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Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-6718

Description: Photographs of the internment camp on Somes Island: internees and guards on their way to the island on the Janie Seddon; two of groups of internees; two of a German band giving a concert on the parade ground; a working party; the arrival of some internees; a bull; view of the camp area where the two-storey blocks were for internees and the low blocks were for guards; the lighthouse and other buildings on the island; and three guards in army uniforms on board the Janie Seddon. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1939 - 1945

By: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960

Reference: A-306-022

Description: Sheet of drawings has pencil and watercolour sketches on both sides, totalling twenty sketches, mostly of hilly landscapes with bare trees. Two include sketches of figures, and one shows a row of huts. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s) on either side of one sheet.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour sketches, on sheet 230 x 305 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives A98-176..

Date: 1939 - 1945

By: Rothe, Hans, active 1940; Jennings, Margaret, active 1990s

Reference: E-595

Description: Five pages each containing a verse of text, accompanied by an illustration. The text tells a story of a boy who goes to pick an apple for his girl friend, and succeeds despite being frightened by a bear. He is rewarded with a kiss. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on pages of sketchbook, buckram bound, 85 x 85 mm. Provenance: The book was handmade by a German "interned alien" on Somes Island, Wellington, New Zealand, during the Second World War. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) had a permit to visit the island and help the internees and their dependants, and were able to bring some of the crafts they made, and sell them at a stall on their behalf (See note at AT 10/14, 24 September 2001 - copy with sketchbook). Processing information: Transferred from the Dorothy Neal White Collection in 2001.

Date: 1942 - 1944

By: Casa, Paul, 1903-2001

Reference: Plans-2003-031

Description: Photocopied plan showing the floor plan of a two-wing dormitory area, each wing providing for 24 men. There is a separate block containing the laundry, drying room, calorifier, issue room, shower and WC, and a separate headman's hut with bedroom, shower and office. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 400 x 730 mm. Provenance: Donation: Paul Casa, 2003. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2003-067. Transfer from Manuscripts MS-Papers-7666-1..

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-681-001/016

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Shows the Beehive spinning, refers to the political spin that happens leading up to an election. It seems that everyone is polled leading up to the election, including the hereford cow population. National Party President Michelle Boag spends the weekend putting Bill English's cabinet together, not his political cabinet but rather his coffin. Maurice Williamson, National Party MP makes Michelle Boag walk the plank of the National Party Pirate ship. Labour Party leader and Prime Minister, Helen Clark, gets ready to hang Winston Peters. As the country seeks improved work conditions, leave provisions and longer holidays, the Sri Lankan boat people show a keeness to come to New Zealand to work. Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, seeks to differentiate between asylum seekers and people and abos (aborigines) and people. Australian rugby players beat up the referee thinking someone called him a refugee. Helen Clarke (Eve) trys to tempt Peter Dunne (Adam) into eating an apple. Jim Andrton looks on from a tree as a serpent. Helen Clark paces the floor wondering which of the Parties, the Greens or United Future, are most infuriating. An Israeli soldier suggests a reporter could say that in the latest Israeli attack on Palestine that "Palestinian arms were uncovered", he holds a persons left arm in his hand. Helen Clark invites Peter Dunne into her office. He enters with a trojan horse with the sign 'moral right' around its neck. A photo of the main coalition family and includes Helen Clark, Michael Cullen, Jim Anderton and Peter Dunne. In drought and famine stricken Zimbabwe a man digs for oil seeing this as a way to get American President George W. Bush to have an interest in getting rid of the current leader, Robert Mugabe. A rugby union umpire takes the field wearing an American football padded and helmeted uniform. Refers to the assault on a rugby referee by a spectator in South Africa. Quantity: 16 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 1944 - 1945

By: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996

Reference: B-174-009/016

Description: Includes pencil portraits of internees, and a sketch of a hut in the detention camp. The sketches, all head and shoulder, some in profile, may all be of the same man. The watercolour is by Brian Snowdon on 17 September 1944, and shows a green one-room hut (number 28) with the window open at the right, and the door ajar to reveal the legs and boots of an internee with his feet up on the bed or bench. Location assumed from the fact that this collection came in with a programme for a production of William Saroyan's "The beautiful people" at Whitanui Camp 31 March 1945 (Eph-A-WAR-WII-1945-02). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 7 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches and watercolour, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1344 - Other material from the same provenance is held in the Ephemera Collection, Oral History Collection, PAColl-9516 and MS-Group-1344..

Date: 1938-1943, 1948, 1950

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Tylee, A F (Captain), active 1940s

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-058

Description: Aerial and other photographs of the following: Maud Island (Sounds Defence) showing view approaching Post Office Point, gun emplacements, magazine under construction, view of Piction from water showing Navy building, Army radio huts and Terminus Hotel, another view taken from the hotel showing bathing sheds, and panorama views of Maud Island - photographs taken by Captain A F Tylee, 1942-1943 (Series 13/4); Auckland Domain showing US camp and army hospital and Auckland Hospital (Series 1/1); Paekakariki - view from Waikanae to Paekakariki, Camp MacKay looking east and south, Camp Russell, Paekakariki Beach (Series 16/5); Pauatahanui showing US camp at Motukaraka Point (Series 16/6); Pahiatua internees camp at Pahiatua Race Course, 1943 (Series 16/7); Pahiatua showing general area, magazine area (Moko-moko) and drill hall (Series 16/8); Opua, Bay of Islands showing road bridge construction (Series 15/3); Orakei, Auckland showing Hy.A.A. position and camp, 1942 (Series 15/4); Okaihau showing general view of Battalion headquarters, 1943 (Series 15/7); Ohakea showing aerodrome, bomb stores, vegetable garden, magazine and camoflafe, 1941-1943 (Series 15/6); Paekakariki showing camp site and army store, 1942 (Series 16/1); Paekakariki showing R.D.F. station, Old Hill Road (Series 16/2); Camp Paekakariki (Series 16/3); Paekakariki and Raumati South - general view with Opau Battery (Series 16/4); Oamaru showing coastal defence site, gun position, drill hall and general views (includes map), 1942-1943 (Series 15/1); Queenstown Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 17/1; Temuka Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 20/9); Thames Drill Hall, front and rear, 1938 (Series 20/10); Mt Somers showing houses at Mt Somers magazine sited contrary to regulations, photograph taken by A R Currie, 1948 (Series 13/16); Northcote showing Hy.A.A. position, 1942 (Series 14/4); New Caledonia showing erection of Type W prefab warehouse - Engineers stores depot, and NZ 4th General Hospital site, Dumbea Valley (Series 14/6); New Plymouth Drill Hall (Coronation Hall) and general view of aerodrome at Bell Block (Series 14/7); Milson aerodrome, 1942 (Series 13/4); Trentham Military Camp showing race course and camp, magazine area, sewerage treatment works, 1943 (Series 20/8) and unnumbered series taken 1950 Quantity: 127 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1945

By: Bollard, Albert Ernest, 1912-1993

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-1945-02

Description: Programme for production of 'The beautiful people', with plot synopsis, and profile silhouettes (of cast members?) by A Bollard. Producer R Kennedy, stage and properties by P O'Neill. Cast included K Mulrennan, N Ginn, D Dubbelt, N Bennett, W Lawry, J O'Neill, H Scott, N Pierson. Two copies held Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Stapled booklet, of typescript, collages and relief prints, 217 x 190 mm. Provenance: Both copies donated by the Megget family, Auckland, in 2008-2009.

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-648-001/085

Description: 85 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include cricketers, PM's avoidance of Waitangi Day protests, Treaty of Waitangi signing 1840, Maori sovereignty, Israel's hard line on Palestine, perils of being a child in NZ, Rugby sevens, Fiji's lack of moral fibre, genetic relationship between humans and slugs, corporate savaging of small shareholders, dairy farmers play down record returns, farmer reaction to vet strike, People's Bank documents leaked, Anderton looks for way to get rid of Phillida Bunkle, cricket rules questioned, possible beaurocracy of Kiwi Bank, NZ Post attempts to gag Richard Prebble, Bunkle and Hobbs on political scrap-heap, NZ rich list, possum damage Australian tax payer responsibility, cricket match-fixing, Bunkle unlikely to get back into Cabinet, extended rugby season not cricket, Kiwi Bank customers may bring their debt with them, Super-12 referees, census forms, British border control officials under fire, NZ scenery blocked by pine trees, ACT conservation policy - eat Kiwis, Germans announce NZ sheep have scrapies, Winstone Peters argues against opinion polls, RCD farmers support border control of foot-and-mouth, TVNZ presenters fight amongst themselves, Helen Clark and her husband communicate via e-mail, Clark defends and attacks her husband, CNN broadcasts incorrect information about NZ cases of foot-and-mouth disease, skyhawks put out to pasture, Clark and Shipley fight it out, MIR space station breaks up, Hobbs on the rack, Air Force apologise to Clark, Clark wins 'scariest skirt' award, George W Bush's stance on carbon dioxide emissions, Jonathon Hunt fails to name drunken MP's, Milosovich faces punishment, Clark and Anderton negotiate deal to get rid of Bunkle, Bush's foreign policy stance escalates world tensions, women in leadership roles - men ponder their choices, Bush questions the colour of 'red China', Tiger Woods - king of the golf world, Clark hot and cold on America, Shipley faces political crisis, schizophrenic flatmates, Ansett NZ maintenance, Anderton farmers' favourite, schizophrenic flatmates, cervical screening and justice, Rankin missed by bomb on WINZ building, message from Qantas NZ, airline collapses while owner plays golf, dawn parade 2030, Saturn TV, Bush armwrestles Chinese dragon, King and budget decisions, air ticket competition, US impose tariffs on NZ farmers, white house and star wars, Hurricanes fans pray for victory, Clark axes skyhawks, Hitler and Hirohito and Clark, female, sex and animals, arms race history, TVNZ internal affairs, Clark and Blair campaigns, McVeigh dies in Oklahoma, Clark out of touch, Peters makes a come-back, burning effigies, global warming, Dairy Board merger, Maori Party, taxing home ownership, soya sauce scare, Bob Dylan on Radio NZ, importance of appearance in the public service. 85 H-648-033 misrecorded as a Tom Scott cartoon when it is in fact a Garrick Tremain. Refiled H-645 series. Quantity: 85 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 bromides

Date: ca 1916

Reference: 1/2-112327-F

Description: German prisoners of war on Somes Island during World War One. Taken by an unknown photographer circa 1916. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Date of photography changed from 'circa 1906' to 'circa 1916' after the typographical error was noticed by a staff member.

Date: [ca 1910s]

From: Roy Clark, WNTV 1, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation : Photographs of Somes Island, 1914-18

Reference: 1/2-038622-F

Description: Camp on Somes Island ca 1910s, showing the tents and buildings. The taller buildings were for the internees and the lower buildings were for the guards. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000791-F

Description: Sodier guarding the Japanese prisoner of war camp in Featherston, Wellington, during World War II. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Original caption reads: "Barbed wire and fixed bayonets are an inevitable part of the story of any prisoner camp." Japanese prisoner of war camp near Featherston Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: during World War 1

From: Allen, S T :Photographs of the Kaponga district and others

Reference: 1/2-057422-F

Description: Guards on Somes Island during World War I. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Hart, Roger :Photographs of Somes Island and other subjects

Reference: 1/2-112230-F

Description: Bavarian String Band formed by German internees on Somes Island during World War I Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1914-1918

From: Hart, Roger :Photographs of Somes Island and other subjects

Reference: 1/2-112226-F

Description: Farm buildings and tents on Somes Island during the period of the internment of German citizens during World War I. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1914 and 1918. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca1939-ca1969

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, John Bernard, 1911-1993; Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PAColl-7167-10

Description: Photographs and proof sheets of an acrobatic group called the Del Mars, Bernardi's (Jack Nightingall's) hypnotist show, domestic cats, men weightlifting, clowns, parties and other social events, a tramping and camping holiday, a trip to Hawke's Bay, Rotorua and the central North Island, yachts and yachting, views from a journey up the Wanganui River, airplanes, posters relating to the anti war/peace movement of about 1939-1945 and activists of the Wellington branch of the Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors printing leaflets in 1941. Related to these are a group of proof sheets recording a conscientious objectors social event at Mokoio Hall on 17 June 1946. There are also proof sheets of Carmen and some of her associates, and of performers at Carmen's nightclub "The Balcony" in Wellington. Two proof sheets have images of turned wooden bowls made up of different woods, and ornamental wooden boxes inlaid with different woods. These were made by Jack Nightingall while he was held in detention as a conscientious objector. Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s, ca November 1948]

By: Efford, Lincoln Arthur Winstone, 1907-1962; Rodger, Robert, -1952

Reference: PAColl-9580

Description: Comprises: Studio portrait of Mr J A Forbes, taken by Mora of Gore Photographs of Hautu Detention Camp, taken ca November 1948 Studio portrait of Edward Dene Morel, taken ca late 1910s or early 1920s by Walter Scott of Bradford Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Mrs M Efford, Christchurch, 1970 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Efford, Lincoln Arthur Winston, 1907-1962; Papers (MS-Papers-0445).