Batterbee, Harry Fagg (Sir), 1880-1976

Date: 1927, 1938-1956

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-145

Description: Most photographs contain captions &/or dates. Series of photographs taken during the Duke of York's visit to Wigram in 1927 (includes display of Bristol and Avro airplanes); series of photographs taken during and after the rugby match played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between RNZAF and NZ Army - Includes group photo of RNZAF team (all named); Eric Tindall introducing Minister of Defence Hon F Jones to teams; several taken during the game. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for UK in NZ being introduced to NZ airmen returned from overseas; RNZAF band at a wartime fundraising garden party held at Dr Herbert's on The Terrace, Wellington , ca 1942; RNZAF Station Band playing at Wigram, ca 1940; Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten with Wing Commander J Checketts, Apr 1946. Three photos taken during the laying of the RNZAF colour at the Anglican Church, Golville, Wanganui (Group Captain C Turner & Rev Culpitt), ca 1947; Squadron Leader G Evatt & Air Vice Marshal C Kay, 1953; band at Ohakea, 1958; Governor General Lord Freyberg with Group Captain A B Greenaway (CO Wigram), 1949; Group Captain F R Dix with TAF officers at RNZAF Station Ohakea, 1950 Photo of Kingsford-Smith Memorial Gift Ambulance, 1948; RNZAF station at Wigram under construction, 1930s; DC-3 aircraft during supply drop training over Wigram, 1948; Squadron Leader Creichton, Flight Lieut Herrick and Flight Lieut Gibson; Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Milson, 1943 (named on back); meal during visit of Air Commodore G T Jarman to special ATC summer camp at Milson (includes Squadron Leader T Lester & Wing Commander G A Nicholls, Commandant of the Air Training Corps), and inspecting the school unit cadets 1944 Air Commodore G Vincent, acting Chief of Air Staff in the absence of Air Commodore R Goddard, discussing flight arrangements with Wing Commander R J Cohen and Squadron Leader Fisher at Whenuapai, Oct 1944; Air Vice Marshal R V Goddard, Chief of Air Staff at his desk, ca 1941-1943; Governor General Lord Cobham saluting the Queen's colour of the RNZAF during a parade; view of RNZAF Station Rongotai, 1942 showing airmen on parade; unidentified group photo; members of RNZAF marching through streets of Wellington; group photo taken outside officers mess, Wigram (all named), ca 1948; portrait of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Nevill; Squadron Leader G S Evatt with General John Doolittle on ANZAC Day 1956 at Ohakea; group photo taken at Wigram 1936 standing in front of Vildebreeste aircraft; surplus Harvard training aircraft in storage at Wigram, 1945; Catalina flying boat on a reconnaissance patrol; American Kittyhawks and NZ pilots; Mr Churchill's `York' aircraft (Avro) at Ohakea with Squadron Leader & Mrs Evatt standing beside a plane; a de Havilland being refuelled, 1937; Sunderland flying boats on the water and over NZ coast. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1934 - 1946

Reference: Eph-C-STATE-1930/1949

Description: 1934: New Zealand Society. New Zealand Day 1840-1934. Commemorative dinner, 6th February 1934. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London New Zealand Society. Luncheon in honour of HRH The Duke of Gloucester, KG, 1st June 1934. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1935: New Zealand Society. Luncheon to the Rt Hon G W Forbes Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the Rt Hon J G Coates MC, New Zealand Minister of Finance, 3rd June 1935. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London. 1936: Index to seats at luncheon by the Government of New Zealand in honour of the Visit of delegates to the Fourteenth Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire. Wellington, 2nd October 1936 1937: New Zealand Society 1840-1937. Commemorative banquet, 8th February 1937. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1938: New Zealand Society. Luncheon to Sir Harry Batterbee, KCMG, KCVO. 20th December 1938. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1939: Luncheon to the Rt Hon Viscount Nuffield, OBE, 31st May 1939. Index to tables. Savoy Hotel London 1946: New Zealand Day 1840-1946. Commemorative dinner, 6th February 1946. Index to tables. Grosvenor House London Quantity: 8 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheets sizes varying to 450 x 410 mm. Provenance: Most items originally collected by Mr Melville E Hankins, and purchased as part of lot 320, Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 19 September 2013. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera; photographic material of the same provenance transferred to Photographic Archive PAColl-10128..

Date: 1946-1948

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-219

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1894, 1897, 1932, 1937-1939, 1949

By: Hankins, Melville Earl, 1884?-1961; St. George Company; Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-10128

Description: Photographic images (original photographic prints and cuttings) collected by Melville Earle Hankins and taken between 1894 and 1949. Photographers unidentified unless stated: - Group school portrait of girls and teacher Miss M H Ryder at Newtown School, Wellington, standard 6 class, in 1894, taken by St George Co. (Girls all identified on the back of the print.) - Group portrait of telegraph message boys, Wellington, 1897. (Boys all identified) - Two identical portraits (photo-mechanical) of Melville Earle Hankins seated at a desk in 1932, probably at the Correspondence School in Wellington. - Three prints showing diners seated in the dining room at the Savoy Hotel in London, England at different events: one (photo-mechanical) at the annual New Zealand Day (later called Waitangi Day) dinner in February 1937, another (photo-mechanical) in December 1938 in honour of Sir Harry Batterbee who would be the first High Commissioner for Great Britain in New Zealand, and another at the N Z Society's luncheon in 1939 for Lord Nuffield. (Melville Hankins attended these events and his location in the room was marked on the prints before they came into the Library.) - NAC Sunderland 'Takitimu' flying boat ZK-AMK on the water in 1949 taken by Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd, probably in Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Chronological (arranged by Library) Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (Clippings from publications). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photo-mechanical prints Provenance: Purchase, 2013. Items originally collected by Mr Melville E Hankins. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - 25 items including New Zealand Society luncheon menus 1930-1940s; invitation cards and other ephemera relating to Melville E Hankins' attendance at formal events in England. Also includes Wellington Shakespeare Society programmes 1942-1943..

Date: 24 Sep 1940-18 Nov 1947

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-086

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1932-1950

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-266

Description: For Batterbee, Sir Harry (Christchurch) see folder 83 and Burnett, R I M Wellington see folder 297 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1915-1955]

From: Mills, Thomas Lewis, 1865-1955 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7007-01

Description: Comprises letters from Mills's son, William Anthony, while serving in WWI and telegram informing him of his son being in hospital; expanded biographical piece on Mills; circular letters from Mills and Herbert Baillie; Press Gallery reunion notice; letter with background information from Dugald Ferguson; USSC letter re options for travelling to Samoa; card from Antonia Dolores [?] Bettini; and others entered under Name Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1940

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-206

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1922-1951

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2943

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [1900-1966]

From: White, Harold Temple, 1881-1972 : Music scores and papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8034

Description: Inward letters to White from overseas and New Zealand composers, musicians and dignatories, including congratulatory letters, thank you letters following performances, invitations accepted and ideas accepted and rejected. Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes letter from Sydney, written from Ormond Street, London (1900), one written from St Mary Abbott's Place, London (1961), and one with a letterhead, W I B Mott, Sydney, from W Vincent [?] (1939). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-199

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; several members of the Coates family were not identified Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 3 Mar 1939-20 Sep 1946

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-147

Description: Includes letter from Sir Harry Batterbee, 9 May 1940; Waipoua Forest ; Chch. Domains Bd. Annual Report, 31 Mar 1944. See folders 170, 177 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940 - 1955

