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Date: 1994

From: Gidley, James, fl 1910-1999 : Memoirs

Reference: MS-Papers-5141

Description: Part of an account written by James Gidley telling of his experiences in New Zealand and Rarotonga, 1931-1938. Describes Gidley's time in Auckland, his trip to Wellington, voyage to Rarotonga and his experiences in Rarotonga. The account details his search for work in Auckland and his experiences working both in Auckland and on several dairy farms in the Auckland and Waikato regions, such events as the visit of a faith healer to Auckland as well as describing various places he stayed, his attempts to get to know women and his own eating disorders. In his description of his time in Rarotonga he makes some comments on living conditions, other white residents, relations between the races, prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and details his attempts to have sexual relations with Rarotongan women. A second expanded version of `An octave of years in New Zealand is located at MS-Papers-9059. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1892-1952

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: MS-Papers-6164-025

Description: Other Titles - Jim Edwards' story of the Auckaland riots 1931/32 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1994

From: Gidley, James : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9059

Description: Part of an account written by James Gidley telling of his experiences in New Zealand and Rarotonga, 1931-1938. Describes Gidley's time in Auckland, his trip to Wellington, voyage to Rarotonga and his experiences in Rarotonga. The account details his search for work in Auckland and his experiences working both in Auckland and on several dairy farms in the Auckland and Waikato regions, such events as the visit of a faith healer to Auckland as well as describing various places he stayed, his attempts to get to know women and his own eating disorders. In his description of his time in Rarotonga he makes some comments on living conditions, other white residents, relations between the races, prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and details his attempts to have sexual relations with Rarotongan women. This is an expanded version of `An octave of years in New Zealand' located at MS-Papers-5151. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1930s

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-5927-56

Description: Unemployed men and boys from the Penrose relief camp constructing a fence during the Great Depression. Made for publication in the Evening Post by an unidentified photographer during the 1930s. Arrangement: Original neg at 1/2-044670 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 5 May 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084202-G

Description: Paddock at Te Horo, Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, circa 5 May 1932, with a wheelbarrow of rocks collected by relief workers. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: [ca 5 May 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084201-G

Description: Relief workers stacking rocks in a paddock in Te Horo, Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, circa 5 May 1932, photographed by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084213-F

Description: Unemployment demonstration, 1932. View from above of two women pushing prams and men marching on foot. Ahead can be seen other men on bicycles. They are marching on a footpath beside railway tracks. Photographed by the Evening Post on 30th January, 1932. A related image was published in the Evening Post for the 30th January 1932 with the following caption: "Unemployed demonstration, some hundreds of unemployed marched from Hutt Valley to the city today and assembled in Parliament grounds while a deputation waited on the Prime Minister....." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 95mm x 120mm

Date: [ca 1932]

Reference: PAColl-8855

Description: Photograph of men working on sand dunes at Lyall Bay, Wellington. Shows them by rail tracks (preparing to move sand?). Probably shows relief workers during the depression. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Dated from note on file print which reads "circa 1932". Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.8 x 21.6 cm

Date: [ca 23 Mar 1932]

Reference: PAColl-9469

Description: Photograph of road construction by relief workers in Wellington, probably Brooklyn. Photograph taken during the 1930s depression, circa 23 March 1932, by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.3 x 21.4 cm

Date: 1930s

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-044670-F

Description: Unemployed men and boys from the Penrose relief camp constructing a fence during the Great Depression. Made for publication in the Evening Post by an unidentified photographer during the 1930s. Arrangement: Original print at PAColl-5927-56 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084257-G

Description: Relief workers at a camp in the Akatarawa area during the Great Depression. Taken by unidentified photographer, circa 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084198-G

Description: Dwellings at the labour camp in Te Horo, taken by an unidentified photographer in 1932 for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative