Scouting (Youth activity)

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [Between 1927 and 1965]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-113

Description: Album includes photographs, chiefly taken by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, from black and white photographs taken in the 1920s to coloured snapshots taken in the 1960s. Subjects range from scout camps and tramps in New Zealand, to views of military aircraft and scenic views of India, Egypt and Libya taken circa 1940-1943 while he was serving with R.A.F. squadrons. Later coloured snapshots show holiday scenes. The photographs are interspersed with postcards. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled red and black cover, black corners and spine, 24 x 34 cm

Date: 1947, [1960-1979], 1995

From: Scouting New Zealand :Photographs and other items relating to Tatum Park

By: Life Photography; Cumming, J, active 1955-1968

Reference: PAColl-9629

Description: Photographs relating to activities of Scouting New Zealand. Contains photographs of the following: 1947 Scouters Conference/Dance, showing members of the Scout Headquarters; ? Guider, Inky Dave, Myrtle Ryan (Ngaio), Gladys Robson, Norma Little. Photographed by Life Photography, Lower Hutt. Graffiti cleanup, 18 October 1995. Photographed by the Coast to Coast Courier, Wellsford F.O.T. 1968. Photographed by J. Cumming, Levin Group portrait of Boy Scouts circa 1960s/1970s. Taken at an unknown location and by an unknown photographer. The Library may make digital copies of selected images from the collection publicly available on the internet through the Library's on-line image websites Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Owen Rodgers, Wellington, 2009

Date: ca1913-ca1925

From: Taylor, Lewis F P : Photograph albums relating to the life and aviation career of Lewis Taylor

By: Taylor, Lewis Francis Paul (Mrs), active 1995; Taylor, Lewis Francis Paul, 1907-1997

Reference: PA1-q-566

Description: Lewis Taylor and his friends as school boys at Wellington College. Summer swimming in river, boating on Wellington Harbour, ships in Wellington Harbour, family and family friends Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931 to 1934

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-116

Description: Album of tramps, camps, and other boy scouting activities, chiefly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, who was an active scout member and later scout master during the 1930s at Otorohanga. Maori legends and hand-drawn maps accompany the photographs, bringing New Zealand geography and history alive to the young scouts. Outings include following Te Kooti's trail, searching for caves where moa bones have been found, and climbing to various trig stations in the Waikato area. Other images show competitions for scouting badges and first aid instruction. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leatherette cover, loose-bound album, 18 x 30 cm

Date: 1982

By: Takapuna Scout Group

Reference: MS-Papers-5834

Description: The transcripts are of oral history interviews made with past members and patrol leaders of the Scout Group. They recount their memoirs of the activities of the troop and their impression of some of the troop leaders. Comments on scouting in the early 20th century are also included. The Takapuna Scout Group was established in 1931 and celebrated its 50th Jubilee in 1981 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1947 - 1955 - 2010

Reference: Eph-C-SCOUTS

Description: Includes the following posters: Boy Scouts Association. Appointment of Lawrence Staffan as assistant scoutmaster of the St Cuthbert's Wellington Scout District, 10 April 1942. Jamboree 1947. Grand jeu fraternel. [Plan of Sixth World Scouting Jamboree grounds at Moisson, France] 15th Scout jamboree on the air, 21st to 22nd Oct 1972. Diamond jubilee year souvenirs poster 1968. National Scout week, 15th-20th August ... Hinemoa Park [ca 1968] poster. Once a Scout, always a Scout. Remember? [Poster ca 1960?] 13th New Zealand Sea Scout Regatta, Marsden Point, 31st December 1970 - 9th January 1971. Won't you join us; this is Scout Diamond Jubilee Year! 60 years of scouting 1908...1968 (2 copies each of green and brown versions) Youth needs Scouting. Scouting needs leaders [poster]. The Scouts ask for chores not charity in Bob-A-Job Week. [small poster] Please give a scout a job > Bob a Job Week. [small poster]. Let us do it for you! Boy Scouts Bob-A-Job Week, 17th to 24th September 1960 (2 copies of small poster) 1963 and 1964 Bob-A-Job publicity bulletins Community service week, Saturday 3 October to Saturday 10 October 1987. The complete 1990 scout equipment mail order catalogue. 1990. Quantity: 15 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters. Physical Description: Colour offset prints, sizes varying below 420 mm.

