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Date: ca 1890-1950 (196-?)

By: Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-3869

Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in the 1920s and England in the 1930s and 1940s. Annotated in an unknown hand. Publication - Published in; Joblin, Dorothea. The colonial one ; Lorna Monckton of Newstead. Christchurch, 1975 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (107 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1602

Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1974-1999

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

By: Peek, Tim, active 1970s; Perlmutter, David, active 1970s

Reference: PAColl-8534-4

Description: Photographs of Israel which include riot control police in Jerusalem 1976; Shush Eminem march April 1976; metal factory and New Zealanders at work at Kibbutz Kfar Menachem; Nablus municipal elections April 1976; Arab boys at Nablus; a young man, probably a new Zealander, driving a plough in Israel; and photographs supplied by Warren L Johns of accommodation. Also includes photographs of James McNeish and friends in Warsaw in 1999; a Bridge group reunion in Napier, 1996; a Bridge art auction October 1974; young men and women sponsored by the Bridge in New Zealand Educational Trust Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1993

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-652-015

Description: New Zealand prime minister Jim Bolger takes as a compliment Australian prme minister Paul Keating's insult. Exhibition caption reads - Paul Keating's outspokenness did not noticeably diminish during the Australian Prime Minister's visit to New Zealand in 1993. There was not a close relationship between Keating's Labour government and Jim Bolger's National one, and the Australians were impatient of what they perceived as New Zealand's dithering on defence and economic matters. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size photocopy.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1945-1950, 1982, 2002

By: Thomas family

Reference: MS-Papers-7436

Description: Letters written by Herbert (Bert) Charles Thomas to his parents from Auckland, Hamilton and Tokanui (1945-1946), then from Sydney, the `Asturias', South Africa, Luanshya in Northern Rhodesia, Dar-Es-Salaam, Mikindani in Tanganyika (1946-1949) and finally from England (1949-1950). He described his daily work while in New Zealand, experiences with landladies, his experiences looking for work and travelling in various parts of Africa. The letters have been transcribed by Thomas's sister, Betty Brookes, and family background information supplied by another sister, Ann Turvey. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Biographical details on Herbert (Bert) Charles Thomas supplied by Mrs Turvey; includes photocopies of two photographs of him Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

Date: 2000

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-631-001/032

Description: Topics include George W. Bush's takeover from Bill Clinton as President of the United States, the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush for the United States Presidency, Bush's pro-capital punishment record, pay cuts for television newsreaders, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's controversial use of the word 'holocaust', health restructuring, lip service at the APEC trade talks, Prime Minister Helen Clark's new persona as a fashion icon, indigenous Maori responses to whale strandings, indigenous 'rights' to whaling, low funding of police and police recruitment, the government's 'Closing of the Gaps' policy and racial harmony, the Serious Frand Office, the aftermath of the Fiji coup and government policy on sporting contacts, the legalisation of euthanasia in the Netherlands, smoking restrictions, sex education, teaching of spelling, subdivision town planning dispute in Queenstown, the World Trade Organisation and United States lamb tariffs, Australian attitudes towards aborigines and kiwi immigrants, protest at Waitangi Day celebrations, tree conservation and Christmas trees, and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton's wish to establish a 'Peoples' Bank'. Quantity: 32 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [1910s-1980s]

From: Castle family :Photographs

By: Spencer Digby Studios; Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982

Reference: PAColl-9642

Description: Photographs relating to the Castle family. Includes photographs of an organ at the Whanganui Museum, Wellington Zoo, voyage to England, views of London and other parts of England. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 19 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: 1953-1991

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6381

Description: Three photographs of John Feeney taken in New Zealand in 1953. Portraits of Feeney taken in the 1960s and 1970s. Feeney's Islamic fountain decorated with marble mosaics, and the Egyptian workmen who installed it in 1991. Egyptian and European friends and their children. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1946-1985

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9548-13

Description: Nola Luxford in Australia, 1946, and in New Zealand, 1946-1947. These photographs relate to her post war tour in the wake of her ANZAC Club reputation. Six photographs relate to later visits to New Zealand, two taken at receptions in Christchurch and Auckland in 1985. Two photographs of Max Cryer visiting Nola in America in the 1960s. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-1970s-1

Description: Includes: 1970s: New Zealand Sports & Social Club. [Aorangi Park, Wimbledon, SW London] ca 1970?: Sportman's guide to New Zealand. New Zealand Government Travel Commissioner. Printed in USA [ca 1970?] 1970: Inter-Port sports tournament at Mt Maunganui & Tauranga, 16-20 February 1970, supported by Rothmans. official programme Auckland weekend sports guide. Issue for week ending 8 August 1970. 1974 (See also separate folders for 1974 Commonwealth Games): 1974 Titahi Bay All Round Sportsman of the Year. Programme of events 1975: New Zealand Darts Council (Inc) presents the 20th North island Darts Championship final. Members' Dining Room, Tauranga Race Course, cameron Road, Tauranga, 25-27 July 1975. Souvenir programme 1976: The New Zealand Olympic guide (16-page booklet) NZ Olympic Team, Montreal appeal, June 11th 1976. 50c. Thank you for your donation. [Two "mystery envelopes", entitling bearer to a novelty poster, and to a sauna] 1978: Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland. Seminar on Sport; the nature and meaning of sport in new Zealand, 15-16 April 1978. Programme / registration form 1979: New Zealand Sport & recreation. Fieldays. Mystery Creek, Hamilton, 3-4 November 1979. Official programme Auckland Highland Games and gathering. Avondale Racecourse, December 1st 1979. [Programme] Quantity: 13 publications. Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Acquired from various sources

Date: 1948-1956, 1972-1973, 1977-1986

By: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987; Barton, Shirley, -1987

Reference: PAColl-10189

Description: Contains images relating to Rewi Alley's career in China, and Shirley Barton and her Chinese friends. The photographs were taken by Alley, Barton and others unknown, between 1948 and 1986. Many of the prints have annotations on the back giving dates and comments, some in Alley's handwriting; most annotations are in English and a few in Chinese. One group of images relates to Barton's time in China during the 1940s-1950s era, including studio portraits of two Chinese people, a Shanghai street scene (1948), and a group portrait featuring Barton taken in Hong Kong. Another set of six photographs was taken during the Chinese Classical Theatre's visit to New Zealand in 1956. Many images show Rewi Alley in groups or by himself, sight-seeing, at beaches, formal functions and dinners, and with friends including George Hatem. They were taken in a mixture of urban and rural locations, including both exterior and interiors. Several images were taken on Hainan Island, including Alley walking with friends along a beach and visiting an unknown soldier's grave. Another image shows Alley at his 90th birthday celebrations in 1986. Six images show the rock paintings of Hua Mountain (Guangxi Zhuang province). Also photographs of Alley visiting construction sites. Other photographs show children and village scenes in China (and one in Vietnam), some probably taken by Alley. Includes shots of ethnic Miao and Li children. Also two images of painted portraits of Alley, one by Deng Bangzhen and another in socialist realist style. Other images include dinner parties and group portraits, some including Barton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - For other photographs relating to Barton and Alley, see PAColl-7812 The contents suggest it was originally created by Shirley Barton. Shirley Barton worked with Rewi Alley in China and they helped establish the New Zealand-China Friendship Association Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 32 colour original photographic print(s). 3 colour copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm frame. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler prints, polaroid print, film negative Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2275: Barton, Shirley, d 1987: Further papers relating to Rewi Alley.

