Wellington Firebirds (Cricket team)

Date: 1950 - 1953

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1950/1953

Description: Includes: 1950: Ruatoria Cricket Club. Opening dance. Saturday 2nd December 1950. Mangahanea Hall, with Prince Ferris and his Orchestra. [Ticket]. Australia v Otago at Carisbrook. 10,11 & 13 March 1950. Programme. Australia v Wellington. Basin Reserve. 1, 3 & 4 April 1950. Programme. 1951: M.C.C. v Auckland. Eden Park. 6-8 March 1951. Programme. M.C.C. versus New Zealand (second test). Basin Reserve Wellington. 24, 26-28 March 1951. Programme (2 copies) 1952: West Indies vs Otago. Carisbrook Dunedin, 2-5 February 1952. Programme (hardbound) West Indies v New Zealand. Lancaster Park Christchurch. 8-9, 11-12 February 1952. Programme. West Indies v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park Auckland. 15-16, 18-19 February 1952. Programme. West Indies v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington. 23, 25-26 February 1952. Programme. (2 copies) 1953: South Africa versus New Zealand. Basin Reserve Wellington. 6-7, 9-10 March 1953. Programme. South Africa v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park, Auckland. 13-14, 16-17 March 1953. Programme. New Zealand tour of South Africa 1953-4. Official souvenir cricket brochure, edited and compiled by G A Chettle. The New Zealand Cricket team in South Africa 1953-54. With the compliments of Beaths, the store for men, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Greymouth, Kaikoura. Tour booklet Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 13 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1957 - 1959

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1957/1959

Description: Includes: 1957: Otago v Central Districts. Plunket Shield. Carisbrook, 18-21 1957. Programme. Australia v New Zealand. Lancaster Park, 1-4 March 1957. Programme.ia v New Zealand. Eden Park Auckland, 16-19 March 1957. Programme. Australia versus New Zealand. Second test. Basin Reserve, Wellington, 8-11 March 1957. Programme Australia v New Zealand. Eden Park, 29 March - 1 April 1957. Programme. England Women's Cricket Team. New Zealand tour 1957-58. Souvenir programme for match against the North Island, Basin Reserve, 5-6 November 1957 1958: Cricketers from New Zealand. NZCC; the 1958 tour official souvenir. MCC v New Zealanders. Lord's Ground, 17-20 May 1958. Score card. England v New Zealand. Lord's Ground, 19-24 June 1958. Score card. T N Pearce's XI v New Zealand. Scarborough Cricket Ground, 10-12 September 1957. Score card. 1959: England v New Zealand. First cricket test. Lancaster Park, 27 February - 3 March 1959. Programme. MCC v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington, 6-9 March 1959. Programme (2 copies, with a portrait of Peter May on the front cover) MCC v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park, 14-18 March 1959. Programme. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 13 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1980-1983

Reference: Eph-B-CRICKET-1980s

Description: Includes: 1980: Prime Minister's XI vs Mayor of Wellington's XI. Barnardo's charity cricket match. Anderson Park, 3 February 1980. Programme. Rothmans tour. West Indies v New Zealand. 1st test. Carisbrook Dunedin, 8-13 February 1980. Programme. Rothmans tour. West Indies v New Zealand. Third cricket test. Eden Park Auckland, 29 February - 5 March 1980. Programme 1981: Wellington v Otago. Basin Reserve. 6-8 February 1981. Programme/ score sheet. India v New Zealand. 1st test. Basin Reserve Wellington, 21-26 February 1981. Programme. More classic cricket cards; 160 collectors' cigarette cards reproduced in original colours, perforated for easy detaching, with an introduction by Brian Johnston. [has one card of New Zealander C V Grimmett]. Green Island Cricket Club. Correspondence 1980-1982. (4 letters only) 1982: Benson & Hedges World series Cup. New Zealand, England, Australia. Summer of 1982-1983. Programme / booklet. Rothmans series. Australia in New Zealand, February - March 1982. Official tour souvenir programme. 1983: Warwickshire v New Zealand. Edgbaston, 23-26 July 1983. Scoresheet. England v New Zealand. Second test, at Headingley, 28 July - 2 August 1983. Programme (New Zealand won by five wickets, this being the first time that New Zealand had won a Test match against England in England). Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 11 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying around 300 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940: Wellington Mercantile Cricket League. Nineteenth annual report and balance sheet. 1939/40. 1945: Announcement of a Sanseneise occasion: Cricket match, gentlemen v Players to be held in Hagley Park, 12 November 1945. Flier. 1946: Australia v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington. 22-26 March 1946. Programme. Australia v New Zealand. Basin Reserve Wellington. 29 March - 2 April 1946. Programme. 1947: MCC v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington, 10-12 March 1947. Official programme. MCC v Otago. Carisbrook, 15-18 March 1947. Official souvenir programme MCC tour of New Zealand 1947 - official programme for the test, Lancaster Park, March 21st, 22nd, 24th, 1947. 1948: Otago Cricket Association. Fiji v Otago, Carisbrook Ground Dunedin, 13-16 March 1948. Programme. 1949: Cricketers from New Zealand, by Peter West. A Playfair book. [1949]. A complete record of the New Zealand Cricket team in England. 1949. Booklet (2 copies) Cricket 1949. New Zealand tour; a complete cricket handbook, complied by A W Simpson. Middlesex v. New Zealand. Lord's, 27-30 August 1949. Card partly completed in print/ink. 7. H.D.G.Leveson-Gower's XI v. NEW ZEALAND. Scarborough, 7-9 September 1949. Card partly completed in pencil. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 13 programmes, reports, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and flyers, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1997

Reference: Eph-D-CRICKET-1997-01

Description: Shows a group photograph of 24 uniformed players in the Wellington Firebirds cricket team, against a fiery background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 595 mm.