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Manuscript

Specifications - A A Wagstaff (Waihou), Mr Walton (Onehunga), Mrs M H Cliffe, H Prince,...

Date: 1911, 1908, 1913, n d

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-3/6/31

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Sub-centres - Correspondence

Date: 1943-1944

From: New Zealand Red Cross Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0258-04A

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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City views of Wellington and Auckland and a South Island trip

Date: 1972

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 :Photographs of musicians, musicians groups, singers and choirs

Reference: PA12-5665

Description: City views of Wellington and Auckland. Hamilton Music School. Auckland University South Island trip. View of North Road, Waimea. All probably photographed by Ronald Dellow in 1972. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

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[Posters and other ephemera relating to emergencies and civil defence in New Zealand. 1...

Date: 1970 - 2010

Reference: Eph-C-CIVIL-DEFENCE-1970/2010

Description: Includes posters and booklets: 1970/1980s?: Civil Defence. These simple instructions are issued by the Joint Rotorua City and County Civil Defence Organisation and could mean to you and yours the difference between life and death in the event of a local major disaster ... [1970-1980s?] 1971: A rough guide to Wellington's sub-area Five [central Wellington]. 1971 Civil Defence message form from Sub-Area 5 HQ [Invitation to meeting 27 April 1971, at TAB HQ Building, Lambton Quay, signed by Lindsay Buick-Constable] 1980s?: Hamilton-Waikato Civil Defence. In case of earthquake & emergencies (2 copies) 1987: Civil Defence. How to survive earthquake, tsunami, flood, fire [1987] 1993: Levin and Districts Civil Defence Organisations. Emergency family guide. Fourth edition 1993. A [Levin] Chronicle publication [Tabloid paper, 20 pages] (2 copies) 2010: Massey University Wellington. Disaster narratives and the Canterbury earthquake; learning from Katrina, the BP oil spill and climate change. Professor Bruce C Glavovic, EQC Chair in Natural Hazards Planning. Massey University Wellington public lecture series. Theatrette, Museum Building Buckle Street, 7 December [2010] Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints approximately A3 size. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

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Morrison, Mr :Postcards of Auckland and other areas

Date: [ca 1908]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6408

Description: Postcards of St Mark's Church, Remuera; the Waikato River at Hamilton; HM fleet in Lyttelton harbour; two of the Pavilion baths and grounds in Rotorua; the view from the grounds from the tower of bath house, Rotorua; an evening view of the Marine Parade gardens, Napier; the anglican church at Onehunga; a commemorative postcard of the dash to the south pole by Shackleton in 1908; Ferry Bridge over the Waiau River at Hanmer taken by Muir & Moodie; three views of boating at Hamurana Springs; Lakelet in the park, Queenstown; main street in Cust; Auckland Exhibition Grounds; Somerville Memorial Church at Remuera; Myers Park and Kindergarten; St David's Presbyterian Church; beach at Sumner, Christchurch; sanatorium and band rotunda, Te Aroha. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also housed at PA5-0109 and PA5-0085. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Manuscript

Fluoridation files (Gore to Kawerau)

Date: [1957-1966]

From: Fuller, James Ferris (Brigadier), 1913-2001 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6167-03

Description: Comprises regional files kept by Fuller while at Defence HQ relating to the fluoridation issue (see entry under Place) In addition to the Hastings regional file there is also a file labelled: Levels - Fluoride - Hastings. Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box).

Manuscript

Specifications - Waikato Times, printing office, Hamilton, Waipa County Council offices...

Date: 1912, 1916

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-3/6/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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[Ephemera relating to cattle, and cattle breeding, cattle shows and sales. 1950-1979]

Date: 1950 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-CATTLE-1950/1979

Description: Includes: 1956: The Committee of Management of the Auckland Herd Improvement Association (Incorporated) requests the pleasure of your company at the official opening of the Association's new office building. Somersby Building, 74 London Street, Hamilton. 21 June 1956. (And inserted invitation to Smoke Concert Party that evening) 1960: New Zealand Aberdeen Angus Cattle Breeders' Association. Catalogue of 40th show and sale of pedigree bulls to be sold in yards of the Southern Hawke's Bay Stock and Station Agents' Assoication. Dannevirke, 20-21 September 1960. 1976: Manawatu Jersey Cattle Breeders Club. 10th club show Golden Jubilee year. Mr & Mrs Hunt's property, Glen-Oroua. 11 December 1976. Programme 1977: Limousin and Charolais auction sale conducted by the N.Z.Charolais Cattle Society, and the N.Z. Limousin Society. Canterbury A & P Showgrounds Sale Pavilion, Christchurch New Zealand, 28 June 1977. Sales catalogue 1978: Whose calf is that? [Livestock Improvement pamphlet. 1978] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklets, pamphlet and fliers, sizes varying below 250 mm.

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Creator unknown :Photographs of railway stations by Muir & Moodie

Date: 1905

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7465

Description: A train on the railway tracks next to the main street in Ngaruawahia at the corner with Jesmond Street; horses and carts waiting at Hamilton Railway Station with a train at the platform; people on the platform at Frankton Junction Railway Station with an advertisement for Standard Tea on the railway building and a train waiting; and a train at the platform at Mercer Railway Station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Manuscript

Stevenson, Margaret Forbes 1920- : One of seven

Date: 1987

By: Stevenson, Margaret Forbes, 1920-

Reference: MS-Papers-5415

Description: Stevenson wrote her account in 1987 and begins by describing her family and their situation from when she was born in Pahiatua in 1920 until the 1950s when her marriage ended. She describes the daily life and routines of the family, the various moves they made - to Wellsford, Hamilton, back to Pahiatua, Ongarue, Makokomiko and Wellington - the work her father did which included selling books for the Seventh-Day Adventists and being a farm manager - and of life at the various schools she and her sisters attended. She describes working in Wellington at the Sanitarium Health Food vegetarian cafe, her marriage to Bob Woods, various events in their family life and their subsequent separation when she began working at the Odeon picture theatre in Auckland. She also discusses the role of religion in a person's upbringing. Stevenson and her husband narrowly missed being on the Tangiwai train and she elaborates on this. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (48 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M F Stevenson, Pt Chevalier, Auckland, November 1995 Line drawings of the mill at Ongarue where the family lived and the area after a fire, of a camp oven and a diagram of their living quarters; photographs of the family and houses they had lived in and of the Pohangina Post Office and Store

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Railways album 5

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Manuscript

Specifications - Mrs M H Cliffe (Claudelands), Mr Cliffe (Paparoa), T Y Lusk (Hamilton)...

Date: 1911

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-3/6/22

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Photographs of parents, sister, relations, childhood, Africa, New Zealand, Norway, and ...

Date: [ca 1924-1958]

From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984:Photographs and postcards

By: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984; Vogt, Birgette Marie, active 1950s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-748

Description: Anton Vogt was conceived in 1914 just before his parents returned to Norway from Argentina. His father, Volrath Vogt, had gone to Argentina as a young man of 20 in 1905. There, among other things, he worked as gaucho, herding cattle on the Pampas. In 1912 he married Margot Herlofsen, another Norwegian in Argentina, and in 1913 they had their first child, Sito, Anton's sister. Anton was born in Norway where his parents lived during World War I. His father worked as a business man supplying chemical products to the British Government. After the war the family moved to London where Volrath established what was at first a successful business in the boom of the immediate post war years. When the business failed he moved with his family to the Waterberg district, 200 miles north of Johannesburg in what is today Botswana. There during the early 1920s he managed a 200,000 acre cattle ranch on the edge of the Kalahari desert for a Norwegian consortium When this venture came to an end in 1926 the family came to New Zealand and ran a small shop at Bucklands Beach, Auckland. Anton and his sister worked at various jobs during their late teenage years and largely supported the family financially. In 1931 Anton got a job with the Western Electric Company and they sent him to Hamilton where he Lived for most of the 1930s. He then went to Wellington in the late 1930s still in the employment of Western Electric. In late 1938 Anton married his first wife, Rosalind Lees, and in 1939 entered training college. He Worked in broadcasting during the 1940s. Anton and Rosalind had six children Photographs in this album cover the period from childhood in Norway during the First World War to young parenthood in the late 1940s. It is rich in Norwegian relatives, African cattle ranches and family, friends and colleagues in New Zealand. There is also an interesting personal record of Erling Tambs, a Norwegian yachtsman who sailed from Oslo to Auckland in the "Teddy" ca 1931 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Manuscript

Specifications - C H Priestley (Cambridge), R Parker-Hill (Hamilton), Union Bank of Aus...

Date: 1913-1924

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-3/6/12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Map

[Creator unknown] :Land to be excluded from Waipa County and included in Hamilton City ...

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: MapColl-832.1493fbo/[197-?]/Acc.29600

Description: Drawn on a copy of a cadastral map, the annotations depict proposed boundary changes to Hamilton City, areas two and three. Shows existing city boundaries and the proposed additions from Waipa County, an addition of 135 hectares in area two and 212 hectares in area three. Top middle of map: 'B'. Other Titles - two Other Titles - three Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 42 x 55 cm.

Manuscript

Baptism register - Upper Waikato

Date: 1865-1866

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Auckland Diocese : Waikato marriage and baptism registers

Reference: MS-Papers-4072-10

Description: Includes 65th and 40th Regiments, 2nd and 3rd Waikato Militia, some civilians - Hamilton and Te Awamutu

Manuscript

Letters from Isabella Josephine Paul (mother)

Date: 1930-1931

From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers of and relating to David Blackwood Paul

Reference: MS-Papers-5523-02

Description: Letters from his mother in Hamilton to Blackwood Paul at Auckland University College Includes undated obituary of Mrs Paul Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

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Scott, Tom, 1947- :Twenty cartoons published in the Evening Post between 3 and 28 Novem...

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-045/064

Description: Political cartoons. Psychiatric care denied to those in need. Jim Bolger teeters on the edge of losing his position as Prime Minister. Jim Bolger offers his head on a plate to the new National Party leader, Jenny Shipley. Helen Clark congratulates Jenny Shipley for being NZ's first woman Prime Minister. Jenny Shipley lays down how she wishes to conduct business within her caucus. Winston Peters prostrates himself before the new Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley. NZ public dispair over the Black Caps' performance. Jenny Shipley is set to devour coalition partner, Winston Peters during their coalition talks. Max Bradford calls for submissions on the government's proposals allowing people to work Christmas Day for cash. Winston Peters is pressured by his party, NZ First, to continue in coalition with National under the new leadership of Jenny Shipley. NZ First / National Party coalition government is recemented but there's trouble ahead. Obituary to the tourists murdered by Islamic extremists in Egypt. Jim Bolger is overwhelmed by complimentary cards following his fall from the National Party leadership. Workers comment on the compulsory pay rise MPs get. Labour Party Conference participants behave as if they have become the government when they are still in opposition. White power advocates call for one law for all with some exceptions for themselves. Jim Bolger advises foreign leaders of the first signs of a coup, unsolicited phone calls pledging loyalty. The tell-tale signs of smoking in women. The pros and cons of the Hamilton East Telecom Mobile Phone Tower. Jenny Shipley is seen to have a level demeanour. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Manuscript

Thomas family : Letters from Herbert Charles Thomas

Date: 1945-1950, 1982, 2002

By: Thomas family

Reference: MS-Papers-7436

Description: Letters written by Herbert (Bert) Charles Thomas to his parents from Auckland, Hamilton and Tokanui (1945-1946), then from Sydney, the `Asturias', South Africa, Luanshya in Northern Rhodesia, Dar-Es-Salaam, Mikindani in Tanganyika (1946-1949) and finally from England (1949-1950). He described his daily work while in New Zealand, experiences with landladies, his experiences looking for work and travelling in various parts of Africa. The letters have been transcribed by Thomas's sister, Betty Brookes, and family background information supplied by another sister, Ann Turvey. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Biographical details on Herbert (Bert) Charles Thomas supplied by Mrs Turvey; includes photocopies of two photographs of him Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

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[Horse racing programmes and ephemera from the period 1840-1879].

Date: 1849 - 1858 - 1872 - 1875

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Racing Club

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1840/1870s

Description: Includes programmes for: 1849: Auckland races. First day, Tuesday December 11, 1848 (silk flier / programme). 1858: Auckland races. First day, January 1, 1858. Silk flier / programme. 1872: Waikato annual races, 28 and 29 February 1872. First day. 1874: Kowai Park races, May 29 1874. (Colour photocopy only; original is in Enys, John D. (John Davies), 1837-1912. [Natural history, agriculture and other topics. 1869-1874], page 8 - Ref P f591.9931 ENY 1869-1874). Horse owners include Messrs Markey, Lunn and D W S O'Brien 1875: Wellington Jockey Club Races to be held at the Hutt Racecourse on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 7 and 8, 1875. First day, Tuesday December 7. Blundell Bros, Printers, Wellington. [Programme card]. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (racing programmes). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on fliers, some silk, sizes varying up to 210 mm. Provenance: Some purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2005. 1875 programme from the papers of Marjorie Connell, 2006.

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