Schools - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: Nov 1988

By: Wells, Stanley Peter, 1920?-; McAlpine, Rachel Phyllis, 1940-

Reference: OHColl-0277/1

Description: Stan Wells recalls being sent by Ada Wells to a Salvation Army orphanage for boys in Temuka when he was six. Describes the few privilages, the starvation diet, no play and the work. Explains having his name changed. Recalls corporal punishments. Talks of his sister Alice known as Bim, sister Edna, also the few women who sheltered him. Talks of money provided by the Masons' Lodge for upkeep of this once grand home and its deterioration. Recalls having top marks in drawing and talks of his inability to play cricket or rugby at school later. Describes memorable days when the boys were allowed out of the orphanage. Explains about his holidays in Oamaru, meeting the Fergusons with whom he went to live, the servant - master relationship with Mr. Ferguson. Discusses similarities in the personalities of Harry Wells and Mr. Ferguson, an organist, and talks about their purchase of an organ. Discusses differenes in attitudes between Hazel Armstrong, who took an interest in him, and Mrs Ferguson. Talks about his work as a 15 year old on a farm at Wanganui, his work on a poultry farm with poor pay, and the cost of meals. Describes his jobs as a gardener. Explains that Bim's work was as a masseuse, also a compiler for Stone's Directory, and relates that she cycled to the West Coast during the Depression. Recalls his schooling, going to war in Egypt in artillery and infantry units, his treatment as a prisoner of war when he worked in coalmine and on a railway. Explains that he was sent to a nursery garden in Temuka on his return. Describes his psychiatric treatment after the war, spending time at Hanmer and names Dr. Bevan Brown, Frank Cook, Len Booth. Talks about religion. Describes visiting Ratana Pa, Wanganui and mentions successful health treatments there. Explains about his love of native bush. Recalls Frank Milner of Waitaki School. Talks of cycling, piano playing and his appreciation of music. Relates about girlfriends, his wife and children. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - Rachel McAlpine Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002857; 002858; 002859 Quantity: 3 C90 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3852. Search dates: 1920 - 1960

Date: nd

By: Denne, Archibald, Harry, 1900-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-10887

Description: Includes reference to his teaching at Taihape and Oxford, experiences in Maori schools in the Northland and on the East Coast, relations with Sir Apirana Ngata and others, and experiences in Fijian and Chatham Island schools. Includes some sketch maps of the areas mentioned Denne was an inspector of Maori schools 1933-1937, inspector of schools 1938-1947 and senior inspector of schools in Hawke Bay 1947-1948 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (85 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One cartoon entitled `AHD inspects the sewing'.

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-10

Description: Story of the Cook family of Northern Ireland and Springburn, mid Canterbury. William Cook senior and his wife Mary Jane immigrated to NZ on the `Varuna' in 1874. It is also the story of a blacksmith shop (McFarlane and Cook, Lyndhurst) from 1887-1976. For most of this time (1890-1969), William Cook junior, and his family were involved in the business. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Photographs and family tree

Date: 1868-1929

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-2

Description: Group photographs of girls attending the school run by the Convent of the Sacred heart, Timaru. Photographs of bishops include Bishop Grimes, Archbishop Redwood, and Bishop Brodie. The family of Dr M S and Agnes Grace, ca 1886. The family of Mr and Mrs A C Nottingham of Halswell, Christchurch, 1920. Group including Bishop Grimes on the front steps of St Patrick's Basilica, Oamaru (possibly the dedication of the church on the 18th of November 1894). Group photographs of clergy attending the jubilee celebrations of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru, in 1929. Original wooden gothic Roman Catholic church, Timaru, which burnt down in 1910. Maryville College of the Sacred Heart, St Louis, USA, which is where the founder of the Sacred Heart order in Timaru came from in 1880. Sacred Heart primary school building, Timaru, in the 1880s. Buildings of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. Timaru Railway station. The ship SS Australia. Cobb and Co coach and Bank of New Zealand, Timaru, 1868. Yankee-K class locomotive. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 Pen drawing.

Date: ca 1920

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

Reference: PAColl-7081-95

Description: The Technical and Main Schools in Temuka. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1963

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PA12-6784

Description: Opening of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and Cottesmore College, Burnside, Christchurch. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1930-1984

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-4

Description: Views of the buildings and grounds of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. Religious paintings by Mother Zahel, and Mother Helen Ryan. Memorial cross to the sisters of the Sacred Heart, Timaru cemetery. Sanctuary of the Basilica, Timaru. Demolition of the buildings of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru, January 1984. Interior of the Chapel looking west. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 27 colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1988-1989

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-09

Description: Rita Ellen Lee's reminiscence of her teaching career in Canterbury, Southland and Otago, 1928-1958; Miss L Leonard's reminiscence of Marlborough School, 1905-1907; R Hazel Lill's reminiscence of Willowby School, 1911-1917; Mrs Laura Law (nee Mawhinney), Eweburn School; W E Langford's brief history of Hastings Central School, 1875-1975. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: 1929

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1409

Description: Views of the buildings and grounds of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. Included is an interior view of the chapel looking towards the altar, and a reigious painting. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1967]

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-15

Description: Recollections of his school days in Central Otago and Dunedin, Teachers Training College and teaching career at Lawrence, Gore, and Rangiora. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0204

Description: Girls High School, Christchurch New Zealand, taken ca 1910-1913 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 138 mm

Date: 1885-1917

By: Westmacott, Herbert Horatio Spencer, 1885-1960

Reference: Micro-MS-0847

Description: Detailed memoirs cover childhood and youth in South Canterbury, the family's move to the King Country ca 1913, military service in World War I, including Gallipoli campaign Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s) (21 volumes). Physical Description: Positive microfilm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 19 Jun 1852

By: Jacobs, Henry (Rev), 1824-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-3363

Description: Refers to a list Godley instructed him to send, naming boys attending Christchurch Grammar School Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [ca 1965]-1921

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-1

Description: Photographs relating to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. These include Mother Juliette Bauduy-Garesche founder of the Society of the sacred Heart in Timaru. Also Rev Mother Susannah Boudreau foundress of the Sacred Heart order in Timaru in 1880. Most of the collection is made up of group photographs of girls who attended the school run by the convent. There is also a photograph of the children of Mr and Mrs A C Nottingham of Halswell, Christchurch. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970 - 1990

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-Ho-1900s

Description: Includes material from the following schools: Hornby School 75th jubilee celebrations 1895-1970. 28-30 March 1970. Programme Houghton Valley School 50th jubilee 1981. Programme and ticket and coaster Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1894 - 1899 - 1901 - 1895

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to education trends and methods, teachers and teaching, career-specific education]

By: North Canterbury Education Board; Butcher, Charles Stanley, 1923-2016

Reference: Eph-B-EDUCATION-1894/1901-01

Description: Ceritificates issued to Charles Henry Butcher for good attendance in 1894 and 1895, and for Merit in 1899 and 1901. The merit certificates have ornate borders and use illustrative printers' blocks of birds and chrysanthemums on the right side. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on certificates, 250 x 316 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5734

Description: Two essays on Gay topics. The 13th Gay and Lesbian Fair, and a record of the life of a gay couple and the house and garden they lived in, and made, over 19 years. Ngaio School's 90th Reunion and some of the people attending. Views of Wellington sites -- the new State Highway 1 motorway interchange at Newlands, the Burma Motor Lodge, Johnsonville Railway line, Khandallah substation site and Thorndon New World Supermarket under construction. Transparencies include Youth for Christ summer programme, El Rancho camp, Waikanai in January 1980, Children at Timaru Highschool (1980), a concert in Civic Square, Wellington, by the National Youth Choir of Britain (1992), and various Wellington sites mainly in the Ngaio area Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22294 - 22323, slides at PA12-1519 to PA12-1521 Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 65 colour original photographic print(s). 12 b&w original negative(s). 16 b&w original negative(s). 54 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: ca 1900s

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7397

Description: Set of photographs of Timaru and Waimate which have been cut to fit together for a magazine lay-out or similar. They are: interior of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Timaru; Timaru post office; Timaru Custom House with Quirk's Royal Hotel to the right; the new Primitive Methodist Church, Timaru; St Mary's Church, Timaru; the boys of the Main School, Timaru in their cadet uniforms on the playing field with visiting adults; the Boys' High School, Timaru; the Wesley Church, Timaru; Trinity Presbyterian Church, Timaru; two views of the Municipal Offices and Public Library, Timaru; Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru; and the Waimate Court House. The photographer was William Ferrier. Due to irregular shapes they have been used for a magazine lay-out at some stage. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).