Powles, Charles Guy, 1872-1951

Date: 1922-1925

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-198/1

Description: Includes sketch of proposed ferry crossing on the Hutt River Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1930]

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9773

Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [1942]

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-221

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes letter from [?] R T Lawrence, Trentham Military Camp Other Titles - Sixth annual report of the Auckland Centre of the NZ Red Cross Society (1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1990]

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5268-2-6

Date: [ca 1911], [ca 1940]

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1663

Description: Includes postcards depicting Swindon and Brighton. Also includes postcards from the New Zealand centennial exhibition, 1940. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - A reminiscence of 24 hours in one fo England's beauty spots 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1914

From: Various artists :[Thirty original cartoons drawn for the "New Zealand truth" by Will Hope, Tom Glover, Mac, Pac (or Pas), G (Tom Glover?). ca 1910-1920].

By: Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938

Reference: B-128-041

Description: Shows a confrontation on a country road, between a minister wielding a quill pen at left, and a plump military gentleman on horseback wielding a sword at right. The minister has his left foot placed on a large broadsheet entitled: "The truth about Takapau". The person featured are probably the Reverend Fred W Boys and Captain Powles (see "Other notes" below). Reminiscent of the saying: "The pen is mightier than the sword". (Concerning the power of Boys' report to the "Manawatu evening standard"). This cartoon was published in the "New Zealand truth" 23 May 1914, above the title "The harsh and boisterous tongue of war". This published cartoon accompanied letters from a member of the New Zealand military forces, and the Reverend Fred W Boys, concerning Boys' report (published in the Manawatu evening standard") on an incident at Takapau military camp, in late April or early May 1914. In this incident, the mounted police (under Captain Powles - possibly Charles Guy Powles) charged rioting soldiers who were protesting against uncomfortable and wet conditions at the camp (See Warren Bayliss' "Takapau - the sovereign years 1876-1976" (1975), pages 95-96). The "New Zealand truth" also ran a Tom Glover cartoon on 9 May 1914, page 4, entitled "Discipline up-to-date", showing armed police quelling a riot at the camp. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [Title] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 322 x 475 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from MSS&A 74-052. (New Zealand Truth papers relating to S Jackson Binning, donated 1974)..

Date: ca1920-ca1925

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-825

Description: Family photographs taken when Sir Guy Powles was a late teenager and a young man. Mainly family, holidays, camping and walking trips with friends, and a military training camp for (presumably) volunteers in the 1920s. The tramping trips include views of native forest, areas of which have been burnt off for land clearance. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1869-1918

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-809

Description: Album is dated 1869, but some of the photographs may be earlier. Relates to the Powles family in England, especially Ipswich, Suffolk and places near to it. Also has views of Tasmania and New Zealand. There are some interesting house interiors, buildings, and a short series on bush life while clearing the land. Popular taste in painting (art) is recorded in a number of photos. There are some photos of ships, especially warships. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1855-1994

By: Powles family

Reference: MS-Group-0480

Description: Includes material relating to Sir Guy Powles's education, military career, activities with Island Territories Dept (Samoa) as High Commissioner, with Foreign Affairs, as New Zealand's first Ombudsman, and his involvement in the peace and anti nuclear movement. Also includes material relating to Sir Guy's father, Sir Charles Powles, who saw service in the South African War and World War I, and some material relating to his grandfather, Charles Plummer Powles Relationship complexity - Oral history material relating to Sir Guy Powles has been received separately by the Library. This material comprises extensive interviews with Sir Guy and Lady Eileen Powles by Patricia Sarr (donated in 1986), and 1979 Radio New Zealand interviews by Dr Michael King and Dame Fiona Kidman. Quantity: 6 box(es). 3 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 2.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Sir Guy Powles, 1979 (79-140) and Mr M Powles, 1996 (A96-208) and 1997 (A97-057), 2009 (A2009-109) Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section, transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - Two boxes of photographs including family portraits and snapshots; photos from Sir Guy Powles term of office in Western Samoa and as diplomat in India, Ceylon and Nepal, includes published photo album of the presentation of New Zealand sheep to the Indian people (ca 1962); and Charles Powles military career, including Egypt in WWI and NZ in WWII. Further two boxes of photographs including slides and albums as High Commissioner, Western Samoa (97-057) - To Film & Television Archive, thirteen reels of 12mm film - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Collection of military insignia, buttons and badges, Freemason medals, and St John Ambulance insignia; KBE insignia and other awards - To Oral History Collection - Tapes of oral history undertaken by Turnbull Library.

