Māori (New Zealand people) - Alcohol use

Date: [1880-1965]

By: New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic

Reference: 77-206

Description: Records comprising subject files, executive and various committee minutes, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous material Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 18 box(es). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plaque re memorial window placed in 1st Pakeha Church to commemorate the Sacred Pact not to sell liqour to Maori - To Photographic Archive - Portrait of Ratana clergy, ca 1950s; negative of King Country Pact plaque (PAColl-8347) - To Cartographic Collection - Two maps (PR-05-0227).

Date: 1937, 1947-1953

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-08A/03

Description: Correspondence and membership lists Hamilton, South Auckland, King Country. Includes papers re report `Liquor and the King Country: An examination by Dr A H McLintock... of the facts concerning a .. pledge said to have been made between the Government of NZ and the Maori Chiefs of the King Country', 1953 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1910 - 1912

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0123

Description: Contains amendments to the Licensing Act. Also letters of concern and support for the provision of the Licensing Act specially affecting Maori and Maori Districts. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and maps

Date: 1913 - 1942

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0122

Description: Contains records, accounts and receipts of the Board and also the minutes from a conference which covered issues such as liquor licences, Maori land tenure and education Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1953-1960

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-08A/02

Description: Correspondence and membership lists re Morrinsville, Hamilton, South Auckland, King Country, Huntly. Includes the report `Liquor and the King Country: An examination by Dr A H McLintock... of the facts concerning a .. pledge said to have been made between the Government of NZ and the Maori Chiefs of the King Country', 1953 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1942-1956

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-001

Description: Includes whakapapa from the Tairawhiti, Tainui and Te Arawa, essays on Maori poetry, the valedictory speech of Rangi Royal, the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the railway's main trunk line, 'Ngata, the Maori Statesmen', the creation of a Maori dictionary, news reports of Kingi Tawhiao drunk in Masterton, organising the play 'Pong and Puhihuia', honours list recommendations, the building of Mahinarangi at Turangawaewae and also Maori waiata, pao, ruri, patere and karakia, also includes personal correspondence, including from Michael Jones. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 16 March 1989 - 16 Mar 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Harsant, Florence Marie, 1891-1994

Reference: OHInt-0058/06

Description: Florence Marie Harsant talks about her childhood as the daughter of a school teacher who taught at native schools, her own education and relationship with Maori, learning to speak Maori, her father's attitude to learning Maori and her reading tastes. Notes difference in dialects around the North Island and refers to her autobiography `They called me Te Maari' and the radio programme produced by Alwyn Owen. Discusses her work with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) as the Maori organiser in the North Island, her personal hatred of alcohol and having to give up this work because of ill health. Describes going to live in Hahei, the horseback and ferry rides necessary to get there, conditions of life in such a remote place, her marriage to Horace Henry Harsant and her life bringing up her children in Hahei. Recalls her history of library membership, writing to the women's pages of various farm magazines, taking a correspondence course in journalism and her subsequent story writing. Describes why and how she came to set up a Country Library Service `B' library in 1952 in her home at Hahei. Gives details of the library systems used, subscriptions, supply of cataloguing cards, selection process, increase in number of books supplied and the changing nature of users and reading tastes over the years. Describes the routine when the book van was there, talks about the first Field Librarian Joe O'Neill and about having the drivers to stay. Discusses the great importance of reading and having access to books when living in such a remote place and the impact the library has had on the community. Explains the continued difficulties of travel in the area, detailing the ferry service and recalling trips out to have children. Details how she looked after other people's children and teaching school in her own home. Describes her husband's accident and its impact on the family. Discusses her favourite book van drivers Joe O'Neill and Jim Sutherland and making friends through the library. Describes the current library service she runs from her home through the National Library Postal Book Service. Talks about the publicity she has received from writing her book and being awarded the Queens Service Medal (QSM). Venue - Whitianga Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Harsant's home at Whitianga Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains list of publication Relationship complexity - Diary and materials held in Manuscripts & Archives at MS-Group-0246 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002055, OHC-002056, OHC-002057 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2714, 2715, 2716, 2717, 2718 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0310. Printed abstract contains two portrait photographs of Florence Harsant, one dated ca 1913. Search dates: 1891 - 1989

Date: 1945

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-088

Description: Contains stories, whakapapa and Maori religious ideas and events relating to the creation of the universe and the origin of mankind Also contains loose notes and printed matter on whakapapa and a letter to the Minister of Maori Affairs in application of a liquor license Other Titles - Mareikura - Io (English) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-069

Description: Accompanying note indicates that this is a sketch of Patara drinking alcohol at Tawhiao's funeral. The sketch shows a seated figure drinking. There is a man in a hat in the left foreground. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Page 69. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on page, 182 x 270 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1994

From: [Ephemera and posters up to A1 size, relating to Maori, for the year 1994]

By: Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand. Māori Unit

Reference: Eph-D-MĀORI-1994-02

Description: Shows an illustration of stylised Maori faces, a Maori topknotted warrior climbing a rope, and two Maori playing rugby.There is a geometric border on all four sides, incorpoating three eye shapes on the right side. Identity of artist illustrator MRT unknown Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 425 mm. Provenance: Donated by Andrea Tangohau, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: [circa 1930s]

By: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-; Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: A-473-144

Description: Etching by Trevor Lloyd depicting pixie-like creatures excitedly discovering a bottle of ale that has been discarded beneath a fern. An empty box of matches reading "strikes" sits on the ground below the bottle. The figures, of which there are six, are depicted wearing piupiu (grass skirts), and headdresses featuring koru-style patterns and huia feathers, implying that they are Māori. One of the figures examines the cork from the ale bottle, and another two peer into the bottle neck. The illustration combined with the title of the work presents a caricatured and stereotypical view of Māori as alcoholics and primitive beings. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A Hot Scent. [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - Trevor Lloyd [in ink] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) etching. Physical Description: Etching on paper, 223 x 312 mm.

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1950s, by Nevile Lodge and Winton Bristow]

By: Burt, Ronald Albert, 1928-2007

Reference: B-074-089/090

Description: Possibly an illustration for a story published in the New Zealand Free Lance. Shows a young Maori woman (back view only) with a man and another Maori woman seated at a table drinking. In the background a group of people are standing at the bar. On two sheets of paper, joined in the centre. Possibly intended as a double-page spread illustration Inscriptions: Recto - above image - p4 & p5 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 382 x 492 mm

Date: [ca 1890?]

From: Hammond family : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4528-05

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 items, 7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1986

From: Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council :[Ephemera of quarto size]

By: New Zealand. Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council

Reference: Eph-B-ALCOHOL-ALAC-1986-01

Description: A folder of pamphlets from Te Ara Hou, sheet music, songs and song sheets to dissuade Maori from excess drinking of alcohol. Some sheets refer to the sound recording put out by Dalvanius Prime and Moana Maniapoto Jackson, composed by Ngamaru Raerino. Quantity: 1 folder(s) of pamphlets and brochures. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets in folder 310 x 230 mm.

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-039

Description: Vignettes concerning Canterbury and New Zealand politics. On the Christchurch mayoralty, four candidates (including Helyar Bishop, top left and Tommy Taylor, bowing) are pleading with a pretty woman. 'The roo of the future' shows a winged kangaroo and refers to the establishment of an Australian aviation corps. 'Sweet dreams' shows Sir Joseph Ward dreaming of himself in a paper crown walking alongside the newly-crowned George V. 'The police raided the pa of Rua ... and discovered a sly grog shop' shows European men sneaking into a pa entrance to buy alcohol. One man, detained by a policeman, claims to have turned religious, wanting 'to join this 'ere Rua bloke'. 'The Commissioner Question' shows an obese man, High Commissioner of the Pacific, on the ground, while two women, Auckland and Sydney, fight over him. A Fijian man gestures in the background. 'Two prisoners escaped from Darlington Gaol' shows a man pointing out a lunatic on the street to a policeman. The policeman dismisses the report as being 'one o'them picsher shows' (a film in a cinema) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 530 x 405 mm

Date: 1975-1977

From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand : Further records

Reference: 90-387-14/1

Description: Quantity: 1 box(es) (file).

Date: [1973-1977]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-05/16

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1950s, by Nevile Lodge and Winton Bristow]

By: Burt, Ronald Albert, 1928-2007

Reference: B-074-091

Description: Possibly an illustration for a story published in the New Zealand Free Lance. Shows a young Maori woman in sleeveless dress standing with a glass in one hand (the contents emptying onto the floor) and the other hand raised to cover her eyes. In the background a couple are embracing on a sofa. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 420 x 340 mm (with tracing paper overlay)