Wellington Settlement Restaurant Ltd

Date: 1983 - 1984

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-682

Description: Includes figure sketches: Nan [or Clare], Scene at the Settlement, Garden party at Orongarongo Station, Elizabeth Kerr (2 different); With Jeavons, John McD and Suzanne at Kairakau (figures seated amid bush); figures in a jazz band; David Farquhar; Gillian Weir; Peter McLeavey at Raumati - Quinn's view; Early Music in Old St Pauls; Gillian Weir at the Settlement 20.11.1984 (2 different views); David and Raydia Farquhar; John Mansfield Thomson (JMT); Eve Page. Includes various landscape sketches; named ones include: Opotiki, Pukekura Park, North of Hunterville, From the air behind Wanganui the 'Jeavons' referred to is Jeavons Baillie Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardback book with marbled boards, 25 leaves, each 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1984-1993

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-175

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939 - 1992

By: Seresin, Harry, 1919-1994

Reference: MS-Group-1618

Description: Papers consist of material relating to the Downstage Theatre, Wellington Settlement Restaurant, Wellington Cafe and Gallery and the Taj Mahal bistro/gallery. Also, a large amount of personal correspondence, diaries, financial papers and other papers relating to his enterprises. Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - For further Downstage records see 77-009 and AO-79-175; for further records of the Wellington Settlement Restaurant and Gallery see 85-001. Harry Seresin, originally a Lithuanian Jewish emigre, was a Wellington businessman and co-founder of the Downstage Theatre as well as being the creator of Wellington's cafe culture, setting up cafes in Lambton Quay and Willis Street and a gallery/restaurant at the Taj Mahal off Kent Terrace. Quantity: 126 folder(s). 1 folder(s) AI. 2 Linear Metres. Provenance: The first collection of Harry Seresin's papers, concerning the Downstage Theatre, were donated in 1991. A final collection, containing much of his personal papers, were donated by his estate in 2007. There is further Seresin material in the Downstage collection, while the records of the Wellington Settlement Restaurant and Gallery arrived seperately in 1985, and are held under that name. Transfers: Photographs of Harry Seresin and of his coffee bar above Parson's Books, together with posters from the Settlement, transferred to Photographic Archive, where they are held at PAColl-9209, and Ephenera Collections - To Photographic Archive - Photographs - To Ephemera Collection - Posters and notices.

Date: 1971-1982

By: Wellington Settlement Trading Company Ltd

Reference: 85-001

Description: Records principally relate to the art gallery and comprise files of correspondence with artists, financial papers and accounts, scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, files on various topics, programmes and posters, and 1982 "Save the Settlement" petition. Source of title - Supplied title Company which ran Wellington Settlement restaurant and art gallery, founded and managed by Harry Seresin. Quantity: 4 box(es). 2 volume(s). 4 folder(s). 1.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1985 - 1997

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-686

Description: Includes figure sketches: Keri Kaa, a group at the Settlement, four women seated; Rhond[d]a Greig 10.2.1985; Anne McCartney gardening; Mary Havell Kennedy's Bay 1989; Anne McCartney; Ruth, Kennedy's Bay; Lou, Kennedy's Bay; Maori women writers read their own work at hui at Island Bay Marae; Mere, Monica, Teremoana. Bruce Stewart, Taputiranga; Aunti Mihi; Tom Cunningham, 3.1 1997; Chari reading to Kevin; Joanna and Pascal, 48 ...; P, Cynthia and Joanna; Alan Roddick. Includes various landscape sketches: untitled sketch of Molesworth Street towards Mount Kaukau, from a high position; Valley of the Moas near Oamaru; Te Puke o te Hurua; 129 Queen Street, 4.1 1997 (interior). Housed in the same box as E-680 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardback book in light brown buckram, 50 leaves, each 248 x 157 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1983 - 1984

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-682-013/014

Description: A group of half-a-dozen people seated at small dining tables at The Settlement, Willis Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon, 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1978

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1978

Description: Includes programmes featuring: William Bower from Australia. Lute recital. Wellington Settlement, 155 Willis St, Sunday 13 August [1978]. Flyer only Christchurch Arts Festival. Festival opening concert. Canterbury Orchestra, music director Dobbs Franks; soloists Earl Wild, piano; Heather Begg, mezzo-soprano. Guest conductor Aaron Copland. [4 March 1978?]. Programme (2 copies) Lou Clauson, international entertainer. Illustrated promotional pamphlet with biographical notes. [ca 1978?] Youth For Christ present two top Gospel artists Andrae Crouch and Fletch Wylie. St James Theatre, 27 September [1978]. Illustrated flyer (2 copies) and mimeographed notice (2 copies) Compositions by Hamilton Dickson (With Hamilton Dickson, Michelle Maule, Alison Malcolm, Wendy Singer, Jennifer Seddon, Grant Crawley, Wellington professional Orchestra, Kathleen Coffey, Lois Riseley, Adrienne Christie, Robert Burch, Owen Christie, Bunty Western, Roma Farrant, Robyn McFarlane, Loretta Lander). 9 and 14 December 1978. Programme (photocopy) Ensemble Dufay present an intimate concert of music of the 15th & 16th centuries (With Greer Garden, Geoffrey Coker, Robert Oliver, Andrea Oliver, Jeff Scholes). Loaves & Fishes Hall, Molesworth Street, 24 September 1978. Programme (1 copy) and flyer (2 copies) Haber Duo (Michael (cello) and Nancy (harp) Haber). Wellington Concert Chamber, 4 May 1978. Programme and tickets Librarians' Concert (With Wendy Birch, Dorothy Freed, Beverley Anscombe, Alison Grant, Peter Merz, Gina Lisignoli, Nancy Swarbrick, Josephine Fluhler). Lady Goodfellow Chapel, Waikato University, 9 February 1978. Programme [Concert]. (With Douglas Mackie, Stanley Jackson, Olivia Fletcher, Irene Jackson). Pettifogging Press [1978]. Programme Music - content and form. Wider Horizons. Charles Martin's lecture recital at the CSA Gallery, 13 April 1978. Flyer / programme Napier Civic Choir. Music from opera (With Carol Bolton - soprano; Robert Houston - bass; accompanist June Armstrong; conductor Peter Williams). Subscription concert. Century Theatre Napier, 17 June 1978. Programme New Zealand Crumhorns, College Consort. Help export genuine New Zealand wind! Send the Crumhorns to Canada. Appeal pamphlet 1978. Opera and ballet Workshop. Musical director Dr Gerald Seaman; producer Janette Heffernan (With David Guerin, Limbs, Wendy Dixon, Pat Brown, David Skinner). At the Pumphouse, 27 June - 2 July [1978]. Programme Orlando Singers; ten voices unaccompanied singing motets, madrigals and folk songs. Mt Albert Methodist Church, 30 July; St Thomas' Church Kohimarama, 6 August; Auckland City Art Gallery, 31 August [Pettyfogging Press, 1978]. Flyer only Ivan Rebroff in concert. Australia & New Zealand 1978. Illustrated booklet with autograph Wellington Music School, 3rd. Chilton St James School, Lower Hutt, 20-23 October [1978]. Programme Wellington Society for Musical Education. "Israeli soiree". Jewish Youth Group present songs and dance from Israel. Wellington Girls' College, 21 June [1978]. Flyer only Earl Wild. Christchurch Arts Festival. Town Hall Auditorium, 9 March [1978]. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to quarto size, some illustrated. Provenance: One item donated by the Salvation Army, in 2012.

Date: 1974-1979

From: Burt, Ronald Albert, 1928-2007: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10531-02

Description: Musical group playing at The Settlement Restaurant in Willis Street,, Wellington. Undated, but probably in mid to late 1970s. The instruments being played and dress of the patrons suggest that the group is playing jazz. Photographer unknown. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: black and white original photographic print

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Menus and restaurant ephemera of quarto size]

Reference: Eph-B-DINING-1970s

Description: Includes: 1970s: Cambridge Hotel [Auckland]. Music hall menu souvenir [1969 or 1970s] James Cook Hotel Wellington. Grill Room [Menu. 1970s?] Leopard Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington. Dine & Dance every Friday & Saturday night. Smorgasbord & Table d'Hote. [Menu. 1970s] Monties [Auckland? 1970s] Pink Pussycat [Auckland?]. Snack menu Toro's Licensed restaurant, Willis Street, opposite Majestic Theatre. Luncheons, pre-theatre, dine & dance. Open 7 days [Flyer. 1970s] Wellington Settlement Trading Company Ltd. South American feast. [Menu]; featuring Pedro Arévalo, master of South American folk-lore [1970s] 1970: Welcome to the Mantilla Restaurant, Napier New Zealand. Your chef Andre Vermes. Menu [1970] 1971: Central Club. Menu, 17 June 1971. The after-dinner speaker is Mr Ian Andrews [Front cover has "Letters received" label attached by previous owner] ca 1973: Welcome to the Mantilla Restaurant, fully air-conditioned, Napier New Zealand. A la carte menu [ca 1973] 1976: The Gravy Train Roast Beef Restaurant, Wellington N.Z. . Cover photographs by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library [and] Life Photography. Bill of fare [1976] 1977: New Zealand menu & wine guide. Auckland edition. Loose leaf folder [1977] 1978: Abel Tasman Courtesy Inn, cnr Willis and Dixon Sts. Lunch menu [1978?] Abel Tasman [Hotel]. Upstairs at the Tas; a very Happy Christmas from the Abel Tasman management and staff. Christmas Day 1978. [Menu] McDonald's; we've got it all. [Menu / placemat. 1978] 1979: Bellamy's. Luncheon menu, 3 December 1979. Flyer Bellamy's. Dinner menu, 3 December 1979. Flyer Meet at McDonald's for these fun activities. [Month calendar. 1979?] Terrace Inn Restaurant and coffee lounge, 86A Lambton Quay, B.D.S. Building. Opening day 17th July 1979. Flyer Victoria House annual dinner, 6 October 1979. Menu Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset on menus, sizes varying below 330 mm.

Date: 1974

By: New Zealand Poetry Society Inc

Reference: Eph-C-POETRY-1974-01

Description: Poster shows an arrangement of text, with incidental sketches of a lizard, a bird, a spear and a carved club of patu. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 448 x 280 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1974.

Date: [ca 1980]

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings

Reference: PA12-8388

Description: Includes - Views of the Wellington Settlement Restaurant, Willis Street, including a group at a table in the courtyard. Children in a classroom with mural art on Maori themes. Children on play equipment with a mural made of Maori patterns in the background. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies 120 negative strips comprising 16 images. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007

Date: 1994

From: [Menus and restaurant ephemera of quarto size]

By: Wellington Settlement Restaurant Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-DINING-1994-01

Description: Menu in plain cover, to celebrate 21 years of operation of Harry Seresin's Wellington Settlement Restaurant. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on menu 305 x 206 mm, bound with maroon ribbon.

Date: 1973 - 1985

By: Beaven, Peter Jamieson, 1925-2012; Allison, Jocelyn, active 1970-1980s?

Reference: Plans-2007-043

Description: Two perspective drawings of the courtyard at the Settlement, with two versions of a glassed-in area occupying part of the courtyard. Also includes a floor plan and section. Designers were architect Peter Beaven and designer Jocelyn Allison, of 31 Naseby Street, Christchurch. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying up to 590 x 845 mm.

Date: 27 November 1992

From: Cappuccino Oral History Project

By: Seresin, Harry, 1919-1994

Reference: OHInt-0281/1

Description: Harry Seresin who was born Hamburg 1919 gives family background - family involved in import and export, food and fishing business. Talks about grandparents' escape from Russia in 1919; cafe and family life in Hamburg in the 1920s and 1930s; Vienna coffee houses and the ambience of a true coffee house. Discusses outbreak of war; attitudes to aliens; Christian pacifists, with reference to Ormond Burton and A C Barrington addressing crowd at Pigeon Park. Talks about coffee bars in New Zealand and attempt to create Austrian and Viennese coffee houses; commencement of Downstage Theatre with reference to Tim Elliot, Peter Bland and Martyn Sanderson. Recalls the establishment of Coffee Gallery above Roy Parson's bookshop in 1958, also established The Settlement (coffee house and restaurant). Other coffee bars mentioned include: French Maid; Four Seasons; Chez Lillie; Montmartre; Boulevard; Rendezvous; Sorrento; Mexicali and Casa Fontana. Also mentions Coffee Gallery personalities including Ernst Plischke, James Baxter, Bruce Mason. Contrasts between early Downstage and New Zealand Players Theatres. Mentions link between Coffee Gallery and Downstage and aims of early Downstage. Other people mentioned include: Paul Olds, John Roberts, John Meltzer, and Pat Hawthorn. Recalls setting up of Stockton's furniture Gallery in 1950s with John Bidwell; interest in contemporary design, pottery, weaving etc. In tape 4 Harry and Galya Marder, a Russian immigrant, reminisce about Germany in 1930 and the 1950s with some songs included. Accompanying material - Photocopies of newspaper cutttings of Harry Serensin Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Venue - The Anchorage, Thorndon, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004878-004880, OHC-004881; OHLC-003486-003489 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0895 - not located from August 2011. Search dates: 1992

Date: 18 November 1993

From: Cappuccino Oral History Project

By: Jones, Robert Edward (Sir), 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0281/9

Description: Sir Robert Jones talks about the rise and fall of New Zealand's coffee bars in the 1950s and 1960s. Recalls that as a seventeen year old in Wellington he noticed the influence of Dutch immigrants on garden centres, the house building boom and particularly on the numbers of coffee bars they opened up. Considers that coffee bars were forerunners of licensed restaurants and that their predecessors were department store tea rooms. Describes cooking standards in New Zealand in the 1950s and the decor which was identical throughout the country - one of two themes (a) Spanish Bull posters and (b) Big coffee machines bubbling away but frequently serving Nescafe, and little formica tables and chair. Describes the `Mexicali' in Victoria Street with reference to John Easom; `The Dutch Tulip' in Herbert St, a hangout for poets including J K Baxter; Pat Brockie's coffee bar, `The Stopbank' in Lower Hutt; Carmen's coffee bar in Vivian St; Roy Parsons elegant coffee shop and the Settlement. Considers that good restaurants and TV caused the demise of coffee bars. Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007318; OHLC-003478 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1824. Search dates: 1993

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-WSet

Description: See child records for details Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1980-1982

From: Seresin, Harry, 1919-1994 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8861-33

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1973

By: Wellington Settlement Restaurant Ltd

Reference: ArtEph-1973-H-01

Description: Exhibition catalogue at The Settlement, Willis Street Quantity: 1 brochure. Physical Description: Folded paper, cyclostyled

Date: 1975-1981

From: Seresin, Harry, 1919-1994 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8861-32

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1993-1996]

From: Adcock, Irene, 1908-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7247-18

Description: Correspondence, membership lists, minutes, notes and other papers relating to Barry Morrall's proposed history of the Society; also group of letters from Alistair of NZCER, Wellington, Dennis McEldowney, Allen Curnow and Peter from Massey University Quantity: 1 folder(s).