Strachan, James Ernest, 1883-1973

Date: [ca 1967]

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-15

Description: Recollections of his school days in Central Otago and Dunedin, Teachers Training College and teaching career at Lawrence, Gore, and Rangiora. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [1933-1935]

By: Strachan, James Ernest, 1883-1973

Reference: MS-Papers-6016

Description: Comprises Rangiora High School exercise book labelled `Curriculum, Men's Staff Room', with introduction, and report, `A Rural curriculum' by Strachan and editorial (North Canterbury gazette, 23 Jun 1933); pass results re university entrance and paper, `Mental ability and examination success', possibly by C E Beeby; and draft article or speech by Strachan, `The Ideal secondary school' Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Possibly part of a consignment of material from NZCER, early 1997

Date: 2 September - 12 December 1931

From: Hampton, Richard George (Dr), 1906-2006: Papers

Reference: MSX-9476

Description: Details trip to China, from 2 September to 12 December 1931, where Dr Hampton attended the Shanghai Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations as the secretary for the New Zealand delegation. The diary has daily entries beginning with his preparations in Wellington, the ship voyage, time in Sydney, with the delegates and attending the conference in Shanghai, and the trip back to New Zealand. Details include people he associates with and meets, including fellow delegates James Strachan, Willis Thomas Goodwin Airey and H F von Haast, and Rewi Alley; food eaten, impressions of the conference and the minutiae of daily life. Also includes a list of his expenditures during the trip.

Date: 1924-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-212

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names not included in Name field are: D A Ewen and Sinclair Thompson of Wellington at Scouting Conference; J Taylor, 67 years a bootmaker of Auckland, 1939; Maurice Tate, a former English cricketer, 1950; Mr & Mrs Fred Tattle of Norfolk Island, 1949; Tamasese, Samoan high chief with his wife and two children, 1929; A D Kitto, F E Thornton & A R Kitto, 1949; Frank Thompson; Canon Fielden Taylor; A S Thorne (aviator). Group photo - Wing Commander E W Tacon, Group Captain T W White, Group Captain F R Newall, J W Heenan, Air Commodore E H Fielden, L G A Reed, D Fowkes, 1948. Members of the Great War Funds Administrative Committee, L O Tripp, Miss Margaret Low and S F Wright, 1949; Captain A T Toten (Master of the Tahiti), 1930; Walter John Tinsley (charged with murder of Nana Chhiba at Hawera), 1931; Vic Troughton, 1951; F Thompson. Baron Kurt von Stutterheim; R Standinger, W McHardy Forman, H W Soutar and H H Metzger (executives of General Motors), 1936; J J Stevenson, 1940; P E Stainton; K Sutherland, J A McConochie & F L Smith at Deerstalkers Conference, 1949; Captain K J Staunton, 1942. Group photograph taken at second Annual Ball of Rangiora High School Ex-pupils Association. Thirty-five debs were presented to J E Strachan (headmaster), Jun 1948 George Stephenson and S D Reeves, 1951; S Tremain (jockey), E M Sloane (trainer) & L S James (owner), 1948; Harry Tighe (Australian novelist), 1931; George Tuffin aged 82 (veteran of Maori wars); Mickey Tollis (boxer), 1947; Frank Tait of Pauatahanui, 1951; William Turner (Auckland tram conductor), 1949; Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt and Vice-Admiral H J Tweedie, 1933; Josiah Swain (London butcher), 1950; Lieut N Baillie-Stewart (found guilty on seven charges brought under the Official Secrets Act), 1933. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints