Wilson, David (Hon), 1880-1977

Date: 1970-1981

By: Gustafson, Barry Selwyn, 1938-

Reference: OHColl-0543

Description: `Nordy looks back 1901-1941, 1940-1949, 1949-1960, 1960-1980'; interviews with C.L. Hunter, Rex Mason, Arnold Nordmeyer, Honorable David Wilson, Sir Carl Berendsen, Keith Sinclair, Colin Scrimgeour and Sir Terence McCombs; Rowling on the attempt to unseat him; Sinclair on the Nash biography and `A man for the many'; the life and career of Michael Joseph Savage Quantity: 10 C90 cassette(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1943-1944

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: PA1-q-299

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Italy during World War 2, 1943-1944, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. This album changes between the Middle East and Italy, with the bulk of the Middle Eastern images between pages 1 and 71, and the Italian scenes on pages 49-52, and from 72 onwards, with a few Middle Eastern items interspersed. Recreation for soldiers with sporting activities including athletics, cricket, swimming, tennis and softball, some of which are in competition with personnel from other groups including South African Division Artillerymen. New Zealand engineers building a pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal with the help of Belgian Congo troops; NZ reinforcements arriving in the Middle East; troops voluntarily donating blood; parades and inspections by Freyberg and Inglis, and decorations presented by them (p 9-13, 23, 33, 36, 62). Hitchhiking from Maadi into Cairo; street tailors altering uniforms while the soldiers wait (p 15-16); camp cinema. A large number of reunions of personnel from various New Zealand districts held at different restaurants in Cairo, including Rotorua & district; Levin & district; Arrowtown, Queenstown Lakes District; Wairarapa; and Temuka. Occupational therapy for convalescent troops including embroidery and leather-work toys (p 20-22); a leave camp for forces on the Palestinian coast, run by British Army staff assisted by ATS, and Italian Prisoners of War and European women assistants. NZEF in Italy: Members of the PoW Sub-Commission in Taranto; members of the 2nd NZ Division Advance party in Taranto; released prisoners of war; embarkation on troopships from Alexandria for Italy. Funeral at cemetery at El Ballah of 3 nurses and a corporal in a motor accident between Ismailia and Port Said (Private (Miss) P A Morrissey (from Port Ahuriri); Private (Miss) M O McNulty (from Eketahuna); Private (Miss) M Innes (from Masterton); and Corporal S R W Bomford (from Takapuna), all members of the No 2 NZ General Hospital). NZEF Middle East: Award winners of the NZ Division Field Ambulance; personnel with a NZ Air Transport Squadron; members of the NZ Port Detachment; weddings in Egypt; Xmas dinner at the Maori Training Depot, Maadi. George Formby, seen with his wife/manager entertaining troops at El Djem Theatre, Maadi; Mobile Cinema Van donated by NZ Film Exhibitors' Association through the YMCA. Group of 10 men repatriated after time in German prison camps who had been taken in the Grecian Campaign; 4 brothers from the Duncan family from Wellington reunited at Maadi (S/Sgt A T Duncan, Capt R J Duncan, Pte H G Duncan and Cpl G J Duncan); photo of brothers A J and S R Halkett who arrived back in Canterbury after having been together in the firing line, in a shipwreck, in a prison camp and in a successful escape.t NZEF in Italy: men of transports from Alexandria to Bari; troops in Bari; artillery duels on the Sangro River Front; party of Russian military observers visiting the 8th Army (p 82-83); road construction, mud, road deviations constructed after demolition of bridge; water carts being filled at Sangro River, and filling canvas water tanks for filtering and storage; repair of tents and canvas items by NZ soldier A A Patmore on a sewing machine behind the lines; small arms repair; bootmaker; visit of senior officials from the British Army to HQ 2NZ Division in Italy; destruction of the village of Gessopalena by the Germans. Arrival of Patriotic parcels in Italy, Xmas 1943; Xmas dinner; snow on New Year's Eve; NZ Forces Club in Bari (p 109-110), with NZ sisiters and members of VAD at the club, and soldiers in the writing room of the club; inspection and awards by freyberg in the Volturno Valley; soldiers washing vehicles, and Italian women washing clothes in a stream near Alife in the Volturno valley. Two scenes with Peter Fraser one at Pearl Harbour with Admiral Chester W Nimitz, and Robert L Ghormly (p 116); and his arrival at National Airport, Washington in April 1944, with Walter Nash, Mrs Nash and Mrs Fraser (p 116). NZEF in Italy: Bivvies and dugouts to cope with the cold; the No 2 NZ General Hospital (p 121-123); the Monte Cassino area (p 124-136), with bombing, destruction, villagers living in caves after homes demolished by Germans; Airmen serving with the RAF in the Cassino area recording messages to be broadcast in NZ; preparation for transport of supplies over the Inferno Track, only possible at night. New Zealand Infantry Brigade Band in Italy; malaria control (p 138-140); Malaria School established by the NZ Field Hygiene Section; preventative spraying; routine taking of anti-malarial tablets; examination of Italian children for signs of malaria. Airmen in italy; men on leave at "200 Rest Home" giving free amenities to troops on 4 day's leave from the front line; sorting of winter clothing after summer clothing had been issued; Registrar's office and staff at the No 1 General Hospital, Molfetta. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2556-3002. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1902-1990

