Places

Date: 31 July 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/2727-F

Description: Children at Wadestown Infants School about to learn a Maori stick game. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 31st of July 1979. The children were taking part in activities associated with Maori Language Week. The song they were about to sing was `e papa waiari.' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1846 - 1969 - 1855

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Walker, E, active 1850s; Day & Son (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-013

Description: The interior of Putiki Pa, Wanganui --Same: 2nd, 3rd and 4th copies, nos. 5,6 and 7. No. 4 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Issued at $12. "Reproduced by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.". i.e. a copy of the Library's lithograph of the scene, C-029-001 Sheet of descriptive text. Extended Title - Christchurch] Avon Fine Prints, 1969. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in two colours 15 x 19.9 inches, on sheet 21.5 x 25 inches

Date: June 1984

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

By: Baker, Eric, active 1984

Reference: PA1-q-1078

Description: Album of photographs of library scenes at Wellington schools, taken June 1984 by Eric Baker, Principal of Roseneath School Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 305 x 275 mm Transfers: Transfers - From Manuscripts & Archives : 2009-168 : National Library of New Zealand. School Library Service. See also Published Collections.

Date: n d

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-099

Description: Contains notes about the game Muu (draughts), with information supplied by different Maori informants. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1942]

By: Cooper, Charles, active 1940-2010

Reference: MS-Papers-9588

Description: Notebook recording the activities of the JMC Society (Jackie, Michael and Charles). First 11 pages are written in pencil by Jackie and then overwritten in ink by Charles. Also contains pencil listing of pupils in `Std III'; words, possibly a spelling test; a note entitled The Piano continued; rough drawings. The activities occurred in the Cooper home at 20 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North Source of title - Supplied by Library The JMC Society, consisting of Jackie Sturm, Charles Cooper and his brother, Michael Cooper, flourished in the early 1940s, when the children involved were living in Palmerston North. The Society probably disappeared when the Sturm family left for Napier in 1942 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1999

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

Reference: H-554-021/042

Description: Political cartoons. Jenny Shipley waits for the corner to be turned in the tourism row. Fringe political games. 1. Murray McCully passes the buck on the tourism row. 2. Helen Clark spread the rumour. Comment on the barbarism of human behaviour as news tells us that Hutu rebels hack tourists to death in Uganda. Comment on Air New Zealand's growing service and safety problems. More Fringe political games... Dodging the issue - Jenny Shipley. Losing the plot: - Clem Simich. A TVNZ executive is put in the firing line over the John Hawkesby payout. Farmers celebrate the end of the draught. Monica Lewinsky's side of the Bill Clinton sex scandal. Saatch boss, Kevin Roberts is made to walk the plank by the Tourism Board. New developments in genetic modification. Comment on the resilience of Tourism Minister Murray McCully to withstand the tourism row. Jenny Shipley explains she won't support the Alliance's Bill calling for labelling of all genetically modified food until the Bill has been redrafted with the National Party logo on the front instead of the Alliance one. A look into the Serbian Police Handbook which identifies threats and instructs Serbian Police to destroy them. The British establishment congratulate themselves on rooting out greed and corruption from the IOC (International Olympic Committee?) and go back to their indulgent ways. Comment on the contradiction between Paul Holmes pitching his show to the ordinary kiwi while receiving a $770,000 salary. Helen Clark trails in the polls as Labour heads toward the next election. Jenny Shipley leads the charge of the firemen against unpopular reformer Roger Estall. Allied planes swoop low over a Serbian soldier about to execute a woman and her baby. Allied war planes are dispatched with personal messages, except the spelling isn't that flash. Comment on the publics feeling of helplessness in the face of mass killings in Kosovo and the Nato response to the violence. Comment on the thought that the APEC summit in Auckland would bring American tourists. Comment on voyeuristic television shows. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 2001

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

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library; Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-o-1883

Description: Photograph album containing outdoor views taken circa 1900-1905 by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in the Northland Region of New Zealand. Photographers unidentified but many possibly taken by Thomas Pringle who was employed by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in 1901. Compiler of album unidentified. Some images have captions. Images mainly show outdoor views, including landscapes, buildings, beaches, industry (including logging and gum digging), and harbours. Some show people. Whangarei and Whangaroa Harbour feature. Despite the title of the album: 'Maori life and scenery', Maori people do not predominantly feature, except in a loose print taken by Thomas Pringle in circa 1905, showing three girls playing 'whai' string game, and some other prints showing Maori families and individuals. Other: All prints have an inscription "New Zealand Government and Tourist Department Protected 7.1.03", however 7 January is not the date the photographs were taken. It is likely to be the date the was registered/patented. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board recto - On spine: "ZZ/P575/Photographs of Maori Life and Scenery" and "General Assembly New Zealand library" insignia. This insignia is also on the front of the album. Relationship complexity: This album relates to PA1-o-1884 and PA1-o-1885 which came to the library at the same time and belongs to the same series of albums which were from the Parliamentary Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green album bound by General Assembly Library, with gold embossed lettering. 24cm x 31.5cm. Transfers: From Book Collections - From NZ & P Book Collections as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material.

Date: 19 Aug 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Dawson, Ailsa, active 1998; McMillan, Mary Ferguson, 1908-

Reference: OHInt-0464/15

Description: Mary McMillan was born in Invercargill in 1908 along with her twin brother Andrew. Describes her family and memories of living at Moa Flat where her father managed Howell's Estate. Describes the death of Mr Howell in a buggy accident and purchase of a farm near Waituna. Mentions cobalt deficiency and sheep deaths. Notes her father died from pernicious anaemia caused by the lack of cobalt. Recalls attending school at Waituna, childhood games (rounders and marbles), walking to school, first motor cars she saw, a diphtheria epidemic and attending Technical College in Invercargill. Recalls the house her father built of red pine with a superheater and a wash-house. Describes how her parents died when she was twenty and she and her sister brought up the younger children. Recalls bachelor and spinster balls, dances, card evenings, tennis games and the opening of the hall. Mentions knitting for soldiers in World War II. Talks about washing day and cooking for fifteen threshing mill workers for three meals a day for a week. Describes the dairy factory at Oteramika and the making of Stilton cheese by Mr Saxelby at Woodlands. Mentions a rabbit canning factory and linen flax factory. Notes the use of linen flax during the war. Describes marrying neighbour Alexander McMillan and moving to Waituna. Interviewer(s) - Ailsa Dawson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008618 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2692. Photos of Mary McMillan in 1963 and 1998

Date: 20 June 2000 - 20 Jun 2000

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Joan Catherine, 1924-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-04

Description: Joan Moffatt, nee Walker, was born in Wellington in 1924. Her parents moved to a soldier's farm in Te Horo in 1923, where she lived until marriage in 1948. Mentions walking three miles to Te Horo Primary School, segregated playgrounds, games, tennis, and boys tending headmaster's garden. Talks about being left handed. Recalls children's chores, ironing, mother's household tasks, living without electricity, and family pets. Talks about Graeme Walker and his poultry farm which was a major employer, his siblings, and farming being in the blood. Mentions family vegetable gardens, birthday parties, Christmas, attending Wellington Centennial Fair, Te Horo dances. Recalls the Trembarths, Grants, Thorntons and Spiers, the blacksmith and shoemaker, Sunday school, her grandfather. Refers to mother having children at St Helen's Maternity Hospital, Wellington. Talks about meeting husband, Ray Moffatt, a dairy farmer, and farming in the Otaki Gorge. Mentions four brothers in Home Guard, her father's response to brother enlisting for World War II, serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions self and mother knitting socks and baking for Merchant Navy, making Hussifs (needle cases), the Patriotic Society's farewell dances for soldiers, hosting English Merchant Navy sailors, and young women writing to servicemen. Mentions her brother serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions her father belonging to the Wellington Mounted Rifles, being badly wounded at Gallipoli and in France, being sent back to Britain, and evacuation orders. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11060 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 49 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3871. Photo of Joan in garden; the Walker family; Ray & Joan's wedding photo 1948 Search dates: 1930 - 1950

Date: 28 Mar 2000

From: Whangarei Heads Millennium oral history project

By: Attwood, Joy, 1926?-2018; Hulme, Ruth, 1930s?-2012

Reference: OHInt-0528/1

Description: Joy Attwood (née Going) and her first cousin, Ruth Hulme (née Vinson) describe a typical day, collecting wood, chores around the house, milking cows and arrival of electricity in the 1940s. Recall school with one teacher and 25 children; Christmas tree concert in Taurikura hall; leisure activities for children which included building huts in bush, swimming at beach and games which included, Kingisine, Rounders, tennis, cricket and social events for adults - fund raising concerts during war years, dances, card evenings at Bird's Manaia Gardens, with reference to Red Cross and sewing calico on parcels for overseas. Briefly talk about war years, with reference to Home Guard and Navy based at Bream Head Radar station. Refer to Mr Hollingworth, former tea planter from Ceylon. Refer to Church and Jasper Calder. Describe the limeworks and mentions Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland. Talk about the Mayclair family and refers to artist J R Mayclair. Interviewer(s) - Barbara Jagger / Peter Coates Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010759 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3813. Search dates: 2000

Date: 6, 7 July 1995 - 06 Jul 1995 - 07 Jul 1995

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-; Jackson-Thomas, Fiametta Cecilia, 1903-2003

Reference: OHColl-0312/1

Description: Fiametta Cecily Jackson-Thomas born Roslyn, Dunedin. Gives parents background and talks about father's life as a Punch and Judy expert, trapeze artist and snake handler until the age of 35 when he became a cabinet maker. Describes own school days, clothing worn, discipline in school, cadet uniform, chanting of tables, pole drill, description of games played, explaining how boys and girls played games differently. Recalls outbreak of World War I, its effects on women, friends receiving telegrams and comforting each other, white feather incident and attitutes to conscientious objectors. Talks about brother's involvement in World War II. Refers to 6 o'clock closing as a war measure. Recalls being only family in street not contacting flu during epidemic. Refers to garlic as used in Corsica. Describes work experience, working in art department of photographic firm and going to School of Art 1/2 day per week. Talks about Ngaio Marsh who was in class. Refers to Ronald McKenzie, also in class. Recalls learning cabinetmaking which was considered radical for the period - 3rd woman in New Zealand to do so. Talks about social hierarchy of Christchurch. Mentions visit of Prince of Wales. Backgrounds meeting and marrying husband, Arthur, and his brief involvement with the Communist Party. Describes helping watersiders during 1951 Waterfront Dispute and at end of dispute Arthur being made honorary Life Member of Seamen's Union. Talks about Walter Nash. Also refers to Bastion Point occupation and reads poem about Maori sweeper. Gives background to poem. Mentions husband's position of manager of Auckland's Progressive Book shop and invitation to publishing house in China to help Chinese writers in English. Describes time in China, cultural revolution and immense relief on leaving China. Describes her poetry writing and refers to poem `Idle time'. Interviewer(s) - Alwyn Owen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011607-011609 Quantity: 2 C70 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4004.

Date: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

Date: ca1956-c1970

From: Reed Publishing :Photographs relating to New Zealand mostly 1950s-1970s

By: Riethmaier, Gregor, 1913-2004

Reference: PAColl-4871-05

Description: Quantity: 95 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1846 - 1969 - 1855

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Walker, E, active 1850s; Day & Son (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-013-b

Description: The interior of Putiki Pa, Wanganui No. 6 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Issued at $12. "Reproduced by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.". i.e. a copy of the Library's lithograph of the scene, C-029-001 Sheet of descriptive text. Extended Title - Christchurch] Avon Fine Prints, 1969. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in two colours 15 x 19.9 inches, on sheet 21.5 x 25 inches

Date: ca 15 Jan 1982

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

By: Scott, Don, active 1970s-1980s

Reference: EP/1982/0137-F

Description: Boys playing pool as part of a Porirua Council holiday scheme. From left: George Reid 14, Jeremy Avison 11, Michael Manning 8, Robert Chappell 9. A trailer advertising the Porirua City Council Funbus is in the background. Photograph taken circa 15 January 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer Don Scott. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1969 - 1970

By: Country Colour (Firm); Colquhoun, David, 1951-2018

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1969-01

Description: Jigsaw of approximately 165 pieces. Shows a central map of New Zealand with a Maori man and woman in traditional costume. This is surrounded by examples of approximately 50 New Zealand stamps dating from the 1960s and including Christmas stamps and health stamps. There is a decorative border showing geometric Maori patterns and depictions of carved wooden heads. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on jigsaw.. Physical Description: Jigsaw puzzle, 165 pieces, in picture 382 x 294 mm. Provenance: Donated by David Colqhoun in 1998.

Date: 1846 - 1969 - 1855

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Walker, E, active 1850s; Day & Son (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-013-c

Description: The interior of Putiki Pa, Wanganui No. 7 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Issued at $12. "Reproduced by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library.". i.e. a copy of the Library's lithograph of the scene, C-029-001 Sheet of descriptive text. Extended Title - Christchurch] Avon Fine Prints, 1969. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in two colours 15 x 19.9 inches, on sheet 21.5 x 25 inches

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: [School exercise books of octavo size. 1800s-]

By: Braithwaite, Joseph, 1848-1917; Fredric, A E (Mr), active 1976

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOL-EXERCISE-BOOKS-1890s-01

Description: Back and front covers show coloured illustrations of children at play. On the front cover they are walking in the fields and picking flowers, and on the back cover they are playing "Oranges and lemons" or Tug of War inside. The pages of the book have been used to stick in clippings about the New Zealand Rifle Association, Major J R Sommerville, Captain Collins (treasurer of the NZ Rifle Association), Private H S Batchelor, Private William Richardson, Mr W G Fletcher (secretary, NZ Rifle Association), "A" Battery champion team 1890-91; Major Sir Arthur Douglas, competition at the military tournament, Dunedin Sea Fencibles, Mounted infantry who left for England in 1894 from Sydney; NZ Rifle Association meeting at Oamaru; Dunedin Navals Camp. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ruled exercise book, 200 x 160 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr A E Fredric in August 1976.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-001/020

Description: Includes a collection of political cartoons from the 1940s as well as charicatures and drawings depicting various sportsmen who flourished in the 1940s and 1950s. The political cartoons refer to an electricity crisis as well as issues concerned with the Wellington City Council. In one of the Wellington cartoons the name MacAlister is mentioned. The sporting portraits feature speedway champion Percy Coleman and boxer Dave Sands, as well as wrestlers Lofty Blomfield, Earl McCready, and Bill Kuusisto. Includes a number of smaller illustrations, most of which feature gardening and its related materials. Quantity: 19 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck onto paper and wallpaper, sizes vary.