By: Harry H Tombs Ltd; Tombs, Harry Hugo, 1874-1966

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-Tombs

Description: Includes cards printed for issue by: Aorangi Lodge. 1941 High Commissioner and Lady Batterbee. 1941 J Block Limited. "The Bijou". 1955. Burns Philp & Co., Ltd Morrison and Vivienne Cassie, 51 Poole Crescent, Wainuiomata Dentons Jewellers, Lambton Quay Dominion Sawmillers' Federation Rev and Mrs Gilman Dunn (Wadestown). 1950. Eastbourne Fire Brigade. The Flemings, 42 Wadestown Road. 1851. Giant Products Ltd Gray Young, Morton & Calder 1955. Gwennyth, 28 Waipapa Road, Hataitai (2 copies) Higgs & O'Donnell, patent attorneys, Druids Chambers, Woodward Street, Wellington (inside is pasted a reproduction of a watercolour of Panakiri Bluff, Waikaremoana, from a watercolour by Sydney H Higgs) Holm & Co Ltd, Wellington & Wanganui G H Jackson & Co Ltd Mr & Mrs L M Jamieson, 56 Hamilton Road, Hataitai. Patricia & Justin Lynch. 20 Turnbull Street, Wellington 1 Jean & Joe Malcolm. (Inside is a reproduction of "Lake Wanaka, New Zealand", by J A Johnstone) (2 copies) Mr & Mrs F A Millar, 2A Upland Road Ministry of Works, Commissioner and staff TM [Tostie Murray]. 33B Hobson Crescent, Wellington New Zealand War Amputees' Association Oxford University Press, Willis Street Wellington (drawn profile head of a young maori woman inside) Oxford University Press - with thanks for help and co-operation during the difficulties of 1953. R C Gooderidge and staff. Joan and Maurice Patience, 30 Baroda Street (Mervyn Taylor woodcut of three musicians on the front) (2 copies) R S Boy Scouts Radio and Electronics Ltd. 1948 (with red print showing a radio transmitter) Radio and Electronics Ltdy) Fred and Nancy Robb, 67 Hamilton Road, Hataitai. 1950 Mr & Mrs A G Rough, 31 Stoke Street, wellington. 1954 Herb and Barbara Rough. 31 Stoke Street, Wellington Ray and Gwend Salisbury. 27 Seddon Street, Upper Hutt. Mr & Mrs R P Sherriff and family, Huntley School, Marton, with calendar for 1941. Nancy Shirtcliffe, 26 Burnell Avenue, Wellington Etta and Paolo de Simone de Riso, Italian Legation Wellington (2 copies) Social Security Commission. 1950. Mr & Mrs F B Stephens, 33 Palm Avenue, Lyall Bay. 1948. Tatra Leather Goods, 96 Tory Street, Wellington (with illustration of their premises) Edelweiss and Mervyn Taylor, 71 Hatton Street extension. Woodcut of three musicians, by Mervyn Taylor. (2 copies) Les and Elsie Tickner, 35 Crawford Road, Kilbirnie (2 copies) Wellington Radio ZLW (with statue of Mercury on the front) Wellington Radio ZLW Area Five, showing world globe. Wellington Regiment 1st Battalion, inside showing two flags of the colours of the regiment, presented by the ladies of Wellington, 3 March 1929 Williams and Adams Ltd. 1948. Williams and Adams Ltd. 1952. [Anonymous]. 1 Rongonui Street, Upper Hutt. [Anonymous]. Showing sailir boy on board the "Sea Gull". Inside is a photograph of the RRS "Discovery" [Three marching soldiers in lemon squeezer hats]. Quantity: 45 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on Christmas greetings cards.. Physical Description: Black and white or colour prints on cards, sizes varying below 200 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Harry Tombs.

Date: Jun 1945

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-00533-G

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: Jun 1945

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-00532-G

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: Jun 1945

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-00558-G

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 16 March 1939

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

Reference: PAColl-7796-45

Description: Photograph shows Michael J Savage and a ministerial party visiting the Wellington Ngauranga Gorge construction site. Bull-dozers and other earthmoving machinery are visible in the background, along with piles of rubble. Photograph taken 16 March 1939, by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Sources: 'Ministerial Party's visit to road construction works'."The Evening Post". 17 March 1939. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/evening-post/1939/03/17/7 accessed 12 March 2024. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.4 x 15.6 cm Processing information: Title and description updated 12 March 2024 following information from a researcher. Location identified as Ngauranga Gorge and not Centennial highway.