By: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004; Blackstone Studios; Photo News Ltd; Sport and General Press Agency; Selkirk, John, active 1968-2005; S P Andrew Ltd; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-10316

Description: Photographs relating to the Fraser family, particularly to Peter Fraser when he was Prime Minister of New Zealand, his wife Janet, and his step-granddaughter Alice Janet Kemp Fraser. Includes images taken by a range of largely unidentified photographers, between 1902 and 1990, including images dated circa 1902, 1930s-1940s, 1972, and 1980s-1990. - Loose disbound pages from photo album with mounted photographic prints and ephemera items, inscribed, 'To the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Peter Fraser, we express our deep and most sincere gratitude for your generous help to Polish children during the most tragic time in our history - On behalf of the Polish members of the Australasian-Polish Society - London, 28th June 1944' - signed by the president, S. Jahorski, secretary L. Kneblewski, and secretary of the executive committee M. Treister. - Album pages and related loose prints include portrayals of Peter Fraser in his political and diplomatic roles as Prime Minister of New Zealand and representative to the United Nations General Assembly, meeting with various dignitaries and colleagues, on some occasions together with his wife Janet. - Includes a 1951 copy-print of a photograph taken circa 1902 showing Peter Fraser at the age of about 18 in the uniform of the Scottish Seaforth Highlanders Volunteer Corps. - Features group portrait of Peter Fraser together with Winston Churchill and other Prime Ministers hosted by King George VI, captioned 'His Majesty the King entertains Dominion Premiers to Dinner at Buckingham Palace', this is accompanied by a typescript letter on Buckingham Palace letterhead. - Includes images showing Peter Fraser with military personnel in uniform, inspecting aerial bombing damage at St Paul's Cathedral in London, on a speaker's podium, seated at his desk, arriving in a motor vehicle, at the controls of an aircraft, and at the head of a conference table chairing a meeting. Also New Zealand snapshots of Peter Fraser on election night and another captioned by his wife as 'Dad explains things to Mr [Arthur] Richards M.P. for Roskill Auckland.' - Contains images of children, including portraits of Alice Fraser as a young girl. - Family photographs include those of Alice Fraser with Peter Fraser attending the funeral of Janet Fraser in 1945. - Features mounted studio portrait of Alice Armstrong, nee Fox, the wife of Hubert Thomas (Tim) Armstrong 1875-1942, New Zealand Minister of Public Works. - Other notable items include press photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to New Zealand (28 Aug - 3 Sep 1943), and Vivien Leigh, known as Lady Olivier, at the Parliamentary reception in Wellington 1948. - Includes images of plaques commemorating the house where Peter Fraser was born, and the school where he was educated, some with Alice Fraser shown in the photograph visiting these sites. - Laser copy montage of three photographs shows Alice Fraser at New Zealand House in London together with others, including Anthony Stones, the artist who created the bronze statue of Peter Fraser in 1989. - Small number of duplicate prints noted in collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Alice was the step-granddaughter of Peter Fraser. Quantity: 13 loose album pages, with 27 b&w original prints, 3 items of ephemera. 20 b&w original photographic print(s) including 3 mounted. 6 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour laser sheet with a montage of three colour copy images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, album pages Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2346: Fraser, Alice Janet Kemp, 1934-2004: Family Papers.

