Places

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA7-51-28

Description: View of people on the beach at Island Bay. Young children are playing on the sand, or in dinghies and canoes close to the shore. Fishing fleet is at anchor in the bay. Photograph taken by S C Smith in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Island Bay. Wellington. New Zealand. 890 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 205 mm

Date: 1984-1985

From: Davies, Sonja Margaret Loveday, 1923-2005 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1448

Description: Photographs of the preparation and functioning of the Blenheim Community Creche that opened in 1985. Shows interior and exterior scenes of children, including special needs children, and staff. First page of album has the following dedication: 'To Sonja to commemorate the opening of the Uptown Community Creche Blenheim, February 23rd 1985, with appreciation from the staff and children'. Other - Album contains newspaper clippings and other documents relating to the Creche Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue album; 25 x 22.5cm

Date: [ca 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bremford Studios

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-003

Description: Two small girls on the merry-go-round at Caroline Bay, photographed ca 1950 by Bremford Studios of Timaru. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Young & old enjoy the merry go round so well patronised in Caroline Bay.; Verso - bottom centre - Bremford Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 165 x 220 mm

Date: 1983 - 1985

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1968

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :New Zealand historic buildings. Pen wash paintings with text by John H. Alexander. Auckland, Morton Williams Ltd, 1968.

Reference: B-086-020

Description: View of a wooden house surrounded by a picket fence. There is washing hanging on the line and smoke coming from the chimney. A sign in front of the fence reads `School'. Two small boys carrying flags are running along a path beside the house. There is a man carrying a bucket and fork on the path on the far left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, on sheet 142 x 182 mm

Date: [1980-1990]

By: Morris, Peter Gillard, 1922-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-5565

Description: Comprises recollections of Morris who lived in Karori, Wellington; he describes his family, education, games, friends, social activities, discusses religious and racial differences and other matters. He describes briefly his time in the army and the narrative ends shortly after the end of World War II. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - fMS-176-179 also by Gillard is described as Notes for a thesis on unemployed organisations in NZ; and letters from him are in MS-Papers-5201-117 Morris responded to an advertisement of Ann Gluckman's for reminiscences of people brought up in the NZ in the 1920s and 1930s for a planned publication which never eventuated Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P G Morris, Auckland, 1996

Date: 1945-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-170

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1945-1959 Views of Orewa; Waiwera; Milford Beach (with holiday makers & life guards); Oneroa Beach, Waiheke Island; beach at Devonport; children playing on beach; Westhaven & St Marys Bay taken from harbour bridge; lower Queen Street with Post Office building on left. Views of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Cenotaph; Robert Burns statue in Auckland Domain; Yvonne Sloan, Auckland Training College student on the steps of the Museum; Tamaki Drive (includes Tamaki Yacht Clubhouse); Savage Memorial; Panmure Basin (& leisure craft at anchor); Parnell Baths & Judges Bay; donkey rides at Mission Bay; Cornwall Park (& view of One Tree Hill); views from Mount Eden, one looking towards Manukau Heads with Mount Eden in foreground, the other looking towards city and Rangitoto. Auckland Railway yards taken from Gladstone Road, Parnell, 1957; aerial view of Waitemata Harbour looking towards Firth of Thames (Whites No 42969); Morris Minor parked on scenic drive, Waitakere Ranges. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1909-1925

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-376

Description: Family photographs of the Cameron family at Te Ore Ore and elsewhere (a comprehensive guide to the photographs has been prepared by the family, and is available with the item Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: A photocopy of the information sheets in the front of this album can be found in the PAColl sequance at PAColl-1886. Photocopy of the album showing which images have been copied at same location.

Date: 1993 - 1995

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Hutt News (Newspaper)

Reference: A-316-106/123

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Relationship between drinking and increased resistance to colds, joys of club rugby, crisis of resources in the health system, the downside of community involvement in crime prevention, public opinion is negative over clergymen and politicians, increased leisuretime leads to more time spent in criminal activities, violence on the sports field reflects violence in the world around us, Police respond to apparent home-alone case, the publically hounded life of the British royals, current socially unacceptable behaviour blamed on our forebears, women ponder the wonders of evolution, sporting ties bring peace and understanding through onfield competition, UN Peacekeepers observe the war, fallout from French bomb tests at Mururoa, woman tries to get her husband put down, children encouraged to watch more TV and spend less time playing outside in the sun. Original drawings for A-316-111, -113 and -121 in a separate folder, and separately catalogued. Quantity: 17 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1924-1995

From: Gale, Len 1926- : Papers relating to left-wing activity and cartoon art work

Reference: MS-Papers-5568-4

Description: Comprises a series of weekly letters from Gale to his grandson, Cody, telling him of his boyhood, adventures, family, friends and life in Auckland when he was growing up. Topics covered include oyster fishing, the zoo, Western Springs Speedway, the Wynyard Wharf, the camp on Motuihe Island, schooldays at Mt Albert primary school, the axe, huts, curtain rods, the `Herald' round, a fire, tennis, golfers, lightning, a seaman and a sailor, frogs and mosquitoes; and the Titirangi mechanics and short pieces not part of the letters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-020

Description: Sketches of figures, a horse and a mastless yacht. In upper righthand corner three drawings of a man wearing a hat (two viewed from behind); middle right, a yacht at anchor, labelled `Taieri Mouth'; lower right drawings of children walking, running, jumping and kicking a ball; lower left a woman pushing a baby in a pram (viewed from behind); upper left, a horse from behind; in the centre the head of a man wearing a hat and with a moustache. Other Titles - Taieri Mouth Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - Taieri Mouth in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 216 X 196 mm

Date: 1985 - 1999

Reference: Eph-C-RECREATION-1985/1999

Description: Includes: 1986: Summer City Kite Day. Saturday January 4, 1-6 pm Macalister Park Newtown. Capital Radio 89, Radio Windy. Wellington City Council Parks & Recreation Dept. Festival of Play. Free fun for everyone. Dance Room, Victoria University Recreation Centre, 2 October, 1-5 pm. Organised by Rick Sahar. [1986] 1987: Holiday lift-off. All systems go - camera, lights, action. Enliven yourself with music from the "Holiday Makers", dancing, food & craft stalls, face painting, light show, and witness an astronomical pyrotechnical display, Saturday 19 December 9 pm - 11 pm, Lambton Harbour Development Area, Taranaki Wharf Area [1987] 1988: Mardi Gras; an evening street carnival where you are invited to wander and enjoy music, dance, theatre ... Oriental Parade, Sat 30 January, 6 pm - 10 pm [1988] 1989: On the beach. Beach dig, Pacific Island cricket, beach volleyball, games, clowns, live music Putty in Her Hands, Acid Dread. Saturday 4 February, Worser Bay. Summer City '89 [1989] (2 copies) Pacific Island Festival. Summer City '89. Volleyball tournament, dance, Pacific Island cricket, drumming, food & crafts ... Saturday 28 January ... Rugby League Park, Newtown [1989] 1990: Wellington City Council Parks & Recreation Focus on leisure. Photography competition. Deadline for entries 14 November 1990. Kilbirnie Lyall Bay Comm. [Community] Centre. May School Holiday programme, May 8-12 for 5-12 yrs. Call Leanne 877-867 Young and growing up with the sun / Brand new day has just begun. New Zealand 1990 - our country, our year, huia, tuia, tui tuia [Poster for Sesquicentennial] 1991: Great escapes. Department of Conservation, Te Papa Atawhai. Conservation summer programmes December 1991 - February 1992. Join in the fun this summer at your nearest conservation area! Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Exploring and discovering. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Hands-on learning. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Let's pretend; that's how we learn. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. Hillary Commission. Play is everywhere; Puta noa ko nga Rehia. Sharing and caring. Learning Media, Ministry of Education, Wellington 1991. 1991?: Porirua Museum. The name of the game; children's games 1840-1920. [ca 1991] 1993: 1993 Women's Recreation Festival. Feel good - get physical! Hillary Commission / Wellington City Council. 1996: Womens recreation bonanza co-ordinated by Sport wellington Region. February to May 1996. 1997: Support for local sport. Hillary Commission. Community Sport Fund 1997. Applcations close on 28 March 1997. Photo courtesy of Joanna Caird. Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre. Summer holiday programme. December 1-4 pm - Rage Sessions and Santa Cave; January 5-27 - games, activities, prizes and more! [1997?] 1999: Summer City free and easy! Free outdoor entertainment. Programme of events Jan - Feb 1999. Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre. School holiday programme. Splashing great fun! Drop on in! January 5th-26th [1999?] Quantity: 21 publications. Physical Description: Screenprints and offset prints, sizes varying around 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: One poster donated by Anna Veritt, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1963

From: Henderson, George Duncan, 1911?-1985:[Collection of cartoons by George Henderson (Hen). 1961-1984]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-445-094

Description: A group of small boys at 'N.P. Chindit H.Q.' in Brooklands Bowl are ordered to smarten up as they are likely to be paid a visit by the chief (Sir Bernard Fergusson). In pencil below the text are written the words 'Hero worship'. Cartoon is referred to in a letter from Sir Bernard Fergusson to George Henderson. There are also a few newsclippings referring to Sir Bernard Fergusson. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 180 x 195 mm

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: 1930 - 1939

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-054

Description: Print proof for a panel of the "Star Twinkles" comic strip in the Auckland star. The date may be around 1920-1935. The panel shows a group of four children, one of whom asks to have a turn at flying another boy's kite. The boy asking for the loan asserts that he has been "champeen" [champion] of Freeman's Bay for years. The kite's owner says he can't lend the kite, for fear of being strapped. The full twelve panels of this story is on a sheet at C-166-001. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on newsprint, 255 x 360 mm.

Date: Feb-May 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-090

Description: Photographs of boys playing war games on a beach on the West Coast, a toddler wearing a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sunhat and the Smith family, a large itinerant family travelling around Whangaroa. Made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance between February and May 1940. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Nov 1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-022

Description: A section of the Naenae Community Playground, with Naenae homes in the background, photographed ca November 1949 by a New Zealand Free Lance staff photographer. (Source: "New Zealand Free Lance", 30/11/49, p 24). Note the movie cameramen to the left. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - P 30/11/49; Verso - centre - A section of playground [indistinct] they come from Naenae housing settlement. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 161 x 213 mm

Date: 1932

From: Eise, Ida Gertrude, 1894-1978 :Sketchbook 51. 1932 [and later]

Reference: E-149-q-002

Description: Looking along a waterfront, with a small girl and boy with a bucket in the foreground, a man working on his beached boat, other boats, boatsheds and houses. The scene is likely to be in Auckland with a beach alongside a suburban street Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - I. G. Eise 13.8.32 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, 247 x 309 mm

Date: ca 15 Sep 1995

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Simcox, Craig, active 1983

Reference: EP/1995/3882-F

Description: Somali refugee children playing in Lower Hutt, photographed circa 15 September 1995 by Craig Simcox. Shows two boys (Mohamed Ali Yussif and Bilan Yusef) and a girl (Isir Yusef) playing outside with a toy car and a toy motorbike. Mohamed Ali Yusif was reunited with his mother six months ago. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 03 Apr 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Pitt, Alison Thomas Waipa, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0020/17

Description: Alison Pitt recalls Pukemiro School; getting medical help; entertainment at Pukemiro; the tennis courts being built; the swimming pool; horses; fishing and kids' play; looking through the Pukemiro School Jubilee Book; the doctor; shops; brother delivering groceries for local store; early roads and railways around Pukemiro and Glen Afton; delivering food to mine houses; icecream from Mr Dun; early movies and dances; 'kitchen teas' for girls about to be married; putting in roads for cars; their house at Pukemiro; lighting; heating; outhouses; water supply; first radio; house at mine; washing clothes. Describes coal delivery and power at mine; changing points on railway as kids; bonfires; the miners' picnic; comparison of the town then and now; going to Huntly; entertainment; chores; employment for women; going to school on horseback; crime in area; local Maori; compulsory education; the Depression (1930s) in Pukemiro and Auckland; contact with Rotowaro; visiting carbonisation works; the Waingaro hot springs; going underground with father and school; the Glen Afton disaster; the 1951 strike at Rotowaro; refusing to sell meths; doctors at Rotowaro; Glen Afton; tallies and cavels. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 8 Glasgow Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004406 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 737 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.