Athletes - New Zealand

Date: 2005 - 2008

Reference: OHColl-1326

Description: Oral history interviews conducted by Nicola Robertson, Jan Lane, Roxane Gajadhar and Jackie Hunter-Letham with important figures in the New Zealand skiing industry on the history of skiing in New Zealand. Project recevied an award in oral history, 2006. Quantity: 24 audiocassette(s). 11 Interview(s). Search dates: 2005 - 2008

Date: 1924-1946

From: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9721-17

Description: Two athletes, George Kingston and Andy Mercer, with unidentified man, ca 1924. New Zealand Olympic team, 1936. Oxford University group photographs include - Magdalen College ball, June 1924. Rhodes scholars, 1925. Students of Magdalen College, 1925 and 1926. Vincento Club, 1925 and 1926. Formal dinner events include - Oxford and Cambridge versus Princeton and Cornell universities dinner, 10 July 1926. Wanganui Collegiate Old Boys Association dinner, July 1931. British Games dinner, 1935. One unidentified formal dinner. Hospital groups include - Resident medical officers at St Mary's Hospital, London, 1928 and 1932. Surgical staff at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 25 October 1946. The photographs in this collection were loose prints in album PA1-o-1647. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by the Hon Mrs Joanna Meredith-Hardy, London, England, in 2009

Date: 1980

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[33 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in 1980.]

Reference: A-130-059

Description: Cartoon shows a runner with an Olympic flame, reaching the crest of a hill, which is also the shoulder of a hooded skull and is labelled Afghanistan. This implies that the achievement may be an empty one. Because of Russia's involvement in the Afghanistan war, and American-British calls for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, the New Zealand government withdrew its support for the athletes' team to go there. Other Titles - May Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 195 x 295 mm.

Date: 1949-1962

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PA1-q-1144

Description: Amateur athletes and amateur athletic sports, with Eric Warner in many of the events. Includes - Wellington Technical College sports, 1949. W C (N I) Centre Championships at Whanganui, 17 February 1962. All of the other athletic events recorded, took place at Otorohanga, Raetihi, and Waimate, from 1954 to 1960. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1958-1962

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PA1-q-1145

Description: Amateur athletes, amateur athletic sports, and visiting professionals Includes - People at the Raetihi Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club's annual prize-giving ceremony, ca 1958. International athletes sponsored by Agfa, training at Raetihi on 25 January 1962. Those in the photographs are Albie Thomas (Australia) and Bruce Tulloh (Britain). W C (N I) Centre Championships at Whanganui, 17 February 1962. Rangataua Easter Sports, 1962. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1980

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[33 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in 1980.]

Reference: A-130-058

Description: Cartoon shows two young sports fan in sweatshirts, talking over drinks, about whether or not New Zealand athletes should go to Russia. Because of Russia's involvement in the Afghanistan war, and American-British calls for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, the New Zealand government withdrew its support for the athletes' team to go there. Other Titles - May Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 210 x 127 mm.

Date: 2008

By: New Zealand Olympic Committee

Reference: Eph-E-SPORT-2008-01

Description: A poster showing portraits of all the athletes, sportsmen and women who competed in the Olympic Games (29th Olympiad) in China. Also includes 24 members of the athletes' support teams. Sports represented were: Aquatics & swimming, synchronised swimming, athletics, badminton, women's basketball, canoe/kayak, cycling, equestrian, men's football, women's football, men's hockey, women's hockey, rowing, sailing, shooting, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon and weightlifting. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the publisher, 2008.

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989-:Nine cartoons by Lodge on the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Reference: A-349-053

Description: A view from the Olympic stadium where a row of commentators are sitting, watching the New Zealand athletes in the opening ceremony. Behind the athletes walks a group of others, holding a sign that reads 'NZ Olympic selectors unfair to NZ athletes' New Zealand's Games selectors decided that an athlete had to be able to finish in the top half of their field to gain selection Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Nevile Lodge 76 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and letratone, 180 x 320 mm on sheet 254 x 380 mm

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989-:Nine cartoons by Lodge on the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Reference: A-349-055

Description: A scene showing a group of sportsmen marching up to the door of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, holding a protest banner demanding full compensation for injured NZ athletes. Muldoon announces the Government's new 'Sporting Disincentive Scheme', in which any athlete injured overseas will get a full disability pension and $5000 lump sum compensation ... unless they are injured in South Africa, in which case they will get nothing Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nevile Lodge 76 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and whiteout, on sheet 305 x 380 mm

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989-:Nine cartoons by Lodge on the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Reference: A-349-056

Description: Shows a scene in an African village. Two men stand looking on at a witch doctor, who wears a terrifying mask and sits shaking a bone over a simmering cauldron Context: 28 African countries boycotted the Montreal Games as a result of the IOC's refusal to ban New Zealand, whose national rugby union team had toured South Africa earlier in 1976. The Committee's refusal was based on the grounds that rugby is not an Olympic sport Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Nevile Lodge 76 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and whiteout, 255 x 320 mm on sheet 305 x 385 mm

Date: 2000

From: Hubbard, Jim 1949-:47 original cartoons published variously in the Dominion, Bay of Plenty Times, Hawke's Bay Today, Southland Times during 2000.

Reference: A-350-063

Description: Shows a man, representing New Zealand, crawling through the desert, in desperate need of water. Behind him is a sign reading 'Gold medal desert'. The cartoon uses the name Waddell as a play on words for water, referring to the fact that Rob Waddell was the only athlete to secure a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Jim Hubbard; Verso - top right - Hawke's Bay Today 23 Sept 2000 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and marker pen drawing, 230 x 315 mm on sheet 300 x 420 mm

Date: 2007, 2011, [ca 2014], 2016

From: Colquhoun, David, 1951-2018: Research papers

Reference: Series-6853

Description: Research material created or compiled by David Colquhoun for a biography of New Zealand athlete George Smith. Comprises analogue and digital material and includes research notes; correspondence; genealogical data; and photographs and copies of archival material such as newspaper articles, photographs, certificates, scrapbooks, and sporting publications. Also includes draft chapters of the biography. Some of the material was compiled on a research trip by Colquhoun to the United Kingdom in 2014. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Analogue material received in a box labelled "Smith | Biog articles | family history | UK visit stuff". Some material was loose in the box and some was received in folders. Digital material received in a number of sub-folders which were within a digital folder called "David Colquhoun Smith research". Quantity: 419 digital photograph(s). 113 Electronic document(s). 90 digital image(s). 14 folder(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1982

By: Missen & Geard (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-INTERNATIONAL-NZMFA

Description: Includes: Contemporary New Zealand painting (shows works by Robert Mcleod, Rick Killeen, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Ian Scott, Bill Sutton, Tony Fomison, Pat Hanly, Brent Wong) New Zealand agriculture and horticulture New Zealand crafts. Photographs by Brian Brake from the book "Craft New Zealand". New Zealand sports (includes photographs of runner John Walker, tennis player Chris Lewis, rugby and cricket players in action, and many other sports (21 photos in all) New Zealand writers (with photos of Frank Sargeson, Denis Glover, Katherine mansfield, Allen Curnow, Maurice Gee, Patricia Grace, James K Baxter, Janet Frame, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Shadbolt, Ngaio Marsh, Joy Cowley) Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 755 x 500 mm.

Date: 1974

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-062

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicting a Commonwealth Games official in front of a "Games Village" sign kicking into the air a New Zealand athlete, Dick Quax, wearing a black singlet, who has one foot bandaged and holds a notebook labelled "Inside story" and a pencil. Title caption reads "New high jump record - disallowed - foot assisted". Relates to Dick Quax being evicted from the Commonwealth Games village in 1974 for writing an unsanctioned newspaper article. Quax was not able to run in the Games as a result of a foot injury. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, white paint, within printed Ronken frame, 210 x 250mm. Printing notes in blue biro.

Date: [ca 1936]-1974

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10049-4

Description: Includes - Cricket team, Elmwood School, Christchurch, 1930s. Group of electric flash bulbs. New Zealand athletes at the Empire Games, Auckland, 1950. A public seat decorated with advertisments, late 1940s. View of Wellington Harbour. Public event at the Wellington Cenotaph. Golf players, Waiouru, ca 1930s. Coloured photograph showing 19th century imperial troops and a Maori warrior. Cricketers in action (doulble exposure). A chimpanzee and elephant (possibly at Wellington Zoo). Beer tankers outside the Tramway Hotel, Newtown, Wellington. View of New Zealand Post Office's new workshops at Lower Hutt. Photographs recording Lord Louis Mountbatten and the delegates at the British Commonwealth Ex-Services League conference, Wellington, 2-8 February 1974. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1925]-1998

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PAColl-10051-10

Description: Includes - Adults running a two-legged race in the countryside. Location and event not identified, ca 1920s. Large group of men with a shield trophy lined up on a football ground. Location unidentified, ca 1930s. Unidentified woman athlete holding the Walter Warner Memorial Perpetual Challenge Cup for amateur athletics and cycling, 1962. New Zealand woman athlete with Clair Stewart, Mayor of New Plymouth, 11 May 1998. Group photographs of mainly junior members of the Kaikohe Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, 1970s. Photographs and letters sent to Eric Warner from Canada by Allan Klenman. Young women lined up at benches in a domestic science classroom, 1920s. Photographs and documents relating to Orautoha and Pukekaha schools. Group of photographs taken at the Ruatiti, Orautoha, and Pukekaha schools reunion, 1983. Orautoha School Reunion, 1958 Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). 9 b&w copy photographic print(s). 40 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1964-1999

From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9414-8

Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. Included are - New Zealand junior swimming team, Australian tour, 1964. New Zealand team to Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh, 1986. Team to Pacific School Games, Sydney, 1988. Swimming team to Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956. Unidentified team with a soccer ball. Swimming New Zealand national development camps, October 1999. Swimming New Zealand national development camp, October 1998. Team to Tip Top Australian Swimming Championships, Adelaide, April 1998. Team to Tip Top Australian National Age Group Swimming Championships, Hobart 1999. New Zealand team to Olympic Games, Sydney 2000. Swimming and diving team to Olympic Games, Montreal, 1976. Swimming New Zealand logos. Unidentified group. Participants in swimming event, New Plymouth 1968. Graphic portrait of Rowland St Clair. Quantity: 10 colour original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 electronic scan(s).

Date: 1911-1992

From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9414-4

Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. These include - New Zealand women swimmers, Olympic Games, Antwerp, 1920. Competitors and officials at the first junior and intermediate championships, Wanganui, 1918. Swimming team to Australia, 1964. Swimming team for Commonwealth Games, Christchurch, 1974. Australian Pan Pacific Schools team, November 1984. Swimming team to Tasmania and Australia, 1964. New Zealand team to Brisbane, 1961. Coaching schools, Hamilton, late 1950s. New Zealand team to FNIA Swimming World Cup, 1992. Swimming team to Australia, 1962. Swimming Team to Canada, 1969. Individual portraits of swimmers and other people involved with swimming. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association conference delegates, Wellington, 1911. Swimming team to the British Empire Games, Cardiff, 1958. Swimming team, Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1984. Unidentified swimming events, probably late 1990s. Swimming team to British Empire Games, Sydney 1938. New Zealand swimming team 1926. Swimming team to British Empire Games, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1930. International group of swimmers at the Olympic Games, Antwerp, 1920. New Zealand and touring Canadian swimming teams, 1971. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association conference, Christchurch, probably late 1930s. Swimmers for the New Zealand Games, Christchurch, 1975. Swimming team, Olympic Games, Mexico City, 1968. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association conference, 1954. Swimming team in Australia, 1978. Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s). 48 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950-2002

From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9414-10

Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. Included are - Team for Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000. New Zealand team for Commonwealth Games, Manchester, 2002. New Zealand team for Olympic Games, Montreal, 1976. Team for the British Empire Games, Auckland, 1950. Team to Australian National Diving Championships, 1977. Under 18 water polo team 1981. Schoolgirls water polo team 1985. Schoolboys water polo team 1985. Water polo team 1950. Diving team to World age Group Diving Championships, Hamilton, New Zealand, August 1983. Team to National Age Swimming Championships, Hobart 1974. Gold medalists, British Empire Games, Auckland 1950. Swimming team to British Empire Games, Vancouver, Canada, 1954. Teams to New Zealand Summer Games, Christchurch 1981. Swimming New Zealand Development Camp North, October 1998. Swimmer Jonathan Winter from unidentified Newspaper. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-301

Description: Shows four vignettes: a New Zealand runner at the back of the pack of international runners; a New Zealand sprinter training against the stopwatch; two spectators at an athletics meeting that has been rained out; and two runners slipping in the mud as the starter's gun goes off. Other Titles - New Zealand Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink letratone 432 x 292 mm, on sheet 482 x 312 mm.