Date: [1940s-1990s]

From: Aikman, Colin Campbell (Dr), 1919-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9411

Description: Photographs relating to the career of Colin Aikman, including activities at United Nations, and University of South Pacific. Other - Some of the images in this collection feature, and are identified in, 'Samoa: the making of the constitution' by Lauofo Meti. (Ask staff to check Reftracker RTR1018230 for details) Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 12 b&w copy photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1908-1975]

By: Wilson, David (Hon), 1880-1977

Reference: 89-308

Description: Comprises correspondence relating to official appointments and activities, photographs, clippings, invitations, visitors' book and a folder of Christmas cards from Walter Nash Source of title - Supplied Prominent in the first Labour Government, serving as a cabinet minister. From 1944-1947 he was High Commissioner in Canada and he later held United Nations posts. Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter; includes photographs Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Margaret Shields, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, Dec 1989

Date: [1941]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-211

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Includes file on missing motor cars. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Plan of P Jerebine's farm, Tagnowahine (MapColl-832.11gc/[ca.1938]/Acc.46931.

Date: 1924-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-214

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names not entered in Name field include: Mrs E A Berryman and J Young, 1951; Francis Brett Young; Israel Zangwill (playwright and novelist), 1925; Miss N J Fitch & Colonel W R Young, 1950; H Beebe (Labour candidate), 1931; Sir Basil Zaharoff (Greek financier), 1924; Jack Wright of USA, 1931; H G William (signalman), 1951; Lord Woolton, 1942; Viscount Willingdon (Governor General of Canada), 1930; Lieut Col R C Wickens and adjutant at Addington Training Centre, 1941; Dr T A Wilson of Melbourne, 1927; Harold Wilson (President of Board of Trade) and Eric Johnston (representative of the Hollywood film industry), 1948. John N Willys (millionaire car manufacturer), 1929; Rowland P Wilson, 1932; Mr Buning Willemhouis (Shell oil research expert), 1938; John G Winant (US Ambassador to Great Britain), 1948; Captain L Yancey, 1939; D O Williams (Massey College, Palmerston North); Mr & Mrs Wendell Wilkie & son, 1942; Sir Edward Wilshaw, 1945; David J Winton (Minneapolis), 1941; Sir Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland); Andrei Visninsky, 1947. Senator Keith Wilson of South Australia, 1943; E T Williams (High Commissioner for Australia), 1946; Brigadier General Donald Wilson (Deputy Chief of US Air Staff), 1944; Cardinal Hinsley and Wendell Wilkie, 1941; Bishop J L Wilson & Mrs Wilson of Singapore, 1946; K S Williams of Bay of Plenty, 1931; Henry Williamson (Author), 1935-1938; Omarama Collie Dog Club 31st annual trials (J Aubrey, E Williamson & `Sandy' Wigley), 1946. Series of photographs relating New Zealand Workers Union [Conference?], 1951 - Names on photos include: Edmond Ohai (National representative United Mine Workers), H Rolton (Christchurch Secretary Canterbury Glass Workers Union); W Harnett (Gisborne National Vice-President of NZ Workers Union), H Maynard (Gisborne, National Representative of NZ Workers Union); F Crook (Dunedin, National Secretary of United Mine Workers of NZ), W Orr (NSW), J White (Greymouth, National member of United Mine Workers of NZ); R T Newman (Christchurch, Canterbury President of Storemen, Packers & Wharehousemen's Union), E J Patton (Dunedin, Secretary Otago Storemen, Packers & Wharehousemen's Union), S A Whitehead (Nelson, Secretary Nelson S.P. & W Union), W Miller (Auckland, National Secretary S.P. & W Federation). P F Wingrove (Secretary of the Tail Waggers' Club, Wellington); T W (Pat) Williams, 1931; R Wilson (representing NZ at the High Movable Conference of the Independent Order of Rechabites in England), 1929; J G Wilson (wrote history of Hatuma), Jack Russell (chairman of Jubilee Comittee) and R McRae (son of one of first setllers), 1951. Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 11 January 1971 - 11 Jan 1971

