Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Date: 1970-1991

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: OHColl-0358

Description: Consists of 12 reel to reel tapes dealing with Riverside Community, and 15 audiocassettes containing speeches, sermons, and radio interviews. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 15 tape(s). 9 C60 cassette(s). 3 C90 cassette(s). 1 C30 cassette(s). 1 C50 cassette(s). 1 C120 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1970 - 1991

Date: 1966

From: Boshier, Roger, active 1960s-2018: Collection relating to Wellington Committee on Vietnam

Reference: MS-Papers-12315-10

Description: Comprises mainly letters in response to letters sent out by Roger Boshier and David Carrad requesting signatures for a full page advertiesement in the 'Listener' against the use of troops in Vietnam. The request letter is stapled ot the outside of the folder. Includes letters with financial contributions for the Committee on Vietnam campaigns and/or the advertisement, and business cards with names. Letters are adressed variously to Roger Boshier, David Carrad, or the Committee on Vietnam. Also includes a receipt book and a news clipping about Diana Rigg attending a Vietnam protect meeting in the United Kingdom. Papers appear to have been put into a folder and labelled at a later date. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and manuscript correspondence.

Date: [ca 1930-1986]

By: Riverside Community (Tasman District, N.Z.)

Reference: 89-169

Description: Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further records relating to Riverside Community and A C Barrington Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Some photographs with the collection (need to be transferred when A & D completed) Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1939-1997

By: Barrington, John Michael (Dr), 1936-

Reference: MS-Group-0674

Description: Comprises correspondence between Barrington and the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and the Ombudsman re release of documents relating to his father, A C Barrington, who was a Christian pacifist during World War II; and documents and other papers released by the SIS and some from other sources re this Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for papers relating to A C Barrington and the NZ Christian Pacifist Society Barrington is the son of A C Barrington, a Christian pacifist during WWII Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies)

Date: 1931-1990

By: Barrington, Janet Elizabeth, 1904-1990

Reference: MS-Group-0073

Description: Consists mainly of the diaries of Janet Elizabeth Barrington. Also contains two notebooks and two scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain sympathy letters, telegrams and cards sent to the Barrington family on the death of Archibald Barrington and letters written to Archie Barrington just prior to his death. Also contains newspaper clippings, mainly consisting of obituaries for Archie Barrington. Janet Elizabeth Barrington was married to Archibald Charles Barrington in 1935. She was heavily involved with the New Zealand Christian Pacifist movement during World War II, and together with her husband and children helped to establish the Riverside Community in Lower Moutere in Nelson Quantity: 4 volume(s). 22 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Jan 2015 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - John Barrington, Wellington, 1990, 1993 (A90-010, A93-112)

Date: 1915-1965

From: New Zealand Workers Educational Association :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7687-1

Description: Portraits of the founding members and former secretaries of the New Zealand Workers' Educational Association, and photographs of events organised by the Association including weekend and summer schools, and educational classes. Quantity: 36 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Accession 90-386, File 8/5.

Date: Sep 1994

From: Mackay, Lachlan Robert, fl 2015: Papers relating to Noel Ginn

Reference: MS-Papers-11917-2

Description: Contains transcript of Annette Facer's interview with Noel Ginn. Discusses his life, including school, the Great Depression, university studies, work, relationships with his parents (including caring for them in old age) and family, his Methodist religion, the Napier earthquake, pacifism, poetry, interest in horticulture, life in Australia, and personal relationships. Ginn's incarceration as a conscientious objector during World War II is discussed in depth (trial, camps, fellow prisoners, literature read, solitary confinement, prison wardens, Chinese prisoners, and release procedure) as is his relationships with and impressions of Archibald, Millicent, Terence, and James K Baxter. Also includes impressions of Archibald Charles Barrington and Rodney Eric Kennedy. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1965

From: Fyfe, Mary, fl 1964-2016: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1937

Description: A home-made album containing informal photographs of the Riverside Community near Nelson taken in 1965 [probably taken by Mary or Frank Fyfe]. Contains images of different buildings (interiors and exteriors), including the Methodist Church built by community members, the original house which belonged to Hubert Holdaway, rammed earth buildings, and rammed earth machinery shed. Images also show trailers, fields, livestock, beehives, poultry run, a fruit stall on the Motueka-Nelson Road, and community members packing apples. Some photos show the community founder Archibald (Barry) Barrington, two images show Labour MPs Bill Rowling and Arnold Nordmeyer in discussion with Community members and workers. The album also contains typed captions for the photographs. Mary and Fyfe lived at Riverside in 1965 prior to moving to Wellington. According to Mary Fyfe, her father had previously corresponded with key Riverside figure Archibald Barrington. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Home-made album tied with string containing pasted in black and white photographs, and typed captions, 25.5 x 20 cm.

Date: 1929-1971

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: MS-Papers-0439

Description: Comprises correspondence, notes, articles, publications, newspaper clippings and records relating to long standing interest in pacifism and communitarianism. Archibald Charles Barrington was co-founder of the New Zealand Christian Pacifist Society and an early member of the Riverside Community at Lower Moutere Quantity: 411 folder(s). 7.80 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available. Processing information: Access requirement for permission of the Chief Librarian was removed and three donations were added to this collection, 25 May 2023.

Date: 1930 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-PEACE-1930/1949

Description: Includes: 1943: A Final Letter To The Electors. Lincoln A W Efford (Peace candidate). Christchurch, 5 February 1943. (Three copies). [ca 1935]. Come down to earth!! [An anti war flyer issued by the] Christian Pacifist Society (Wellington). [ca 1940]: Christ and Conscription; conscription has to be justified at the bar of Christian morality. Vote "No." Published by the Christian Pacifist Society, Wellington. 1945: Discard the Obsolete; values for framing peace. [Reprint of a letter to an editor]. Henry Leger, Levin, 9 October 1945. 1932: Disarmament demonstration under the auspices of the League of Nations Union. Town Hall Concert Chamber (Auckland). Sir George Fowldes (chairman). Willis Airey (chairman of League of Nations Union). 10 November 1932. [ca 1939]: The Economic Causes of War. Published by The Combined Pacifist Committee, Christchurch. Co-operative Press print, Christchurch. 1934: The Ghastly Horrors of War (lantern [slide] lecture). Delivered by Robert Semple. Municipal Concert Hall, Christchurch. 13 May 1934. (Four copies). 1935: Is War Like This; "Forgotten Men" [movie documentary on the First World War released in 1934]. Crystal Palace Theatre (possibly Christchurch), August 1935. [ca 1940]: It Must Not Happen Here! Free Speech Must Live [pamphlet protesting against the harassment and suppression of anti-war meetings in New Zealand]. Published by the Wellington Peace and Anti-Conscription Council, Wellington. W S Pearson (printer). 1931: League of Nations Union (Auckland Branch). Syllabus 1931 [lecture series]. Reception Hall Milne and Choyce's; Fabian Rooms Unity Hall; WEA, Old Grammar School. 26 March-26 November, 1931. 1935: Manifesto; Against War! Against Fascism! Published by the NZ Movement Against War and Fascism, 1 August 1935. Printed by the New Zealand Worker, Wellington. (Two copies). [ca 1939]: Men and Women of New Zealand [anti war pamphlet]. Published by the City Central Branch Communist Party (Auckland), and printed by the Auckland Service Printery. [ca 1948-1949]: New Zealand Peace Campaign. Petition for the Abolition of Conscription in New Zealand. Organised by the No More War Movement. Printed by Alex Wildey Limited, Christchurch. 1949: NZ Peace Council; The Council's policy. Published by the NZ Peace Council, and printed by Forward Press Print (Auckland). [No date]: New Zealand Women's Crusade for World Peace; in God alone do we trust [anthology of prayers for peace]. Published by the New Zealand Women's Crusade for World Peace, and printed by Dawson Printing Co Ltd, Auckland. [ca 1940s]: Let us Endorse Labour's Pledge of No Conscription. Trades Hall [Wellington]. 29 May. [ca 1942]: 1914, The War to End Wars; 1939, The War for a new world Order; 1964 - What? Published by the Campaign for Christian Order. 1943: The New Target.....Vote for Efford, the peace candidate [Christchurch. Pamphlet against revenge bombing of urban civilians in the Second World War]. Printed by Bullivant Print. (Two copies). [No date]: One World. Pamphlet published under the name of A J Martin, Organiser; Peace Union (Auckland). Printed by the Pelorus Press, Auckland. 1946: Peace issue of New Zealand postage stamps. Photocopy of an original flyer housed at A PHILATELY 1946. 1940: A Pacifist Peace Settlement (preliminary draft). Printed by Co-operative Press, Christchurch. (Two copies). 1943: Peace Negotiations.....Vote for Efford, the peace candidate [Christchurch. Pamphlet promoting a body replacing the League of Nations]. Printed by H W Bullivant Company Ltd, Christchurch. (Two copies). 1949: Somersault - or you'll be smashed; P M Dictates 2nd NZEF Association's about face on conscription. Statement by R J Gilbert, Solicitor. Published by NZ Peace and Anti-Conscription Federation, Wellington Branch. 29 July 1949. [ca 1943]: This is how Freedom is Lost.....Protest urgently against [the inhuman punishment of consientious objectors in Rangipo Prison]. Printed by Times Printing Works, Auckland. (Two copies). [ca 1935]: Why Not Peace Now? Hear the pacifist viewpoint. Public meeting organised by the Christian Pacifist Society and the Peace Pledge Union. Trades Hall, Wellington, 9 April 1935. Pearson Printing Co, Wellington. (Two copies). [ca 1939]: [Anti war plege card addressed to] the Secretary, The Peace Pledge Union, Christchurch, NZ. [ca 1946]: You, the Atomic Bomb and World Peace. Pamphlet published by the National Peace Council, Christchurch. 1940: Your Money and Your Life. [Pamphlet outlining issues and actions relating to conditions of employment]. Published by The Industrial Committee of the Peace and Anti-Conscription Council (Wellington Branch), 24 May 1940. 1949: Youth Conscription; An appeal to the people of New Zealand. Published by the Peace Committee of the Religious Society of Friends in New Zealand (Auckland), 15 July 1949. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 29 offset printed pamphlets and flyers. 12 duplicates.. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying below 240 mm.

Date: [ca 1945-1986]

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: 91-007

Description: Comprises records re Riverside Community including address files, books, notes and a photograph Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - New reformation, by P Goodman (1971) Other Titles - God and the future, by H McKeating (1974) Other Titles - New Zealand community (1973) Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further records re A C Barrington and Riverside Community Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms L Rain, Riverside Community, Lower Moutere (postal address, R D 2 Upper Moutere), Jan 1991 Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1950-1968

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: MS-Papers-6110

Description: Comprises personal correspondence between Barrington and Vera Brittain (1950-1968) on a variety of topics including aspects of their daily lives and their special interests in politics, communities, conscientious objection, Christian pacificism and related matters Used by Paul Berry, the official biographer of Vera Brittain Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See further material on A C Barrington on TAPUHI The correspondence began in 1950 while Barrington was still in India with a group of which they had both been members and Brittain had returned to Britain Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1915-1981

By: New Zealand Workers' Educational Association

Reference: 90-386

Description: Comprises minutes, reports, correspondence, circulars and subject files from the National Office. Also includes a large number of records from the Wellington District Committee. The records for the years 1938-1947 contain information about the Dominion and District Secretary of that time, the prominent pacifist and social activist, Archibald Charles Barrington. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - A list of WEA Trade Union Education Postal Education records held by National Archives is located in collection back file Quantity: 8 box(es). 12 volume(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typscripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Minninnick cartoon (Cartoon Archive) - To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: PA-Group-00987

Description: Photographs of Archibald Charles Barrington taken between 1940 and 1949 by a range of photographers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w copy negative(s). Provenance: Dr J M Barrington is the son of A C Barrington.

Date: 29-30 August 1983 - 29 Aug 1983 - 30 Aug 1982

From: Ernest Crane collection of interviews relating to Ormond Burton

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986; Crane, Ernest Arthur, 1915-1996

Reference: OHInt-0202/5

Description: Archibald Charles Barrington talks about Ormond Burton and the growth of the Christian Pacifist Society and Riverside Community Venue - Auckland Other - Transcript of interview held in Manuscripts (85-149) Interviewer(s) - Ernest Crane Venue - Riverside Community, Upper Moutere Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000254 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available Manuscripts (85-149).

Date: 15 Nov 1979 (broadcast)

From: Radio New Zealand Looking Back programmes

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: OHInt-0040/01

Description: Archibald Barrington looks back on a life as a conscientious objector, as leading member of the New Zealand Christian Pacifist Society between 1936 and 1961 and member of the Riverside Community at Lower Moutere. Interviewer(s) - John Wheeler Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000324 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 43 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1979

Date: 1997, 9 Jun 1998 - 09 Jun 1998

From: Conscientious objectors of World War II

By: Browne, Marjorie Edna, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0426-01

Description: This interview is in 2 parts - the first is a recorded piece from a speech given by Marj Browne in 1997 - the second part is an interview made in Hamilton. Marjorie Edna Browne recalls being at school at the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Recalls being a Sunday School teacher, and beginning to grapple with the revolutionary nature of Christ's teaching in relation to social issues. Explains how the immediate family never fully recovered from father's experience during World War I. Backgrounds involvement with Pacificism. Describes how the church became divided as World War II progressed and the Methodist Bible Class Movement became a significant pacifist pressure group. Explains that in 1936 the CPS (Christian Pacifist Society) had been formed with a membership of 144, mainly Methodist. Refers to the leadership skills of Rev Ormond Burton and Arch Barrington who was secretary of the Bible Class Movement. Recalls that by 1939, with the outbreak of war, membership had grown to 428. Mentions Rev Allan Brash, a Presbyterian who became secretary of the World Council of Churches. Also refers to Archdeacon Young, an Anglican. Discusses prison and detention camp conditions for conscientious objectors and the tough struggle of their wives and children to survive. Talks about the Manpower Act. Describes Waikune prison situated just out of the National Park, with reference to superintendent, Jeremiah Quill. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Julian McCarthy Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007790 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2057.

Date: 22 Apr 1997 - 27 Apr 1997

From: Conscientious objectors of World War II

By: Silvester, David William, 1913-

Reference: OHInt-0426-08

Description: David William Silvester born Frankton, Hamilton and lived there until the age of 20 years. Recalls memories of soldiers with wounds, crutches etc in Frankton after World War I, and peace celebrations in Hamilton including a ceremony and tree planting at school for a teacher who was killed in the war. Backgrounds involvement with Pacificism, with reference to youth director of Methodist church, bible class and attendance at conference in 1933 which led to becoming one of the first members of New Zealand Pacifist Society (1935/1936) and involvement with the Christian Pacifist Movement. Discusses: outbreak of World War II: interview with Public Service Commission Office; street meetings and soapbox once a week and sentence to Mt Crawford prison with Ormond Burton and Archie Barrington. Describes conditions at Mt Crawford and notes prisons were not fitted to take conscientious objectors, hence the commencement of detention camps. Refers to CO (conscientious objector) at Strathmore hospital who died from meningitis as it wasn't diagnosed. Recalls being sent to Waikune, with reference to Jeremiah Quill and then to Hautu. Refers to censorship of CO's letters and describes CO's mail run arrangements and escape attempts. Talks about involvement with Riverside Christian Pacifist Community after World War II. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Julian McCarthy Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007803-007805 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2064.

Date: 1977, 2000, [n.d.]

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-

Reference: MS-Papers-11800

Description: Papers comprise: Letters from A C Barrington (1977) regarding the Riverside Community and her research for her book ('New Zealand poster book, 1830-1940' published 1977) Correspondence with Michael King (2000) regarding his commission to do a historical survey of Polynesia, which in draft was entitled 'Polynesians: Vikings of the Sunrise'. Also includes a handmade Christmas Card edged with lace stitching from Audrey and Bill Willing to Helen [n.d.] Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Typescript Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - PR-14-0409.

Reference: OHColl-103

Description: Quantity: 1 3" reel(s).