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Date: 1945-1947

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0370

Description: File 166 - Contains finances of the station and also a programme regarding the dedication ceremony to Maori soldiers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

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: 1942-1948

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7575-224

Description: Contains nine letters and a handwritten note from Ngata to Lorna Ngata referring to family matters and also to Henare Ngata's detention in a prisoner of war camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Sir Henare Ngata gave these to Whai Ngata on November 24th 2005, Whai Ngata holds photocopies

Date: 1940-1941

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1374

Description: Personal record of a soldier in the Maori Battalion of the journey from New Zealand to Egypt, Second World War. Begins with troops lined up on the show grounds at Palmerston North on the 31st of April 1940. Troops embarked on the 1st of May 1940 and sailed for Fremantle, Australia, and were there by the 8th of May. There are photographs of Fremantle Harbour, Perth University, and Maori soldiers with Australian friends. Also photographs of Maori soldiers on deck of ship. The troops sailed from Femantle in a convoy that included the liner transports, Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Japan, Empress of Britain, Mauretania, and Andes. They were in Capetown on the 16 May 1940, and Freetown, Siera Leone on the 23 May. The convoy arrived at Greenock on the Clyde River, Scotland, on the 6th of June 1940. From the 8th of June 1940 to the 2nd of January 1941 the troops were stationed in the south east of England where they did battle training. The places include Bognor, Aldershot, Bostling Green, and Guildford. On the 3rd of January the troops embarked on the Athlone Castle, part of a large convoy of transports and warships bound for Egypt, which they reached on the 1st of March 1941. There are two panoramic views of the convoy, and many photographs of the Maori troops on board the Athlone Castle. In Egypt photographs show the troops landing, the camp at Maadi, gardens at Helwan, training in the desert, views of Cairo, and tours to the pyramids. The last part of the album are photographs of Capetown and its surroundings, other unidentified places, and more snaps taken in Egypt. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-00828-F

Description: World War 2 Maori reinforcements about to depart from a railway station in Rotorua, January, 1944. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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

By: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [ca 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

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-037

Description: Photographs mainly relate to Disabled Servicemen's Centres in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Napier. Shows men (including ex-Maori Battalion) in the various workshops and therapy rooms undertaking cane-work, bootmaking and repair, basketry, embossed leather work, weaving, rug making, toy making, upholstery, cabinetry, carpentry, clock making and mop making. Photographs of men making artificial limbs and an amputee being fitted with a new limb; blind returned servicemen in the Occupational Therapy Room learning to read in braille. Photograph of Mr Tom W Cameron, who trained at Disabled Servicemen's Centre at Wellington, outside his jewellery shop with watchmaker R T Dixon; returned serviceman buying new clothes in a department store (Wellington); cafeteria at Christchurch Disabled Servicemen's Training Centre building, and Hawke's Bay Training Centre, Napier; frontage to a boot repair shop in [Wellington?]; NZ Rehabilitation Camp at the Old Park Camp, Dover showing Private Sheeran playing table tennis with M Rosenfeld; Hon C F Skinner, MP (Minister of Rehabilitation) laying foundation stone for Christchurch Branch of Disabled Servicemen's League, 30 Oct 1944 (Lt Colonel J Murphy, Chairman of the League). Photograph of an [opening?] ceremony held in front of a large concrete building with a bowling green in front. Backdrop looks like Wellington but locality and building unable to be identified. Photograph of Disabled Servicemen's Vocational Training Centre in Anzac Street A G W Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd took a number of the Auckland photographs. View of artificial limb workshop; men recuperating on the verandah of the military hospital across the road from Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970

Reference: PAColl-8163-89

Description: Troops, possibly from the 28th New Zealand (Maori) Battalion, parade in camp at Papakura, to be received by Brigadier P H Bell, DSO. Photograph taken in June 1941 by Arthur Walter Powell. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Troops parade at Papakura Camp, are received by Brig P.H. Bell D.S.O.; Verso - centre - A W Powell / Photographer / 66 Eden Terrace / Auckland / New Zealand; Verso - bottom left - Bottom compo / 9 5/8 x 9 1/8; Verso - bottom right - P2/7/41; Verso - bottom right - 26/6/41 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1945-1949

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0342

Description: File 137 - Contains letters and records regarding campaigns and casualties Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca 11 Feb 1942]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Stephenson, George, active 1942

Reference: PAColl-8983-20

Description: Maori soldiers (probably from the 28th Battalion) erecting a marquee at a military training camp, probably at, or near Kaikohe, in the Far North district. Photograph taken circa 11 February 1942, by George Stephenson. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand free lance (Wellington, NZ, 17 June 1942) Source of descriptive information - Notes, and stamp, on back of file print, and caption in New Zealand free lance (Wellington, NZ, 17 June 1942) Inscriptions: Verso - N I Military Camp WWII P17.6.42 11/2/42; Verso - [stamped in ink] Photograph by George Stephenson Kaikohe Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 20.3 cm

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: PA1-q-292-09-462

Description: Original caption reads: "A fighting patrol moves forward". Photograph of the 2nd Maori Battalion under training in New Zealand, taken between 1939 and 1945 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.9 x 16.5 cm mounted on album page

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000827-F

Description: Maori reinforcements leaving for World War 2, boarding a train at a railway station in Rotorua. Photograph taken by John Pascoe in 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000832-F

Description: Maori reinforcements leave Rotorua by train, photographed in January 1944, by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "The train moves out."

Date: 1946

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1940s].

By: Mason, Henry Greathead Rex (Hon), 1885-1975

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1946-01

Description: An arrangement of text with diagonal red and gold stripes at the top left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Gold-engraved lettering on card, 122 x 152 mm.

Date: 11 January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000829-F

Description: World War II Maori reinforcements leaving Rotorua in January 1944. From left: Turei Karaka (with cigarette), Tei Tihi, Mrs Kumeroa Te Kapoterangi, Mai Te Kapoterangi (holding child). Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "Harder still for the farewell between husband and family." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000245-F

Description: Soldiers of the Maori Battalion at the opening of the new meeting house Tamatekapua at Ohinemutu, Rotorua district, in 1943. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's heading from the Photographic Archive Pascoe backfile for the set of photographs at 1/4-000225 to 00257 reads: "National Maori Ceremonies at Rotorua" Caption - Pascoe's caption at backfile reads: "They line up in front of the meeting house" Source of descriptive information - File print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Celulosic negative, 5.5 x 5.5 cm

Date: [ca Jan 1940]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Shea, K H, active 1941

Reference: PAColl-8983-21

Description: Farewell parade for the Maori Battalion at Palmerston North during World War II, before they left as part of the 2nd Echelon. Photograph taken circa January 1940 by K H Shea. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Dated from New Zealand History online website, 2nd World War timeline at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/second-world-war/new-zealand-and-the-second-world-war-overview/timeline accessed 5 March 2007. Inscriptions: Verso - Civic and Gove farewell Saturday. Maroi [sic] Battalion marching through Pal Nth streets.; Verso - Unpublished farewell to 2nd Echelon at Pal North; Verso - [stamped in ink] Press and General Photo Service K H Shea, 21-22 Clarendon Buildings, The Square PO Box 92 Palmerston North Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.7 x 21.6 cm

Date: 15 December 1939

From: Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986 :Collection of prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3036-1-07

Description: Defence Minister Frederick Jones presenting three wireless sets to soldiers of the 28th Maori Battalion in the Maori Court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Rongotai, Wellington, 1939. On the table beside the radios are carved sticks, or swagger sticks, for the officers of the Battalion. Photograph taken 15 December 1939 by Eileen Deste or her employee Neville d'Eresby Aickin. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.8 cm

Date: [1940]

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: DA-07427-F

Description: Original senior officers of the Maori Battalion, in Palmerston North, early 1940. From left to right: Fitzgerald, Captain A Scott, Captain Te W Love, Major W B Fisher (Medical officer), Lieutenent Colonel Dittmer (Commanding Officer), Major General Duigan (Chief of Staff NZ Forces), Major H Dyer, Captain Blomfield, Captain R Royal, Lieutenant Doug Curtis (Adjutant). Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 11 January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000828-F

Description: World War 2 Maori reinforcements about to leave Rotorua railway station, January, 1944. A man and a woman hold hands in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "It is not easy to say goodbye to friends." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative