Hotelkeepers

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/4384-1-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1978 - 1981

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-132-435/444

Description: Includes cartoons about the reduction in numbers of chimpanzees at the zoo, the Oriental Bay fountain, graffiti vandals at the railway station, sewage in Titahi Bay, hoteliers jump for charity, apathy in local body elections at Lower Hutt, high cost of burial at Karori, rise in rates, and demolition on Lambton Quay. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 10 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-013

Description: The story of Ann Day who with her husband George and family emigrated in 1841 from Kent to Wellington on the `Arab', settling for a time at Days Bay Wellington, then moving to be the first family at Sumner, Christchurch, related in the first person by Ann Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1862-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-0173

Description: Mainly applications for publican and accommodation licences, judgment summons, and plaints. Also some papers from the magistrate's court, Napier, and a copy of a statement made by Hohaia Ngahiwi, 1885. There is also a court book, written in English and Maori recording charges and verdicts of Maori offenders heard in the courts in the Taupo district, 1863-1873; cash book of the magistrate's court, Taupo, 1871-1878; and a general order book of the Taupo police station containing copies of circulars and memos, 1883-1906. Language - Court book written in English and Maori Quantity: 26 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Provenance: Previously in the collection of Henry Thomas Hill (1849-1933).

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1918-01

Description: Card / booklet of photographs shows a humorous illustration of a smiling landlady holding up a bill for board and lodgings. Inside the flap are 12 photographs of Maori, the Ohinemutu Church, Honga track, the post office, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids. The handwritten message on the verso is to Mary, from Olive and Walter from Ruhi Street Rotorua. Message reads: "Dear Mary, Hope you are well as this leaves all up here at present. Winter is setting in alright isn't it. I've just finished a letter to Hilda. Maggie's baby is doing fine. Is it true Miss Ferguson is to be married. I wish her & Mr Woolley as well every happiness but you will miss her won't you. Everything is quiet as can be here. Walter awfully busy with the garden & I'm putting my nose in of course. Well write soon, with love from cousins Olive & Walter" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 138 x 90 mm, with strip of 12 black and white foldout photographs, 420 x 70 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2014.

Date: Ca 1895

From: Gardner, Murray :Photographs of Margaret Gardner and Helen Gibb

Reference: 1/2-197505-F

Description: Helen Gibb (seated at left), her sons James Lindsay Gibb (standing at left), George Gibb (seated at right) and Stewart Gibb (standing at right) and her daughter Helen Isabella (Ella), photographed ca 1895 in front of their home at Cabbage Tree Flat, Motunau, by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm Finding Aids: Photocopy on shelf at PAColl-7116.

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Searell, Pamela :Photographs owned by Miss Ruby Victoria Jackson

Reference: PA3-0338

Description: Shows Vernon Forbes Thompson as a young man. He is holding a steel surveyor's tape or chain and his billhook for cutting lines is on a rock. Inscriptions: Verso - The Buntings (kept Ferry Hotel, Heathcote) Photograper Dunedin or Christchurch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2006

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-63

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Joseph John Martin; ownership history of the station and Martin family connection with the Royal Hotel, Gisborne; certificates of title and maps. Original owners of Shannon Station in the Gisborne Survey District were Frederick Augustine Martin, Joseph John Martin and Henry Augustine Martin of County Roscommon, Ireland who purchased 3471 acres in 1906. In 2007 the property was jointly owned by John Joseph Martin, grandson of Frederick Augustine Martin and other family members. In 2006 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, maps, photographs (some photocopies)

Date: 1938 - 1939

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; R Powley & Company Ltd; McNeish, James Henry Peter (Sir), 1931-2016

Reference: Eph-E-HOTEL-Dunedin-1938-01

Description: Lists hotels alphabetically, states location and the names of past and present owners. About 250 hotels are listed. Lower corners advertise "Bell's afore ye go". Dated from the latest date of recorded ownership of each hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress on poster 970 x 665 mm.

Date: 1940

From: Reeve, Alan, 1910-1962 :[Collection of caricatures] / Alan Reeve. - 1938-1940, 1958

By: Reeve, Alan Llewellyn, 1910-1962

Reference: B-120-015

Description: Shows full-length portraits of two men in suits talking together. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 535 x 385 mm.

