Public service employment
Work relief
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Date:
1976
From:
Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Ref:
EP-Arts-Theatre-Circa-01
Description:
Cast of Wellington Circa Theatre's 1976 production of Roger Hall's play 'Glide Time'. Photograph taken outside the Vogel Building, Aitken Street, Wellington,...
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...
Date:
[ca 1932]
Ref:
PAColl-8855
Description:
Photograph of men working on sand dunes at Lyall Bay, Wellington. Shows them by rail tracks (preparing to move sand?). Probably shows relief workers during t...
Date:
2013
From:
Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By:
Setford News Photo Agency
Ref:
DCDL-0024634
Description:
Shows National MP Judith Collins with two hand puppets labelled 'race relations comm' and 'equal employment opportunities comm' and declaring that "They are ...
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:
1932
Ref:
1/2-060381-F
Description:
Close to the site of the Karitane Hospital in Melrose, a road is being upgraded by relief workers. Men work with picks and shovels to remove the hillside. A ...
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:
1999
By:
Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Ref:
H-587-001/021
Description:
Political cartoons.
Shows a redneck's nightmare, ownership of the Whanganui River is given to Maori who loaded it onto the back of a truck and took it away.
...
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:
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:
1990
From:
New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Ref:
MS-Papers-4280-023
Description:
The story of Edwin Bold, born at Batley Carr, Yorkshire, who immigrated to New Zealand on the `Pleiades' in 1885 for health reasons. He was skilled in the w...
Date:
[ca 1900]
From:
Holland family : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-6630-1
Description:
Title continues:`...written for the information of my dear Wife and family'. The typescript memoir is incomplete, ending with page 17. March writes of his ea...
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:
[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:
[ca 1930-1933]
Ref:
PAColl-9480
Description:
Photograph of relief workers building a retaining wall during road construction works circa 1930-1933. Possibly near Akatarawa, Wellington region. Photograph...
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:
[1956-1960]
From:
Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers
Ref:
96-145-2/13
Description:
Unsorted correspondence from a variety of people on a variety of topics and includes some family certificates and death notices; letter from C E Beeby re job...
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:
[ca 1928]
From:
Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Ref:
EP-8631-1/4-G
Description:
Earth moving work at the Botanic Gardens, Wellington, circa 1928. Photographer unidentified.
Note on back of file print reads "Wellington Botanic Garden, G...
Date:
[ca 1930]
From:
Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Ref:
1/2-071566-F
Description:
Relief workers constructing Rongotai Airport in Wellington, circa 1930. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).