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Date: [1953-1971]

By: Herbert family

Reference: MS-Group-1313

Description: Eleven diaries from 1953 to 1971 mostly written by Bobby Herbert while the family was living Ardmore and Papakura. There are domestic diaries and diary/scrapbooks combining domestic detail, invitations, events, aspects of Charles Herbert's career as a teacher and New Zealand events of the time. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 11 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 6 Sep 1858-31 Aug 1859, 1 Jan 1864-9 Aug 1872

By: Ormond, Hannah, 1833-1929

Reference: MS-1737-1738

Description: First diary contains lengthy daily entries describing shipboard life and daily life at Napier with her family. The second diary contains brief entries describing daily life at Wallingford, raising children, social affairs, weather and visitors, etc. Few entries for years 1865 and 1871. 1858-1859 diary contains 3 loose pages and some torn out of volume Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Further Hannah Ormond diaries from a different provenance are held at MS-1739-1746 Scottish-born Hannah Richardson emigrated to New Zealand with her mother on board the Evening Star which left Gravesend on 11 Sep 1858 and arrived at Auckland on 21 Dec 1858. They then travelled by schooner to Napier where they joined George Richardson, Hannah's brother, who had emigrated the year before. Hannah married John Ormond, a well-known political figure in the area, on 4 Dec 1860 and settled at Wallingford Station near Waipukurau, Hawkes Bay Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (19 cm; green cloth, in grey phase boxes)

Date: 1930, 1950-1953, 1959-1961

By: Cook, Lena Elizabeth, 1889-1961

Reference: MS-Papers-3783

Description: Her diaries record daily domestic activities: housework, gardening and visits from friends and family. In 1953 she began to suffer from severe rheumatism and commenced recording her symptoms, diet and medication daily. As the disease worsened over the years this record of her illness came to predominate in the diaries. Source of title - Supplied title Mrs Lena Cook lived in Featherston in 1930. By 1950 she was living in Northland, Wellington, and in 1951 she shifted to Raumati Beach where she spent the remainder of her life. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (12 v). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1980 - 1981

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-001/025

Description: Cartoons on international and New Zealand political and social issues. Quantity: 25 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1880-1959, 1962, 1964, 16 Mar 1918, 6 Feb 1925, 17 Apr-27 Sep 1937

By: Hansen family; Tiller, Eileen Mavis, active 1957-2014

Reference: MS-Group-0887

Description: Estate papers of W F Hansen and his father Anders. These include correspondence, diaries, autograph books, insurance papers, accounts, property papers, papers re British & Continental Film Company Ltd, 1920s. The diaries of Elizabeth Hansen, 1928-1932, 1954-1959, 1962, 1964, contain brief daily entries describing her domestic activities, weather conditions, involvement in community work and the Methodist Church. The early diaries were kept while the Hansens were in Featherston (the period immediately following their marriage). From 1954, after Fred Hansen died, Elizabeth lived at Masterton. Included in some of the diaries are newspaper clippings which report on church and community affairs. Contains letters by Anne Hansen aboard the `Rangitata', in England and Ireland to Fred and Lizzie Hansen in Masterton, New Zealand. Anne describes her daily life and travel and discusses family matters. Also contains a letter from Lena Cook (nee Hansen) while on holiday in Melbourne and a letter from an ex-soldier Elyabill Harrold to Fred Hansen following Fred's return from World War One. See ATL-Group-00334 for photographic material relating to the Hansen family. William Frederick Hansen's father, Anders Hansen was a lighthouse keeper. Fred Hansen was born at Cape Saunders, Westport. He was a tunneller in World War One. Elizabeth and Fred Hansen lived at Featherston and later moved to Masterton where Fred died in 1953. Mrs Eileen Tiller (née Hansen) is the niece of Mrs and Mrs Hansen. Quantity: 32 volume(s). 9 folder(s). 0.71 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Eileen Tiller is the granddaughter of lighthouse keeper Anders Hansen. Processing information: Twenty diaries arrived in the Photographic Archive and were separated from the photographic material as was the practice at the time.

Date: 2004

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-739-039/049

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Quantity: 11 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-103/124

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the lack of consultion with the Ministry of Women's Affairs regarding National's Code of Social responsibility. East Coast Maori use dubious methods to stamp out intimidation during a land protest. The Broadcasting Minister defends his proposal to introduce ads onto National Radio. The Minister of Energy, Max Bradford defends privatisation of the electricity supply in the face of power blackouts throughout Auckland. Jenny Shipley takes a hard-line against assisting Auckland in the midst of their 7 week power crisis. National Party Ministers run for cover as Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley calls for heads to roll over the Auckland power crisis. Jenny Shipley's image as 'ordinary' housewife and mother is questioned on her trip to Japan. Curator Ian Wedde, defends the 'Virgin in a Condom' exhibit at Te Papa. National's Health Minister, Bill English reassures the public that local surgery is at crisis point. NZ Post end free delivery of Talking Books to the blind. Ruth Richardson announces her intention to stand for ACT in the Taranaki by-election. Comment on the last remaining stands of West Coast Rimu forest. More cracks appear in the Health system. New Zealand's economic position is blamed on the Asian crisis with lower paid workers bearing the brunt of restraints on wage increases. Comment on emergency services failing to get to call-outs within a reasonable time. Comment on another Hurricanes rugby team loss. Jenny Shipley regrets she's unable to make grand gestures like Russian leader, Boris Yeltsin, who recently sacked his entire government. Winston Peters is awarded an Oscar for his best supporting role in a comedy or farce in the coalition government. Comment on the Americans insistance on carrying arms even when it's a child carrying an assault rifle. Paralells drawn between rioting at Paremoremo Prision and Winston Peters rioting within the coalition government. Discussion which shows how the National Party cabinet works. Winston Peters trys to knock the New Zealand economy into shape by the use of threats and violence. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [ca 1 Sep 1969]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1969/3743-F

Description: Mr T Victory drilling out the ports of Mrs P Hoey's oven for the conversion to natural gas. Photographs taken in Newlands, Wellington, circa 1 September 1969 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1982

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-136-110

Description: Shows three scenes. In the upper scene Kawerau pulp and paper mill workers agree not to strike on seeing their wives protesting and telling them not to be greedy. In the lower left scene a manager is confronted by his wife in the office demanding that he not be greedy and give her more money for Christmas shopping. In the lower right scene a lone woman is standing outside a pub with a sign telling her husband not to be thirsty, while inside his friends are telling him his wife wants him to go home. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 450 x 330 mm.

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1956

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

Reference: A-309-055

Description: Shows a woman walking down the street carrying bags in each arm. Half of her hair has been cut and styled and the rest is hanging down. Two women are leaning over their fence and pointing and commenting on her hair as she walks past. Refers to the evening classes in hairdressing which were stopped in Auckland after protests from New Zealand ladies' hairdressers. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1943

From: Artist unknown: Three illustrated envelopes addressed to Mrs Elsa Peacock

Reference: A-434-054

Description: Envelope sent by Mr Morrie Peacock to his wife on her birthday from the Conscientious Objectors' Camp at Strathmore, Reporoa, hut no. 161. The envelope was illustrated by another inmate of the camp, and shows a woman in an apron cutting a birthday cake. The envelope has a red 2d stamp at top right and a rubber postage stamp from Whenuaroa. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on envelope. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on envelope, 91 x 146 mm. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Drawings Paintings and Prints; other material transferred from there, including a funeral service for Elsa Iva Peacock 1918-2010 (Eph-A-FUNERAL-2010), and marriage, birth and death certificates for members of the family (to Manuscripts).

Date: 3 May 1989 - 03 May 1989

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Lawry, Thomas Henry, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0185/17

Description: Thomas Lawry was born in Reefton in 1926. Describes his family's move to Greymouth and his father's employment with Newmans (bus company). Talks about his siblings, particularly his sisters, and his mother. Discusses her role as a housewife. Comments on strong family bonds. Recalls that his father and brother were strong members of the life saving club. Describes his family as musical and talks about the whole family going to the pub on a Sunday. Recalls the Blaketown School and then school attendance at Greymouth, Westport, Riwaka and Nelson College. Talks about sport at secondary school, getting School Certificate and going farming. Comments that he was unable to attend university. Describes becoming a clerical cadet with the records department of State Advances Corporation. Talks about loans available to returned servicemen including farm loans, residential loans, furniture loans and tools of trade loans. Notes that farm loans were conditional on the farmer going on a budget. Comments on the psychological stress of some returned servicemen. Describes the work structure and policies and procedures of the Nelson office. Comments on the importance of letter-writing as a work skill. Talks about the scarcity of rental properties after the war and the development of Porirua and similar housing areas in response to the pressure. Describes his work as mainly dealing with mortgages on private residences. Refers to staff members Bill (William) Hay, Johnny Wood, F.E. Mitchell, K.J. Caverhill, J.D. R. Wood, Jack Ashton, R.G. Millard, E.J. Babe, H.J. (Hec) King, Colin Reid and Albert Fear. Comments that he would like to see the group housing scheme reactivated. Compares cluster housing and group housing. Recalls time spent in Gisborne from 1959 as Residential Officer. Notes that he was involved with the rehabilitation of Maori farms on the East coast. Discusses encouragement by the Maori Affairs Department of the resettlement of Maori in urban areas. Talks about the different style of housing required by Maori and the failure of an old people's home in Ruatoria. Comments on the good relationship State Advances had with Maori and the adoption by the Maori Affairs Department of their procedures. Describes learning the Maori language and discusses his belief that Gisborne is a microcosm of New Zealand in the future. Talks about moving to Invercargill and describes Gisborne and Invercargill as `chalk and cheese'. Recalls working in Nelson and Christchurch before becoming Divisional Director of Housing at Head Office. Talks about his responsibility for state housing throughout the country. Discusses the restructuring of State Advances Corporation into the Housing Corporation and Rural Bank in 1974. Mentions Marilyn Waring. Describes becoming Manager of the Porirua Branch of the Housing Corporation. Comments that the Porirua housing scheme does not deserve its stigma. Discusses the strong community spirit in Porirua. Venue - Lower Hutt : 1989 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - At Mr Lawry's home at Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002257; OHC-002258; OHC-002259 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 418.

Date: 1955

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: E-549-q-08-017

Description: Shows a ship named 'Thermonopolae' at anchor with Prime Minister, Sid Holland, as a figure-head on the prow. A group of housewives wearing Indian feathers in their hair who represent the 'Auckland Housewives Association' throw boxes of '8/- lb Tea' from the ship into the sea. A small boat full of enraged tea merchants wearing nineteenth century coats, breeches and wigs floats helplessly nearby. This is a reminder of the Boston tea party of 1773 which was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor. Refers to a protest at the price of tea? Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping glued to paper, 155x 215 mm

Date: 1946

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards]

By: Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington South Branch; Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995

Reference: Eph-A-HOUSING-1946-01-cover

Description: Shows a dilapidated house by a sign for Adelaide Road. Movers are shifting furniture out of it, while a Plunket nurse cheerfully weighs a baby in the foreground. Boys play beneath a washing line, and a tram in the background carries a sign to "Use D.D.T. today". In the distance factory chimneys pour smoke into the sky. Dated from text which mentions 1937 as "nine years ago". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of brochure.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on cover 209 x 134 mm.

Date: 1955

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-052

Description: Shows a ship named 'Thermonopolae' at anchor with Prime Minister, Sid Holland, as a figurehead on the prow. A group of housewives wearing Indian feathers in their hair who represent the 'Auckland Housewives Association' throw boxes of '8/- lb Tea' from the ship into the sea. A small boat full of enraged tea merchants wearing nineteenth century coats, breeches and wigs floats helplessly nearby. Context - The name of the ship 'Thermonopolae' is a play on the name of the ship 'Thermopylae' which was designed for the China tea trade, and set speed records on her maiden voyage to Melbourne -- 63 days, still the fastest trip under sail.The cartoon is about the disequilibrium in the market by fixing prices after the war. It is a reminder of the Boston tea party of 1773 which was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor. Refers to a protest at the price of tea? Other Titles - Liberty Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and Chinese white on paper 380 x 555 mm

Date: Apr 1942

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0045

Description: Housewives examining a ration book, Auckland, photographed April 1942 by the Weekly News. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1922

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Woman and Home (periodical); Sayes, Edwin, active 1909-1920

Reference: B-185-093

Description: Cover illustration for a women's magazine shows a central inset oval illustration of a mother holding a child on her lap. Cherubs hold garlands at the top corners of the page. At lower left and right are seated women in long robes, the one at the left with an open book on her lap, and the one at the right with an arrangement of ripe fruit. Behind each of these two flanking women is a house in a garden and tree setting. Inside the front cover is an advertisement for Madam Lorraine, electrologist. Inside the back cover is an advertisement by the Reliance Sales Agency for an infants' collapsible combination chair. The back cover advertises the crockery department of Smeetons Limited general store in Auckland. Design is likely to be by Leslie Rykers, given the provenance of this item. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet folded to 280 x 220 mm.