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Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera relating to peace celebrations after World War I. 1919. Folder 1]

By: Pukekohe and Waiuku times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1919-02

Description: Programme of celebrations including a procession from the Seddon Lamp to the Domain on Saturday morning, a reading of the peace proclamation and speeches, sports at noon, and a banquet to returned soldiers at 8 pm. On the Sunday, a citizens' thanksgiving service was held in the Premier Hall, with Mayor C K Lawrie as chairman and an address by Rev F R Jeffreys. On Monday 21st July there were hockey and football tournaments, fancy dress matches, picture entertainment, and a patriotic concert. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, 182 x 110 mm.

Date: 1918

By: Excel Press (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1918-01

Description: Programme for a dance recital in Auckland shows an illustration of a returned soldier with his "N.Z.E.F." bags on the ground beside him, on the front cover. Inside the programme is spread oer several pages, and interspersed with photographs of girl dancers. Some of the dancers listed in the programme are: Patricia Cole, Winnie Rendell, Muriel Brown, Manu Webster, Marjorie Turner, Jocelyn Dixon, Mona Craig, Mabel Andrews, Private Thomas O'Carroll, Margaret Miller, Vera Ziman, Phyllis Hunt, Beryl Nettleton, Kitty O'Brien, Ailsa Ronayne, Dorothy Turner, Bettina Edwards. The programme contains advertisements for Auckland businesses, including larger advertisements for: Automatic Bakery, Barnet Glass Rubber Co Ltd, R Jaffe (tailor), Noonan Bros (auctioneers), Schneideman Bros Ltd (tailors), Cowan's ready-to-wear suits, Auckland Milk Company Ltd. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, 250 x 188 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr I W Parker, in 1976.

Date: 1917

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1917

Description: Includes programmes for the following performances: Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. Country tour. "Cavalleria rusticana", "I pagliacci", "Il trovatore", "Faust", "Carmen". [1917]. Brief programme pamphlet Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. "La boheme" (1 January 1917), "Un ballo in maschera" (2 January), "Lucia de [di] Lammermoor" (3 January), "Faust" (4 & 6 January), "Rigoletto" (5 January), "Il trovatore" (6 January). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland 1917. Programme Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera. "Lucia de [di] Lammermoor" (5 February), "Faust" (6 February), "Carmen" (7 & 10 February), "Mignon" (8 February), "Rigoletto" (9 February), "Madam Butterfly" (10 February). Theatre Royal Christchurch, 1917. Programme J & N Tait's New Musical Comedy Company presents "Very good Eddie". Grand Opera House, 8 August 1917. Programme J & N Tait's New Musical Comedy Company presents "The white chrysanthemum"; a musical extravaganza in three acts. Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 15 August 1917. Programme J C Williamson's New Musical Comedy Company in "So long Letty", "Tonight's the night", "The girl in the train", [and] "High jinks". Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 4 January 1917. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The cinema star", [and] "The pink lady". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 5 November 1917. Programme J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The pink lady" [and] "The cinema star". Theatre Royal Christchurch, 5 November 1917. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and flyers, sizes ranging under 250 mm.

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to ANZAC events in New Zealand and overseas, as anniversaries of the landing at Anzac Cove]

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ANZAC-1918-01

Description: Programme front cover includes the crest of the Returned Soldiers' Association, quotations from poems by Robert Burns and Laurence Housman, and an illustration of a soldier lying on his front in a field. The back cover remembers "New Zealand's heroic troops who took part in the Landing on Turkish soil at Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915" and gives a quotation from a speech by the Dean of Westminster on the Anzacs. The inside spread has the words "Maoriland's welcome to her soldier boys, and the programme of the smoke concert with performers including Maughan Barnett (city organist), J H Gunson (Auckland mayor), Ernest Drake (songs), Mr Adams (xylophone solos), an address by Rt Rev Bishop Cleary, J Wallace Atkinson (songs), toasts by W B Leyland and W A Beddoe. The whole programme is covered inside and out with autographs in pencil. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and holographs on folded programme, 242 x 100 mm.

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Avondale Jockey Club (Auckland, N.Z.); Scott Printing Company

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1917-01

Description: Racing programme shows an engraving of a horseshoe on the front cover. Inside are a list of race officials, admission charges, train arrangements, totalisator rules, special notices and regulations including notice of a war tax of 2.5%, the band programme, and all the horses running in each of the eight races. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 123 x 98 mm.

Date: 2014

Reference: EPHDL-0318

Description: Digital flyer invitation to an exhibition of military memorabilia, shows at the top a quotation from "For the fallen", by Laurence Binyon, and a photograph of veterans in a parade watched by children. The words "Lest we forget" are at the lower right of the photograph, superimposed on one of the multicoloured striped borders above and below the photograph. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).