Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture

Date: 1981 - 1984

By: Kent, David Robinson, 1946-2013; Wellington Media Collective; New Zealand. Commission for the Environment

Reference: Eph-D-ARTS-Kent-1980s

Description: Includes posters for John Buckland Wright's "Acid and Graver" exhibition (Easter 1980 - 2 copies); "Greer Twiss a survey 1959-1981" (2 copies); "Flying colours, City Art Gallery 24 Sept-16 Oct (triangular); "Protect your trees", Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture); "Oppose apartheid; stop the '81 tour"; "Interiors; embroidery today" exhibition, City Art Gallery ... 1982 (1 large, 1 small); "Image in focus" National Art Gallery, August-October 1981; "Wellington Herb Society display" (designed and cut by Walter Cook - 2 copies); 1982 Wellington Polytechnic School of Design exhibition; "Rob Taylor - Domain; Paintings, drawings, structures, 1965-1981" (2 copies); "Robert McLeod, drawings, paintings 1972-1981" (2 copies); "Kevin Norton sculptures" 1982 (2 copies); "The search for style; decorative art design 1870-1930, Dowse Art Museum, 1983-84"; "Janet Paul journey through my island" 1983; Arbor Day June 5, 1982 / Commission for the Environment (2 copies). Quantity: 21 coloured posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Dave Kent in 1996.

Date: 1945-1947

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/15

Description: Correspondence and papers include Royal Humane Society of New Zealand re bronze medal awarded to T A Dobson and son H Dobson for the rescue of 3 youths at Plimmerton, 20 Oct 1946; Hutt Valley Pony Club, 1947; Wellington Beautifying Society; Boy Scouts Assn (Hutt Valley and Bays County) re Jamboree in France; Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture; Barton's Bush, Upper Hutt; minutes of special meeting held Feb 1947 re transit housing at Trentham Camp; Wellington Citizens Anniversary Regatta Committee Inc, 1947; war memorials; Auckland and Suburban Drainage League Inc, 1946; Wellington Suburbs Defence Rifle Club, 1946 re Collins and Somerville Ranges at Trentham; rat poison for the Norway rat; letter re the naming of Hutt County, 1946; Corso; Hutt Valley St John Ambulance Building Campaign Committee, 1945; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-063

Description: Correspondents not added to Name Field include: Foresty Commission, NSW; Government Printing Office, NSW; Dept of Mines and Agriculture (Forests Branch), Sydney; Public Library of NSW (enclosing list of various New Hebrides works); New York State Museum; BNZ (Wellington) re ship `Inconstant' & `Noah's Ark'; NZ Decorator; NZ Gardening; Secretary of NZ Government Office, London re letters owned by Mrs K L O'Connor (1931); and Cement Co; NZ Sheepbreeders' Association; NZ Tablet Printing & Publishing Company. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1976 - 1982 - 1997 - 1959 - 1977

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the activities and exhibitions of horticultural societies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-R-1900s

Description: Includes: Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Promotional brochure [1950s?] Rotorua & District Rose Society. Twenty-first annual show at the Soundshell, 13 November 1976. Schedule (2 copies) Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Notable & historic trees; a national scheme to promote and register New Zealand's notable and historic trees. 1977 (2 copies) Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Notable & historic trees. New Zealand Historic Place Trust 1982. Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Wellington Branch. Winter lecture series (Jack Hobbs - "Naturally native"). National Library Auditorium, 19 June 1997. Ticket (2 copies) Some individual groups whose names begin with R may have been catalogued separately Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 220 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources

Date: 1953

From: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc: Records and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-0444-669

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1924-1974

By: Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture

Reference: MSY-3029-3035

Description: Contains Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Executive Committee minutes 1924-1963 and Examining Board minutes, 1928-1974. Quantity: 7 volume(s). 0.14 Linear Metres.

Date: 1996-2000

From: Duthie, Donal, fl 2006 : Papers relating to Wellington gardens

Reference: MS-Papers-8652-11

Description: Comprises copy of the deed for incorporation of a society; report on `Communications, promotion and membership issues for the Friends of the Wellington Botanic Garden'; report on the establishment of an advisory group for the Society; various administrative papers, newsletters and ephemera Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1966; nd

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: 73-160-8/10

Description: Papers include circulars from The Royal Institute of Horticulture; and lists of notable and historic trees by region Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1929-1963

From: Houston, John, 1891-1962 : Papers

Reference: Series-2998

Description: Material from and concerning organisations to which Houston belonged. Half the folders in the series relate to the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulure Quantity: 37 folder(s).

Date: [July 7 1927]

By: Mole, Margaret Weir, 1930-

Reference: PAColl-0227

Description: Photograph showing delegates to the annual conference of the NZ Institute of Horticulture, Wellington, 7 July 1927. All delegates identified by second names only - Corner, Mackenzie, Aston, Pope, Barrett, Smith, Thomas, Hyde, Goodwin, Sidey, Ellis, Green, Tannock, Thomson, Rolleston, Nathan, Cockayne, Campbell, Tucker, Oliver, Hammond, McPherson, Adams and Hollingsworth. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1927 - 1928

By: Atkinson, Esmond Hurworth, 1888-1941

Reference: Eph-D-HORTICULTURE-1927-01

Description: Certificate shows a central panel of text surrounded by line illustrations of (from left): mountain daisies in a mountain setting, Clematis, cabbage trees. The central panel has an embossed seal on its left side. At lower right is the date 1928, and the initials of the designer, E H A. The diploma was dated /awarded in 1927, but the certificate design is dated 1928, suggesting that the certificate was presented the year following the awarding of the diploma. Designer is probably Esmond Atkinson, a botanical artist. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 540 x 422 mm. Provenance: Donated in 2013, by Neville Davies, son of Sir Victor Caddy Davies, the recipient of the diploma.