Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Date: 1979-1980

From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2402-44

Description: Inward and outward corresponence; identified persons entered under Name below. Also includes correspondence with Dick and Betty, Epsom, Auckland; letters from Rolle, Christchurch, and letter from Michael, Tokyo, regarding his novel and New Zealand contacts. Several poems by Glover included with his letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1975-1976]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-04/08

Description: Outward correspondence relating to text of King's biography in progress and completed text. Letters to identifed persons entered under Name below. Also includes letters to Heeni, Bob re translation, Mrs Winiata, Mrs Thomas, Dr McDowall, Sir Henry [Kelleher?], Mr Ropiha, Mr Ihaka, Dr Meade, Dr Jones, Mr Metekingi, and the Cape Reinga lighthouse. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1913]-2004

Reference: MS-Group-2127

Description: Includes correspondence, clippings and legal files Shirley Smith was a Wellington based lawyer and wife of W B Sutch. She was actively involved in a variety of political and social issues of the day Quantity: 4 Linear Metres. Provenance: Continuation of papers first collected as part of A2012-165 Processing information: On 20 November 2020, an item record (describing a diary) was removed from this collection. The item record was created in error during processing in 2012.

Date: 1912-ca1959

From: Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7591-1

Description: Photographs of the Waihi strike of 1912; secondary school students on a tramping trip; school groups, and images of unidentified individuals and groups of people. William Sutch on board ship in the 1930s, portraits of William Sutch, passenger aircraft of the 1930s, Second World War American soldiers in the Pacific, William Sutch and Shirley Smith during his time at the United Nations (1947-1949)l. This includes images of Sutch in Paris and Amsterdam (1948-1949). One group of photographs relate to William Sutch and Shirley Smith's daughter Helen as a very young child in the late 1940s, early 1950s. There are also two photographs of her as a teenager. Quantity: 150 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960 - 1970

By: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975; Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: Eph-C-INTERNATIONAL-1960s-01

Description: One shows the logo of the National Union of Students, Philippines, and the other shows the logo of the HKFS (possibly Hong Kong Federation of Students?), 1965-66. Quantity: 2 colour art print(s) on pennants. Physical Description: Relief prints on felt triangular pennants, lengths 450 mm and 320 mm. Provenance: From Dr Sutch's former house, which Shirley Smith, Dr Sutch's widow, was vacating.

Date: 1950-1999

By: Sutch, Helen, 1945-

Reference: 2002-043

Description: Papers collected from ca 1950 to 1999, with the majority dating between 1955 and 1967. Comprises juvenile writings and drawings, school exercises, diaries, private letters, notes, university essays, notes and assignments, papers relevant to Helen's activities on the Victoria University Students Association, and later the New Zealand University Students Association, and in her interests and causes in which she was active, particularly drama and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Also includes material on theatre, including theatre programmes and other material. The collection provides an activist's view of the student life and politics of the time, and also on the life of a woman from a prominent family growing up in the waning years of the twentieth century. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 10 box(es). 2 Linear Metres. Provenance: When the Sutch family house in Brooklyn was cleared in January 2002, apart from the papers relating to Dr Sutch, there was a separate collection of papers belonging to his daughter, Helen Sutch. These were also transferred to the Alexander Turnbull Library. Samples of children's art work and photographs.

Date: 1965

By: Salient (Newspaper); Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: Eph-D-ECONOMICS-1965-01

Description: An arrangement of text. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on billboard. Physical Description: Relief print, on sheet 557 x 406 mm. Provenance: William Sutch's papers, donated by Shirley Smith in 2002. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1936-1938

From: Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975 : Photographs

By: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: PA1-o-1176

Description: Shirley Smith's record of a tour that included Scotland where she visited family menbers, a Girl Guide camp, and scenic places, historic towns and buildings. There are photographs of her with people, one group of images taken on an English beach. All of these images date from 1936. In 1937 she visited Greece, the Greek Islands including Crete, Germany (Munich), Austria (Vienna), Hungary (Budapest), Italy (Venice), and Switzerland (Lucerne). In spring 1938 she was back in Britain with family members and there are groups of images that are probably relations and others of friends. There are also images of St Hugh's College (location not known). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Album compiled by Shirley Smith and given to the Library by her with William Sutch's papers

