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Milson-Linklater Family oral history project, interview with Mavis Leversedge

Date: 27 Jun 2003 and 15 Mar 2004 - 27 Jun 2003 - 15 Mar 2004

By: Leversedge, Mavis Jean, 1912-2009; Robertson, Elayne Gladys, 1935-

Reference: OHColl-0883-01

Description: Life history interview with Mavis Leversedge nee Linklater, whose father, Joseph Linklater, was a member of Parliament in the 1920's and 1930s. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Milson, was an early setter in the Manawatu. Interviewer(s) - Elayne Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016576 to OHC-016578 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Rich text file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5964, OHDL-000801. Search dates: 1912 - 2004

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Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :African monopoly (Russian variation). 7 June 1978.

Date: 1978

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning world politics. Published in the Auckland Star, August 1977 - December 1979.]

Reference: A-331-063

Description: The cartoon shows four men, representing Europe, Russia, the United States and Cuba. They are all sitting around a monopoly board. The game has been adapted to include Russian roulette. The Russian and the Cuban look happy but Europe and the United States are not. Refers to control of Africa. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 250 x 185mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

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Thorndon Historical Society : Photograph of Cottleville Terrace, Thorndon

Date: ca 1962

Reference: PAColl-0729

Description: View looking north west in Cottleville Terrace, Thorndon before Mansfield Towers were built. Two children are playing in the street with a scooter and a pedal car. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-158041 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

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Artist unknown :Illustrations from the Austral Chronicle. 1886.

Date: 1886

Reference: A-015-029/056

Description: Drawings and proofs prepared for the Austral Chronicle, the bi-weekly journal published on board the S.S.Austral, from Sydney to London, March and April 1886. Subjects include shipboard scenes, views of Australia, England, India, Egypt and Italy, the editors of the journal in consultation. Quantity: 25 drawing(s). 15 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink on card (no.s 29-53); lithographs on paper (no.s 54-56, five copies of each) Sizes vary

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Album 1

Date: June 1984

From: National Library of New Zealand: Photographs

By: Baker, Eric, active 1984

Reference: PA1-q-1078

Description: Album of photographs of library scenes at Wellington schools, taken June 1984 by Eric Baker, Principal of Roseneath School Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 305 x 275 mm Transfers: Transfers - From Manuscripts & Archives : 2009-168 : National Library of New Zealand. School Library Service. See also Published Collections.

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Walt Disney :Donald Duck goes South American in Walt Disney's feature film "Saludos Ami...

Date: 1943 - 1945

By: Walt Disney Productions; Wright & Jaques Ltd; Valentine Publications (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-TOYS-1940s-02

Description: Shows the Disney cartoon characters Donald Duck and Goofy in Argentina, Rio de Janeiro and Lake Titicaca. The film "Saludos Amigos" was released in America in 1943. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on either side of folded card.. Physical Description: Offset print on card 379 x 495 mm (folded in three)

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Cooper, Charles (Monsignor), fl 1940-2010 : JMC Society notebook

Date: [ca 1940-1942]

By: Cooper, Charles, active 1940-2010

Reference: MS-Papers-9588

Description: Notebook recording the activities of the JMC Society (Jackie, Michael and Charles). First 11 pages are written in pencil by Jackie and then overwritten in ink by Charles. Also contains pencil listing of pupils in `Std III'; words, possibly a spelling test; a note entitled The Piano continued; rough drawings. The activities occurred in the Cooper home at 20 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North Source of title - Supplied by Library The JMC Society, consisting of Jackie Sturm, Charles Cooper and his brother, Michael Cooper, flourished in the early 1940s, when the children involved were living in Palmerston North. The Society probably disappeared when the Sturm family left for Napier in 1942 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

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Scott, Tom, 1947- :Twenty-two cartoons published in the Evening Post between 1 and 31 M...

