Roberts, Benjamin, 1880-1952

Date: 1945

From: New Zealand Wool Board :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1024

Description: Group photograph of the members of the New Zealand Wool Board and Benjamin Roberts, the Minister of Agriculture. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper on 11 January 1946 by an unknown photographer. All names inedexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Mount recto - Title and names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 295 x 375 mm on mount 455 x 555 mm

Date: 1943

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1943-01

Description: Booklet issued during the Second World War, with instructions on growing your own vegetables, preparing the soil and rotating the crops. Contains a message from Ben Roberts, Chairman of the National Vegetable Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages on newsprint, each page 213 x 140 mm.

Date: [1943]

From: Mason, Read Rex, 1904-1992 : Papers

Reference: 2005-016-03

Description: Inward and outward correspondence and related papers; includes electoral material for Lincoln Efford and C ron Howell. Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes letters from Win, Christchurch, and to Mum, with legal instructions. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-o-1190

Description: Album of 56 autographed photographs of government members of the House of Representatives in the 25th Parliament, the first Labour Government, taken in 1938 by unknown photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Leather covered album, 12.9 x 16.5 cm, containing 56 black and white, silver gelatin photographs, 11.9 x 8 cm

Date: 1927-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-219

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names not entered in Name field include: Lord Rowallan (World Chief Scout) with scouts at jamboree held on Haulashore Island, Nelson Harbour, 1949; J Robertson, Labour candidate, Masterton, 1938; J A Roy, National candidate, Clutha, 1938; Brigadier C G Robins (Hononary Colonel of the York and Lancaster Regiment) with Lieut-Colonel R B Dawson (commander of Wellington Regiment), 1951; L G Robinson (racehorse owner), 1950. Also: Harold Russell (Legislative Council); J W Rodden (Manager, Dairy Control, London); Major G J Robertshawe, 1941; Mr Rose (appointed solicitor to Treasury), undated photograph; Brigadier General Ross, 1931; W H Russell (Hansard staff); Duke of Rutland, 1940s; Mickey Rooney (one-time mayor of Sydney's Boys' Town); Gwen Robyns (London representative of NZ Free Lance) with air hostess Judith Marchant, 1949 Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: New Zealand Labour Party

Reference: Eph-B-NZ-LABOUR-1940s

Description: Includes political campaign material for the New Zealand Labour Party and the Democratic Soldier Labour Party. Includes pamphlets or fliers for Mr Barrell, H M Christie, P T Curran, A M Findlay, Peter Fraser, Corporal R Freeman, Frederick Hackett, Horace E Herring, John A Lee, H G R Mason, Michael Moohan, C R Parker, Benjamin Roberts, Michael Joseph Savage, Robert Walls. Also includes 1940 statement on war policy, "What the government has done for the railway worker", "Farmers! you have prospered under Labour" (1943), Labour's guarantee to farmers, Labour's magnificent record in home building, Labour's sixth security budget (1941)(2 copies); "Social security" (1941); Labour's progressive policy; statement on war policy 1940; "Safeguarding the home" (1943?) (2 copies); "For victory in war and security in peace" (M Moohan 1943); "Labour's march to social and economic security" (1943) (2 copies); "Milestones of progress", New Zealand Labour news bulletin nos 2-4 (1945) Quantity: 5 folder(s) containing approximatedly 70 fliers and pamphlets. Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and pamphlet, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: MS-Papers-6164-083

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018613-F

Description: Shows members of the House of Representatives in the twenty fifth Parliament. From top, left to right: - C M Williams, J W Munro, Colonel J Hargest, W J Lyon, E J Howard, W M C Denham, W P Endean, H M Christie, G H O Wilson, A F Moncur, C A Barrell, W J Jordan, B Roberts, W E Barnard (Speaker), D McDougall, H E Herring, A H Nordmeyer, E P Meachen, R McKeen, J O'Brien, D W Coleman, D G Sullivan, M J Savage, P C Webb, T D Burnett, A G Osborne, J Thorn, A S Richards, A G Hultquist, C H Chapman, S G Smith, W J Polson, K J Holyoake, Dr D G McMillan, D Barnes, J G Barclay, F Jones, W Nash, W L Martin, H G R Mason, Captain Rushworth, H G Dickie, A C A Sexton, G W Forbes, W J Broadfoot, Sir A Ransom, P Fraser, W E Parry, Robert Semple, R Coulter, W A Bodkin, Sir Apirana Ngata, T Henare, E T Tirikatene, H T Ratana, C L Carr, J L McIlroy, J G Coates, C A Wilkinson, W T Anderton, P Neilson, H T Armstrong, J A Lee, F Langstone, E L Cullen, C H Burnett, A Campbell, G Lowry, A Hamilton, J G Cobbe, S G Holland, H Atmore, J Hodgens, A J Manson (Sergeant-at-arms), T H McCombs, J B F Cotterell, R A Wright, J Robertson, C L Hunter, F W Schramm, C R Petrie, H S S Kyle and T D H Hall (Clerk of the House). Photograph taken by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew in 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1925

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: Glover, John, 1866?-1947; New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-ROTH-NZLABOUR-1925-01

Description: Shows a central group of three politicians: H E Holland, P Fraser and M J Savage. Around these three are arranged portraits of 49 other candidates: A E Bissett (Bay of Islands); A S Richards (Marsden); W E Barnard (Kaipara); A G Osborne (Waitemata); H G R Mason (Eden); John A Lee (Auckland East); W E Parry (Auckland Central); F N Bartram (Grey Lynn); R F Way (Parnell); W J Jordan (Manukau), D McClymont (Franklin); J Piggot (Raglan); W Lee Martin (Hamilton); J W Summer (Rotorua); D W Coleman (Gisborne); L McIlvride (Napier); W A Sheat (New Plymouth); W J Rogers (Wanganui); F Langstone (Waimarino); J H Taylor (Oroua); A L Ogilvy (Hawke's Bay); C J Duggan (Rangitikei); W Bromley (Palmerston); B Roberts (Manawatu); R Semple (Otaki); W Nash (Hutt); H E Combs (Wellington North); A L Monteith (Wellington East); R McKeen (Wellington South); C H Chapman (Wellington Suburbs); T Brindle (Nelson); M Fagan (Motueka); J O'Brien (Westland); M Williams (Kaiapoi); F R Cooke (Christchurch North); E J Howard (Christchurch South); H T Armstrong (Christchurch East); Winter Cole (Riccarton); D J Sullivan (Avon); J McCombs (Lyttelton); P C Vinnell (Timaru); J W Munro (Dunedin North); R Harrison (Dunedin West); J W Gilchrist (Dunedin Central); J E McManus (Dunedin South); J W Fenton (Clutha); M Connelly (Chalmers); P H Hickey (Invercargill); A Ashworth (Wakatipu). The verso gives biographical notes about each of the candidates. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster, 575 x 445 mm.