Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919

Date: 23 Sep 1992

From: Maniapoto Archives Oral History Project: He Taonga Tuku Iho

By: Rauputu, Rauputu James, 1916-2005; Tauariki, Sonny, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0085-26

Description: Jim Rauputu recounts and discusses the history of the Mokau Kohunui Marae from 1909 including the local school at Piopio, te kau ma whitu, kaitiaki and various local hapu including those of his parents. Discusses Kahuwera mountain, the Mokau River and old pa. Talks about Kingitanga, the King Movement in depth. Remembers his own childhood including local dances, movies, transport by horse, his marriage and birth of his three sons. Discusses World War II, the influenza epidemic and their effects on the local population. Provides mihi whakamutunga. Interviewer(s) - Sonny Tauariki Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0941. Search dates: 1992

Date: [ca 1902-1987]

From: Nelson, Royal Cullen, 1897-1988 : Papers, mainly relating to scouting

Reference: MSZ-1302

Description: Mainly photographs, correspondence, certificates, receipts and other ephemera. Material relating to Gjerson family (later known as Nelson); Eiffe family; Mullis family; World War I; family home at 17 Aurora Street, Petone; Brookfield Scout Camp and Mary Ursula Crowther (d 1958); St Augustine's Church, Petone; Wellington Woollen Mills (Petone); Barney's Whare (Palliser Bay) and coastal photographs; St Augustine's Petone Boy Scouts; Petone Peace celebrations, 1919; The Boys' Social League (fl 1920s?); Burdan's farm; etc Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 19 Jul 1977

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Beckett, George Frederick David Isaiah, 1895-1983; Beckett, David Isaiah, 1903-1984

Reference: OHInt-0470/02

Description: George and Dave Beckett recall arriving in Rotorua in 1913 and 1914 respectively. George Beckett recalls driving the solicitor, Mr Rhodes and his wife, round the North Island in a Cadillac and then operating a taxi service for the Rhodes. Mentions getting engaged to Mabel Smith with whose family he was boarding. Recalls joining up for World War I and getting extended leave because of family sickness. Describes driving for Rotorua Motors (RM), operating a service to Whakatane and a mail run to Taupo. Describes the difficulties of running some of these routes. Mentions fascines, the punt at Te Teko and the Rangitaiki swamp. Comments that the people running coaches made difficulties for those running cars. Describes being made to swear an oath about a trip on which he was driving. Describes how this trip was to get Rua Kenana out from Ruatahuna. Talks about Constables Cummings and Grant, Mr Snodgrass, the engineer, and Mr Dyer, the magistrate. Describes how a second trip was made with seventy men and Rua and one of his sons were roped together and brought out. Recalls that after Rua's imprisonment he drove him from Ruatoki to Rotorua on a number of occasions in the White (car). Discusses the road to Tauranga. Comments on the low death rate in Rotorua from the 1918 flu epidemic and attributes it to the effect of sulphur. Describes boarding houses and old homes in the area. Discusses surviving the flu in Germany after the war and how he was cured. Dave Beckett describes the motorcycle club in Rotorua known as the Autocycle and Athletic Club. Recalls an athletic meeting in 1922 or 1923 with Bill Costello, Epi Shalfoon, Doug Sheaf and others competing in running, jumping and wood-chopping events. Mentions motorbike riders Steve Whitehead, Percy Coleman, Locker McCready and Stan Blackmore and Indian, AJS, Douglas, BSA and Harley Davidson motorbikes. Describes the sidecars for motorbikes known as Nash sidecars made by Percy Nash of Auckland. Talks about selling motorbikes to the forestry workers in the bush. Recalls being the longest serving BSA agent in New Zealand, starting in 1917 at the age of fourteen and finishing at the age of seventy three or seventy four. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2851.

Date: 11 Sep 1995, 18 Sep 1995, 26 Sep 1995 - 11 Sep 1995 - 26 Sep 1995

From: YWCA (Wgtn) Oral History Project

By: Cotterill, Margaret Hazel, 1910-2005

Reference: OHInt-0351-04

Description: Margaret Hazel Cotterill (nee Williamson) was born in 1910 in Waimate. Talks about family, childhood memories, the Influenza Epidemic and boarding at Timaru Girls High School from 1924. Outlines training as kindergarten teacher and association with Girl Guides. Talks about Girl Guide badges and camps with Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) members. Provides early memories of the YWCA, position as secretary from 1936 and life in a hostel. Describes recreational activities including dances with servicement during World War II. Discusses sports, millinery and cookery classes, sex education during the War, the thrift club and move from Christchurch to Hamilton as YWCA General Secretary 1940. Outlines relationship between the YWCA and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Details work in Hamilton, Palmerston North in 1945 and Dunedin. Talks about staffing, training, wages and conferences. Describes 1948 visit to Canada, education at Toronto University, work for the Children's Aid Society in Ottawa, visit to England, and YWCA's refugee budget and work. Outlines return to New Zealand as Wellington General Secretary. Recounts building new YWCA residence through fundraising and grants. Touches on move to San Francisco 1958, marriage and years spent in England. Discusses work with World YWCA in Fiji in depth. Describes Christian and political elements within the YWCA. Recounts election as New Zealand National President 1973. Provides history of the Wellington YWCA and invovlement with women's liberation. Talks about her 1977 Her Majesty's Commemorative Medal and 1979 CBE. Discusses the current and future role of the YWCA. Interviewer(s) - Judith Byrne Accompanying material - Abstract also contains a range of newspaper articles 1940's-1970's focusing on Margaret Cotterill or the YWCA, YWCA newsletter Herstory article by Margaret Cotterill and notification of her life membership with the YWCA. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013865, OHC-013866, OHC-013867, OHC-013868 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4945. Photograph of Margaret Williamson c.1930's. Photograph of Margaret Cotterill receiving CBE award 1979

Date: 26 Sep 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Davidson, Edna Marie, 1910-2000

Reference: OHInt-0430/04

Description: Edna Davidson was born in Herne Bay in 1910. Her father was Charles Ravenhall and her mother Mary Rashleigh, a tailoress. Describes how her parents met, married in Auckland in 1907 and lived in Herne Bay. Recalls boating and fishing as a child and attending plays and concerts at His Majesty's Theatre where her father was first violinist. Describes education at Bayfield and Meadowbank Primary Schools. Recalls the 1918 flu epidemic and having `gas stuff' blown down their throats as a preventative. Discusses how her father did not believe in higher education for girls so she left school at the age of twelve and worked at Smith and Caughey's lace department. Talks about a subsequent job with Remuera draper Amy Moore. Describes learning to drive and meeting her future husband, W T Davidson who she married in 1929. Gives details of her wedding dress. Talks about her husband's contract to dig soil for the waterfront road, his work excavating for the Civic Theatre and their financial sacrifice to purchase a navvy (motor shovel). Describes taking this machine down to Napier for work after the 1931 earthquake and subsequent work at Galatea. Describes moving to Kaukapakapa and sometimes living from their Dodge truck. Talks about moving to Woodhill in 1935, getting a farm which was part of the Casement Aickin estate and her husband continuing to do some contracting. Describes building a house in 1944 and building up a dairy herd. Talks about the war effort at Woodhill, the school, the Country Womens Institute (CWI) and their social life. Describes how there was a forestry settlement at Woodhill but it has since closed. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3326.

Date: 23 Mar 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Milburn, John Orr, 1913-2001

Reference: OHInt-0616/31

Description: John (Jack) Milburn born Burnside, Green Island 1913. Describes childhood home in Short Street, built by John Orr and made of kauri. Recalls: outdoor pursuits and chores on Saturday mornings; birthdays and Christmas; removal of tonsils at Dunedin Public Hospital; Influenza epidemic (1918); playground games at Concord school; Polio epidemic and first job at Station in Lindis Pass at age of 13 years. Describes shearing quarters; deer culling; rabbiting; the Depression and being manpowered to Burnside Freezing Works during World War II. Talks about social change following the Labour Government coming to power in 1935. Discusses pay and working conditions at Burnside Freezing Works as a wool-puller in fellmongery, with reference to chemical burns and first-aid measures available. Mentions using oatmeal and ginger water to quench thirst. Refers to closure of Burnside Freezing Works in 1988. Backgrounds involvement in local politics and being elected to Green Island Borough Council. Recalls building of Southern Motorway and opening of new Civic Hall (1960). Mentions Kaikorai Stream and the industries which discharged waste into it. Recalls the Abbotsford Slip. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010118-010120 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3380. Photocopies of 3 b&w photographs: (i) Burnside Freezing Works January 1945; (ii) John (Jack) Milburn - in fellmongery of Burnside Freezing Works ca 1943 and (iii) Green Island from Burnside 1926.

