News photographer
Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
State Opera House, Manners Street, Wellington - Photographs taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: [ca 18 July 1981]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1981/2524-F
Description: Exterior views of the State Opera House, Manners Street, Wellington, taken ca 18 July 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Governor General, Sir Paul Reeves, and Lady Reeves, about to depart Mana Island by heli...
Date: 13 Feb 1988
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1988/0787-F
Description: Governor General, Sir Paul Reeves, and Lady Reeves, about to depart Mana Island by helicopter, circa 13 February 1988. Comprises two images of Sir Paul putting on a life jacket, and one of Sir and Lady Reeves sitting in the RNZAF Iroquois. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griiffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Prime Minister Robert Muldoon greeting royal visitors - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 21 April 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1983/1419-F
Description: Prime minister Robert Muldoon greets Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and Prince Edward at Wellington Airport. Photographed by Merv Griffiths on the 21st of April 1983. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Cambodian refugees Tan Haing Sreng and Tan Haing Khang in the midst of their luggage at...
Date: 7 December 1979
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1979/4284-F
Description: Cambodian refugees Tan Haing Sreng (Taing Haing Sreng), aged 6 years, and Tan Haing Khang (Taing Hang Kheang), aged 8 years, photographed in the midst of their luggage at Wellington Airport shortly after their arrival on 7th December 1979, by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm
State funeral procession for Sir Keith Holyoake - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 13 December 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1983/5079-F
Description: View of the state funeral procession for Sir Keith Holyoake passing down Lambton Quay, Wellington. The gun carriage carrying the coffin is in the foreground and is followed by two military vehicles carrying wreathes. The procession is passing Pastoral House, and the street is lined with people. Photographed by Merv Griffiths on the 13th of December 1983. Sir Keith Holyoake was Prime Minister and Governor General of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Old tip site, Holloway Road, Wellington - Photographed by Merv Griffiths
Date: 22 October 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1983/4150-F
Description: Old tip site in Holloway Road, Wellington which has been turned into a native forest park. View of some of the native forest on the slopes surrounding the tip site. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths on the 22nd of October 1983. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 8 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Japanese fishing vessel Choyo Maru 5 aground in Fitzroy Bay, Wellington - Photographs t...
Date: [ca 29 Mar 1976]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Short, Jack, active 1977; Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1976/1125-F
Description: Japanese fishing vessel Choyo Maru 5 run aground in Fitzroy Bay, Wellington. Three firemen stand on the beach alongside. In the background is the Lady Elizabeth (front) with one of the two pilot launches behind her. Photographs taken circa 29 March 1976 by Merv Griffiths or Jack Short for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Children at Strathmore School preparing food for an umu - Photograph taken by Merv Grif...
Date: 15 October 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1981/3386-F
Description: Children at Strathmore School preparing food for the school's Samoan Day umu. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 15th of October 1981. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Angela Foulkes addressing a meeting of trading bank staff - Photograph taken by Merv Gr...
Date: 26 February 1987
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1987/0936-F
Description: President of the New Zealand Bank Officers' Union, Angela Foulkes, addresses a meeting of trading bank staff in the Wellington Town Hall. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merve Griffiths on the 26th of February 1987. The Bank staff voted to strike from 6 March 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Polish immigrants travelling to Polish House, Newtown, Wellington - Photographs taken b...
Date: 4 November 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1981/3597-F
Description: Photographs of newly arrived Polish immigrants travelling to Polish House, Newtown, Wellington, on board a bus, taken 4 November 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Children in remedial reading class, Berhampore School, Wellington - Photograph taken by...
Date: 1 September 1982
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1982/2983-F
Description: Children in a remedial reading class, Berhampore primary school, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths on the 1st of September 1982. The children were taking part in activities associated with Maori Language Week. The song they were about to sing was `e papa waiari.' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Furnace operator Gary Collins at the Pilkington Brothers glass factory, Wingate, Lower ...
Date: 13 Oct 1984
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1984/4777-F
Description: Furnace operator Gary Collins at the Pilkington Brothers glass factory, Wingate, Lower Hutt, Wellington, where a fire had broken out the previous evening. Photographs taken 13 October 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Bill Rowling and family after his investiture - Photographs taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 6 October 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1983/3868-F
Description: Sir Wallace Rowling, his wife Glen, and children Andrew (left), Carl and Janee, after his investiture as a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. Photographed 6 October 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Ultrasonic surgical aspirator, Wellington Hospital - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 3 April 1984
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1984/1554-F
Description: Wellington Hospital staff and the new ultrsonic surgical aspirator. From left - Graeme Martin (senior neurosurgeon). V Bakakrishnan (neurosurgeon). Russell Worth (neurosurgeon). Genevieve Willoughby (charge nurse of neurosurgery in theatre). Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 3 April 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Prime Minister, David Lange, about to make a donation to famine relief - Photograph tak...
Date: 23 March 1985
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1985/1390-F
Description: Prime Minister, David Lange, about to give Hine Morrison a donation for famine relief. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths on the 23rd of March 1985. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Mourners at Weston Williams' tangi, Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Island Bay, Wellington - Photo...
Date: 30 October 1987
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1987/6104
Description: Mourners at Weston Williams' tangi, Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Island Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken 30 October 1987 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm
Portrait of Prime Minister, David Lange - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 13 August 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1986/3948-F
Description: Portrait of Prime Minister David Lange. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths on the 13th of August 1986. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Labour candidate Mrs Tala Cleverley at an enrolling desk in Newtown, Wellington - Photo...
Date: 6 September 1977
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1977/3580-F
Description: Labour candidate Mrs Tala Cleverley (second from right) at an enrolling desk in Newtown, Wellington, in an effort to get more Polynesian people enrolled to vote. Mrs Sinotali Umaga (sitting behind the blackboard) and Mrs Pelenise Fonoti were also present. Photographs taken 6 September 1977 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Sonja Davies at a Federation of Labour Conference - Photographs taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: ca 3 May 1978
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1978/1637-F
Description: Evening Post caption reads "Surrounded by men at the Federation of Labour conference today is Sonja Davies, the first woman executive member of the FOL. From left are Phil Ripia (Gisborne Drivers), Peter Ritchie (Auckland Saddlers), Des Holmes (Sugar Workers), Ms Davies and Cyril Andrews (Wellington Drivers)". (Evening Post 3 May 1978). Photographed by Evening Post photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35 mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Unidentified woman; Fenton Street, Rotorua - Photographs taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: [ca 18 Oct 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978
Reference: EP/1986/5198-F
Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, and two photographs of Fenton Street, Rotorua, showing a row of motels, and cars parked outside. Photographed circa 18 October 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm