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Date: 1907 (1948)

By: Colley, Lucy Anges, 1851?-1923

Reference: MS-0593

Description: Title continues:`...written by their eldest daughter, Mrs Philip Wellesley Colley (Lucy Petre)'. With notes on their children and grand-children from authentic sources and family papers; preface by JBP. Printed privately (1907). Comprises extracts from the book, typed in the Alexander Turnbull Library (Dec 1948). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (viii, 58 pages). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 1840-1854 (1960)

By: Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854

Reference: qMS-1337-1339

Description: Letters deal mainly with social and political events in and around Wellington and Hutt Valley Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; red linen) Finding Aids: Index at qMS-1340-1343.

Date: 1872-1873, 1878-1880

By: Jollie, Edward, 1825-1894

Reference: MS-Papers-4207

Description: Reminiscences of Jollie's early life (1841-1865) commencing with his voyage to Wellington on the `Brougham' (1841-1842). A New Zealand Company survey cadet, he assisted with surveys of Wellington (1842-1845), Otago (1846-1847) and Nelson; also worked on Canterbury Association surveys (1849-1851) with Captain Joseph Thomas. He later practised as a surveyor in Canterbury and was active in provincial and national politics. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - Two titles given: Diary and Our Great-Grandpa's Diary Retyped in 1971 from an earlier transcription Relationship complexity - Holograph reminiscences with some textual variations at qMS-1071 Jollie was a New Zealand Company and Canterbury Association surveyor, and a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council and the House of Representatives Quantity: 1 folder(s) (44 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) with holograph annotations

Date: 1861-1870

By: Herring, Margaret, 1838-

Reference: MS-Papers-6902

Description: Mainly letters to family in England from Maggie describing the voyage out on the `Sir George Pollock' in 1861 to Nelson, and her time in New Zealand to 1870. The letters contain references to Bishop and Mrs Hobhouse, Bishop and Mrs Abraham, Rev Thatcher and Richard Barton of Upper Hutt where her husband Rev John Herring was a clergyman until 1870. Accompanying material - Letter from Mr Herring to Rev Oppenheim of St James' Church, Lower Hutt re provenance and family history Transcripts made from poor photocopied typed transcripts held by Mr Herring's cousin living in Perth in 1972, and are not as full as the copy of originals at qMS Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original letters at qMS-0952. The transcripts are not as full as the originals Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcripts (photocopied) Provenance: The donor is the great grandson of Margaret Herring

Date: 1853-1854, 1995

By: Head, Lyndsay F, active 1995

Reference: MS-Papers-5223

Description: Translations of selected Maori letters from the Donald McLean papers (MS-Papers-0032) by Ms Head's students under her supervision, made as part of the Te Tipuna Reo Project Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1926-1959

From: Hull-Brown, Ian Norman: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Hull-Brown

Description: Includes a collection of ball programmes: Undated: Eastbourne Carnival Football Queen No 3 dance programme. Perfumed with Muguet. 1926: Public Trust Office. Annual dance. St Francis Hall Wellington. 11 June 1926. Programme. 1928: Government House Wellington. 25 September 1928. Programme. Government House. 12 October 1928. Programme HMS Dunedin. 27 November 1928. [Programme] Annual Charity Ball. Town Hall. 6th (17 July 1928), 8th (11 June 1930), 9th (17 June 1931), 10th (15 June 1932), 11th (7 June 1933), 12th (20 June 1934), 13th (26 June 1935), 17th (21 June 1939), 18th (5 June 1940) 1929: St Patricks College Old Boys Association. 4th and 6th annual ball programmes. 1929 and 1931. Government House Wellington. 13 August 1929. Programme. 1930: Post & Telegraph Department. Town Hall. 31 July 1930. Programme. [Vivienne Riddiford engagement party - identified in pencil on back, and with the initials "V&M" on front]. 21 October 1930. Programme. [Dr Herbert's 21st party for his daughter - identified in pencil on back]. 12 November 1930. Programme. Featherston Golf Club annual ball. 15 July 1930. Programme; and Menu. Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club. 8 May 1930. [Ball programme] [Palmerston North Golf Club?] Palmerston North. 1 August 1930 (shows humorous illustration of golfers on the front of programme) Masterton Golf Ball (identified in pencil on back). Programme 1930. 1931: B (Dr Herbert's daughter's coming out dance). 27 April 1931. Programme. 1932: Lever Brothers (N.Z.) Limited. Founder's Day celebration. Kirkcaldie & Stains' Ballroom. 16 September 1932. Programme. M.S. [and] J.N. [marriage?] 10 March 1932. Programme. J.P. [and] J.W. [marriage?] Dances. 21 April 1932. Programme Plunket Ball. Town Hall. 15 July 1932. 1933: Programme with red musical stave on the front. [Dr Herbert's daughter's arrival from India. 17/1/33. [Dance card]. 1935: B D G and F N G. 19 September 1935. [Marriage?]. Programme. 1936: Queen Margaret College. 22 August 1935. Programme (front half only) Public Works Department annual staff dance 1936 1937-1938: Marsden School. Debutantes' dance. 21.5.1937 and 6.5.1938. Programmes. George R. J. [and] Elizabeth R. [Ball] programme. 7.5.[19]38. 1939: Mayfair Cabaret. Shell Social Club dance. Thursday 29 June [1939] Post & Telegraph Department annual ball. Dance list and supper ticket. (5 different, including one dated 1939) Queen Margaret College. Debutantes' Ball. 18 April 1939. Programme. 1946: A T Young 22/5/46. Programme. General Motors. "Assembly line" of all those who have served General Motors for ten or more years. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George Wellington. 12 December 1946. Programme. 1948: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. 65th presentation of prizes and annuall. 17 July 1948. Wairarapa Hunt Incorporated. Annual ball. 30 July 1948. Programme. 1949: General Motors. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 15 December 1949. 1950: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 14 December 1950. 1951: General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. Palm Lounge, Hotel St George. 13 Devember 1951. Programme. General Motors. Norm Hull-Brown, guest artist. 10-year get-together. [Three badges worn by Norm Hull-Brown at these events] Includes programmes: Wellington Orphans' Club. Annual ladies' night. Masonic Hall, The Terrace. 7 August 1930. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Bright and breezy". Majestic Theatre 23 May 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brighter and breezier". 11 July 1935. Programme. New Zealand Broadcasting Board presents All-Star Vaudeville "Brightest and breeziest". St James Theatre Wellington. 17 October 1935. Programme. Disabled Soldiers Civil Re-Establishment League presents its 1941 monster revue, "Britannia". Opera House, 1-10 May 1941. Programme. 2YA Camp Entertainers come to town with a non-stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 25 March 1944. Proceeds to Wellington Red Cross. 2YA Camp Entertainers return to town with another Non-Stop Variety Show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 November 1944. Programme. Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association. Smoke concert. Town Hall, 8 September 1950. Programme (autograph B C Freyberg) New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Non-Stop variety show. Town Hall Wellington. 4 September 1950. For the UN Appeal for Children. One day of your pay will save another child. Compered by Selwyn Toogood. Includes invitations: Nga Tawa Old Girls and Wanganui Old Boys. Ball at Drill Hall, Feilding. 14 June 1937. Invitation. Ohingaiti Citizen's [sic] annual Ball. Friday 12 August 1938. Music by Wellington's foremost dance band, Henry Rudolph's Dance Band. Flier. Wellington College Old Boys' Cricket Club. Annual dance. 9 March 1940. Invitation. Also includes a receipt from the Wellington Performing Musicians Industrial Union of Workers for membership, Mr Hull-Brown, 3 May 1927; and a business card of Jack E Michel, trap-drummer and xylophonist, Fuller's Vaudeville, Ambassador Cabaret. (in "Programmes" folder) Quantity: 30 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) invitations. 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (programmes, etc).

Date: 1848-1904

By: Parkes, Samuel, 1790-1863

Reference: qMS-1627

Description: Letters from Samuel Parkes written from Wellington and Wanganui comment on the voyage to New Zealand and life in Wellington and Wanganui. Also letters from Susan Weller, Woolwich to her grandchildren, 1865-1869 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 items). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1917-1930

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-o-730

Description: A lot of Merle Reeve's relatives and friends, views of cities and towns, especially Palmerston North and Wellington, sports teams associated with Wellington Teachers College, Wellington Boys College, and All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North, in the late 1920s. Scenic views taken on holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 23 Oct 1931-26 Apr 1932

By: Hunter, David, active 1900-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1191

Description: Journal kept by Hunter while travelling from England to New Zealand on the `Rangitata' and his return to England on the `Makura' to Australia and the Orsova' from Sydney from 23 Oct 1931 to 26 Apr 1932. He travelled with Ena Hunter. He describes their preparations, embarkation at Southampton, the other passengers, food (including menus), sea sickness, entertainments, the comforts and otherwise of the ship, his cabin, their passage through the Panama Canal and Armstice Day. They disembarked at Wellington 24 Nov 1931, and left for Australia on the `Makura' 7 Mar 1932, and for England on the `Orsova' from Sydney, 13 Mar 1932. In New Zealand Hunter spent time in Wellington, visiting the Alexander Turnbull Library, describing the work of the League of Nations Union in Wellington, visits Christchurch, the West Coast and Nelson where he spent some time, Wanganui, the Waitomo Caves, Rotorua and Auckland and back through Taranaki where he climbed Mt Egmont; he visited farms and factories, observed the opening of Parliament (24 Feb 1932) and visited the Gear Freezing and Meat Preservation Company. He attended many church services in various churches including the Congregational, Church of Christ and Presbyterian churches. Folowing his and Ena's departure for Sydney he describes the new Sydney harbour bridge, their visit to Tasmania and the House of Commons in Hobart, visiting to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, the Suez Canal, Naples and Gibraltar, and an ANZAC commemoration service he declined to attend. The journal is illustrated and includes a water colour of the `Rangitata', newspaper clippings of portraits of various New Zealanders; and a copy of a letter from the Turnbull to the donor (1986). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm

Date: 1840-1844

By: Hine, Thomas B, active 1840-1845

Reference: fMS-Papers-3503

Description: Includes short descriptions of voyage to New Zealand in the `Martha Ridgway', very brief accounts of settlements in Wellington, New Plymouth and Nelson, and of land sections held by the Hine family in those districts Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1842-1844, 1989

By: Wright, Sydney Evelyn Liardet, 1825-1897

Reference: MS-Papers-4282

Description: The journal extract covers the period 15 June 1842-26 Feb 1844 and describes the Wrights' voyage to New Zealand and his experiences in New Plymouth and Wellington Accompanying material - Accompanied by a list of ships mentioned in Wright's journal Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-2528-2540 for further Wright material Sydney Wright left London on the `Blenheim' on 16 June 1842 and arrived in Wellington on 5 Nov. Later that month he sailed for New Plymouth where he resided until returning to Wellington on 5 Sep 1843. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (41 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1851-1926

By: Hall-Jones, William (Hon Sir), 1851-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-6186

Description: Draft autobiography by Sir William Hall-Jones. The author writes of himself in the third person, under the name of of Tommy, and uses the pseudonym of Wm J Lenohals. Covers early life in Folkestone, working as a carpenter and builder in Timaru, local body activity, career in Parliament and as a Minister, term as High Commissioner in London, and later life. Includes thoughts, opinions, verse, clippings and pasted-in photographs. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with holograph annotations, printed matter (photocopies) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1840-1844

By: Hine, Thomas B, active 1840-1845

Reference: qMS-0960

Description: Includes short descriptions of the voyage out to New Zealand on the `Martha Ridgway' in 1840, very brief accounts of settlements in Wellington, New Plymouth and Nelson, and of land sections held by the Hine family in those districts. Source of title - Supplied title New Zealand Company immigrant Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey pam case)

Date: 15 Jan 2007

From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project

By: Braggins, Janet Mary, 1933-; Jarnell, Barbara Anderson, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0830-01

Description: Interview with Janet Mary Braggins (nee Brockie), born Christchurch 1933, and Barbara Anderson Jarnell (nee Brockie), born Christchurch 1939. Talk about their father Walter Brockie, who worked at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens until they moved to Wellington in 1947 when he became curator at Otari. Describe their home and family life at Otari, and community life in Wadestown. Discuss their father's work maintaining and developing the gardens, referring to the rock garden, Cockayne's memorial grave, and planting kauri. Mention the two staff Arnold Henderson and Bon Everett, neighbour James K Baxter, and friend Harry Talbot. Discuss their father's interests (including photography and homebrewing), holiday plant collecting trips including Campbell Island, and breeding native plants. Mention their mother Vera Best started the visitors' book - James K Baxter wrote a poem in it. Refer to their father saying that it would probably be another 50 years before his work at Otari would be appreciated. Interviewer(s) - Johnathan Kennett Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 57 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5563. Search dates: 1933 - 1947 - 2007

Date: 1942-1943

From: Menzies, Ada Annie, 1918-2000 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1784

Description: Album comprises mainly commercial souvenir photographs of places in New Zealand as well as further photographs of places possibly taken by Lieutenant Colonel Johnston. Includes annotations. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album has a suede cover with a poker-work picture of a Maori chief. 27.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 26 April 1909

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-142

Description: Letter from the Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs to Kimble Bent, dated 26 April 1909. The letter states that "the Minister is not prepared to advise his Excellency to grant you Letters of Naturalisation". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Folder containing one holograph letter and a photocopy of the envelope.

Date: 1839-1842

By: Wakefield, William Hayward, 1801-1848

Reference: qMS-2102-2103

Description: Diary is in the form of despatches and covers voyage of Tory from England and the founding of the NZ Company settlements; includes textual notes by Ruth Fletcher Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm; blue cloth) Finding Aids: Index at qMS-2103.

Date: 1916-1930

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: MSX-3196

Description: Chiefly newspaper clippings; many relating to Wellington, Johnsonville and Porirua. Includes articles about the Maori prophet Rua Kenana Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter and mss (red linen) Finding Aids: Index at front of volume.

Date: 1906-1907, and [1940s-1960s?]

Reference: PA1-o-029

Description: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand by Dr Freda Bage, 1906-1907; includes several photographs taken by unknown photographers at later dates, most of new Zealand, but one of Rotten Row in London, and one of the Victoria Dock in Sydney. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black hard cover, cream binding tape spine, 230 x 300 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-0115. Transfer information - MS-0115.

Date: 1867

By: Sutherland, George (Rev), active 1867-1868

Reference: MS-Papers-11013

Description: Three letters written by Sutherland to the Presbyterian Witness (Nova Scotia, Canada), 1867 in which he describes his journey from Nova Scotia to Dunedin in 1867 via Panama, Wellington and Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Located and transcribed by Mrs Shirley Cormick, Nova Scotia (see correspondence with item)