Places

Date: 1952 - 1953

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: Devonport Steam Ferry Company

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1952-01

Description: Ticket for the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, 4-53, issued to Mrs C R Prime. It is signed by C George, manager. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on ticket. Physical Description: Offset print on ticket, bound in buckram and housed in leather and plastic pouch, ticket 78 x 56 mm (folded) Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2003.

Date: 1953

From: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: C-132-887

Description: Shows Sir John Allum, the Mayor of Auckland giving advice to a suicidal man, seated in a chair with a noose around his neck. He has already tried a gun, arsenic, prussic acid, and a razor. The reason for his dejection is a telegramme from Prime Minister Holland, rejecting a request for a loan for building the Auckland Harbour Bridge. At the top left is stuck a clipping from the Evening Post, 21 March 1953, page 10. Other Titles - No loan money for Auckland's bridge Inscriptions: Recto - top left - This cartoon was rejected by the Editor on the grounds that he did not think that the Evening Post should help contribute to the increase in the suicide rate in N.Z. - N.M.C. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon drawing, on sheet 290 x 434 mm.

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

Date: 1953

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995; Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-057-020

Description: "Anticipating the greatest harbour pageant in our history, the New Zealand artist Mr Peter McIntyre conceived this gay and exciting scene on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, on December 23, 1953. Pleasure craft line the course of the Royal yacht Gothic as, proudly flying the Royal Standard, the ship bears the Queen through the portals of her New Zealand realm". Buildings of Auckland can be seen in the background, including the Memorial Museum and the University tower. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on paper, 414 x 581 mm.

Date: 29 Jun 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-33205-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches