Places

Date: 1950 - 1975

By: Thorp, Nigel, active 1978-2018

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-Thorp-1950/1970s

Description: Includes blocks of advertising and stationery from firms in the South Taranaki area, including Hawera, Stratford and Toko. Sheet 1 shows sheet music for the Hawera Highland Pipe Band Jubilee Waltz. Includes advertising to promote Hawera, brand names, South Taranaki businesses, and associations. Quantity: 93 b&w art print(s) (proof print sheets). Physical Description: Block prints on sheets of sizes varying, around 400 x 300 mm.

Date: 1960

By: Williams, Griffith William Arthur, 1885-1963

Reference: MS-Papers-11015

Description: Account of bushfelling and farming in South Taranaki Accompanying material - Obituary for Griffith Williams Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1903-1951

By: Howitt, William King, 1868-1956

Reference: MS-Papers-0018

Description: Correspondence, chiefly relating to Howitt's published works Other Titles - A Pioneer looks back again Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1935

Reference: Eph-B-ASSOCIATION-STBGACA

Description: Flyers appealing for support for the club. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mimeographs and letterpress on sheets sizes varying up to 290 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, in 2015.

Date: 24 Feb 1995 - 4 May 1995 - 22 Nov 1996

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Sinclair, Ronald Yelverton, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0438-13

Description: Ron Sinclair was born in Eltham in 1930. His early life was spent in Taranaki where his father was a school teacher. Recalls being keen on sport, being dux, going to Ardmore Teachers College and teaching at Inglewood. Talks about when his mother died, his father broke his neck, his brother and sister were in hospital and he went to work on his sick uncle's dairy and cropping farm near Dannveirke. Recalls that this was 1952 and he stayed on the farm for twenty years. Mentions marrying in 1954 and having three children. Comments on his interest and involvement in church life. Recalls being a lay reader, being encouraged to go into the church and being ordained a priest in 1976. Mention his withdrawal from the Masonic Lodge and giving up divining water. Recalls working in the Anglican ministry at the hospital, putting a share-milker on the farm and becoming minister at Porangahau. Discusses the challenge of getting to know Maori, attending tangi, services on the marae and baptism of Maori. Describes a move to New Plymouth, family discussions and chaplaincy at the Taranaki Base Hospital. Recalls returning to Hawkes Bay to care more for his father. Mentions industrial chaplaincy and being minister at Hastings. Talks about his children's occupations. Comments on boundary changes in the new electorates, local body politics, art deco buildings and Jeremy Dwyer, Mayor of Hastings. Comments on parochialism between Napier and Hastings, the need to combine sewerage systems, the Hastings hospital and the proposed motorway. Mentions the growth of the local polytechnic and the move to degree courses. Discusses the Maori occupation of Moutoa Gardens, Maori sovereignty, the need for more consultation, the proposed Maori Council and Ken Mair. Discusses the first MMP election, the wait for the coalition, the power of Maori and New Zealand First. Comments on being retired but continuing with church work. Mentions Lions. Talks about the integration of girls into Te Aute College. Recalls training with the first women to be ordained in the Church, Cherie Baker and Bishop Penny (Jamieson). Talks about communion and the Church. Interviewer(s) - Pamela Lockhart Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2144. Search dates: 1930 - 1996

Date: 1931

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-165-003

Description: Shows a view along several cliff headlands of a coastline. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated]; Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 342 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-067

Description: Mount Taranaki viewed from the south, with the plain rising evenly on both sides towards its cone. Farmland in the foreground with a haystack behind a fence to the right. The title is not very legible. "Waireka" may be "Waiuku". Neither name has been found in the Taranaki region Other Titles - Waiuku Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1954-1956

From: Nolan, Iris Evelyn, 1916-2011 : Papers

Reference: MSY-7013

Description: Scrapbook kept by Maurice Nolan while he was Town Clerk at Patea. Clippings relate to the Patea Borough Council, the South Taranaki District and town and country planning. The clippings are arranged by topic in alphabetical order Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1840 - 1931 - 1982

By: Baloghy, George, 1950-; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Perkins, Christopher Edward, 1891-1968

Reference: C-094-004

Description: A composite view of Mount Egmont (Taranaki) framed by tree ferns on both sides, with milk factory buildings and a road with parked cars in the foreground. Based on a combination of Charles Heaphy's watercolour Mount Egmont from the Southward [1840] in the Alexander Turnbull Library (C-025-008) and Christopher Perkins' oil Taranaki, 1931 in Auckland Art Gallery Lithograph based on Taranaki, an oil painting by Baloghy, in Auckland Art Gallery. See Art New Zealand, no. 22 p. 58 for further information. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Signed and numbered 1/45 in pencil. Embossed monogram, GB, below image Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 317 x 456 mm (image) 390 x 485 mm (plate-mark)

Date: early 1920s

From: Hosie, J C :Photographs of Manaia

Reference: 1/2-058513-F

Description: Road construction using a steamroller, Waimate West County. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).