Piper, Leon Bremner, 1924-2024

Date: [1952-1954]

From: New Zealand Student Labour Federation : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-7602-2

Description: Other Titles - The Student (v1, n1, Oct 1956) Other Titles - Peaceful co-existence; the christian obligation, by Kathleen Lonsdale Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2006-2007

By: Martin, Evelyn Gwenda, 1926-2017

Reference: MS-Papers-8814

Description: Book of tributes to Alex McLeod, compiled after his death in 2006, collected by Gwenda Martin. Includes account of his life and notes on the McLeod clan in Scotland. Contributors are Geraldine McDonald, Harry Evison, Martin Pharazyn, Peter Jenkins, Bruce Milburn, Betty Cole, Barbara Holt, Tui Mikkelsen and Pip Piper. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Ms Gwenda Martin, 2007

Date: 1951 - 1952

By: Hutcheson Bowman & Stewart Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-VICTORIA-1951-01

Description: Programme for a political satire revue by students of Victoria University as part of capping celebrations. The title refers to Prime Minister Sid Holland, and additional notes make reference to Walter Nash, F P Walsh. Quantity: 1 pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet, 253 x 190 mm.

Date: 1888-2008

By: Piper, Leon Bremner, 1924-2024

Reference: ATL-Group-00940

Description: The collection reflects the wartime, recreational and political activities, and interests of Pip Piper. It includes notes, minutes and papers related to Post Primary Teachers' Association from the 1950s to the 1980s, along with papers and news clippings relating to Electoral Reform Coalition campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Also included is a minute book for the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Association and one for the New Zealand Technical School Teachers' Association. The material related to Pipers’ war time service include papers photographs, correspondence, log books and ephemera. It covers his service in the Green Islands and New Britain, Papua New Guinea in the 1940s, along with material related to commemorations in the 2000s. The collection also includes: photographs of tramping and mountaineering in New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950; papers relating to Piper’s political activities at university; and copies of his Security Intelligence Service records. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: The records have been arranged into five series by archivists. Leon Bremner (Pip) Piper served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War Two, was active in student and left-wing politics at Victoria University after the war, taught in England and Bulgaria in the 1950s and was a secondary school teacher and active member of the Post-Primary Teachers Association from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was also involved in the Wellington branch of the Electoral Reform Coalition from the late 1980s. Quantity: 53 folder(s). 18 b&w original negative(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 box(es). 3 volume(s). Processing information: Birth date for Leon Bremner Piper corrected from 1925? to 1924 on advice from Mr Piper. Record updated on 14 February 2022. ATL Group created in January 2023 when new material was processed. Previous Unit ID: MS-Group-0397.

Date: [2001-2002]

From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8198-51

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Ireland at the Going West Festival (2002).