Memorial rites and ceremonies

Date: 1924-1949

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0568

Description: Contains books, pamphlets, correspondence, receipts and a ration book Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photograph and printed matter

Date: 1999

By: Greenwood, Barrie L, active 1954-1998

Reference: MS-Papers-6725

Description: Comprises `A Service of thanksgiving for the life of Robert Field-Dodgson, 1926-1999' held at Christchurch Cathedral, 3 Dec 1999; and photocopies of obituaries and death notice for him Field-Dodgson was the conductor of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society choir from 1949 to 1989. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1997

Reference: Eph-A-ROYAL-1997-01

Description: Front cover shows photograph of the Princess of Wales, who died on 31 August 1997, in a car crash in Paris. Inside contains words of the order of service. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Folded pamphlet, 210 x 149 mm. (folded) Provenance: Donated by the Dean of the Cathedral, in 1998.

Date: 2004

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Memorial-2004-02

Description: An order of service for the ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2004.

Date: 1997

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1997-01

Description: Front cover shows photograph of the Princess of Wales, who died on 31 August 1997, in a car crash in Paris. Inside contains words of the order of service, which was attended by the Governor General and the Prime Minister. Other Titles - His Majesty's Ministers for New Zealand request the honor of the presence of [Mr and Mrs G N Goldie] to witness the ceremony...by Their Royal Highnesses. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 8 pages, 296 x 208 mm. Provenance: Donated by Diane Wyber, acting CEO of the National Library, in September 1997.

Date: 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

By: Wood, W J (Private), active 1945

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-089

Description: All photographs were taken by Pte W J Wood and include captions (multiple copies of most). Include: Group of officers and nurses taken after the ceremony with Lt Gen Freyberg; Freyberg reading his message to the troops; padres J B Dawson, C C Palmer, M A Bennett & F H Walsh; senior officers with Freyberg - Brigadier L W Thornton, Brigadier S H Crump, Brigadier W G Gentry, & Major C K Reed; Freyberg placing a wreath to honour the fallen; Guard of Honour; The Last Post; Padre J B Dawson reading the dedication; Brigadier Parkinson placing a wreath; volley being fired; Freyberg chatting with Lt Gen G W Allfrey; senior army, navy & air force personnel; debris of wrecked vechicles in desert; 48 veterans of Italian campaign who formed a Guard of Honour Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-MEMORIAL-SERVICES-1950s

Description: Includes orders of service and fliers relating to memorial services for: 1952: The Kamehameha Schools and Bernice P Bishop Museum. Memorial service for Sir Peter Henry Buck, KCMG, DSO, MD, Te Rangi Hiroa. April 15 1880 - December 1 1951, at the Kamehameha Schools Auditorium, Honolulu, Hawaii, Wednesday February 13, 1952. Order of remembrance 1954: Form of service for the interment of ashes of Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangihiroa) and the unveiling of the memorial. Okoki, Taranaki, 8 August 1954 (Photocopy only) Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Folded cards, booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 1891 - 1894

Reference: Eph-A-DEATH-Mace-1891/94

Description: Three cards with silver and black borders, for John Mace (died 4 February 1901, aged 42, buried at East Malling - card features lily-of-the-valley); Frederick John Mace (died 3 February 1894, aged 2 years 9 months); and one card for an unnamed young child, featuring a sickle lying among flowers. Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on cards, 77 x 115 mm. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PAColl-8032 - Transferred from PAColl-8032.

Date: 2010

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to miners and mining in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand. Parliament

Reference: Eph-B-MINING-2010-01

Description: Booklet for the memorial service to the 29 miners who died as a result of explosions in the Pike River Mine, on or after 19 November 2010. Shows a page of photographic portraits of the miners, of the Pike Stream and of the area near the mine. The order of service included songs by the Greymouth District Combined Primary School Choir, and Nga Kura o Te Tai Poutini, with speakers Reverend Canon Mere Wallace, Reverend Tim Mora, Mine chief executive Peter Whittall, Greymouth Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand, Prime Minister John Key, singing led by Carolyn Williams, prayers led by Father John Morrison. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 300 x 212 mm. Provenance: Donated by Margaret Hurst, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1952

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0233

Description: File 38 - Contains letters, telegrams and correspondence re the death of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu in battle in 1943 including a colour hand painted sketch of Te Moana Ngarimu. Correspondence re the Ngarimu scholarship and funding Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts some with ms annotations, watercolour

Date: 2004

From: [Funeral notices and memorial services for individuals deceased 2004]

Reference: Eph-A-FUNERAL-2004-02

Description: Private family funeral service for the writer Janet Frame (Nene Janet Paterson Clutha). 2004. The front cover shows a photograph of Janet Frame looking through a window of a train or bus. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital photograph and laser photocopy on folded pamphlet, 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Private donation, 2004. Transfers: Accompanying photograph of Janet Frame at the launch of her sister's book, August 2003, transferred to Photographic Archive -PAColl-8594..

Date: 1953 - 1954

From: New Zealand Railways :[Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1950-1959]

By: Bannatyne, Alexander, active 1940s-2002

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1954-01

Description: The order of service reproduces a reading from Romans VIII, 18-28 and 31-end, read by the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir Frederick Doidge. An address by the Right Rev G V Gerard, former Lord Bishop of Waiapu was part of the service. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in booklet. Physical Description: Letterpress on 8-page booklet, 242 x 153 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Alexander Bannatyne in 2002. Transfers: To Serials Collection - Manuka 1945-1947.

Date: 1883 - 1884

Reference: A-058-010

Description: Title page has the title in gold lettering on silk, stuck to paper with coloured ferns also stuck at the top. Some were previously stuck at the bottom but were missing on arrival. The first opening shows a handwritten poem "Spring", by author William Drummond, copied out by ACB on 1 July 1884 in Oamaru. Second opening shows, a collage of five scraps on the left side, and on the right, a poem entitled "Ferns", copied out by "I.S."?, 25 February 1884. The poem has three pieces of fern still remaining from a previously fuller border. The William Drummond poem is a lament for a departed woman or girl. It is possible that the album was a memorial album for Lizzie, born 1883, or died 1883 or 1884. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) (fragment). Provenance: Donated by Dunbar Sloane Limited in 2002.

Date: 1993-1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5623

Description: Views of VJ day ceremonies, 1995, opening of Te Papa (14 February 1998), moving state house from Ngaio site, Scout fair in Ngaio (1993) Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22115 to 22139 Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 12 images. 49 colour original photographic print(s). 22 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 79 images.

Date: 1940-1941, 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: PAColl-4161-01-103

Description: Series of photographs of the memorial service, and luncheon given by people of Galatas, in Sep 1945. Shows Maori Battalion choir lead by Padre Capt W T Huata; guests of honour at the luncheon held where NZ Divisional HQ were situated in 1941; march past and band of Maori Battalion; war cemetery at Galatas; local Cretans including priests; Naval Guard of Honour from cruiser Ajax. Images of the bombardment in vicinity of Canea, 24 May 1941; map of Canea & Suda Bay area and diagramatic map showing German and Allied positions; dispositions near Canea, 30 Apr 1941; map re withdrawal to Sphakia (drawn by R L Chemis); German war graves; badly burnt German corpse; NZ YMCA Galatas showing L/Cpl Goodall & Simon Watson (YMCA Sec) with monk. Ted Garviet (?) and Ray Wilton of 18th Auckland battalion on a horse-drawn cart; troops on board ship and after disembarkation; German first-aid post near battlefield between Galatas and Maleme; aerial photo of wreckage of German planes near Maleme; two photos of young German soldiers setting off for Crete. Members of 5th Field Park NZE arriving at Galatas after evacuation of Greece, Sep 1941; aerial photos of coast near Canea; arrival of British troops; members of `A' Coy 5 NZ Field Ambulance; barques in Canea harbour similar to those used by Germans for sea-borne attempt on Crete; group of 5 Infantry Brigade (Capt Dawson, Brig Hargest & Capt Mason); photo of notice to members of British forces from Commander of Kreta to surrender to German troops; man in Cretan national costume; topographical and strategical map of Crete drawn by Kenneth Turner; view looking across Suda Bay to smoke from destroyed German plane in the distance (ca 20-27 May 1941); diagramatic sketch of Western Sector to show German airborne invasion of Crete, drawn by Kenneth Turner Series of British Official photographs of the German bombing of the Heraklion aerodrome, near Candia Quantity: 106 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0286

Description: A crowd of men and women at a Memorial Service Petone Verso has message to Ted identifying writer's two brothers in the crowd, which he has marked with an X Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 86 x 137 mm

Date: 1930 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-DEATH

Description: Includes pamphlets and fliers from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, the "Death with Dignity" Bill, the Petition for the Adoption of Voluntary Euthanasia (P.A.V.E.). Also includes a flier containing the rules governing the Presbyterian Cemetery at Wallaceville, Upper Hutt. Ephemera relating to funerals and funeral services is located at: FUNERAL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and typescripts, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 17 April 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-086175-G

Description: Photograph related to a dedication ceremony at the Cenotaph, corner of Bowen Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington, taken on 17 April 1932, for the Evening Post newspaper. Source of descriptive information - From negative register only. Image not seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 17 April 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-086176-G

Description: Photograph related to a dedication ceremony at the Cenotaph, corner of Bowen Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington, taken on 17 April 1932, for the Evening Post newspaper. Source of descriptive information - From negative register only. Image not seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 17 April 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-086172-G

Description: Photograph related to a dedication ceremony at the cenotaph, corner of Bowen Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington, taken on 17 April 1932, for the Evening Post newspaper. Source of descriptive information - From negative register only. Image not seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative