Water polo

Date: ca 1880-1910

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: PAColl-3064-1

Description: Rocks Road, Nelson looking south; a waterfall falling down large boulders; a carriage and pair of horses passing Windy Point in Buller Gorge; Garraty's Point, Cape Foulwind; Matai Bank, Nelson showing willow trees; school children, some bare foot, with their teacher outside their school; school girls with their teachers outside their school; Wakefield Cricket Club, part of Nelson Cricket Association, in their team uniform ca 1894; studio group portrait of a rugby team; two of the six members of the Nelson Water Polo Club (the seventh is shown in photograph); six girls in theatrical costume holding ribbons; men transporting wood across the Aorere River by punt for Collingwood Gold Fields Ltd; the sixteen members of the Takaka Races Committee; the staff of Nelson College in April 1901 - G T Palmer, F Milner, E J Parr, J Drummond, T A H Wing, W S Littlejohn; an unidentified man; two of unidentified groups of men; a clergyman and four other men under a tree; and an unidentified family group. Quantity: 20 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1970-1989

Reference: Eph-B-SWIMMING-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1970?: New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. Typescript sheet about swimming, and cuttings of logo, lettering [1970s] 1970: New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. New Zealand age-group swimming and diving championships. Hastings Aquatic Centre, 21-22 February 1970. Programme 1974: Sportways underwater mail order catalogue 1974 (2 copies) Sportways underwater mail order catalogue 1974/5 1978: New Plymouth Old Boys Swimming & Surf Club (Inc.) Daily News marathon river swim down the Wanganui River from Taumarunui. Souvenir sponsorship form, January 1978. 1979: Air New Zealand Aquatic Congress. Dunedin, 7-12 May 1979. 2nd notice / registration forms 1983: V.U.W. Waterpolo and Swimming Club. 1st meeting for registration and discussion about teams. Thorndon Tavern, Wed. 7th [1983]. Flier 1986: New Zealand Master Swimmers 1986 National Long Course Championships. Hamilton, Te Rapa Pool, 11-13 April 1986. Official programme 1987: Join the Harbour City Aquatics aquarobics programme. Freyberg Pool 7 April; Keith Spry Pool Johnsonville 8 April [1987]. Flier Standards Association of New Zealand. NZS 5826. Commercial swimming pools; school swimming pools, home swimming pools, commercial spa pools, home spa pools. [Pamphlet / price list for published standards. 1986] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset on programmes and fliers, sizes varying under 330 mm.

Date: 1944-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-301

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Italy during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Officers and personnel of the 9th NZ Infantry Brigade and of the 6th NZ Infantry Brigade at Trieste; thanksgiving service on the occasion of the end of war in Europe, and presentation of awards by Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg. Group portraits of No 1 & No 2 Platoons of Mechanical Equipment Company of New Zealand Divisional Engineers; various sports and entertainments including a trotting meeting at Montebello, Trieste; swimming regatta; athletics; hurdles; yacht race; skiing and staying at the NZ Alpine leave centre at Madonna di Campiglio, in the Brenta di Dolomiti (Southern Dolomites); sports in Florence (Allied track and field championships); swimming championships at Rome; water polo; motor cycle speedway events and rugby. New Zealand staff at the NZ Forces Clubs in Bari, in Rome, in Florence and in Venice. A memorial visit to Crete by members of the NZ Division who had been in the Cretan campaign in 1941, as guests of honour at a luncheon given by the people of Galatas; visits to the old Head Quarters; and a memorial service at the military cemetery; other memorial services at the Sangro Military Cemetery and at the Cassino War Cemetery. New Zealand troops on leave in the United Kingdom, visiting Hampton Court, Victoria Barracks, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral. Scenes with Freyberg inspecting troops before they leave for New Zealand; also members of "Jay Force" during their training in the Florence area; an illuminated address presented to Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg by 28 Maori Battalion during his farewell visit to the Divisional Unit, (the address includes a wooden frame carved by Charles Iotua Tuarau); Freyberg saying farewell to nursing staff at the NZ General Hospital (Florence); married men of the Tenth Reinforcement at the NZ Advance Base awaiting transport home; group portrait of the staff of the NZ Army Post Office at Bari on the day the post office disbanded. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1951 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-SWIMMING-1951/1959

Description: Includes: 1955: N.Z.A.S.A. Wellington Centre. Swimming championships featuring Mrs Pat McCormick, Olympic & American diving champion, and Miss Shelly Mann, American champion & world record holder. Riddiford Pool Lower Hutt, 14-15 February 1955. Official programme, and tickets (14th February orange; 15th February buff) Swimming visit of world champions Mrs Pat McCormick, Olympic springboard and tower diving champion; Miss Shelly Mann, backstroke, butterfly and medley champion ... Centennial Pool [Christchurch], 16-17 February [1955]. Programme His Worship the Mayor extends a cordial invitation to Rt Hon Walter Nash and Mrs Nash to be present at Supper to be served in honour of the visiting American swimmers, Mrs Pat McCormick and Miss Shelly Mann, and officials, in the Horticultural Hall, Laing's Road Lower Hutt at the conclusion of the Wellington Centre Swimming Championships in Riddiford Baths on Tuesday 15th February 1955 [Invitation card] Tawa Flat Centennial Committee. Tawa Flat - Linden Centennial Memorial learners' swimming pools. Your support could save a child from drowning [appeal for donation for a swimming pool. 1955?] 1956: New Zealand Junior and Intermediate Swimming Championships. Municipal Baths Napier, 8, 9 and 11 February 1956. Official programme 1957: Hutt Valley Swimming and Life Saving Club. Nash Cup Carnival. Riddiford Baths, 7 February 1957. Programme Nae Nae Olympic Pool Amateur Swimming Club. First Gala Swimming Carnival at Nae Nae Olympic Pool, 23 February [1957?]. Official souvenir programme NaeNae Olympic Pool Amateur Swimming Club. Grand Christmas Carnival, Nae Nae Olympic Pool, 21 December [1957]. Featuring Miss Phillipa Gould of Auckland, Miss Tessa Staveley of Auckland, Miss Kay Sawyers of Auckland, and leading Wellington swimmers and divers. Official souvenir programme Miss Philippa Gould [and] Miss Tessa Staveley. Publicity photos of these two swimmers in action, with biographical notes [ca 1957] Wellington Centre, New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. Centre swimming and diving championships. Nae Nae Olympic Pool 26 Janaury; Riddoford Pool 29 January; Karori Pool 31 January [1957]. Official programme. 1959?: New Zealand Amateur Swimming Assn (Wellington Centre). New Zealand Trial Waterpolo and Swimming Carnival. Naenae Olympic Pool, Saturday December 12th [1959?]. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset on programmes and fliers, sizes varying under 250 mm.

Date: ca 1957-1959

By: McCusker, Gordon John, 1892-1966; Wilkinson, Bill, active 1950s; McBride, Patricia, active 1974-2016

Reference: PAColl-7728

Description: Photographs of groups all including Conor McBride. Collection comprises: Photographs of New Zealand University Students Association and Catholic student congresses at Curious Cove, 1957-1959, taken by G McCusker & Son of Blenheim. Photographs of visiting Australian water polo team, ca 1950s, taken by Bill Wilkinson. Photograph of interior of beehive house, New Plymouth, taken January 1958 by an unknown photographer. Postcards of Masterton and Kawarau River Bridge. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: Donated by Trish McBride, Wellington, January 2003

Date: 1905 - 1910

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues for sporting equipment and sports gear. 1900-1949]

By: H E Partridge Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SPORTS-GEAR-1906-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for sporting goods: cricket bats and balls, cricket stumps, batting and wicket-keepers' gloves, cocoanut matting pitches, cricket nets, cricket boots; tennis racquets and racquet covers, tennis balls, nets and poles, tennis shoes; lawn markers and sprinklers for sports grounds, steel quoits, croquet balls, hoops and mallets; lawn bowls; running shoes; "Olympic" embrocation for athletes; silk elastic hosiery, suspenders, swimming costumes, water wings, water polo balls, wool sweaters, air rifles; hand tally registers (for counting). Inside back cover advertises "Kia-ora" briar pipes. Date estimated from an illustration of a cricket bat signed by the Australian Cricket XI for 1905. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 213 x 137 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dick Scott, in 2007.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-075

Description: Shows a rowing eight and a water polo team battling against a giant wave. The wave is labelled 'Olympic selection committee' and a sign reads 'To Melbourne 1956 Olympics'. Also contains the words 'The important thing is not to have won but to have taken part. - Baron de Coubertin' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1972-1974

From: Maranui Surf Life Saving Club : Records

Reference: 83-287-03/17

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1978

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 35mm-48243-F

Description: Photograph of New Zealand Womens' Water Polo Team, taken 1978 by Crown Studios Ltd of Wellington. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 7 Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler negative

Date: 1965-1966

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs : An Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Sports and Pastimes Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-2000-18

Description: Files on trap shooting (gun clubs), trotting, vintage cars, water ballet, water polo, water ski-ing, weightlifting, wrestling, yachting Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1971

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-192387-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1971

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-192369-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1966

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/1-036473-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1971

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-192389-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1970

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-197088-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 22 Jul 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-01894-F

Description: Crew members of HMS Leander watching a water polo match in Alexandria Harbour. Photograph taken on 22 July 1941 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1970

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-197087-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1971

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-192371-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 22 Jul 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-01892-F

Description: Crew members of HMS Leander playing water polo in Alexandria Harbour. Photograph taken on 22 July 1941 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1971

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-192372-F

Description: Photograph taken by Crown Studios of Wellington. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative