Savoy Hotel (London, England)

Date: 1947-1948, 1958

By: White, Nora Margaret, active 1958

Reference: MSY-7122

Description: Travel scrapbook compiled by Miss White during her round trip from New Zealand to England in 1947-1948. White left Auckland aboard the `Rakaia' on 27 Mar 1947, arriving in London 30 Apr 1947. The first two items in the scrapbook are a summons for a King Neptune event aboard the `Rakaia' on 12 Apr 1947 and a beer coaster for Heineken beer from Colon, Panama. The next pages are filled with ephemera items collected from White's travels around the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe. Included are theatre programmes, postcards, photographs, admission passes, sketch maps, an invite to a Presentation Party at Buckingham Palace, horse race programme for Royal Ascot, tourist programmes and leaflets, menus, newspaper cuttings relating to Wimbledon tennis championships, London Olympic programmes (1948), Royal wedding programmes and newspaper cuttings of churches and cathedrals, and "Rimutaka Jockey Club" race programmes circulated as a shipboard event. White left London aboard the `Rimutaka' 13 Oct 1948, arriving in Wellington 22 Nov 1948. The latter part of the scrapbook records a journey by White to the Lambeth Conference in England in 1958. White was secretary to Anglican Archbishop Owen. Left Lyttelton 13 Mar 1958 arriving in London 13 Apr 1958. Sailed aboard the `Port Auckland'. Collected ephemera include postcards, programmes, tourist maps, booklets, invitations, guide books and an itinerary relating to White's travels in England, Italy and Venice. Also newspaper cuttings relating to the Lambeth Conference and postcards of various churches visited. On 17 Jul 1958 White launched the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand's vessel the `Waikare' in Glasgow. White's father C G White was a director of the Union Steamship Company in Wellington. Includes an invitation to the launch and telegrams from New Zealand. White sailed from London aboard the Shaw Savill Line ship `S.S. Athenic' on 11 Sep 1958, arriving in Wellington 13 Oct 1958. Shipboard records include a menu, passenger list, postcard of vessel and programmes for the "Athenic Jockey Club's" Atlantic meeting. Source of title - Supplied by Library Miss White made two visits to the United Kingdom in the 1940s and 1950s. She served as Anglican Archbishop Owen's secretary on the second trip. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, photographs, ephemera and printed material Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms D Holderness, Christchurch, Sep 2013

Date: 1934 - 1946

Reference: Eph-C-STATE-1930/1949

Description: 1934: New Zealand Society. New Zealand Day 1840-1934. Commemorative dinner, 6th February 1934. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London New Zealand Society. Luncheon in honour of HRH The Duke of Gloucester, KG, 1st June 1934. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1935: New Zealand Society. Luncheon to the Rt Hon G W Forbes Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the Rt Hon J G Coates MC, New Zealand Minister of Finance, 3rd June 1935. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London. 1936: Index to seats at luncheon by the Government of New Zealand in honour of the Visit of delegates to the Fourteenth Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire. Wellington, 2nd October 1936 1937: New Zealand Society 1840-1937. Commemorative banquet, 8th February 1937. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1938: New Zealand Society. Luncheon to Sir Harry Batterbee, KCMG, KCVO. 20th December 1938. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1939: Luncheon to the Rt Hon Viscount Nuffield, OBE, 31st May 1939. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1946: New Zealand Day 1840-1946. Commemorative dinner, 6th February 1946. Index to tables. Grosvenor House London Quantity: 8 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheets sizes varying to 450 x 410 mm. Provenance: Most items originally collected by Mr Melville E Hankins, and purchased as part of lot 320, Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 19 September 2013. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera; photographic material of the same provenance transferred to Photographic Archive PAColl-10128..

Date: 1894, 1897, 1932, 1937-1939, 1949

By: Hankins, Melville Earl, 1884?-1961; St. George Company; Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-10128

Description: Photographic images (original photographic prints and cuttings) collected by Melville Earle Hankins and taken between 1894 and 1949. Photographers unidentified unless stated: - Group school portrait of girls and teacher Miss M H Ryder at Newtown School, Wellington, standard 6 class, in 1894, taken by St George Co. (Girls all identified on the back of the print.) - Group portrait of telegraph message boys, Wellington, 1897. (Boys all identified) - Two identical portraits (photo-mechanical) of Melville Earle Hankins seated at a desk in 1932, probably at the Correspondence School in Wellington. - Three prints showing diners seated in the dining room at the Savoy Hotel in London, England at different events: one (photo-mechanical) at the annual New Zealand Day (later called Waitangi Day) dinner in February 1937, another (photo-mechanical) in December 1938 in honour of Sir Harry Batterbee who would be the first High Commissioner for Great Britain in New Zealand, and another at the N Z Society's luncheon in 1939 for Lord Nuffield. (Melville Hankins attended these events and his location in the room was marked on the prints before they came into the Library.) - NAC Sunderland 'Takitimu' flying boat ZK-AMK on the water in 1949 taken by Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd, probably in Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Chronological (arranged by Library) Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (Clippings from publications). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photo-mechanical prints Provenance: Purchase, 2013. Items originally collected by Mr Melville E Hankins. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - 25 items including New Zealand Society luncheon menus 1930-1940s; invitation cards and other ephemera relating to Melville E Hankins' attendance at formal events in England. Also includes Wellington Shakespeare Society programmes 1942-1943..

Date: 1963

From: [Ephemera, programmes and booklets relating to rugby union football played by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1963].

By: Ullyett, Royden Herbert Frederick, 1914-1989

Reference: Eph-A-RUGBY-1963-01

Description: A menu with a reproduction of a poem by A P Herbert for the occasion. Sir Jocelyn Lucas was in the chair, and Viscount Cobham and captain Wilson Whineray were present. The front cover cartoon shows two British guests looking at the big boots beneath their table and thereby recognising that the All Black fullback kicker Don Clarke is the player seated opposite. Front cover is signed in blue ink at top left by John Graham, a member of the All Black team. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - J Graham Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded menu card, 245 x 178 mm.