Red Cross and Red Crescent - New Zealand

Date: 2007-2008

By: McMahon, Jennifer A (Dr), active 2009

Reference: MSX-8290

Description: Bound volume is an unpublished printed manuscript assembled and edited by Dr Jenny McMahon and Marion Picken. Material covers 1960-2008 and comprises individual stories by New Zealand Red Cross Delgates of their missions overseas. Each story is accompanied by photographs, and a seperate series of photographic essays is included at the end of the book. Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - Not just an ordinary job - Memories from NZRC international delegates Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms J McMahon, Otago, Feb 2009

Date: 1906-1983

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-5636-2

Description: Collection comprising photographs relating to Waipawa from circa 1906 to 1983, taken by various photographers. Includes photographs of the following: Ruataniwha Street and the Bibby store, taken by an unidetified photographer circa 1880s; St Peter's Anglican Church, taken 1906; Waipawa rail bridge, taken 1908 and 1910; Waipawa School and students dressed for a pageant, 1913; Formal portrait of the Waipawa Scouts, some of whom are named verso, taken circa 1915; Waipawa Junior Football Club, taken 1917; Waipawa peace celebrations, taken 1919; Opening of the Waipawa War Memorial, and Governor General Lord Jellicoe's visit, taken July 1922; Aerial view of Waipawa, taken 1948 by Whites Aviation; Waipawa School reunion portraits for years 1902-1912 and 1909-1919, taken circa 1950s; Waipawa District High School reunion for classes from 1910-1942, taken 1983. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1970s-1980s]

From: Rowling, Wallace Edward, 1927-1995 :Official photographs

Reference: PAColl-9589-2

Description: Includes photographs of Red Cross Conference in September 1974; Trip to Antarctica; Opening of Richmond Coal Store in Rowling's Electorate; Campaigning in Northland 1980; Visit of Lee Kwan Yeu Prime Minister of Singapore; Visit to Paris, France; Visit to North Sea Oil Rig (Aberdeen); Laying foundation stone at the Invercargill Railway Station 1975; Visit of Crown Prince and Princess of Japan; Visit to Iran 1973 Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). 20 colour original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets.

Date: [ca 1907]-1986

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10049-1

Description: Includes - Peat relations in England, ca 1907. Don Peat as a small boy with girl companion. Scout troup, Merivale, Christchurch, 1937. World War one field gun on Observatory reserve, Botanic Garden, Wellington. Portrait of Walter Nash. Barque `Parmir,' 1940s. Ship `Wanganella' when wrecked on Barrett Reef, Wellington harbour, 1947. Liner `Strathmore' at Wellington wharves. HMS `Wizard' (R72) in Wellington Harbour ca 1945. View of a bush fire and a collapsed viaduct. View of Wellington railway yards and harbour, ca 1938. Hotel Waterloo, Wellington, ca 1940. Last tram to Newtown tram barnes outside Wellington Railway Station. Views of Manners and Victoria streets, Wellington, 1986. Prime Minister David Lange at a social event, 1980s. Views of Cairo and Egypt, World War Two. Group of unidentified native soldiers, World War Two. Padre at trentham Military Camp, 1940. Soldiers of the First Echelon protesting at Parliament, Wellington, World War Two. Men waiting to greet returning soldiers, world War Two. Field Marshall Montgomery visiting Wellington. Men training in first aid and rescue work at Paekakariki (probably organised by the Red Cross). The same men recieving a flag from a padre among sand dunes and lupins. Men boxing. Damaged austin motorcar, 1930s. New Zealand National Airways Corporation aircraft. Nurses having a celebration meal. Groups of women wearing Red Cross uniforms, and other groups holding trophies and competing in first aid practice, ca late 1940s/1950s. Portraits of Arnold Nordmeyer. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936-1981

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10049-3

Description: Includes - Women in uniform, 1940s (probably tram conductors). Aerial view of an unidentified industrial instalation. Don Peat with furniture salvaged from the Waimakariri River floods, 24 July 1936. HMS Achilles, ca 1940. The barque Pamir. The ship, Dominion Monarch at Wellington wharves. The ship, Empress of Britain at Wellington wharves. Aerial view of a large aircraft carrier and two other war ships. Lockheed Starlifter aircraft, Wellington, ca 1966. Group of Nurses and doctors. Rajkumari Amril Kaur at a Red Cross event, New Zealand, 19 March 1959. Group at a dance or ball associated with the Red Cross, late 1940s. Meeting of the Men's Detachment of the New Zealand Red Cross, late 1940s. Building demolition, Wellington, 1970s. A first aid team on a demolition site, Wellington, 1970s. View of Wellington looking north from above Salamanca Road, 1967. Male Red Cross volunteers at first aid practice at Days Bay, Paekakariki, and the Hutt river, 1950s. Demonstration of apparatus for sterilising medical implements. Group of nurses and a skeleton. Nurses at Wellington Hospital lining a roadway to greet Queen Elizabeth II, 1953/1954. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Government House, Wellington, 1981. The Cathay Theatre and staff, Singapore, ca 1948. Wellington City Council administative building, and an aerial view of Wellinton city and wharves, 1970s. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).