Convalescence

Date: 1944-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-175

Description: Views of Connaught Military Hospital, Knaphill, Surrey; Sister M K Murray outside Buckingham Palace after her investiture; group photo after luncheon given by NZ High Commissioner; Old Park Barracks, Dover (NZANS quarters); NZ Military Hospital, Haine, Kent; group photo of members of NZWAAC's (Hospital Division) with BRCS, VADs; group photos of members of NZANS (UK); interior views of wards; opening day of tennis club at Cliftonville; visit of Lt-Gen Sir Bernard Freyberg; NZ Camp Reception Station, Folkestone; Wadsworth-Cotterill wedding. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 20 Dec 1985

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Moller, Jacob Randrup, 1891-1991

Reference: OHInt-0470/18

Description: Jack Moller was born in Napier in 1891. Describes how his father came out from Denmark in his late teens, worked in the Forty Mile Bush in the Wairarapa and then in Pahiatua and Palmerston North before moving to Taranaki after his marriage. Mentions he lived in Opunake, Otakio and Eltham. Talks about Chu Chong who started dairying in Taranaki. Recalls leaving school at fourteen and driving a five horse team. Describes departing for World War I on the `Arawa' and heading for Gallipoli. Recalls the landing at Anzac Cove and describes the fighting at Gallipoli in detail. Discusses the high number of casualties. Talks about being shot in both legs, rolling down a bank and being taken to the Australian hospital ship which took the six hundred injured men on board to Alexandria. Comments on the work of the nurses. Recalls some time spent in Egypt before returning to Wellington on the `Tahiti' in 1915. Describes the reception on the train trip home to Hawera, convalescence there and further convalescence at the King George V Hospital in Rotorua. Mentions the Lake House and Palace Hotel and fishing trips. Describes in some detail his involvement in the filming of the `Mutiny on the Bounty' by an Australian film company who hired some of the convalescing soldiers as extras. Mentions the involvement of Tai Mitchell and Ernie Svensen in roles. Recalls the leading lady was Australian Lottie Lyall. Describes filming at Whakarewarewa and Mokoia Island. Recalls a tangi at Whakarewarewa and a visit from the Governor-General. Mentions he was discharged from the army in 1916 and has been a member of the RSA since that date. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2866.

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-047

Description: Design for a get-well card shows a comfortable blue armchair on which are placed a yellow cushion and and open book. Beside the chair is a small circular table holding a bowl of pink roses. Sunlight streams on to the chair through an open window flanked by a brown patterned curtain. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L.R. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil and watercolour, on sheet folded to 233 x 184 mm, with pencil wording on draughting paper overlay

Date: 2006 - 2007

By: Accident Rehabilitation & Compensation Insurance Corporation (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-ACC-2006/2007

Description: Includes: 2006: Take Five; Safety NZ Week. Take five for safety this week, 13-19 August [2006?] 2007: Fatigue is one of the biggest dangers on the road for truck drivers [ca 2007] Keep safe when getting in and out of your truck. ACC 4332, printed November 2007 "I can cope with pain, I gave birth three times .. but this pain was 10 out of 10" - Linzi Littlewood, full-time mum [2007] "I haven't changed, life is what you make it". Tama Randel, IT Support "I know someone who thought I was made for wanting to work, but I hated being at home". Jackie Hutchings, nurse [2007] "I like work, I don't like sitting round doing nothing". Dale Watene, truck driver [2007] (2 copies) "If you don't speak English, it's not a barrier. ACC can help you, just as they helped me". Gafa Faitotoa, senior social worker (2 copies) "It's not easy changing people's attitudes towards the risk of injury. We've found it's best to talk face to face". Helen Tunstall, sports science manager [2007] (2 copies) Denzil Williams, Jammed Fingers Defender [2007] Eileen Hall, Elderly Hazard Eliminator [2007] Mark Laughton, Stride Safe DJ [2007] Rob Millard, Lawn Mowing Earmuff Enforcer [2007] Your recovery ... covered. ACC 2632, February 2007 (2 copies) Quantity: 13 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters around 595 x 425 mm.

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-079

Description: Photographs relating to hospitals, arranged alphabetically from ME to W, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Includes images related to hospitals: Kimberley, Lake Alice, Calvary, Central Park, Lewisham; and convalescent homes: Kairangi and Greytown. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [ca 1914-1919]

From: Williams, David Owen, 1896-1949 :Photographs relating to Williams' service during World War I

Reference: PAColl-9521

Description: Photographs relating to service of David Owen Williams during World War I as a Second Lieutenant with the Machine Gun Corps, including his convalscence at Brockenhurst Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1955

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1954 to 1960]

Reference: C-076-050

Description: Four scenes depicting Lodge as a hospital patient Publication - Published on 7 Sep 1955, page 4 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 185 x 610 mm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-044

Description: Design for a get-well card shows a bluebird flying over a garden past an ornamental fountain, with a background of trees. In the left foreground is a group of tulips. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - L.R. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Gouache, on sheet folded to 233 x 184 mm, with pencil wording on draughting paper overlay

Date: 1918

From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005: Collection

Reference: 1/2-170289-F

Description: Photographer unidentified.Taken outside the Brockenhurst convalescence centre for wounded troops in Hampshire, England. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).