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Date: 1934

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1934

Description: Includes programmes featuring: Society of Associated Arts. First concert, Crown Theatre Eastbourne. 2 May 1934. Programme Society of Associated Arts Incorporated. Second concert, Crown Theatre Eastbourne, 5 September 1934. Programme. Associated Arts Society Inc. Third concert, Crown Theatre Eastbourne, 28 November 1934. Programme in aid of Boy Scouts and Bible Class students annual Xmas camps. Auckland Society of Musicians. Musical competitions. Lewis Eady Hall, 20-22 August 1934. Programme. Christchurch Liedertafel. 50th season, 269th concert. Jubilee "At home". Radiant Hall, Wednesday 31 October 1934. Programme Circassians, conductor Thomas Wood. Final subscription concert for 1934 (With Sydney Bernard, xylophone; Frank Crowther, piano). Town Hall Concwert Chamber, 6 November 1934. Programme Greymouth Orchestra Society. Eleventh concert (soloists Mrs M F Robilliard, Mr Geo Maxwell). Town Hall, 14 June 1934. Programme Greymouth Orchestral Society. Second concert (soloists Mr R Rudhall, Miss Gladys Higson, Mr R G May), 11 September 1934. Programme Greymouth Philharmonic Society present the cantata "The rose maiden". Town Hall, 29 May 1934. Programme Philip Hargrave assisted by J Alexander Browne, baritone. New Zealand tour. Pianoforte recital. Second programme [1934?] Philip Hargrave, assisted by J Alexander Browne, baritone. New Zealand tour. Pianoforte recital Fourth programme. [1934?] (With photograph of child pianist Philip Hargrave. Philip Hargrave assisted by J Alexander Browne, baritone. New Zealand tour. Piano recital, fifth programme. Hutt Valley Liedertafel. First concert, Third season (With Jas Fordie, Zell O'Kane, Clement May, Eric McLellan. Conductor Harry Brusey). St James Hall Lower Hutt, 20 September 1934. Programme H Temple-White presents the biggest musical event in Nelson's history - the coming of M Senia Chostiakoff the famous Russian tenor. School of Music, Nelson, Labour Day, 22 October [1934]. Programme (2 copies) Australia's musical sensation! New Zealand tour. Twelve year old genius of the piano. Philip Hargrave. Grand Opera House Wellington, 3, 6, 8, 10 November 1934. Promotional pamphlet. Hastings Orchestral Society. Second concert. Assembly Hall Hastings, 28 August 1934. Programme. Hastings Orchestral Society. Third concert. Assembly hall Hastings, 27 November 1934. Programme. Jubilee Choir, Wellington. Frank J Oakes conductor. First concert 1934. Town Hall, 5 September 1934, for the St Vincent de Paul Society. Programme Kelburn Presbyterian Church. Services in dedication of new organ to be conducted by the moderator of Wellington Presbytery, Rev J R Blanchard. with organ recital conducted by H Temple White, Myra Sawyer, Ngaire Coster (with photograph of new organ). 30 August [1934] Masterton Orchestral Society. Season 1934. Second concert. Municipal Hall Masterton, 30 October 1934. Conductor Mr J Candy. Programme New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents Madame Elsa Stralia, Miss Nanette de Lornay, Senia Chostiakoff and the Combined Cloral Societies and Symphony Orchestra of Wellington with Andersen Tyrer as guest conductor. Wellington Town hall, 22 September 1934. Programme (2 copies). Pouishnoff - Horace Stevens concerts. Direction Hugo Larsen. Australia and New Zealand tour. Hastings Municipal Theatre, 18 June. Programme no 1. Pouishnoff - Horace Stevens concerts. Direction Hugo Larsen. Australia and New Zealand 1934. Wellington season, 21-30 June 1934. Pianoforte recital by Pouishnoff. Programme. Pouishnoff - Horace Stevens concerts. Direction Hugo Larsen. Australia and New Zealand tour. Wellington season, 21 and 23 June [1934]. Programme no 1 (2 copies). Pouishnoff - Horace Stevens concerts. Direction Hugo Larsen. Australia and New Zealand. Dunedin season 12 and 14 July 1934. Programme no. 1 (with pink alteration sheet) St John's Presbyterian Church Wellington. Organ recital by W Lawrence Haggitt; vocalist Miss Anie Bennie. 28 May 1934. Programme / flier. Scots National Concert to be held in the Town Hall Wellington, 1 December 1934. Souvenir programme (With Caledonian Society's Pipe Band, Circassians, Ray Trewern, Marion Hill, Mrs Wilfred Andrew, Mr A McKay, Misses M Oates and A Burnette; C Stewart, W McRae, J M Caldwell, J B Thomson, Zillah Castle, Mrs F Crawford) Wellington Apollo Singers, conductor H Temple White. Thirteenth concert, Town Hall Concert Chamber Wellington, 5 June 1934. Programme Wellington Apollo Singers, conductor H Temple White. Fourteenth concert. Town Hall Wellington, 14 August 1934. Programme Wellington Apollo Singers, conductor H Temple White. Fifteenth concert/ Town Hall Concert Chamber Wellington, 27 November 1934. Programme Wellington Girls' Choirs (Senior and Junior). First concert. Concert Chamber Town Hall Wellington, 17 November 1934; [and] Wellington Boys' Choir. Second annual concert. Concert Chamber Town Hall Wellington, 19 November 1934. Combined programme (autographed by Senia Chostiakoff) Quantity: 29 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

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

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1934-1939

From: Farrand, Kathleen Margaret, 1916-2004: Photographs of New Zealand scenes and people

Reference: PA1-o-1175

Description: Photographs of Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Paekakariki, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Timaru, Napier, Hastings, Taumarunui, Taihape, Queenstown, Dunedin, Invercargill and Greymouth, taken in the 1930s by K M Farrand. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1939, 1946-1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-048

Description: Photographs of disasters and natural phenomena made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of fires in Taupo (20 February 1946) and Hastings (13 February 1946); floods in Hokitika (24 April 1947); floods and storms in Lower Hutt and Wellington (February 1947); land slips; train accidents; a mountain rescue (15 January 1947); and recovery of a truck from a river (7 December 1948). Photographers include M C Lysons and Frank H Preddy. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca1929-ca1932

From: Kensington, Jacqueline :Photographs, certificates and theatre programmes relating to the Reeve and Oxley families

By: Kensington, Jacqueline, active 1995; Kensington, Iris Merle, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-q-557

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1895, 1909, 1930, 1945

By: Wilson, Sue, active 1990

Reference: PAColl-1705

Description: Quantity: 7 photocopy/ies in one envelope.

Date: 1930 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-MOTORCYCLE-SPORT-1930/1959

Description: Includes: 1938: Royal Showground official programme speedway racing. Sydney [England v Australia]. 12 February 1938. Programme 1951: Speedway World. Test match. England "C" v New Zealand at Cardiff, 7 August 1951. Official souvenir programme 1952: Bristol Speedway. Bristol v The Kiwis. Friday, 11 July 1952. Programme (with Ronnie Moore, Mick Holland, Ron Johnston, B Briggs, Trevor Redmond, Peter Dykes, Bill Thatcher, Peter Clarke [Dick Campbell listed but replaced by B Briggs?] Hawke's Bay Speedway special. Second meeting 1952-53. National league Four Square Cup match. Hawke's Bay v Wellington. Twyford Speedway, Hastings. Programme 1953: Bristol Speedway. Third official speedway test match; England v New Zealand. Friday 25th September 1953. Bristol Speedway, Knowle Stadium. Official programme (2 copies). 1957: 23rd New Zealand T.T. motor cycle road race. Mangere, February 9th 1957. Programme Quantity: 6 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 215 x 150 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources.

Date: 1930

From: [Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1930-1939]

By: Dominion Airlines Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1930-01

Description: Postage sticker or cinderella used in 1930, presumably for envelopes sent airmail with this service. Shows an arrangement of text. The word "Airlines" has been typed over the word "Airways". There are initials (GR?) at the left side. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sticker with three perforated edges, 30 x 61 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Dunedin Stamp Centre, in 2015.

Date: 1935

By: Shore Print

Reference: Eph-C-PIG-1935-01

Description: Poster shows an arrangement of text discussing the importance of minerals, the cause and results of mineral deficiency in pigs, a report of the DSIR, the effect of Vymin on the size and health of litters, and directions for dosage. The verso contains a testimonial from the Cheltenham Dairy Company Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on blue paper, 360 x 172 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, in 2015.

Date: 1932 - 1948

From: Buxton, Trevor Sidney, 1901-1948 :[Landscape design plans for fine gardens in the (mostly lower) North Island; includes two design plans for garden entrances by Trevor's brother, Raymond. ca 1932-1948]

By: Bone, Chas, active 1930s

Reference: Plans-2012-011-064

Description: Plan view of the garden design for a Hastings residence, featuring a curving driveway, extensive lawn, drying green, a garage and adjacent shed, and a swimming pool. Indictes the path towards the vegetable garden situated behind the house Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Trevor S Buxton NDHNZ / Landscape Architect / Palmerston North; Recto - bottom left - Scale 16 ft = 1 inch Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on transparent paper, 475 x 460 mm Provenance: Donation: Andrew and Peta Buxton, Christchurch, February 2012

Date: 1932 - 1948

From: Buxton, Trevor Sidney, 1901-1948 :[Landscape design plans for fine gardens in the (mostly lower) North Island; includes two design plans for garden entrances by Trevor's brother, Raymond. ca 1932-1948]

By: Costello, C D (Dr), active 1947

Reference: Plans-2012-011-038

Description: Plan view of the garden design for a Hastings residence. Features a paved terrace and walkways, with a circular garden and pool. Also includes a section drawing of the terrace and pool, and a side fence. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Trevor S Buxton / Landscape Architect / Palmerston North; Recto - bottom left - Scale 16' = 1" Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on transparent paper, 330 x 300 mm Provenance: Donation: Andrew and Peta Buxton, Christchurch, February 2012

Date: 1932 - 1948

From: Buxton, Trevor Sidney, 1901-1948 :[Landscape design plans for fine gardens in the (mostly lower) North Island; includes two design plans for garden entrances by Trevor's brother, Raymond. ca 1932-1948]

By: Shattky, Herbert Maurice, 1920-

Reference: Plans-2012-011-037

Description: Plan design for a residential garden, featuring a rose garden, a pool, a garage with adjoining shed and a fowl house beyond. Includes a more detailed drawing and front elevation of a wall and steps incorporated in the design, and a section view of the pool. It is possible that H Shattky was Flying Officer H M Shattky, born in Hastings, 23 Jan 1920. He was a student optician and Joined the RNZAF on 14 June, 1941. Shattky Optometrists have been in the business of optometry in Hawke's Bay since 1906 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Scale 16 ft = 1 inch; Recto - bottom right - Trevor S Buxton NDHNZ / Landscape architect / Palmerston North Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on transparent paper, 330 x 363 mm Provenance: Donation: Andrew and Peta Buxton, Christchurch, February 2012

Date: 1935 - 1955

By: Cliff Press

Reference: Eph-A-STATIONERY-1940s-02

Description: Partly used booklet, the first two pages only, with listings of Maori vocabulary. Top of front cover has pencil annotation: "P C Baddiley, 32 Panata Street, Priv. Dect." Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 105 x 66 mm. Provenance: Donated by Merlin Sampson, Palmerston North, in 2017.

Date: 1930s-1950s

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-165

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1930s-1950s Main street of Waipawa, 1930s; main street of Waipukurau, 1931; aerial view of Hastings taken over Cornwall Park; Frimley School, Hastings, 1958; Temoana (showing old homestead near showgrounds), 1945; rural scene north of Woodville; rural scene near Onga Onga; Napier Civic Square; Waikaremoana (lake & Bluff); elevated view of Gisborne; holiday makers at Waikanae Beach nr Gisborne; Young Nick's Head, Hick's Bay; man ploughing near Aorangi; Makaretu River; roadside falls on Wairoa road near Tuai; construction of new wharf at Napier, 1939; view looking south over Napier South, 1946. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca1912-1931

By: Jordan, Marguerita, active 1999

Reference: PAColl-5953

Description: Postcard views of Napier, Hastings and Havelock taken ca 1912 by various photographers (including F G Radcliffe, Clapham, and Crerar & Co), and views of the Napier earthquake taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The Napier earthquake photographs belonged to Mrs Jordan's parents, Francis and Grace Brady. Mr Brady was postmaster at Port Ahuriri, where the family lived above the post office. The photographer is unknown, and not a family member.

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: 1937-1938

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-2

Description: Photographs of state housing projects at Whakatane, Rotorua, Tauranga, Taihape, Te Kuiti, New Plymouth, Hawera, Patea, Wanganui, Napier and hastings; and substandard housing in Napier and Ohakune, taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936-1948

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-4161-01-052

Description: Includes: Navy Depot, Shelly Bay, Wellington showing wharf, and view showing entrance to Wellington Harbour and Seatoun (Series 19/1); Rifle ranges (Series 18) - Redcliffs, Cobden at Greymouth, Pelichet Bay, Putiki at Wanganui 1942, Te Aroha 1943, Fitzherbert East (Palmerston North), 1942, Rotorua 1948, Tahoraite at Dannevirke 1942, Sponge Bay at Gisborne 1942, Te Uhi at Wairoa 1942, Roys Hill at Hastings 1936, Seaborne at Nelson 1943, West Melton 1942, Rewa Rewa at New Plymouth 1945, Penrose at Auckland 1940 showing Southdown Station and Manukau Harbour 1940; Tinakori Hills 1942 (Series 20/5); Silverstream Hospital (Series 19/2); Spring Grove Drill Hall, 1938; Somes Island 1942-1943 (Series 19/4); Tapeka Point in Bay of Islands - General view and buildings. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1937

Description: Includes programmes for: Hawke's Bay Little Theatre Society. "Hobson's choice" by Harold Brighouse. Municipal Theatre Hastings. 28 June 1937. Palmerston North Little Theatre Society (Incorporated) presents "Short story", by Robert Morley. Opera House Palmerston North. 29 April - 1 May 1937. Programme. Wellington Central Townswomen's Guild Understudies. "The happy ending", by Ian Hay. Produced by Victoria Ashe-Williams (Mrs P H Kinsman), in aid of the Mayor's relief Fund. Musical items kindly arranged by "Tin Hat" Returned Soldiers' Orchestra. Concert Chamber Town Hall Wellington, 20 December 1937. Programme Wellington Verse-Speaking Choir. "Murder in the Cathedral", produced by W J Mountjoy. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 2-3 December 1937. Programme (2 copies) Women's Institutes Festival of Drama. Empire Hall [Palmerston North?]. 28-30 July 1930. Quantity: 5 theatre programmes and flyers, plus duplicates. Physical Description: Letterpress in programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Provenance: One programme donated by the Megget family in 2007.