Date: [ca 1915-1916]

Reference: PAColl-10006

Description: Photographic prints relating to military service during World War I, probably taken and/or collected by an unidentified New Zealand soldier. Many are described on the backs of the prints. Images show military life between circa 1915-1916 at a range of locations, particularly at Anzac Cove (Gallipoli), and Ismailiya (Egypt). Areas of focus are trenches, weaponry, and shipboard and street scenes. Also includes nurses, a military hospital, ambulatory division, skinny dipping, and a race involving blindfolded nurses being led through a course. Includes eight images of a military wedding at Lahore, 1915 or 1916. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 8 Mar 1995 - 08 Mar 1995

From: History of the Army in New Zealand during World War II

By: Baird, Murray McLean, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0571/02

Description: Murray McLean Baird born Wellington 1921. Mentions Cadets, Rongotai College. Recalls being apprenticed as a motor mechanic before joining Territorial Force and being posted to 19th Medium Battalion, New Zealand Army. Mentions Fort Dorset and fortnightly parades; puttees and bandoliers; two week camp at Waiouru during first year in use; Captain Powles (Commanding Officer); call up for World War II in 1940 and training at Winter Show Buildings, Wellington for Officers and NCO's; driver mechanics courses at Trentham and Ford building, Bren Carriers & Marmon Harringtons. Recalls being called up Sept 1941 with unit cadre to showgrounds, Palmerston North. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Dick Linnell Venue - Oncology Hostel, Hamilton Hospital Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008026-008027 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.12 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2189.

Date: 1914 - 1954

By: Powles, Charles Guy, 1872-1951; Powles, Guy Richardson (Sir), 1905-1994

Reference: Curios-029-053

Description: Medals include: The Order of the Nile, awarded to Charles Guy Powles after World War I; Insignia of the Knight Commander of the Order; two Insignia of the Third Class of the Order, one the Companion of the order of St Michael and St George awarded to Lt Col Charles Guy Powles, Sept 18 1918; a Queen's Silver Jubilee medal, 1952-1977; a New Zealand 1990 commemoration medal; a Western Samoa Order of Tiafau medal; Masonic Lodge medals to Guy Richardson Powles, 1951 (Lodge Calliope no.252); a row of full-sized medals and its row of corresponding miniatures, plus two extras belonging to Guy Richardson Powles; and various single ribboned medals, buttons and badges Quantity: 100 curio(s) approximately, comprising boxed medals, ribboned medals, badges, pins and buttons. Physical Description: Gold, silver, bronze and ribbon memorabilia, sizes and shapes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-9351.

Date: 2015-2016

By: Williams, Nigel, 1953-; Tauranga Civic Choir

Reference: ATL-Group-00111

Description: Scores of the choral work 'Letters from our boys' and related material. Words for each of piece music was taken from diary entries, letters etc, of First World War soldiers, located in the Auckland War Memorial Library: - Dear Mrs Spedding (letter from an unknown author to the mother of Eric Claude Spedding) - The Somme (diary entries of Thomas Reuben Harding and letters to Mrs Spedding from her son Eric Claude Spedding) - Passchendaele (words of Bright Ernest Williams) - Gallipoli (words written by Major Charles Powles during the ANZAC evacuation of Gallipoli) - Last Post (letter from an unknown author to the mother of Eric Claude Spedding) Related material includes the programme for Tauranga Civic Choir concert, March 2016, and a typescript giving the background to the work. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Nigel Williams is a composer of choral and organ music. In 2015 he was commissioned by the Tauranga Civic Choir to compose 'Letters from our boys'. Quantity: 5 Electronic document(s). 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and scores

Date: 1914-1915

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: MSX-8359

Description: Diary kept while in Egypt Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Date: [1947-1965]

From: Young, Bennett & Co : Further legal records

Reference: MS-Papers-7434-12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1928-1963]

From: Young, Bennett & Co : Further legal records

Reference: MS-Papers-7434-10

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [192--?]

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: MSX-8402

Description: Diary describes a tour of England Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Date: [192--?]

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: MSX-8401

Description: Diary describes a sea trip to South Africa and describes travelling in South Africa and Rhodesia Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1929-1967]

From: Young, Bennett & Co : Further legal records

Reference: MS-Papers-7434-03

Description: Young, Bennett, Virtue & White, submissions of income, wages and other expenditure taken out from 1929 onward; Young, Bennett, Edgley & Co, Porirua lease and correspondence; (b) correpsondence re taking over of premises for T & W Young's insurance department (1967); and (c) miscelleaneous papers; various insurance policies and related papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1943]

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-224

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; includes a number of inward and outward communications relating to Coates's death in May Quantity: 1 folder(s).