Military career; Chief of General Staff 1965-1967. (NZ Who's Who Aotearoa 2001)
McKinnon, Walter Sneddon (Major General), 1910-1998
Haughton & McKeon :Bedroom fitting in house at Khandallah, for Lt. Col. W S McKinnon. D...
Date: 1949
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0101
Description: Shows plans for built-in chests of drawers. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on tracing paper, 545 x 755 mm.
Album presented to Brigadier Walter S McKinnon by Rear Admiral Frost, USN.
Date: 1954-1957
From: McKinnon, Walter Sneddon, 1910-1998 :Albums relating to periods as Armed Forces Attache to USA, 1954-1957
Reference: PA1-q-706
Description: Record of the commanding officers, some of the warships and aircraft, and a naval college of the United States Navy, and an aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington DC. Album was presented to Brigadier Walter S McKinnon, OBE, New Zealand Army by Rear Admiral Laurence H Frost, Director of US Naval Intelligence. McKinnon was Armed Forces Attache in Washington, DC from March 1954 to January 1957 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Correspondence
Date: 1919-1945
From: McLean, Terence Power (Sir), 1913-2004 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11459-035
Description: Early correspondence with his parents. Includes also fragments of a school report from New Plymouth Boys' High School 1928; testimonial 1932; letter regarding the King's Cup 1919 and letter from General McKinnon. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
McKinnon, Walter Sneddon, 1910-1998 :Albums relating to periods as Armed Forces Attache...
Date: 1954-1957
By: McKinnon, Walter Sneddon (Major General), 1910-1998
Reference: PAColl-5968
Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph albums, photographic prints
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:[Listener inquiry]. 1972
Date: 1972
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Sports post (Newspaper)
Reference: B-134-284
Description: This cartoon has six scenes comparing the 'New Zealand Listener' inquiry to a sports broadcast. A man is sitting watching his televsion and the commentator's words form the text. Listener editor Alexander Macleod is ordered off by referee labelled N.Z.B.C. Spectactors labelled P.S.A., Kirk, and [Listener] staff are angry but the commentary goes over to the [Lionel] Sceats shooting gallery and then a very bandaged General McKinnon is interviewed. As the commentator announces the McKinnon stakes the Listener door is shown with a label, 'Editor wanted - ability to write not required'. Published in the Sports Post in 1972. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 372 x 318 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Inward letters
Date: 1993-1994
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-169
Description: Letters from a wide variety of correspondents. Not all indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
McKinnon, Walter Sneddon, 1910-1998 : Papers
Date: 1934-1995
By: McKinnon, Walter Sneddon (Major General), 1910-1998
Reference: MS-Papers-6500
Description: Includes general correspondence, 1934-1995; papers, mainly correspondence, relating to McKinnon's army service, 1947-1967; papers re chairmanship of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, 1968-1974; papers re the Vietnamese Conflict, 1965, 1981-1989 and papers relating to McKinnon's opposition to the Government's policy on nuclear ship visits to New Zealand and ANZUS McKinnon served as Chief of the New Zealand Defence Staff Quantity: 35 folder(s). 0.35 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter
Correspondence - M
Date: 1966-1985
From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5292-042
Description: Inward and outward letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
Applications and testimonials
Date: 1932-1971
From: Hartstonge, James Louis, 1914-2002 : Papers relating to his career in broadcasting
Reference: 2003-261-01
Description: Correspondence and testimonials relating to applications and appointments, mosty photocopies Quantity: 1 folder(s).