Presbyterian Church

By: McKinlay, D M A, active 1970s-1980s; Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988

Reference: A-285-003

Description: Drawing possibly done as a Christmas card, showing a colonial-style house with finials above its gables, a bay window and front verandah in a garden setting Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Old Manse Naseby D M A McKinlay Xmas 1979 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on textured paper 182 x 124 mm on sheet 234 x 161 mm

Date: 1932-1947

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0317

Description: File 118 - Contains minutes, letters and lists regarding the Church Includes an outline of a scheme for increasing the facilities for teaching Maori and Maori culture in 1943. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1858-1860

By: McRae, George, 1800-1864

Reference: Micro-MS-0077

Description: Correspondence and papers relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Marlborough Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (48 pages).

Date: 18 Dec 1996

From: Conscientious objectors of World War II

By: Smith, Neil Gibson, 1921-2002

Reference: OHInt-0426-09

Description: Neil G Smith backgrounds involvement in the Christian Pacifist Movement. Recalls father, a Presbyterian minister and an Army Chaplain in Egypt and France during World War One (1914-1918), came back determined to do all he could to prevent another world war. Talks about involvement with Student Christian Movement at University. Refers to strong Irish background. Recalls being 18 years and at university at outbreak of war, and complying, out of respect for law, peace and family, for 1st requirement which was a medical (1941). Describes: refusing to swear oath of allegiance and consequences; refusing a military order and right to appeal against military service; establishing proof which meant demonstrating part of creeds beliefs that one didn't fight, with reference to Quakers, and difference between a conscientious objector and a military defaulter. Refers to term `insincere'. Outlines war years spent at various detention camps, commencing at Strathmore, then Paiaka in the Manawatu swamp, Hautu, Whitanui and Mt Eden prison. Mentions `Red Compound' at Hautu and fire in pine forest at Atiamuri, January 1946. Refers to being under manpower to work where directed when released at the end of the war. Mentions visit to Europe with wife Jean and on return setting up a poultry farm at Otorohonga and attending poultry unit at Massey. Talks about his change from christianity to ethical humanism. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Julian McCarthy Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007806-007808 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2065.

Date: 14 Oct 2000

From: STRAW Umbrella Trust oral history project

By: Brash, Alan Anderson (Rev), 1913-2002

Reference: OHInt-0564-2

Description: Recalls his Presbyterian childhood in Wellington and original intention of becoming a missionary before deciding to train as a Minister. Comments on his interest in peace and injustice as a teenager in the interwar years. Recalls his involvement in the Student Christian Movement (SCM) at Otago University from 1931-1934. Comments on his mother's understanding of the Bible. Describes the impact of attending ecumenical conferences in Edinburgh and Oxford while attending Theological College in Edinburgh. Talks about returning to New Zealand, going to a parish in Wanganui and the formation of the New Zealand National Council of Churches. Describes involvement with the National Council of Churches from 1947-1952 and 1956-1964. Discusses the Iona community in Scotland. Describes speaking to churches of all denominations and attempts to draw the churches close together in New Zealand. Describes the difficulty of deciding whether to work in Singapore, London and Geneva and time spent in all these places. Comments on the quality of Christian scholarship and leadership in Asia. Recalls working for Christian Aid and the World Council of Churches. Comments on the difficulty of having plenty and working amongst disaster. Describes becoming involved in thinking about homsexuality and the church and the publication of a book `Facing our differences, the church's gay and lesbian members'. Comments on war and pacifism. Discusses retirement and WEA lectures about the Bible he has given. Interviewer(s) - Ruth Greenaway Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2528.

