Private secretaries

Date: March 1904

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-43-2

Description: Dudley Alexander coding a Colonial Office despatch at Ruatoki, photographed in March 1904 by Malcolm Ross, during the visit of Lord Ranfurly's party. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Major Alexander coding a Colonial Office despatch, "Government House", Ruatoki, 1904 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 88 mm diameter, mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm

Date: 1929-1959

By: Massey, Helen Sissons Douglas, 1898-1965

Reference: 77-249

Description: Comprises accounts of overseas trips; correspondence; Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa (1932); Xmas card register; papers re Coates' estate; photographs; telegrams and letters of congratulation re marriage to J Massey; miscellaneous articles and papers; invitations; personal correspondence and other papers re Montague family Source of title - Supplied Montague was Coates's private secretary; she later became Mrs Massey Quantity: 62 folder(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: For information on the provenance of these papers see the introduction to J Gordon Coates, MS-Group-0030 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 7 negatives, and assorted original photographs (loose) [PAColl-8992].

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1995]

From: Bunckenburg, Joan Constance, 1920-2007 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-263

Description: Album contains photographs as a young woman, including years during World War II. Records career at New Zealand Dairy Board as a private secretary.Includes a number of portraits of dairy industry pioneer Sir Arthur Ward. Also contains several invitations to official Dairy Board functions. Source of title - Title supplied by library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Khaki plastic covered album, 30 x 37cm

Date: [ca 1930-1995]

By: Bunckenburg, Joan Constance, 1920-2007

Reference: PA-Group-00267

Description: One album records growing up in Brooklyn, with views of family home and outlook across the valley, 1930s-. Second album records career at Dairy Board as a secretary, eventually secretary to the chairman. Photograph of James Henry Whittaker and Leah Alice Whittaker, founders of J H Whittaker & Sons. Pip Oldham interviewed Joan B for 1920s-1930s oral history project by MCH. Miss Bunckenburg is a grand daughter of Whittaker's chocolate family and has photos of grandparents Source of title - Title supplied by library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph albums, photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Joan Bunckenburg, Wellington, 2007

Date: 30 Sep 1992

By: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Richardson, Kenneth Lionel, 1932-

Reference: OHColl-1167-01

Description: Interview with Kenneth Lionel Richardson who was born in Liverpool, England on 18 June 1932. Discusses family background and childhood, including evacuation to Wales during World War II. Mentions initial employment in the hospitality industry followed by a period in the British Army and the Royal Auxilliary Airforce before emigration to New Zealand in 1958. Talks about extensive career as a public servant in the New Zealand Parliamentary system, serving five prime ministers as a private secretary or as principal private secretary before leaving in 1990 to become official secretary to Governor General Dame Catherine Tizard. He retired in 1993. Recalls initial employment with Treasury before his move to the Immigration Division of the Department of Labour and his secondment to the Hague, Holland until 1973. Mentions the 1973 Immigration Policy Review. Talks about working as private secretary for Ministers of: Labour, Immigration, Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Overseas Trade in both Labour and National administrations. Discusses positions from 1984 to 1990 as Private Secretary, eventually Principal Private Secretary, in the Prime Ministers Department. Provides insight into the working lives of politicians, prime ministers, parliamentary processes, changes in communications media, and into significant changes in government administration. Sponsored by - Project commmissioned by Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - Copies of newspaper articles accompany interview Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-10357 - OHC-10363 Abstract: OHA-3513 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1897-1903

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-194

Description: Views of the interiors and exteriors of the Government Houses in Wellington and Auckland during the term of Lord Ranfurly as Governor. There are also some views of the Gardens and of nearby public buildings, as well as photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their staff. There is also one group photograph taken during the royal tour of 1901 outside the Governor's residence in Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: March 1904

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930

Reference: PA1-q-634

Description: Photographic record of the state visit of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, to the Bay of Plenty and the Far North in March 1904. The vice-regal party, which comprised Lord Ranfurly, his secretary Dudley Alexander, James Carroll, Dr Maui Pomare, Gilbert Mair, and the journalist Malcolm Ross, travelled on horseback through an unroaded region via Lake Waikaremoana and the Huiarau Ranges, to attend a meeting of the representatives all the Maori Councils of New Zealand, at Ruatoki. The party then returned to Auckland and sailed on HMCS Iris to the Far North, where they attended a number of hui. Most of the photographs were taken by Malcolm Ross, whose pamphlet "Through Tuhoe land" (Christchurch Press, 1904), describes the journey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).