National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Date: 1949-1987

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-17

Description: A meeting with Bishop Bell, Auckland, 1949; Politicians at the second Faith and Order Conference, Sumner, 1950s; Development Conference, Christchurch, 1973; Ecumenical councils meeting in Geneva, 1986; Visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by Ms P Gruber in 1974 and 1975; Church leaders delegation to the rest of the world, 1986; a candle making cooperative in Soweto; Rev Alan Brash in Pakistan; National Council of Churches annual meetings, 1965, 1974, ; National Council of Churches in New Zealand staff photos, 1965, 1986, 1987. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960]-[ca 1969]

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-28

Description: Pacific photographs are mainly of unidentified images of people and events in Fiji. There is at least one image relating to Tahiti, and a small group possibly of New Guinea. Toba Lake in north Sumatra Floods in Sarawak. Students at a work camp, a steet market, and a church at Nakorn Pathorn, Thailand. Tibet and Nepal are represented by images relating to aid and support for Tibeten refugees, and the construction of an unidentified building. A group of images from Taiwan document the salt workers of Putai who suffer from the blackfoot disease contracted from working barefoot in the salt pans. Photographs from the United States include politicians and church personalities; church welfare and other projects within different parts of the United States; Church buildings and Oral Robert's University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1966

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-06

Description: Photographs taken during the Pacific Conference of Churches held on the island of Lifou, one of the Loyalty Islands, in 1966. Many of the images are of groups of people attending the conference, of speakers, and church services. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca-1950]-1973

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-26

Description: Church aid to children, the starving, and health projects in India. Work projects, housing, and other aid organised by The Korea Church World Service. Many of the photographs relate to Koreans displaced or disabled by the Korean War. Images also record social workers and medical aid, particularly for TB sufferers, flood relief and building a community centre. Churches work with refugees in Laos as well as agricultural development, health and other services such as schools. Quantity: 106 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1962-1981

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-09

Description: African conferences include: World Council of Churches Central Committee meeting in Nigeria; A peace and justice conference in Kenya, 1966; the inaugural All Africa Churches Conference in Uganda; people attending the National Youth Conference in Malawi, 1967; the inaugural meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Kenya 1970. Included under "Africa General" are: A women worker in a Sudanese button factory, 1962; Sudanese refugee children in Uganda; a wedding party carrying food and women operating a water pump, Cameroon, 1964. Asian Conferences are all Indian subjects. They include a Christian Conference in Asia assembly at Bangalore in 1981; the World YWCA Membership Conference, New Delhi, 1966; a family planning conference in 1968; the Khanspur Christian Conference Centre, 1968. The Church in Communist states include: the inauguration of the Presbyterian Reformed Church of Cuba; a cross in a square in Macao; the millenary celebration service of the Archdiocese of Meissen; the Church of Evangelical Christians - Baptists, Voronezh, Russia. All but one of the photographs date from the 1960s Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1960]-[ca 1969]

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-29

Description: Photographs relating to the United States include personalities; programmes to aid victims of Monsoon failure in India; Civil rights conflict in the form of African American churches destroyed; ecumenical church agencies; marketplace ministries; discussion groups and conferences. The Vietnam photographs relate to aid mainly in the form of medical services, food, and rehabilitation assistance for civilians affected by the war. The three places covered are Saigon, and the refugee settlements at Cai Be, and Qui Nhon. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1950]-1969

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

By: Taylor, John, active 1950s-1960s

Reference: PAColl-8129-25

Description: Conferences and meetings under the auspices of the World Council of Churches are the confessional families meeting, Geneva in November 1968; a Conference on Technology and the Future of Man and Society, June-July 1970; a Christian Conference in Asia meeting, Auckland in 1974 Photographs of Greece, Hong Kong and India mainly relate to aid in the form of youth Ecumenical Service voluteer assistance, the work of various church bodies providing facilities such as hospitals, community centres, housing for drug addicts, and assistance to children in Calcutta. One group of photographs records the construction of a conference centre at Khanpur, India in 1967. Quantity: 106 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 4-20 July 1968

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-03

Description: Photographes taken during the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Uppsala, Sweden, which took place from the 4th to the 20th of July 1968. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960]-[ca 1969]

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8129-27

Description: A scheme irrigating land in Laos with water from the Mekong River. Photographs of New Zealand include Cities, Towns, church buildings, factories, the national grid, housing in Auckland, rural workers and landscapes, rugby players, children, people attending study groups, Knox College, and the "Otahuna Community." Pacific photographs cover Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Hong kong, and New Caledonia. Two groups of images are of Pacific Theological College in Fiji, and the opening of the Maropa Bookshop in Vila, Vanuatu, on the 18th of November 1966. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1961

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand :Photographs

By: Malayan Christian Council

Reference: PA1-o-1261

Description: Album of photographs recording work being done by Christian churches in the new villages of Malaysia. 500 new villages were created between 1948 and 1960 during the Malayan Emergency as part of the British Commonwealth strategy against the Malaysian communists. By removing people from remote jungle locations to the new villages, the British protected Malaysian citizens, and deprived the communists of sources of food and information. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, 25 x 20.5 cm Provenance: This album was sent to the Rev Alan Brash of the National Council of Churches in New Zealand in 1961.