Rugby football - New Zealand - Nelson-Marlborough Region

Date: 2008

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Stoke Rugby Football Club Inc; Stirling, Grant, active 2000s

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2008-03

Description: Calendar featuring members of the Stoke Rugby Football Club, posed naked or scantily clothed. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Calendar of 12 openings, 210 x 297 mm.

Date: 1937-1965

From: McLean, Terence Power (Sir), 1913-2004: Photographs

By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-10107-1

Description: Prints collected by Terence Power McLean, which relate chiefly to the New Zealand leg of the 1937 Springbok Tour of Australasia as well as the tours of 1956 and 1965. Also contains a small number of images from the 1960 All Black Tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. Mainly taken by commercial and press photographers. Chiefly contains images of South Africa's 1937 rugby union tour of New Zealand. Opponents, towns, and venues of games shown are: Auckland, Eden Park (25 Jul); Waikato, Rugby Park, Hamilton (28 Jul); Taranaki, Rugby Park, New Plymouth (1 Aug); Manawatu, Palmerston North Show Grounds (4 Aug); Wellington, Athletic Park (8 Aug); All Blacks, Athletic Park, Wellington (14 Aug); Nelson-Marlborough-Golden Bay-Motueka, Lansdowne Park, Blenheim (18 Aug); All Blacks, Eden Park, Auckland (25 Sep). Focus is on games in action. South African Captain Philip Nel and other players are featured. Images from the third test match in Auckland include shots of the crowd at Eden Park and half-time images of both teams. The Springboks and entourage are also shown at formal occasions and during leisure time: a visit to Mount Cook Hermitage and a Rotorua thermal area are included. Also contains images of the 1965 Springbok Tour, and possibly 1956 Tour to Australasia. Test matches against the All Blacks include the fourth test at Eden Park (1965) and unidentified games. Provincial New Zealand matches include South Africa versus Canterbury, Auckland (Eden Park, 1965), North Auckland (Whangarei, 1965), and Hawkes Bay (McLean Park, Napier). Includes prints of test matches against Australia. A game against New South Wales is also included. Identified players are Chris Laidlaw, R Conway, Gert S Brynard, John Gainsford, J Potts, John Thornett, [Johan?] Classen, C Smith, John O'Gorman, George "Butch" Lochner, F Turner, Matthys "Boy" Louw, W H Parker, G Davis, J White, D Shepherd, and Ken Catchpole. Other international games include the All Blacks tour of South Africa in 1960. These include the first test in Johannesburg, a game against Combined Services in Pretoria, and a match in [Kimberly?]. Also one print of a match against a Rhodesian team in Kwite, Northern Rhodesia. Identified players include Colin Meads, Avril [G?] Malan, D Lockyear, Martin Pelser, Mark William Irwin, Kel Tremain, Piet du Toit, T Claassen, A C Koch, Nev MacEwan, Ron Horsley, Holton, Roebert, and MacDonald. Identified photographers, publishers, and press agencies include Associated Press, Weekly News, Herald, Green & Hahn Studios, and International Telegraph Office. Arrangement: Material came into library in disordered state. Library arranged into subject sequences in a loose chronology. Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: January 1986 - 01 Jan 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Richards, Gilbert Henry, 1902-1995

Reference: OHInt-0053/21

Description: Gilbert Richards was born in Ferntown on 15 January 1902. Talks about his father John Henry Richards, a pioneer of the Paturau area, and gives details of his family background. Notes that John Bramley (Jack) Nicholls, Heather Bonsell and Joyce Parkinson, also interviewed in this project, are also members of his family. Describes his upbringing in Ferntown including childhood jobs and pastimes and the Ferntown School. Talks about milking on the farm, beekeeping, the vegetable garden and home orchard and clearing of land. Recalls Paturau in an almost virgin state in 1912. Describes moving to Paturau to join his brothers who had taken up land from the Taitapu Estate, and living there for sixty years before retiring to Ferntown with his eldest son Billy. Talks about building the Paturau house and working for other people to make money for farm development. Talks about Collingwood hotels and dances, rugby in Golden Bay and the associated social life, the northwest Nelson earthquake, Depression hardships incuding the sale of stock, coastal shipping, various timber mills including Bassett's, Westhaven Inlet and Parkeston, the Prouse and Saunders flaxmill, goldmining on the Taitapu Estate and roads, including the Westhaven Dry Road. Venue - Collingwood : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mr Richards' home south of Paturau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003035; OHC-003056; OHC-003057; OHC-003058; OHC-003059; OHC-003060; OHC-003061; OHC-003062 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 8 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 587.

Date: May-August 2008

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000498

Description: Photographs of sporting events in Kaikoura, Marlborough. Includes photographs of netball, rugby and horsemanship. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (kaikoura (sports))" Quantity: 31 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1905

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-011372-G

Description: Formal group portrait of the Australian rugby team in Nelson in 1905. Most of the team are in uniform. None of the individuals in the photograph are named, but the team consisted of the the following players: P Carmichael, D J McLean, A P Penman, C Russell, F B Smith, L M Smith, S Wickham (Captain), A E Anlezark, M J Dore, F Wood, A Burdon, P H Burge, J Clarken, T Colton, W Hirschberg, H A Judd, B Lucas, C E Murnin, Frank Nicholson, A O'Brien, A M Oxlade, E W Richards, B I Swannell, and J R Henderson (Mananger). Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones in 1905. B I Swannell was a member of the 1904 British team to New Zealand. Burdon, Judd and Wickham were members of the 1901 New South Wales side to New Zealand. Wood came to New Zealand again in the Australian side of 1913. (Information from "History of New Zealand rugby football, Vol I"). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).