Surveys (Documents)

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: Society for Research on Women: Records

Reference: 92-235-1

Description: Includes material relating to research regarding: -Māori Women's health, -unmarried women with children, -and employment research, including employers attitudes and women returning to work. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: In a box previously labelled by the Library "S.R.O.W. 92-235 1". Quantity: 1 box(es) containing 19 folders. Transfers: Papers removed from the box are at Library reference fMS-Papers-12938.. Processing information: Unit ID changed in February 2024 when this accession was fully processed. Previous Unit ID: 92-235. Not all names included in the collection have been indexed. Some papers have been separated for storage reasons.

Date: 1975

By: Mitcalfe, Barry, 1930-1986

Reference: MS-Papers-9925

Description: Report on opinion survey of 250 Turangi hosueholds comprising introduction, description of the survey and how it was conducted and evaluation of the survey Source of title - Supplied Survey conducted by Mitcalfe who was lecturer in Social Studies, Wellington Teachers College Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by D J Kelly, Wellington Teachers' College, Jun 1975

Date: 1935-1938

From: Turbott, Harold Bertram, 1899-1988 : Papers

Reference: 88-059-5/01

Description: Comprises typescripts, some annotated, regarding Māori housing and health. Papers included relate to a Māori housing survey, 1935, and survey summary of Māori dwellings in the South Auckland Health District, 1938. Also includes the original envelope for eight separated film negatives. Title supplied by Library. The Library also holds Dr Sylvester Maxwell Lambert’s 1938 report A Survey of the Maori situation (MS-Papers-9557). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: Negatives and prints have been separated from this item for preservation reasons. - Eight 116, 70mm film negatives - 35mm-116510 to 35mm-116517 - Prints and photographic ephemera, including an annotated envelope that reads "Lambert's photos". - PAColl-10760. Processing information: Folder was previously titled 'Maori housing - photographs'. Updated on 12 February 2021.

Date: 1977

By: Journeaux, Philip, active 1977

Reference: MS-Papers-10770

Description: The survey of Australian sedges was carried out by Journeaux as part of his initial training as a farm advisory officer. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate the Australian sedge subsidy scheme in an `on farm' sitaution and determine the state of knowledge and attitudes of farmers in nine counties north of Auckland on 120 randomly selected farms. the work was completed in 1977 Journeaux was a Farm Advisory officer with Ministry of Agriculture, Warkworth Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Processing information: Transferred from Serials, 1980

Date: 1925-1960

By: New Zealand Vocational Guidance Association

Reference: 82-086

Description: Quantity: 47 folder(s). 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Photographic Archive - A few photographs.

Date: 1964

By: Conradt, Robert Hugh, active 1964

Reference: qMS-0514

Description: Title continues:`...Traffic and transport - present and future' (Auckland, De Leuw, Cather, 1963?) Source of title - Caption title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (34 cm, pamphlet)

Date: 1942

From: Brew, Helen Jean, 1922-2013: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12211-029

Description: Survey compiled by Helen Butler (Brew) while at Christchurch Teachers Training College. Includes photographs, illustrations, and diagrams. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript. Includes original photographs, cuttings and original sketches and diagrams, Binding of cover has unusual metal rings.

Date: 1936-1977

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1196

Description: Writings by Dorothy Crozier and related papers, in particular her unpublished `Mariner's Tonga'; correspondence; course, conference and teaching papers; Pacific Islands social services survey project files; Tonga social services survey files; Western Pacific High Commission archives administration and working files and related publications. Source of title - Transcribed Crozier, an anthropologist, historian and archivist for the Fiji Central Archives and for the Western Pacific High Commission, researched and wrote extensively on Fiji and Tonga. Quantity: 13 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2003

Date: Jan-Jun 1845

Reference: MS-Papers-2790

Description: Summary population return for the parish of Waimate, Taranaki, from J Skevington Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1946

By: Willett, Richard Wright, 1912-1974

Reference: MS-Papers-10009

Description: Papers kept by Willett during the exploration to search for uranium Source of title - Supplied Team sent by the director of NZ Geological Survey, Sir Ernest Marsden to search for uranium in the Milford Sound area in 1946 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Charles Fleming, NZ Geological Survey, Lower Hutt, 1977

Date: [1880-1915]

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: 73-155

Description: Comprises papers relating to Buck's career as a surveyor mostly based in Lower Hutt and Wellington and including correspondence, surveying notes, many traverses sheets and related papers. Also includes some letters in Maori, from Moeraki and Otaki, from persons concerned about wrongly sent and received accounts. Also includes five letters in Maori (Kai Tahu dialect) (1) informing the receiver of the arrival of a carpenter's bill, and the writer's intent to pursue the matter with a lawyer; (2) expressing concern about the management and use of land at Otaki; (3) details a court case involving stolen money. Wiles is asked to confirm that he sent £50 to the person from whom it was stolen; (4) reports progress of this case and asks Wiles to attend; and (5) discusses difficulties in attending case because of bereavement and associated costs Language - Four letters from Moeraki in Kai Tahu dialect; one from Otaki (all re accounts problems) and other papers in Maori Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0540 for letters from Buck Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1972-1983

By: New Zealand Library Association. Special Libraries and Information Services Section. Wellington Chapter

Reference: 89-001

Description: Comprises survey of government department libraries (1973-1980); Special Libraries' Section membership files (1978-1983); minutes of the Wellington chapter and attendance sheets (1972-1980) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further NZLA and NZLIA records Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1945-1946

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department. Aerodromes Branch

Reference: MS-Papers-5555

Description: Comprises report of survey in World War II by Aerodromes Services Branch of Public Works Department to the Auckland and Campbell islands between 1941 and 1945. The report gives the background to the expedition, describes radio communication, survey work, harbours, Campbell Is meteorological station, and flights to Auckland and Campbell islands. A history of the islands is given, a description of the geology, vegetation and wild life, meteorological tables, coastwatching instructions and personnel. Also included are photographs taken by members of the expedition and from the Turnbull Library collections. The expedition was basically a coastwatching exercise; `the men had to be volunteers, discreet, loyal, with nerves good enough to stand an encounter with a hostile landing party armed with machine guns or the prospect of being marooned on an uninhabited island...' Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (photocopy) Photographs and maps in the text are not very clear as they are photocopies of an earlier photocopying process

Date: 1944-1994

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1172

Description: Comprise administrative papers and publications of the Micronesia Support Committee and papers on its campaigns for political independence in Micronesia and for a nuclear-free and de-militarised Pacific. Includes: documentation and commentary on Micronesian political status negotiations, agreements and compacts 1969-1984; files on the militarization of Micronesia 1973-1986; files on the effects of nuclear tests in the Pacific 1944-1984; and on waste dumping, health and education. The research potential of the collection is strengthened by Johnson's informed selection of press articles from a range of newspapers and periodicals. Source of title - Transcribed Giff Johnson, a professional journalist, helped form the Micronesia Support Committee in Honolulu in 1975 and edited its journal until the Committee merged with the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre in 1983. Quantity: 17 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2002

Date: 1952-1991

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1182

Description: Official and unofficial correspondence; published and unpublished articles, reports and conference papers; survey and research records on tuberculosis; lecture notes on public health and papers of the TB Control Unit in PNG; records of District Medical Officers' conferences; annual reports of the Department of Public Health; papers re Medical Society of Papua New Guinea and Papua and New Guinea Scientific Society; reports on the development of conservation areas and parks. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 6 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1996-2001, 2005

By: Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940-

Reference: MS-Group-0786

Description: Comprises draft and incomplete, annotated, chronological bibliographies of (1) New Zealand utopian literature, supplementary to `British and American utopian literature' (1988); (2) New Zealand, list of intentional communities and (3) Australian utopian literature, supplementary to `British and American utopian literature' (1988) Also includes paper on Beeville presented at the 6th International Communal Studies Association meeting (Amsterdam, 7-9 Jul 1998); article by unknown person on `Ohu, utopias in a paradise lost?' Also includes file mainly relating to email communications with Chippenham Community, Christchurch, list of intentional communities visited by Lucy Sargisson and correspondence file relating to essay and bibliography Sargent was compiling on ohu; also outward letters to communities prior to preparation of a research guide to them; essay, `Utopianism and the creation of New Zealand's national identity' (2001); `The Dissemination of utopian literature from England to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States' (2001); files of papers relating to Centrepoint Community, and Culdian Trust Also includes a photocopy and transcript of Thomas Campbell's poem `Song of the emigrants in New Zealand' and research material relating to Campbell (2006) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.14 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (photocopies) and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Prof Lyman T Sargent, St Louis, Missouri, June 1996; A99-022 donated by Professor L T Sargent, Norwich, 1999; A2001-161 and A2001-177 donated by Prof L T Sargent, Missouri, USA, May and Jun 2001; A2001-202, donated Jun 2001; A2001-254, Aug 2001; A2002-006, Dec 2001; A2004-030, A2004-040, donated by Professor Sargent, Wellington, Feb, May 2004; A2006-038, Feb 2006;

Date: 1984-1990

From: Votes for Peace : Records

Reference: 90-170-03

Description: Records of the Votes for Peace Movement, comprising correspondence, surveys, newsletters, financial and administrative records. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter.

Date: 1981-1987

From: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12787-03

Description: Folder contains correspondence received and written by Women's National Abortion Action Campaign between 1981 and 1987. Correspondence writters include organisation members, High school and university students and politicians. Also includes copies of letters written by the organisation and a pre-election political candidate survery and politican responses, relating to the 1987 General Election. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived at Library in a file box labelled "WONAAC correspondence sorted by decade 1970s-2009" and a section labelled "Wonaac Correspondence 1980s". Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1966-1969

By: Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MS-Papers-6527

Description: Includes survey returns from local history societies, local government offices and other agencies; includes listing of organisations contacted, completed questionnaires, some correspondence and newsletters, and other papers Source of title - Supplied The survey was administered by Margareta Hickman in the Reference Section, ATL, to attempt to locate local historical societies and related interest groups in the community Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [ca 1970's]

From: Scott, Carol (Mrs), fl 2014: Papers relating to the Society for Research on Women

Reference: MS-Papers-11693-2

Description: Papers relating to surveys carried out by SROW on unmarried mothers and factors influencing their decision about adaption, and on women caring for dependent relatives. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript