Woon family

Date: [1940s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Morel, Leo, active 1940s-1950s

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-217

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1940s-1950s; and one dated 1973. Two Maori girls (Robin Kingi and Makuini Warbrick); bird studies; group of mothers and young children at Ashburton Trotting Club winter meeting; T H Small instructing W Boyd in typing at NZ Institute for the Blind in Tinakori Road; Ordinary seaman Gordon Wilson splicing lines on a northern coaster; Dave Gunn & Jim Sinclair setting out with their horses from Lower Pyke Hut, Hollyford Valley; feeding ducks at Victoria Lake, Wanganui; Vestria (ship); 8000 pound award notice for capture of Ned Kelly and associates, 1879; Chief of Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal L M Isitt) and Mayor of Wellington at exhibition of war photographs, Oct 1944; antropology student Marie McMahon working on excavations near Rotorua, 1973. G J Sullivan (Te Aroha), Hon R Semple, B M Tene (Hastings), Hon E T Tirikatene (Southern Maori) & W T Johansan (Wellington) taken at Labour Party Conference, 1951; NZ Labour Party Conference held in Wellington, taken in session in Assembly Hall when the death of Prime Minister Rt Hon M Savage was announced, Apr 1940 (two photographs of the assembly, both torn in places). Mr & Mrs Jay Wilbur with their first copy of NZ Free Lance, 1946; wedding photo of D L Woon & his bride Amy Wainwright, with bestman R H Glading & bridesmaid Miss Florence Woon, 1951; debutantes at ball organised by Waipukurau branch of Returned Services Association (Cecily Burkin, Peggy Mills, Ngaire Davies, Joan Gannaway, Joan Grant and Mary Williamson with Major-General A S Wilder, 1951. Wedding of Kathleen Tunnel of Trentham to George Lee of Wallaceville (with description on letterhead of `Brown Owl', Upper Hutt, where the reception was held), Jan 1949. Photographer Leo Morel of Upper Hutt. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1870-1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-008146-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Shows James Garland Woon and an unidentified woman, possibly his wife or another family member. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Title taken from inscription on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches Processing information: Subject of photograph identified as James Garland Woon 11 January 2023, following information provided by a staff member.