police computer fiasco. Media woman interviews state minister on the tit for tat shooting down of Indian and Pakistan military planes. She suggests there may be a risk of it leading to nuclear war. The minister says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley battle it out in the preferred Prime Minister Polls. Shows the Statue of Liberty with a gun to her head. The caption says, 'tighten up the gun laws America, or the lady gets it...' Boris Yeltsin appoints his 5th Prime Minister in 17 months. The new Prime Minister looks distincly uneasy as his chair sits on a trap-door. Shows and elephant (IBM) being sting by a bee (Bill Birch). Refers to the Police INCIS computer fiasco. Earthquake rocks Turkey, they call for help. Academics discuss the government's five-step knowledge-based economy plan to restore NZ's stand of living. One says, 'Sounds fabulous, except that you can't take two steps across an abyss...' New Zealand Black Caps beat the English cricket team. World athletics is shackled by the weight of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. Mike Moore leaves government politics with a sense of freedom at last. Possible outcome of mixing human genes into cows. Petrol Companies hold motorists to ransom with higher petrol prices. The shadow of violence hangs over voting in East Timor. Derek Quigley steers the select committee looking into decommissioning NZ's air-strike capability. National are alarmed as they thought Quigley was on their side. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1892-1951

By: Cunningham, Gordon Herriot, 1892-1962

Reference: MS-Papers-3950

Description: The autobiography, in two books, finishes in 1938, although an outline for a proposed third book to 1951 is included. Source of title - Transcribed title Cunningham gained extensive practical experience in sheep farming, fruit growing and forestry in New Zealand and Australia before serving with NZEF at Gallipoli in World War I. He joined the Department of Agriculture as an orchard instructor in 1917 and studied at Victoria University College in the 1920s. He represented New Zealand at the First Imperial Mycological Conference in London in 1924 and in 1928 was put in charge of the Mycological Laboratory, Plant Research Station, Palmerston North. He visited North American and British institutions in 1929 and was instrumental in the reorganization of agricultural research when, in 1936, plant research was transferred to the DSIR. Quantity: 5 folder(s) (270 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations

Date: 1939-1940

From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel

By: Verry, Horace Leslie, 1916-1996

Reference: PA1-o-988

Description: The images record three separate events: 1. Leslie Verry's trip to Europe in 1939 as the world prepared for war. 2. The New Zealand Centennial celebrations at Waitangi in 1940. 3. A climbing trip to Tongariro National Park, easter, 1940. In relation to the Second World War, this album is interesting in that it has several photographs showing mobilisation in Holland, and troops on the move in Utrecht and the Hague following the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939. It also has photographs taken in Kassa (Hungary) after the partition of Czechoslovakia. While in Britain and Europe Leslie Verry also practiced as a freelance journalist Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1739-1940]

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1961

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [1881, 1900s]

By: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948; Bertin, Louis, active 1881

Reference: PA1-o-1604

Description: Album of photographs taken by Samuel Heath Head, showing views in England, North America, Turkey and New Zealand. Includes photographs of Maori sitting outside a Raupo whare and cooking over a fire; gardens and dwellings; Mother with an infant; deck of a ship listing to one side; Man with a dog; bullocks pulling carts, boats in Turkey; Cattle and sheep farms; People eating; New Zealand huts and bush; Broad family portrait taken by photographer Louis Bertin in Brighton, England, circa 1881. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - To my darling wife, wishing that her whole life may be one of sunny memories throughout, from her affectionate husband - Sam. H. Head. October 24th 1902; HEAD-BROAD - On Oct 24, at Christ Church, Brondesbury, by the Rev. F.R. Brooks, Samuel Heath, youngest son of the late George Head, of 7, Upper Baker-street, and 54, Finchley-road, to Ella Kathleen, youngest daughter of the late Thos. P Broad, of Burgess-hill, and Brighton. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 20 x 21.5 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1989-1996

By: Amnesty International. New Zealand Section

Reference: PAColl-5815

Description: Photgraphs of personalities and activities of Amnesty International New Zealand Section, and of people in Indonesia, China and Turkey whom they have been involved in supporting. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm,23324 - 23342, and F 83135 1/4 to F 83152 1/4. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 257 colour original photographic print(s). 19 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 62 images. 17 b&w original negative(s).