Places

Date: 1943

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0238

Description: File - 43 Contains letters, plans and notes from meetings regarding the Ngarimu VC Investiture celebrations at Ruatoria Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, plans

Date: 1942

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0234

Description: File 40 - Contains correspondence regarding the Maori war effort, the Waipiro Consolodation scheme and historical references to the Ruatoria district Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 1924-1949

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0568

Description: Contains books, pamphlets, correspondence, receipts and a ration book Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photograph and printed matter

Date: 1943

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4830

Description: Contains administrative records of the South Wairarapa Home Guard, including a list of members

Date: 1896-1957

By: Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-1132

Description: Records of the Company, consisting of reports, general and London correspondence, files on industrial relations and unions, legal documents, some minutes, mine manager reports and other papers. The records relate to both the Blackwater and the Consolidated mines, and there are some files on Progress and other subsidiary mining companies. Also included are the business and private correspondence and diaries of David Ziman. Source of title - Supplied The Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd, a quartzite-crushing gold extraction operation, was founded in 1896, in Reefton, by David Ziman from the purchase of the Globe, Progress, Wealth of Nations and Golden Fleece gold mining companies. Quantity: 28 box(es) (430 folders). 4 volume(s). 9.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Detailed listing available.. Plans of Blackwater Mine at 76-083-06/01

Date: 30 June 1943-31 Dec 1944

By: Hanrahan, Pauline Noele, 1917-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-5545

Description: Hanrahan qualified as a registered nurse in 1940 and joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in July 1943. She sailed the same month from Wellington as a nurse aboard the Dutch hospital ship `Oranje'. During 1943 and early 1944 the `Oranje' made several trips between Port Said and South Africa and Australia and New Zealand. In the later part of 1944 the `Oranje' travelled mainly between the United Kingdom and Italy carrying wounded military personnel. Hanrahan left the ship in Cairo in Dec 1944 and served in the Cairo Number One General Hospital for the remainder of her war service. The diaries cover the period 30 June 1943-31 December 1944 and describe her experiences aboard the `Oranje'. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 26 Nov 1940-17 Oct 1943

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2851

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1943

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0235

Description: File 41 - Contains whakapapa lists, plans and papers regarding the Maori V.C. Investiture at Ruatoria and correspondence regarding the death of Te Moana Ngarimu in battle, including newspaper clippings, a funeral programme and a copy of the book "The price of citizenship" Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1998

From: Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6462

Description: Paper by Sargent presented at the 6th International Communal Studies Association meeting (Amsterdam, 7-9 Jul 1998), in which he discusses the founding of Beeville commune from 1927 onwards until its demise in 1973. He describes the personalities involved, the philosophies the community followed, its impact on the wider community and the founding of its school. Education, dietary principles, economics, war resistance, religion and other matters are looked at. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 2005]

By: Carter, R H, active 1925-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-9119

Description: Typescript reminiscence of Carter's career with the merchant marine and newspaper clippings relating to maritime life and activities in general Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter Transfers: Transferred from Photographic Section, who hold the main part of the collection.

Date: 1942-1958, 2006

By: Hansen, Dan Haig, 1918-2006

Reference: MS-Group-1584

Description: Contains a chapter from `A difficult trip but with a happy ending', an autobiography being written by Mr Hansen. In this chapter he details his views as an opponent of the war effort during World War Two and his visit to the detainee camp to see his brothers who were detained for being conscientious objectors. Also correspondence between Harold Hansen, who was detained in various detention camps as a conscientious objector from 1942, and his family at Beeville, Orini and later correspondence between his brother Owen, who was imprisoned at Rangipo Detention Camp between December 1944 and April 1946, and his family. There is a small amount of third party correspondence relating to their imprisonment. The two brothers' correspondence describes life as inmates in detention camps during the war and their inward letters from family members describe the concerns and activities of a pacifist family living at Orini during this period. Dan Hansen was a conscientious objector during World War Two but was not charged or imprisoned as he was disabled. His brother, Harold was imprisoned from 1942 to 1946 and another brother, Owen, was imprisoned from 1944-1946, both as conscientious objectors Quantity: 13 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr D Hansen, Whitianga, September 2006 and estate of Dan Hansen, 2007 Transfers: Collection taken in as a whole to Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Hansen brothers and of conscientious objectors in detention camp (PAColl-9142).

Date: 1939-1946

By: Handyside, Allan James (Rev), 1917-1996

Reference: MS-Group-0088

Description: Echoes of the forties; extracts of Handyside's and other letters from prisons and detention camps (censored and clandestine) during World War Two. Includes letters to his parents and from various people to Handyside and others Allan Handyside, a Methodist minister in Murchison, was interred as a conscientous objector during the World War Two Quantity: 9 folder(s). 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1941-1942

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4831

Description: Contains administrative records of the South Wairarapa Home Guard, including a list of members

Date: 1938-2008

By: Hayward, Vivienne, 1940-

Reference: MS-Papers-9485

Description: Letters and papers relating to Sergeant Gordon Christie Dunn (1912-1942), together with a copy of his daughter Vivienne Hayward's memoir `Finding Gordon - A love story' (published by the author in 2008). It is based on the edited correspondence between her mother and father during the early years of World War II. These private letters provide an insight into her mother Joan's life at home in Invercargill and her father's war experience in Egypt and as a prisoner-of-war in Crete and Germany up until his accidental death in Stalag VIII-B in Feb 1942. The correspondence provides details of Burnham Camp; voyage to Egypt with 2NZEF; Maadi Camp and leave in Alexandria; letters from captivity in Crete. Also official correspondence re his accidental death after transfer to Stalag VIII-B, Germany in Feb 1942. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 0.18 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Book Collections - Copy of `Finding Gordon - A love story' / Vivienne Hayward (2008).

Date: 1995-2002

From: Fry, Alexander Sydney, 1926-2006: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8493-1

Description: `When can you start?', an autobiography of Fry's life up until the 1960s describing his childhood, education, war service and employment as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and the New Zealand Listener and editorial work for A H & A W Reed. Chapter 1 begins with Fry arriving in Wellington from Christchurch in 1948 and he describes his experiences working as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and gives his impressions of Wellington, including being a student at Victoria University College in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He then reverts back to his childhood, describing growing up in Wallsend and Christchurch, attending Papanui Technical College and being apprenticed as an electrician. Chapter 10 ends in 1944 when Fry enrolled in the Royal Navy 21st Fleet Airm draft to be trained in England. Names referred to in the text are entered in the name index. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [1940]-1980

By: Burbidge, Percy William, 1891-1984

Reference: MS-Group-0115

Description: New Zealand science in World War Two; the story of the war activities of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand (1939-1945) Memoirs of early physics in New Zealand, 1909-1950. Personal notes mainly connected with Auckland University College, to a lesser extent with Victoria College, Wellington, and to a still smaller extent with Canterbury College and University of Otago. Draft chapters for a history of science in New Zealand during World War Two. Includes an introduction outlining development of science in New Zealand up to 1939. Topics covered include: contribution made by Department of Science and Industrial Research, scientific work on radio and radar, munitions, food production, science applied to armed forces. Photographs of electronic devices are included. Notes made by Burbidge for use by Prof Keith Sinclair in his history of Auckland University. The notes are divided into four headings: Organisation of the University; Physics Department; Personalities; and Major events. The notes are strong for the interwar period. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [1943]

Reference: MS-Papers-9360

Description: Autograph book owned by an unidentified New Zealand Guard at the Prisoner of War Camp, Featherston during World War Two. Volume contains signatures by New Zealand guards at the camp; signaturers accompanied by illustations from Japanese prisoners of war; and signatures from American soldiers based in Hawera (1943). Language - Signatures and comments by prisoners are mainly in their own language Source of title - Supplied by Library The Featerston Military Camp was established during World War One. At the request of the USA the camp was re-established as a Prisoner of War Camp for Japanese soldiers in September 1942. Approximately 800 Japanese soldiers were imprisoned there (captured during the the Battle of Guadalcanal). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss with line drawings Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Dundar Sloane, Auckland, Apr 2009 Many pages contain line drawings in pencil, ink and crayon.

Date: [1941-1987]

From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-7655-02

Description: Correspondence and other papers relating to Megget's time as a conscientious objector in World War Two including including reunions of detainees (1987-1994) and notebook of carpentry instructions (1943). The papers relating to Whitanui include minutes of the Whitanui and Paiaka educational committees, the inter-camp educational committee, the Shannon inter-camp committee, materials required for vocational training classes and WEA correspondence. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940-1942

From: Butler, Hugh Henry, 1912-1941 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1423

Description: Butler describes daily life in Maadi Camp, with notes on visits to Sydney, Perth, Cairo and Jerusalem and continual reference to friends recruited from the Petone area Quantity: 1 folder(s) (43 pieces).

Date: [1954-2000]

From: Kimble, Thomas Martin, 1918-2003 : Material relating to PEACESAT

Reference: 2003-174-55

Description: Inward and outward correspondence, clippings, notes, 50th anniversary celebration of United States troops in New Zealand (1992), article on Richard Langdale and a Chatham Islands collection having been stolen and related papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).