Date: 8 Oct 1993 - 08 Oct 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Eteveneaux, Vearl Verona, 1918-2004

Reference: OHInt-0430/05

Description: Vearl Eteveneaux was born in 1918. Her mother's parents, Mr and Mrs Robert Russell, arrived in New Zealand in 1874 and her mother was born in Lawrence. Describes how the family moved to Dunedin where her mother married her father, Ted Harper. Describes how she was born in the middle of the 1918 flu epidemic. Recalls the family's moves to Dannevirke then Gisborne where her father bought a garage. Mentions Robert Kerridge's service car business. Describes attending Gisborne Primary School and getting two years at high school by achieving proficiency. Recalls staying with her mother, who had bad health, until she was married. Describes how her husband Miles Eteveneaux arrived in Gisborne with the Air Force. Talks about his family living in Akaroa then moving to Dipton. Mentions that Miles Eteveneaux showed films round rural halls from the back of a Dodge truck. Describes how he got a scholarship to an electrical college in Chicago where he learnt the functions of studio work. Describes how he operated picture theatres with John Angus, who was killed in the war, and showed movies to the troops in Fiji. Describes how he became an aircraft electrician. Recalls their marriage in 1944 and living in Gisborne where they operated three small country cinemas. Mentions their theatre in Manatuki. Describes buying a run-down Kerridge theatre in Helensville and building it up. Gives her first impressions of Helensville. Recalls how her husband did photography and camera work for British Paramount News. Mentions the 1966 publication `Centre of opportunity'. Describes being very busy helping at the theatre and bringing up children. Mentions her husband's death in 1991 and an accident which broke her legs. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3327.

Date: 30 Dec 1992 - 4 Jun 1994 - 04 Jun 1994

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Hooper, Phyllis May, 1903-2002

Reference: OHInt-0430/06

Description: Phyllis Hooper was born in Warkworth in 1903 and moved to Wayby with her family when she was three. Talks about deliveries of groceries and mail. Recalls a bad flood, basic living conditions and her family being given use of the shop behind the house in return for care of the shop and telephone. Describes how telegrams came through. Recalls the building of a store by the Civil brothers at Wellsford and the closure of the Wayby shop when the railway went through. Recalls problems stabilising banks for the railway. Describes large camps of workers associated with the railway construction. Recalls walking to school, jobs after school and various games. Describes problems with teachers at the school during World War I, going to Wellsford for proficiency and failing. Talks about resitting it and attending St Cuthberts as a weekly boarder. Describes being taught music in Wellsford by Connie Balance and at St Cuthberts by Mrs Archdale Tayler. Recalls how their family got a piano and an organ. Describes how school finished early in 1918 because of the flu epidemic and how some of the children were quarantined at school for six weeks. Mentions the announcement of the Armistice during the flu epidemic and the effect of celebrations on some flu victims. Talks about Dr Meinhold of Helensville and his knowledge of the `plague' (the flu) from Germany. Talks about beginning to teach music in 1920, teaching technique and her parents move to Tauhoa. Describes her weekly journeys between there and Helensville on a horse. Describes marrying in 1928, her husband's singing lessons and their nightly recitals. Recalls being in a singing group with the Women's Division Federated Farmers (WDFF) and playing the piano and organ for the church and Sunday school. Describes hearing visiting pianists Fritz Kreister and Paderewski. Interviewer(s) - Beverley Bennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3328.

Date: 8 Jun 1994 - 08 Jun 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Tippet, Agnes Reta, 1909-2006

Reference: OHInt-0616/42

Description: Agnes Reta Tippet born Saddle Hill 1909. Gives family background. Recalls being taken to see first electric light at Mosgiel ca 1914. Briefly describes childhood home: fireplaces, coal range, kitchen, water pumped from well, washing of dishes, soap used and Saturday chores. Describes Christmas dinner. Recalls going with father to inspect mine and notes that almost every house belonged to coal miners. Mentions `Old Billy' who grubbed gorse and came in to the house for tea. Also refers to swaggers coming for meals. Other memories include: visits to Coach and Horses Hotel; World War One; Walton School; Influenza epidemic (1918); entertainment at Green Island Picture theatre and brief reference to Kirkland Hall. Refers to ethnic composition. Talks about Fireside club at Green Island and refers to A Hendry. Gives details of own shop `the Christine Frock shop' on main road and own daughters' dressmaking training with Mrs Sutherland. Mentions involvement with C W I (Country Women's Institute) and being a Past President of Memorial Gardens Welfare Committee. Recalls helping out during aftermath of Hunterville Hostel fire (1958). Refers to the changing role of women in the home and change and development in Green Island. Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010140-010142 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3390.

Date: 6 Nov 1993 - 06 Nov 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Robinson, Winifred Jean, 1909-

Reference: OHInt-0430/08

Description: Jean Robinson was born in 1909. Describes how her parents were immigrants who married on their arrival in Auckland. Describes Helensville in the 1920s. Mentions Verona House and other boarding houses. Recalls primary school days including riding a horse to school, subjects taught and having one teacher. Describes high school picnics to Shelly Beach. Mentions how her brother died of infantile paralysis. Recalls that Dr Meinhold was the only doctor in the community during the 1918 flu epidemic. Describes leaving school and working on the farm and doing housework. Comments that this was what most girls did until marriage. Recalls getting their first car and having to push it on muddy unmetalled roads. Talks about family holidays at Waiuku. Describes how her husband drove his father's truck. Recalls their marriage about 1935, living in Helensville and then sharemilking for her father before buying her uncle's farm at Mairetahi. Describes how the children went to school at Waioneke. Mentions the original Waioneke school was in Lupton's woolshed. Discusses the post World War II rehabilitation settlement. Comments on the effects of World War II including rationing, transport difficulties and labour shortage. Recalls the Home Guard. Describes fundraising for the war including baby contests and knitting. Recalls the end of war party. Mentions her children attended Kaipara College. Describes her husband's death in 1962 and her involvement in Red Cross, Women's Division Federated Farmers (WDFF) and the church. Describes the voyage to New Zealand of her grandparents Isaac and Janet McLeod on the `Seagull'. Mentions difficulties on the trip and assistance given by local Maori on their arrival. Mentions John and Helen McLeod, after whom Helensville is named. Describes her father's community involvement on the Kaipara Dairy Board, the Rehabilitation Board, the Agricultural Show, the Racing Club and the Masonic Lodge. Talks about social activities including films and hearing Al Jolson. Interviewer(s) - Harriet Taylor Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3332.

Date: 20 May 1992

From: Rawene Public Library oral history project

By: Brindle, Stephen John, 1907-2000

Reference: OHInt-0641/02

Description: Stephen John Brindle born Devonport 1907. Talks about father's life at sea and describes events leading up to father's arrival in New Zealand, with reference to Capt. Skinner of the Melanesian Mission schooner `Southern Cross'. Gives brief description of Melanesian Mission activities and previous Southern Cross wrecked around the Islands. Mentions father's friends, Mr and Mrs S P Andrew, a photographer in Wellington. Recalls returning from school to become father's assistant on the farm and family move back to Onoke in 1926. Refers to father belonging to Masonic Lodge in Kohukohu. Describes courtship and marriage in 1935. Mentions father-in-law, William Digby Young. Describes having tonsils removed by Dr Smith, appendicitis removed when 21 years and flu epidemic (1918-1919). Discusses history of Onoke's Native Land Court - the first in the Hokianga but not the first in New Zealand as records show. Explains that Whangarei held a court in 1862 and Onoke ca 1865. Discusses transport and the use of launches which were dependent on tides. Gives long and very detailed description of the cream-launch routine and the navigational skills needed to negotiate creeks and landing-stages in the darkness. Mentions launch driver, Ivor Bryers. Interviewer(s) - Alexa Whaley Venue - Omapere Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010750 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3805.

Date: 6, 7 July 1995 - 06 Jul 1995 - 07 Jul 1995

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-; Jackson-Thomas, Fiametta Cecilia, 1903-2003

Reference: OHColl-0312/1

Description: Fiametta Cecily Jackson-Thomas born Roslyn, Dunedin. Gives parents background and talks about father's life as a Punch and Judy expert, trapeze artist and snake handler until the age of 35 when he became a cabinet maker. Describes own school days, clothing worn, discipline in school, cadet uniform, chanting of tables, pole drill, description of games played, explaining how boys and girls played games differently. Recalls outbreak of World War I, its effects on women, friends receiving telegrams and comforting each other, white feather incident and attitutes to conscientious objectors. Talks about brother's involvement in World War II. Refers to 6 o'clock closing as a war measure. Recalls being only family in street not contacting flu during epidemic. Refers to garlic as used in Corsica. Describes work experience, working in art department of photographic firm and going to School of Art 1/2 day per week. Talks about Ngaio Marsh who was in class. Refers to Ronald McKenzie, also in class. Recalls learning cabinetmaking which was considered radical for the period - 3rd woman in New Zealand to do so. Talks about social hierarchy of Christchurch. Mentions visit of Prince of Wales. Backgrounds meeting and marrying husband, Arthur, and his brief involvement with the Communist Party. Describes helping watersiders during 1951 Waterfront Dispute and at end of dispute Arthur being made honorary Life Member of Seamen's Union. Talks about Walter Nash. Also refers to Bastion Point occupation and reads poem about Maori sweeper. Gives background to poem. Mentions husband's position of manager of Auckland's Progressive Book shop and invitation to publishing house in China to help Chinese writers in English. Describes time in China, cultural revolution and immense relief on leaving China. Describes her poetry writing and refers to poem `Idle time'. Interviewer(s) - Alwyn Owen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011607-011609 Quantity: 2 C70 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4004.

Date: 8 December 1993

From: Interviews with Mary (Molly) Harkness and Samuel Hales

By: Van Gorkom, Jeanne, 1930-2006; Harkness, Mary, active 1982

Reference: OHInt-1467-02

Description: Interview with Mary (Molly) Harkness on 8 December 1993. Discusses her childhood in Matatā and her mother's role as postmistress. Location - Taranaki Interviewer(s) - Jeanne van Gorkom Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Interview(s). Search dates: 08/12/1993

Date: 1992, 2017

From: Averi, Queenie, 1899-1991 : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12213-2

Description: Extracts from the memoir of Queenie Averi (née Porter), 30 October 1899-20 May 1991, which mainly covers her early life in the Wairarapa Region and then central Wellington, up until the 1930s. It includes anecdotes about her family's involvement with 'His Majesty's Theatre' where her father was the first custodian. The back of the memoir contains a photocopied article written by Queenie Averi's son, Peter, about the tragic death of Phyllis Porter, Queenie's cousin, in 1923. This was initially published in 'Music in New Zealand' autumn edition 1992. The opening pages of the volume contain a scanned photograph of Queenie Averi as a young woman, and an 'additional note by Peter Averi' speculating on the reasons why she was called Queenie. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: One spiral bound volume, printed matter.

Date: 1889-1918

From: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925- : Papers relating to Arthur Aris King and James Baxter Fleck

By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: MS-Papers-12198-1

Description: Folder of 48 postcards from Samoa with images photographed by Alfred Tattersall and Thomas Andrew. The postcards were all reproduced in the publication compiled by Alice Hunt 'Greetings from Samoa: Early Twentieth Century Postcards and a tribute to Alfred Tattersall' (Palmerston North: Manuia Books, 2016). The photographic postcards document Samoa, including historic events such as the cyclone of 1889, the volcanic eruption of 1905, and some are dated 1910. During this period Samoa was under German administration and consequently many of the postcards feature captions in the German language. Other subject matter depicted includes: - Volcanic activity, including lava running into the sea - Shipping, including naval vessels and fishing canoes - Shipwrecks of American and German naval vessels following cyclone of 1889 - Landscapes and scenery, including waterfalls - The build environment, including traditional and colonial buildings - Individual and group portraits of people, ranging from copra workers and to the king of Samoa, Malietoa Laupepa. - Natural history and indigenous costumes and adornments Some of the postcards bear the imprint of the "Deutsche Samoa-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Apia" Also two postcards not directly related to Samoa, one portraying two female subjects related to Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, and one depicting "The Mosque of Omar, at Jerusalem". These two postcards with inscribed messages from circa 1918, at the time of the Influenza Epidemic, by Olive Blanche King to her sisters Florence King and Amelia Cora King, describing the experience of severe illness suffered by the writer and her family, including mother Susana Key and brothers Edward and George. The postcards are mostly blank and not postally used, while some have messages and postal markings. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 48 postcards. Physical Description: Postcards.

Date: 1918 - 1919

From: [Ephemera and posters of around A3 size, issued in support of the campaign against the sale of liquor in New Zealand. 1800-1919]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-ALCOHOL-Prohibition-1919-01

Description: One side of a sheet printed on both sides. Shows caricatured figures of Britain and of Uncle Sam and notes that prohibition is enforced in the United States, with Canada tagging along. It notes the heavy handicap that Britain has with its drink bill, and notes a similar situation in New Zealand. The verso is a facsimile of a page of the Evening Post from 21 November 1918, with many panels about the influenza epidemic, advice on hanging out a white flag to get assistance; notice of orphaned children at Clyde Quay School; a list of headquarters of the Citizens' Vigilance Committee. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on newsprint, 460 x 325 mm.

Date: 1883-1984

From: Nelson, Royal Cullen, 1897-1988 : Papers, mainly relating to scouting

Reference: MSZ-1301

Description: Mainly photographs, correspondence, certificates, receipts and other ephemera. Material relating to Gjerson family (later known as Nelson); Eiffe family; Mullis family; Petone Central School, World War I (correspondence, ration books, troopship Tofua No 109 - signatures); family home at 17 Aurora Street, Petone; Brookfield Scout Camp; will of Mary Ursula Crowther (d 1958); St Augustine's Church, Petone and parish history; Wellington Woollen Mills (Petone); Barney's Whare (Palliser Bay); United Ancient Order of Druids, Poneke Lodge No 207; notebooks; reminiscences Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1918-1919

By: Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953

Reference: MSX-8892

Description: Rule's diary kept while he underwent military training in New Zealand during World War One. From Timaru, Rule records travelling to the North Island, daily life at the Featherston Military Camp which includes details of parades, inspections and drills. Rule notes his personal correspondence, family birthdays and incidental financial payments. Also includes newspaper cuttings relating to the Great War and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919. Source of title - Transcribed from item Accompanying material - Includes photograph of Rule in his library; newspaper cuttings; and an A-Z pencil sketch of military arm signals. Private Rule trained as a machine gunner for World War One at the Featherston Training Camp. The war ended before he could be deployed overseas. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, photograph & printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Dunbar Sloan Auction House, Auckland, September 2011

Date: 1918-1918, 1977

By: Flux, Arthur Llewellyn, 1896?-1983

Reference: MS-Papers-7400

Description: Comprises memoirs of war service by Flux; postcards collected and sent by him and `On active service' unused envelopes Source of title - Supplied Arthur Flux served in World War One in the 1st Otago Battalion Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph album and other photographs - To Ephemera Collection - Unused envelopes.

Date: 1884-1885, 1918

By: Brown family

Reference: MS-Papers-4825

Description: Contains: Letter to Alexander Brown from his cousin, Alexander Miller in Scotland re family matters, 1 June 1885, letter from Alexander Brown to his wife Christina from Hokianga, 8 July 1884 and two letters from Christina Brown to her daughter, Frances, containing references to the influenza epidemic in Auckland, 9 and 23 Dec 1918. Alexander and Christina Brown emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland. Alexander Brown was the proprietor of saw mills in Marlborough and Hokianga. Quantity: 1 folder(s).