Born in Oamaru in 1893. In 1915 he joined the staff of the Dominion Museum as an ethnologist. Published about 200 scientific papers, and author of several books. Founded the New Zealand Aquarium and Water Garden Society in 1933. He retired in 1958. Who's who in NZ 1968 9th edition.
Of Dominion Museum in 1930. Corresponded with A C Gifford requesting a testimonial in 1930.
Date: 1942
By: Phillipps, William John, 1893-1967
Reference: qMS-1588
Description: To W J Phillipps of the Dominion Museum, giving a list of carved houses on the East Coast Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, grey covers) Processing information: Transferred from main collection, Oct 1978
Date: 1940 - 1949
Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1940s
Description: Includes: 1940s?: Sheet of pins. New Zealand has a "charm" of its own [describing tiki] Memorial service for members of the Maori Battalion and thanksgiving for the first Maori Victoria Cross 1940: An Arawa souvenir. Wahiao Meeting House Whakarewarewa. Official opening by the grace of His Excellency the Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, 16 November 1940. Pamphlet with salutations to Hoani te Heuheu, and genealogical tree from Tamatekapua down to Wahiao. Otakou Maori Centennial 1840-1940. Foundation stone laying ceremony. 24 February 1940 [Order of ceremony] 1941: "Maori carving", by W J Phillipps, Dominion Museum. Publication flyer 1943. Election campaign booklet in Maori for Right Hon Peter Fraser New Zealand Centennial 1840-1940. Tihee! Mauri Ora! Official opening ceremonies of the third and fourth Te Arawa Centennial Memorials, Tawakeheimoa (Whare Wananga at Te Awahou) and Tamatekapua (national whare runanga at Ohinemutu), by His Excellency the Governor-General ... Sir Cyril Newall. 24 March 1943 [Order of ceremonies; includes 2 sheets containing translations of some passages] 1946: Maori national welcome to the 28th Battalion of the 2nd NZEF. Imperial Government Shed at Aotea Quay, 22 January 1946 [Invitation card to Hon HGR Mason] 1948: Rangiatea restoration 1848-1948. Diocesan Maori Mission. Pamphlet. 1949?: New Zealand National Party. Te Maori a ona ra e tuku iho nei: The Maori and the future. He who stands at the prow of the canoe shall be renowned (critical of the Labour Party's policy for Maori) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 250 mm. Processing information: Ngarimu Investiture souvenir programme; [and] Supplement to souvenir programme. Ruatoria, 6 October 1943: Combined into Te Whaiti family collection ATL-Group-00753, October 2022.
Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-207
Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm
Date: 1935
From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas
Reference: MapColl-CHA-2/7/9-10-Acc.37230-1
Description: Identifies names not on Survey map of Mahia collected by W J Phillipps Dominion Museum Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on blue paper. Scale indeterminable. 64 x 41.7 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Date: 1970s
From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history
Reference: 88-070-16/01A
Description: Contains notes compiled by Cairns about Te Ore Ore marae, and about Nga Tau e Waru meeting house at Te Ore Ore; also contains newspaper clippings about Te Ore Ore, and people related to Te Ore Ore; also contains related photographs, and biographical information about local prophet Paora Potangaroa and Dick Himona; Also contains a offprint of `The Te Ore Ore Maori House' by W J Phillipps; One of two copies of Nga Tau E Waru centennial booklet transferred to printed collection Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Book Collections -.
Date: 20 November 1963 - 07 December 1964
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12909-6
Description: Two letters addressed to Jock McEwen dated 20 November 1963 and 07 December 1964. The first letter by W.J. Phillips discusses the return of East Coast photographs and manuscripts to the Dominion Museum. The second letter by Dave Simmons of the Otago Museum discusses the provenance of a Māori carving purchased at a sale in Maheno, North Otago. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing two letters.. Transfers: Separated from PAColl-6056-09; prints accompanying the two letters are at PAColl-6056-09; 32 and 33.. Processing information: Originally housed by Library staff in a photographic archival box. The letters have been separated for conservation and storage reasons.
Date: 1948
From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history
Reference: 88-070-07/02
Description: Contains a copy of the Dominion Museum monograph `Carved Houses of Te Arawa' written in 1948 by W J Phillipps and Jock McEwen Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: [1930-1950]
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-039
Description: Diagram of spur pa at Pahaoa, south of the Cameron homestead; note from Paneta Otene re Orongorongo (1945); transcripts from Maori Land Court minute books, including Wanganui (1938 and 1939); `The Maori and the forest' by Elsdon Best; page of galley proof, `The Arawa' by W J Phillips; page of tattooed heads by Robley; `The Development of Maori culture since the advent of the pakeha' by McEwen, a paper read at the Sixth Science Congress of the Royal Society of New Zealand; `Carved stone figure from North Auckland' and `Carved stone head from North Auckland' (same account); `Grotesque figures' (with illustrations); statement of account, probably relating to carving (1933-1935) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs Printed matter Typescripts A sketch of a Maori Pa site, four tattooed Maori heads, carved prow and stern waka carvings.
Date: 1857-1977
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2769
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Date: 1965-1966
From: Dell, Richard Kenneth, 1920-2002 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5156-4
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 7 Nov 1934-January 2014
By: Wellington Aquarium and Water Garden Society
Reference: MS-Group-2401
Description: Records of the Wellington Aquarium and Water Garden Society. Collection features minutes of monthly and annual general meetings as well as correspondence, ephemera, and newspaper clippings relating to the Society's activities, membership, publications, affiliated branches, associated clubs, and matters relating to ornamental fish, aquarium plants, and the construction and maintainence of aquariums and ponds. Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - See also MSX-6122 for minute book of the Society from 24 Oct 1933-14 Apr 1942. Founded by William John Phillipps as the Wellington Aquarium Society in 1933, it came to be known as the New Zealand Aquarium and Water Garden Society by March 1935. The Society was incorporated in 1943 and changed its name to the Wellington Aquarium and Water Garden Society in 1953 (when the Federation of New Zealand Aquatic Societies was formed). The Society was wound up in 2013 by President Sandy Nolden. Quantity: 12 volume(s). 18 folder(s). 177 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word text files. 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, electronic files, lapel pin Transfers: Collection taken into manuscripts, transfers made from here - To Serials Collection - 'New Zealand aquarium bulletin' and 'New Zealand aquatic world serials'.
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers
Reference: 77-067-8/26
Description: File described by Lawlor, `KM, a key file; some new material: schooldays, Maata, EKB, Sylvia Payne. Rewrite and type diary notes [...]'. Includes interview by W J Phillipps of Naani Asher-Grober (1959), clippings about Maata and Lawlor's book about her, and of other aspects of Mansfield, a condensation of Lawlor's book, reviews by various people and other papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: [1943]-1998
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-006
Description: Letters from various correspondents relating to McEwen's work and interests; identified persons entered under Name. Includes letter headed Cook Islands Administration re `Rarotonga records' published in 1916; incomplete letter from Wanganui re maori matters and other papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1863-1897, n d
By: Phillipps, William John, 1893-1967
Reference: MS-Papers-1222
Description: Letter from George Olver to Dr Hocken, 1887 from London; and another from Sarah Smethan to Dr Hocken, 1899; both re the painting by James Smethan entitled `The New Zealand chiefs at Wesley's House', painted in London 1863. Also notes based largely on William Jenkins' diary. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss
Date: 1840-1957
By: Phillipps, William John, 1893-1967
Reference: MS-Papers-4316
Description: Divied into two series: (1) Fish - includes research notes, letters, illustrations and physical descriptions of many New Zealand fishes. (2) Maori material - includes descriptions and research of Maori art, carved houses and artefacts, especially from the Wellington area William John Phillipps was born in Oamaru in 1893. In 1915 he joined the staff of the Dominion Museum as an ethnologist. He retired in 1958 and died in 1967 Quantity: 211 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph Typescripts Photographs Printed matter
Date: 1924-1954
From: Dawson, Elliot Watson, 1930- : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-10779-029
Description: Offprints of scientific articles on various subjects, by Phillipps Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material
Date: 1908-1945
From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Gifford-Bickerton papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0259-019
Description: Concerned largely with astronomy but also with other matters. Names of some correspondents entered in Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1924-1976
From: Moncrieff, Perrine Millais 1893-1979 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5642-04
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Date: [1946]-1997
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-007
Description: Letters from various correspondents relating to McEwen's work and committee involvement; identified persons entered under Name. Also includes Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Date: 1925-1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-209
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names of New Zealand subjects entered in Name Field. Also: Haakon Q'Viller (Norwegian parachutist), 1931; Major Arthur Purvis (Military secretary to Lord Galway), 1935; Brian Rainger, 1951; Captain Cunningham Reid and wife (candidate in Marylebone electorate), ca 1930s; H Ramsbotham (Unionist MP for Lancaster and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, ca 1930; Captain T A Rainey, 1932; Marquess of Reading (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), ca 1930s; Ernest Raymond (author), 1931; M Rashid (instructor at Lincoln College), 1950; His Highness the Maharaja of Ratham , 1927; Colonel Reitz (High Commissioner for South Africa in London), 1943; Count Reventlow (Danish Minister in London), 1940; The Shereef Raisuli (Riff leader) and his eldest son, 1925 Also: R J Powell, fl 1940; Professor Piccard (Swiss scientist), 1931; Pope Pius XII, 1949; D G Porter, 1949; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and Admiral Francois Darlan, 1940; Antoine Pinay and Rene Mayer, 1953; Wiley Post, 1934; Mr & Mrs Lowell & C Pinkerton, 1937; Paul Poiret (French fashion designer), 1934; Captain George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and wife (scientist and lecturer), 1932; Sir Arthur Pinero (English dramatist), 1926; Arthur Postle, 1951; G A Portman of Yarmouth, 1951. Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints