Law - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1981 - 1989

By: Community Law Projects Aotearoa

Reference: Eph-D-LAW-1980s-01

Description: Includes posters: Legal ages /Community Law Projects Aotearoa (2 copies); Been fined? / Produced by the Justice Department and the Wellington Community Law Centre; Get age-wize!! / Community Law projects Aotearoa. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters..

Date: 1997-2001

By: Hutt Community Law Centre

Reference: MS-Papers-9126

Description: Correspondence, financial projections, legal opinions and discussion papers relating to the setting up of the Centre Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 9-10 May 1997

By: O'Regan, Catherine Lily, 1914-2002

Reference: OHColl-0465/1

Description: Catherine O'Regan was born in Wellington on 6 Apr 1914. Gives details of her family background including Irish ancestry on her mother's side. Recalls visiting her grandmother on the West Coast. Describes growing up in Island Bay with her mother, father and stepbrothers and stepsister. Describes her father's work building bridges. Recalls attending primary school at St Madeleine Sophie. Describes in detail attending Sacre Coeur (later Erskine College) where she was a boarder. Discusses attitudes towards Catholicism. Talks about working at Land and Income Tax and doing most of a Bachelor of Commerce at Victoria University before training to become a teacher. Discusses social life and entertainment including going to the pictures and balls. Describes meeting Barry O'Regan, their courtship and wedding. Recalls the Depression and World War II. Describes the birth of her children, their childhood and education. Discusses Barry O'Regan's partnership in the law firm Bell O'Regan and Dunphy and his becoming a High Court judge. Talks about her daughter Mary O'Regan and sister in law Pauline O'Regan, who is a nun. Comments on becoming Lady O'Regan. Describes nursing her husband. Interviewer(s) - Mary Varnham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007166 - OHC-007170 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1766. Photograph of Cassie O'Regan on front of abstract

Date: 1844-1872

By: Hart & Buckley (Firm)

Reference: MS-Papers-2158

Description: Miscellaneous documents and letters in the practice of Hart and Buckley, Wellington solicitors; primarily concerned with the interests of absentee owners of land in Wellington and elsewhere. List of Crown grants for town acres in Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Picton & Nelson, and rural land at Rangitiki, Turakina, Horikiwi, Porirua, Makara, Ohariu, Lower Hutt, Nelson Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1-6 Apr 1843

Reference: qMS-0001

Description: Comprises comments on local events, particularly court cases and political happenings, in Wellington. Author unknown Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (32 cm; grey cloth)

Date: 31 May to 7 Jul 1988 - 31 May 1988 - 07 Jul 1988

By: Hall, Margaret Elizabeth, 1908-2002; Macalister, Alister Fitzgerald, 1922-2017; Parkin, Frank Lloyd, 1918-1993; Perkins, Mark Eversfield, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-0203

Description: Interviews with three partners from Macalister Mazengarb, the eldest of whom began working with the firm in 1935. Also interviews a long-standing female member of the support staff. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson and Judith Fyfe Quantity: 4.

Date: 1 Aug 1988 - 01 Aug 1988

From: Housing Corporation of New Zealand oral history project

By: Hay, William, 1904-1990

Reference: OHInt-0185/08

Description: William Hay was born in Southampton, England in 1904 and came to New Zealand in 1912. Describes being a keen tennis player and attending Scots College from 1917 to 1920. Recalls having the flu in 1918. Talks about joining the law firm Meek and von Haast in 1921 and studying law while working there. Talks about marrying Ruth Pemberton. Describes joining State Advances in 1934. Talks about his position as assistant to the office solicitor and working with the Court of Review which reviewed appeals made by borrowers from decisions of local committees. Notes that the Court was set up in the wake of the Depression when people had trouble meeting payments, particularly on farms. Describes how State Advances became the Mortgage Corporation in 1935 and later State Advances Corporation. Talks about A.D. Park and T. N. Smallwood, who were the managing directors for the Mortgage Corporation, and other staff. Describes being in the Home Guard and being in charge of Head Office during World War II. Comments on women employees during the war and the State Advances Rehabilitation Schemes after the war. Notes that State Advances worked closely with the Lands Department, who acquired the land, and the Housing Construction Division of the Ministry of Works. Talks about the estalishment of Loans Committees for rehabilitation loans. Describes the selection of tenants and money lending for the state housing development at Porirua. Comments on the public attitude to state housing. Looks at the option for tenants to buy state houses and capitalise their family benefit in the 1950s. Describes the group housing scheme. Talks about becoming General Manager and Managing Director. Comments on the Royal Commission on State Services. Recalls Walter Nash, John A. Lee and Ministers of Housing William Fox, John Rae, Tim Armstrong and Sir Keith Holyoake. Talks about retirement in 1969 and receiving the QSO. Venue - Waikanae : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Venue - William Hay's home at Waikanae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002227; OHC-002228 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 408.

Date: 1908-1983

By: Smith, David Stanley (Sir), 1888-1982

Reference: MS-Group-1991

Description: The papers mainly relate to Smith's public, legal and university life. In addition there is a small collection of the papers of The Reverend John Gibson Smith (David Smith's father), of Margaret Elizabeth Smith, nee Gibbs (Smith's second wife) and of May Ives, who worked for the Smith family for almost 40 years. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Some materials in Russian Arrangement: The papers have been arranged into fourteen series Smith, a law graduate from Victoria University built up a large Maori land practice. In 1928 he was appointed to the Supreme Court, finally retiring in 1950. In 1927 he represented the Natives during the Confiscation Commission and in 1934 chaired the Royal Commission to Investigate Maori Affairs which involved the resignation of Sir Apirana Ngata as Native Minister. From 1935 to 1936 Smith was on the Senate of the University of New Zealand, and in 1956 as Chancellor he visited universities in the USSR. He chaired the Royal Licencing Commission 1945-1946. From 1950 he was involved in a large amount of public service and pro bono publico work Quantity: 533 folder(s). 16 box(es). 6.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Japanese book of drawings and paintings from the Nanga school, reference number E-944. - To Oral History Collection - Audio cassette: Sir David Smith recalls Thorndon; interview made by Bill Saunders in 1977, reference number OHColl-1056-1. - To Photographic Archive - Mainly black and white photographic prints, many of which are portraits of Sir David Smith, reference number PA-Group-00748..

Date: 1985-1991 - 2007-2008

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; New Zealand Oral History Archive; Wellington District Law Society

Reference: OHColl-0082

Description: Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 157 C60 cassette(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 1 transcript(s). 40 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete no abstract for Sir Ivor Richardson. Search dates: 1985 - 2008