Date: 4 Nov 1988 - 04 Nov 1988

From: NZOHA Wellington District Law Society Oral History Project

By: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: OHInt-0082/02

Description: Shirley Smith born 1916, in Wellington. Gives details of family background. Describes father, Sir David Smith, and outlines his career as a Supreme Court judge. Recalls childhood in the 1920s, grandmother Emma Cumming and stepmother Margaret Smith, nee Gibb. Discusses family expectations for women, religion and education at a variety of schools, including Nga Tawa. Details her awareness of Maori and land issues through father's work as chair of the Commission on Native Affairs and mentions Sir Maui Pomare and Mrs Jane Brown. Talks about brother, Allan Smith. Discusses topics including: studying classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford; early interest in Marxism, starting at school; the Communist Party; meeting and marriage to William Ball Sutch; Dr Sutch's career; the birth of her daughter; studying at Victoria University for a law degree in early 1950s; sexism among lawyers; life as a law lecturer; setting up her own legal practice in 1961; early court cases; legal advertising; employment of law clerks George Rosenberg and Gordon Webb and clerk Maureen McDonald; wide range of legal work and difficulties of running the practice; the trial of Dr Sutch; discrimination by newspapers; relationships with other legal firms; jury trial techniques; New Zealand Law Society and her thoughts on current legal practice. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Manson, Hugo Venue - 79A Todman Street, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001945, OHC-001946, OHC-001947, OHC-001948 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0302. Search dates: 1916 - 1988

Date: 24 June 2003

From: Interviews about Elsie Locke

By: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: OHInt-1126-36

Description: Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). Search dates: 24/06/2003 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 13 Mar 1996 - 08 Mar 1996

From: Women in the anti-Vietnam War movement oral history project

By: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: OHInt-0452/14

Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Cook Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007835 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come.

Date: [1970-1971]

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-8044-013

Description: Inward and outward correspondence and legal papers relating to the divorce proceedings of Shadbolt and Gill Shadbolt Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1966-1993

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5292-055

Description: Includes drafts of outward letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 27 Nov 2000

From: Old Thorndon oral history project

By: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: OHInt-0592/2

Description: Shirley Smith talks about her early associations with Thorndon and her involvement with the Thorndon Trust. Relates that the Trust bought several houses in the E zone of Thorndon to thwart developers during the time of the motorway blitzes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mentions that she did the legal conveyancing and also fund raising for the the Trust. Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009156, OHC-009157 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available Interviewee details and summary notes - OHA-2911. Search dates: 1960 - 1979

Date: Jun-Aug 1970

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11364-15

Description: Letters written by Shirley Smith to her husband while on a trip to the United Kingdom and Europe. Some of the letters were written from Oxford where her daughter, Helen Sutch, was an economic research officer at Oxford University. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1982, 1997-1999

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11364-16

Description: Correspondence between Shirley Smith and the Dictionary of New Zealand biography re the writing of an entry on W B Sutch by Brian Easton and correspondence between Easton and the Dictionary. Also `Interview notes: Shirley Smith on William Ball Sutch's life, April 30, 1998 (Interviewer Brent McClintock). Also includes letter from Alexander Turnbull Library to Shirley Smith expressing interest in acquiring the papers of W B Sutch, 7 Jul 1982 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: [1974, 1978, 1981, 1982]

From: Smith, David Stanley (Sir), 1888-1982 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11358-03

Description: Letters and postcards from Shirley Smith to her father, written during overseas trip to Europe and Japan. Includes copies of Sir David's replies to these letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

By: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975; Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley, 1916-2007

Reference: ATL-Group-00316

Description: Quantity: 382 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). 3 album(s).

Date: 1965, 1973-2011

By: Phelan, Beatrice, 1922-2013

Reference: MS-Papers-11488

Description: Collection comprises three letters to Beatrice Gerard from Dr William Sutch and his wife, Shirley Smith (1965, 1975). Also newspaper cuttings relating to Sutch's career and funeral (1975 - 2011). Also one black and white portrait photograph of William Sutch taken by an Evening Post photographer, Jun 1973. Source of title - Supplied by Library Beatrice Phelan (nee Gerard) worked for Dr William Sutch as his private secretary in the 1960s. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, photograph & printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R Stephens, Wellington, Apr 2013 Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into the Manuscripts Section, transfer made from there. - To Photographic Archive - One black & white portrait photograph of William Sutch taken by H Easterbrook-Smith.

Date: [2001]

From: Easton, Brian Henry, 1943- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7621

Description: Comprises two pieces by Easton on William Ball Sutch, one describing his investigation on Sutch and UNICEF, the other a summary of his assessment on what know about Sutch and security Quantity: 1 folder(s).