Places

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

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-4161-01-151

Description: Includes some multiple copies; most are captioned. Includes list for series of numbered photographs `Return of the Maori Battalion from overseas' - 3 sets. Return of the Maori Battalion from overseas - Reception on Aotea Quay: men preparing meat and chicken for hangi and women preparing food at Porirua Pa; Battalion en route from Pipitea wharf to Aotea Quay; old Maori woman (Ngawaina of Ngati Toa) smoking `The Pipe of Peace'; Battalion at the gates of the marae; haka (Ngati Tuwharetoa) in support of chiefs address; Kia Ora to the Committee. Return of the Maori Battalion - The `Dominion' approaching Pipitea Wharf; disembarkation; Rev M Bennett; pipes and bands of the 1st Wellington Battalion; quayside welcome (Maori MPs T P Paikea, Hon E T Tirikatene, Hon R R Mawhete, T Omana, & M Ratana); welcome haka Ngati Tuwharetoa; Rangi Te Hana & Turei Papanui (Ngati Tuwharetoa haka party); Hinga with women of the Ratana Party in the dining hall welcome; official guest table; Hepi Te Heuheu addressing the Battalion; Ngati Poneke Club members.. Series of photos of visit to Rotorua and Ohinemutu; members of Maori Battalion having a snack on the Tewfick station prior to embarking; series of photos taken 23 May 1940 on day of departure; sing-song after disembarking in England, 21 Jun 1940; three soldiers with A-tank gun; soldier with captured German Tommy gun near Gazala, ca 1942; two bren-gun carriers manned by members of Maori Battalion in England; sightseeing in London. Quantity: 144 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1602

Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1973

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-101

Description: Two trampers look on disconslately as mountain, possibly Ngauruhoe, erupts. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on watercolour paper, 192 x 092 mm

Date: 1917-1919

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1060

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of 33rd Reinforcements training in Wairarapa, 1917 and at sea troopship life 1918 (Jan-Feb) on 'S.S. Athenic' via the Panama Canal. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 275 x 230 mm

Date: 2003

Reference: Eph-D-SKATING-2003-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text on a green background, with a red rollerskating boot at the lower right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 480 x 422 mm Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library in 2003.

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-4161-01-030

Description: Recreation in military camps; visits of family and friends Quantity: 3 container(s) (boxes).

Date: 1933-1934

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7408-06

Description: File of accounts by group of people from various parts of New Zealand, organised by the Hutt Valley Tramping Club for a Christmas-New Year trip to the Milford Sound area (1933-1934); places visited included Milford, Cleddau Valley, Anita Bay, Lake Manapouri, Doubtful Sound, the Milford Track and other paerts. Includes accounts of concerts etc, poems and songs. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1979 - 1984

Reference: Eph-C-RECREATION-1979/1984

Description: Includes: 1979: Entertainment [tabloid "monthly" newspaper listing live shows, theatre, sport, arts and crafts, World Trade Fair] 1980: ... have a go! Get a family feeling. A promotion of the New Zealand Council for Recreation & Sport, PO Box 5122, Wellington, phone 728-058. 1981: Leisure into the '80s. Recro '81, 3rd New Zealand Sport & Recreation Fieldays, Mystery Creek Hamilton. Saturday & Sunday 17-18 October 1981. Printed by Express Print (Hamilton) Ltd. Summer City. Wellington City Council Parks and Recreation Department; Wellington Community Arts Council [1981] (2 copies) Summer City. 'Basin Bonanza'. Sunday 1st February, Basin Reserve [1981] Summer City. Harbour spectacular, Oriental Pararade [Parade], Saturday 14th Feb [1981] (2 copies) Summer City. Newtown, Prince of Wales Park, Sunday 8th Feb 1981. All Nations Day 1982: The Old Customhouse, Auckland. Customhouse happenings, February [1982] (2-sided sheet listing events) Grand Christmas Gala. Sat 6th Nov, Newtown School, opened by Sir Michael Fowler at 11 am [1982] 1983: Holiday programme! Kites, kites, kites [Exhibition, films, workshops, colouring competition, flying days, at Porirua. 1983] Here comes the sun; Summer City 1983 [poster showing a rising sun](2 copies) Here comes the sun ... Summer City 83. Wellington City Council Parks and Recreation Department, Wellington Arts Centre Trust, Summer City [poster showing a jester clown] Here comes the sun; Summer City 1983 [brochure listing events] (2 copies) Splash Out. Sunday March 6. Summer City Grand finale, in, on, around Wellington Harbour. Greta Point Tavern gutbuster, Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club Centenary; Homestead Birdman Competition, Caltex Bus Rodeo; NZ Army SAS beach assault [1983] 1984: Summer City Asia Pacific Festival. Kite Day, Macalister Park Newtown, Sunday 1-5 pm December 2nd [1984] (2 copies) Summer City. "A touch of the sun". Parks & Recreation Department, Wellington City Council [1984] '84 Recreation Expo; see the greatest variety of recreation and hobby displays & demonstrations ever held in N.Z. NZ Kennel Club's Exhibition Centre, Prosser St, Porirua, 4-10 March [1984] Quantity: 18 publications. Physical Description: Screenprints and offset prints, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 2012

Reference: Eph-A-RECREATION-2012-01

Description: Programme booklet listing events during the Eastbourne Community Games. These included running races, quiz, pavlova race, brain benders, possum throwing, kids kayak race, raft challenge, tug o' war, cooking contest, dog obedience, Project Runway, soccer shootout, fire hose soccer, live music, beach art, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, 212 x 150 mm.

Date: 1985 - 1999

Reference: Eph-C-RECREATION-1985/1999

Description: Includes: 1986: Summer City Kite Day. Saturday January 4, 1-6 pm Macalister Park Newtown. Capital Radio 89, Radio Windy. Wellington City Council Parks & Recreation Dept. Festival of Play. Free fun for everyone. Dance Room, Victoria University Recreation Centre, 2 October, 1-5 pm. Organised by Rick Sahar. [1986] 1987: Holiday lift-off. All systems go - camera, lights, action. Enliven yourself with music from the "Holiday Makers", dancing, food & craft stalls, face painting, light show, and witness an astronomical pyrotechnical display, Saturday 19 December 9 pm - 11 pm, Lambton Harbour Development Area, Taranaki Wharf Area [1987] 1988: Mardi Gras; an evening street carnival where you are invited to wander and enjoy music, dance, theatre ... Oriental Parade, Sat 30 January, 6 pm - 10 pm [1988] 1989: On the beach. Beach dig, Pacific Island cricket, beach volleyball, games, clowns, live music Putty in Her Hands, Acid Dread. Saturday 4 February, Worser Bay. Summer City '89 [1989] (2 copies) Pacific Island Festival. Summer City '89. Volleyball tournament, dance, Pacific Island cricket, drumming, food & crafts ... Saturday 28 January ... Rugby League Park, Newtown [1989] 1990: Wellington City Council Parks & Recreation Focus on leisure. Photography competition. Deadline for entries 14 November 1990. Kilbirnie Lyall Bay Comm. [Community] Centre. May School Holiday programme, May 8-12 for 5-12 yrs. Call Leanne 877-867 Young and growing up with the sun / Brand new day has just begun. New Zealand 1990 - our country, our year, huia, tuia, tui tuia [Poster for Sesquicentennial] 1991: Great escapes. Department of Conservation, Te Papa Atawhai. Conservation summer programmes December 1991 - February 1992. Join in the fun this summer at your nearest conservation area! Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Exploring and discovering. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Hands-on learning. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Let's pretend; that's how we learn. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Sharing and caring. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. 1991?: Porirua Museum. The name of the game; children's games 1840-1920. [ca 1991] 1993: 1993 Women's Recreation Festival. Feel good - get physical! Hillary Commission / Wellington City Council. 1996: Womens recreation bonanza co-ordinated by Sport wellington Region. February to May 1996. 1997: Support for local sport. Hillary Commission. Community Sport Fund 1997. Applcations close on 28 March 1997. Photo courtesy of Joanna Caird. Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre. Summer holiday programme. December 1-4 pm - Rage Sessions and Santa Cave; January 5-27 - games, activities, prizes and more! [1997?] 1999: Summer City free and easy! Free outdoor entertainment. Programme of events Jan - Feb 1999. Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre. School holiday programme. Splashing great fun! Drop on in! January 5th-26th [1999?] Quantity: 21 publications. Physical Description: Screenprints and offset prints, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: One poster donated by Anna Veritt, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-474/496

Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1962 including the economy, sport and recreation. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes vary

Date: 1975

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-18/7-Acc.

Description: Identifies biological features - Fresh water swamp vegetation; Nesting sites of black swans and several species of ducks around margins of lakes; Nesting sites of Blue Penguins, variable Oystercatchers, black-backed gulls and banded dotterels; Black shag colony etc . Also shows geological features and places and objects of historic interest. Quantity: 3 manuscript map(s) + 6 negatives in brown envelope. Physical Description: Ink on cellulite paper. Scale [ca 1: 25 000] 61 x 43 cm.

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1961

Reference: Eph-B-FESTIVAL-B-1961-01

Description: Programme for events including arts & crafts display, "Miss Balclutha" contest, children's fancy dress, procession, marching girls, golf tournament, bowls competition, darts tournament, gun club shoot, power boats on the Clutha River. Gala day was 11 November and includied dancing and aerobatic displays, wood chopping, model aeroplanes, fire brigade display, fencing display, Murihiku Maori Concert Party, Vespa Club display, bonfire and fireworks. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs in booklet, each page 265 x 215 mm.

Date: 1987

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[36 original political cartoons, drawn for the New Zealand Listener. 1984-1990; and two photocopies].

Reference: C-128-034

Description: A commentary on the destruction of natural beauty by and for greedy hotel owners and business people in Queenstown. Copy at H-509-030 Some of these cartoons may have been displayed in an exhibition curated by Roger Smith for the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust about 1990-1992 (or about 1986). Other Titles - Hotel Alpine. Motel. Colour TV. Best Western. Four ****. Vacancy *****. Welcome Inn. Spa Pol. Ambassador. Fiordland Executive Motel. Video. Sauna *****. Colour TV. Accommodation. Goldfields. Ski Hire. Beech Glade Motel ***** Vacancy. GF 5802. $$$$$. Expensive ski Expensive ski. Extended Title - 'We are now entering one of the most naturally beautiful areas of New Zealand..' 'Get out of my way....Don't you people realise who I am?' 'And over here we have The Remarkables..' 'Beech trees? We had to knock them down to build the motel....' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink. 445 x 640 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-497/519

Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1962 including the economy, sport and recreation. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes vary

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-035

Description: Photographs relating to clubs and associations, arranged alphabetically from AR to DE, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [1995-1996], nd

From: Ross, Gregory F A, 1951- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5570

Description: Comprises essays, letters and memoirs, rough drafts and final copies, and comic pages of `True adventures of D-for-Dog'. Ross particularly describes his life outdoors both in Canada and New Zealand, family activities and events, and encloses copies of letters (some not sent) to friends and family members. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1939

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

Reference: PAColl-8557-18

Description: People on the beach, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1939. Shows men, women, and children, on the sand, and in the water, many in swimming togs. Oriental Parade is on the right. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Inscriptions: Verso - Oriental Bay in 1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.4 x 21.5 cm