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Date: [ca 1940-1945]

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-151

Description: Includes some multiple copies; most are captioned. Includes list for series of numbered photographs `Return of the Maori Battalion from overseas' - 3 sets. Return of the Maori Battalion from overseas - Reception on Aotea Quay: men preparing meat and chicken for hangi and women preparing food at Porirua Pa; Battalion en route from Pipitea wharf to Aotea Quay; old Maori woman (Ngawaina of Ngati Toa) smoking `The Pipe of Peace'; Battalion at the gates of the marae; haka (Ngati Tuwharetoa) in support of chiefs address; Kia Ora to the Committee. Return of the Maori Battalion - The `Dominion' approaching Pipitea Wharf; disembarkation; Rev M Bennett; pipes and bands of the 1st Wellington Battalion; quayside welcome (Maori MPs T P Paikea, Hon E T Tirikatene, Hon R R Mawhete, T Omana, & M Ratana); welcome haka Ngati Tuwharetoa; Rangi Te Hana & Turei Papanui (Ngati Tuwharetoa haka party); Hinga with women of the Ratana Party in the dining hall welcome; official guest table; Hepi Te Heuheu addressing the Battalion; Ngati Poneke Club members.. Series of photos of visit to Rotorua and Ohinemutu; members of Maori Battalion having a snack on the Tewfick station prior to embarking; series of photos taken 23 May 1940 on day of departure; sing-song after disembarking in England, 21 Jun 1940; three soldiers with A-tank gun; soldier with captured German Tommy gun near Gazala, ca 1942; two bren-gun carriers manned by members of Maori Battalion in England; sightseeing in London. Quantity: 144 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1959

From: New Zealand Labour Party: [Fliers, cards and pamphlets of octavo size. 1955-1959]

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-LABOUR-1959-01

Description: A programme for the annual debutante ball of the Papanui Branch of the Labour Party. Page 13 has a message from the Prime Minister Walter Nash, and page 17 has a message from R M MacFarlane, MP for Christchurch Central. The list of debutantes is given on page 19. The ball programme is in the centre spread (pages 40-41), and there are pages of light articles and jokes, and many pages of advertisements by local businesses. The cover design is by John Harvey. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset print, in booklet of 80 pages, each 210 x 137 mm.

Date: [ca 1954]

By: Taylor, Athol Bertram, 1901-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-10346

Description: Includes passport; photographs re his trip to Canada in 1946 with Rt Hon Walter Nash and others to deal with the lend-lease operations; and `Murupara, the story of NZ newsprint industry' (1954) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also 89-064 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter and photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs E Taylor, Wollanstonecraft, NSW, Australia, Jan 1989

Date: 1926-1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-187

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1926-1947. Peter Fraser - Labour candidate for Wellington Central (1931); several of Prime Minister Fraser during the war years; with Sister Nepia (Wairoa District Nurse) and A T Carroll, May 1947; with WAAFs S H Boyd & M C Bullard, 1944; receiving Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law at Cambridge University, 1944; with Miss Jean McKenzie, General Freyberg & Mrs Harold Kemp on arrival in London when he was made a Companion of Honour; gathering at Ruatoki where Fraser addressed the gathering, 1947; Hirini Heremaia performing a powhiri to the official party at the opening of Northland College, Kaikohe by Rt Hon Peter Fraser, 1947 Walter Nash - During the war years when he was Minister of Finance; as President of International Labour Conference at Philadelphia, 1944; Mr & Mrs Nash, 1938; Mr & Mrs Nash with F G L Bertram (deputy-director of Civil Aviation in British Air Ministry) on board Aorangi, 1936; Mr & Mrs Nash in their lounge with their two sons, 1936. W J Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London - MP for Manukau (1931); Mr & Mrs Jordan laying a wreath, May 1938; Mr & Mrs Jordan and family, 1936 & 1939; with his mother, Sep 1936; during the war years. Includes list of photographs Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [between 1965-66]

From: Marcus, Desire Stephann, 1905-1996 :Panoramic photographs of staff at the DSIR and the Ford Motor Company, also a photograph of a DSIR open day

Reference: PAColl-6800

Description: Walter Nash and A H Allen at an open day at the DSIR Physics and Engineering Laboratory, between 1965-1966, at Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1920s-1950s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-25

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes, personalities, comprising: Visits to West Coast of Duke of Gloucester (1934-1935), Sir Willoughby of James O'Brien MP in Greymouth, 1947. Peter Fraser, Eruera Tirikatene, Sid Holland, Walter Nash in attendance. West Coast bridges Greymouth shops & offices Parachute jump Fire fighting Nursing and hospital, including Whataroa Hospital, Reefton Nurses Home, Nures from Grey Hospital in fancy dress Photographs taken 1920s-1950s by James Ring and L A Inkster of Greymouth Quantity: 85 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937

From: Minhinnick, Gordon :[Three cartoon laser copies, published in the New Zealand Herald, August - September 1937].

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-540-002

Description: The cartoon shows a man representing New Zealand, playing rugby and scoring a try. However he has put the ball down at the 25 yard line instead of the try line. Two players from the opposing team, representing British agriculture and Morrison, are laughing as they watch. Two New Zealand farmers are watching with complete surprise. Refers to New Zealand agriculture. Extended Title - "I could always raise a laugh in any British audience by assuring them that the try that Wales was alleged to have scored in 1905 was not a try at all. They all remembered the All Blacks." - Hon Walter Nash. Quantity: 1 Laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy, A4 size.

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: New Zealand Labour Party

Reference: Eph-B-NZ-LABOUR-1950s

Description: Includes political campaign material for the New Zealand Labour Party. Includes pamphlets or fliers for Walter Nash (1951, 1954 and 1957), John B Mora (St Albans, 1951), Michael Moohan (Petone, 1951), Ernie Langford (Otaki, 1956), Jim Edwards (Napier, 1957), Joe Cotterill (Wanganui, 1957), Jim Bateman (Karori, 1954). Also includes a pink pamphlet for the Greymouth local body elections in 1950. Includes a typescript copy (1959) of Walter Nash's final election address broadcast 29 November 1957. Quantity: 3 folder(s) containing approximatedly 27 fliers and pamphlets. Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and pamphlet, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Mrs Alexia Pickering, Wellington, in 2012; one by Bill Sheat, Wellington, in 2015.

Date: 1954

By: R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-STATE-1954-01

Description: Toast list and menu for a state luncheon. Proposers of toasts included: Prime Minister Right Hon S G Holland, Mayor of Auckland J H Luxford, and the Leader of the Opposition the Right Hon W Nash. A yellow kowhai motif appears opposite the toast list, and there are also yellow motifs of pohutukawa and silver fern. On the second last page is a photograph of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, 255 x 180 mm.

Date: 1957-1983

From: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

By: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006; Franchi, Dorothea Anne, 1920-2003; Jones, Horace Llewellyn Frederick, 1904-1980; Randal, John, active 1982

Reference: fMS-Papers-5775-09

Description: Compositions by Willow Macky and arrangements by others of her works Other Titles - Waitomo magic / words and music by Willow Macky ; arranged by Dorothea Franchi Other Titles - Walter Nash / words and music by Willow Macky Other Titles - Walter Nash - Prime Minister / words and music by Willow Macky ; arranged by Dorothea Franchi Other Titles - Wedding bells / words and music by Willow Macky Other Titles - Wedding bells / music by Willow Macky ; arranged for carillon by John Randal Other Titles - Wedding bells / words and music by Willow Macky ; arranged for unison voices and piano by Llewellyn Jones Other Titles - Welcome song / words and music by Willow Macky Other Titles - We'll all come to Zion / words and music by Willow Macky Other Titles - We're a great big city / words & music by Willow Macky Other Titles - A Wet night in Greymouth / words and music by Willow Macky Other Titles - A Wet night in Greymouth / words and music by Willow Macky ; arranged by Dorothea Franchi Other Titles - What do we want with a bomb? / music trad ; words and refrain by Willow Macky Other Titles - What is this feeling in my breast? / words & music by Willow Macky Other Titles - When a woman loves a man / words & music by Willow Macky Other Titles - When someone thinks of you Other Titles - Wisdom is better than weapons of war / words & music by Willow Macky Other Titles - The Wood pigeon / words and music by Willow Macky ; arranged for SAB by Dorothea Franchi Other Titles - The Words of John / words & music by Willow Macky Other Titles - You can't beat the Irish / words & music by Willow Macky Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: [1945 or 1946]

From: Garvitch, Jeremy Veniamin, 1890-1990 :Photographs and negatives

By: Garvitch, Jeremy Veniamin, 1890-1990

Reference: PA7-43-26

Description: Photograph of Walter Nash and members of the Petone Working Men's Club taken at their annual picnic by J V Garvitch, 1945 or 1946. The men are identified as W Gill (Vice-President); A Barlow (President); Coombs; J Mills. A J Barlow was President of the Petone Working Men's Club, 1945-1946 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 18.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: ca 1948 - 1966

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Ian Hulse Photography

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-018

Description: Photographs of Lower Hutt, Petone and Wellington city, taken circa 1948 to 1966, for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Included are photographs of streets, libraries, public swimming pools, the construction of the Petone overbridge, the Hutt River, the Hutt Recreation Ground, Petone foreshore, the opening of the Hutt Estuary Bridge, Percy's Reserve and State housing. 1840-1940 settlers memorial on Petone foreshore designed by H L Massey in 1939. Features a replica of the `Aurora'. Converted into the Petone Settlers Museum, in stages, between 1977-1989. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1900-1960

By: Jamison, John Hutchison, -1944; Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931; Belwood Studios; Taylor's Studios; Hardie Shaw Studios; Lafayette Ltd; Talma Studio (Australia); Lou Hobson Studios

Reference: PAColl-0520

Description: Photographs of mostly unidentified men and women including some group portraits. One is of a man and two women at a General Assembly in Paris (presumably of the United Nations) sitting behind their sign saying Nouvelle Zelande. The man is Dr W B Cutch(?). There are also twelve photographs of Waitangi day celebrations in 196l including a welcome to Maori ex-servicemen, addresses by the US Ambassador Russell and Governor-General Viscount Cobham and the dedication of the memorial by Bishop Panapa. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1912-ca1940

By: Sim, Leo, 1893-1957

Reference: PAColl-0270

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at F 175274 1/2. Previously NegColl-74/1. Copy Negatives from prints at F 115678 1/2 - F 115688 1/2. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: Came with MS Papers 249 folder 4.

Date: 1948 - 1949

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-311-6-001/057

Description: New Zealand topics include school holidays, overloaded trams, parking offenders, shop assistants' spelling shortcomings, hot weather, the performance of jockeys, building material shortages, a fun map of Auckland, raising money for rugby, long turn-arounds on the wharves, mortgage rates and housing rentals, womens' rights and strikes, unionism, road rules, food parcels for Britain, womens' role in parenting and education, schoolgirls wearing makeup, aeronautical research, Walter Nash's travels, New Zealand lifestyles, national defence policies, delays in constructing the Mangakino power scheme, school homework, power and fuel cuts, aluminium industry prospects, bids by Auckland and Christchurch for the 1950 Empire Games, communism and duck shooting, national economic performance, introduction of radar at Auckland airport, passenger transport, strikes, house building, defence of the British Empire, shortage of taxis in Auckland, traffic problems in Auckland, Aucklanders' lack of a sense of humour, car conversion, deteriorating cars, the siting of Auckland International Airport at Mangere, conscription, weekend family life and the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge. International topics include the Cold War, food parcels for Britain, the Five Nation Alliance against Soviet Russia, Commonwealth research into rocketry and aeronautics, British Empire defence zones, the Atlantic Pact, the reluctance of the USA to share defence secrets, New Zealand's place in international affairs, and Finance Minister Walter Nash's travels. Quantity: 57 Newspaper clippings. 57 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to card approx 245 x 165, plus A4 photocopies. Image sizes approximately 132 x 163 mm. Transfers: Newspaper clippings are at A-311-6 and photocopies of these at H-634-001/057.

Date: [ca 1954-1981]

By: Kelly, Margaret Nancy, 1912-1992

Reference: MS-Group-2388

Description: Comprises unpublished biography of Sir Walter Nash, including correspondence, research notes, clippings and letters from Nash; notes on aviation history; articles on the Haast Pass and Wellington Motorway; scrapbooks of her articles 1954-1974. Also includes a biography of the painter Sydney Hamlet Higgs. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 12 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs M N Kelly, 1990 Unknown donation, Mar 2015 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to Haast Road and Aviation.

Date: 1966

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

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-445-058

Description: Shows a number of proposed makes of new cars. Includes Kirk Bubble car - terific acceleration; Nash vintage model - permanent warrant of fitness; Watt high voltage model and worker's model - with all modern accessories (includes surf board, fishing rod, rugby ball and beer kegs) 13 May 1966 Labour Party's ideas for how to sell itself to the public. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 180 x 210 mm

Date: 23 Nov 1982

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Turner, Charles Frederick, 1892-

Reference: OHInt-0470/20

Description: Fred Turner came to Te Pu near Rotorua in 1903 when his father took up land, having previously farmed near Christchurch and Bluff. Describes `bush sickness', a cobalt deficiency in the soil, which damaged the animals. Mentions he was living at Pongakawa breaking in land for his father Charley. Talks about his seven brothers and sisters. Describes leaving school before the age of twelve and cooking for a gang of roadmen working in the area in 1904. Describes walking off the Te Pu property in 1931 having been sued for uncontrollable ragwort. Discusses how it was not explained that the land was on a fifty two year lease and he could have bought it back. Describes how most farmers at Te Pu were given land as part of the World War I rehabilitation scheme. Notes that this was land that farmers had previously walked off. Describes unsuccessful attempts to get compensation from the Government for the land. Talks about land at Hamurana and settlers Jack Catley, Harry Ward and the Dittmers. Talks about marrying Miss Dittmer. Talks about breaking in land for Major Herald in Paradise Valley and then buying and farming land in the Valley. Discusses land at Kaharoa. Mentions that people from Te Pu attended school at Kaharoa. Recalls attending tangi at Awahou village. Comments that many Maori were on the gumfields during this period. Talks about Fred Leonard. Describes working for Walter Steele in the bush at Mamaku in 1908 and working for the Mountain Rimu Timber Company. Recalls a fairly large community at Mamaku and describes living conditions at the camp. Describes going to the pictures in Rotorua at Kings Theatre, which was owned by Duncan Steele. Describes being the first farmer in the area to make ensilage and have his herd tested. Comments on successful potato growing. Talks about farm animals, milking cows, separating milk from cream and the dairy factory at Ngongotaha. Talks about Charlie and Bill Karl. Describes difficulties getting water on his property and digging a well to the depth of one hundred and seventy five feet. Discusses a financial scheme local farmers paid into to see them through hard times and describes how the money for the scheme was taken by Walter Nash. Comments on having to give up on farming because of his legs and gangrene. Mentions Dick Garlick driving coaches. Describes working on the road gang near Pongakawa. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2869.

Date: 6-7 May 1998 - 06 May 1998 - 07 May 1998

From: Government House oral history project Stage I

By: Hawthorn, Raymond George, 1927-2007

Reference: OHInt-0636/4

Description: Ray Hawthorn was born in Wellington in 1927. Gives details of his family background. Describes spending school holidays with his maternal grandfather, a butcher, at Rongotea. Describes his work routine, killing a pig and making sausages. Recalls difficult times during the Depression and his father's unemployment. Describes time off school for infantile paralysis (polio). Talks about growing up in Owen Street in Newtown, Wellington, being a cub and a boy scout and attending Wellington South School. Describes employment as a telegram boy with Post and Telegraph. Discusses restrictions on telegrams during World War II. Talks about becoming Government House delivery boy then being transferred from the Post Office to the Internal Affairs Department. Mentions Albert Naulls. Describes the Official Secretary at Government House, David Fouhy, and comments on the formality. Mentions the Governor-General was Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall. Describes how the butler ruled one half of Government House, the Official Secretary the other. Describes lunches, etiquette, forms of address and curtseying. Discusses formalities at staff meals and explains the hierarchy. Discusses military hero Lord Freyberg who was the next Governor-General from 1946-1952. Comments on Lord and Lady Freyberg as a couple. Recalls visits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Field Marshall Montgomery and Lyndon B Johnson. Comments on politicians Sir Sidney Holland and Peter Fraser. Talks about the gardens at Government House and changes to the building before a royal tour. Discusses the 1953 Royal Tour, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mentions the Tangiwai disaster. Talks about getting married in 1956 to Shirley Goldfinch who worked at Government House. Describes his daily working routine, with reference to the mail, becoming senior orderly and later Administration Officer. Discusses the etiquette of presenting decorations. Talks about Lord Norrie, Governor-General from 1952-1957, and Lord Cobham. Mentions Lord Cobham's love of cricket. Discusses relationships between Governors-General and Prime Ministers. Mentions Walter Nash. Talks about English aides de camp before the time of Lord Porritt and changes with employment of more New Zealanders as staff. Describes the replacement of David Fouhy by David Williams as Official Secretary. Discusses the relationship between the Official Secretary and the Comptroller. Describes moving Government House to Auckland for three months each year. Talks about Sir Denis Blundell as Governor-General from 1972-1977 and then Sir Keith Holyoake. Comments on Waitangi Day and protest, Dame Whina Cooper and the 1981 Springbok Tour. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3398.

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.