Hurdling (Track and field)

Date: 1925

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-023

Description: Includes: Oxford University Athletic Club. Record medal OUAC Sports, Feb. 27 1925. 100 yards. 10 sec. A E Porritt. Magd. Coll. Oxford University Athletic Club. Record medal OUAC Sports, Feb. 28 1925.220 yds low hurdles. 25 2/5 sec. A E Porritt, Magd. Oxford & Cambridge Athletic Sports. Prize medal. Record medal, Queen's Club, March 21, 1925. 100 yards. A E Porritt, Magd. Oxford & Cambridge Athletic Sports. Prize medal. March 1925. 100 yards. 9 9/10 sec. A E Porritt Oxford & Cambridge Athletic Sports. Prize medal. March 1925. 120 yds hurdles. 2nd, 15 4/5 sec. A E Porritt Oxford & Cambridge Athletic Sports. Prize medal. March 1925. 220 yds hurdles. 2nd, 24 4/5 sec. A E Porritt Quantity: 6 curio(s). Physical Description: Gold, silver and bronze coloured medals, diameters 62 mm.

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6881

Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [1930-1931]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-055

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways circa 1930 to 1931 by unidentified photographers. Some subjects have images dotted throughout the album, including the arrival in New Zealand of Lord and Lady Bledisloe in March 1930; the arrival in 1931 of Sir Francis Chichester after his crossing of the Tasman in his bi-plane; various activities at the Hillside Railway Workshops, including a group portrait of staff; and various images relating to Railways ticket offices, advertisements for railway tours and excursions, photographs of tickets, and an advertisement for house removals by train. A series of views show athletic sports including running races, hurdles, cycle racing, and long-jump. There are scenes showing the international sportsman Dr Otto Peltzer winning the 880 yards, handicap race at Wellington, on 8th February 1930. Team sports are shown in two views of a women's hockey team playing on the field below Victoria University College, and a series on rugby football, including views of the 5th test between Britain and New Zealand at Athletic Park in 1930. Railways head office picnic, including races by men, women and children (p 35-36), and a huge crowd at Paekakariki Beach, picnicking and swimming (p 70). Official occasions include scenes of the Empire and Australian Farmers' Tour, a view of the cortege at Sir Joseph Ward's funeral outside Parliament Buildings, the opening of Massey Memorial, and various views of unidentified railway officials in personal and group portraits, including one of the members of the New Zealand Railway Commission. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book. C1'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: 1923

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-020

Description: Includes: Otago University Athletic Club. A E Porritt, 100 yds champ. Record 10 1/5 sec. 1923 Otago University Athletic Club. A E Porritt, 220 yds champ. Record 23 3/5 sec. 1923 Otago University Athletic Club. A E Porritt. 120 yds hurdle champ. Record 16 sec. 1923 N.Z.A.A.A. 1923. AEP [monogram oncentral copper disc inside silver cross N.Z.U.T. A E Porritt, O.U. 100 yds. record (10 sec). 1923 [New Zealand Universities Easter Tournament?] N.Z.U.T. A E Porritt, O.U. 200 yds. record (22 4/5 sec). 1923 [New Zealand Universities Easter Tournament?] Quantity: 6 curio(s). Physical Description: Gold, silver and bronze coloured medals, irregular, diameters up to 33 mm.

Date: 1924

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-021

Description: Includes: Oxford University Athletic Club. S.A. Olympic team, OUAC, 17 June 1924. 1st, 100 yards Oxford & Cambridge Athletic Sports. Prize medal. A E Porritt, 2nd, 100 yards. 10 1/5 sec. 1924. P.A.Z.S.[?], Warszawa 1924. I. [1924 Summer Student World Championships, Warsaw. Porritt won the 100 metres in 10.9 seconds] Amateur Athletic Association Championship. Standard medal. 22 yards flat. A E Porritt. 21.6.24. An Bainriogan Tailte. Aonac Tailteann, Baile Ata Cliath [Tailteann Festival Games, Dublin]. Athletics, Dublin, August 1924. 120 yds hurdles. Quantity: 5 curio(s). Physical Description: Gold, silver and bronze coloured medals, diameters varying up to 62 mm.

Date: [ca. 1972-1975]

From: Diva Productions Ltd: Records of the Topp Twins

Reference: MSY-8104

Description: Athletics scrapbook with clippings, sports programmes, photographs, and results for both Lynda and Jools Topp. The scrapbook itself may have originally been a financial ledger, as materials were pasted on to pages with financial notes written on them. Some pages of financial notes are still visible. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1876

By: Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1876-01

Description: Programme for an athletic meeting, with judge T Buchanan, starter W Mace and timekeeper G Fisher. The meeting had 14 events: Maiden race, hop step and jump, 220 yards handicap, light hammer, 440 yards handicap, high jump, hurdle race 120 yards, handicap mile, handicap 100 yards, walking handicap 3 miles, half-mile handicap, handicap bicycle race 2 miles, handicap 150 yards, and 300 yards consolation race. The contestants for each event are named. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on programme of 3 sheets, 219 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Porirua, in 2013.

Date: 1938

By: Meere, Matthew Charles, 1890-1961

Reference: Eph-E-ATHLETICS-1938-01

Description: Poster promoting the 1938 Empire Games and Australia's 150th anniversary shows an athlete wearing a Unuion Jack on his white singlet, hurdling in the air with the Sydney Harbour Bridge far below This copy of the poster has been signed "to the Waikato Times reporters" by Alan Sayers, and autographed by many athletes from Empire countries (New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, England) Other Titles - February Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 1005 x 635 mm, with handwritten ink annotations Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane Auction Auckland, 27 March 2014, lot 618.

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: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-126

Description: Shows three scenes of the hazards of a race through Wellington's streets. In the first a race organiser is explaining that because of the council worker's strike which has resulted in piles of rubbish bags on the streets, the race will be a hurdle race. In the second scene a contestant is doing a 'water jump' over the Manners Mall fountain. In the third scene a contestant is lying on the ground after being hit by a demolition ball when he was running past a demolition site. Refers to the construction boom in central Wellington in the 1980s. Extended Title - Competitors would have found the Courtenay Place-to-Lambton mile a lot more interesting - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache and crayon, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1925

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-022

Description: Includes: Oxford University Athletic Club. 1925. 100 yards. 1st, 10 sec. (Record). A E Porritt, Magd. Coll. Oxford University Athletic Club. 1925. 120 yds hurdles. 1st. 16 3/5 sec. A E Porritt, Magd. Coll. Oxford University Athletic Club. 1925. 220 yds low hurdles. 1st, 25 3/5 sec. (Record), A E Porritt, Magd. Coll. Oxford Cambridge Princeton Cornell International Track & Field Meet, July 18th 1925, Atlantic City USA. 2nd A E Porritt, 21 2/5 sec. Oxford & Cambridge v American Universities. Prize medal. O & C v P & C, 100 yds race 1926. Oxford & Cambridge v American Universities. Prize medal. O & C v P & C, 220 yds race 1926 University of Pennsylvania, 31st relay race carnival 1925. 2nd prize 100 yards dash. Time 9 4/5 sec, A E Porritt University of Pennsylvania, 31st relay race carnival 1925. 3rd prize, 22 yards. Time 22 sec, A E Porritt. University of Pennsylvania, 31st relay race carnival 1925. Polytechnic Harriers. Kinnaird Interclub Trophy. 1925. 100 yds (Gold) Harvard Yale Oxford Cambridge, 1925 Harvard Stadium. Third 100 yds dash, won by Harvard. 9 9/10 s. A E Porritt. London Athletic Club. 100 yards. 10 sec. 1925. A E Porritt. Quantity: 12 curio(s). Physical Description: Gold, silver and bronze coloured medals, diameters varying up to 46 mm.

Date: 1922

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-019

Description: Includes: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. High jump hcp. A Porritt, 2nd. 1922 [Gold and copper shield] New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Otago Centre. High jump champ 1922. New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Otago Centre. 440 yds relay champ 1922 New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Otago Centre. 120 yds hurdles champ 1922 Otago University Athletic Club. 100 yards. Interfaculty record 10 3/5 secs. A E Porritt 1922. N.Z.U.T. A E Porritt, OU. 120 yds hurdles, 100 yds flat 1922 Quantity: 6 curio(s). Physical Description: Gold, silver and bronze coloured medals, irregular, diameters up to 32 mm.

Date: 1918

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-017

Description: Includes: [Wanganui Collegiate School]. 100 yds open. A E Porritt. Time 10 3/5 sec. [Wanganui Collegiate School]. [2?]20 yds hdcp open. A E Porritt [Wanganui Collegiate School]. 120 yds hurdles. Open. A E Porritt. Time 18 secs. [Wanganui Collegiate School]. 440 yds open. A E Porritt. Third [Wanganui Collegiate School]. Senior cjampionship. A E Porritt. Second. 11[?] points [Wanganui Collegiate School]. House relay. A E Porritt. Grey. Time / Record 49 1/5 secs. High jump open. Standard 5 ft. 100 yds open. Standard 11 2/5 sec. Breast stroke 50 yds open. Standard 41 2/5 secs 100 yds hurdles open. Standard 18 secs. Quantity: 10 curio(s). Physical Description: Silver coloured medals, diameters varying up to 30 mm.

Date: 1987

By: New Zealand Lamb Information Bureau

Reference: Eph-D-MEAT-1987-01

Description: Shows a photograph of a meal of three lamb kebabs, rice, bread, nuts, grapes, kiwifruit and a glass of milk. Below is a panel showing five hurdlers leaping over bars representing the nutrients supplied by 100 grams of lean lamb: protein, zinc, iron, vitamin B12 and niacin. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 20 January 1976

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-052

Description: Depicts former Prime Minister (and Leader of the Opposition) Bill Rowling and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon running in a hurdle race. Rowling has fallen at the first hurdle, labelled 'Election', while Muldoon is shown leaping deftly over the next hurdle. Includes a quote from Rowling, "Restraints have to be seen to be equitable. There is no evidence that the gov't has any real thoughts of equity. It is just dashing at each hurdle as it appears". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "He's not equitable!" [underlined, in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick. [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen, Letraset and pencil on paper, 395 x 510 mm

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-305-0298

Date: [1920s-1990s]

From: Athletics New Zealand :Photographs

By: Photo News Ltd; Millard, Edward Arthur, -1933

Reference: PAColl-9435-2

Description: Photographs relating to Athletics New Zealand, including photographs given to ANZ by G W Jackman and photographs from the Reeve collection (scrapbook held in MSS). Photographs taken by various photographers. Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-043

Description: Photographs of archery and teams competing in the Empire Games, 1950, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes an archery competition (probably regional level) held 6 February 1950. Also includes photographs of members of the Fiji and Ceylon teams in Melbourne for the Empire Games from January to March 1950. Also one photograph of members of the Fijian team at St Andrews College for the Centennial Games. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1951

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-03-033

Description: Shows Prime Minister Sid Holland hurdling over obstacles with a box of New Zealand butter under each arm. The hurdles are: strike, go slow, industrial blackmail, lawlessness, bad faith. The cartoon quotes the headline "Holland wins national hurdles titles", and may refer to another man by the name of Holland (this may be the point of the inset discussing Holland's likeness). Published in the Auckland herald on 6 March 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 140 x 218 mm.

Date: 1950-1996

From: Athletics New Zealand :Photographs

By: Hart, Duane, active 1992; Phelps, Anthony, active 1995; Rob Sutton's Runners World

Reference: PAColl-9435-1

Description: Photographs relating to Athletics New Zealand. Photographs taken by various photographers. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 31 colour original photographic print(s).