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[Trask, E. E., fl. 1956] :Waikato Lakes [ms map]. Drawn, E.E. Trask, 2/8/56.
Date: 1956
By: Trask, E E, active 1956; Automobile Association (Wellington, N.Z.) Inc.
Reference: MapColl-832.18cdh/1956/Acc.9633
Description: Hand drawn map of the Waikato River from Lake Taupo to Waipapa. Includes Whakamaru and Maraitai Lakes and the proposed Ohakuri, Atiamuri and Waipapa Lake. Settlements and roads are named. Ms map amongst Automobile Association maps donated 1970 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:126 720], 47 x 48.6 cm. Provenance: Signature of E.E. Trask, 2/8/56 bottom right corner Handwritten note on bottom right corner - State Hydro Dept., (Mr. Heine) 9/8/56
Packe, William, d 1882 :The Erewhon country. [Christmas card]. New Zealand House, Londo...
Date: 1956
By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)
Reference: E-278-q-119
Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Packe showing two thatched sod huts, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad Southern Alps beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 128 x 178 mm on folded card
PTY Homes Limited :PTY Parade of Homes. PTY Homes Limited, Neal Street, PO Box 8, Putar...
Date: 1955 - 1965
From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards and solutions]
By: P.T.Y. Homes Ltd; R G Mexted & Son (Firm)
Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-1960-01
Description: Booklet of floor plans and perspective drawings of 19 single-storey two- and three-bedroom houses. Models include: Cambridge, Conway, Cresta, Clyde, Cumberland, Caprice, Avalon, Amazon, Campbell, Apex, Avon, Astor, Albany, Argosy, Ascot, President, Prefect, Panorama, Prairie 'A'. Front cover stamped by the firm of R G Mexted & Son, 153 Lambton Quay, Wellington, licensed land agents & auctioneers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 20 leaves, each 220 x 260 mm, stapled inside cover 250 x 283 mm. Provenance: Donated by Stan and Margaret Smith, Lower Hutt, in 2006.
Papers relating to Maoritanga
Date: 1959-1976
From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs
Reference: 77-014-1/19A
Description: Papers relating to Maoritanga including research papers, articles, correspondence and stories. Includes whakatauki (proverbs), a poem/song called "The Song of Maoritanga," an article about Maori education and educators' attitudes to the cultural heritage of Maori youth, a Maori Land Court interim decision on Raharuhi Rukupo delivered at Gisborne 19 Sep 1975, some notes about moemoea (dreams) and their interpretation within the Maori culture, an article by Fowler titled "The teaching of Maori in schools," papers relating to the significance of tukutuku patterns for Ngati Porou and other articles relating to various topics including Wharepuni [sleeping houses], a Maori almanac (re: fishing and planting), a draft story of "The taniwha of Tuparoa" and some loose papers relating to Fowler's autobiography. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
[Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers. 1950s].
Date: 1950 - 1959
From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to boxing, boxers].
Reference: Eph-A-BOXING-1950s
Description: Includes: 1950s?: Wellington Boxing Association. Pass out 1951: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships 1951. Opera House Palmerston North, 24-26 September 1951. Programme 1952: Wellington Boxing Association. George Burke (Wellington) v Alfie Emerson (Australia); and, "Chub" Keith (Wellington) vs Don Mullett (Wellington). 18 February 1952. Programme 1953: Waimate Boxing Association. 25th jubilee 1928-1953. Anniversary programme 19853. 1954: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Town Hall Wellington. 13-15 September 1954. Souvenir programme. 1954: Gerald Dreyer v Barry Brown. Basin Reserve, 15 January 1954. programme. 1957: Barry Brown (Wellington) v Ulf Christensen (Wellington). Wellington Town Hall, 24 June 1957. Programme. 1959: New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships. Theatre Royal Timaru, 5-7 October 1959. Souvenir programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 programmes; 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated; some purchased. Transfers: Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1563..
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1960s-1970s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-19
Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes. Includes historical parade ca 1960s, building of fountain ca 1960, Strongman mine, grave stone of L A Inkster, and young man in wheelchair being given flight in light aircraft. Photographs taken 1960s-1970s by L A Inkster studio. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 colour original photographic print(s).
Whangara Blocks (a)
Date: 1921-1950
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0533
Description: Contains files regarding the Station and schemes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Whangara Station (b)
Date: 1921-1950
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0534
Description: File relating to the Whangara Station and land scheme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Shand, Alexander, 1840-1910: Letters to S Percy Smith
Date: 29 Jan 1869-22 May 1910 - 31 March 1956
By: Shand, Alexander, 1840-1910
Reference: qMS-1789
Description: Transcriptions of letters mostly from Shand to S P Smith dealing with comparisons between Moriori and Maori vocabulary, and other aspects of Chatham Islands and Moriori history. There is an index at the end of the volume. The volume contains a copy of a letter written by J C Andersen in 1956, which explains the context of the letters and this volume. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; ½ blue calf) Provenance: The original letters were given to J C Andersen, by Crompton Smith. According to a copy of a letter laid into this volume, from Andersen to the then Chief Librarian of the Turnbull Clyde Taylor, Andersen had organised for this copy of the transcriptions of the letters to be added to the Turnbull Library collection. Probably when Andersen was himself the Chief Librarian.
Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979 : Time's lessening hill / by L M Monckton
Date: ca 1890-1950 (196-?)
By: Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979
Reference: MS-Papers-3869
Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in the 1920s and England in the 1930s and 1940s. Annotated in an unknown hand. Publication - Published in; Joblin, Dorothea. The colonial one ; Lorna Monckton of Newstead. Christchurch, 1975 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (107 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations
Pamphlets and printed materials
Date: 1923-1950
From: Cockcroft, Thomas, 1900-1977:Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11889-8
Description: Includes the bulletin, 'Birds! New Zealanders! Protect your native birds!' issued by the NZ Native Bird Protection Society (1925?), 'New Zealand birds', by W R B Oliver, NZ Bird notes bulletins (Dec 1943, Apr, Dec 1944, Oct 1947) and Notornis (July 1950). Also contains an article by Professor Dayton Stoner from the State University of Iowa entitled, 'A flightless New Zealand Bird' (1923) with an annotation from the author to J G Myer, and and a typescript from 21 August 1926 with information about White Island. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
119 - Personal letters and accounts
Date: 1936-1950
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0318
Description: File 119 - Contains personal letters and receipts Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Research papers
Date: 1950
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0470
Description: Contains essays and notes, one regarding the Ngata Memorial Hall in Waiomatatini, one entitled `The Savage hits back', an essay on Taranaki history, a waiata entitled `He Tangi Na Turaukawa' and other waiata. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Research notes (a)
Date: 1936-1950
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0070
Description: Contains many letters pertaining to research enquiries on matters such as whakatauaki, moteatea, place names and also book and article enquiries Includes a letter written by Ngata to the New Zealand Listener, on the topic of "Maori moving to the cities". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Sinclair, E.M. fl 1959 :Part Awarua 4c no. 11 Bl[oc]ks - XIV, Ohinewairua & II, Hautapu...
Date: 1959
By: Sinclair, E M, active 1948-1967; Carter, William Ernest, 1932-
Reference: MapColl-832.41gmp/[1959]/Acc.36425
Description: Map of part Awarua 4c no. 11, blocks XIV, Ohinewairua and II, Hautapu survery districts, Taihape, showing the main airstrip runway and the subsidiary runway adjacent to the Hautapu River. Indicates the hanger, telephone line, state highway, railway and power lines. Includes reference key. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, scale [1: 3 168], 32.5 x 32.7 cm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Carter, September, 2001
[Postcard]. Mitre Peak / Tuck's post card. Raphael Tuck & Sons "Oilette" postcard 7415....
Date: 1952
Reference: E-278-q-113
Description: Shows Mitre Peak, and vessels in Milford Sound. Trees, rocks and plants in immediate foreground. Artist's name can not be deciphered (lower righthand corner). Inscriptions: Verso - Postcard addressed to Mrs T P Huggins No 42 Hall Street, Wellington. 28 Dec [1952?]. "Wishing you and Tom and Master W P Huggins a Happy New Year from Mam & Dad" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 90 x 140 mm
Shaw Savill Line :[Postcard]. The ceremony of choosing the first National flag of New Z...
Date: 1958
By: Shaw, Savill & Company
Reference: E-278-q-114
Description: Depicts the ceremony of choosing the first National flag of New Zealand by the Maori chiefs from one of three designs, witnessed by a grathering of missionaries, settlers, commanders of 10 British and 3 American ships. The ceremony took place at the house of the British Resident, Mr James Busby at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on the 20th March 1834 with a salute of 21 guns from HMS Alligator (in distance). The flag that was chosen is being pointed at by a chief holding up a greenstone mere. The design chosen was the red cross of St George on a white background and a small red St George's cross in the top left hand corner on a blue background. In each of these quarters is an 8 pointed star. An enlargement of the flag is in the bottom lefthand corner of the postcard. The flag was called the Flag of United Tribes of New Zealand (1834-1840) The flag was adopted by Shaw Savill & Company as its house flag in 1858 it having ceased to be the national flag when New Zealand came under the British sovereignty Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 85 x 128 mm
Wallingford School : Log book
Date: 1887-1953
By: Wallingford School
Reference: qMS-2112
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (442 pages). Physical Description: Ms (34 cm; ½ red morooco)
Gregory, Prudence (compiler), 1925-1986 : Radio interviews
Date: [ca 1956]
By: Gregory, Prudence, 1925-1986
Reference: MS-Papers-0993
Description: Transcript of taped interviews with elderly Otago people for a NZBC programme `Roads to nowhere' dealing with pioneer life in Central Otago. People with names in full are entered under Name but Mrs Ritchie and Mrs MacArthur have not been. Accompanying the collection is a letter from Gregory to Dorothy Neal White re giving her a copy of `The Ogre' by M Cunnington (1885). Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Roads to nowhere Other Titles - The ogre, by M Cunnington (London, 1985) Accompanying material - Letter from Gregory to Dorothy Neal White re `The Ogre' by J Cunnington (Lond, 1885) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations
Vicki Joy Fissenden - Success or defeat? An immigrant's account
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-052
Description: The essay traces the Fissenden family of Birling, Kent, to New Zealand and documents their lifestyles subsequent to their arrival. Beginning in 1875 the Fissendens and their descendants built a new life in New Zealand buying land, opening businesses and raising their families. From Marlborough the descendants of the first nine Fissendens spread to a large part of the upper South Island, later moving to Hawke's Bay and Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 45 pages. Finding Aids: Published inventory available.