New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force. Elementary Flying Training School No. 1

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-291

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. Views show the manufacture of various military weapons, machinery and vehicles and the men and women involved in the work. They include munitions (manufacture of hand grenades); Bren gun carriers, airframes, building navy trawlers and mine sweepers in Auckland; airplane construction at Rongotai, at the De Havilland Aircraft Factory; making caterpillar tracks; making sten guns; and constructing army huts. People from various military and civilian groups are shown working as fitters, flight riggers, flight mechanics; aircraft maintenance; welders, camouflage nets (made by Girl Guides). Activities include army exercises (p 106-110); river crossing exercises; preparation for a dawn departure of a New Zealand Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron; army training (p 76-97); and the New Zealand Air Training Corps for elementary instruction for youths aged 16 to 18 1/2. RNZAF training includes blind flying practice, Hawker Hind training planes, aircraft maintenance, flight mechanics, and Airspeed Oxford training planes. Other activities include the planting and growing of linen flax, used in the manufacture of planes, tires, gun covers and fighting equipment; agricultural and horticural work, including using bullock teams for breaking in new ground; army manouvres (in part in Franklin area, and in winter conditions in the South Island near the Southern Alps); territorial manoeuvres; coastal defence; Home Guard training; a remedial physical education training camp for recruits suffering from foot troubles, painful backs etc.; the making of a new raft designed in NZ which could be constructed in a few minutes and was easily transported; training despatch riders on motor bikes in the snow. Women, in different organisations including Women's National Service Corps, Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Lady Galway Guild, were engaged in driving and maintaining military vehicles; driving for Red Cross vehicles; digging trenches; on parade; as signallers; in clerical work; hospital duties; cooking and other branches of essential war work. Pages 63-75 show the arrival in New Zealand of the American forces; and pages 111-121 portray a visit to New Zealand of Australian and Netherlands personnel from the hospital ship Oranje when the NZ Government, as a mark of appreciation for their efforts in bringing Australian and New Zealand wounded troops, placed a special train at their disposal and took them to Chateau Tongariro for rest and relaxation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm