Sapsford, Roland, active 1990-2012

Member of the Green Party from 1993. Green Party candidate for the Wellington Regional Council in the 1990s. He was a leader in the Campaign for a Better City in the early 1990s, and co-chaired the Aro Valley Community Council.

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[Posters collected by Ron and Carmen Smith, concerning the proposed motorway through Te...

Date: 1992 - 1998

From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers

By: Campaign for a Better City

Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Road

Description: Includes: 1992: Motorway Awareness Group. We say No Motorway. 5 years of hell! This October 1992, vote out the pro-motorway councillors. [Poster] 1993: Campaign for Better City. New roads mean more cars. More pollution. More accidents. And less living. There are better ways! Stop the Motorway ('bypass') - for good!. [Poster with "Pave the planet" graphic by Clay Butler, 1993] (2 copies) 1993: Campaign for a Better City. Pave the planet. One asphalt, one people. There are better ways! Coming to a site near you? Bulldozers from Bar Bodega to the Basin. Stop the Motorway ('bypass') for good! [Poster with graphic by Clay Butler. 1993] 1994?: Campaign for a Better City d be designed for people not cars. [Poster. ca 1994]. 1996: Roland Sapsford and the CBC are back in town with the "Have Your Say Cabaret!!!" Wanna stop the Re Aro Motorway? Here's the next step. Sun. Sep. 1, 7 pm, Bar Bodega. Very Vague Graphics [Poster. 1996?] 1996: Campaign for a Better City invites you to a Reclaim the Streets Dinner. Friday 6 September. Doors open 5.30 pm, dinner served at 6.30 pm. Crossways Community Centre [Poster. 1996] 1998?: STOP the Te Aro Motorway permanently. Campaign 1995-1998. "Transit's last chance" Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints and offset prints, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..

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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand: [Fliers, cards and pamphlets of octavo size for th...

Date: 1996 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-GREEN-PARTY-1996/1999

Description: Includes pamphlets, fliers and rosette (1999?) for the party and its policies, including arguments against the genetic engineering of food. Includes "Get going with the Greens" [ca 1999], "A new direction" [1998], "Buying local" [ca 1998], "Green 2000; framework for an eco-nation. The Greens", by Jeanette Fitzsimons, Green Party Co-leader, March 1998. Also includes a circular sticker: "I only date girls who vote Green". Candidates and politicians include: Toni Atkinson (Wellington Regional Council candidate) Rod Donald (Co-leader) Ian Ewen-Street (Marlborough) Jeanette Fitzsimons (Co-leader) Cindy McDonald (Taranaki-King Country) Sonata McLeod (Dunedin South, 1999) Roland Sapsford (Wellington Regional Council candidate) Patricia Scott (Otago Green Coalition, ca 1998) Roger Spiller (Progressive Greens, Tamaki, 1996) Peter Whitmore (Green Society, Tamaki, 1996) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers and cards, sizes varying below 240 mm.

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Photographs taken during a meeting with candidates for Wellington Central electorate, A...

Date: 8 Sept 2014

From: Sullivan, John Paul, 1948- :Photographs

Reference: PADL-001065

Description: Photographs taken during a meeting with candidates for Wellington Central electorate at Aro Valley Community Centre on 8 September 2014. Photographs taken by John Sullivan Views of meeting show the crowded hall of people looking at a line of candidates which includes Roland Sapsford, Community co-ordinator and Bryan Crump, Event MC. One view shows Green Party James Shaw speaking. Another view shows Labour Party candiate Grant Roberston in the centre of the frame. Both views include candiates James Knuckley, Democrats for Social Credit, Huimaono (Geoffrey) Karena Puhi (with moko), Hugh Barr, NZ First, Alistair Gregory, Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis. Names selectively indexed. Quantity: 2 digital photograph(s).

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