Carnivals - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1930 - 1934

Reference: Eph-A-LIFESAVING-1930/1934

Description: Includes: 1934: NZ Surf Life Saving Association. Championship Carnival. Takapuna Beach, February 24 & 25 1934. Official programme Takapuna - Milford Summer carnival. January 20 to January 29 1934. Souvenir programme Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, in 2012. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2134 and the Photographic Archive..

Date: 1935 - 1939

Reference: Eph-A-LIFESAVING-1935/1939

Description: Includes: 1935: N.Z. Surf Life-Saving Association. Championship carnival, Fitzroy Beach, New Plymouth, February 23rd and 24th, 1935. Official programme. 1935. 1937: New Zealand Life Saving Association. National Surf Championships. Lyall Bay Beach, February 13-14 1937. Published by authority of the Wellington Life Saving Association. Official programme (2 copies) 1938: New Zealand Life Saving Association. National Surf Championships. New Brighton Beach, January 22-23 1938. Published by authority of Canterbury Surf Life-Saving Association. Official programme (2 copies) Royal Life Saving Society. Souvenir menu and toast list of complimentary dinner to Officials of the NZ Surf Life Saving Association. Christchurch, 22 January 1938. 1939: New Zealand Life Saving Association. National Surf Championships. Milford, Auckland, February 18-19 1939. Official programme Quantity: 4 album(s) Album(s). 1 pamphlet. Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated by Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, in 2012. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2134 and the Photographic Archive..

Date: 1915

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1915].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1915-01

Description: Programme booklet shows "Our soldier queen" no. 6, Alice Wallingford, and lists items of the afternoon and evening event. Performers included the Onehunga Brass Band, Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster Pearce, Misses Brown and Spear, Masters Norgrove and Flavell, Miss Elsie Campbell, Master Frank Stewart, Misses McDougall, Miss J Campbell, Mr J H Egan, solo cornet by Musician Cranston, Auckland Male Choir, Mr Wightman McCombe, Miss F McDougall, an aerail glide by Marvou, a Rarotongan Native Contingent. The soldier Queen was to be escorted from the Ferry Buildings in Queen Street to Ponsonby Reservoir and Point Erin Park. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages, 189 x 124 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2004.

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera relating to patriotism, fundraising for the war effort, during World War I. 1914-1918. Folder 1]

By: Excel Printing Company

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1918-02

Description: Booklet includes list of participants, donors and organisers. Events included Fire Brigade sports, relay races, Scottish and Irish dancing, maypole dances, horse parade, parade of hounds and huntsmen, tug-o-war, boy scouts display and Maori haka "at [a] suitable interval". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 245 x 188 mm. Processing information: Removed from the Lady Liverpool album, volume 6, in the 1980s.

Date: 1980-1989

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1980s

Description: Includes: 1981: City of Upper Hutt Festival Tattoo 81. 1981 [Programme booklet] 1983: Eastbourne Lions' Club & Eastharbour Free Kindergarten. Big Dig Gala on the beach Bishop Park Eastbourne. 29 January 1983. Prizes galore including home computer valued at $1200.00. Yellow flier 1984: ASB Fiesta '84. Auckland, 10-18 March 1984. Pamphlet 1986: Carnival, Labour weekend. Ascot Market, cnr Riddiford & Constable Streets, Newtown. Wakefield Market, cnr Jervois Quay & Taranaki Street, Wgtn City. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, programmes, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1923

From: [Ephemera relating to carnivals and celebrations in New Zealand. 1920-1929]

By: Webster (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1923-01

Description: A schedule of events for 6-13 January, including yacht races, swimming sports, dinghy races, model yacht races, aquatic events, Scotch and Irish dancing, flower and horticultural show,home industries exhibition, floral fete, hunting competitions, boy and girl riding contests, athletic sports, tug of war, wrestling, baby show, Fire Brigade tournament, bowling tournament, tennis tournament, aviation displays, grand bazaar, side shows. Includes photographs of two women swimmers, Miss P Hoeft, and Miss Violet Walrond. Dated from the time at which Violet Walrond would have been competing as a swimmer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 204 x 135 mm. Provenance: Purchased from John Martin, dealer, London, in 2005.

Date: [ca 1885]-1899

From: Creator unknown :Photograph album, and further photographs, of images chiefly taken in New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9912

Description: Group of nine loose album pages include - Views of European cities, one a triumphal arch at Marsailles, France. Families in New Zealand photographed outside houses. Views of Auckland. Native forest with displays of tree ferns, a nikau palm and freycinetia. Auckland Harbour, yachts, ships and an explosion. Scenes from the North Shore Native Regatta and Aquatic Carnival held from 28 December 1898 to 3 January 1899 in conjunction with the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898/99. Included are - Maori dances including haka. Group diving and swimming. General view of the audience. The manuka and raupo houses built by the Maori visitors. A war canoe that took part in the canoe races. Some groups of Maori visitors. Carved house at Te Kuiti photographed by Josiah Martin some time in the 1880s. Tourists and Maori at Whakrewarewa in the 1890s. Studio portrait of a Maori woman in traditional costume, ca 1890s. The North Shore Native Regatta and Aquatic Carnival was an event held in conjuction with the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898/99. Included large contingents of Māori from the East Coast and Rotorua. As well as canoe races and other sports, there were dance and singing performances by Māori, and the construction of six living whare from manuka and raupo. Also included was the Inter-Colonial Yatching Championship that included yachts brought over from Sydney. The event opened on 28 December 1898 and closed 3 January 1899. The conclusion of the aquatic events was the blowing up of the steamer 'Enterprise' off Cheltenham Beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1961

By: Auckland Provincial Public Relations Office

Reference: Eph-B-FESTIVAL-Auckland-1951-01

Description: Booklet with a cover illustration of a juggling clown, and Father Time with a sickle. The programme includes a grand decorated float parade with illuminated floats, an opening ceremony, a grand Olympic Circus (with gymnasts, skaters, weight lifter, trick cyclist, drum majorettes and a bull fight), an international garden show, fashion parade (compered by 1ZB radio personality Marina), "Miss Auckland" parade, fireworks display, a pageant titled "Night of the Maori Race", a donkey derby and open gymkhana, Empire cavalcade, international fiesta, and a Battle of Flowers. The last page lists the commercial exhibits in the Trade Exhibition. The central spread shows photographs of all the candidates for "Miss Auckland": Pat Bullock, Ida She Cheong, Joy Clow, Joyce Fussell, Betty Gallagher, Shirley Hall, Gloria Jackson, Mary McDonald, Beverley Page, Heather Redwood, Margaret Shepherd, Noeline Swinton, June Sharpe, Colleen Turbett. Patricia Johnson and Isabel Moore are also listed but have no photograph. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 267 x 209 mm. Provenance: Donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: [ca 1938]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982

Reference: PAColl-5469-003

Description: Photograph of men, wearing swimming togs, running in a chariot race at the Piha Surf Club carnival, taken ca 1938 by B Snowden. Published in the `New Zealand Freelance', 16 March 1938, page 44 Inscriptions: Verso - Surfers. Piha Surf Club Carnival. Chariot race in progress. P16.3.38. Snowden. Kingsland. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2011

By: Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts

Reference: EPHDL-0162

Description: Digital flier announces the Te Tuhi Carnival at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts at 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, and lists the events and performers, including a night programme featuring musicians Steve Abel and the Chrysalids, Heart Attack Alley, Bond Street Bridge, Gundry Blues, Lippizzaners, Silke Hartung and Band, Toy Triptech. The night session also included star gazing with the Auckland Astronomical Society, and Ant Timpson's incredibly strange film viewing. The afternoon programme featured family-friendly activities such as zumba, flea market, donkey rides, puppet show, art workshop, Academy of Strings, ukulele performance from North of Bombay, dance and art workshops, tai chi. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).