World War, 1939-1945

Date: 1935-1950

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0570

Description: Contains books and pamphlets Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1939-1942

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0585

Description: Contains correspondence and other papers on a variety of political and other topics. Includes National Art Gallery and Museum minutes and various financial papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1942

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0234

Description: File 40 - Contains correspondence regarding the Maori war effort, the Waipiro Consolodation scheme and historical references to the Ruatoria district Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 1944-1945

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0250

Description: File 54 - Contains papers regarding Maori conferences such as in Ruatoria re the rehab of soliders, housing, welfare, iwi and also another hui re the maintenance of the Maori council Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: Jun 2003-Aug 2004 - 01 Jun 2003 - 31 Aug 2004

By: Atkinson, Neill, 1967-

Reference: OHColl-0771

Description: Interviews with 14 men who served in the civilian Merchant Navy during the Second World War, sailing on New Zealand, British, American and Norwegian ships. Most are New Zealand-born but two British seaman who came to New Zealand at the end of the war are also included. Those interviewed held various jobs and ranks: as officer, able and ordinary seaman, bosun or deck boy, marine engineer, fireman or coal-trimmer, steward, pantryman or baker. Several of the interviewees suffered the loss of their ships through attacks by submarines, bombers or warships, and two were taken prisoner by the Japanese. Interviewees are Lou Barron, Dan Bashall, Jim Blundell, Dewi Browne, John Gregson, Bill Hall, Lionel Hodgson, Darcy Hoffman, Thor Larsen, John Montgomery, Pat O'Shea, Cliff Turner, Les Watson and Allan Wyllie Publication - 'Hell or high water: New Zealand Merchant seafarers remember the war', Neil Atkinson (ed). Auckland: HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2005 Interviewer(s) - Neill Atkinson Relationship complexity - See also OHInt-0321-06 Interview with Steve Carey, an interview recorded in 1994 for the Merchant Navy Story oral history - edited transcript used in the book 'Hell or high water' by Neill Atkinson Accompanying material - Photocopied material and other documentation relating to some interviewees in transcripts Quantity: 22 C60 cassette(s). 14 transcript(s). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available edited transcripts. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, 2005 Copies of photographs of interviewees taken at the time of their Merchant Navy service included in transcripts

Date: 9 February 2002 - 09 Feb 2002

By: Easton, James, 1916-

Reference: OHColl-0839-01

Description: Interview with James Easton, born Scotland 1916. Outlines family background, including father working on Canadian Pacific Railway and his own childhood in Canada and Australia. Mentions running bets for bookmaker after leaving school aged 12. Talks about joining Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Unit H Division Signals, training, going to Singapore and the military camp at Johor Bahur mid 1941. Describes war breaking out December 1941, being sent to Jemaluang, the Japanese attacks, being pushed back to Singapore, capitulation and the late evacuation. Describes feelings during battle, destroying equipment, being captured, marching to Changi and life as a POW at Selarangi Barracks under Korean guards. Talks about catching dengue fever, being sent to Three Pagoda Pass, travelling from Singapore in a railway cattle wagon to Ban Pong and marching alongside the river Kwai to work on the Burma Railway. Describes living conditions, including cleaning out bodies dead from cholera for overnight camp clearings, food supplies, catching yak for meat, treatment by guards, disease, beheading of escapees, clothing, amputations, weather and working on the railway. Explains what happened once the railway was built, going back to Changi, the overcrowded conditions in the camp, Red Cross parcels, body being covered in scabies, shipped home to Darwin and transfer to the Convalescent Camp in Sydney. Talks about the Japanese today. Abstracted by - Sherryl Allen Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015389 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5578.

Date: 1924-1949

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0568

Description: Contains books, pamphlets, correspondence, receipts and a ration book Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photograph and printed matter

Date: March - April 1997

By: Smith, Neil Gibson, 1921-2002

Reference: OHColl-1575-01

Description: An interview with Neil Smith about his experiences as a conscientious objector in New Zealand during World War Two. Speaks of his detainment in military defaulter camps 1942 - 1946. The interview was conducted by Dylan Kirschberg for his third form social studies oral history assignment at Auckland Grammar School, filmed by Liz Kirschberg. Title supplied by Library. Interviewer - Dylan Kirschberg. Camera operator - Liz Kirschberg. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract(s) Available - awaiting processing.. Search dates: 1997

Date: Oct 1983

By: Chalmers, Jocelyn Margaret, 1951-; Smith, Ann Gladys, 1905-1996

Reference: OHColl-0695/1

Description: Ann Gladys Smith was born in West Otago in 1905. Describes her childhood, family and moving from Glenkenich to Tapanui when she was five. Recalls schooling and attending Sunday School. Describes being housekeeper at the age of twelve, returning to high school, becoming a student teacher at the Glenkenich School and then going to Dunedin to work at the Nisbet Home for children in Andersons Bay. Talks about her decision to become a deaconess and training before going to St Andrew's Church in Hastings in 1932. Comments on the effect of the 1931 Napier earthquake on local people. Recalls her time at Auckland at St David's Church during World War II. Discusses the Emergency Precautions Services (EPS) for civilians in the event of a Japanese attack. Describes going to Inglenook Home for children in Gore in 1948 and then to Knox Church in Dunedin. Discusses her work as a deaconess particularly at Knox Church in Dunedin. Publication - Entry in 'Southern people : a dictionary of Otago Southland biography' Interviewer(s) - Jocelyn Chalmers Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come.

Date: 23 Sep 1992

From: Maniapoto Archives Oral History Project: He Taonga Tuku Iho

By: Rauputu, Rauputu James, 1916-2005; Tauariki, Sonny, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0085-26

Description: Jim Rauputu recounts and discusses the history of the Mokau Kohunui Marae from 1909 including the local school at Piopio, te kau ma whitu, kaitiaki and various local hapu including those of his parents. Discusses Kahuwera mountain, the Mokau River and old pa. Talks about Kingitanga, the King Movement in depth. Remembers his own childhood including local dances, movies, transport by horse, his marriage and birth of his three sons. Discusses World War II, the influenza epidemic and their effects on the local population. Provides mihi whakamutunga. Interviewer(s) - Sonny Tauariki Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0941. Search dates: 1992

Date: 2007-2008

By: Bell, Marie, 1922-2012; Campion, Richard Meckiff, 1923-2013; Evison, Helen June Patricia (Dame), 1924-2010; Fry, Robin, active 1960s-2000s; Hawthorne, Patricia, 1928-; Hay, Mary-Annette, 1925-2024; McKegg, Dorothy Anne, 1928-2008; McRae, Elizabeth, active 1970-2002; Norton, John, active 1955; Priestley, Dinah, 1938-; Vere-Jones, David, 1936-

Reference: OHColl-1468

Description: Comprises recordings of interviews with students and associates of the actor Minnie Maria Dronke, conducted for the research project 'Art Uprooted: Maria Dronke and the New Zealand Stage'. The interviewees are Patricia Hawthorne, Marie Bell, Janice Fraser, Laurie Atkinson, Richard Campion, Pat Evison, Joyce Campbell, Dorothy McKegg, Elizabeth McRae, Robin Fry, Pamela James, Mary-Annette Hay, Dinah Priestley, John Norton, David Vere-Jones and Natasha Templeton. The 'Art Uprooted' research project was undertaken to gather information for a biography. Title supplied by library. Interviewer - Monica Tempian. Maria Dronke, an established in German actor, came to New Zealand as a war refugee in 1939 and significantly influenced the develpment of theatre in New Zealand 1940-1987 as a teacher, director and actor. Quantity: 15 Interview(s). 15 printed abstract(s). 18 compact disc(s). Search dates: 2007 - 2008 Processing information: Abstracts have not yet been processed.

Date: [1976-1977]

From: Radio New Zealand : Wartime stories

Reference: 85-021-09

Description: Stories with covering letters about experiences in World War I and World War II; includes list of subject, writer's place of residence, suggested titles, brief grading and note of which war each story was about Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Copy of listing included.

Date: [ca 1920]-1966

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9548-11

Description: There are some ANZAC Club photographs, but most relate to the ANZAC Garden. There are also portraits, some of them signed. The photographs of the ANZAC Garden include a group of snapshots recording the ceremony attended by Eleanor Roosevelt, 19 June 1943. The ANZAC Garden was established on the initiative of Nola Luxford. It occupies part of the roof of the British Empire Building, Rockefeller Centre, New York. It was dedicated by New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser, 27 August 1941. Annual ANZAC commemorations have been held there ever since. Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1944-1946

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-034-1

Description: Most photographs relate to the return of New Zealand troops 1945-1946, in particular returning prisoners of war. A few record troop departures in late September 1944. Arrangement: Negatives for some of the photographs found at F 176039 1/2 - F 176049 1/2 Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4830

Description: Contains administrative records of the South Wairarapa Home Guard, including a list of members

Date: 1943 - 1944

From: Allen, John Gerald, 1916-1997 :[Eight original cartoons from the Pacific campaign, 1943-1944.]

Reference: A-352-050

Description: Shows a woman whose face is probably a caricature of someone real with ballooning clothing floating in the sky like a weather balloon. She says 'Just wait till I get that --- SGT Major!" The cartoon appears to be poking fun at aspects of army life. The faces are clearly caricatures of real people but we do not know who they are. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on thin card, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1942-1943

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-259

Description: Most of the photographs relate to the remedial treatment camp set up in Rotorua. On the first page, the photographs are flanked by newspaper cuttings about another camp set up for the same purpose at Papakura, Auckland. The photographs on this page may relate to the Papakura camp. Most of the photographs are of groups of men doing various forms of excersise, and playing sport. There are group photographs of men in military uniform and others of groups posing with tennis raquets and medicine balls. Other photographs record the launch of "Bonds for Bombers" campaign in Rotorua, March 1942, and the ANZAC parade 1942 (also Rotorua). There are seven original cartoon drawings of military personnel by Stenberg. These were used in the Rotorua camp's newspaper. The photographs are supported by many newspaper cuttings about the camps and their purpose. There is a photograph relating to the camp newspaper "The Arawa Guerilla" and two copies of the paper are pasted onto the same page. Other newspaper cuttings and two programmes relate to a very successful entertainment developed by the men in the Rotorua camp. This was "Splitzkreig Army Review" which from September 1942 to March 1943 toured the upper North Island and raised 2,000 pounds for the Patriotic Fund. Remedial treatment camps were set up for men who had been judged by the military medical authorities as unfit for military service, but whoes ailments were considered curable. Examples of the sorts of conditions treated are knee problems, flat feet, \"underdevelopment,\" nervous conditions, and chronic backache. The Rotorua camp occupied Arawa Park, and the racecourse. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca1920-ca1950]

By: Southward, Keith, 1921-1944

Reference: PA1-q-969

Description: Album probably compiled by Keith Southward, a New Zealand airman in World War II, showing training in New Zealand, Canada (Halifax) and England. Opens with a group photograph of women and airmen at the ANZAC Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Panama Canal taken March 1942 on the way to Canada. Views of Halifax, airmen, and convoy which took them to Britain. Servicemen in Bounmouth, England, and views of Bournemouth. Views of London, some of its notable buildings, and bomb damage. Views of the lake district aquired on a trip taken in August 1942. Many pages of postcards, commercial photographs of cities and villages visited in England. These are interspersed with photographs of airmen and other people. There are also three pages of photographs of Oxford training aircraft, probably taken in Canada. The album ends with photographs of family and friends in England and New Zealand, including three pages of ephemera. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2003 - 2004

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-742-001/009

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Quantity: 9 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1940 - 1941

By: New Zealand. Army. 2nd NZEF. 2nd Division; Egypt. Survey of Egypt; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: MapColl-502hkcmm/1940-1/Acc.51166

Description: Map published by the Survey of Egypt 1934 (34/77) of the area west of Heliopolis, Cairo (not shown) and Maadi, annotated to show the areas allocated to units of the New Zealand Army Second Division for training. The New Zealanders were based at Maadi Camp, which is not shown. Also shows training areas north of the New Zealander's areas, allocated to the Egyptian Army, RAF M.E. School, M.E. School of Artillery, and M.E. R.A.C. training depot. At head of map: H.Q. Coy. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, scale 1:50 000, 80.5 x 102.8 cm.