Meredith-Hardy, Joanna Mary, 1948-

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1967-1972

From: Girl Guides Association New Zealand Inc :Photographs

By: Orr, Russell William, 1916-1977; Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-140

Description: Photographs of leaders of the Girl Guide Association, Girl Guides, Brownies and Rangers, and various activities throughout New Zealand. Leaders from other countries including Pacific Islands, Japan and Korea, attending conferences and training courses in New Zealand; and ceremonial occasions attended by Lady Fergusson; by Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne; and by the Commonwealth Chief Commissioner, Mrs D Parker-Bowles. Activities include Thinking Day, Anzac Day ceremonies, and the sale of Girl Guide biscuits. One section shows Girl Guides and Brownies in the Cook Islands. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cover, with chalk lettering `1967-1972'; 38 x 52 cm

Date: [1907-1994]

By: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994

Reference: ATL-Group-00722

Description: The papers trace his career from being a student at University College of Otago, his Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, his activities as an Olympic athlete, athletic administrator and manager of several New Zealand Olympic and Empire Games teams and his work on the International Olympic Committee, his service in World War II with the RAMC, and his work as a leading British medical practitioner and specialist who included among his patients the Royal Family. Papers relating to his work as a writer of medical and other papers, president of both the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Surgeons, and his involvement in a myriad of professional, sporting and other organisations are also included as well as an extensive collection of papers relating to his service as Governor General of New Zealand 1968-1972. Includes recordings of lectures given by, and interviews of Arthur Porritt. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 274 folder(s). 10 Linear Metres. 8 5" reel(s). 5 volume(s). 3 7" reel(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs, printed matter, and open reel audio Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Porritt family, London, Sep 2009 Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. The extensive photograph collection has been transferred to the Photograpic Archive, while medals and other trophies have been transferred to Drawings and Prints. Medals and other items are held with the Curios Section at Curios-040 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Oil painting and medals, medalions and badges (DP-2009-076) - To Photographic Archive - Photograph albums and loose photographs - To Cartographic Collection - AA touring map of the North Island - To New Zealand Film Archive - 3 NZBC Television film reels 16mm: `Islands of the South Pacific - Looking at New Zealand' 1969, `Departure of H.M. the Queen and the Royal Family from Auckland Airport' 1970, `Governor General's farewell speech and profile from gallery' 1972..

Date: 26 July 1968

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

Reference: EP/1968/3128-F

Description: Joanna Porritt in a cane and iron swing chair on display at the Farmers in Cuba Street, Wellington. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 26th of July 1968. Joanna Porritt was the daughter of the Governor General, Sir Arthur Porritt. She was at the Farmers in Cuba Street with her parents to see an exhibition of items made by the blind. The chair she is seated in was one of these. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm