Schools - New Zealand - Marlborough Region

Date: 1962-1963

From: Meikle, Pauline :Slides of New Zealand scenes and photograph of British Solomon Islands

Reference: PA12-6123

Description: Views of hill country, scrub burning and a road, Wharetoto. Pelorus and the Pelorus River. Picton and harbour. Anakiwa and Outward Bound School. Young women attending school. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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: 1986

From: Cordery, Eric Leofwin, b 1910 : Papers

Reference: MSX-5750

Description: `The School at Ocean Bay' by Jonathan Harlen. Tipped in are a letter from Helen Strang, 1987, letter from publishers, 1987, newspaper review, 1987, and Eric Cordery's reminiscences of his time at the school, 1983 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.08 Linear Metres.

Date: 4 Aug 1921

By: McCusker, Arthur John, 1868-1943

Reference: PA7-58-23

Description: Photograph of the staff and Board members of Marlborough College taken with General Sir Edward Chaytor and three army officers. The occasion was the unveiling of the Memorial Tablet commemorating those old boys who died in the Great War. Photograph taken by Arthur McCusker on 4 August 1921. The three female teachers have been identified as E M Pigott, M E Virtue, and E M Allen. There are two male teachers in the photograph. One of them may have been Harry Robson, who was known to have been at the College around this time. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 26 x 37 cm on mount 38.5 x 49 cm

Date: [1886]

By: Harris, Hiram William, 1837-1915

Reference: fMS-Papers-7164

Description: Illuminated address to Harris, from the members of the Picton school committee, ca 1886. The message focuses on Harris's music teaching skills, especially on the organ. The illustrations are (1) a landscape around Picton; (2) an organ; (3) a statue of Minerva; (4) of a school, presumably the Picton school; (5) a statue of Euterpe; and (7) of the port of Picton. Source of title - Supplied Harris was head teacher, Government Schools, Picton Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss with illustrations (colour photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R P Hodgson, Lower Hutt, Jul 2001

Date: 1939-1945 (1973-1982)

By: Borthwick, Basil Charles, 1913-1997

Reference: MS-Papers-1459

Description: Borthwick writes his memoirs of enlistment, war in Greece, and POW camps; numerous brief anecdotes. Also pieces on W A Macfarlane (World War I), and Charwell Forks School, Marlborough. Source of title - Supplied Borthwick served with South Island Infantry Battalion in Egypt, Greece, Crete and Libya, where he was captured, and was in Italian and German prisoner-of-war camps until 1945 Quantity: 3 folder(s) (24 pieces). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (chiefly photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7489-98

Description: The public school at Havelock with the pupils and teachers grouped outside on the pavement. Photograph taken by Muir and Moodie. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1875-1920]

By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; McCusker, Arthur John, 1868-1943; Novelly Photo Company; Robinson, M, active 1900s; Wallis, Robert, active 1906

Reference: PAColl-8343

Description: People standing in flooded streets, Blenheim, ca 1890; men and a boy doing laundry at Fairburn Sawmilling Co, Te Puhoe, Napier, ca 1905; men standing in front of Homes & Lane, coachbuilders, and T Patchett, Blacksmith, Blenheim, ca 1905; Canvastown cheese factory, taken by M Robinson, ca 1905; horse and bullock teams hauling logs at Matenau near Dannevirke, taken by Robert Wallis, ca 1905; group photograph of Tua Marina School standards 2 to 6, 1909; group photograph of the Black Family of Musicians taken by William Henry Macey, ca 1902; a picnic group, ca 1903; Maori preparing a hangi in Blenheim as part of the celebrations for King Edward the VII's coronation, ca 1902; the Marlborough Mounted Rifles gathered in Blienheim prior to leaving for the South African War, ca 1899; Tua Marina Bridge with one of the builders and two women taken by William Henry Macey, ca 1878; group at Pelorous Bridge taken by Arthur McCusker ca 1920; Murchison farm, Tuis, and Oak Lee Farm, ca 1890s; photographs of Marlborough and other bands, 1901-1905. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted on card).

Date: 1886-1917

By: Robin Hood Bay School

Reference: MS-Papers-0510

Description: School register (1886-1917); newspaper article by W B Fitchett (Marlborough Express, 13 Feb 1935) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopies Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Squadron Leader G S Evatt, Wellington, Sep 1969, Mar 1970

Date: 2013

By: Beaglehole, Helen Elizabeth, 1946-

Reference: OHColl-1580

Description: Interviews conducted by Helen Beaglehole in 2013 as research for the book 'One Hundred Havens: The Settlement of the Marlborough Sounds' (2022). Interviewees are: Hylton Harvey, Nola Leov, Debbie Moleta, Noel Moleta, Joy Redwood, Judith Tomlinson. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 6 Interview(s). 18 digital sound recording(s). 4 Electronic document(s) digital abstracts and additional information.. 2 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement forms and additional information.. 1 folder(s) biographical information forms.. Search dates: 2013

Date: [ca 1910]

From: New Zealand Department of Maori Affairs :Maori School Picture Book

Reference: 1/2-038445-F

Description: Children and teachers from an 'aided' Māori school at Okoha, circa 1910. All unidentified. Photographer also unidentified. Title supplied by Library. Similar photograph with people identified held at Nelson Provincial Museum, N Baigent Collection: 316126 https://collection.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/objects/P37413/okoha-anakoha-native-school-ngati-kuia accessed August 2023. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Description updated 30 August 2023 following information provided by a researcher.