Waihōpai

Date: 1870

By: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-020

Description: View across the Waihopai Valley with the river and hills in the background. In the foreground, a fenced group of single-storey buildings, with tall trees nearby, a garden within the fenced area. Note on back of sketch: Front of building made of mud; newer part at back of wood A further watercolour by Bothamley of the the same building from a different angle is held at B-032-038 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 292 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1987-1993

From: Bailey, Rona, 1914-2005 : Papers and recordings

By: Beazley, Kim Christian, 1948-; Bolwell, Jan, 1949-; East, Alison, 1949-; Jordan, Susan, 1947-; Kinra, Vivek, 1966-; Wright, Douglas James, 1956-2018

Reference: Series-7054

Description: Recordings relating to dancing and politics. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 15 C90 cassette(s). 6 videocassette(s). Search dates: 1987 - 1993

Date: [1970s-1990s]

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11718

Description: Transparencies of houses in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the house. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'South Island Houses'. The arrangement was by location of house, approximately from North to South, from back to front then from left to right. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1988

By: Anti-Bases Campaign (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-PEACE-1988-02

Description: Poster protesting against the Waihopai satellite receiver, shows a ratlike creature wearing a GCSB shirt and headphones linked to satellite dish, passing on a piece of paper to a rat with USA on his shirt. The suggestion is that New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau was supplying secret military information to the United States. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 290 x 415 mm.

Date: 2013

From: [New Zealand ephemera of quarto size, pamphlets, flyers relating to international politics, conflicts and aid]

By: Anti-Bases Campaign (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-INTERNATIONAL-2013-01

Description: Flyer shows illustrations of an American eagle holding a banner "Victory at all costs!", a kiwi, and giant eyeball eggs hatching. Text asserts that the GCSB and its Waihopai spybase illegally spy on New Zealanders, and that it does not act in the national interests of New Zealand or its neighbours. It forces New Zealand to be involved in American wars and operations to control international politics and trade. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1988 - 1994 - 2000

From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers

By: Anti-Bases Campaign (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Waihopai

Description: Includes: Booklet: Intelligence and military support bases in New Zealand; how we are linked to global spying and military operation? Pamphlet: Waihopai; I want you to shut up and pay for the secret satellite spy base at Waihopai Two-sided poster: National protest Feb 20-21 against the proposed satellite spy base in the Waihopai Valley [1988] Poster: Why spy? Waihopai; not for New Zealand (satellite dish containing an eyeball) [1988?] (2 copies) Poster: Aotearoa Anti-Bases Campaign. The base connection - Tangimoana, Blackbirch, Harewood and the Waihopai proposal are bases that make us in New Zealand part of the superpower network [1988?] (2 copies) Poster: No spy Waihopai (GCSB rat handing documents to USA rat). National protest May 12 + 13 [1988?] (2 copies) Flyer: Protest at Waihopai; close down secret spying operations. January 28-30, 1994 (2 copies) Waihopai Women's Campaign. We are going back! for a two week women's camp at Waihopai Valley [28 November - 12 December [1980s?] 2000: Waihopai Spybase protest, January 21-23 2000. Close the Waihopai spybase now! Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..

Date: 1987

Reference: Eph-B-PEACE-1987-01

Description: Small poster invites participants to a two-week Women's camp at Waihopai Valley, and shows an illustration of three women holding a placard "No satellite spy base". The camp was to involve demonstrations in Blenheim and at the Base, as well as a celebration of the garlic harvest. Participants were asked to bring decorations, costumes, banners, wool, torches, candles, stuffed toys, baby clothes; as well as their own tents, sleeping bags and food, and vehicles if available. The verso shows a handwritten list of those available to distribute leaflets. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, violet on cream paper, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1858-1870

From: Renwick family : Legal documents

Reference: MSO-Papers-7750

Description: Conveyance of property in Nelson (Bell and Renwick to Hodgson and Sharp, trustees to Adeline Renwick (1862); deed of separation between Thomas and Adeline Renwick; conveyance of lands in New Zealand (Thomas Renwick to John Sharp and others) (1860); and will and probate of Adeline Renwick (1870) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1988 - 1993

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-243/265

Description: Includes cartoons on: The destructive effect of aerosol sprays; non-smoking legislation; the greenhouse effect; protesting against environmental hazards and Waihopai (satellite tracking station); French nuclear testers rewarded with a contract for air traffic control system; rubbish piling up on route to Mt Everest; ozone and aerosols; Russell Marshall attends talks to prevent spread of chemical weapons; whales killed both by harpooning or by chemical waste pollution; poisoning of oysters; Antarctica made into a fun park; fishing nets and water pollution are hazards for fish; the destruction of the world and the return of prehistoric creatures; an earthquake destroys New Zealand where all the world's information had been stored for safekeeping; methane gas and milk dumping; the ozone layer; dumping of nerve gas at Johnston Island; the sick world in a hospital bed; the South Sea paradise polluted; the day the world fell through the ozone hole and blew up; vultures follow the Akatsuki Maru (plutonium-carrying ship); a meteorite slams into a plutonium-carrying ship. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those not found in the albums have been given estimated dates. Quantity: 23 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 350 x 540 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1847

By: Coward, Richard, active 1847

Reference: Micro-MS-0105

Description: Portion of letter, two ship's tickets and plan of accommodation for the `Ralph Bernal', sailing from London to Wellington, 1847, for Richard and his brother; letter describes voyage to New Zealand and overland journey, moving sheep near Waiope River Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (20 frames). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1982-1988]

From: Pringle, Michael, 1962-: Papers, photographs, maps, and posters

Reference: MS-Papers-6854-09

Description: Papers relating to Waihopai Defence Satellite Comunications Unit, Black Birch naval telescope and Mt John satellite tracking station with papers by Owen Wilkes and Dennis Small, paper delivered at the Royal Astronomical Society, Auckland (1982) by D P Buller, C R Dann and Owen Wilkes (1982), and copies of parliamentary correspondence re Waihopai Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2013

Reference: EPHDL-0277

Description: Digital flyer announcing a protest to be held in January 2014, giving background information about the Waihopai base and the functions of the GCSB. There are instructions about how to find the protesters camp at Whites Bay, near Port Underwood in Marlborough. At the bottom is an short registration form for those who want to take part in the weekend protest. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2012

By: Anti-Bases Campaign (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: EPHDL-0155

Description: Digital pamphlet protesting about the base at Waihopai used by the Government Communications Security Bureau for monitoring electronic messages, and inviting recipients to attend a weekend progress at the site. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2011

From: Locke, Keith, 1944- :Collection

Reference: PADL-001572

Description: Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a digital folder called E:\Photos\2010-2011\Waihopai 2011\ Quantity: 6 Digital photograph(s).

Date: 2020

By: Anti-Bases Campaign (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: EPHDL-0421

Description: Digital flier announces a protest at the Waihopai electronic intelligence gathering base, located in the Waihopai Valley, near Blenheim. Protesters were to be camped at Onamalutu. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1980-1989

From: Smith family :Photographs relating to peace and nuclear disarmament demonstrations

Reference: PAColl-9955-1

Description: Anti nuclear and anti Waihopai demonstrations include - USS Truxtun in Wellington Harbour, 22 September 1980. Nuclear free New Zealand, no nuclear warships and peace demonstration in Wellington, 26 September 1980. This relates to the visit of the USS Truxtun. Unidentified anti nuclear demonstration, Wellington, 1980s. Photographs of the participants, and activities relating to the first Anti-Bases Campaign's first protest at Waihopai in February 1988. Protest against the New Zealand Government buying Australian made frigates. This includes Demonstrations during visits by Kim Beasley, Australian Minister of Defence, 1985 and 1989. Graffiti around Wellington relating to anti frigate campaign, 1988/1989. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 36 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 2008

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0006392

Description: Shows Waihopai Base against a background of mountains. Centre stage are two enormous eggs, one of which has been cracked open with the huge spoon lying on the grass in the foreground. Yolk runs out of the egg. Two little men standing near the spoon express dismay. Refers to the break-in to the Waihopai 'spy' base by three men from the ANZAC Ploughshares group who succeeded in deflating one of the domes that cover the satellites. the ANZAC Ploughshares group are part of an anti-base peace campaign. The egg reference applies to the secret State with egg all over its face. Published in the Sunday News Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0006384

Description: The scene is evening in a pub. The light falls on a punter who is reading a newspaper report that says that the 'Waihopai "Spy" base damaged by protesters'. His neighbour epitomises a spy by wearing a slouch hat with a small radar receiving device attached to it, an overcoat with the collar turned up, and pinned to his coat a security badge and a badge saying 'Waihopai'.The man suggests provocatively to his neighbour that 'Big Brother wasn't watching?' Refers to the break-in to the Waihopai spy base and damage to one of the satellite protective covers by a group of Christian peace protesters. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015745

Description: A woman reads a newspaper that features the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and a man reads a paper that features 'NZ Games - Waihopai, Henry, Grey Power'. The Waihopai situation is about 'Teacher Adrian Leason, Dominican friar Peter Murnane and farmer Sam Land [who] were found not guilty in April on charges of burglary and wilful damage of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) base. Green MP Keith Locke is warning the Government the lawsuit, estimated to be $1.1 million, it is bringing against the Waihopai spy base saboteurs may backfire and says that "Rather than continue to harass the three peace activists, the GCSB should explain to New Zealanders what is really going on at Waihopai." The second reference is about TVNZ Breakfast show host Paul Henry has been suspended for two weeks after having made what are considered to be racist remarks about Indian Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and earlier about Governor General Anand Satyanand. The third reference is about the political upheavals in the Marlborough Grey Power Lobby Organization. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1988

By: Yana, active 1988

Reference: Eph-C-PEACE-1988-01

Description: A poster advertising a women's camp to protest about the Waihopai Defence Satelite Communications Unit operating near Blenheim. Shows stylised red outlines of three women, one with a maori motif on the face. Below is a line of figures walking (probably protestors) and a representation of the satellite tracking unit. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Peace Movement Aotearoa, Wellington, in 1995.