Radio stations

Date: 1910

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835-1922 :Mary Medley [Sketchbook] No. 13 1909-1919.

Reference: E-378-024

Description: Shows radio aerials at the top of Tinakori Hill, Wellington, viewed from the Botanical Gardens Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Marconi station. Botanical Gardens Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 163 x 447 cm. (page size)

Date: Between 1926 and 1948

From: Stevens, Raymond Frederick, fl 2002 :Photographs of Percy Ronald Stevens, 1893-1963

Reference: 1/2-199102-F

Description: Photograph of the 2ZM radio station, Gisborne, with the proprietor, Percy Ronald Stevens (1893-1963) at the right, taken, probably in the 1930s, by an unknown photographer. The station was housed in Stevens' radio sales and repair business, the Atwater Kent Radio Company. 2YM was relicensed as 2ZM in 1926. In 1948 it was relicensed as 2XM. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 cm Finding Aids: Photocopy on shelf at PAColl-7174.

Date: 1964

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/16C-Acc.

Description: Identifies Radio communications - transmitters, receiving and WHF Station. Also identifies TV and Radio broadcasting stations. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) + transparency in brown folder. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 57 x 34 cm.

Date: 1920-1948

By: Stevens, Raymond Frederick, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7174

Description: Photographs of Percy Ronald Stevens (1893-1963), mechanic and radio broadcaster of Gisborne. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-199101 and 199102-F Photocopy on shelf at PAColl-7174 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). 2 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Staffan, Lawrence Charles, 1924-1998

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1936/37

Description: Includes DX cards from: 3ZR Greymouth (1936); 2ZB Wellington (1937); 2YA Wellington (1937); 3YA Christchurch (1937); and Radionations Geneva (1937). Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, approximately 85 x 159 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr L Staffan in 1997.

Date: 1973

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-1/1/8B-Acc.

Description: District planning map. Shows private and public cemeteries, area for P&T purposes inlcuding Makara Radio and Quartz Hill Receiving Station (NZBC). Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale ca 1: 31,680, 80 x 63 cm.

Date: 1998

By: Gray, Godfrey, 1941-

Reference: MS-Group-0796

Description: Contains two copies (one indexed) of Godfrey Gray's recollections of his career in New Zealand broadcasting from 1957-1991 and recollections of his childhood growing up in Wellington titled `A Capital childhood: Growing up in post-war Wellington' Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr G Gray, Wellington, Jul 1998

Date: 1979 - 1980

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1980-2

Description: Calendars include - Historic Nelson Province. Twelve black and white prints taken from old photographs of Nelson, and Nelson Province, 1870-1915. Printed and published by General Printing Services Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand. Sterling Security Guards Ltd, Porirua. Six colour prints taken from photographs of vintage cars. Produced by Tanner Couch Calendars (1975) Ltd, New Zealand. Newmans. Twelve black and white and colour prints from photographs of Newmans bus and other services from ca 1890s to 1979. Printed by General Printing Services Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand. Centennial of Religious of The Sacred Heart in New Zealand. Thirty eight black and white prints from original photographs recording convents, schools, leaders of the Sacred Heart community, and some of the many students that they taught, ca 1880-1080. Tanner Couch Calendars (1975) Ltd, New Zealand. Radio Windy, Wellington. Gold Coast Teledate Calendar, 1980/81. Single sheet with calendar from May 1980 to April 1981. Richards Publishing Consultants, Auckland. Six colour prints from paintings depicting New Zealand locomotives and railway trains. The Owens Group Limited. Six colour prints from 19th century watercoloure views of New Zealand cities, towns and harbours, 1840 to 1885. Printed by Hill Print Mount Maunganui. 1980 Shell Calendar. Six colour prints, and one black and white print, from "A History of the Birds of New Zealand," by Sir Walter Lawry Buller, 1873. New Zealand Labour Party Calendar For 1980; "1980 the way you want it." Seven prints from original political cartoons by Tom Scott. (2 copies). Quantity: 9 calendars, and 1 duplicate.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1984

By: Rowberry, Tim, active 1990s

Reference: Eph-C-RADIO-1984-02

Description: Poster promoting a Christchurch student radio station shows a radio microphone in a red circular inset, with a grid pattern over the entire poster area. Below the microphone is a list of the varying hours during which the radio will broadcast, in the three specified date ranges. Other Titles - New Zealand Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1941 - 1943

Reference: A-442-029

Description: Pencil sketch shows a two-funnelled ship flying a Dutch flag, seen from the right side, with the houses and peak of Mount Victoria in the background. There are two radio masts on Mount Victoria, and a sign "2ZB" between them. The ship in the drawing has two funnels and is flying a Dutch flag; this may identify it as the 'Nieuw Amsterdam', but it could also the 'Johann van Oldenbarnevelt' or the 'Willem Ruys'; all visited Wellington Harbour during the second World War, and have a similar appearance to the ship in this drawing. Date estimated from article in Evening Post, 6 September 1945, Page 8: "In January, 1941, came the beautiful Nieuw Amsterdam, pride of the Netherlands merchant marine. This ship made no fewer than eight visits to Wellington, six of them during 1943, when she carried large quotas of United States troops across the Pacific". Other Titles - Nieuw Amsterdam Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 210 x 257 mm, with two holes punched along upper edge Provenance: Purchased with papers of Sir Terence McLean, from Hard to Find Books, in 2011.

Date: 1941

By: Hartley, Margaret Joan, active 1987-2001; Scrimgeour, Colin Graham, 1903-1987

Reference: Curios-030-057

Description: The microphone stand was part of the original microphone on which Colin Scrimgeour presented many of his "Friendly Road" broadcasts at 1ZB, from 1935 or 1936. The body of the cylindrical microphone stand is black, and has been cut down from the original length. It is topped with a silver-coloured metal rim and brackets to hold the microphone. It bears a gold plaque dating from 1935/36, inscribed "From Kim and others", and the name "Kim" is inset with diamonds. The silver-coloured base is circular and is inscribed: "Presented to Uncle Scrim by the Friendly Road, Dec 14th, 1941". Extended Title - From Kim and others The circumstances surrounding the plaque are described in "Hello everybody; 'Life is the Friendly Road'", by Uncle Scrim (1936), page 12, and elaborated in a letter from the donor (AT 10/14, 19 November 2001). "The Friendly Road" was initially broadcasting from 1ZR, but when the government purchased the station, the programme was forced off the air, causing a public outcry. The outcome of this was the granting of a special licence by the Cabinet, and public subscriptions were called for the building of a new station. Even though these were the Depression years, the appeal was very successful and in three months allowed 1ZB to open. The first subscriber was an arthritic boy named Kim, whose mother had given him some pennies to polish to increase the flexibility in his fingers, as he crossed each day in the Birkenhead ferry for treatment. He decided to donate the pennies to the cause. Scrim was moved by his story and related it in his next broadcast, whereupon a jeweller offered to make a commemorative plaque for the microphone stand. Another jeweller then offered to inscribe the plaque and pick out the boy's name in diamonds. Quantity: 1 curio(s) in two pieces. Physical Description: Black cylindrical metal stand height 125 mm, diameter 80 mm, surmounted by silver-coloured metal rim, inset with diamonds, and bracket for microphone; on circular detachable swivel base, height 30 mm, diameter 150 mm. Total height 220 mm. Processing information: At the time of presentation in 1941, the stand supported a clock with luminous hands. This was later removed as a possible radiation risk.

Date: 1981

From: Greenpeace New Zealand :[Ephemera of octavo size, fliers, cards and pamphlets]

Reference: Eph-A-GREENPEACE-1981-01

Description: Shows a blue whale, and the logo of Radio Hauraki. The bands performing were Hammond Gamble, The Furys, Clive Wilson Band, Pink Flamingoes, The Instigators. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on flyer 210 x 145 mm.

Date: 1958

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1958-01

Description: A programme celebrating 21 years of operation by radio station 3ZB. The items on the programme were to be broadcast, and included items by performers Molly McNab (compere), Brian Marston's Band, Robin and Allan, Wakefield Brothers with Maisie McNair, Allan Dunford, Harold Kean, Graham Edwin, Joan Gracie, Elizabeth Armstrong, Lin Wilson, Maureen Garing, Doreen Udell, Jack Maybury, Barry Clothier, Peter Rennie, Ray Sutherland, Grace Green, Bond Waggoners, Teddy Grundy, Ian Vernazoni, Robin Gurnsey, George Speed, Elaine Moody, Thos E West, Colin Campbell, Norman Carson. There is a group photo showing Teddy Grundy, Ian Vernazoni, Lin Wilson, Molly McNab, Elizabeth Armstrong, Joan Gracie, Allan Dunford and Robin Gurnsey. There is an individual photograph of Edgar A Chivers, one of the original commercial announcers at 3ZB in 1937. There are advertisements for Christchurch businesses: Hay's, Ralph Gracie ltd, Drages, Universal Fur ltd, D.I.C., Ballins Breweries (NZ) Ltd, Robbins Recordings, Calder Mackay, Beggs', Drayton Jones Ltd (showing portrait illustration of Canadian DJ and commentator Happi Hill). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 248 x 188 mm

Date: 1973

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-1/1/8C-Acc.

Description: District planning map. Shows private and public cemeteries, Makara Radio P&T, and residential area deferred until 1981. Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale ca 1: 31,680, 76 x 62.5 cm.

Date: 1955

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons for the New Zealand Listener, 1946-1945]

Reference: A-261-011

Description: Shows the interior of a radio recording studio. The announcer stands at the microphone, and beside him, the man who is about to speak stands bending backwards and looking skyward with a smile on his face. The glass window to the control room behind shows a bemused producer and technician. On 18 May 1955, the American Air force carried out Operation Hand Clasp II. Four F-84G Thunderjets flew non-stop from Tokyo, Japan to Williamstown (130 miles north of Sydney, Australia). These jets covered 4,840 miles in 12 hours 10 minutes with a cruising speed of 483 miles per hour (retrieved 16 February 2011 from http://www.aero-web.org/specs/republic/f-84g.htm). From the wording of this cartoon it appears that refuelling on the flight was carried out in midair. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 280 x 235 mm

Date: 1974

By: Gospel Radio Fellowship

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-Rhema-1974-01

Description: Booklet shows photographs of the radio equipment, radio bus, members of the Radio Rhema "family" (Frank & Margaret Salisbury, Zahan Humphrey, Steve & Linda Brewster, Mrs Reidman, David Bisman, John McNeil, Mrs N Lambie, Neville & Wendy Rush, Margaret Bryant, Mrs F I Smith, Warren & Roseanna Smith, Stewart & Lorraine Wardlaw, Dick & Loretta Berry, Wendy van Bree, Nelly Ward, June Kent, Denise Tartaglia, Daphne Thompson, Frank Howie, Mary Bowie, Ray Field, Annita Wilkinson. It gives detail of the 1974 nationwide campaign. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, unstapled, 210 x 170 mm.

Date: 1990

From: [Posters of around A2 and A1 size related to radio programmes, radio stations. 1990-1999]

By: UFM (Radio station); Rowberry, Tim, active 1990s

Reference: Eph-D-RADIO-1990-01

Description: Poster promoting a weekly jazz music show on the UFM radio station shows a bespectacled pianist playing a piano. His suit is turquoise and his shirt is orange. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 567 x 402 mm. Provenance: Donated by Tim Rowberry, in 1992.

Date: 1953

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: A D Organ Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1953-01

Description: Programme contains photographs (and sometimes short biographical notes) about many personalities in broadcasting: John Proudfoot, John Griffiths, Ian Watkins, Doug Laurenson, Marina, Phil Shone, Cynthia Dale (Mrs Crombie Murdoch), Warwick Braithwaite, Pat McMinn, Peter Gwynne, Rod Talbot, Joy Burns, June Hansel, Joan Culpan, Cushla Maguire, Shirley Parkes, Pat McCullough, Rex Sayers, Pete Young, Selwyn Toogood, Jane Fisher, Cherry Raymond, Liz Mandler. There are advertisements throughout the booklet. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 219 x 139 mm. Provenance: Purchase, 2013. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - - Other material of the same provenance is housed in Photographic Archive PA1-q-1149..

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Posters of around A2 and A1 size related to radio programmes, radio stations. 1960-1989]

By: Radio Hauraki (Radio station)

Reference: Eph-D-RADIO-1970s-01

Description: Poster shows a yellow kite with a face, and with a long "tail" tied with seventeen bows. A biplane files in the distance at the right. Beyond the kite is a cloud, superimposed with the words "The Fifth Annual Radio Hauraki Kite Day" as if written in rope. Below and around are coloured musical notes, and three smiling "notes" with legs walk in a line at the lower edge. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 550 x 373 mm.

Date: 1959

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1959-01

Description: Programme booklet lists music to be played, from countries and orchestras around the world. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, each 194 x 125 mm