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Date: 21 Apr 1999

From: Southland oral history project

By: Faul, Alva M, active 1998; Humphries, Arthur Leonard, 1922-2010

Reference: OHInt-0464/10

Description: Arthur Humphries was born in Mataura in 1922. Describes his schooling at Tuturau School, training with the RNZAF and having lived at Tuturau, Rotorua, Canada, England and Invercargill. Summarises his interests in local government, education, farming, golf, tennis, bowls, fishing, hiking, the Masonic Lodge and the Justice of the Peace Association. Mentions marrying Doreen in 1946 and having two daughters and one son. Describes long-term involvement with the Edendale School Committe and the Southland Education Board. Mentions the burning down of the Edendale School and the establishment of the school bus service. Describes other Board involvement including Cargill High School, the Secondary School Boards Association, the Education Boards Association and St Peter's College in Gore. Describes life as an airman in World War II stationed at Brighton, England before being posted to 75 Bomber Squadron. Describes being a navigator and going through the ranks. Recalls difficult flights including daylight raids after Normandy landing, flying with the windows blown out of the plane and having 140 bullet holes in the aircraft. Recalls being one of seven shot down in a plane in the Ruhr Valley in Germany. Describes how three were shot by Germans and he was a a prisoner of war for three months before being released by Allied troops. Comments on bombing destruction in Germany and England. Recalls working in Brighton at the Personnel, Despatch and Reception Centre responsible for sending people home to New Zealand, meeting his wife Doreen, marrying and returning to New Zealand in December 1946. Recalls his investiture for the DFM at Buckingham Palace and talking to King George VI. Describes settling on his uncle's farm at Kamahi near Tuturau and taking over half of the property in 1949. Mentions riding a horse to get supplies, draining the swampland on the farm and increasing the stock. Describes shearing, harvesting wheat and belonging to the Morton Mains branch of Federated Farmers. Discusses having been a Justice of the Peace for forty years, dealing with preliminary hearings, attending an educational seminar and setting up a training programme for local JPs. Describes being awarded a QSO for Community Service to education, the RSA and JPs. Recalls his investiture with Sir Paul Reeves. Discusses hydroponics and living at Otatara. Interviewer(s) - Alva Faul Quantity: 2 MiniDisc(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2687. Photograph of Arthur Humphries Search dates: 1999

Date: 1943-1944

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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-078

Description: Some photographs include captions. Images of mountain village of Gessopalena, 1943; Roman remains; soldiers from Ashburton at Battery Gala Day held at Arce; Commander of 8th Army, Gen Sir Oliver Leese shaking hands with Gen Freyberg when he visited NZ HQ in Italian Front; town of Ortona, 1944 (photographer, Sgt G F Kaye); at Italian Front, Xmas Eve, 1943 showing difficult roads encountered by transport of 2nd NZ Division; a `jeep train' on the move; NZ Mobile Bath Unit (Shower); NZ Engineers, Mar 1944; carols on Christmas morning played by 4th Armed Brigade Band, Dec 1943; soldiers in the snow (S Fife, J Kirkly, R C Holland, F Carrick & N Burnette); general view of church and ceremonial parade held in Volturno Valley area, Jan 1944; parade of 6th Infantry Brigagde in Volturno Valley and presentation of medals by Gen Freyberg, Jan 1944; bombardment of Cassino. Radio operators; Instruction school (outdoors); unloading NZ patriotic parcels at a supply point on Italian Front; women refugees cooking outdoors at Pitti Palace, Florence; village of Altino, Dec 1944; Riunion Adriatica di Sicurta (building); general views of Italian countryside (unidentified); smoke from bombs which landed on German positions at Guadralgeri, Dec 1943; demolished bridge. On 2 Oct 1943 the New Zealand Division was moved from Egypt to support the 8th Army in Italy. Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1915

From: [Programmes and other ephemera for athletics meetings and sports clubs. 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Canterbury Centre; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Henderson, Andrew Kennaway, 1879-1960; Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974; Cumberworth, Frederick Herbert, 1881-

Reference: Eph-B-ATHLETICS-1915-01

Description: Programme for an athletics meeting held to raise funds for Belgian civilans suffering during the first World War. As well as the programme, there are cartoons and caricatures by Kennaway, F H Cumberworth, Booth and Baverstock. There are satirical pieces and verse by Cyrano, A.E.M., and anonymous contributors. The programme contains advertisements for W Strange & Company (furnishers) and the Evening News. Other Titles - We ask your help Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) and offset text in booklet.. Physical Description: Booklet of 39 pages, each 278 x 217 mm.

Date: 1916

From: [Ephemera relating to patriotism, fundraising for the war effort, during World War I. 1914-1918. Folder 1]

By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1916-01

Description: Booklet listing all 237 lots for sale at a patriotic auction of bottles, and describing the process of collecting the bottles, which will be ground down for the war effort. Bottles for the following products were included: whisky, wine and claret, Hayward's pickle, coffee essences, sauces, Koefoed sauce, honey bottles, jelly jars, flasks, vingar bottles, ink bottles, Bennett's Carbonated waters, Lane's Carbonated waters, Thomson's carbonated waters, meat paste and tongue containers, Lane's, West's and Sharpe's 1-gallon screw-top jars, Nileson Vickers 1-gallon jars, Campbell and List's, Briggs's, K&P, Cinese earthernware bottles, stone curacao and stone gins pots, blue poisons, beef and iron wine, malt extracts, Mellin's Food, Humanised Milk, Essences, Round-shouldered limes, Direct Squares, Lane's Emulsion, United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, F Wilkinson, J Waters, R Scofield, J Neill Ltd, U L Gallien, C V Inglis, H Bagley and Son, H W R Outram, N Dodds, A M Hendy, R Conn, J R Hayne, W Elder, W U Donnelly, champagne, stone ginger beer, infant feeding bottles ("Shirkers"), 10-gallon acid glass carboys. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages each 182 x 123 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

By: Candy, Oliver, active 1941-1996

Reference: PAColl-9560

Description: Photographs relating to Olly Candy's service during World War II and as part of J Force. Shows images of Feilding, Fort Dorset (Wellington), El Alamein, Florence, Faenza, New Zealand barracks at Yamaguchi and the devastation at Hiroshima. Includes images of the well known "killing of the pig incident" at Florence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2009 Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Calendar of the voyage of 2 NZEF Jayforce from R.M.S. "Strathmore", 1946 (Eph-A-WAR-WII-Japan-1946-02); Name card of the final 6th Manawatu Mounted Rifles reunion, 1995 (Eph-A-WAR-WII-Reunions-1995).