Date: 1914-1948

By: Miller, A (Mrs), active 1948

Reference: PAColl-1966

Description: Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1945

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1745/1748

Description: Shows location plan, site plan, details of lavatory block and stainless steel wash troughs. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 1895, 1916

By: Lawson family

Reference: MS-Papers-10869

Description: Material relating to the Lawson family found under 353 The Terrace by the donor. Comprises a plan of house to be erected at 12 Talavera Terrace; particulars of work to be done; photograph of Eric Lawson who was founding scout master of the first Kilbirnie Scout Troop; letter from Eric Lawson to Lt C M Gray, 19 Sep 1916. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 leaves and photo). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photograph and plan

Date: 1962

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1962

Description: Includes: Boy Scouts Association, Wellington Area. Gang show. Grand Opera House Wellington, 27 August - 1 September 1962. Music and lyrics by Ralph Reader. Programme (2 copies) Cosmopolitan Club, Gisborne. Variety concert (With Barbara Pevreal, Neil Nigro, Maurice Renouf, Elder D Blackinton, J Murton; orchestra conducted by Mr T W Lighton). Cosmopolitan Club Social Hall, 29 May 1962. Programme R J Kerridge presents the most famous names of Scottish stage, radio, motion pictures and television, the Kenneth McKellar Show, "O'er the border". Throughout New Zealand June, July, August 1962. (Promotional pamphlet with photographs of Kenneth McKellar, Jimmy Shand, Duncan McRae, Moira Anderson, Jimmy Warren and Denis Woolford) (2 copies) The Napier RSA Tin Hat Club proudly present their 1962 ANZAC revue "Going places". Produced and written by Nolan Rafferty. Municipal Theatre Napier, April 1962. Programme (2 copies) R J Kerridge presents direct from London's West End, Mr Show Business himself!! Vic Oliver, in a laugh-packed fun-filled revue. The first of its kind ever to be presented in New Zealand. Promotional pamphlet (2 copies) R J Kerridge presents the Vic Oliver Show, with Vanda Vale, David Berglas, and Sheila Buxton, and show band under the direction of Brian Fitzgerald. First New Zealand tour 1962. Programme (2 copies) Celebrity Circuit Pty Ltd proudly present Harry Wren's "Starnight revue '62". Choreography Charles Parker; costumes designed by Jess Law Studios. Programme (2 copies), and flier for St James Theatre [Wellington?], 12 nights from Monday 14 May 1962. Victorian International Club (Victoria University of Wellington). Variety concert (With items representing the following countries: Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Fiji, Spain, Western Samoa, Germany, Malaya, Hawaii, Austria, Hollywood, England, American Samoa, Ceylon, India, Africa, Las Vegas!!) Victoria University of Wellington. Nelson Development Company. Extravaganza '62, "The twister". Wellington, 9-19 May 1962. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 7 theatre programmes. 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Programmes, various sizes under 250 mm. Provenance: Various donors and purchases.

Date: 1921

By: Wickham, H W, active 1990

Reference: PAColl-2096

Description: Scout master Gerald Bell is most probably the photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: March 1912

Reference: MS-Papers-1013

Description: Handwritten magazine subtitled the official organ of the Kelburne (Senior) Boy Scouts, v i, no 1 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Front cover illustrated with pen and ink sketches

Date: 1930s

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-117

Description: Album created by George Rainsford Craddock as a record of scouting trips in the King Country and Waikato, which followed ancient Maori trails, and historic quests. Maori legends and history in the form of newspaper cuttings attached to the album pages, which Gerald Craddock wrote himself, are interspersed with quotations from famous writers, and with photographs of the boys in the various areas. Some of the boys are identified, but only with Christian names Inserted in the front of the album is a slip dated October 1941 which mentions three of the boys (again only with Christian names) from his scout group who were killed in the second World War. Joe (an airgunner) came down 200 miles from Malta, in the sea in 1941; Basil (pilot) died when his plane crashed at Lossiemouth, Scotland in 1941; and John was brought down by a sniper's bullet in Iraq just before war broke out. Inscriptions: Album page - "Being an illustrated record of some fifteen scout camps, which I hope will prove an inspiration, and provide a romantic quest for Boy Scouts of the Waikato and King Country to follow. G.R. Craddock, February 1933" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown card-covered album entitled "The land of the faerie, beneath King Country skies. Leaves from a rambler's notebook" (by G.R.C.)

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Fallaise, P W, active 1917-1933

Reference: PA1-q-057

Description: Album of photographs interpersed with coloured, and black & white postcards, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera. The photographs relate to an area shown in many of Gerald Rainsford Craddock's albums at Tauraroa; to outings by boy scouts; and to various sites in Egypt and the Far East during World War II. These include an image of a bridge of boats at Baghdad, and photographs taken on an air armada from Egypt to the Far East in January 1942. A few coloured photographs are taken at the Blue Baths in Rotorua in 1965. The postcards are taken by various photographers including Muir and Mooodie (Dunedin, New Zealand), David James Aldersley (Wellington), and P W Fallaise (Sydney). Most of the postcards show scenes in Sydney, but there are a number set in New Zealand, some in Brussels, and some in Egypt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover, grey pages, 28 x 38 cm

Date: 1928-1938

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsborough, 1910-1990: Essays and papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1037-5

Description: Album labelled `Vol 4' (Scout), containing miscellaneous newsclippings and a file of correspondence between Craddock and James Cowan for the period 1933-1938. Includes annotated but undated clipping re valedictory farewell to Scoutmaster Craddock at Otorohanga. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: March 1960

By: Collins, Brian, active 1960

Reference: MS-Papers-12725

Description: Log book kept by Brian Collins of Heathcote, Christchurch, while completing his First Class Journey made on 9-10 March 1960 as a member of the Heathcote scout troop. Contains descriptive notes of the tasks; and a hand-drawn map of Lyttelton Harbour showing the route taken. Pasted into the log book are instructions for the activity, sealed orders, camp permit, and four black and white photographs. The photographs show camp sites, seagulls on a beach, a portrait Collins, and a scout at Camp Bay (possibly Malcolm Watkins who accompanied Collins on the First Class Journey). Title taken from item, Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: School exercise book, lined pages, and handwritten text, 21 x 16.5 cm. Provenance: Item was received by the Legal Deposit department of the National Library from an unidentified donor.

Date: [1960s-1970s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-3008

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1960s showing Girl Guides Brownies at the Wellington Zoo. Also includes transparency taken by Beavis circa 1960s showing a a family portrait in a garden, featuring an adult couple and two young children. Also includes transparencies taken by Beavis circa 1970s showing potters in their respective studios, at the pottery wheel. Also includes two transparencies showing ceramic vases possibly belogning to W B Sutch. Transparencies of Brownies at the Zoo are also at PA12-3007 and PA12-3013 to PA12-3015. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Harcourts" and "W. B. Sutch. Pots". Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1908 - 1910

By: Willott, Victor Alfred, 1888-1932; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-CALENDAR-1909-01

Description: Colourful poster has a perpetual calendar in the centre, and is surrounded by advertisements for local businesses of Pukekohe, Papatoetoe, Manurewa, Otahuhu and Papakura. Above the calendar panel is a circular head and shoulders portrait of a clean-shaven Maori chief with facial moko; he is flanked by illustrations of the Scottish thistle and the English rose. Immediately above the calendar is a line of three-leafed clovers, and other illustrations included a boy and girl scout, and two illustrations of a taiaha and long-handled tewhatewha together. Advertising businesses include: Pukekohe: Herb Brunton, hairdresser and merchant; J Adams & Sons, butchers; H Dell & Sons, saddlers; R Miller, tailor; Frank Perkins & Co, grocers; W Wright, watchmaker Manurewa: Grand View Accommodation House; D R Tabot & Sons, storekeepers Otahuhu: B Jenkins, tailor; T Jameson, bicycle builder Papatoetoe: J Hunter, plumber and gasfitter; S E Moe, motorcycle shop; Frank H Wells, building contractor; W J Dilworth, saddler; G Rawnsley, boot and shoe maker Papakura: Richardson Bros, Papakura Steam Joinery Factory; Papakura Hotel (Mrs W A Waterman, proprietress); A Watson, boot and shoe emporium Text refers to 1906 in the past. The artist Victor Willot was 21 in 1909. Mrs Waterman of the Papakura Hotel died in 1915 aged 74 (information from Papers Past). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on sheet 780 x 580 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private owner, June 2013.

Date: 1959, 1964-1965, 1980

From: Cobeldick, Mary, 1948- : Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-11608

Description: Slides taken by Mary Spence and Ian Gladstone Spence in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides are annotated with locations and dates. Images of Lower Hutt including; the Hutt Valley from above, St Paul's Anglican Church and vicarage, at meeting house at Waiwhetū Marae, and a commercial image of a train on the Rimutaka Incline. Auckland images including; the Auckland Harbour Bridge under construction, a Scout Jamboree, and a street view of Henderson, all taken January 1959. Other North Island images including; Buildings, scout leaders, and a map at scouting headquarters Tatum Park, Meremere coal power station at Mercer, Manganuiateao Viaduct in the Ruapehu District and a commercial image of a smoking Mount Ngaruhoe. One image showing of a sign for Ngatangiia Passage, Rarotonga, taken July 1980. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.