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Date: 1999

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

Reference: H-587-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. Shows a redneck's nightmare, ownership of the Whanganui River is given to Maori who loaded it onto the back of a truck and took it away. Comment on executive golden handshakes and reduntant workers having to sign up for the dole. Shows violent offenders at Paremoremo Prison selecting soft movies like 'The Sound of Music'. In the middle of a power blackout the family try and read the latest power bill, it's gone up. The effect on the opposition of Jonah Lomu being left on the reserve bench. Statue of Liberty calls for the poor and huddled masses but says 'no' to New Zealand lamb. Comment on New Zealand's response to America's tariffs on New Zealand lamb. The common man comments on Bill English upstaging Jenny Shipley at the National Party Conference. Maori MP calls for quotas in the public sector that will ensure employment for ethnic minorities. Hospital hygeine is called into doubt. A politician trys to sell the idea of deregulating the Dairy Industry. A woman comments to her husband that it's a good thing young men eventually grow out of wanting more sex. He wistfully agrees. Obituary for JFK Jr. 1960-1999 Comment on youth alcohol consumption. Auckland Hospital try to reassure the public all babies are born equally there but not necessarily treated equally after that. Comment on Christine rankin's over the top refurbishment of the dept of work and income. Celebration of three New Zealand triumphs. Mike Moore gets top job at WTO, the All Blacks beat the Australians and the Black Caps cricket team beat the English at Lords. Paul Holmes promotes his autobiography. F-16 fighter planes are promoted by an Air Force Officer. The lowering of the drinking age is debated in Parliament. Boys try to come to terms with the news that girls are better pupils than boys. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1934-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60

Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1952

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]

By: Reid, Beverley Elaine, 1931-2012

Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1952-01

Description: Booklet issued as part of an event to raise finds for a Pioneer Women's hall in Auckland, as a community centre for women. The project was started by Miss Ellen Melville, an Auckland solicitor and City councillor who died in 1947 [ie 1946]. The Caravanserai (based on the Turkish idea of a public building erected for the shelter of caravans) was an exhibition of goods from many countries of the world. The booklet gives a short account of the history and culture of each country. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, 240 x 184 mm.

Date: 1926-1931

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-68/01

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-16

Description: Story of four generations of women - Ellen Frogley (nee Taylor), 1847-1887; Teresa Mary Stubbs (nee Frogley), 1873-1946; Olive Beryl Clarke (nee Stubbs), 1907-1986; Marie Jeanette Grant (nee Clarke), born 1940. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Includes photographs of the 4 women

Date: 1892

By: Hicks, Eva, 1879-1893

Reference: MS-Papers-5693

Description: Contains entries from 1 Aug to 18 Oct 1892, covering history, drawing, geography, spelling, commercial and arithmetic. Napier Street School label on cover, 16 pages completed. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - Transcriptions of birth and death registrations from Registar-General's Office. Eva Hicks was a pupil at Napier Street School, Auckland. She died at age 14 from heart disease and acute rheumatism. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor is Eva Hicks' niece.

Date: 1942-1982 (1982)

By: Wynne, Christine, active 1942-1983

Reference: MS-Papers-2388

Description: Describes Wynne's efforts to obtain home loan finance for women after World War Two and her involvement in a project to build blocks of own-your-own flats for single women in Auckland, the first, Wynhome, opened in 1962 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (34 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 31 December 1900 - 16 December 1902

From: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903 :Journals and Poems

Reference: MSX-7768

Description: Although Ann Fletcher Jackson was in her sixties at the time of writing and had bad health, she continued to travel New Zealand and visit Quakers in remote locations. She was increasingly frail, and much of this journal is her reflections on her health, the death and funerals of close friends and family, and her ongoing mission as a Quaker. Ann Fletcher Jackson resides in Mount Roskill at the time of writing this journal. She names the family house there 'Eureka'. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-018

Description: The life history of William Crush Daldy briefly covering his early life in England, meeting his first wife Frances Harriet Pulham, the voyage to Tasmania and their continuation onto New Zealand. Their life in Auckland is covered in more detail including William's many business ventures. There are extracts from several diaries written by his sister-in-law Eleanor Sarah Combes and also from Daldy's memoirs. His marriage to Amey Smith nee Hamerton and her activities in the suffrage movement are also included Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-071

Description: This biographical outline traces the life of William George Cleaver, sergeant in 58th Regiment of Foot. The story tells of his marriage to Charlotte McDowell and sets out his later years as settler on the Coromandel Peninsula at Tairua and Whitianga Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photograph

Date: [1970-1979]

By: Neill, Joyce Ellen, 1906-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-9990

Description: Comprises typescript articles on Isabella McAndrew Jamieson, feminist, educationist and organiser, `A Pioneer of mind and spirit'; `Our village', life at the hydro-electric power project at Horahora as told by Thelma and William Goodson; `Hokianga holidays' and `Here they come, tales of Cheltenham Beach, Auckland', both told by Florence Fulton; `Christmas comes round again'; `The Bride came on horseback'; and clippings on G L Adkin (Levin Chronicle, 1979) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with corrections Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: [1980-1987]

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-5760

Description: Photograph of the Manurewa Community Arts Centre, manukau City, New Zealand. Views of the house used by the arts centre, and a record of the activities associated with it. The particpants are women and children. The Manurewa Community Arts Centre uses the house built by David Nathan in 1925. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-008

Description: A party in the 1860s in a large living room or ballroom. Mistletoe is attached to a chandelier, beneath which is a chair draped with bonnets. Behind the chair is a young soldier in hiding. Four rather plain-looking women are heading towards the lures on the chair, while two prettier women in the foreground have their backs to their would-be swain and any potential kissing under the mistletoe. The soldier may be intended to be a self-portrait and the ballroom may be in Auckland. There are large pictures on the walls, chairs and couches against the far wall, a grand piano and the chair in the centre along with a chaise-longue. The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s Other Titles - Artful dodge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 214 x 276 mm

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1950

By: Bishop, Bruce, active 1998; Bishop, Claire, active 1998; Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-852

Description: Record of the operations of Academy Pattern Co Ltd, Auckland. There is a group photograph of the staff dated 1950, and all the other photographs show the processes involved in producing clothing patterns. Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors inherited album from an aunt who was the wife of Allan Mungall, who with his brother Ray, set up Academy Pattern Co Ltd.

Date: 1927-1981

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8070-3

Description: Photograohs of contestants in a competition for women models held by the Auckland Star in 1955. Views of the Star's offices in Shortland and Fort streets from 1927 to a model by two architectural students in 1977 of a possible building in the future, a group photograph of the staff in 1930, the Stoddard Road printery in 1962, newspapers for Coromandel being loaded onto an aircraft in 1979, and a portrait of G Burns. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1994-1995

From: Genealogical Research Institute of New Zealand Inc : Records, including family history research essays

Reference: MS-Papers-5551

Description: Four prize-wining essays from the 1994 and 1995 GRINZ competitions by Jennifer Pierson (on Charles Pierson), Vaudine Barnes (on Frances Clarke), Antonia Jones (on Elizabeth Pickering, nee Wooding); and Marjorie Harris (on George Edmonds) `Boom and bust; a businessman on the goldfields' by Jennifer Pierson. The story of American-born Charles Anson Crocker Herrick Philetous Pierson who arrived in New Zealand about 1860 and spent the rest of his life on the South Island goldfields as a cordial maker. In his forties he was forced to abandon his properties at Stafford and begin again in Kumara. `Elizabeth Wooding, 1854-1920' by Antonia Jones. The story of Elizabeth Wooding who came to Canterbury on the Zealandia in 1858 as an assisted immigrant with her parents and brother John. She married Richard Pickering at Kaiapoi in 1874. `Frances Clarke nee Stelfox, 1847-1924; raising a family in Russia and New Zealand' by Vaudine M Barnes. The story of Frances Clarke who arrived in New Zealand on the `Kaikoura' in 1886 accompanied by eight of her nine children; her family background, growing up in Northwich, marriage to engineer Thomas Plummer Clarke and move to Russia. Her life in the British community centred on Moscow, raising her family and moving from one textile town to another, migration to New Zealand, life in Onehunga, Auckland, the move to Waihi and later life. Includes photographs `The Labouring immigrant' by Marjorie Harris, the story of immigrant George Edmonds who arrived in New Zealand in 1863 on the `Brother's Pride' with his wife Martha Johnson. They settled at Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, photographs (some photocopies)

Date: [1878-1884]

By: Aitken family; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Foy Brothers (Firm); Hemus & Hanna (Firm); Martin, Charles, 1842?-1905

Reference: PA1-q-1083

Description: Album of photographs of Aitken family of Kereone. Includes photographs of Fiji by Dufty studio, and photographs from well-known New Zealand studios including Foy Bros of Thames, Clifford & Morris, Hemus & Hanna, R H Bartlett, Charles Martin, J Martin, and London Portrait Rooms. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - To Sandy from Jeannie - March 31st 1879 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 23 cm Provenance: Album was a gift from Jeannie Richmond to her brother Sandy (Alexander) Aitken on March 31, 1879. Sandy consequently filled the album with photographs of family.