Journalists - Great Britain

Date: 1925

By: Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939

Reference: Eph-A-NEWSPAPER-1925-01

Description: Alphabetical list of those attending the dinner: politicians and newspaper men from New Zealand and other countries of the British Empire. Table number and seat numbers are indicated beside each name, and there appear to have been six tables, each with about 33 seats. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 188 x 125 mm.

Date: 1938

From: Reeve, Alan, 1910-1962 :[Collection of caricatures] / Alan Reeve. - 1938-1940, 1958

Reference: B-120-018

Description: Shows a head and shoulders caricature portrait of a man wearing a tie. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - [Signed] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 480 x 312 mm.

Date: 1940

From: Reeve, Alan, 1910-1962 :[Collection of caricatures] / Alan Reeve. - 1938-1947, 1950, 1957

Reference: A-056-005

Description: Shows a plump man with a cigar, in evening dress, with a circular collage of a magazine column behind his head. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 308 x 240 mm.

Date: [ca 1930-1980]

By: Cox, Geoffrey Sandford (Sir), 1910-2008

Reference: MS-Group-1146

Description: An extensive collection of diaries, drafts, correspondence and other papers relating to Cox's work as a prominent British journalist, author, diplomat and intelligence officer with 2NZEF, as well as papers on his work with independent British television stations. Source of title - Supplied New Zealand expatriate journalist, writer, soldier, civil servant and television executive. Quantity: 184 folder(s). 9 volume(s). 3.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - To Oral History Collection - Tapes and videos (OHColl-0719) - To Film Archive, four films (1) Russian celebrations, film for editor; (2)TV congreess, Holland); (3) Investiture; and (4) Suez and England - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and photograph albums (PA-Group-00638). Processing information: Chief Librarian restriction removed from collection November 2022 following review by Research Librarian Manuscripts.

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947?- :The Evening Post; Cartoons, 1 - 24 December 1992

Reference: H-033-009

Description: Shows Princess Diana and Prince Charles sitting up in bed with a reporter, who is talking on the telephone, between them. Refers to the separation of the royal couple and to the intrusion of the press into their private lives Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1929-2007

By: Cox, Geoffrey Sandford (Sir), 1910-2008

Reference: PA-Group-00638

Description: Photographs relating to Sir Geoffrey Cox, his work with the diplomatic service and as a journalist, and his family, taken 1930-1976. Comprises: Photographs of a television news crew at work in an unidentified part of Africa in 1963 and 1964, and a photograph of soldiers in Dhaka (or Dacca), East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), taken by an unknown photographer. Photographs taken on holiday in England, New Zealand, and Europe An album of portraits of Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox taken by Eileen Deste taken at a sitting between 1940-1945. Most show him in New Zealand army uniform An album of photographs relating to Cox's career between 1937-1945, during which time he was a foreign war correspondent and Chief Intellegence Officer to General Freyberg. An album of photographs relating to Cox's service with 2NZEF in Crete, Greece, when he was Chief Intellience Officer to General Freyberg. An album of photographs, chiefly relating to Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox's service Italy during World War II, also includes some family photographs Photographs relating to many aspects of Cox's life between 1929-circa 2007. Negatives of unidentified scenes taken (by Cox?) during WWII, probably in Italy. Includes an image of Freyberg with others, and a military camp with a sign reading 'Freyberg Street'. Also a group showing (Cox?) and an unidentified woman at Cassino Cemetery and Monte Cassino Abbey taken by an unidentified photographer after WWII. Negatives of scenes taken (by Cox?) at unidentified location with woman and 3 children and house in bush. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 64 colour original negative(s) strips with 248 images. 4 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides. 13 b&w original negative(s) strip with 34 images. 158 b&w original photographic print(s). 49 colour original photographic print(s). 7 album(s). 9 album pages. 31 b&w original negative(s). 12 digital print(s) b&w. 2 digital print(s) colour. 3 newspaper cuttings. Physical Description: Film negatives, photograph albums, photographic prints, transparencies, digital prints, newspaper cuttings Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1146 : Cox, Geoffrey Sandford (Sir), 1910-2008 : Papers - To Serials Collection - 1 issue - Newsletter 23rd Battalion Association. [Christchurch, N.Z.]. Vol.2, No.7, December 2005..

Date: 1950 - 1955

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-051

Description: The well-known Fleet Street British journalist Arthur Helliwell, is visiting New Zealand. He was 'so unimpressed with the North Island, particularly Auckland' but 'is very very impressed with Christchurch'. There is a map of New Zealand with a 'Beware of the dog' sign planted in Auckland and a palm tree bearing a sign that reads 'Desert island - no civilization', and two 'savages' dancing and drumming. In the South Island, however, Arthur Helliwell who has a copy of 'The people' under his arm is being wooed by the mayor in his robes, a cupid, a Roman emperor, a page carrying the key to the city, and dancers, one carrying a banner that reads 'Welcome to the Garden of Eden (incorporating the suburbs of Utopia, Elysium, Lotusland, Mt Olympus & Dolce far niente)l. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023310

Description: Shows a crowd of reporters holding out microphones to David Beckham (not pictured), who responds, 'John who?' Refers to recent controversy over Prime Minister John Key's comments that British soccer superstar David Beckam is 'thick as batshit.' Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).