Date: 21 Apr 1863

By: Foote, Caroline, 1831-1863

Reference: MS-Papers-2933

Description: Licensing recognizance for the Ship Hotel, New Plymouth Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter (Photocopy)

Date: 1976 - 1977

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-132-410/434

Description: Includes cartoons about the expensive mayoral car, proposed plans for stadium at Basin Reserve, sewage dumping on Kapiti Coast, Michael Fowler tries for Arab money for the town hall, speeding truck-drivers in Ngauranga Gorge, tunnelling in Ngauranga Gorge for a sewer, money sought from the Education Dept for development of the zoo, the BNZ construction site, building of the Wellington Town Hall, invasion of porina moths, opinions of the architecture of the Beehive, the shabby state of the airport buildings, the liability of busdrivers to strike, street artists invited to paint murals, the high cost the the new town hall, hoteliers to be sponsored to skydive for charity. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 25 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 17 Nov 1994-19 Nov 1994 - 17 Nov 1994 - 19 Nov 1994

From: Three Women Who Came to Middlemarch

By: Gibson, Lorna Ellen, 1913-2012

Reference: OHInt-0051/01

Description: Lorna Ellen Gibson (nee Chance) and formerly Shiel born Dunedin 1913. Outlines family background - father was prominent photographer George Chance who came from England to work for William Dawson who started Dawsons Ltd. Father later became owner/manager. Became a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) in the United Kingdom. Describes family holidays which doubled as photographic trips for father. Describes being left handed and attitudes towards it at kindergarten. Explains advantages of Home Science at University of Otago. Refers to Professor Jack. Describes teaching facilities at job manual training to standards 5 and 6 pupils at Temuka. Mentions hardship caused by Depression. Talks about first marriage to Robert Shiel, a Catholic, and her parents' feelings about it. Husband's father had Shiel brickworks at Caversham and Fairfield. Talks about war years and husband's death. Focuses on the Lee Stream hotel which her husband rebuilt after World War II. Talks about their time as hotel keepers including her period of running the hotel on her own after his death. Describes marrying Ted Gibson and comments on her different life on a farm (Barewood Station). Talks about her brother Alan's bad accident in the war and relationship with his father. Venue - Mosgiel : 1994 Interviewer(s) - Cleone Blomfield Venue - Mosgiel Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005910; OHC-005911 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1287.

Date: 31 July 1987 - 31 Jul 1987

From: NZ Society for the Intellectually Handicapped (Inc) Oral History Project, 1989

By: Clark, Jean, 1909-1995

Reference: OHInt-0080-02

Description: Jean Clark (nee Burgess) born Cheshire, England. Came to New Zealand with family aged 14 months. Outlines family background - mother was a close friend of Lady Nash (Lotty May Nash). Describes: childhood; education, with reference to John Howell, headmaster at Wellington Technical College.; religion - interested in philosophy of religion but not practising christian. Recalls time as a pupil teacher at Wellington Technical college, describing travel - horse drawn transport from Taita to Hutt Railway Station and then train to Thorndon station etc. Summarises teaching career at Hutt Valley High School, Petone Technical College and Hutt Intermediate School. Describes husband's involvement with Social Credit Party and time spent campaigning for Monetary Reform - with reference to visit of Major Douglas to New Zealand. Recalls 1935 election when a young ex Australian, John Hogan stood against (Sir) Walter Nash). Reference to Montague Norman, Chairman of Bank of England. Talks about: husband's (Gilbert Clark) involvement with Jewish Immigrants whom he sponsored prior to World War II (1939-1945); return to New Zealand after the war and being under suspicion as Nazi agents; post war - husband and self went into Hotel Business, reference to partnership in new Eastbourne Hotel with Dick Jepson. Backgrounds concerns over son Campbell who was handicapped from birth (1945) and decision to place him in St John of God Home for two years. Discusses involvement with IHC and the first New Zealand Committee with reference to H S Anyon (President), Olive (H L) Grenfell, Mrs M Anyon, J J Doyle, Mrs B Gordon, A H Helleur, Mr J Nicholls and Mr R W S Botting. Reference to Kimberley Hospital. Reflects on own contribution to IHC, becoming Vice President. Recalls fundraising and developing ideas for services with reference to Senior Occupation Centre at Petone and Jepson Home (originally called Kristina Home). Compares IHC then and now. Talks about new style to IHC set by Dr Beasley and the establishment of Intellectually Handicapped Childrens' Parents' Association Inc (1949). Accompanying material - Historical notes of New Zealand Society for the Intellectually Society Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mrs Clarke's home in Mount Victoria, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001461-001643 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0227.

Date: 9 December 1991 - 09 Dec 1991

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project

By: Rae, Andrew Watson, 1927-1997

Reference: OHInt-0056/05

Description: Andrew Watson Rae recalls early life at West Calder, Scotland; school years and paper run, especially during winter time; social life in Scotland, which included vigorous dances; involvement in soccer, with reference to quarter final game at West Calder and referee from Trinidad; and activities of the Free Church of Scotland. Gives family background - father a coal miner. Joined the Royal Navy as a cook, serving in Mediterranean minesweeping 1946. Refers to minesweeping incident involving `Albania' and Britain'. Talks about being demobbed from Navy and friends who became professional footballers. Recalls hearing of jobs in Merchant Service delivering ships to New Zealand, and was on delivery voyage as second cook and baker. Reference to New Zealand Government offering 100 pounds (sterling) to the crew to stay in New Zealand and decision to accept. Recalls meeting with Bill Fox, Secretary of Seamen's Union, later MP and Minister of Marine, who offered the job of bread making on the `Pamir' sailing to United Kingdom. Describes the journey and refers to Captain Burfeldt. Tells the story of the `Pamir' later going down off the Azores with only two survivers. Discusses other work experience; Union Steamship Company on the wheat run between New Zealand and Australia; Hotel Industry in Cambridge, Waikato; assistant manager at Hamilton Hotel; Kawerau, Hotel Bay of Plenty with reference to Sir Ernest Davis (1959) and Harold Hill of Hancock and Co. Mentions 6 o'clock closing until 1967. Talks about affiliation with New Zealand Labour Party (NZLP) through the Trade Union Movement - refers to George Whatmough, Industrial Relations Officer for Tasman Pulp and Paper Company in Kawerau. Others mentioned include: Harry Pollitt, Harold Laski (Baker's Union Scotland); Bruce Gregory; Mat Rata: David Lange; Roger Douglas; Bob Tizard; Koro Wetere; Johanthan Hunt and Trevor Mallard. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Kaitaia Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Venue - Waipapakauri Hotel, Awanui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004267-004268 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0904.

Date: 20 June 1993 - 20 Jun 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Spurr, Shirley Muriel, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0067/068

Description: Shirley Spurr (nee Sparke) born Waihi. Outlines family background - mother worked at the Golden Cross, a dry hotel opened by Miss Stapleton - father was born at the Kopu Hotel in Thames which his parents had built. On leaving school worked in office at Waihi Hospital before travelling around New Zealand. Recalls class distinction amongst children when growing up. Recalls father worked in a mine as a contractor, never underground. Mentions strike - father was a mounted picket which she describes. Talks about Kopu school which father attended - 400 Maori children and 4 white children. Mentions Jerry Tukaki who was father's best friend. Backgrounds involvement with local marae committee and describes duties. Explains the importance of the Tainui canoe in the Waihi area. Talks in detail about Maori medicines. Shirley is a marriage celebrant and runs an up-market boutique with a wide clientele. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005869A; OHV-0265C Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1276.

Date: 22 February 1993 - 22 Feb 1993

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project

By: Visser, Johannes, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0132/07

Description: Johannes (John) Visser describes childhood in Netherlands, during the war and after, his first employment; decision to emigrate to New Zealand in 1955; work as a plumber and drainlayer, first for Fletcher Construction, then for himself; decision to enter the expanding restaurant industry in Christchurch and then expansion into catering and hotel keeping (Warners in Christchurch and Whalers in Picton); his vicissitudes in the economic collapse of the 80s and present life. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Yoka McLeod-Saris Venue - Sumner, Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-00503-00505; OHLC-001341-001343 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (hand-written). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1033.

Date: [1997-1998]

From: Bathgate, Murray Alexander, 1943-2019 : Papers

Reference: 2002-276-02

Description: Comprises outward and inward correspondence with various research institutions relating to Bathgate's biography of William Henry Hayes Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 20 January 2005

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-290

Description: Shows a publican telling a patron that the government is installing wind-up hands which wag at partrons and tell them off for drinking. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Leader page cartoon 186mm x 133mm 21 CARTOON Pls scan and send to Production Pix (Pix on Hand) [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 15 July 1983

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

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1983/2667

Description: Bar manager John Pennington pouring a beer in Wellington's Bond Street Inn. Striking builders' labourers Stephen Costello (middle) and Frank Feeney are standing at the bar. Photographed 15 July 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm