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Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940s?: Sheet of pins. New Zealand has a "charm" of its own [describing tiki] Memorial service for members of the Maori Battalion and thanksgiving for the first Maori Victoria Cross 1940: An Arawa souvenir. Wahiao Meeting House Whakarewarewa. Official opening by the grace of His Excellency the Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, 16 November 1940. Pamphlet with salutations to Hoani te Heuheu, and genealogical tree from Tamatekapua down to Wahiao. Otakou Maori Centennial 1840-1940. Foundation stone laying ceremony. 24 February 1940 [Order of ceremony] 1941: "Maori carving", by W J Phillipps, Dominion Museum. Publication flyer 1943. Election campaign booklet in Maori for Right Hon Peter Fraser New Zealand Centennial 1840-1940. Tihee! Mauri Ora! Official opening ceremonies of the third and fourth Te Arawa Centennial Memorials, Tawakeheimoa (Whare Wananga at Te Awahou) and Tamatekapua (national whare runanga at Ohinemutu), by His Excellency the Governor-General ... Sir Cyril Newall. 24 March 1943 [Order of ceremonies; includes 2 sheets containing translations of some passages] 1946: Maori national welcome to the 28th Battalion of the 2nd NZEF. Imperial Government Shed at Aotea Quay, 22 January 1946 [Invitation card to Hon HGR Mason] 1948: Rangiatea restoration 1848-1948. Diocesan Maori Mission. Pamphlet. 1949?: New Zealand National Party. Te Maori a ona ra e tuku iho nei: The Maori and the future. He who stands at the prow of the canoe shall be renowned (critical of the Labour Party's policy for Maori) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm. Processing information: Ngarimu Investiture souvenir programme; [and] Supplement to souvenir programme. Ruatoria, 6 October 1943: Combined into Te Whaiti family collection ATL-Group-00753, October 2022.

Date: 1995-2002

From: Fry, Alexander Sydney, 1926-2006: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8493-1

Description: `When can you start?', an autobiography of Fry's life up until the 1960s describing his childhood, education, war service and employment as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and the New Zealand Listener and editorial work for A H & A W Reed. Chapter 1 begins with Fry arriving in Wellington from Christchurch in 1948 and he describes his experiences working as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and gives his impressions of Wellington, including being a student at Victoria University College in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He then reverts back to his childhood, describing growing up in Wallsend and Christchurch, attending Papanui Technical College and being apprenticed as an electrician. Chapter 10 ends in 1944 when Fry enrolled in the Royal Navy 21st Fleet Airm draft to be trained in England. Names referred to in the text are entered in the name index. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1926-1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-187

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1926-1947. Peter Fraser - Labour candidate for Wellington Central (1931); several of Prime Minister Fraser during the war years; with Sister Nepia (Wairoa District Nurse) and A T Carroll, May 1947; with WAAFs S H Boyd & M C Bullard, 1944; receiving Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law at Cambridge University, 1944; with Miss Jean McKenzie, General Freyberg & Mrs Harold Kemp on arrival in London when he was made a Companion of Honour; gathering at Ruatoki where Fraser addressed the gathering, 1947; Hirini Heremaia performing a powhiri to the official party at the opening of Northland College, Kaikohe by Rt Hon Peter Fraser, 1947 Walter Nash - During the war years when he was Minister of Finance; as President of International Labour Conference at Philadelphia, 1944; Mr & Mrs Nash, 1938; Mr & Mrs Nash with F G L Bertram (deputy-director of Civil Aviation in British Air Ministry) on board Aorangi, 1936; Mr & Mrs Nash in their lounge with their two sons, 1936. W J Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London - MP for Manukau (1931); Mr & Mrs Jordan laying a wreath, May 1938; Mr & Mrs Jordan and family, 1936 & 1939; with his mother, Sep 1936; during the war years. Includes list of photographs Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1941-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-219

Description: Assortment of photographs (mainly captioned) of General Freyberg in the Middle East, Greece, Crete, Italy and London. Also a series of photographs taken during his visit to Rotorua; the Prime Minister Peter Fraser's visit to Italy; on the steps of Parliament Buildings, Wellington as Governor General; during Rt Hon R G Casey's visit to Middle East. Group photo of voluntary workers, NZ Tuis, General Freyberg, Brigadier Park and Countess Jellicoe at the Fernleaf Club, London Quantity: 91 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1920s-1950s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-25

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes, personalities, comprising: Visits to West Coast of Duke of Gloucester (1934-1935), Sir Willoughby of James O'Brien MP in Greymouth, 1947. Peter Fraser, Eruera Tirikatene, Sid Holland, Walter Nash in attendance. West Coast bridges Greymouth shops & offices Parachute jump Fire fighting Nursing and hospital, including Whataroa Hospital, Reefton Nurses Home, Nures from Grey Hospital in fancy dress Photographs taken 1920s-1950s by James Ring and L A Inkster of Greymouth Quantity: 85 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940s

From: New Zealand Labour Party :Photographic material relating to the New Zealand Labour Party and its members

Reference: PAColl-D-0900

Description: Peter Fraser and his cabinet seated around the cabinet table Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1940s]

From: New Zealand Labour Party :Photographic material relating to the New Zealand Labour Party and its members

Reference: PAColl-D-0896

Description: Peter Fraser and his cabinet seated around the cabinet table Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1880s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-30

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; HMNZS Pukaki; railway locomotives, railcars, bridges and accidents; visits of parliamentarians Peter Fraser and Sir Eruera Tirikatene, and Governor at Brunnerton coal mine; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; opening of Catholic church building; waterfall; fires; floods; and state house. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1919-[ca1945]

From: Pharazyn family: Photographs from the papers of Noel Pharazyn and his sister Eleanor

Reference: PAColl-10031-2

Description: Includes:- Portraits of Noel Pharazyn in military dress and Lydia Field about the time of their marriage in November 1919. Photographs relating to Noel Pharazyn's time as the New Zealand military attache In the United States from 1941 to 1945. These include - Portrait proofs of Noel Pharazyn taken in Washington DC. A group of photographs of Noel Pharazyn in the company of his wife Lydia, Prime Minister Peter Fraser, and Ambassador Carl Berendsen, meeting with the US Under Secretary of War, Kenneth Royal, to recieve a medal. Photographs of military groups taken in the United States. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-015-04

Description: First Echelon at Trentham 1939, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1941, Third Echelon departing from Wellington, drafting and training of Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, the building of Waiouru Military camp. Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1944-1949

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-028

Description: Views of Polish children's camp, Pahiatua, of life in the camp, of the children and officials associated with the camp Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-220

Description: Assortment of photographs, most with captions, of military and political leaders, and others. Names entered in Name Field. Group photo of 1st Echelon drinking beer in the `Beer Garden' at Burnham Camp, Nov 1939 Quantity: 178 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Aug 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-213

Description: Series of numbered and captioned photographs taken during the official visit of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt to New Zealand in 1943 when she visited Auckland, Wellington and Rotorua. Includes lists of captions Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942

From: Centennial Branch Internal Affairs :Tour of Netherlands Delegation and celebration of Abel Tasman's tercentenary

Reference: PAColl-5291-3

Description: Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1949

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-221

Description: Assortment of official and unofficial photographs, most without captions Includes: NZ YMCA with J-Force (lounge); series of photographs pasted onto card - Signing of the surrender at Toyko Bay; Peter Fraser leaving a Naval Transport Service plane near Pearl Harbour in company with Admiral Chester W Nimitz (USN, Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas) and Vice Admiral Robert L Ghormley (USN Commandant Fourteenth Naval District and Hawaiian Sea Frontier); unidentified underground miners; training in the Kaimai Ranges; Home Guard training; Brigadier General Patrick Hurley (American Minister to NZ) with Hon Peter Fraser, Lord Halifax, Hon Walter Nash, and Cordell Hull, 1942; Winston Churchill and others; village of Ag Demetrios, Greece, 1941; the Admiral Graf Spee sinking after she had been scuttled in the River Plate, Dec 1939; coffins of German sailors killed in the River Plate Battle photographed at Montivideo, Dec 1939; unidentified chaplain. Woman pilot; General Montgomery; Helen Keller and her companion Polly Thompson arriving at Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Milford Track; Second Mounted Rifles moving past the saluting base at Foxton when they were reviewed by the Inspector-General of Forces, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell; Auckland Gas Company's gasometers in Freeman's Bay; Bill Boyce; unidentified NZ buildings (possibly office of Scientific and Industrial Research); view of Wellington from hills above Tinakori Road looking south. Other unofficial photos from the collections of W E King of Tauranga; E B Hamilton; Sandy Crichton; H Sharples. Some taken in Italy Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942

From: Centennial Branch Internal Affairs :Tour of Netherlands Delegation and celebration of Abel Tasman's tercentenary

Reference: PAColl-5291-2

Description: Most of the photographs in this section of the collection relate to the ceremony unveiling the Tasman Memorial at Tarakohe and the opening of the Abel Tasman National Park at Torrent Bay Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 6 October 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: 1/2-061856-F

Description: Photographer unidentified Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1950

From: British Empire Games, Auckland, New Zealand, 1950 :[Official programmes for events. 1950]

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-1950-01-02/03

Description: The right page lists the personnel of the British Empire Games Federation and the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association. There are autographs of A E Porritt, K S Duncan, Peter Fraser, A D Bayfield, S S Dean, H Amos, C Rex Moore, and C D McCready. The left page has a photograph of the lake and hydro dam at Karapiro. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pages of programme.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on pages 207 x 135 mm. Provenance: Part of Nash papers.

Date: 1950

From: British Empire Games, Auckland, New Zealand, 1950 :[Official programmes for events. 1950]

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-1950-03-20/21

Description: On the left is text describing the closing ceremony, and on the right are head and shoulders portraits of Peter Fraser (Prime Minister), Humphrey O'Leary (Chief Justice), A D Bayfield (President of Olympic and British Empire Games Association), J A C Allum (Mayor of Auckland), C Rex Moore (Chairman of the Organising Committee), H Amos (Honorary Secretary-Treasurer of the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association), and C L Cleal (Secretary of the Organising Committee). Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (on pages of programme). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithograph, on double page spread, 207 x 270 mm.

Date: 22 Jan 1940

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-8557-28

Description: Dignitaries arriving, amongst a crowd, for the unveiling of the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial in Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, on 22 January 1940. Shows the Governor General, Lord Galway (centre, holding a pale hat), Lady Galway, Mr London (Mayor of Petone), the Honourable Walter Nash (Minister of Finance), and the Honourable Peter Fraser (Prime Minister). The man behind the main figures is possibly photographer Jeremy Garvitch. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for the 'Evening Post'. Publication note - Published in the 'Evening Post' 23 January 1940 1840-1940 settlers memorial on Petone foreshore designed by H L Massey in 1939. Features a replica of the `Aurora'. Converted into the Petone Settlers Museum, in stages, between 1977-1989. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print, and 'Evening Post' feature published 23 January 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.8 x 20.7 cm