Romania - Social life and customs

Date: [ca 1908-1994]

By: Jacks, Harry, 1908-1994

Reference: MS-Papers-7167

Description: Comprise correspondence, drafts of poems, reflections, reminiscences and stories of his life in Rumania before coming to New Zealand, and of his wartime experiences, research papers on plants and agriculture in Germany, copies of his certificates in agricultural engineering and plant research from Rumania and France, and newspaper clippings of his retirement in Hawkes Bay. His work as a plant pathologist and tree and forest management specialist with the DSIR and Forestry Institute is not covered in this collection. Source of title - Supplied Harry Jacks was born in Rumania and after gaining qualifications in plant research in France, came to New Zealand in the 1930's, where he worked with the DSIR and the Forestry Institute. During World War II he served with 2NZEF in Greece and on Crete, trained commandos and served on special operations in Yugoslavia and Greece. Retired to his farm at Havelock North in the 1970s. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter (Photocopies)

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-134-812

Description: This cartoon features various scenes of the presentation of flowers by sports teams. In the first a player is taken off with hayfever, in the second a captain replies to the flowers with a rude gesture and in the third two captains are dancing with their flowers to the disgust of two men watching Label on recto dated Sports Mon 11/8/75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 370 x 320 mm