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Date: 1950 - 1953

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1950/1953

Description: Includes: 1950: Ruatoria Cricket Club. Opening dance. Saturday 2nd December 1950. Mangahanea Hall, with Prince Ferris and his Orchestra. [Ticket]. Australia v Otago at Carisbrook. 10,11 & 13 March 1950. Programme. Australia v Wellington. Basin Reserve. 1, 3 & 4 April 1950. Programme. 1951: M.C.C. v Auckland. Eden Park. 6-8 March 1951. Programme. M.C.C. versus New Zealand (second test). Basin Reserve Wellington. 24, 26-28 March 1951. Programme (2 copies) 1952: West Indies vs Otago. Carisbrook Dunedin, 2-5 February 1952. Programme (hardbound) West Indies v New Zealand. Lancaster Park Christchurch. 8-9, 11-12 February 1952. Programme. West Indies v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park Auckland. 15-16, 18-19 February 1952. Programme. West Indies v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington. 23, 25-26 February 1952. Programme. (2 copies) 1953: South Africa versus New Zealand. Basin Reserve Wellington. 6-7, 9-10 March 1953. Programme. South Africa v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park, Auckland. 13-14, 16-17 March 1953. Programme. New Zealand tour of South Africa 1953-4. Official souvenir cricket brochure, edited and compiled by G A Chettle. The New Zealand Cricket team in South Africa 1953-54. With the compliments of Beaths, the store for men, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Greymouth, Kaikoura. Tour booklet Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 13 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1957 - 1959

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1957/1959

Description: Includes: 1957: Otago v Central Districts. Plunket Shield. Carisbrook, 18-21 1957. Programme. Australia v New Zealand. Lancaster Park, 1-4 March 1957. Programme.ia v New Zealand. Eden Park Auckland, 16-19 March 1957. Programme. Australia versus New Zealand. Second test. Basin Reserve, Wellington, 8-11 March 1957. Programme Australia v New Zealand. Eden Park, 29 March - 1 April 1957. Programme. England Women's Cricket Team. New Zealand tour 1957-58. Souvenir programme for match against the North Island, Basin Reserve, 5-6 November 1957 1958: Cricketers from New Zealand. NZCC; the 1958 tour official souvenir. MCC v New Zealanders. Lord's Ground, 17-20 May 1958. Score card. England v New Zealand. Lord's Ground, 19-24 June 1958. Score card. T N Pearce's XI v New Zealand. Scarborough Cricket Ground, 10-12 September 1957. Score card. 1959: England v New Zealand. First cricket test. Lancaster Park, 27 February - 3 March 1959. Programme. MCC v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington, 6-9 March 1959. Programme (2 copies, with a portrait of Peter May on the front cover) MCC v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park, 14-18 March 1959. Programme. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 13 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1955

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-038

Description: Shows a row of people, dressed as a swimmer, cricket player, tennis player, sailor, bowler, golfer and photographer, marching past the sun and saluting it. Refers to the fine weather in Auckland. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1954 - 1956

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1954/1956

Description: Includes: 1954: Waikato Cricket Association. Fiji v Waikato. Seddon Park, Hamilton. 20-21 January 1954. Programme. Fiji v Canterbury. Lancaster Park, 19-22 February 1954. Official programme 1955: England v New Zealand. First test match, Carisbrook Ground Dunedin. 11-16 March 1955. Programme, with a photo of England's captain Len Hutton on the cover. MCC v Wellington. Basin Reserve, 19-22 March 1955. Programme (2 copies, with a picture of England's find, Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson on the cover) England v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park, 25-30 March 1955. Programme. New Zealand Cricket team. India - Pakistan 1955-1956. Christmas card from Trevor McMahon (with team photo and aerial photo of the Brabourne Stadium, Bombay) 1956: West Indies v New Zealand. First test, Carisbrook Ground Dunedin, 3-7 February 1956. Programme West Indies v New Zealand. Lancaster Park, 18-22 February 1956. Programme. West Indies v Central Districts. Cook's Gardens, Wanganui, 24-27 February 1956. Souvenir programme New Zealand v West Indies. Third test at the Basin Reserve Wellington, 3-7 March 1956. Programme (2 copies, with a portrait of Everton Weekes on the cover)) Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 12 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1956

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5936-23

Description: New Zealand cricket team taking the field in the 1956 test against the West Indies, in Auckland. From left: S N McGregor, J E F Beck, S C Guillen, H B Cave, M E Chapple, A R MacGibbon, L S M Miller, J R Reid, D D Beard, D D Taylor and J C Alabaster. Photographer unidentified. This photograph was published in the New Zealand Free Lance, on the 21st of March 1956. The New Zealanders went on to win by 190 runs (Information from caption on back of print) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: C-164-051

Description: In the foreground a bowler discharges a terrific curling and bouncing ball in a cricket match. The batsman is cross-eyed with amazement and the ball is easily caught out by a laughing wicket-keeper. Text below reads 'An Ivers 'un!' Context - A tour of New Zealand by the Australian team. The text will refer to Jack Iverson, a fast bowler known for his unique "bent finger" grip. The ground is probably the Basin reserve in Wellington. Glued to the cartoon is a slip reading 'The Evening Post March 25...1950'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue pencil on paper glued to card, 580 x 410 mm

Date: Sep 1950, Mar 1951

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: Woollett, E, active 1951-1955

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-136

Description: Series of photographs taken by E Woollett (Linton), and Mr Walker (cricket) of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions. Training at Linton - Exercises with poles; confidence course; preliminary battle training; class room lecture (Capt E R Firth); map reading (Eric Eves & McLeod brothers); route march; sten gun instruction (Bruce Dick, Roy Saunders and Phillip Hansen); first parade. Portraits of - Colonel Thornton (CO Linton Military Camp); John Brathwaite and Tom Fraser (recent English immigrants); 2nd Lt R W Odlin (English immigrant); 2nd Lt N L Miller & 2nd Lt C Gardiner; Roy Hugh McKenzie (padre); Charles Bell (ex Maori Battalion); B A Corbett; Noel and Douglas Bevins of Palmerston North. Departure for and arrival at Linton - Assembled for transport; group of officer recruits (Miller, Davis, Johnson, Gardiner, Odlin, Mason, Moloughney, Llewellyn, Stanbridge & Petersen); Wellington Contingent on platform at Wellington railway station prior to boarding train for Linton; E G Eves & R Churcher on board the train; McClelland & Tews being farewelled by the Tews sisters; G A Bramley being fitted for fatigue drills by Cpl Ratapu; dental check-up for D J Anderson with WAAC Corporal E A Nairn and Lt/Col W M Ford; R E Christensen receiving his rifle and equipment. Three photographs taken during second cricket test between England and NZ at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, March 1951 Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).