From: Sinclair, Keith, 1922-1993: Collection

By: Wilson, David (Hon), 1880-1977

Reference: OHInt-0218/07

Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Keith Sinclair Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001118 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 11 Jan 1971

From: Gustafson, Barry Selwyn, 1938- : Sound recordings

By: Wilson, David (Hon), 1880-1977

Reference: OHInt-0543/09

Description: Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008151b; OHC-008153c Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: [1943]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-227

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

Date: [1942]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-223

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Includes several letters relating to the appointment of Wing commander T W White as a liaison officer to Canada. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1945-1947

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-376

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

Date: 1904, 1911-1928

From: Holland, Henry Edmund, 1868-1933 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1815-02

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) 49 letters. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 5 Dec 1949

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: PAColl-D-0814

Description: Labour cabinet ministers at their final meeting on 5 December 1949, before going out of office. Shows them in a room at Parliament Buildings, seated around a table. From left: Angus McLagan, Terence McCombs, Clarence Skinner, Frederick Hackett, Robert Semple, William Parry, Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, Henry Mason, Frederick Jones, Edward Cullen, Mabel Howard, David Wilson, Eruera Tirikatene, Arnold Nordmeyer. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by W Walker. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 285 x 360 mm on card 490 x 540 mm

Date: 1942

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-219

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes telegram from Merrikin, Waipukurau. Also includes reference to an American promotion to join the MacArthur Shift programme. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6164-115

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-204

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes National Service Committee leaflet; pages from `Flashlight' (Feb 1940) relating to Frank Goldberg Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 5 Dec 1949

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: 1/2-030130-F

Description: Labour cabinet ministers at their final meeting on 5 December 1949, before going out of office. Shows them in a room at Parliament Buildings, seated around a table. From left: Angus McLagan, Terence McCombs, Clarence Skinner, Frederick Hackett, Robert Semple, William Parry, Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, Henry Mason, Frederick Jones, Edward Cullen, Mabel Howard, David Wilson, Eruera Tirikatene, Arnold Nordmeyer. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by W Walker. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - A 15768 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1938

From: New Zealand Labour Party: [Fliers, cards and pamphlets of octavo size. 1930s]

By: McAnally, Ivan M, 1908-1991

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-LABOUR-1938-01

Description: Sixteen page booklet comparing the record of the Labour and National Parties. Pages are as follows: Front cover: Title page showing a head and shoulders illustrative portrait of Michael Joseph Savage Page [2]: What Labour has done for you. What will you do for Labour? Page [3]: Towards the dawn! Page [4]: Unemployment Page [5]: Farmers' problems Page [6]: Invalid pensions Page [7]: Education Page [8]: Parliament House, Wellington, N.Z. Page [9]: No more underfed families; keep Labour in power to finish the job Page [10]: Housing the people Page [11]: Public works Page [12]: 1935 election campaign - Labour's 12 points Page [13]: Civil servants Page [14]: Pensions for the needy Page [15]: Signs of prosperity - comparing 1937 with 1935 Page [16] (Back cover): Labour is making them the nation's pride "Fox" is the cartoonist I. McAnally. Quantity: 1 booklet.. Physical Description: Photoprint, 16 pages, 182 x 240 mm.

Date: [Between 1929 and 1933]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: EP-Politics-Labour Party 1-04

Description: Labour Party members at annual conference, early 1930s, photographed by an Auckland Star staff photographer. From left: Peter Fraser, MP for Wellington Central, secretary of Parliamentary Labour Party and chairman of the conference; H E Holland, Leader of the Opposition; J Thorn, National Secretary; W Nash, MP for Hutt and formaer national secretary. Other - Walter Nash became MP for Hutt in 1929. Harry Holland died in 1933. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.5 cm