Date: 14 Feb 1995 - 1 May 1995 - 4 Dec 1996 - 04 Dec 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Lockhart, Pamela Mary, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0438-09

Description: Pamela Lockhart was born in Auckland in 1930. Mentions her father was a surgeon and she attended Bayfield School and Woodford House. Recalls the Depression, World War II and life at boarding school. Describes her first job at a travel agency, travelling to England on a boat, her job in London and travel in Europe in 1951. Discusses being a New Zealand woman in London, being presented at Court and her return to NZ after three years. Describes working in Auckland before marriage in 1955 and being on a farm in Bombay (South Auckland) with husband John. Recalls helping on the farm, loneliness, a limited social life, having four children and being involved with the local school. Describes their move to a farm in Porangahau in 1979, her husband's illness after being there a year and the sale of the farm. Describes their move into Hastings. Talks about widowhood and her job with Red Cross for twelve years and association with Woodford House Old Girls. Comments on her preference for Single Tranferrable Vote (STV) over the MMP electoral system. Discusses the location of the Hawkes Bay Hospital and the local body elections. Talks about gardening, the local harvest, painting, a writing group and her role in Speaker Forum organising women speakers from around the country to come to speak in Hawkes Bay. Talks about her grandchildren. Discusses Jim Bolger going to the Asian Pacific Trade Organisation meeting, the health sytsem and the arrival of Canadian firm McCains in Hawkes Bay. Describes the purchase of a new car. Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Interviewer(s) - Joyce Paton Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2140. Search dates: 1930 - 1996

Date: March 1986

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Hargest, Miles, active 1982

Reference: PA12-10771

Description: Events at the Ngaruawahia Regatta. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides.

Date: 1963-1983

From: Shearer, Ann, active 1951-2014: Papers relating to Anne de Roo

Reference: MS-Papers-11833-1

Description: Folder contains papers relating to Anne de Roo, author of books for older children. The folder mainly comprises correspondence written from 1963-1983, sent from de Roo (who signs the letters 'Andy') to Ann Shearer. The letters cover the time while de Roo was living abroad in England in the 1960s, as well as her return to New Zealand in 1973. The letters discuss her life in England and in Palmerston North, daily events, her thoughts and feeling, and updates on mutual friends and family. The letters also discuss her books, plays and other writings, and rehearsals for children's theatre productions of her works. There are frequent mentions of her apartment and housing situations. Some letters have annotations by Shearer. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 7 May 1998 - 07 May 1998

From: Citizens Advice Bureaux oral history project

By: Harwood, Peter Keith, active 1960s

Reference: OHInt-0443-05

Description: Peter Keith Harwood backgrounds his career in social work, starting it in residential care in Stamford House London while overseas in the 1960s and recalls using Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) during that period. On returning to New Zealand completed some academic qualifications at Victoria University. Recalls involvement in the establishment of Otara in the early 1960s. Outlines career in social work, becoming President of the New Zealand Association of Social Workers. Recalls being Assistant Manager to the Owairaka Boys Home. Backgrounds involvement in the setting up of the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) in Ponsonby ca 1969. Discusses the issues being presented, the main one being housing. Mentions Annie Tia, Fred Ellis and Coral Lavu?. Also refers to [Sir Robert] Muldoon. Recalls that in the early days there was much concentration on getting things in place, eg constitutions, standards, reporting systems, training processes and notes that being a voluntary organisation there was little funding. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ian Dougherty Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009634 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3125.

Date: 6, 7 July 1995 - 06 Jul 1995 - 07 Jul 1995

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-; Jackson-Thomas, Fiametta Cecilia, 1903-2003

Reference: OHColl-0312/1

Description: Fiametta Cecily Jackson-Thomas born Roslyn, Dunedin. Gives parents background and talks about father's life as a Punch and Judy expert, trapeze artist and snake handler until the age of 35 when he became a cabinet maker. Describes own school days, clothing worn, discipline in school, cadet uniform, chanting of tables, pole drill, description of games played, explaining how boys and girls played games differently. Recalls outbreak of World War I, its effects on women, friends receiving telegrams and comforting each other, white feather incident and attitutes to conscientious objectors. Talks about brother's involvement in World War II. Refers to 6 o'clock closing as a war measure. Recalls being only family in street not contacting flu during epidemic. Refers to garlic as used in Corsica. Describes work experience, working in art department of photographic firm and going to School of Art 1/2 day per week. Talks about Ngaio Marsh who was in class. Refers to Ronald McKenzie, also in class. Recalls learning cabinetmaking which was considered radical for the period - 3rd woman in New Zealand to do so. Talks about social hierarchy of Christchurch. Mentions visit of Prince of Wales. Backgrounds meeting and marrying husband, Arthur, and his brief involvement with the Communist Party. Describes helping watersiders during 1951 Waterfront Dispute and at end of dispute Arthur being made honorary Life Member of Seamen's Union. Talks about Walter Nash. Also refers to Bastion Point occupation and reads poem about Maori sweeper. Gives background to poem. Mentions husband's position of manager of Auckland's Progressive Book shop and invitation to publishing house in China to help Chinese writers in English. Describes time in China, cultural revolution and immense relief on leaving China. Describes her poetry writing and refers to poem `Idle time'. Interviewer(s) - Alwyn Owen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011607-011609 Quantity: 2 C70 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4004.

Date: 1979-1981

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6386

Description: Egyptian friends and new Zealand family Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1922-1932

By: Barkas, Frederick, 1854-1932

Reference: MS-Papers-2491

Description: The collection was compiled by Frederick Barkas during his retirement. It consists of 66 volumes of typescript copies of letters and diaries interleaved with original photographs, watercolours, sketches, school and university records, ephemera collected on holidays, musical and dramatic programmes, various society publications, and church material. The source material drawn on consists largely of Frederick's own letters and diaries, but also includes eighteen volumes of Mary Rushton Barkas' letters, as well as several volumes of letters written by Amy Barkas and other friends and relatives The Library also holds material relating to the Barkas family at Library references ATL-Group-00528, MS-Group-0175, and PAColl-2704. Arrangement: As Barkas completed each volume he had it bound and inscribed with a title. He then arranged the volumes thermatically into series, assigning to each volume both a series number (eg C3) and a number showing the place within the whole collection. Both numbering sequences have been retained in the inventory. As well as these volumes the Library also received a number of certificates and diplomas awarded to Mary, and copies of Frederick's and Mary's passports. These have been included in two folders at the end of the collection and have been assigned item numbers, but not series numbers Frederick Barkas gained a degree in chemistry at Durham University, emigrated to Sydney in 1880, and arrived in Christchurch in July 1881 to take up a position at Canterbury College of Agriculture. He remained there till Aug 1883, and in Nov 1883 he began working for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. He stayed there till his retirement in 1919. In 1887 Frederick married Amy Parker. Amy found colonial life dull and spent most of her life in London. Frederick, despite his fondness for travel, preferred the quiet life offered by Timaru. The two corresponded until Amy's death in Jan 1920. Their daughter, Mary Rushton Barkas, was born in 1889. In adult life she pursued a promising medical career in Europe. For a time she studied under Carl Jung, and eventually achieved the distinction of being appointed Medical Superintendent at the Lawn Psychiatric Hospital in Lincoln. Her involvement in the intellectual circles of Britain, including the Fabian Society, makes her letters a rich source of information for those studying this aspect of Britain's history in the early 1900s. Mary returned to New Zealand when her father died in 1932 and decided to retire here. For the remainder of her life she lived at Thames and devoted her time to the study of Chinese philosophy, having discovered serious discrepancies in both the German and English translations with which she was familiar. She died in 1961 Quantity: 69 folder(s). Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 5 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1931-1958

By: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989

Reference: PAColl-6162

Description: Photographs of people who were members of the Friends Ambulance Unit; the Friends Service Council hostel in Shanghai; Photographs of Chinese, and Chinese actors in traditional drama. There are snaps of the sights of Shanghai. Most of these groups of photographs date from 1947 to 1950. The next group which date from 1931 to ca 1950 are photographs of meetings of the Society of Friends. There is also a photograph of an early ban the bomb demonstration, and one group photograph of the staff of Massey Agricultural College. Finally there are a few personal photographs of family and friends Quantity: 205 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Broad lists of material provided by donor.

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-5848

Description: Photograph of Maori and Pakeha man picking cabbages on a State Services vegetable garden, ca1939-1940. ca 1939-1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).