Great Britain - Commerce - New Zealand

Date: 1923-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1956

Description: Reports and correspondence of the Manager and Secretary of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca Nov 1972]

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

By: Smorley, Jeffrey J, active 1972

Reference: EP-Industry-Meat-works-01

Description: Lamb promotion by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board at Smithfield Market, London, England. Shows women in short mini dresses and boots, leaning against gold Mini cars. Photograph taken by Jeffrey J Smorley. Publication note - Published in the Evening Post, 2 November, 1972 The women were employed to drive around Britain, visiting independent butchers. They were to sell 50 pence promotional kits, and give £10 cash prizes to butchers using new the display material to its best advantage. Inscriptions: Verso - [stamped in ink] Jeffrey J Smorley Photography 38 Charterhouse Square, London ECIM6EA Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Date: 1808-1977

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1955

Description: Selected records of Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, a journal of a voyage on the Marco Polo (1853), and records of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, comprising newspaper cuttings (1922-1971) and report of a visit to Australia 1922 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-518

Description: The cartoon shows Jack Marshall, the deputy prime minister, shouting for help outside the closed door of the 'U.K.;' hanging on the door handle is a notice reading 'Do not disturb. E.E.C. Conference in progress.' In a smaller frame top left is a ragged man receiving aid from an American with a sack of money. Refers to Jack Marshall's trip to London to ask for assurances that New Zealand would have access to the British markets if Britain joined the EEC (European Economic Community). The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the primary program, 1947-1951, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe. The initiative was named for Secretary of State George Marshall. Other Titles - its Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on card, 280 x 380mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1948-1952

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1957

Description: Reports and correspondence from the management of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1879-1903

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2986

Description: Selected records relevant to Australia and New Zealand of various legal firms; includes survey of trading relations between Australia, New Zealand and Glasgow merchants in general ca 1900 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1916-1917

By: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-1580

Description: Comprises two registers of shareholders in Dunedin, Hobart and Sydney for the Union Steam Ship Company (1917), and twenty certificates of stock transferred to P & O from the Union Steam Ship Company; all resulting from the take-over of the USSCo by P & O in 1917. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 box(es). 0.50 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 2007

Date: 1912-1918

By: Great Britain. Department of Imperial Government Supplies

Reference: MSY-6828

Description: Collection of printed and typed official papers regarding the sale and export of wool, hides, sheepskins, frozen meat and rabbits, cheese, butter, scheelite and kauri gum for supply to the British Department of Imperial Government Supplies. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: Originally collected and held by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board library Transfers: From Book Collections - See also Photographic Archive (PAColl-9789).

Date: 1978

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-394

Description: This cartoon is set in an office where people are discussing how to promote New Zealand's case to Europe and Britain. A scruffy man wearing a sandwich board and handing out leaflets about how the end is nigh unless NZ has trade access has been brought in by one of the men to assess for publicity potential Label on reverse dated 11/4/78 Other Titles - The end is nigh - for New Zealand primary produce in Europe unless - N.Z. should have access for its produce to the E.E.C. because P.T.O. Extended Title - New Zealand is to mount an intensive publicity campaign in Britain and other E.E.C. countries aimed at making the community more aware of New Zealand's case for continued access to primary exports Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 446 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-466

Description: In the first of four cameos an English shopper walks away with her shopping list from a New Zealand farmer holding wheat and wool and another holding sheepmeat and butter; refers to difficulties for New Zealand exports; in the second cameo the two farmers who had been ANZACs clutch each other in profound despair because of their export troubles; in the third cameo the Australian yacht, the 'Gretel' is defeated in the America's Cup and in the last cameo a selector for the rugby team for the third test runs at two players with a bloody axe. There was a sense of betrayal after the ANZACs participation in the war when Britain rejected New Zealand produce. In 1962 Gretel was the first Australian yacht to challenge the New York Yacht Club for the famed America's Cup. The defenders in Weatherly won the Cup. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-834

Description: This cartoon relates to Britain joining the EEC and New Zealand's access. It features British Prime Minister Harold Wilson standing on Britain which he is using as a punt. His punt pole is labelled Referendum. He has punted to join up with Europe and several European men from the EEC are welcoming him. Tied to Britain by a life belt is a New Zealand farmer who is smiling as Wilson tells the Europeans to tie Britain on to Europe Label on recto dated Mon 9/6/75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 320 x 386 mm

Date: 1984-1991

From: McKinnon, Malcolm, 1950- : Research papers relating to New Zealand foreign affairs

Reference: 98-170-1/3

Description: Photocopies of articles by McKinnon; `"Equality of sacrifice": Anglo-New Zealand relations and the war economy, 1939-1945' (Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth history, vXII, n3, May 1984); `Security through trade, New Zealand's export diplomacy in the 1940s', paper presented to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Feb 1979; `Trading in difficulties? New Zealand in the world economy', (New Zealand in world affairs, v2, 1957-1972, 1991); and `Crisis averted; Anglo-American relataions and the British financial crisis of mid-1947' (1987) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1923-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2497

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.