Date: 25 Oct 1999

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project, stage two

By: de Bres, Joris, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0484-04

Description: Joris de Bres was born in the Netherlands in 1947. Explains his family migrated to Lower Hutt in 1954 so his father could be Presbyterian chaplain to the new migrant Dutch community. Describes his father's involvement with liberation theology, the Reformed Church and the Indonesian independence movement. Talks about religious practice at home. Recalls coming out on the ship `Waterman'. Describes monthly Dutch services at St Andrew's on the Terrace, his father's appointment to the Upper Hutt parish and their move to Auckland for his father to minister to new urban Maori. Comments that both his father's father and grandfather and his mother's father were ministers and his parents met at a church conference. Describes his father's involvement in the Dutch resistance movement in World War II. Discusses his father's view that the family should integrate in New Zealand. Talks about his siblings John, Hanna, Margreet, Guido, Tjitske (Lyn), Tatini and Barta and how many of them changed their names. Discusses difficulties learning the English language. Recalls the family being naturalised and feelings towards it. Describes his schooling, his anti-authoritarian streak, studying languages at Auckland University, involvement in Student Christian Movement (SCM), editing the student newspaper `Craccum' and being active in the anti-Vietnam and anti-racist movements. Mentions a Marxist phase. Describes going to Oxford and student conferences in Prague, Paris and Versailles. Recalls working for CARE and Corso and supporting Pacific Island migrants over the dawn raids. Mentions conflict with Immigration Ministers Fraser Colman and Air Commodore Frank Gill. Talks about meeting his partner Angela Crisp, a nurse, in England. Describes being sacked twice by Corso. Refers to `sticking-plaster aid' and the tea trade with Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Recalls the assistance of Syd Jackson in his personal grievance case and becoming involved in unions. Describes working as a PSA organiser for nine years, being secretary of the Combined Trade Unions and assistant general secretary of the PSA. Comments on being in the media as a result of involvement in industrial disputes and CARE. Recalls state sector restructuring from 1986, negotiations, redundancies, bargaining and its effects on his politics. Describes leaving the PSA in 1993 and becoming a senior public servant with the Department of Conservation (DOC). Describes sorting out issues over a Maori occupation on the Whanganui River. Comments on the Cave Creek tragedy. Discusses his essay published in `Landfall' on the the Dutch migrant community, migration policies of the 1950s and New Zealand's move from a monocultural to multicultural society. Comments on his feelings about cultural assimilation, loss of his Dutch culture, feelings about being Dutch and desire for a greater recognition of the Dutch migration. Mentions the movement by Dutch towards reclaiming their culture and his intention to write to help reassert Dutch history. Interviewer(s) - Hank Schouten Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 2706.

Date: 1989-1991

From: McEldowney, Richard Dennis, 1926-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7777-220

Description: McEldowney indicated on the original folder that `most of this correspondence has gone to the church archives at Knox College'. Includes photograph of Scottish ministers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 16 November 1912

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008533-G

Description: Opening of an Presbyterian orphanage in Berhampore, Wellington, 16 November, 1912. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [ca 24 February 1940]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-5927-48

Description: Crowd at Petone, attending the unveiling of the Iona Cross circa 24 February 1940. The cross marks the place where, one hundred years before, the first Presbyterian Church service was conducted. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: March 1993 - Nov 2002

By: Association of Presbyterian Women (N.Z.); Irwin, Sheila, active 2002; Laxon, Lorna, active 2002; Ensor, Sharon, active 2002; Scarlet, Betty, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0668

Description: The Association of Presbyterian Women (APW) of Aotearoa New Zealand set up project known as the Women's Stories to collect written and oral material recording the contribution of Presbyterian women in their churches and communities. The women come from a wide range of ethnic, geographic and social backgrounds. Many of these high profile Presbyterian women were deaconesses, teachers, school principals, nurses, ministers, ministers' wives, missionaries, first women moderators, first Maori deaconess, PCANZ elders or office bearers. Several were missionaries and in the medical profession in India, Hong Kong and China. Those interviewed are Lorna Aberley, Joan Anderson, Nan Baxter, Nancy Burgess, Meri Caton, Beryl Howie, Grace Ironside, Helen Jackman, Nancy Jansen, Beth Johnson, Mavis Kaarup, Kathleen Keene, Ethel Kinross, Daphne McRae, Shona MacTavish, Carolena Mitchell, Joyce Murray, Grace Patterson, Margaret Reid-Martin, Doreen Riddell, Margaret Royds, Lorraine Saunders, Margaret Schrader, Vivienne Sinclair, Pamela Ball, Judy Breward, Erice Carley, Mia Denee-Sieger, Margery Dwerryhouse, Dorothy Harvey, Joyce Lake, Lorna Laxon, Barbara McKenzie, Anne Massey, Rouie Mercer, Gwen Neave, Mary Prier, Jane Prichard, Lorraine Sealy and Heather Webster. The project also included an interview with Shirley Murray but this was not deposited. Access Contact - To request access to items in this collection please contact Library staff Interviewer(s) - Shirley Irwin Interviewer(s) - Lorna Laxon Interviewer(s) - Sharon Ensor Interviewer(s) - Betty Scarlet Accompanying material - Photographs accompany interviews Arrangement: Abstracts: OHA-6089 - OHA-6112, OHA-8277 - OHA-8292 Original recordings: OHC-016969 to OHC-017037 (no OHC-017024), OHC-025020 - OHC-025055 Quantity: 104 C60 cassette(s). 40 printed abstract(s). 41 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1993 - 2002 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-124

Description: Photographs related to religion CI - R, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to the Greek Orthodox Church, Pacific Islands congregation churches, and the March for Jesus. Images related to religion are arranged alphabetically from CI to R Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.