Places

Date: 1933 - 1935

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1930-1939]

By: Simpson and Williams Ltd; Southwell, Cynthia, active 1997

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1934-01

Description: Booklet advertising goods for sale from various Christchurch retail outlets: Provincial Hotel (for liquor supplies), H C Urlwin Ltd (electrical appliances), Ashby Bergh & Co Ltd (household, sporting and camping goods), Butlers (N.Z.) Ltd (Ekco radios), Penrose's Shoe Store, Minson's (tableware and household goods), Knowles (poultry and fish), Blackwell Motors (Chevrolet), Watkinson's Ltd (automobile electrical supplies) , Simpson & Williams Ltd (books and gifts), Alston's (bags and luggage), Stacey & Hawker ("S.X." bread), Smart & Son's Ltd (pavers, concrete and asphalt work), Meltzer Bros (tents), Waddell's (grocers), Canterbury Frozen Meat Co (butchers), Herb Laban Ltd (menswear). Other Titles - Christmas Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 240 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs C Southwell, in 1997.

Date: 1986

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

Reference: A-362-112/138

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 27 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: H-727-022

Description: Shows seven scenes. In the first a man and a woman are standing at a tram stop looking angry as a full tram passes them by. In the second a man and a woman are sitting at a coffee shop table talking as other other customers are queuing up for seats. In the third a man is leaving a pub carrying a bag containing full flagons of beer as another man is going into the pub to get his empty flagon filled. In the fourth scene the Seatoun tram's overhead poles have become detached from the power lines. In the fifth scene a woman is walking along carrying several bags of shopping and a loaf of bread under one arm. In the sixth scene a woman is battling the wind as it blows her skirt up at the back while she holds it down at the front with one hand and holds her hat on with the other. In the final scene a parking warden disregards a diplomatic car parked on a no parking sign. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 2 A4 size photocopies

Date: 1983 - 1985

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

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1986 - 1989

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

Reference: A-316-060/084

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. New Zealand switches from milk in bottles to milk in cartons. Hayley's Comet turns out to be disappointing for most star gazers. High number of requests for aid from sports and charity groups. Children deny tobacco advertising influences their smoking habits. Core samples are taken from the hull of the New Zealand entrant to the America's Cup. 1986 - the International Year of Peace - $1,746,000,000,000 spent on weapons. Mother's Day again. Burglar makes himself at home. General election candidates begin their hand-shaking tour of the rural areas. There's a big turnout for the rugby on election day. People are getting overloaded with the morning radio bad 'news'. Christmas shopping bedlum is upon us. ANZAC Day shows the difference between the self-sacrificing of the returned service men and women and the selfishness of youth. The French do another nuclear bomb test. Cups are shown off at the yacht club, some for winning races but mostly for winning court battles over yacht race rules. Parents supporting their children from the rugby sidelines are becoming increasingly violent. Over-crowding of New Zealand prisons. New Zealand's economic slump sees long ques of people waiting to get Government assistance through the Dept. of Social Welfare. Rogernomics puts the whole country into crisis. Post Offices are closed around the country. Children embrace cigarette smoking. Hospital emergency outpatients restrict their services in an effort to cut costs. Pakeha consider how they can benefit from the Maori land claim process. The law struggles to deal with complications of using force in your own self defence. Ozone layer threatened by fumes, smoke and smog. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 24 photocopies. Physical Description: A4 size original and photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 2001

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

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 08 Aug 2011

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Sanders, Elena Raquel, 1919-

Reference: OHInt-1017-07

Description: Interview with Elena Raquel (nee Jeff) Sanders. Born in 1919 in Okahukura (King Country). Her mother was from Chile, and her father, a New Zealander, who was a civil engineer who had worked abroad in Chile. Describes how her parents got married in Chile, and her parents' decision to return to New Zealand. Discusses her family moving around in New Zealand for her father's work with the Public Works Department, and recalls living in Christchurch, Hastings, Taumarunui, and Ohakune. Explains that the family first moved to Dargaville and Whangarei, and then moved to Milford before 1935. Describes their family's house in Milford at 15 Ocean View Road. Recalls shops on Kitchener Road in Milford, and speaking Spanish at home. Describes attending Takapuna Grammar School and Seddon Technical College to take a home science course. Describes sewing lessons at Seddon, and travelling by bus between Milford and Devonport. Discusses joining the Milford Tennis Club with her neighbour who was French. Describes playing tennis and swimming in the ocean. Describes life during the depression, and wearing hand me down clothing. Recalls times when they were short on food, and tells story of brother spending pocket money on day-old cakes. Explains that she had wanted to work, but her mother wouldn't allow it. Eventually her father convinced her mother to let her go work at a milliner. Explains that her brothers grew and sold pumpkins for pocket money, and her sisters cooked and helped at home, but didn't get paid. Describes going to pictures with her brothers on Saturday afternoons. Recounts story of travelling with her brothers and father to get a job near Dargaville, and cutting her ringlets off to look like a boy. Describes time spent at the beach with her mother. Discusses two piece bathing costumes, and making them from patterns. Describes homemade suntan lotion from olive oil and vinegar, and that some at school thought they were Maori. Explains that they taught themselves to swim and swam in the ocean at every opportunity they got. Describes the Milford surf life saving club, and their supervision of swimmers at the beach. Describes the Milford mini golf course, and describes the dances and bands at Ye Olde Pirate Shippe, and her experiences attending dances. Discusses food at Ye Olde Pirate Shippe, and life in Milford during World War Two. Describes working at the Chief Post Office during the war, and flatting in Devonport. Describes how she met her husband, Lloyd Sanders, and her mother's relationship to family back in Chile. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 04 Jul 2012

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Shaw, Glenn Morris, active 1940-2012; Truscott, Leslie Jeanie, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-1017-09

Description: Interview with sisters Leslie Jeanie Truscott, nee Rogerson, and Glenn Morris Shaw, nee Rogerson. Both were born in Epsom. They describe their grandfather, their grandmother, and the housekeeper, Alice, who was related to their grandmother, who died young. They describe their father's education and work as a lawyer, and their childhood. They also describe the family's six week holidays in Milford during summer and their father taking the ferry to work. Describe shopping for food, a transport to and from Milford. Discuss the beach, bathing suits, and parents' travel to Australia. Describe day trippers to Milford from Auckland and concert parties at the Pirate Shippe. Describe playing miniature golf, boat hire, eating ice blocks, and kiosks in town. Describe the shop and pinball machine at Ye Old Pirate Shippe, as well as time spent at the beach. Discuss surf life saving clubs, the swimming pool, and showering at the boat shed. Describe going to Milford Picturedrome and dances during World War Two. Describe food they ate during holidays at Milford, and Friday night dinners at the Silver Shell restaurant in the 1950s. Describe American soldiers during World War Two, fear of Japanese invasion, and life in Milford during the war generally. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2.17 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/6C-Acc.

Description: Identifies with colour marks, local shopping centres, suburban and major shopping centres Base map: NZMS 271 Lower Hutt. 2nd edition 1980 (Department of Lands and Survey) Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 20 000] 98 x 72.5 cm.

Date: 1867-1985

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: 93-215

Description: The records include minutes, annual reports, share registers, financial records, staff registers, pay books, scrapbooks and records relating to the affairs of members of the Smith family. Quantity: 7.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by James Smith Ltd, Wellington 1993 Transfers: Collection taken as a whole into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here - To Other - Curios; one cup, one statuette of jockey - To Photographic Archive - Display photographs of sinking of 'Wahine' ferry (PAColl-3332-18, part of PA-Group-00039).

Date: [ca 1840-1990]

By: James Smith's (Firm)

Reference: PA-Group-00039

Description: Contains material relating to James Smith Department Store dating from the 1840s until the early 1990s. Comprises: 1. Shop buildings. The various buildings occupied by James Smith from the 1840s until the 1990s. Also the construction of a new store in the Hutt Valley in the late 1960s-early 1970s. Shops in other parts of New Zealand, and in Australia and America from the late 1970s to the late 1980s-early 1990s. 2. Shop window displays. These date from ca 1936 until the late 1980s. From the late 1970s many of the views of shop window displays depict places in other parts of New Zealand, and in Australia and America. 3. Shop interiors. These date from the late 1960s and most are from the late 1970s. They include many views of shop interiors in other parts of New Zealand, and in Australia and America. 4. James Smith Christmas and other parades from 1959 until the early 1990s. There are also colour photos of parades in Hawaii taken about ca 1984. 5. James Smith staff sports teams from the period ca 1929-1954 6. General material including some staff social occasions, presentations, and portraits. 7. Photographs relating to the sinking of the Wahine, 1968. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/4-067405 Quantity: 966 b&w original photographic print(s). 835 colour original photographic print(s). 1158 b&w original negative(s). 20 colour original transparency/ies. 1 album(s). 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera. 14 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 93-215 : James Smith Ltd : Records. See also plans and cup in Drawings & Prints..

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/6o-Acc.

Description: Identifies with colour stickers, local shopping centres, suburban, and major shopping centres in Upper Hutt Base map: NZMS 271 Upper Hutt. (Department of Lands and Survey) Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 20 000] 64 x 75 cm.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/6i-Acc.

Description: Identifies with colour marks, local shopping centres, suburban and major shopping centres in the Porirua area. Base map: NZMS 271 Porirua. 1st edition 1978 (Department of Lands and Survey) Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 20 000] 98 x 72.5 cm.

Date: 2002

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

Reference: H-690-013/017

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Topics include Political correctness and the establishment of a Maori TV channel Release of prisoners on parole at Christmas Santa Claus delivering The Warehouse vouchers Paintings signed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark United States President Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein swapping jobs. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 2005

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DX-014-682

Description: A dishevelled looking man goes to the garden store to buy a grapevine after reading a story in the newspaper about a bottle of New Zealand wine fetching a huge sum of money. Extended Title - Garden Centre. Bottle of NZ wine fetches $13,500 at auction in Texas. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2001

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-199

Description: A family are doing Christmas shopping. The mother and two children are engrossed in shouting out what they want for Christmas. The father has turned out his pockets and shaken out his wallet but is looking secretly pleased that the moths have eaten holes in his pockets and all his money has gone. Extended Title - Whoa those darn moths! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2005

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DX-014-635

Description: A woman shopper looks in the window of an appliance store which is advertising its specials. Extended Title - Food Mixers as seen on TV. TV sets as seen at Waikeria Prison. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1889

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1889-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - (In pencil): [28 June, 1889] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on poster 545 x 358 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1955

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-E-RETAIL-1940s-01

Description: Poster advertising the Dunedin store, the Drapery Supply Association Ltd, shows a shop facade of a two-storey building lit up in neon and window lighting at night. Pedestrians stand and walk, silhouetted against the shop windows. Almost all of the pedestrians wear hats. Other Titles - The Drapery Supply Association Ltd Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 1015 x 755 mm.