Wing Commander. 1 NZEF, Bde Major, RAF, 1917-1918. Director of Air Services, 1925-; controller of civil aviation 1931; WWII liaison officer Melbourne, etc 1940-1946 (retired). Died in Lower Hutt 23 Oct 1958, aged 70. See `Who's who in NZ' 1951.
Wilkes, Thomas Martin, 1888-1958
AFCM album 2
Date: Between 1910s and 1930s
From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PA1-f-002
Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.
New Zealand. Meteorological Office. Aeradio Committee : Report on the Kermadec Islands
Date: 1937-1943
By: New Zealand. Meteorological Office. Aeradio Committee
Reference: MSY-4871-4872
Description: Report of a survey party under the Aeradio Committee of the NZ Meteorological Service investigating the establishment of radio and meteorological stations in the South Pacific, the Kermadec Islands and in particular Raoul Island. The reports summarise activities during July 1937 by various members of the party together with photographs illustrating terrain and recommendations. A supplement issued in 1943 is described as a pictorial record of essential features of construction works and conditions of establishment as at 1943. The report includes geographical, geological and historical material and scientific, surveying, botanical and zoological reports, with descriptions of early settlers and settlements Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and duplicated material and photographs Photographs of geography, settlement and natural features
New Zealand - Miscellaneous
Date: 1925-1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-227
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1925-1951 Series of photographs taken when the interisland steamer Rangatira ran aground at headland of Pigeon Bay and passengers were rescued by the Waimarino, Jan 1941. Finalists in Miss New Zealand quest, 1949; remains of miners' homes at Arrowtown, 1949 (photographer J D S Roberts); sampling wool at Loan Mercantile warehouse, 1949; group photo of Marlborough Trotting Club Jubilee committee, 1950 (all named on verso); outlet of Lake Waikaremoana; women's freestyle event at Centennial Games swimming carnival, 1951; group photo of Canterbury Centennial committe (all named on verso), 1950; Mr Langdon-Lane of Molesworth Station with his granddaughter, 1946; Bishop Williams of Waiapu with Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, 1935; Ralph Birken, 1939; state-housing; Calgary stampede; Sir Henry & Lady Wigram, 1934; Major P C Wren (author); Miss Lyle and Miss Round on Miramar tennis courts, 1934; Mr Attmore (Mayor of Otaki) & Mr Hislop (Mayor of Wellington). Series of photographs taken on the Chatham Islands - Children at Te Awatea School with their teacher F Still; Hon H G Mason with Dr G Davies; E Seymour; Clara Huff; Hon W E Parry with his private secretary D Paul and Seaton Henderson, chairman of Chatham County Council, 1946. Senor de la Cierva (inventor of autogyro aeroplane), pilot Captain F T Courtney and Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare at Farnborough, England, 1925; Colonel James C Fitzmaurice and his co-pilot Flight-Sergeant Eric M Bonar who took part in Melbourne Centenary Air Rce, 1934; Flying-Officer R G Whitehead (Wellington) and R Nicholl (Sydney) after their Trans-Tasman flight, 1934; British airmen Scott and Mollison at Lympne Aerodrome, 1930s; Squadron Leader `Tiny' White with Squadron Leader T M Wilkes, Director of Civil Aviation, and Mr Beau Shiel before White left to fly Sir Charles Kingford Smith's Wackett Codock plane across the Tasman, 1933. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Correspondence - Jenkins-Missing motor cars
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.
Members of the Air force alongside a Vickers Vildebeest biplane at Wigram, Christchurch
Date: [1936?]
From: Evatt, G S: Photographs, chiefly regarding the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II
Reference: 1/2-106391-F
Description: Members of the New Zealand Air force by a Vickers Vildebeest bomber biplane, at Wigram Air Base, Christchurch, in (1936?). From left, back row: Pulson?, unidentified, Gilkinson, Manhire, unidentified, Parsons, Crichton, Gibson. Middle row: Dr Reeks, C Manson, Ken Hall, G Buckley, unidentified, A B Greenaway, (Gerrard?), Nesbitt, (Duffy Duthie ?), ("Doggy"?) White, Ken (Browntorn?). Behind front row: R J Cowan, F R Dix. Front row: Burrell, Ron Sinclair, T Wilkes, Findlay, Olsen. RNZAF photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Thomas Martin Wilkes
Date: 1937
From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives
Reference: 1/2-150987-F
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Wing Commander Thomas Martin Wilkes in Royal Air Force uniform. Photograph taken by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew in 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).