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Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [1939?]-[1945?]

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9678-075

Description: Contains notes and exercise books belonging to Hugh Eric Eakin studying bacteria, military explosives, and guns and armaments, produced while stationed with the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1939-1942

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-192

Description: Photographs published in New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1942 to illustrate the British war effort in general and participation of women Includes group of women working on an aircraft at Wigram, Jul 1941 Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Between 1928 and 1934

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 13

Reference: PAColl-6407-45

Description: Huge crowd surrounding the Southern Cross aeroplane at Wigram Airport in Christchurch. Robson and Boyer were the photographers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 149 x 240 mm

Date: 1927, 1938-1956

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-4161-01-145

Description: Most photographs contain captions &/or dates. Series of photographs taken during the Duke of York's visit to Wigram in 1927 (includes display of Bristol and Avro airplanes); series of photographs taken during and after the rugby match played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between RNZAF and NZ Army - Includes group photo of RNZAF team (all named); Eric Tindall introducing Minister of Defence Hon F Jones to teams; several taken during the game. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for UK in NZ being introduced to NZ airmen returned from overseas; RNZAF band at a wartime fundraising garden party held at Dr Herbert's on The Terrace, Wellington , ca 1942; RNZAF Station Band playing at Wigram, ca 1940; Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten with Wing Commander J Checketts, Apr 1946. Three photos taken during the laying of the RNZAF colour at the Anglican Church, Golville, Wanganui (Group Captain C Turner & Rev Culpitt), ca 1947; Squadron Leader G Evatt & Air Vice Marshal C Kay, 1953; band at Ohakea, 1958; Governor General Lord Freyberg with Group Captain A B Greenaway (CO Wigram), 1949; Group Captain F R Dix with TAF officers at RNZAF Station Ohakea, 1950 Photo of Kingsford-Smith Memorial Gift Ambulance, 1948; RNZAF station at Wigram under construction, 1930s; DC-3 aircraft during supply drop training over Wigram, 1948; Squadron Leader Creichton, Flight Lieut Herrick and Flight Lieut Gibson; Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Milson, 1943 (named on back); meal during visit of Air Commodore G T Jarman to special ATC summer camp at Milson (includes Squadron Leader T Lester & Wing Commander G A Nicholls, Commandant of the Air Training Corps), and inspecting the school unit cadets 1944 Air Commodore G Vincent, acting Chief of Air Staff in the absence of Air Commodore R Goddard, discussing flight arrangements with Wing Commander R J Cohen and Squadron Leader Fisher at Whenuapai, Oct 1944; Air Vice Marshal R V Goddard, Chief of Air Staff at his desk, ca 1941-1943; Governor General Lord Cobham saluting the Queen's colour of the RNZAF during a parade; view of RNZAF Station Rongotai, 1942 showing airmen on parade; unidentified group photo; members of RNZAF marching through streets of Wellington; group photo taken outside officers mess, Wigram (all named), ca 1948; portrait of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Nevill; Squadron Leader G S Evatt with General John Doolittle on ANZAC Day 1956 at Ohakea; group photo taken at Wigram 1936 standing in front of Vildebreeste aircraft; surplus Harvard training aircraft in storage at Wigram, 1945; Catalina flying boat on a reconnaissance patrol; American Kittyhawks and NZ pilots; Mr Churchill's `York' aircraft (Avro) at Ohakea with Squadron Leader & Mrs Evatt standing beside a plane; a de Havilland being refuelled, 1937; Sunderland flying boats on the water and over NZ coast. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1939]-1940

From: Bieder family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5586-2

Description: Letters from Hull to Bieder while he was training as an RNZAF aircraftman in Taieri and Wigram Hull was killed shortly after the last letter was written Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1927-1952]

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-4161-01-148

Description: Photographs of aircraft: T-6 (NZ944) flying over Christchurch city; pile of ammunition; American Kittyhawk and their NZ pilots; Tiger Moth on Forest Fire Patrol for State Forest Department flying over forest in the Rotorua area, ca 1949-1952; King George VI at Cranwell RAF Aerodrome, Lincolnshire to see RAF cadets in training; Devon aircraft (De Havilland); `Southern Cross' at Wigram, Sep 1927; `Southern Cross' being photographed from a cine cameraman in a Bristol fighter by a photographer in a third plane, 1927. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1927

By: Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-f-185

Description: Shows arrival of "Southern Cross" in Christchurch in 1927, and subsequent tour through New Zealand of Charles Kingsford Smith, C T P Ulm and other members of crew, in aircraft of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-SPORT-1950s

Description: Includes: 1953: Motor Racing Club Inc. Lady Wigram Trophy Race 1953. Wigram, 28 February 1953. Programme 1956: Otago Sports Car Club. Road Race Committee 1956 N.Z. Championship road race. Saloon, sports, racing car motor cycle events. Saturday January 28 [1956]. Souvenir programme. Levin, home of NZ motor sport. (Pamphlet encouraging membership of the Levin Motor Racing Circuit. 1956?) 1958: New Zealand International Grand Prix (Auckland) Incorporated. Fifth New Zealand International Grand Prix meeting. Ardmore, January 11th 1958. Souvenir programme. 1959: Nelson Car Club (Inc). Race meeting, Tahuna Beach Nelson, 1-2 January 1959. Programme Quantity: 5 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1944-1945

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11886-2

Description: RNZAF pilot's flying log-book, named 'Cooper, C S' and numbered 'II'. Contains details about pilot training schedules. Some pages have been cut out of this volume. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Photographs (PA-Group-00204).

Date: 1943-1944

From: Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11886-1

Description: RNZAF pilot's flying log-book, named 'Cooper, C S' and numbered 'I'. Contains details about pilot training schedules. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Cooper, Charles Stanley, 1920-1999: Photographs (PA-Group-00204).

Date: 11 May 1955

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-D/139-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1955 showing Wigram, Greater Christchurch, Canterbury Region. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S84 28C Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), 5 chains to 1 inch

Date: 30 May 1946

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/789-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1946 showing Wigram, Greater Christchurch, Canterbury Region. Includes index to adjoining sheets Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S.84 76A Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), 5 chains to 1 inch

Date: 1925, 1938-1945

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-4161-01-050

Description: Includes: Cambridge Drill Hall, 1938; Blenheim Drill Hall, 1938; Addington magazine; army transportation at Tauherenikau, 1943; aerial views of Samabula `A' & `B' camps, near Suva, Fiji, 1945; aerial view of Tamavua Military Hospital, Fiji; aerial view of NZ Camp, Fiji; Force Headquarters, Fiji; Wigram (Series 23/21) showing aerial views of camp area with Christchurch in background, aerodrome, bomb drop and magazine, 1941; aerial view of Belmont magazine area (Wellington); Whangaparaoa (series 32/10) - aerial and other photographs of camp site, battery position, interior of magazine, gun emplacements and pits, tunnels and battery workshop under construction, 1942; schedule of claims, Working Railways Department, Christchurch, 1925. Includes some photocopied prints Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941

From: Boaden, Frank Bruce, 1918-1942 : Papers relating to service in Bomber Command during World War Two

Reference: MS-Papers-5245-2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1928

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, timetables, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand]

By: Pawson, Ambrose Charles, 1877?-1950; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-AVIATION-1928-01

Description: Reports that the plane passed Farewell Spit at 6.30 am, Wellington at 7.15 am, Kaikoura at 8.25 am. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 340 x 220 mm.

Date: 1928

Reference: PAColl-6551

Description: Three views of the crowds and dignitaries with Kingsford Smith and his colleague after his successful flight from Australia to New Zealand. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015036 to 015038 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1959-1960, 1963, 1965

From: Morris, Raymond, fl 1955-2011 :Colour slides of New Zealand and overseas

Reference: PA12-8449

Description: Photographs of Canterbury scenes, taken between 1959 and 1965 by Raymond Morris. Includes photographs of Lady Wigram Trophy, Edmonds band rotunda, DIC window displays for the 1963 Royal visit, Brightlings Brickworks on Centaurus Road, Wilsons Road bridge under construction, neon signs at night, Ballantyne's under construction, BNZ construction site on Colombo Street. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1937-1950]

From: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-4322

Description: Photographs of a journey ca 1947 to Christchurch Airport from the Caxton Press building in a small electric car by Glover, Fairburn and Betty Curnow possibly to see Rex Fairburn off on a journey. Two photographs show him wearing a laurel wreath made by Betty Curnow and taking a ceremonial drink of beer from a baby's pot. Also includes photographs from 1937 of a trip to Piha by the Curnows, Rex and Geoff Fairburn, Prof(?) Paxton, and Norman Richmond, including images of Allen Curnow in swimsuit, Rex Fairburn with seaweed on beach, and group photograph. Dating of the Christchurch photographs is by part of an Yvonne de Carlo film poster visible behind the car for the film Song of Scheherazade which came out in 1947. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-675-016/033

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on New Zealands cancer treatment compared to Australia. Verbal sparring between Helen Clark and Bill English. Helen Clark looking forward to Bill English being plastered in the boxing ring and he referring to her art fraud incident. Comment on rural doctor shortage. Rural famlies resort to taking their children to the local vet. Shows Labour Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, fishing (electioneering) with a tin of fat worms (budget). Shows small boy asking his father to borrow his gun for the nativity scene at school. Cartoonist Tom Scott receives a Doctorate from Massey University. The agitated voice of Rob Muldoon comes from the sky. Shows National Party President, Michael Boag in a box. Bill English asks National Party Divisional Conference delegates to form an orderly queue to try the magic trick of cutting her in half. Comment on Jeff Wilson's retirement from international rugby. Shows Helen Clark and Peter Davis in trenchcoats, hats and sun glasses with an umbrella. Passersby wonder if she's worried about the hole in the ozone layer or the holes in the Kyoto Protocol. Comment on the perceived waste of money within the Maori Television Service. Shows Helen Clark having cut free the Employments Contract Act now has a large cat (wildcat strikes) on her back. Comment on teachers anger and frustration with Labour's Education Minister, Trevor Mallard's dealings throughout the teacher contract negotiations. Shows Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis in the kitchen, Peter is preparing a picnic as he heard Helen say that once Michael Cullen had presented his budget they would go to the country - i.e. set the date for the election. Comment on so-called 'Maori bashing' of Derek Fox for his handling of the Maori Television Service engagement of Cheif Executive, John Davy. Shows a shearing shed scene. Comment on the popularity of Jim Anderton in the Wigram Seat, one shearer suggests the voters are like sheep in their blind acceptance of him. Shows two older people opening their front door to Bill English who is dressed up as a police officer in boxing gloves carrying his drawn truncheon (law and order). Comment on the clash of traditional Indian past-times of snake charming and lying on beds of nails to intensify the practitioners mental state, with the new order of nuclear weapons. Shows three tables in a restaurant and how they are divided to accommodate smokers, non-smokers and passive-smokers. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size horizontal photocopies