Places

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Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in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

Date: 1958

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-02

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1954-1966

From: Elder, Norman Lascelles, 1896-1974 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0699-44

Description: Reports, papers and notes (unpublished) by Elder on forest cover, ecology in the Ruahine, Tararua and Kaweka Ranges. Includes list of contents. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1950-1951

From: New Zealand Federation of Labour : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4100-19/17/03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-6981

Description: Photographs of Wairarapa taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Includes views of Featherston, Masterton, Gladstone and Feilding. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1952-1968

From: Maori Women's Welfare League : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1396-070

Description: Contains administrative and memebrship records of various branches of the Maori Women's Welfare League, and related correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1852-1891, 1955

By: Watters, Bethlyn, active 1950-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-3932

Description: The papers largely consist of correspondence spanning four decades between Jane Oates and her sister, Margaret Morten, who lived in Derbyshire, England, but include letters written by Samuel, John Morten (husband of Margaret), various children of the Oates and Morten families, and by various other family friends and relatives. Letters give details about family matters, the concerns of stock and crop farming, adverse weather conditions, etc both in New Zealand and rural England. The collection includes photocopy of passenger contract ticket for and photograph of Jane Oates and children on their departure for New Zealand, as well as genealogical material, and a letter written by Watters to her family in New Zealand when she was visiting the family home and relatives at Monyash, England in 1955 Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - See MS-Papers-8236 for further letters from the Oates family in New Zealand to their family in England Accompanying material - Accompanied by copies of photographs (originals in Photographic Archive) and material relating to the Rev. William Ronaldson kept by Miss Annie Oates, an aunt of Mrs Watters'. Jane Oates emigrated to New Zealand with 5 children in 1856 on the `Oliver Laing'. She joined her husband, Samuel, who had come out earlier and begun farming at Taratahi Plains, north of Carterton in the Wairarapa. Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1957

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-13

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants

Date: 1952-1954

From: New Zealand Federation of Labour : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4100-19/17/04

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1957

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-09

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants

Date: 1900-1950

By: Preston, H, active 1976

Reference: PAColl-0032

Description: Agricultural subjects including maize and mangle crops Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1958

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-10

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955-1957

From: New Zealand Federation of Labour : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4100-19/17/05

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1880-1959, 1962, 1964, 16 Mar 1918, 6 Feb 1925, 17 Apr-27 Sep 1937

By: Hansen family; Tiller, Eileen Mavis, active 1957-2014

Reference: MS-Group-0887

Description: Estate papers of W F Hansen and his father Anders. These include correspondence, diaries, autograph books, insurance papers, accounts, property papers, papers re British & Continental Film Company Ltd, 1920s. The diaries of Elizabeth Hansen, 1928-1932, 1954-1959, 1962, 1964, contain brief daily entries describing her domestic activities, weather conditions, involvement in community work and the Methodist Church. The early diaries were kept while the Hansens were in Featherston (the period immediately following their marriage). From 1954, after Fred Hansen died, Elizabeth lived at Masterton. Included in some of the diaries are newspaper clippings which report on church and community affairs. Contains letters by Anne Hansen aboard the `Rangitata', in England and Ireland to Fred and Lizzie Hansen in Masterton, New Zealand. Anne describes her daily life and travel and discusses family matters. Also contains a letter from Lena Cook (nee Hansen) while on holiday in Melbourne and a letter from an ex-soldier Elyabill Harrold to Fred Hansen following Fred's return from World War One. See ATL-Group-00334 for photographic material relating to the Hansen family. William Frederick Hansen's father, Anders Hansen was a lighthouse keeper. Fred Hansen was born at Cape Saunders, Westport. He was a tunneller in World War One. Elizabeth and Fred Hansen lived at Featherston and later moved to Masterton where Fred died in 1953. Mrs Eileen Tiller (née Hansen) is the niece of Mrs and Mrs Hansen. Quantity: 32 volume(s). 9 folder(s). 0.71 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Eileen Tiller is the granddaughter of lighthouse keeper Anders Hansen. Processing information: Twenty diaries arrived in the Photographic Archive and were separated from the photographic material as was the practice at the time.

Date: [1920-1958]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-047

Description: Comprises correspondence re Riddiford's association with polo, circular re re-establishment of Wairarapa Polo Club (1920), sale of polo ponies account with Tattersall's (12926), list of players' handicaps (1928-1930, 1937) records, draft outward letters, programmes for tournaments including Savile Cup, annual Yankee tournament, Australsian Gold Cup, Gymkhana meeting (Feilding, rules and notes for umpires Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1956

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-11

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants

Date: 1950s- 1980s

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PAColl-6262-2

Description: Most of the photographs date from the 1980s. The group that don't are loose prints from Album PA1-o-962. These are photographs of a young boy, school photographs from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and photographs of an event during the Royal Visit of 1963. Those of the the 1980s include views of the landscape of the Chatham Islands which include quite a detailed record of Waitangi including the town tip. There are two groups of school jubilee photoraphs, the largest of which is the centennial of Te One School in 1985. The other is that of Kaingaroa school. The gun club picnic (Feb 1985), the pony club gymkhana (Feb 1985), a race meeting at Tauherenikau in the South Wairarapa (Dec 1984), and some unidentified events and groups of people make up the rest of this collection group. Includes two sheets annotated in the same hand with a list of names featured in a group portrait taken at "Joan Hough's 21st" in 1963. One sheet is annotated as being written in 1990 by "Buzz" or "Bayly?". Also includes two small sheets annotated in a different hand containing a list of names for photographs in PA1-o-963. Quantity: 190 colour original photographic print(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera annotated photographic processing envelope related to 35mm-123263 to 35mm-123323. Transfers: An envelope of 35mm negative strips was found in the PAColl-6262-2 enclosure by a staff member in 2023 and processed separately for conservation reasons. See library references 35mm-123263 to 35mm-123323. Images appear to mostly relate to photographic prints in PAColl-6262-2.. Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022. Box contains two empty library housing envelopes annotated by a staff member.

Date: 1855-1864, 1934-1935, 1951-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-1780

Description: Farm records of Whangaimoana Station, owned by Russell family including letter book of S A Hanlon, owner of Moanatahi Station, Palliser Bay; personal papers of W P Karaitiana, farmer at Pirinoa (1933-1958), including Te Aute College school report card for Hugh Karaitiana (1951-1952) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1955

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-04

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).