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-554-021/042

Description: Political cartoons. Jenny Shipley waits for the corner to be turned in the tourism row. Fringe political games. 1. Murray McCully passes the buck on the tourism row. 2. Helen Clark spread the rumour. Comment on the barbarism of human behaviour as news tells us that Hutu rebels hack tourists to death in Uganda. Comment on Air New Zealand's growing service and safety problems. More Fringe political games... Dodging the issue - Jenny Shipley. Losing the plot: - Clem Simich. A TVNZ executive is put in the firing line over the John Hawkesby payout. Farmers celebrate the end of the draught. Monica Lewinsky's side of the Bill Clinton sex scandal. Saatch boss, Kevin Roberts is made to walk the plank by the Tourism Board. New developments in genetic modification. Comment on the resilience of Tourism Minister Murray McCully to withstand the tourism row. Jenny Shipley explains she won't support the Alliance's Bill calling for labelling of all genetically modified food until the Bill has been redrafted with the National Party logo on the front instead of the Alliance one. A look into the Serbian Police Handbook which identifies threats and instructs Serbian Police to destroy them. The British establishment congratulate themselves on rooting out greed and corruption from the IOC (International Olympic Committee?) and go back to their indulgent ways. Comment on the contradiction between Paul Holmes pitching his show to the ordinary kiwi while receiving a $770,000 salary. Helen Clark trails in the polls as Labour heads toward the next election. Jenny Shipley leads the charge of the firemen against unpopular reformer Roger Estall. Allied planes swoop low over a Serbian soldier about to execute a woman and her baby. Allied war planes are dispatched with personal messages, except the spelling isn't that flash. Comment on the publics feeling of helplessness in the face of mass killings in Kosovo and the Nato response to the violence. Comment on the thought that the APEC summit in Auckland would bring American tourists. Comment on voyeuristic television shows. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

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Tremain, Garrick :37 Cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times from 16 July to 25 Aug...

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

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Eyework Design & Production: Cuba group demo illustrations [1990s?]

Date: 1995 - 1996

From: Eyework Design & Production :[Ephemera and posters. 1988-2004]

Reference: Eph-C-EYEWORK-Cuba

Description: Includes nine mounted illustrative black and white prints of motifs relating to moment and games: juggling, dice, noughts & crosses, arrows, ladders, grids. Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) eachseparately mounted. Physical Description: Offset and digital prints, sizes varying up to 400 mm.

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Interview with Dixie Cockerton

Date: 6 March 1996 - 06 Mar 1996

From: Netball New Zealand Inc oral history project Stage II

By: Cockerton, Dixie June, 1925-1998

Reference: OHInt-0517/5

Description: Dixie June Cockerton describes family background - father, Ronald George Cockerton won ballot at end of Depression and received farm at Galatea (between Rotorua and Whakatane). Refers to secondary schooling by correspondence, pastimes and games, with reference to horse-riding, bikes, marbles, rounders, football and soccer; Depression in Galatea, mail-order shopping and Farmer's Trading Company. Recalls time at Auckland Teachers' College; development of interest in cricket and basketball; Probationary year after college and teaching experience in rural schools; teaching arrangements during Polio epidemic; involvement and requirements of refereeing; Netball Umpires' Association, gaining badge 1943/44 and comments on lack of guidance for coaches. Explains difficulties of playing 7-a-side game and details differences in Australian game. Explains relationship between coaching and refereeing. Other topics discussed include: fundraising activities; uniforms; nomination as coach for New Zealand team to World Tournament in England (1963); style of Australian game; selection process for national coach. Recalls receiving New Zealand Service Award late 1960s. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Matthew Packer Interviewer(s) - Marie Burgess Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006643-006646; OHLC-002416-002419 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1924. Photocopies of 2 photogaphs attached to abstract: (i) Dixie Cockerton and (ii) Dixie Cockerton 1947.

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Interview with Mary McMillan

Date: 19 Aug 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Dawson, Ailsa, active 1998; McMillan, Mary Ferguson, 1908-

Reference: OHInt-0464/15

Description: Mary McMillan was born in Invercargill in 1908 along with her twin brother Andrew. Describes her family and memories of living at Moa Flat where her father managed Howell's Estate. Describes the death of Mr Howell in a buggy accident and purchase of a farm near Waituna. Mentions cobalt deficiency and sheep deaths. Notes her father died from pernicious anaemia caused by the lack of cobalt. Recalls attending school at Waituna, childhood games (rounders and marbles), walking to school, first motor cars she saw, a diphtheria epidemic and attending Technical College in Invercargill. Recalls the house her father built of red pine with a superheater and a wash-house. Describes how her parents died when she was twenty and she and her sister brought up the younger children. Recalls bachelor and spinster balls, dances, card evenings, tennis games and the opening of the hall. Mentions knitting for soldiers in World War II. Talks about washing day and cooking for fifteen threshing mill workers for three meals a day for a week. Describes the dairy factory at Oteramika and the making of Stilton cheese by Mr Saxelby at Woodlands. Mentions a rabbit canning factory and linen flax factory. Notes the use of linen flax during the war. Describes marrying neighbour Alexander McMillan and moving to Waituna. Interviewer(s) - Ailsa Dawson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008618 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2692. Photos of Mary McMillan in 1963 and 1998

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Interview with Joan Moffatt

Date: 20 June 2000 - 20 Jun 2000

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Joan Catherine, 1924-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-04

Description: Joan Moffatt, nee Walker, was born in Wellington in 1924. Her parents moved to a soldier's farm in Te Horo in 1923, where she lived until marriage in 1948. Mentions walking three miles to Te Horo Primary School, segregated playgrounds, games, tennis, and boys tending headmaster's garden. Talks about being left handed. Recalls children's chores, ironing, mother's household tasks, living without electricity, and family pets. Talks about Graeme Walker and his poultry farm which was a major employer, his siblings, and farming being in the blood. Mentions family vegetable gardens, birthday parties, Christmas, attending Wellington Centennial Fair, Te Horo dances. Recalls the Trembarths, Grants, Thorntons and Spiers, the blacksmith and shoemaker, Sunday school, her grandfather. Refers to mother having children at St Helen's Maternity Hospital, Wellington. Talks about meeting husband, Ray Moffatt, a dairy farmer, and farming in the Otaki Gorge. Mentions four brothers in Home Guard, her father's response to brother enlisting for World War II, serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions self and mother knitting socks and baking for Merchant Navy, making Hussifs (needle cases), the Patriotic Society's farewell dances for soldiers, hosting English Merchant Navy sailors, and young women writing to servicemen. Mentions her brother serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions her father belonging to the Wellington Mounted Rifles, being badly wounded at Gallipoli and in France, being sent back to Britain, and evacuation orders. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11060 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 49 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3871. Photo of Joan in garden; the Walker family; Ray & Joan's wedding photo 1948 Search dates: 1930 - 1950

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Interview with Joy Attwood and Ruth Hulme

Date: 28 Mar 2000

From: Whangarei Heads Millennium oral history project

By: Attwood, Joy, 1926?-2018; Hulme, Ruth, 1930s?-2012

Reference: OHInt-0528/1

Description: Joy Attwood (née Going) and her first cousin, Ruth Hulme (née Vinson) describe a typical day, collecting wood, chores around the house, milking cows and arrival of electricity in the 1940s. Recall school with one teacher and 25 children; Christmas tree concert in Taurikura hall; leisure activities for children which included building huts in bush, swimming at beach and games which included, Kingisine, Rounders, tennis, cricket and social events for adults - fund raising concerts during war years, dances, card evenings at Bird's Manaia Gardens, with reference to Red Cross and sewing calico on parcels for overseas. Briefly talk about war years, with reference to Home Guard and Navy based at Bream Head Radar station. Refer to Mr Hollingworth, former tea planter from Ceylon. Refer to Church and Jasper Calder. Describe the limeworks and mentions Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland. Talk about the Mayclair family and refers to artist J R Mayclair. Interviewer(s) - Barbara Jagger / Peter Coates Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010759 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3813. Search dates: 2000

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Interview with Fiametta Jackson-Thomas

Date: 6, 7 July 1995 - 06 Jul 1995 - 07 Jul 1995

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-; Jackson-Thomas, Fiametta Cecilia, 1903-2003

Reference: OHColl-0312/1

Description: Fiametta Cecily Jackson-Thomas born Roslyn, Dunedin. Gives parents background and talks about father's life as a Punch and Judy expert, trapeze artist and snake handler until the age of 35 when he became a cabinet maker. Describes own school days, clothing worn, discipline in school, cadet uniform, chanting of tables, pole drill, description of games played, explaining how boys and girls played games differently. Recalls outbreak of World War I, its effects on women, friends receiving telegrams and comforting each other, white feather incident and attitutes to conscientious objectors. Talks about brother's involvement in World War II. Refers to 6 o'clock closing as a war measure. Recalls being only family in street not contacting flu during epidemic. Refers to garlic as used in Corsica. Describes work experience, working in art department of photographic firm and going to School of Art 1/2 day per week. Talks about Ngaio Marsh who was in class. Refers to Ronald McKenzie, also in class. Recalls learning cabinetmaking which was considered radical for the period - 3rd woman in New Zealand to do so. Talks about social hierarchy of Christchurch. Mentions visit of Prince of Wales. Backgrounds meeting and marrying husband, Arthur, and his brief involvement with the Communist Party. Describes helping watersiders during 1951 Waterfront Dispute and at end of dispute Arthur being made honorary Life Member of Seamen's Union. Talks about Walter Nash. Also refers to Bastion Point occupation and reads poem about Maori sweeper. Gives background to poem. Mentions husband's position of manager of Auckland's Progressive Book shop and invitation to publishing house in China to help Chinese writers in English. Describes time in China, cultural revolution and immense relief on leaving China. Describes her poetry writing and refers to poem `Idle time'. Interviewer(s) - Alwyn Owen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011607-011609 Quantity: 2 C70 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4004.

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Interview with Maureen Martin

Date: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

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KAPCON '95; New Zealand's only RPGA Network supported Roleplaying convention. Museum Ho...

Date: 1994-1995

Reference: Eph-B-GAME-1995-01

Description: Preview, issued on 18 September 1994, of the upcoming KAPCON convention. It includes an entry form and entry notes. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 4 photocopied sheets, 297 x 210 mm.

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Photographs by Gregory Riethmaier from Reed Publishing's illustration files

Date: ca1956-c1970

From: Reed Publishing :Photographs relating to New Zealand mostly 1950s-1970s

By: Riethmaier, Gregor, 1913-2004

Reference: PAColl-4871-05

Description: Quantity: 95 b&w original photographic print(s).

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[Brangwyn, Frank] 1867-1956 :The Skittle Match. London, Fine Art Society [ca 1950?]

By: Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956; Fine Art Society; Fleck, Henry Baxter, 1905-1971

Reference: B-106-015

Description: A skittle-match being watched by a crowd in front of a large Dutch windmill. Published by the Fine Art Society Ltd Misattributed by the Library in the 1980s to W. F. Barraud and catalogued a second time on the assumption that the initials F. B. stood for Frank Barraud. The fact that this reproduction and others with it had already been catalogued under Frank Brangwyn was overlooked. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of a dry-point etching 535 x 475 mm

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Boys playing pool as part of a Porirua Council holiday scheme - Photogaph taken by Don ...

Date: ca 15 Jan 1982

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Scott, Don, active 1970s-1980s

Reference: EP/1982/0137-F

Description: Boys playing pool as part of a Porirua Council holiday scheme. From left: George Reid 14, Jeremy Avison 11, Michael Manning 8, Robert Chappell 9. A trailer advertising the Porirua City Council Funbus is in the background. Photograph taken circa 15 January 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer Don Scott. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm