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Date: 1999 - 2000

By: Walker, Malcolm, 1950-; Crimp, Daryl, 1958-; Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Sunday News (Newspaper)

Reference: H-620-001/013

Description: 13 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Labour-Alliance coalition government, Cullen's financial direction for the government, the demise of National to the benefit of Labour, New Year celebrations, the dawning of the millennium, inconsistent court sentencing, marital relations during Super-12 season, the public is warned about Crimp, Jenny Shipley supports the All Blacks, rugby coach speaks out about players taking drugs, sportswomen pose nude for cash, women's squash tops NZ sporting highlights, interview with Steffi Graf. Quantity: 13 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 1 original A4 cartoon by Walker, ink on paper. 12 horizontal A4 photocopies.

Date: 1999 - 2000

From: 1 original and 5 cartoon photocopies by Malcolm Walker, 6 cartoon photocopies by Daryl Crimp, 1 cartoon photocopy by Garrick Tremain, published in Sunday News between 2 September 1999 and 14 July 2000.

Reference: H-620-005

Description: A New Zealand family seek shelter under a beach umbrella as the rains pours down on their beach holiday as the new millennium dawns. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Horozontal A4 photocopy.

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

By: Shallard, William Rex, active 1960-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-51

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by William Rex Shallard; history of the farm and family; certificates of title; photographs. Original owners were Fredrick William Shallard and his brother Percy who purchased 400 acres from The New Zealand Agricultural Co at Kaweku six miles from Riversdale in 1905. Over the years more land was acquired to a total of 1900 acres at Kaweku, 250 acres at Riversdale and for some years a block of unimproved hill country at Longridge North was taken over and later sold. In 2005 the property was owned by his grandson William Rex Shallard and was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, maps (some photocopies)

Date: 2008

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9389-09

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Roy Burnett; history of the poperty; land documents; photographs. See MS-Papers-9389-31 for published summary & photographs. The original family member to acquire the land was George Burnett who purchased 286 acres at Bayswater which he named `Pinky Hill' referring to the battle of that name in Scotland (later renamed Waipuna). George farmed the property until his death in 1945. His son Fletcher then purchased the property and in 1972 his son Roy went into partnership with him for 6 years and then Roy Fletcher Burnett and his wife Nancy became the owners in 1978. In 2008 their son David and his wife Suzie became partners creating a 4 way partnership. In 2008 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript (some photocopies)

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-06

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Douglas George Irwin; land documents; `The Corner, a history of the Smith-Irwin farm' compiled in 2007 by Robyn Irwin (nee Pollock) wife of Douglas. Original owner was John Smith who acquired the property 3 km from Mataura in 1903 from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company. He named the corner block of land `The Corner'; it was later renamed Paramount. The property passed to his daughter-in-law Ellen Irwin and her husband George in 1911; then to their son George William Douglas Irwin in 1946, and to the present owner, their son Douglas George Irwin, in 1990. In 2007 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs, maps (photocopies) Transfers: A digital version of some or all of these papers is available at MSDL-0421.

Date: 15, 20 July 2009 - 15 Jul 2009 - 20 Jul 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Edwards, Mavis Kathleen, 1916-2016

Reference: OHInt-0979-01

Description: Interview with Mavis (May) Kathleen Edwards (nee Keith), born in Auckland in 1916. Outlines her family background, growing up in a family of 10 in Waiuku and on a farm at Ngongotaha, travelling to school on horseback, and milking cows by hand after she left school. Mentions travelling by horse-drawn wagon to Makatu beach for family holidays. Talks about the history of the Edwards family at Waikaraka where they were boat builders and farmers. Refers to Randall Edwards working at her parents' farm for a period and marrying him in 1937. Describes living in a one room cottage without power at Waikaraka when they first married. Discusses the Edwards family homestead and changes to it over the years. Refers to the family clearing bush for timber and firewood. Comments on the Edwards family travelling by boat to Whangarei before there was a road. Mentions keeping pigs as well as milking cows on their farm, and milking by hand until they had a tractor to run a machine. Comments that her husband was not called up for active service during World War II but their trucks were taken for the military. Recalls the sinking of the 'Niagara' by a German mine off Whangarei. Mentions the Labour Day Pataua horse races, dances in a hall at Parua Bay, and the church at Onerahi. Refers to picture theatres (in Whangarei?) Describes a trip to the South Island the family made in a truck after the War, camping, and Randall getting a job picking and processing tobacco. Talks about her children when they were young. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Accompanying material - Notes about the Edwards family of Waikaraka (2 p; scanned, Jpeg files, with digital abstract) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001250 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 4 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (2 are scanned typescript). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 2.02 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7479, OHDL-001256. Scanned B&W photographs of: Randal and May Edwards in rowing boat built by Edwards family; Edwards Family Home at Waikaraka built 1909. Search dates: 1916 - 2009

Date: 26 Sep 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Gillespie, Nancy Millard, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0980-06

Description: Interview with Nancy Gillespie (nee Sheat), born in Christchurch in 1925. Talks about her family background, her father and uncles having fought in World War I and the long-term effects on them. Describes life on the family farm at Dunsandel during the Depression, using draught horses, producing their own food, hand-me-down clothes, swaggers, the arrival of electricity and their first car. Refers to her schooling and being a weekly boarder at Christchurch Girls High School from age 14 (1939). Describes her school uniform, school food, going to the 1940 Exhibition in Wellington, and blackouts and air raid drills. Comments that the war became more serious after Japan entered it. Talks about leaving school in 1942, the year her brother Doug was called up in the territorials. Mentions their father, who was running two farms, appealed to keep Doug at home and he was manpowered. Comments that their father was probably thinking of his own war experience but Doug was "furious", and both father and brother were in the Home Guard. Refers to working domestically at home throughout the war years to help her mother who was unwell, her father not believeing in women being in the paddocks, and not being manpowered. Explains their diet did not change much during the war years after rationing was introduced in 1943, making butter at home, having a home orchard and bottled fruit. Refers to having dressmaking and cooking classes in 1943. Mentions farewell dances and speeches for local boys, her mother baking fruit cakes to send overseas, and letters to and from friends and cousins. Describes forming a young women's club in Dunsandel and organising a dance with an outside band. Talks about movies on Saturday nights in Dunsandel. Refers to getting their war news from radio and The Press, and mainly following the Pacific war after she left school. Comments on reading casualty lists, and the death of a cousin's fiance in India. Refers to an American Marine who was billeted with an aunt and visited local farms. Cannot recall VE or VJ days but mentions welcome home dances, change happening slowly after the war and continuing shortages of imported goods. Emphasises the real fear of a Japanese invasion during the war, having had nightmares about Japanese, and not being able to watch the TV series 'Tenko'. Reflects that she would most like people to know the futility and waste, pain and suffering on both sides. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022538 - OHC-022540 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7329. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Nancy Gillespie (c 1943-44); printout of a colour photograph of Nancy (2007) Search dates: 1925 - 2007

Date: 28 Apr 2001

From: Interviews with Patricia and Trevor Mickell

By: Mickell, Patricia, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0594-01

Description: Patricia Mickell is interviewed by her grand daughter, Kathryn Mickell, about her life's stories. Talks about her family, the 1931 Napier earthquake, sport, working as a land girl in World War II, marriage, homemaking, life in the 1940s and 1950s, and life in the South Island with her family. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn Hazelwood Accompanying material - 2 copies of bound volume of quotes and photos Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009342, OHC-009343 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3018. Photocopies on A4 sheets throughout. Search dates: 1922 - 2001

Date: 2001-2002 - 14 May 2002 - 27 Nov 2001

By: Leniston, Elizabeth Theresa, 1926-2017; Leniston, Martin John, 1925-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHColl-0607

Description: Interviews with Elizabeth (Betty) Leniston and Martin John (Johnny) Leniston. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - E-mails between Margaret Leniston and Judith Fyfe, sprigs of dried lavender, notes from preliminary interview Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 2 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstracts. 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1925 - 2002

Date: 1965-2001

By: Curnow, Anthony D M, active 1940-2003

Reference: MS-Papers-7859

Description: Allen and Jeny Curnow's letters to Tony Curnow, Allen Curnow's brother, from 1965 to 2001, mostly while Tony Curnow and his wife, Elizabeth, were in Europe. Allen and Jeny Curnow wrote about the developments in their own lives, housebuilding, described social events, travelling, Allen's work on his poetry, at the Unviersity of Auckland etc, the general political and literary scene in New Zealand. 171 letters are from Allen Curnow and 20 from Jeny Curnow. Source of title - Supplied Anthony Curnow is Allen Curnow's brother and has been based overseas for many years Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts

Date: 2008

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9389-22

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by John Avis Pannett; oral history commissioned by Teviot 150 years committee; farm history and land documents; printed extracts and clipping. See MS-Papers-9389-31 for published summary & photographs. Original owner was John Avis Pannett who acquired 28,600 acres, this being half of the Teviot Run, when it was subdivided for closer settlement in 1907. In 2008 the station is owned by his great great grandson John Avis Pannett and his wife Tina and family who have increased the holding to 2800 hectares and run 10,000 stock units. In 2008 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: [ca 1930]-2003

From: Crook, Gordon, 1921-2011: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9986-2

Description: Includes:- Group photograph of children dressed to perform "Alice in Wonderland" in grounds of Bishop's Palace, Chichester, England. Includes Gordon Crook. Ca 1930. Wedding group (Dave's wedding), 1950s. Gordon's mother and a group of men, 1950s. Colin Barns and bride, 1960s. Group of snapshots of Gordon's mother, her husband, and Gordon with his mother, ca 1960. Group of snapshots of Gordon Crook and another man in front of a thatched cottage, England, 1960s. Gordon Crook's passport photograph, ca 1971. Three photographs of Gordon Crook on a Wairarapa beach, New Zealand, clad in kelp, 1972. Photographs of Gordon Crook at 62 Mortimer Terrace, Wellington, 1975. Unidentified woman beside a bush of old roses, 1970s. Bill Belcher in England. Contact sheet of cottage and surrounding woodland. Possibly Gordon's brother Kenneth's house. Photographs of friends in Spain, Teheran, Morocco, England and New Zealand, 1960s-2003. Gordon Crook, Ron [Barber?] and child, Christmas at 119 Aro Street, Wellington. Linda and Malcolm Cocks, England. At Linda Cocks birthday party. Friends in London including Linda and Malcolm Cocks and a woman named Kay, 1970s-early 1980s. Golden Jubilee parade, London 1977. Gordon Crook's cottage at Great Yeldam, England, 1980. Floods, Chichester, England, January 1994. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). 61 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970-2008

From: Everton, Margaret Eila, 1919-2010: Family papers and photographs

Reference: PAColl-9886-3

Description: Margaret Everton and her family in later years. This includes - Edgar (Ted Everton, his wife Rona, and their sons, 1970. Student teachers at Puhinui Primary School, 1971 and 1972. Alfred Hill's wife and daughters, Sydney, 1976. Two views of Island Bay, one of which is of a house, "Te Hini," 1976. Two views of a house also called "Te Hini" in Lower Hutt, 1976. Margaret Everton with members of her family, early 1980s. Portrait of Edgar (Ted) Everton, and the order of service for his funeral, 1981. Edgar Everton's sons, Boyd and Martin, and their children, 1980s-2000. Margaret Everton at the time that she retired as president of the Auckland Travel Club. The Auckland Travel Club's 70th anniversary in 2003. Margaret Everton with groups of women, one group relating to the Overseas Teacher's Club, 1980s. Margaret Everton on holiday overseas, 1990s-2000s. Family gathering probably for Margaret Everton's 90th birthday in 2008. Scenic photographs of New Zealand, early 1970s. Views of Auckland Harbour, early 2000s. Winner of the Queen's Baton Relay Run, 1990. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) 1. 74 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donation, Estate of Margaret (Meg) Eila Everton, 2010

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

By: Cameron, George Evan, active 2001-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-46

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by G E Cameron and certificates of title Original owners were brothers James and William Cameron who acquired 320 hectares in 1901. They named their property at Waitahuna West, 'Greenhills'. In 2005 the property was owned by George Evan Cameron, the grandson of James Cameron and Martha (nee Kell). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (some photocopies)

Date: 1999 - 2001

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-142/160

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Unemployed fathers as role models to their sons, the pracitical side of genetic modification, 20th century sees out-of-control war, violence and death, United States aims to curb people's access to guns, election year sees 32,000 more operations being done, study shows teenages think about girls approx. every three minutes, marriages end in divorce due to the Rugby World Cup, parents supervise their children to school, move to replace cigarettes with cannabis, supermarkets selling to underage drinkers, kiwi dollar plummets to record low, family politics of winning, cricket bribery revealed, Black Caps perform poorly in cricket, children's language shocks, 600 Air Force staff made redundant, new complications of professional rugby, moves to ban children from movies that portray smoking, travellers face uncertain choice of destinations following world terrorist attacks. Original drawings for A-316-144, -152, -156 and -160 in separate folder and individually catalogued Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1972-2007

From: Bassett, Michael Edward Rainton (Dr), 1938- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10039

Description: Photographs relating to Michael Bassett and Paul Goldsmith's biography of the Myers family. Taken in ca 1970s, 2005, and 2007 by Bassett, Goldsmith, and unidentified photographers. Contains sixteen photographs featuring views of Douglas Myers home and farm at Matauri Bay, Far North District, visited by Bassett in in the mid-2000s. Also four prints of BMW cars parked in a driveway [Mission Bay, Auckland?] Bassett, and co-author Paul Goldsmith, feature in a number of images and may be the photographers (negatives of these prints are at 35mm-99117-F to 35mm-99123-F). Also contains three copy prints [ca 1970s]. These show Douglas Myers with Gavin de Malmarche and James Espey at Milford sound, the Myers family home at Godden Crescent, Mission Bay, and a holiday snap of Myers and an unidentified woman [wife?] with castle. Two further images were taken in Penetangvishene, Ontario, Canada. The photographer of these images is unidentified. Relationship complexity - negs for these prints are at 35mm 99117-99123 Accompanying material - contains note dated 24 Nov 1981 from Malcolm [?] on Mackay King Advertising Ltd compliments slip regarding the delivery of negative relating to Peter Fraser biography (neg to be found at 35mm-99125). Quantity: 23 colour original photographic print(s). 3 colour copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [ca 1958]-2006

From: Crook, Gordon, 1921-2011: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9986-4

Description: Includes:- Art work by Gordon Crook, 1950s. Hanging mural by Gordon Crook for Karori Post Office after removal to Teachers Training College. Hall of the New Zealand Chancery building, Washington DC showing banners designed by Gordon Crook, 1979. Proof sheets of Gordon Crook at work photographed by Julia Brooke-White, 2002. Photographs of Gordon Crook and friends, New Zealand, 1990s-2000s. "Fallen Angel" a tableau box by Gordon Crook. Tapestry weaving in progress. Brightly patterned woolen garments at the Chelsea Crafts Fair, London, 1982. Fabric art works by Brenda Ellis, 1998. Gordon Crook's retrospective exhibition at the Wellington City Art Gallery, 1993. Fabric art work by Gordon Crook (this relates to work in "Apocolypse" exhibition, September 2002). Art work in "Apocolypse" exhibition, Idiom Studio, Wellington, 4-22 September, 2002. Gordon Crook's exhibition "Inhabiting the Circle" at Ron Barber's gallery, Aro Street, Wellington, 2006. Gordon Crook's 80th birthday party at Val and Mark Winter's place, 2001. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 123 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1999-2002

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000410

Description: Photographs of various family reunions, birthdays and wedding anniversaries Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Reunions" Quantity: 10 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1994-2003

From: Bartel, Susan Elizabeth, 1943- :Photographs relating to Susan Bartel and family

Reference: PADL-000007

Description: Photographs of Susan Bartel and her family, friends, parties and holidays, taken 1994-2003. Arrangement: Prints available at PAColl-7862-1 Quantity: 82 electronic scan(s) of original photographs and items of ephemera.

Date: 1990 - 2000

By: Te Puawai Tapu

Reference: Eph-D-BIRTH-CONTROL-1990s-01

Description: Poster promoting Te Puawai Tapu (a public health organisation specialising in sexual and reproductive health issues for Maori) shows a stylised family portrait of a man and woman in profile, facing right, and the child in the mother's womb as a frontal portrait. The background is a pattern of Maori motifs. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. 13.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 620 x 430 mm. Provenance: Donated by the YWCA, Wellington, in 2007.