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India. High Commission (N.Z.): High Commission of India, Wellington, New Zealand, prese...
Date: 2017
By: India. High Commission (N.Z.)
Reference: Eph-C-INTERNATIONAL-2017-01
Description: Poster shows photographs of the Dhwani Contemporary Dance Group, and DWI contemporary music band, both of whom were to come from India to perform at the celebration. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on poster, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Commander Denis Fairfax, Plimmerton, in 2017.
Interview with Kantha Soni
Date: 31 01 1995 - 31 Jan 1995
From: A history of Indian women in Aotearoa
By: Soni, Kantha (Dr), active 1951-1995
Reference: OHInt-0063/08
Description: Kantha Soni details how she was born in Fiji, speaks Hindu, Gujarati and English, that her religion is Hindu and how she came to New Zealand in 1951 to study to become a doctor. Notes that she is the first New Zealand Indian woman doctor. Talks about her life in Fiji, her schooling at a Methodist school, her hard years of study, the struggle of her family to send her to New Zealand to study, her career, living in Wellington, her divorce and being on her own for 22 years. Talks about living with her mother and her daughter in Auckland. Discusses how everything she has done is untraditional; leaving home, having a career, getting a divorce and bringing up a child on her own. Talks about not feeling that she is radical but rather that she just did it because it was important to her. Explains that the caste system is not important to her, that the indigenous peoples of India were conquered, not born into the caste system. Talks about being a feminist and what this means to her. talks about setting up the first Maori women's health collective on the North Shore and what an achievement this has been for her. Discusses her involvement with the Indian community and her plans for the future. Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006137 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - summary notes. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-1380.
Photographs taken by Brent Carryer
Date: 20 September 2002-21 September 2002
From: Wellington Photographic Society Inc :Photographs
By: Carryer, Brent, active 2002
Reference: PADL-000011
Description: Photographs of a baker at Hataitai Bread Shop, chefs at Indian Tandoori Cuisine, piano tuner Anne Couper, and runners from Wellington Harriers along Evans Bay Road, taken on 20-21 September 2002 by Brent Carryer for the Wellington Photographic Society event '24 Hours in Wellington'. Other Titles - 02 Carryer Brent Quantity: 7 digital photograph(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: List of photographs available.
Photographs taken by Phillipa Clements
Date: 20 September 2002-21 September 2002
From: Wellington Photographic Society Inc :Photographs
By: Clements, Phillipa, active 2002
Reference: PADL-000020
Description: Photographs of Sheikh Ramzan making naan bread at Masala restaurant, children at Karori Pool, a child at Chocolate Fish cafe, students warming up at drama school, and a surfer at Lyall Bay, taken 20-21 September 2002 by Phillipa Clements for the Wellington Photographic Society event '24 Hours in Wellington'. Other Titles - 11 Clements Phillipa Quantity: 6 digital photograph(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: List of photographs available.
Scott, Tom, 1947- :74 cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post between 1 May 2000...
Date: 2000
By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-
Reference: H-618-001/074
Description: 74 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include National Party style ('radical conservatism'), political aspects of the ban on native forest logging on the West Coast, bribery and corruption in international cricket, softening of the macho image of Super 12 Players, the fatal shooting Steven Wallace by police in Waitara, email viruses, underage drinking, tax on cigarettes, greenhouse gas emission control, the entrenched position of Christine Rankin, Head of WINZ, television presenter Paul Holmes, the sale of the cell phone spectrum to Maori, Americas' Cup yachtsmen, the rebel coup in Fiji, prisoners' rights, All Black rugby, Maori activisim and cultural sensitivites, the falling New Zealand dollar, falling business confidence, the Employments Contracts Act, the legal staus of cannabis, the Coalition between the Labour Party and Alliance, the flight of underpaid and overworked young doctors from New Zealand, unseasonable weather, the meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea, the Budget, the Government's 'Closing the Gaps' policy, underfunding of the army, muck-raking by ACT politician Richard Prebble, drugs in sport, the takeover by Qantas of Ansett New Zealand, political scandal and the sacking of Dover Samuels as Minister of Maori Affairs, child abuse, dangerous driving by truck drivers, the conflict over Israel, the dangers of excusing away mental illness, Helen Clark's leadership style, alcohol and sportsmen, railway accidents, republicism and Tandor Nancos of the Green Party, the Bledisloe Cup, cannabis use, forest fires in the United States, extended sittings in Parliament, the Employment Relations Bill, speed limits, the loss of Kursk, the Russian submarine, defence expenditure, controversy over Maori domestic violence, rising petrol prices. Quantity: 74 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides