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Date: 1941

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: Moore & Thompson (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-186

Description: Series of photos taken during three months training at Cambridge, New Zealand during Jun-Aug 1941. Some include captions. Three group photos taken at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, Aug 1941 by Moore & Thompson, Rotorua photographic firm Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1968-1976

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-154/9/3/21

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-787

Description: Shows three scenes in which rugby players find ways to stop playing in order to watch the rugby test. The first wants to be ordered off from his game after infringing the rules. The second has been injured and wants ambulance officers to take him to a TV instead of to hospital. The third has arrived home to watch TV after playing a shortened 20 minute game. Refers to rugby test N.Z. versus Scotland played in Dunedin on 12 June 1981. Extended Title - A lot of those players will do their best to get to watch it - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 455 x 320 mm.

Date: 1945-1947

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/15

Description: Correspondence and papers include Royal Humane Society of New Zealand re bronze medal awarded to T A Dobson and son H Dobson for the rescue of 3 youths at Plimmerton, 20 Oct 1946; Hutt Valley Pony Club, 1947; Wellington Beautifying Society; Boy Scouts Assn (Hutt Valley and Bays County) re Jamboree in France; Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture; Barton's Bush, Upper Hutt; minutes of special meeting held Feb 1947 re transit housing at Trentham Camp; Wellington Citizens Anniversary Regatta Committee Inc, 1947; war memorials; Auckland and Suburban Drainage League Inc, 1946; Wellington Suburbs Defence Rifle Club, 1946 re Collins and Somerville Ranges at Trentham; rat poison for the Norway rat; letter re the naming of Hutt County, 1946; Corso; Hutt Valley St John Ambulance Building Campaign Committee, 1945; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1931-1958

By: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989

Reference: PAColl-6162

Description: Photographs of people who were members of the Friends Ambulance Unit; the Friends Service Council hostel in Shanghai; Photographs of Chinese, and Chinese actors in traditional drama. There are snaps of the sights of Shanghai. Most of these groups of photographs date from 1947 to 1950. The next group which date from 1931 to ca 1950 are photographs of meetings of the Society of Friends. There is also a photograph of an early ban the bomb demonstration, and one group photograph of the staff of Massey Agricultural College. Finally there are a few personal photographs of family and friends Quantity: 205 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Broad lists of material provided by donor.

Date: 1976

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-431

Description: This cartoon features the December 1976 floods in Wellington and the Hutt and has a scene of the officials doing their jobs of rescuing and clearing during the downpour 1976 cartoon filed with those of 1978 (about 21 Dec 1976) Extended Title - We would like to recognise the public debt of gratitude to firemen, traffic officers, council workmen, police, free ambulance - thank you Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 302 x 378 mm

Date: 1915 - 1975 - 1985

Reference: Eph-B-ST-JOHN-1900s

Description: Includes: 1915: St John Ambulance Association. National Reserve, NZ. Voluntary aid detachments St John Ambulance. 12 April 1915. Flyer 1974: St John's Day service and Investiture service by His Excellency the Governor-General Sir Denis Blundell. Town Hall Wellington, 17 November 1974. Order of service. 1975: Venerable Order of St John. Church service to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Order in New Zealand at St Mary's Merivale where the first meeting was held on 30th April 1885. Sunday 29th June 1975 at 2.30 pm. Order of service 1978: Order of St John. Wellington Metropolitan Sub-Centre. Circular letter August 1978 appealing for funds. 1982: Be a first aider. St John Ambulance. commencing 17 February 1982, 5th floor Rostrevor House. Flyer 1983: Order of St John. Wellington Metropolitan Sub-Centre. Circular letter appealing for funds. June 1983 (2 copies) 1985: Centennial of St John in New Zealand. Centennial commemoration and investiture service by the Grand Prior His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, at the Town Hall, Christchurch New Zealand, 7 April 1985. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 items. Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Averil Callisen, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/16

Description: George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days. Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence. Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee. Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016944

Description: A Red Cross helicopter is afraid it won't make the hospital, not because of gales, mountains and blizzards but because the Hagley Park gate is locked. Context - A rescue helicopter pilot says that the Christchurch Hospital has "the worst helipad in the South Island because casualties are flown to Christchurch's Hagley Park helipad and then have to endure a road transfer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1952

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

Reference: EP/1952/4275-G

Description: Injured tunnel worker covered in blankets lying in an ambulance after an accident on the Rimutaka Tunnel project. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in 1952. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 10.5 x 8cm

Date: 2002, 2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000479

Description: Photographs relating to the Order of St John Ambulance Service in the West Coast. Includes photographs of cadets, processions, officers administering first aid, and first aid training. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Services (Fire-Ambulance (st john))" Quantity: 56 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1999-2005

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000480

Description: Photographs relating to the fire and ambulance services in West Coast. Includes photographs of fire fighting, award and medal presentations to ambulance officers and fire fighters, fire fighting competitions, Klempel memorial, and fire fighting and rescue demonstrations. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Services (Fire-Ambulance)" Quantity: 74 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1952

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

Reference: EP/1952/4274-G

Description: Amblance man loading injured tunnel worker into an ambulance after an accident on the Rimutaka Tunnel project. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in 1952. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 10.5 x 8cm

Date: 1914-1918

From: Powles family papers

Reference: PA1-o-814

Description: Coverage mainly Sir Guy's activities with Island Territories Dept (Samoa) and Foreign Affairs; Ombudsman. Also material relating to Sir Guy's father who saw service in Boer War and WWI and some material relating to his grandfather. Of particular importance are Colonel Powles well documented albums recording his involvement in the Gallipoli and Egyptian and Palestine campaigns, World War One. Many of these photographs were used to illustrate his official war history. Most of the negatives relate to Egypt and Palestine. Quantity: 1 album(s).