Places

Date: 1916-1917

By: Grant, Elsa Gladys, 1891-1981; Kinsella, Alison, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1211

Description: Album of photographs taken by Percy James William Simmons of the 15th Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917. Includes scenes on the troop ship 'Ulimaroa' en route to Plymouth, Sling Camp and surrounding villages, Messines, and London and Edinburgh on leave. Percy Simmons, son of Edgar and Harriet Simmons of Taumarunui, was engaged to Elsa Bass, a teacher. He sent the photographs to her until his death in action in France, on 8 October 1918, aged 29 years. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth covered album 14.6 x 18.5 containing 67 photographs Provenance: Elsa Bass was the mother of the donor.

Date: 1846 - 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Moresby, Caroline, 1845?-

Reference: A-288-001/039

Description: Views of Pipitea Pa, Porirua, Wellington Harbour, Hutt Valley, Rangitoto Island, Auckland Harbour, New Plymouth, Vanuatu, 2 of Europe All watercolours removed from album pages and stored separately. Album retained in the additional box at A-288. Inscriptions: Album cover, inside front cover. Artist's name and his inscription to his third daughter, Caroline, a grand-daughter's poem, other inscriptions. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 37 watercolours, 1 pencil sketch, MS notes on inside front cover. Physical Description: Watercolours, sizes vary Provenance: Given by the artist to his third daughter, Caroline (later Moresby), then by family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-558-042/063

Description: Political cartoons. Nato forces are briefed on their bombing target which is surrounded by civilian services like hospitals and schools. The Police encourage IBM to take their INCIS computer and jump off a bridge. IBM spent millions of taxpayer dollars on creating a new Police computer system that never worked. Mt Eden prison guards try to work out how prisoners are getting out and drugs getting in. Admidst the ruins of Belgrade Milosevic stands victorious. The Police consider getting rid of the INCIS computer to a crime consortium believing it will stop them dead in their tracks like it has done to the Police. Milosevic uses peace talks to buy time to destroy war crimes evidence. Police operations are stoped in their tracks by the weight of the INCIS computer disaster. Comment on retailers selling liquor to underagedrinkers The Serbs pull out of Kosovo as Nato forces enter the area. Comment on the New Zealand cricket team making hard work out of limited over cricket. The Soviets welcome the Nato forces to Yugoslavia. Shows a ship load of Chinese boat people on a collision course with New Zealand as the National coalition Government passes emergency legislation allowing mass, indefinite detention of asylum seekers. Inland Revenue Department assures the public that all small and powerless taxpayers are bullied equally. Serbia puts the blame for large scale death and destruction in Kosovo on the Nato bombing campaign. Shows newspaper ad for a crown entity boss, all perks and no responsibility. Minister of Immigration, Tuariki Delamere sets one standard for migrants and another for himself and his family. Jenny Shipley shoots TV news presenter, John Hawkesby in the head with a rubber arrow. He received a substantial pay-out when his contract was terminated. The Mongrel Mob supports Tony Ryall's plans to introduce tougher penalties for home invasion, if it relates to their homes being invaded but not their neighbours. Comment on breach of privilege by the Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and TVNZ over the John Hawkesby pay-out. Rugby supporters froze to their seats during a recent rugby match. Poor school results restrict career options for students. Jenny Shipley has put both her feet in her mouth over the John Hawkesby TVNZ pay-out affair. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [Circa 1850s-1900s?]

From: Parker, Robert, 1847-1937 :Cachemaille albums. Scenic views of India, England, New Zealand and Europe

By: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898

Reference: PA1-f-016

Description: Scenic views of various countries, including India, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand. The New Zealand images are chiefly in the Christchurch region. Many of the English and European images were photographed by English photographer Francis Frith as part of Frith's Series. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, black cover embossed with gold initials "R.P.", 32 x 38 cm

Date: Jan 1917-Feb 1919

From: Olsson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7899-2

Description: Letters from Olsson while on active service during World War One to his family in New Zealand, first from Featherston and Trentham, then en route to England, Sling, London, France and Belgium, and England while he was in hospital. While not being specific about where he was he describes the daily life of a soldier, where and how they were living, such as billets, some war events and also mentioned items such as letters and postcards he was sending to his family to keep for him when he returned. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1890-1956

From: Davis, Bruce Valentine, 1913-2003 :Photographs and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3480

Description: Photographs relating to the Davis family of Barton St. David, Somerset, England. All seven sons emigrated to New Zealand ca 1904. The photographs include views in England and on active service in South Africa, China (1908) and postcards of Belgium and France acquired by the brothers on active service in World War One. Also views of Royal naval vessels associated with Frederick Edward Davis and a British police group associated with Harry Davis Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 34 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1914

From: [Programmes for ballet and dance performances in New Zealand. 1910-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-DANCE-1914-03

Description: Programme booklet for a dance recital contains photographs of King Albert in military uniform, and a group of (probably Belgian) children standing in fur coats. The programme lists tableaux and dances. Tableaux include "Belgium" (Mona Mackay), "The Allies" (with women representing England (Miss M Miller), France (Miss Woodham), Russia (Miss Lewis), Servia (Miss E Miller), Japan (Miss Hipkins), and Belgium (Miss Mona Mackay). The dance pupils are all listed with the items they performed. Other variety perfomers were Mr J W Ryan, Mr Alan McElwain, Mr F G Bourke. The programme contains advertisements for many Auckland businesses. There is also a cartoon "Bravo! Belgium" by F H Townsend showing brave Belgium protecting a field from a fierce German soldier carrying sausages and a big stick. Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 248 x 189 mm.

Date: [ca 1910-1940]

From: Morriss, Bernadette, fl 2014: Items relating to members of her family

Reference: PAColl-10218-2

Description: Items, chiefly photographs relating to Tod Hennessy and his service in World War I, taken circa 1890 to circa 1940s by a range of photographers. Also includes portraits of Hennessy in uniform, family photographs, and hand-embroidered silk postcards from Belgium written to his mother, Mary Eleanor Hennessy (nee Boyle) in Gisborne during World War I from 1917-1919, and later postcards from the 1930s and 1940s. Handcoloured print of two children and a dog shows Tod Hennessy's brother, Desmond, and sister Patracia. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s) including 1 hand-coloured print. 4 non-photographic postcards including 3 with embroidered fabric decoration. 1 Christmas card. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, Silk-embroidered postcards

Date: 1909-1937

By: Karauti, Horopapera, 1878-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1447

Description: Includes letters to his wife from the war, in both English and Maori, ephemera collected overseas, training diary, other papers relating to the war, photographs from the war and earlier (some relating to Te Aute College), other material. Karauti left New Zealand as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Maori Contingent in May 1916 and served with the New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion in France Quantity: 45 folder(s). 7 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M Lomas, Wellington, November 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 1 box of photographs (PAColl-8921) - To Book Collections - 1 box of various publications (PR-06-0099, PR-06-0100) - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketches of soldiers and `Jeannette' (A222-014/021) - To Cartographic Collection - World War One trench maps.

Date: 2000 - 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-632-001/019

Description: Topics include US President George W. Bush's verbal ineptitude and his attitude to 'commies', former Minister of Maori Affairs Dover Samuel's relationship with Prime Minister Helen Clark, Member of Parliament Tau Henare's changing political allegiances, delays on the Cook Strait ferries, controversy over Minister of Consumer Affairs Phillida Bunkle's official residence in Wellington, Christmas presents, Santa Claus's allegedly 'illegal' behaviour, government expenditure on eradication of the varroa bee mite and on the arts, controversy over an advertisement using a haka, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton's attempts to establish a 'Peoples' Bank', buying babies by internet, bonuses given to S.O.E. employees, legalisation of marijuana, kaumatua and Maori greviances, Helen Clark's policy towards Waitangi Day, the formation of a new Maori political party by Derek Fox, Helen Clark's contrasting speeches supporting entrepreneurs and against exploitive businessmen, and promotion of sport in schools. Quantity: 19 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [ca 1917-1923]

By: Norman, P C, active 20th century

Reference: PAColl-4580

Description: Comprises: two photographs of the east side of Hutt Valley looking north; a view overlooking Johnsonville, Wellington showing the railway station in the centre; one of Petone, Hutt Valley, Wellington, from Korokoro; one of Titahi Bay beach; Eight Australian Official photographs taken during World War I in France, Belgium, and (Lamebeke?). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1915

From: [Programmes and other ephemera for athletics meetings and sports clubs. 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Canterbury Centre; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Henderson, Andrew Kennaway, 1879-1960; Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974; Cumberworth, Frederick Herbert, 1881-

Reference: Eph-B-ATHLETICS-1915-01

Description: Programme for an athletics meeting held to raise funds for Belgian civilans suffering during the first World War. As well as the programme, there are cartoons and caricatures by Kennaway, F H Cumberworth, Booth and Baverstock. There are satirical pieces and verse by Cyrano, A.E.M., and anonymous contributors. The programme contains advertisements for W Strange & Company (furnishers) and the Evening News. Other Titles - We ask your help Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) and offset text in booklet.. Physical Description: Booklet of 39 pages, each 278 x 217 mm.

Date: 3 Jul 1989 - 03 Jul 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Jamieson, William, 1894-1994

Reference: OHInt-0006/43

Description: Gives family background and details of childhood in Wellington and on farm at Dalefield near Carterton. Recalls carpentry jobs in Masterton building houses and at Hamilton making cheese vats before his enlistment in New Zealand Field Artillery and training at Featherston. Describes his training and voyage to Europe in the 'Pakeha', fire on board after departure, ports of call at Sydney, Capetown. Details of training camp at Chadderton, Ewshot, Etaples with reference to routine of the 'bull ring'. Recalls Dickiebusch camp, Ypres, Mailly Maillet, Bapaume, Le Quesnoy, describes German 'pill box'. Wounded and returned to England to recuperate at Dollis Hill. Describes war conditions, went through all the battles of the second Somme 1918, recreation leave in London and Glasgow. Recalls fellow soldiers, Holder, Mulligan, Lockhart, Nees and Henderson. Returned to New Zealand via Newport News (United States) in 1919. Describes his experience with Patriotic Society and with RSA, details of his carpentry and building jobs since World War I. Refers to World War II job building Japanese prisoner of war accommodation at Featherston and an incident with Japanese prisoners of war. Venue - Carterton Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Jamieson's home at 21 Wyndham Street, Carterton Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 485. Black and white photographs:-. Bill Jamieson, undated. Bill Jamieson [in army uniform], undated

Date: 9 Oct 1989 - 09 Oct 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Lawrence, Charles George, 1897-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/47

Description: Family background, death of father in 1901, life with grandmother on West Coast, how he became shellshocked, work on West Coast, attitude on West Coast to territorials, military. Enlistment, training at Trentham and Featherston, left with 17th Reinforcements in 1916, Sling Camp, attitude to British instructors, impression of United Kingdom, food at Sling Camp and training, Etaples, One Blanket Hill, Messines, Ploegsteert Wood, Passchendaele, experience as a sniper, refusal to kill German, infantry hit by own artillery shelling at Passchendaele, sniping incidents, Nimot, General Godley, Braithwaite, fighting during Second Battle of the Somme, German pill boxes and wounded by shell in 1918. Recalls American hospital at Le Havre, pleurisy, trench feet, Brockenhurst Hospital, convalescent home at Torquay, food in France, views on French, prostitutes, venereal disease, Ettie Rout, entertainment companies, two-up, YMCA, relationship with officers, lice, self inflicted wounds, executions, suicides, conscription, gas attacks, return to New Zealand, war brides, career since war, health, rehabilitation, opinion of RSA, drunkeness, job as a frameworker, territorials, bringing German rifles back to New Zealand, home guard (Fort Dorset during World War II). Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Lawrence's home at 45 Britannia street, Petone Accompanying material - Copy of newspaper article 'No regrets - 65 years together', Evening Post, 21/4/1988 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002684 - OHC-002686 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 489, OHDL-000334. Black and white photograph of Charlie Lawrence, 1989

Date: 22 Sep 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Hartley, Charles, 1892-1990

Reference: OHInt-0006/35

Description: Describes family background, poverty, work on a small farm in Wales, education, immigration to New Zealand, his work on the East Cape in a variety of farm labouring, bush, and road construction jobs around Tolaga Bay (detailed) and the social life on the Cape. Recalls his enlistment in 1914, and transport to Egypt as one of the 4th Reinforcements, attitude of the New Zealand soldiers to Welsh, the Gallipoli landings, Quinn's Post, Cape Hellas, being wounded, relations with Australian and British troops, morale after Gallipoli, Battle of the Somme, Armentieres, Passchendaele, return to New Zealand with bride, attitude to RSA, 1930s depression. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Hartley's home at 10 Willcott Street, Mt Albert, Auckland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0477, OHDL-000325.

Date: 8 Jun 1988 - 08 Jun 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Highet, Henry Ashton, 1892-1989

Reference: OHInt-0006/36

Description: Describes family background, early interest in sailing and yachts, education, first jobs, Public Works Department, enlistment in infantry, gaining a commission, transport by 'Ulimaroa', to United Kingdom with 16th Reinforcements, Sling Camp, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, artillery and mud, casualty rate among officers, under sniper fire, wounded, evacuated to Boulogne, officers rest home in Brighton, profiteers, career of brothers in army, how he won military cross. Recalls the Second Somme, following German retreat, curious story of prostitute at Boulogne, relations with French and Belgium civilians, leave in Paris, venereal disease, Ettie Rout, morale after Passchendaele, relations with American troops, Etaples, the 'Silent Division'. Discusses post war emotional problems, career with Public Works since the war, rehabilitation, describes bridge construction around Napier and Gisbourne, marriage, coal rope-ways, recalls trips back to Europe to see battlefields, RSA, institutionalization in RSA home. Describes his invention of the P-class yacht, describes yachting days as a teenager in Wellington, and building of yachts from prewar to 1934 (first P-class?), building yachts and sailing at Whangarei, the 'Tauranga Class' yachts, winning Yachtsman of the Year in 1963, Bernard Fergusson Trophy, describes in detail various regattas, recalls supervising relief camp at Dannevirke during 1930s, other public work projects, building bridges in Fiji during World War II. Venue - Levin Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Levin War Veterans' Home, Levin Accompanying material - Copy of newspaper article - '96 years celebrated', undated, unknown source; Obituaries:- 'Designer's legacy a yachting classic', Dominion Sunday Times, 5/2/89; Dominion 4/2/89; typewritten notes by Harry Highet about Passchendaele; handwritten notes entitled 'Approximate movements and work after retiring'. Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0478, OHDL-000326. Black and white photograph of Harry Highet, 1988

Date: 06 Jul 1973

By: Riley, Charles Francis Dennis, 1893-1982; Grover, Raymond Frank, 1931-2019

Reference: OHColl-0021/1

Description: Charles Riley was born in Tower Hamlets, London, in 1893. Describes coming to New Zealand on the SS TAINUI (ship) in 1913; serving with 3rd Prince of Wales Dragoon Guards during World War I; being present at First Battle of Ypres. Recalls the burning of the Cloth Hall at Ypres and describes in detail life in the trenches, gas attacks and fighting on the St Julien Sector; being injured and returned to New Zealand where he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in Palestine. Discusses taking a government bursary after the war to study structural engineering at Canterbury University; failing exams and becoming an engineering draughtsman; joining the New Zealand Railways; becoming involved with the Labour Movement; being made redundant in 1930; heavy involvement in organising the unemployed in Christchurch. Describes activities, food depots and illegal meetings in Victoria Square; convictions and prison term; recalls other labour and unemployed workers leaders; leaving for Australia and working as a miner at Cobar and Tennants Creek. Talks about leaving to enlist with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; describes Darwin in the 1930s; working passage to London as a fireman on a freighter; describes in detail process of joining Brigade in Paris; travelling to Spain; enlistment in 35th Division of Brigade; other New Zealanders in Brigade; training; experiences of fighting at Teruel and Brunete; crossing the Ebro River at Tortosa; being wounded and repatriated to London; organisation of Brigade; rank of shock brigadier and company commissar; Brigade weapons and tactics; the Spanish troops; withdrawal of Brigade from Spain; return to Australia; suspicion of New Zealand and Australian governments to returning International Brigade members. Briefly describes career in World War II in Z Company of the First Echelon of 2NZEF. Venue - Lower Hutt Interviewer(s) - Ray Grover Venue - 36 Bush Street, Naenae, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000440 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (transcript). 1 interview(s). 50 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-001341.

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera relating to patriotism, fundraising for the war effort, during World War I. 1914-1918. Folder 1]

By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1916-01

Description: Booklet listing all 237 lots for sale at a patriotic auction of bottles, and describing the process of collecting the bottles, which will be ground down for the war effort. Bottles for the following products were included: whisky, wine and claret, Hayward's pickle, coffee essences, sauces, Koefoed sauce, honey bottles, jelly jars, flasks, vingar bottles, ink bottles, Bennett's Carbonated waters, Lane's Carbonated waters, Thomson's carbonated waters, meat paste and tongue containers, Lane's, West's and Sharpe's 1-gallon screw-top jars, Nileson Vickers 1-gallon jars, Campbell and List's, Briggs's, K&P, Cinese earthernware bottles, stone curacao and stone gins pots, blue poisons, beef and iron wine, malt extracts, Mellin's Food, Humanised Milk, Essences, Round-shouldered limes, Direct Squares, Lane's Emulsion, United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, F Wilkinson, J Waters, R Scofield, J Neill Ltd, U L Gallien, C V Inglis, H Bagley and Son, H W R Outram, N Dodds, A M Hendy, R Conn, J R Hayne, W Elder, W U Donnelly, champagne, stone ginger beer, infant feeding bottles ("Shirkers"), 10-gallon acid glass carboys. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages each 182 x 123 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

Date: 1920

By: Connell, Nigel Douglas, -1951; Barnard, Frank Allen, 1886-

Reference: D-041-002

Description: Photographs of Henry James Barnard and his wife Helena Marian (nee Brown) with six of their eight sons. The parents are shown against a background of painted flags, with an oval cutout showing a pastel on canvas board of Mt Egmont beyond a farm landscape, upper centre. The six sons are shown in uniform, their photographs arranged around a painted decorative border. An address in Gothic script praises the Barnards for their work in providing a field ambulance for the First World War. A photograph of the ambulance is placed centrally at the base of the address. The text includes a reference to the death in World War I of two of the Barnard's sons. Signatures include that of W A Wilkinson, M P. See TL 3/1/1/, 8 March, 31 March 1985 & 9 May 1985 for identification of family members depicted, etc. The Barnard sons shown, clockwise from top right are Henry (1890-1915), Joseph William, (b 1893), Alfred Montague, (1898-1945); Charles Valentine (1896-1917); James (b 1897); Frank Allen (b 1886) Inscriptions: N D Connell Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour, pastel on canvas board, and 9 photographs adhered, all on card, 734 x 554 mm

Date: [Between 1916 and 1919]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-o-425

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Leslie Bowden Quartermain during his time in the New Zealand Medical Corps, World War I. Most of the men photographed are named only with Christian names, surnames or nicknames. The first sequence shows various military camps, including the training depot set up at the Awapuni Racecourse for the Medical Corps. There they were trained in specialist medical work, and also in basic infantry training and discipline. The following sequences were taken en route to Europe, with stops at Fremantle, Durban, Cape Town, and Dakar. The arrival in England gives views in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire where the men were quartered before travelling to France. Two show the village of Lewknor, the ancestral home of the Quartermain family; and several show the royal review of Australian and New Zealand troops on Salisbury Plain. Other views were taken on leave from France; and with the army of occupation in Cologne, before the voyage home on the ship Kia Ora, through the Panama Canal. The final photograph is a group portrait with Leslie Bowden Quartermain in military uniform seated in the middle of a large group, probably Quartermain family, taken in 1919. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled "Photographs"; 21.5 x 17.5 cm