Eyre, Dean Jack, 1914-2007

Date: 1993, 1941-1948

By: Eyre, Patricia Naomi, 1916-2006

Reference: MS-Papers-11851

Description: Transcript of a memoir by Patricia Eyre, wife of New Zealand politician, Dean Eyre, of their family's wartime experience in San Francisco following the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Describes how she and her husband came to be in Hawaii in late 1941 before being evacuated to California in 1942, her search for war work, and her training as a welder working on Liberty ships at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. Recounts details of her shift work at the shipyard and of her experience in welding. Also includes informal accounts of her husband's activities with the National Party and of meetings with Peter Fraser and Gordon Coates. Attached are photocopies of her certificates in welding, union membership certificates for the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America, pay receipts, war savings bond application, and United States War Department Notification of Personnel Action. Source of title - Transcribed Dean Eyre, who later became a National Party figure, was working for an American firm in Hawaii in 1941 at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack. His family, comprising his wife, Patricia, and their son, were evacuated to California. Patricia Eyre wrote an account of their experiences. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, Photocopied printed matter Provenance: Patricia Eyre gave Ms Judith Trotter this manuscript in Ottawa in 1993

Date: 1944-1957

From: Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1128-028

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 14 Jul 1959-1 Mar 1960

From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan

Reference: PA1-o-1799

Description: Photograph album detailing the work of Minister Michael Moohan, 1959-1960. Featured events include: the opening of the Milson Railway deviation with Prime Minister Walter Nash (27 Jul 1959); turning of the first sod on the Nelson to Blenheim section of the South Island Main Trunk Line (1 Mar 1960); visit to the Anthony Squires factory, Frankton Junction (26 Nov 1959); group of politicians at Wanganui Memorial Centre (Feb 1960), Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Warsaw (Aug 1959); Trentham Racecourse during the visit of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia; opening of the new commercial branch of the Auckland Post Office (Feb 1960), joining of the final section of the coaxial cable between Wellington and Palmerston North at Te Horo (18 Dec 1959); the Christchurch mail room; the opening of the New Plymouth Chief Post Office (14 May 1959); Moohan's visit to London (1959); Hamilton by-election organisers with a Labour Party car; and Prime Minister's Social opening Parliament (22 Jun 1960). Photographer, and compiler of albums, unidentified. Identified figures listed in the names field. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1956-1960

From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan

Reference: PAColl-10065

Description: Contains loose prints and clippings from albums detailing Moohan's work as a government minister, 1956-1960. Photographic prints feature international travel, including the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Warsaw, Poland (Aug 1959), Moohan's trip to the United States of America (1956 - see prints no 9, 10, 15), and a dam construction site [Middle East or North Africa?]. New Zealand images include ministerial visits to post offices, unidentified factories, and offices. Also contains a number of formal portraits of Moohan and a picture of a Road Services bus. Identified figures are listed in the names field. Newspaper clippings concern the government's budget, Labour Party MPs tour of Otago industrial concerns (Fur Dressers and Dyers, New Zealand), Moohan's visit with Governor James F Byrnes of the United States (in South Carolina's The State newspaper, 1956), and leader of the opposition Arnold Henry Nordmeyer's visit to New Plymouth. Identified photographers include The Dominion, The Evening Post, Sports and General Press Agency (London), Photocraft (Petone), and Taranaki Daily News. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and newspaper clippings Transfers: Other - Loose prints transferred from albums, including PA1-o-1798 and PA1-o-1800..

Date: 1958-1960

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-089

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1963

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-092

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1950-1951

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-1950/1951

Description: Political pamphlets from the years 1950 and 1951, including material aimed at Māori voters, and pamphlets for the following politicians, mainly with photographic portraits: J W Andrews (Lower Hutt) Dean Eyre (North Shore) Sid Holland (Leader) Len Jacobsen (Brooklyn) Jim Maher (Otaki) J R Marshall (Mount Victoria) J S Meadowcroft (Onslow) George Walsh (Tauranga) Also includes pamphlets titled: "Facts about housing" "The new government must be strong, capable and experienced" "The people versus the wreckers" "The story of Public Works progress" "A helping hand for elderly people" "My pledge to New Zealand" To all members of Parliament and citizens of New Zealand. The world is threatenend with and in daily peril of an international crisis. With compliments of Sir Donald Simson. Dawson Printing Co., Auckland [ca 1949-1950]. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 34 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Photolithographs sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1927-1967

From: Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1186-07

Description: Names of all correspondents entered in Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1956

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-087

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1964

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-292

Description: Five vignettes. In the first Cabinet Minister Dean Jack Eyre predicts tourism will be the highest earner of overseas income within a year. In the second the Minister of Electicity, Tom Shand, argues the need for the Tongariro hydroelectric power scheme. In the third a beauty spot is being devestated by a bulldozer for a power scheme watched by an unhappy tourist. In the fourth a tourist is all wrapped up against the cold of power cuts. Tourists will not come if tourist spots are ruined but they also will not come if there are power cuts. In the fifth vignette the two Cabinet Ministers are duelling - 'The only solution seems to be to let the Ministers settle it on a winner-take-all basis'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil 280 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1961

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-090

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1950-1951

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-083

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1952-1953

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-084

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1957

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-088

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1962

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-091

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/0704-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1962-1969

From: Kelly, Margaret Nancy, 1912-1992: Papers

Reference: f-90-275-5

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-307

Description: Three vignettes. In the first the Minister of Justice, Ralph Hannah, who is locked inside a burning cell, is being interviewed about rebuilding Mt Eden prison. In the second, the Minister of Finance, Harry Lake, is about to club a would-be lender in front of the camera to demonstrate credit restraints. In the third, a defensive position of a tank, grenades and sandbags under a sign 'Keep New Zealand Safe' has been set up in front of the cameras. One television man says to another 'I'm not sure whether this is going to be Mr Eyre [Minister of Defence] about a defence loan or Mr Shand [Minister of Immigration] about Mandy Rice-Davies'. Mandy Rice-Davies had embarrassed the government of Great Britian in the Profumo affair. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 285 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-417

Description: Cartoon shows a scene in the corridor of the Minister of Defence. An officer is leaving the Minister's office at full speed followed closely by a guided missile which has detected his presence. Another officer on his way to see the Minister looks alarmed. Other Titles - General Herbert B Powell, Commanding General of United States Army Command, presented the Minister of Defence, Mr Eyre, with a set of 10 models of American missiles Other Titles - Ten Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 203 x 255 mm, on sheet 255 x 382 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Newspaper Publishers' Association of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MSY-6208

Description: Papers relating to appeal to the Court of Appeal of judgement delivered in the Supreme Court, Wellington in relation to Dean Eyre's claim of defamation against Wilson and Horton and the New Zealand Press Association Quantity: 1 volume(s).