Places

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-784

Description: The scene is outside the rugby grounds where Manawatu were playing the Springboks. Police are searching and frisking spectators on entry to the grounds to prevent protestors from disrupting the game. One policeman is restraining a spectator carrying a placard and telling the Sergeant that the spectator is determined to enter the grounds free-of-charge. Refers to the game played in the Waikato at which protestors against the Springbok tour disrupted the game by running onto the pitch, causing the game to be called off. Extended Title - Go ahead with the tour down with N.Z.R.F.U.! Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 455 x 320 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikato-1980s

Description: Includes pamphlets promoting tourism to Waikato including Hamilton, the MV 'Waipa Delta', Waingaro hot springs, Waihi, Kawhia, Otorohanga, Morrinsville and Tokoroa. Ephemera on hotels in the area may be housed at Eph-A-HOTELS-Waikato. For other Waikato material see under Eph-A-TOURISM-Waitomo, Eph-A-TOURISM-Coromandel Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset printing on pamphlets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1972-1980]

From: GirlGuiding New Zealand : Records

Reference: 88-130-11/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1978-1984

From: GirlGuiding New Zealand : Records

Reference: 88-130-11/5

Description: Correspondence re Waikato, Waiariki, Waiapu, Bay of Plenty Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981-1992

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: MS-Papers-12224-2

Description: Comprises five notebooks dated 1981-1987, 1984-1988, 1987-1989, 1989-1990, 1989-1992. Most have lists of places visited and dates on their inside front covers. Two notebooks include sites in the United States of America and the United Kingdom; one notebook includes sites in Sydney, Australia. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Notebooks of various sizes, with cardboard or plastic covers, either stapled or spiral bound. Processing information: The place names noted in the inside front covers of the notebooks have been listed in this record. Other geographic names and specific building and structure names have not been listed.

Date: 1989

By: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022

Reference: PA1-f-241

Description: A camping holiday made by Jennifer McLeod and her Dutch Composer friend, Peter Schat. The record goes from Pukerua Bay through the central North Island, the Desert Road, Lake Taupo to an unidentified thermal area. The rest of the photographs are from the east coast which included the Bay of Plenty. The final sequence is a trip made to Picton. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1989 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: Transfer from further papers of Jennifer Helen McLeod (MS-Group-0144).

Date: 16 and 17 Dec 1985 - 16 Dec 1985 - 17 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Thompson, Thomas Eric, 1904-1996

Reference: OHInt-0070/23

Description: Eric Thompson recalls family background, childhood in Coromandel and Auckland, education, selection as engineering cadet in 1921, subjects taken for BSc, salary, hours, duties in Engineer's Office Telegraph Office Auckland, learning morse, preparing the Wellesley Street Automatic Exchange from 1925, training aspect of work, telegraph office in Auckland early 1920s, involvement in wiring, fitting, adjusting, longterm advantages of university background, wiring multiplex and quadriplex systems, cable testing, skills needed, methods of localising faults, systems adapted from British Post Office, move from bronze wire to cadnam copper, difficulties with overloading long distance telephone lines, explanation of twisted circuits. Describes working as assistant engineer in Hamilton in 1926, division of time, lack of overtime, social life, working on telephone lines at Tokaanu during visit of Duke and Duchess of York, effect of Royal tours, installation of Rhysselberg system, Te Kuiti floods in 1920s, work as automatic engineer at Dunedin in 1928, advocacy of world dialling system, reference Grant Milne, explanation of New Zealand dialling system, duplex toll dialling between Auckland and Hamilton, catching malicious callers, intalling first rural automatic exchange at Oparau, first unit automatic exchange at Kerepehi, the rural party line regrouping system, problems with Head Office. Discusses Post Offices charges, flat rate option controversy, own view and Grant Milne's view, planning difficulties, problems with Te Awamutu and Matamata exchanges, work building lines to radar stations during World War II, the cable jointing staff at Hamilton 1926-1928, reliability of radio inspectors, work as research engineer at Post and Telegraph Laboratory, Wellington, duties, work as automatic engineer in charge Auckland in 1932, equipment unable to be used during Depression 1930s, scope of work, tolls, faults staff, installing carrier equipment in Auckland, work as telegraph engineer in Hamilton in 1937, circumstances around being appointed Regional Engineer, retirement, impressions of Directors General - P N Cryer, G McNamara, conflict between Postal and Engineering branches. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Eric Thompson's home at 48 Water Street, Otahuhu Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001230 - OHC-001232; OHC-001244 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.26 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 165. Search dates: 1904 - 1985