Places

Date: 1900 - 1950

Reference: Eph-A-LOTTERY-1900/1950

Description: Includes : Undated: New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union (Inc). Tainted money! 'Tain't yours! 'Tain't mine! Prizes gained from art unions or lotteries, no matter what the object, are tainted money. [1910-1940s?] 1939: "The romantic career of George Adams (Tattersall). (Melbourne, 1939. Booklet of 32 pages. 1941: New Zealand Academy of Fine arts. Autumn exhibition 1941. Public art union, to be drawn on Wednesday 4 June 1941. Ticket 1949: "The evils of betting shop queues". [1949] Tickets include: 1914: Eastbourne Bowling Club. Grand Art Union. To be drawn 7th November 1914. 1924: Grand Military Tournament and Citizen-Soldiers' Pageant. Art Union in aid of community club and regimental funds. To be drawn at the Town Hall Wellnigton, 21 June 1924. Ticket 1925: Dominion All Gold art union. To provide playing areas for Rugby Union football and other amateur sports. Drawn not later than 20th October, 1925. W G Compton, secretary-organiser, Dominion All Gold Art Union, Invercargill. 1936: Alluvial Gold art union, Central Military command, in aid of forthcoming searchlight tattoo in aid of regimental funds. Closes 6 June 1936. 1945: "I may be lucky" Art Union. 5000 pounds. Closes 10th November 1945. 1950: Great Easter. 5000 pounds in prizes. Closes 1sy April 1950. Ticket Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on lottery tickets. 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on flyers. 1 booklet. Physical Description: Photolithographs and letterpress, sizes ranging below 200 mm

Date: 1961 - 1962

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the aged, elderly, old age resthomes, retirement villages]

By: Wellington City Mission; Blundell Brothers Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-OLD-AGE-1962-01

Description: A pamphlet carrying an appeal from Wellington City Missioner Padre Heerdegen, for funds to complete the Home at Titahi Bay, and containing supporting statements from Prime Minister Holyoake, Opposition leader Walter Nash and Mr Stick the chairman of the Mission's Board of Trustees. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet folded in three, to 120 x 254 mm. Provenance: Donated from the papers of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.

Date: 20 Feb 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Whiteman, Coral May, 1907-2008

Reference: OHInt-0593/52

Description: Coral Whiteman was born in Wanganui in 1907 and mentions that she has just had her 94th birthday. Mentions that she went to Sunday School as a child. Explains why her son was baptised in the maternity home by Reverend Mr. Rowe. while her other five sons were baptised in the United Church. Talks of family links with Mangaroa and Whiteman's Valley, mentioning her father-in-law's farm. Describes the burial places of his wives and daughter after she fell off a horse. Relates that she has a history of the Whiteman family in England, mentioning farmers and smugglers. Explains about the brothers Spencer and Miller Whitemen sent to Botany Bay, Tasmania. States the relationship with Henry Avery, Sir Francis Renouf and Frances Underwood. Explains that the Whiteman's were a founding family who arrived on the 'Gertrude' in 1841. Mentions John Plimmer. Recalls the wonder of turning on an electric light compared with trimming wicks on oil lamps. Coral Whiteman describes the comfort of prayer during her 35 years as a widow. Recognises the friends who help at afternoons for Blind people, Care and Craft, the providers of sandwiches and baking, Red Cross. Discusses the number of donation envelopes received for the Red Cross, Salvation Army, IHC, Cancer Society, Wellington City Mission. Talks of Beth Gillon and home communion. Discusses changes in use of individual glasses rather than receiving the communion cup, mentions the linen purificator and challice. Talks of relationships with family members. Describes her birthday party. Talks of presents of creams and lotions. Explains about her youngest son's property in Whiteman's Valley, mentioning children, dogs and sheep. Describes the purchase of horse manure, a good vegetable garden. Compares Sunday lunch with deliveries of hospital meals. Talks of hospital equipment, mentioning a walking stick and handles in the bathroom, the convenience of a stool in the shower. Relates a telephone assessment by the Foundation for the Blind about Braille, access to a computer and talking books. Explains her sister's use of a talking books machine, mentioning magazines. Discusses her abilty to read the newspaper and to do crosswords after her eye surgery. Mentions that she has glaucoma and cataract. Describes having a blood clot. Talks of hospital visitors, mentioning Edna, her daughter-in-law, and her journey home by taxi. Recalls that Edna and her father were treated for TB at Wellington and Otaki Sanatoriums respectively. Explains that Edna had Rhesus Negative blood group and descibes the effect on her children. Relate that her son Bryan built his own house. Talks of Roy Triplow, a property developer. Mentions that her son Peter was pallbearer at Sir David Beattie's funeral. Talks of her grandchildren continuing the Whiteman name. Relates her experiences of catholicism and gives reasons for her parents-in-law's burial in different churchyards. Recalls a family reunion at St. John's where members of the Whiteman family are buried, and the donation of a stained glass window. Mentions Simnel cake. Talks of family members, Ivan, Anna and Ben McColl and other family members. Mentions reading James Hay Conway's obituary in Crosslink. Recalls the influence of the Reverend Frank Parker and his wife. Gives reasons for her weekly visits to the hairdresser. Recalls the thrill of receiving life membership of the evening fellowship group having been their first treasurer. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009313, OHC-009314 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3015, OHDL-000970. Portrait photograph taken at time of interview

Date: [ca 1874-1897]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1029

Description: Papers relating to R D D Maclean and including circular letters, membership papers (including lodge), charitable matters, stocks and shares, shipping, loans and financial papers, local affairs, legal matters, farming and stock concerns, shipping, clippings on financial and other matters, accounts and receipts, letter from Jane Guinan of Woodville to her sister Miss M Guinan at Maraekakaho, story entitled `A Visit to a haunted house, 1882', RMS `Tainui' menus, receipt from Rev D MacInnes for annuity paid to Miss Isabella McColl, 1889 and miscellaneous notes and papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1870-1897]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1030

Description: The folder mostly relates to R D D Maclean and include correspondence re business, farming, memberships and subscriptions, mortgage with Tollemache, accounts and receipts, insurance, shipping, company matters, equipment leaflets and other papers. Also includes Hunua Highway Board rates demand and receipt for Donald McLean. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-497/519

Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1962 including the economy, sport and recreation. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes vary

Date: [ca 1895-1916]

By: Hogg, Alexander Wilson, 1841-1920

Reference: MS-Papers-1618

Description: Notebooks and jottings of reminiscences of his early life and his political career; also short stories, poems and newspaper cuttings Source of title - Supplied title Hogg was MP for Masterton, 1890-1911 and Minister of Roads, Labour and Customs under Sir Joseph Ward. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1874?-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1035

Description: Most of the papers in the folder relate to R D D Maclean and include papers papers relating to farming, business, memberships and donations, detailed summary of Ngatarawa Block associations, accounts and receipts, draft outward letters including one to Sir Julius, business, wool and farming, charities, picture delivery from S Hildesheimer and Co (London), letter from E H Parke (London), flyers for Cannon's Dip and Little's sheep dip, Hastings Club membership, decorating notes, letter re importation of dogs and other papers (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

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

Date: 1918-1923

By: Mary Magdalene (Sister), 1884-

Reference: MS-Papers-1656

Description: Letters to family from Sister Mary Magdalene, an American member of an Anglican order sent to establish St Anne's Home for Girls at Papanui, Christchurch; includes her monthly diary, `Bulletins of the Antipodes, Sep 1920-Mar 1923,' giving details of religious and daily life, impressions of NZ, etc Source of title - Supplied Sr Mary Magdalene of the Sisters of St Anne came out from the United States to the House of the Sacred Name, Christchurch, to establish a school; the order is Anglican Quantity: 1 folder(s) (48 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1953-1993

By: Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild

Reference: MSY-5312-5313

Description: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, memorabilia and photographs, illustrating the activities of the Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild, and to a lesser extent, those of the Dominion Federation of Townswomen's Guilds. Includes obituaries and lists of guild officers for each year. Source of title - Supplied The Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild was founded in 1953 Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-675-001/015

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on Labour's Finance Minister, Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation Scheme. Shows an elderly Returned Serviceman being reminded by his wife via the bar man that he was coming home straight after the service, lest he forget. Comment on the Labour Governments perceived favouritism toward Maori generally but in relation to the Baby Kahu kidnapping case in particular. Shows discussion between father and son about Helen Clark's desire to build good relationships with Australia. Comment on NZ Post payouts for golden handshakes, lawyer fees and Executive salaries. Comment on increased fear and security measures New Zealanders are taking and the impact it has had on door-to-door fundraising by the Salvation Army. Comment on Maori Television Service particulary the John Davy fraud affair. National Party leader Bill English misses the 2002 Election bus. Jim Anderton sprints across a crumbling bridge (credibility). Refers to his party hopping from Alliance to the Jim Anderton Progressive Coalition. Shows Helen Clark being advised by her fairy godmother to call the election sooner rather than later to avoid her carriage (Jim Anderton) being turned into a pumpkin. Comment on the NZ Cricket team. Shows an older couple discussing the fairness of the Southern Cross increase in medical insurance premiums. Shows two men looking at the low water levels of one of the Southern lakes and discussing Jim Anderton's perceived infallibility. Shows Helen Clark training her husband, Peter Davis to box. Suggestion that he may be the mystery man who will take on National Party leader in the charity boxing match. Shows two workers looking at the new Broadcasting Charter that takes up the whole wall in the building with its list of dos and don'ts. Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0016346

Description: A man holds an ANZAC poppy and thinks sardonically that this is 'another commercial decision'. Arrows indicating 'made in China' point to all the different parts of his clothing and his glasses. Context; the controversial decision to have the poppies made in China. The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association has said that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. (Stuff 10 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1905

By: Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-LOTTERY-1905-01

Description: Shows six inset photographs of the prizes in the lottery, separated by ornate decorative framing. First prize a piano (100 guineas); second prize a hooded phaeton (80 guineas); third prize a ladys' diamond bangle (60 guineas); fourth prize a bicycle (lady's or gent's) (25 guineas); fifth prize a dining room suite (25 guineas); and sixth prize a Densmore typewriter (25 guineas). Accompanied by a letter from the committee, signed by R Leslie Hunt and A Denniston, honorary secretaries. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Abel, Dykes Limited, Printers, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph and photolithograph, on cover of booklet, 134 x 260 mm.

Date: 2002

From: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-:[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post and other newspapers]

By: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: DX-012-016

Description: Shows a judge telling a wigged lawyer that his client can't plead arrogant to a charge of fraud. The lawyer sayers that the Prime Minister Helen Clark has used it as a defence in the case of her art fraud. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016318

Description: Two old soldiers walk in a soldiers' cemetery and the sight of ANZAC Day poppies 'made in China' makes them realise that the rumbling noise they hear is 'our boys turning in their graves'. The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association has reported that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 12 April 1957

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

Reference: EP/1957/0955-F

Description: A chimpanzee from Wellington Zoo buying a poppy from RSA collector K M Bennett, outside the zoo gates in Newtown, Wellington. Photograph taken 12 April 1957 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Other - Published in the Evening Post newspaper, 12 April 1957 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0016325

Description: Text reads 'ANZAC poppies to be made overseas will cost NZ jobs'. The cartoon shows a traditional fabric ANZAC Day poppy labelled 'New Zealand Bigger Returns Services Association'; the words 'CHINA DOLE' (wordplay on China doll) appear beside the poppy. Context; the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association said yesterday that Australian company Cash's had won the tender to make the poppies from 2012. The parts for 1.2 million poppies a year will be made in China and then assembled by workers across the ditch. The move has outraged Christchurch RSA, which has held the contract since 1931, first employing war veterans and later people with disabilities. (Stuff 10 December 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016928

Description: Shows Graeme Hart as a suckling pig, naked and shiny with an apple in his mouth; he nestles amongst herbs and lemons on a silver platter. The cartoonist writes 'Time's up for the rich and their bogus intellectual persona!' Published in Business Herald Deborah Hill Cone column 28th Jan 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008691-G

Description: A billboard in Christchurch Square, showing a young man without shoes, and displaying the message 'You can help to make this impossible in this country by subscribing to St Saviour's Orphanages Special Building Fund. On the left is a statue of John Robert Cooley, with plaque `Founder of Canterbury 1850'. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.