Public service employment
Work relief
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Date:
2012
From:
Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By:
Setford News Photo Agency
Ref:
DCDL-0020072
Description:
The cartoon shows Murray McCully, Minister of Foreign Affairs, whistling a tune as he puts a newspaper through a shredder. The shredder has a sign sticky-tap...
Date:
Jan - May 1904
By:
Adams, Charles William, 1840-1918
Ref:
MSX-9139
Description:
Adam's diary records official daily entries for his work as Chief Surveyor for Marlborough, Jan-May 1904. Entries describe weather conditions, office hours, ...
Date:
26 May 1983
From:
NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part I
By:
Barr, William Jerrold, 1909-1996
Ref:
OHInt-0096/01
Description:
William (Bill) Barr born Waipiro Bay, near Gisborne, 1909. Outlines family background - both grandparents, came to New Zealand between 1840-1850, Jackson fr...
Date:
28 May 1983
From:
NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part I
By:
Richards, George Donald, 1915-1999
Ref:
OHInt-0096/22
Description:
George Donald Richards born Dannevirke 1915. Outlines family background - father, John Henry (Jack) Richards born Australia, a blacksmith by trade, worked fo...
Date:
27 May 1984
From:
NZOHA New Zealand Computer Society Silver Jubilee Oral History Project
By:
Walker, Paul Nelson, 1914-1986
Ref:
OHInt-0093/13
Description:
Paul Walker was born 25 Jul 1914 at Auckland. Describes family background, childhood in Auckland, education including a Bachelor of Arts in maths and a Bache...
Date:
[ca 2 Feb 1932]
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
1/2-088470-G
Description:
Workers on the New Zealand Unemployment Board's No 5 relief scheme digging a trench on a hill above a road in Wellington. Photograph taken in February 1932, ...
Date:
24 January 1994 - 24 Jan 1994
From:
Justice Department, Corrections Division Women's Suffrage Centennial Oral History Project
By:
Spence, Noeline Katrine, 1929-2011
Ref:
OHInt-0136/05
Description:
Noeline Katrine Spence, born Christchurch. Describes background, growing up in Christchurch and career, commencing as a typist with State Advances Corporatio...
Date:
23 March 1994 - 23 Mar 1994
From:
Labour Movement Oral History Project - Part II
By:
Cameron, Wesley Raymond, 1928-2006
Ref:
OHInt-0059/03
Description:
Wesley Raymond Cameron born Linwood, Christchurch. Outlines family background - father a floor moulder, making plough shares. Recalls father being unemployed...
Date:
28 Nov 1991
From:
Women in World War II Part I
By:
Cassidy, Eileen Margaret, 1918-2016
Ref:
OHInt-0060/03
Description:
Eileen O'Connor was born on 17 August 1916 in Christchurch . Discusses her parent's views on education, the Depression and her job as a shorthand typist. T...
Date:
10 December 1991 - 10 Dec 1991
From:
Labour Movement Oral History Project
By:
Wolfe, Arthur Lancelot, 1910-1997
Ref:
OHInt-0056/04
Description:
Arthur Lancelot (Joe) Wolfe born Stratford, Taranaki. Gives family background - father a woodchopper from Tasmania. Recalls school days and corporal punishme...
Date:
[1924-2001]
By:
Mackie, James Ogilvie, 1921-
Ref:
MS-Group-1007
Description:
Comprises reminiscences of Mackie describing his life as a `bureaucrat' working mostly for the mental health divisions in the Public Service. He worked in Se...
Date:
1930
Ref:
1/2-029649-F
Description:
Relief workers working on an earth moving project during the depression, Wellington, 1930. Shows men with shovels and picks. Oriental Bay is in the distance....
Date:
16 Nov 1999
From:
Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project
By:
Roberts, Heather Richenda, 1946-
Ref:
OHInt-0556-09
Description:
Heather Roberts was born in Hobart, Australia in 1946. Describes parents, early life, quaker education, living on a mission station, and academic achievement...
Date:
14-21 August 1998 - 14 Aug 1999 - 17 Aug 1999
From:
Trade union oral history project
By:
O'Sullivan, John Doyle, 1912-2003
Ref:
OHInt-0478/39
Description:
John (Jack) O'Sullivan born Wellington of Irish parents. Recalls living in a Railway house in Plimmerton; leaving school in 1927 and first job of bricklaying...
Date:
04 08 00 - 04 Aug 2000
From:
YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project
By:
Rivers, Mary-Jane, 1951-
Ref:
OHInt-0590-3
Description:
Mary-Jane Rivers was born in Christchurch in 1951. Describes her mother and their relationship, her father, mother's family and paralysis due to medical malp...
Date:
12 Oct 1983
From:
Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford
By:
Lord, George Oscar, 1903-1986
Ref:
OHInt-0470/17
Description:
Oscar Lord was born in Auckland in 1903. Describes leaving the family farm at Taneatua and becoming a ganger on the railway line between Te Puke and Taneatua...
Date:
1962-1965, 1972-1973
From:
Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers
Ref:
96-145-1/06
Description:
Comprises file of papers relating to Sutch's 1972-1973 tax return and correspondence and other papers relating to his `retirement'. This includes PSA brochur...
Date:
[ca 3 Aug 1927]
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
PAColl-8557-66
Description:
Rongotai, Wellington, during the depression, showing relief workers shovelling sand into railway wagons. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post sta...
Date:
2002
From:
Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Ref:
DX-005-341
Description:
'The Politician' cartoon strip.
Quantity: 1 digital image(s).
Date:
1846-1872
By:
Cook, Thomas Uppadine, 1816-1897
Ref:
MS-Papers-2874
Description:
Papers and correspondence, mainly over Cook's applications for positions; includes his appointment as Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages for Foxton, 18...