Children - Societies and clubs

Date: 1946 - 1949

By: Horowhenua Agricultural, Pastoral and Industrial Association

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Horowhenua-1946/1949

Description: Includes: Horowhenua Boys' & Girls' Agricultural Club [show] programme, 6 December 1946. Forty-first annual show. Levin, 31 January - 1 February 1947. Schedule Forty-third annual show. Showgrounds Levin, 28-29 January 1949. Schedule of classes Quantity: 3 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm. Provenance: Estate of Margaret Malcolm Hall, 2003.

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Auckland star (Newspaper); Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-088-a

Description: Certificate of membership in the Peter Pan Club associated with the children's page in the Auckland Star, shows a circular inset at top centre, of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Along the top is a frieze showing a rabbit, a kiwi and two pixies. There are decorated columns down the sides and a cicular logo of the club at lower centre, showing a star, two hands shaking, and the motto "Be loyal". The certificate is signed by "Wendy" the Club Mother, and "Peter Pan" the Club Captain. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 320 x 439 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Auckland star (Newspaper); Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-088

Description: Certificate of membership in the Peter Pan Club associated with the children's page in the Auckland Star, shows a circular inset at top centre, of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Along the top is a frieze showing a rabbit, a kiwi and two pixies. There are decorated columns down the sides and a cicular logo of the club at lower centre, showing a star, two hands shaking, and the motto "Be loyal". The certificate is signed by "Wendy" the Club Mother, and "Peter Pan" the Club Captain. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 320 x 439 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1936

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to confectionery, chocolate, sweets, ice-cream and other sweet foods]

By: Cadbury Fry Hudson Ltd; Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-CONFECTIONERY-1935-01

Description: Booklet published for children about a secret club with passwords, hand signals and codes which could be committed to memory and used in writing to other children. The back cover encourages children to get their mothers to give them Bournville Cocoa in their milk, and to ask for Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate because of the full cream milk it contains. Dated based on information received from researcher in Britain 23 November 2017, and from newspaper items appearing May 1935 until late 1937, such as Northern Advocate, 18 May 1935, page 5. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 123 x 84 mm. Provenance: Part of the Stout Family papers, 2013. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2213.

Date: 1906

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963; Whear, Rachael (Dr), 1922?-

Reference: A-279-006

Description: Shows a boy, a girl and a cat blowing soap bubbles. Identity of Peggy unknown. This may have been a design for a children's page of a newspaper, probably the Christchurch Press. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - David A. C. Low / 1906. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 153 x 223 mm.