Police - New Zealand - Otago Region
[Typescript partial account of the arrest of Robert Butler on suspicion of murder. 1870s?]
Date: 1870 - 1879
From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning police, policemen, policing, crime prevention]
By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
Reference: Eph-B-POLICE-1870s-01
Description: Single typescript page by an anonymous witness tells of seeing a man at a hotel in Waitati, 17 miles north of Dunedin. Because of his suspicions that the man was connected with a recent murder of a young couple named Dewar and their child, he advised the local policeman Charles Colborne, who telegrammed policeman Townsend of Waikouaiti. The arrested man was Robert Butler, alias Lee, alias Donnelly, alias Medway. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Carbon copy of typescript on sheet 330 x 205 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Mr Ken A Webster.
Murder on blood plain - The killing of constable Peter Umbers
Date: 1990-1991
From: McLeod, Rosemary Margaret, 1949- :Papers
Reference: 97-182-05
Description: Research notes for an article about the murder of a policeman in 1990, which appeared in `North and south', Feb 1991. Quantity: 1 bundle.
Interview with Jack Craig
Date: 06 Jul 1987
From: New Zealand Police Association Oral History Project
By: Craig, Jack, 1914-
Reference: OHInt-0095/5
Description: Jack Craig outlines early employment history as a teamster in the McKenzie Country, reasons for joining the police in 1936, the recruiting system, training at depot, reference to 'black book', 'beat duty'. Recalls early days of Police Association in Dunedin, Peter Fraser's memorandum to Commissioner to allow meetings, profiles early days of Association, becoming district secretary for Dunedin, new police station opened at Port Chalmers in 1941, attitudes amongst members of Maori Hill Station where he was transferred in 1952. Mentions J B Young (delegate), Jack Meltzer (General Secretary), Brian Mooney and Peter Matheson (delegates), Presidents Bach and Bob Butler, Ted Adams (local chairman and delegate). Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Geoffrey Terpstra Venue - At Jack Craig's home at 27 Greenhill Avenue, Waikari, Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001624 - OHC-001627 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 252.
Creator unknown : Photograph of police residence, Roxburgh, taken by J D S Roberts
Date: [1960?]
By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980
Reference: PAColl-9491
Description: Photograph of a police residence in Roxburgh. Shows a building made of stone with much of its roof covered in ivy. Constable Ross stands alongside, with his son. Photograph taken in by Jack Debnam Stewart Roberts. This building was later demolished. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Inscription on back of item. Inscriptions: Verso - AN OLD CENTRAL OTAGO LANDMARK DEMOLISHED Constable Ross and small son stand outside the old picturesque police residence at Roxburgh. Ivy covers its roof to t depth of 4 feet, and the trunk of the plant was a foot thick. The photo shows some of the fine stonework of the early masons. J D S Roberts Cromwell.; Verso - DD x 3 1/4" May 25 pls 13/5/60 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.5 x 15.6 cm
Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and his wife Thea sprayed by a water bomb during the 1978...
Date: 21 Nov 1978
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Muldoon-001
Description: Original caption reads: "Eggs splatter the crowd and a water bomb sprays the Prime Minister and Mrs Muldoon as they leave the Dunedin Town Hall, escorted by 20 policemen, after last nights election meeting." (Evening Post, 22 November 1978). Photograph taken 21 November 1978 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.4 x 25.5 cm