Sarawak

Date: 1930

By: Cheng, Seah Neo, active 1930

Reference: MS-Papers-5138

Description: Contains Seah Neo Cheng's New Zealand Insurance Company policy for the insurance of a shop and lodging house in Miri Bazaar, Sarawak, dated 13 Jan 1930. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Provenance: Purchased by State Library of Victoria at a auction at Phillips, London, as part of a lot of material. Forwarded to the Alexander Turnbull Library as it was not something the State Library of Victoria wanted to keep.

Date: [ca 1960]-[ca 1969]

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-28

Description: Pacific photographs are mainly of unidentified images of people and events in Fiji. There is at least one image relating to Tahiti, and a small group possibly of New Guinea. Toba Lake in north Sumatra Floods in Sarawak. Students at a work camp, a steet market, and a church at Nakorn Pathorn, Thailand. Tibet and Nepal are represented by images relating to aid and support for Tibeten refugees, and the construction of an unidentified building. A group of images from Taiwan document the salt workers of Putai who suffer from the blackfoot disease contracted from working barefoot in the salt pans. Photographs from the United States include politicians and church personalities; church welfare and other projects within different parts of the United States; Church buildings and Oral Robert's University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970-1980

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7088

Description: Views of Temple, Singapore. Views of Sarawak. On the way to Tauranga. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1990

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons drawn 1980-1990, mainly for periodical publications].

Reference: C-136-031

Description: Shows a cartoon strip of features in a rainforest in Sarawak, with pictures of an orang-utan, rafflesia, pitcher plant, cannonball fruit, rhinocerous hornbill, and the nomadic Penans people. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, on sheet 446 x 640 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

Date: 1941-1952

By: Noakes, John Lyle, 1907-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-2255

Description: Statements by internees and nominal rolls of prisoners-of-war at Kuching Camp; correspondence re war internees and Sarawak politics (1942-1952); reports on defence of Sarawak (1941) and land administration (1946). Also pamphlets and newspaper cuttings. Source of title - Supplied title Noakes, Secretary of Defence in Sarawak, interned at Kuching Camp during Japanese occupation of Sarawak, 1941-1945 Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts (some carbon copies) and printed matter Processing information: Child records need to be described

Date: 1966, 1970

By: Weir, James Harrison, 1922-2012; Andrew, Earle William, 1909-1986

Reference: PAColl-3707

Description: Show Sir Bernard Fergusson visiting NZ troops in Sarawak in June 1966, during the Indonesian "confrontation" of Malaysia, and arriving at Changi Air force Base, Singapore, after the visit. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to islands, tourism, politics and life in the Pacific Ocean]

Reference: Eph-A-PACIFIC-1960s-01

Description: Includes postcards of: Sea Dayak beauties, Sarawak (5 girls) Sea Dayak beauty, Kuching/ Sarawak Sea Dayak beauties, Sarawak (3 girls) Sea Dayak beauties, Kuching / Sarawak (2 girls) Bathing beauties of Kuching / Sarawak (5 girls) Sea Dayak beauty, Kuching / Sarawak Sea Dayak beauties, Kuching / Sarawak (2 girls) Sea Dayak Beauty, Kuching / Sarawak Sea Dayak maidens, Kuching, Sarawak (3 girls) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklet, 101 x 233 mm.

Date: 24 Feb 2008

From: Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers in the 60s and 70s oral history project

By: Glensor, Peter Edwin, 1950-; Broadbent, Adele, active 2005-2008

Reference: OHInt-0912-06

Description: Interview with Peter Glensor, born in Lower Hutt in 1950. Talks about growing up in Upper Hutt, having a bad relationship with his father, and his mother dying when he was 17. Discusses being sent to Sarawak as a VSA school leaver volunteer where he taught for a year in a government school. Refers to his main job running a transition class from Chinese to English with 45 10-11 year olds. Mentions the population were a mix of Chinese, indigenous tribal people, Malay and Indian. Talks about weekend and holiday trips up river to visit students and staying in long houses. Comments on the time being a transformative experience for him. Comments on returning home to a stepmother, not connecting with former schoolmates, teaming up with a Minister's family and marrying the Minister's daughter Cheryl Olds. Discusses getting involved with CORSO and working as its youth secretary. Mentions training as a Methodist minister after he finished his degree, joining a radical splinter group, and attending a World Council of Churches meeting in Africa. Refers to spending five years in Masterton as a minister which he found hard, then a year in Petone with a Samoan/Tongan congregation. Outlines his growing radical political involvement with the National Council of Churches, Christian World Service, the VSA council, Council for Interntational Development, CORSO and other groups. Comments on working as a community worker in Pomare and also setting up the Waitangi Consultancy Group. Refers to parting company with Cheryl in 1992, and starting a community health service that year. Outlines his political activities, and marrying Joan Skinner in 1999. Refers to being "addicted to social change, social justice", and his current roles of chair of the Hutt Valley District Health Board, deputy chair of the Wellington Regional Council and chairman of the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council. Refers to his children and grandchildren. Interviewer(s) - Adele Broadbent Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022025 - OHC-022026 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.38 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7369. Search dates: 1950 - 2008

Date: 17 May 2005

From: Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers in the 60s and 70s oral history project

By: Buchanan, Andrew Hamilton, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0912-01

Description: Interview with Andy (Andrew) Buchanan about serving as a VSA school leaver volunteer in Sarawak in 1967. Interviewer(s) - Liz Grant Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDT-0438 - OHDT-0439 Quantity: 2 DAT tape(s). 1 folder(s) - agreement form and interviewee information form only. 1 interview(s). 2.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available form folder OHA-7286. Search dates: 1948 - 2005

Date: 1887

By: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: E-022-q

Description: Original sketches made to illustrate Lady Annie Brassey's book The last voyage, 1886-1887, published by Longmans, 1889. Sketches made in Port Said, Australia, Burma, Sarawak, Borneo, Singapore and India. Also includes sketches of the ship `Sunbeam' in which the voyage was undertaken. Includes a numbered list of contents in the hand of Alexander Turnbull The original blue morocco-bound case in which this sketchbook was acquired is alongside it on the shelf The voyage departed from England, via Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Port Said, Aden, India, Sri Lanka, Rangoon in Burma, Singapore, Sarawak in Borneo, Macassar in the Celebes, Lombok, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, through Torres Strait, across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, via the Cape to the eastern Atlantic and back to England Pritchett was an English illustrator who visited the Pacific and Australia in the 1880s Quantity: 92 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, and ink and wash sketches, on sheets 305 x 207 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Alexander Turnbull. Inside front cover includes his small bookplate 'From the collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, Wellington New Zealand'. There is also a list of contents in his hand at the front of the volume. An associated copy of Annie Brassey's book The last voyage of Lady Brassey (1889), given to Robert Pritchett and annotated by him was acquired by Alexander Turnbull, and it appears likely that these drawings were purchased at the same time.

Date: 1888-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2805

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1955-1977

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7117

Description: Thai classical dancers. Robyn Croft and Frank Cross in La Source pas de deaux, His Majesty's Theatre, 1967. Chief dancing, Skrang River, Sarawak, Malaysia, 1975. Portraits of Joy Thomas, 1955. Suai dancers, Dili, East Timor, 1973. Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1990

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons drawn 1980-1990, mainly for periodical publications].

Reference: C-136-030

Description: Shows a cartoon strip of features in a mangrove swamp in Sarawak, with pictures of a proboscis monkey, krait (snake), silverleaf langur, fiddler crab, mud skipper, archer fish, logging of mangroves in Bintuni Bay. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, on sheet 446 x 640 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

By: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907

Reference: E-022-q-020

Description: Looking across a river towards two large houses and several small huts. Published as a chromolithograph, with title Sarawak. Borneo. Opposite the Rajah's fort, in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, opposite page 148 Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image (in red ink) title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on sheet 305 x 207 mm.

Date: 1888-1936

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2733

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 29 Jan 1985 - 8 Feb 1985 - 08 Feb 1985

From: NZOHA New Zealand Computer Society Silver Jubilee Oral History Project

By: Williams, William Rawle, 1924-2008

Reference: OHInt-0093/02

Description: William Williams was born 10 Apr 1924 at Gisborne. Describes family background, childhood, education. Details career in the navy (1942-1970), starting as a midshipman, rising to commander, secondment to naval intelligence, move to Management Services and computers, Ministry of Defence, EDP division. Recalls handing back of Sarawak to the British Crown. Discusses the ICL 1902A, uses included for inventories, pay, scheduling ship re-fits. Speaks about characteristics of people in the computer industry, New Zealand Health Department, software company Progeni, Wanganui Computer Centre, computer legislation, current state of the industry. Details involvement with New Zealand Computer Society. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Williams' home in Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001542/001543/001544/001545 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0236. Search dates: 1924 - 1985

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

Reference: E-022-q-066-2

Description: Shows a river with a series of warning navigational signs in English, concerning rocks. Also shows a white ensign flag. On the right is an ornamental pillar Published in The last voyage of Lady Brassey (London, 1889) as a wood engraving, page 146 with the title Borneo beneath the picture and the words To Kuchin with an arrow above the picture. The artist has also added in ink, the words Kuchin River in his own copy of the book. Other Titles - To Kuchin. Kuching Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, on sheet 207 x 305 mm