New Zealand - Miscellaneous

Date
1948
Reference
PAColl-0785-1-216
Description

Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet.

Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others.

Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named).

Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge)

Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives / Photographic prints
Format
87 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin prints
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