Wrist watches

Date: 1952-1953

From: Riddiford family: Harold Earle Riddiford papers relating to Garhwal Himalaya and Everest Reconnaissance

Reference: MS-Papers-12631-20

Description: Contains inward correspondence to Harold Earle Riddiford, 1952 to 1953. Correspondents include Noel Ewart Odell, Harry J Stevenson, Ronald Macmillan Algie, Harry Ayres, Keki Bunshah, and Cecil Hugh Tyndall-Biscoe. Includes inward and outward correspondence with New Zealand Customs and Rolex regarding a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch worn on the1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. Also correspondence with representatives of the Royal Geographical Society (E E T Day, Mumford) and The Himalayan Club (J Henderson, A R Leyden). There is also a memorandum from the Wellington Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club regarding a lecture by Edmund Percival Hillary. Photography is the subject of a number of letters. One letter from The Himalayan Club relates to the payment of Pasang Dawa Lama. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Material arrived at the Library in box "2" in a clear plastic sleeve with a note in pencil reading "1952 Letters ([54] Pasang " and "Done". A further note in blue ink describes the letters as "Correspondence to Earle Riddiford| H.J. Stevenson, Harry Ayres, Hugh T.B. Algie etc." A second peice of coloured note paper, with a printed illustration of three women and the text "Ladies wot Lunch" has "Pasang| Odell| Letters" written in black ink. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript Processing information: Not all names associated with this item are indexed.

Date: 1951-1956

From: Riddiford family: Harold Earle Riddiford papers relating to Garhwal Himalaya and Everest Reconnaissance

Reference: MS-Papers-12631-28

Description: Contains inward personal and business correspondence to Harold Earle Riddiford between1951 and 1956. Subjects include mountaineering, finances, postage and customs, watches, and photography. Letters are mostly written from New Zealand, but some correspondents are in Nepal, India, Switzerland, Australia, and England. Correspondents include Ian Ogilvie Gibbs, Cliff Holdsworth, Harry J Stevenson, Cecil Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Marcel Kurz, Harry Ayres, W M Taylor, Richard Jackson, Noel Ewert Odell, Rolex, Archie (Scott, Aitken & Cox Stock and Share Brokers), Alan Forrest Reid, Cliff Holdsworth, Jim Thornton, Henry Genese, Peter Aufschnaiter, Frank Cook (Canberra Alpine Club), R W Lloyd (Himalayan Committee), and New Zealand Alpine Journal, Canterbury Mountaineering Club, and New Zealand Alpine Club. There are typescript copies of outward correspondence to John Farquhar Findlay regarding Antarctic Expedition. Also includes telegrams congratulating Riddiford and his wife Rosemary Riddiford on the occasion of their wedding in 1954. Also telegrams relating to other events, including mountaineering and travel. One telegram is from Riddiford's mother, Helen Josephine Tytherleigh Nicholl. Title taken from item. Arrangement: Material arrived at the Library in box "3" in a clear plastic sleeve with a note in pencil reading "Correspondence 1954-56" which is annoted in ink to read "To Earle R, 1953, Personal & Mountaineering". Split into two folders due to volume of material. Folder one of two. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter Processing information: Not all names associated with this item are indexed.

Date: 1952 - 1962

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-027

Description: Quantity: 3 drawing(s) on one sheet, two on recto, one on verso. Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 373 x 264 mm

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-100

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - artist's notes on colour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 178 x 127 mm

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-038

Description: Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet, one on recto, one on verso. Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 508 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 3 Mar 1958]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-8557-32

Description: New Zealand's Prime Minister Walter Nash, while visiting Sydney, Australia. The watch on his right arm is set at New Zealand time, and the one on the left, carries the time of his host country. Photograph taken circa 3 March 1958, by an unidentified photographer. Other - Published in the Evening Post 3 March 1958 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.5 x 20.5 cm

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0016130

Description: Two versions of this cartoon show a Rolex wrist watch with 'To Sir E Hillary' in its rim. The text turns 'auction' to 'action'. Refers to the Ministry of Culture and Hertiage preventing Lady June Hillary for auctioning the watch the belonged to Sir Edmund Hillary. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).