New Zealand. Plant Diseases Division

Date: 1928-1934

By: Cunningham, Gordon Herriot, 1892-1962; Bollard, Edward George, 1920-2011

Reference: PAColl-5708

Description: Photographs showing plots and glasshouses at the Plant Diseases Division, Palmerston North, and banana plantations in Queensland. These are part of a larger collection comprising papers relating to G H Cunningham and his work at Plant Diseases Division (PDD); PDD internal annual reports (1968-1989); papers re estate of Cunningham (1964-1966); PDD publications Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1926 and 1954]

From: Marsden, Lady Joyce : Assorted photographs and negatives from the papers of Sir Ernest Marsden

Reference: PA1-o-135

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Reasearch presented to Dr Ernest Marsden in 1954. Includes detailed photographs of various laboratory procedures and apparatus, including meat dehydration plant in the Meat Research Laboratory; mass spectrometer; electron microscope; Borthwick Beta-Ray apparatus; soil consolidation machines; geothermal bores; knock resistance tests, with a CFR engine; separating constituents of butter fat, the Fats Research Balance Room; members of the Soil Survey Conference in Napier, 1950, and members of the Geological Survey Conference in 1952; Rongotai Aerodrome under construction; the Magnetic Observatory building in Christchurch; the Dominion Observatory, and the Seismological Observatory; Crop Research Division buildings; Hop Research Station; members attending the Grasslands Conference in 1933; and members attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in 1949. Inscriptions: Album page - Presented to Dr. E. Marsden with the good wishes of the senior staff of the D.S.I.R. and in appreciation of the help & encouragement he has given them throughout the years of his association with the Department, 1926-1954 (With 30 signatures) Dr Ernest Marsden was Director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1926-1947 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown album, 26.5 x 32 cm

Date: [ca 1960's-1970's]

From: Bollard, Edward George, 1920-2011: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11376-33

Description: Articles, reports and some correspondence and research proposals. Includes a report by Bollard "Some thoughts on the role and work of the Basic Science Section" 1971. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1957 - 1963

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-028

Description: William Tennent, Minister of Education, seated on a bench, looking at a tree labelled Plant Diseases Division, DSIR. The tree has foliage on its bottom half and bare branches at the top William Tennent was Minister of Education between 1960 and 1963 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1991-1992

From: Ireland, Kevin, 1933- : Papers

Reference: 94-180-4/16

Description: Inward and outward correspondence and related papers; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field Other Titles - New Zealand author (n162 Aug 1991) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1951]

From: Bollard, Edward George, 1920-2011: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6273-01

Description: Comprises carbon copy of part I of Cunningham's autobiography (p1-111), written in 1936 Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-3950 for duplicate copy received earlier from Cunningham's estate in 1965 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1930-2011]

By: Bollard, Edward George, 1920-2011

Reference: MS-Group-2130

Description: Comprises papers of E G Bollard relating to his work at Plant Diseases Division (PDD); PDD internal annual reports (1968-1989); papers re G H Cunnignham and estate of Cunningham (1964-1966); PDD publications; folders relating to administrative boards and committees that Bollard was involved with; correspondence with and biographical material on, scientist colleagues Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Interviews with Dr Bollard re Dr Cunningham in Oral History Centre Edward Bollard was a Scientist and science administrator, who worked at Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Quantity: 69 folder(s). 0.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr E Bollard, Epsom, Auckland, May 1998, 2008. Further donation by Mrs J Bollard, Auckland, Nov 2012 (A2012-179). Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts, transfers made from there - To Photographic Archive - Several photographs (same pose, different sizes) presumably of Cunningham; photograph labelled `One of the Western Desert 'Eroes', probably of E E Chamberlain, four photographs of banana cultivations in South Queensland (1934), four photographs of area at Palmerston North in 1928-1929, and photograph of Dr and Mrs W D Reid, Mt Albert, Auckland, taken by A D Thomson, 1980 - To Ephemera Collection - Desert Division; pictorial highlights of 2nd N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East [1940s] Eph-A-WAR-WII-Middle-East-1940s-01 - To Serials Collection - 9 NZEF newspapers PR-13-0183 and PR-13-0184.

Date: [1936]

From: Bollard, Edward George, 1920-2011: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6273-02

Description: Comprises carbon copy of part II of Cunningham's autobiography (p112-264) with letters from Ian Baumgart to J D Atkinson (1975) enclosing a confidential paper re re-organisation of Plant Research activities (1935); and letter from Sharon Dell, ATL, to Bollard re part III of Cunningham's autobiography which was presumed to exist (1985) Relationship complexity - Another copy at MS-Papers-3950, donated from the Cunningham estate in 1965 The book was written to advise staff of some of the difficulties of developing research work under the Dept of Agriculture; a note with vol 1 says volume II was `also written in 1936' but only goes up to 1938. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 01 Apr 1998 - 02 Apr 1998 - 01 Apr 1998 - 02 Apr 1998

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-1181

Description: Interviews recalling the career and work of Gordon Cunningham, an eminent New Zealand horticulturalist, plant pathologist and mycologist. Some interviewees recall Cunningham from when he became director in 1936 of the newly established DSIR, Plant Diseases Division in Mt Albert, Auckland. The new laboratory opened in 1939. Former colleagues recall his work on fruit tree diseases, particularly fungal rust; his setting up a timber preservation section, as well as a crop diseases subsection; helping establish a linen flax industry in the South Island. They discuss his significant work on identification and classification of fungi. Interviewees remember Cunningham's strong and complex personality, his independent outlook and his insistence on punctuality. They recall his industriousness and talk about their high regard for him as a scientist. Interviewees are: Geoffrey Baylis, Edward (Ted) Bollard, Shirley and Peter Brook, Joan Dingley, Beryl Kirkwood, Maisie Smith. Sponsored by - Commissioned by Alexander Turnbull Library Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-14427 - OHC-14440 Abstracts: OHA-5169, Bollard; OHA-5170, Shirley and Peter Brook; OHA-5172, Beryl Kirkwood Quantity: 14 C60 cassette(s). 3 printed abstract(s). 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come for three interviews. Processing information: Individual interviews not yet described