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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: [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Description: Comprises unpublished biography of Sir Walter Nash, including correspondence, research notes, clippings and letters from Nash; notes on aviation history; articles on the Haast Pass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: 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: 1960

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-076

Description: Watched by a small crowd Prime Minister Walter Nash is operating a tip truck which is dumping ten million pounds worth of fill into water. His left hand indicates a factory subscribed £4 million in the left distance. Above the truck, as doves, Arnold Nordmeyer, Finance Minister, labelled 'surplus' and a businessman labelled 'cotton interests' fly. The cartoon refers to the amount of money the government was prepared to 'pour' into the establishment of the railway and a cotton manufacturing industry in Nelson. In the bottom right of the cartoon is written 'With apologies to Ol' Virginny, Stephen Foster An' Pore Black Joe'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, white paint and pencil 380 x 470 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 22 Jan 1940

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

Reference: PAColl-8557-28

Description: Dignitaries arriving, amongst a crowd, for the unveiling of the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial in Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, on 22 January 1940. Shows the Governor General, Lord Galway (centre, holding a pale hat), Lady Galway, Mr London (Mayor of Petone), the Honourable Walter Nash (Minister of Finance), and the Honourable Peter Fraser (Prime Minister). The man behind the main figures is possibly photographer Jeremy Garvitch. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for the 'Evening Post'. Publication note - Published in the 'Evening Post' 23 January 1940 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. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print, and 'Evening Post' feature published 23 January 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.8 x 20.7 cm