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Holland family: Papers
- Date
- [1912-1974]
- By
- Holland, Annie, 1867-1949; Holland, Henry Edmund, 1868-1933; Holland, Roy, 1894-1975
- Reference
- ATL-Group-00213
- Description
Collection comprises correspondence, postcards, booklets, financial advice, minute extract, newspapers and cuttings relating to Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland and the Holland family.
Henry (Harry) Edmund Holland was a trade unionist, socialist, journalist and politician. With his wife Annie (née McLachlan), they had five sons and three daughters. Harry was the Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party (1911-1933) when he died suddenly at Huntly on 8 October 1933, while attending the burial of Te Rata Mahuta, the Māori King.
Quantity: 4 folder(s).
Physical Description: Manuscripts, clippings, pamphlets
Provenance: Donor inherited papers from her late mother Mrs Ngaire Corbin (née Holland), daughter of Roy Holland, son of Harry Holland.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 4 folder(s), Clippings, Family papers, Manuscripts, Pamphlets, Personal correspondence, Manuscripts, clippings, pamphlets
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Correspondence
Date: 1932-1933, 1937, 1974
From: Holland family: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-12219-1
Description: Includes: 1. Postcard to Dada (H E Holland at Coast Hospital), Little Bay 2. Letter to Roy, 9 January 1932, from Dad [Henry Edmund Holland] (Westport) - written on 'House of Representatives' letterhead 3. Letter to Mum [Annie Holland], 2 October 1932, from H.E.H. - written on 'House of Representatives. Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Representatives, Wellington' letterhead 4. Letter to Mum [Annie Holland], 7 October 1933, from H.E.H. - written on 'House of Representatives. Office of the Leader of the Opposition, House of Representatives, Wellington' letterhead 5. Letter to Harry [Henry Grenfell Holland], 11 October 1933, from Cedric and Olive Holland, of 54 Young Street, Neutral Bay, Sydney, relating to the death of father 6. Extract from Minutes of Meeting of the Wellington City Council, 12 October 1933, permitting the burial of the late Mr. Holland in the Bolton Street Cemetery and payment for time off to employees attending the funeral 6. Salary of late H. E. Holland for period 1st to 18th October 1933, to Mrs. A. Holland (c/- Mr. H. G. Holland, Parliament Buildings, Wellington), 28 November 1933, from New Zealand Government, Legislative 7. Letter to Mrs. Annie Holland (c/- Mr. H. G. Holland, Parliament Buildings, Wellington), 27 November 1933, from the Office of Minister of Finance, Wellington, regarding compassionate grant payment for the services rendered by her husband 7. Letter to Roy Holland, 8 February 1937, from John A. Lee - written on 'Dominion of New Zealand. Office of Ministry of Housing, Wellington' letterhead, relating to construction and materials contracts. 8. Letter to Roy Holland, 24 January 1974, from Maui Pomare, of 'Hiwiroa', Pomare Road, Lower Hutt, acknowledging the return of cloak and mere which were used on his father's burial casket. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Newspaper clippings
Date: October 1933, 7 June 1947
From: Holland family: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-12219-3
Description: Newspaper clippings relating to H. E. Holland from the following newspapers - New Zealand Free Lance, Auckland Star, New Zealand Worker, The Standard, and Daily Mirror. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Pamphlets
Date: 1912, 1914, 1917, 1938
From: Holland family: Papers
By: Maoriland worker: a journal of industrial unionism, socialism & politics
Reference: MS-Papers-12219-4
Description: Includes: - Labor Leg-Ironed or Liberal and Labor Party Arbitration Acts in N.S.W.: With brief reference to the New Zealand Arbitration Act / by H. E. Holland, 1912 (signed "R. Holland") - The Huntly Explosion - Report by H. E. Holland of evidence given at Enquiry and Royal Commission's Report, 1914 (signed "R. Holland") - 1916 Sedition Trials: Robert Semple, Fred. R. Cooke, James Thorn, Peter Fraser, Tom Brindle, 1917 (signed "R. Holland, 1921") - Brotherhood: A vision of the future - Address by Sir Robert Stout, Unitarian Free Church, 3 June 1917 - Patriotism - Address by Sir Robert Stout, Invercargill, 17 December 1917 (signed "H. E. Holland") - New Zealand Government. Social Security, 1938 (Signed "To Ngaire Holland, with love from M. J. Savage, Prime Minister, 13.2.1938") Quantity: 1 folder(s).
This is an appeal to the people of the country of my adoption
Date: 1 September 1933
From: Holland family: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-12219-2
Description: Includes original manuscript and typescript version of speech 'This is an appeal to the people of the country of my adoption' by Henry Edward Holland given on 1 September 1933. Quantity: 1 folder(s).