Schoolmaster. Careers adviser and charge Commerce Department Palmerston North Boys High School 1923-1954; City Councillor and Deputy Mayor Palmerston North City Council; MP for Palmerston North 1954-1960; Minister of Education 1957-1960. [WWNZ 10th edition 1971]
Skoglund, Philip Oscar Selwyn, 1899-1975
Moohan album one
Date: 16-17 Feb 1960
From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan
Reference: PA1-o-1797
Description: Photograph album detailing the journey of The Minister's Special Daylight Express train from Wellington to Auckland on the 16 Feb 1960 and the return journey the next day. Features Minister Michael Moohan and other invited guests riding on the train, those working on the train, and members of the press as well as the train interior and passing vistas (scenery, school children, bowling club members and railway infrastructure). Stops at railway stations en route and different locomotives are also documented. The photographer, and compiler of albums, is unidentified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album
Moohan album three
Date: 14 Jul 1959-1 Mar 1960
From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan
Reference: PA1-o-1799
Description: Photograph album detailing the work of Minister Michael Moohan, 1959-1960. Featured events include: the opening of the Milson Railway deviation with Prime Minister Walter Nash (27 Jul 1959); turning of the first sod on the Nelson to Blenheim section of the South Island Main Trunk Line (1 Mar 1960); visit to the Anthony Squires factory, Frankton Junction (26 Nov 1959); group of politicians at Wanganui Memorial Centre (Feb 1960), Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Warsaw (Aug 1959); Trentham Racecourse during the visit of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia; opening of the new commercial branch of the Auckland Post Office (Feb 1960), joining of the final section of the coaxial cable between Wellington and Palmerston North at Te Horo (18 Dec 1959); the Christchurch mail room; the opening of the New Plymouth Chief Post Office (14 May 1959); Moohan's visit to London (1959); Hamilton by-election organisers with a Labour Party car; and Prime Minister's Social opening Parliament (22 Jun 1960). Photographer, and compiler of albums, unidentified. Identified figures listed in the names field. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album
Moohan album four
Date: Jan 1960-22 Jun 1960
From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan
Reference: PA1-o-1800
Description: Photograph album detailing the work of Minister Michael Moohan, Jan-Jun 1960. Events covered include: Prime Minister's Social, opening of Parliament (22 Jun 1960); Ministry of Works presentation of model for Wainuiomata Road; presentation of Palmerston North railway station and goods sheds models to Palmerston North City Council; Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) Golden Jubilee, Addington Branch (28 May 1960); opening of the Railway Road Services Terminal, Greymouth (19 May 1960); opening the Penrose Post Office, Auckland (May 1960); laying of foundation stones at telephone exchanges in Te Awamutu and Tauranga; Philips Conference Train (May 1960), featuring the welcome and return of the train; the handover of locomotive Wa68 "Dido" at Napier (7 Apr 1960) with numerous school children; drinks at the Bay of Plenty Racing Club in Tauranga (16 Mar 1960); opening of the Cambridge Telephone Exchange (May 1960); visit of Tunku Abul Rahman to Wellington Races (Jan 1960); ceremony laying the foundation stone of Masterton Post Office (April 1960); travelling in the Ministerial carriage Invercargill (May 1960); cutover to automatic at Port Chalmers Telephone Exchange (May 1960); visit to Egypt with Mrs Moohan and Mr and Mrs Ray Kemp; and the opening of the "Rail-Air" terminal buildings at Wellington Airport (21 Apr 1960). Photographer, and compiler of albums, unidentified. Identified figures listed in the names field. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Transfers: Other - 13 photographic prints and two newspaper clippings transferred to PACol.
Moohan album five
Date: 18 Oct-18 Nov 1960
From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan
Reference: PA1-o-1801
Description: Photograph album detailing the work of Minister Michael Moohan, Oct-Nov 1960. Events covered are mainly openings of buildings relating to railways and post offices. These feature speeches, dignitaries, and the facilities, including: Porirua-Mana railway deviation and duplication (7 Nov); Titahi Bay Post Office (18 Nov); Railways Travel Centre in Rotorua (15 Nov); Christchurch Railway Station (also covered is the first meeting held in its conference facility) (1 Nov); East Linwood Post Office, Christchurch (1 Nov); Lake Road Post Office, Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland (26 Oct); railway tranship shed, Frankton, Hamilton (25 Oct); and the Longburn railway bridge (18 Oct). Album also contains photographs of the minister signing contract documents for a rail-road ferry [Aramoana?] and the laying of the foundation stone at Morrinsville Post Office (25 Oct). The photographer, and compiler of the album, is unidentifided. Identified figures listed in the names field. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album
Interview with Philip Oscar Selwyn Skoglund
Date: 20 January 1973 - 20 Jan 1973
From: Sinclair, Keith, 1922-1993: Collection
By: Skoglund, Philip Oscar Selwyn, 1899-1975
Reference: OHInt-0218/18
Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Keith Sinclair Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001128 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 45 Minutes Duration.
Notes - Sim-Skoglund
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: MS-Papers-6164-093
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Newspaper clippings - Hon P O S Skoglund
Date: 1960
From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0270-334
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Newspaper clippings - Hon P O S Skoglund
Date: 1955-1958
From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0270-332
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Newspaper clippings - Hon P O S Skoglund
Date: 1959
From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0270-333
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Portrait of Mr P Skoglund, Minister of Education, probably Wellington Region
Date: 9 Apr 1960
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1960/1304-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm
The Minister for Education Mr Skoglund, visiting Roseneath School, Wellington
Date: 22 Nov 1958
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1958/4014-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Mr Skoglund at a hosiery factory
Date: 29 Apr 1959
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1959/1443-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm
Testimonials, etc
Date: [ca 1949-1964]
From: Campbell, Arnold Everitt, 1906-1980 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9490-12
Description: Testimonials, retirement speeches and other papers relating to: D R Wills; C I C Scollay; A Grey; A S Prime; E R Duncan; M R McG Turnbull; J L Ewing; A J Waghorn; E G Jacoby; H C D Somerset; Ralph Hogg; Max Riske; A T Campbell; J V Burton; Dr A E Fieldhouse; Enid Wilson; Miss Thelma Maurais; Alan Thom; W R Edwards; E S Andrews; Roy Parsons; T M Archer; H A Heron; John Lithgow Ewing; Moira Gallagher; Mary Frances Gallagher; Londsay Marquis Graham; C E Peek; C N Wilson; J G Green; W J Scott; P Martin Smith; Dr F G Spurdle; Dr J T Campbell; Arnold Hely; Mirams vs Holcroft; Sir Thomas Hunter; Ivan Sutherland; J C Beaglehole; Maurice Banks; Norm Banks; George Ashbridge; P O S Skoglund; C Beeby; Len Le F Ensor; John E Watson; Prof C C Aikman; Ralph Winterbourn; George Parkyn; Aleck Hunter Forbes; D G Shouler; Rev K J Mackie; R Chapman-Taylor; Miss A K Caughley; Mr C J Williams; Michael Turnbull; A G Green; Frederick Richard George Aitken; S M Mead; S W Slater; A G Tovey; Walter Bernard Harris; John Melser; J F Johnson. Most names indexed in Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Access statement "Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" and the requirement to gain permisison of the Chief Librarain before access was removed on 12 April 2023.