Cycling

Date: 2002-2004 - 10 Oct 2002 - 22 Mar 2004

By: Kennett, Jonathan Peter, 1967-; Kennett, Simon Roger, 1967-

Reference: OHColl-0783

Description: This project aims to capture a verbal image of how the bicycle has influenced generations of New Zealanders. Interviewees are Tino Tabak, Dick Cheyne, Jim Tate, Wilf Broughton, Clare Simpson, Alan Rice, Dave Kelly, Keith McLeod, Graeme Milner, Paul Kennett, Bryan Jackson, Norm Robinson, Don Worrall, Jean Williams and Katharine Price, Barbara Levido-Howe, Laurie Tall, Brian Toghill, Francis Hoen, Leon Nevin and Jack Mulheron. Publication - 'Ride: the story of cycling in New Zealand' Wellington: The Kennett Brothers, 2004 Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett, Simon Kennett Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012299 - OHC-012340, OHC-016287 Quantity: 41 C60 cassette(s). 20 printed abstract(s). 20 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Processing information: Interview not yet described: Brian Toghill, abstract OHA-5920, original recording OHC-016287

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to roads, road building and maintenance, motorways in New Zealand]

By: Hawera (N.Z.). Borough Council

Reference: Eph-A-ROAD-1914-01

Description: An arrangement of text, with a blue rubber date stamp. There is a perforation down the left side. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and rubber date stamp on ticket, 53 x 82 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Arthur Olsson of Wellington in 2003.

Date: 1950 - 1954

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1951/1954

Description: Includes: 1951: Wellington Centre NZAAA. 56th National Track & Field Championships. Basin Reserve, 2-3 March 1951. Souvenir programme Wellington Centre NZAAA. Souvenir programme of the visit of Yvette Williams and the Inter-University Contest, Canterbury v Victoria. Basin Reserve, 8 December 1951 (2 copies). 1952: Wellington Centre NZAAA. Official programme of the Inter-Provincial Contest Auckland v Wellington. Basin Reserve, 26 january 1952. Wellington Centre NZAAA. Official programme of the Junior & Women's Championships. Basin Reserve, 8-9 February 1952 Wellington Centre NZAAA. Official programme of the Senior Provincial Championships. Basin Reserve, 16 February 1952. 1953: Wellington Centre NZAAA. Official programme of the Inter-Provincial Contest, Wellington v Canterbury for the T W (Dorrie) Leslie Memorial Cup (present holders Canterbury). Basin Reserve, 31 January 1953. 1954: Masterton Amateur Athletic & Cycling Club. Sports meeting, Masterton Park Oval, 22-23 January 1954. Jubilee programme Victoria University College Amateur Athletic Club, 1904-1954. Golden Jubilee celebrations, 2-3 April 1954. Souvenir booklet/programme. Waikato AAA. NZ Senior Track and Field Championships. Seddon Park Hamilton, 5-6 March [1954]. Official programme Quantity: 9 album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on programmes, sizes varying under 250 mm.

Date: 1948 to 1951

Reference: PA1-o-380

Description: Photographs of various activities, and group photographs taken at New Zealand Student Christian Movement conferences held in Christchurch, summer 1948-1949, and Auckland, summer 1949-1950. Names of members attending the conferences are fully identified in the group portraits. Some of the small photographs taken by different members have captions, but not all. A number of pages include newspaper cuttings associated with the conference and people involved. Includes an envelope containing nine small photographs of a theatrical production performed at the 1950-1951 conference. There is no identification of the play or cast members. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, red panel down the centre, entitled `N.Z.S.C.M. Summer Conference, Christchurch 1948-9; and 1949-1950'; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 1939 - 1940

Reference: Eph-C-SPORTS-1940-01

Description: Poster schedule for events at a sports meeting conducted under the auspices of the N.Z.A.A.A., N.Z.A.C.A., N.Z.L.T.A., and N.Z.A.S.A. Events included swimming at Te Aro Baths, tennis at the Miramar Courts, athletics at the Basin Reserve, golf at Shandon Golf Links. Competing districts were: Auckland, Hawkes-Poverty Bay, West Coast-North Island, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago. Officials of the Public Services Sports Society in Wellington were: F Bond (chairman), H N Ballinger (treasurer), D A Beresford (secretary). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet, 458 x 292 mm.

Date: Feb 1946-Dec 1949

From: Browne, Theodore Percy, 1872-1949 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1394-39

Description: South Island tour; general domestic notes Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1926-1928

From: Glover, Denis James Matthews, 1912-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0418-136

Description: Final draft of an account of several cycling holidays undertaken by Glover in Taranaki, Otago and elsewhere. Arranged into five chapters with preface and table of contents to form mss book. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (some carbon copies)

Date: 1974

By: Calcott, Peter, 1940?-

Reference: Eph-D-SPORTS-1974-02

Description: Each poster promotes the Games which ran from 24 January to 2 February 1974. Each poster shows a figure engaged in a different sport; these include: running, cycling, boxing, swimming butterfly stroke, shooting, weightlifting, wrestling, bowls, badminton. Two copies of each of the nine promotional posters. Artist identified in personal communication in 2002. Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters. Physical Description: Photolithographs mainly 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Acquired in the 1970s.

Date: 1950

From: British Empire Games, Auckland, New Zealand, 1950 :[Official programmes for events. 1950]

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-1950-04

Description: Programme of events for road and track cycling, including various lengths of race. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Programme of 16 pages, 207 x 135 mm.

Date: ca 1950-1961

Reference: PAColl-4581

Description: A black and white photograph of a woman in a living room admiring a lily. A colour photograph of possibly the same woman some years later in a living room with oriental decoration. Two postcards, one of the Boardwalk in Atlantic City and one of University Avenue looking south in Toronto both written on. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: On the envelope is a recent annotation "found associated with "Seddon" family collection".

Date: [1890-1920]

By: Chegwidden family

Reference: MSZ-1297

Description: Scrapbook of clippings, programmes etc relating to the Chegwidden family of Wellington; includes birth, death and marriage notices; reports on sporting activities including baseball, athletics, cycling, bowls, rifle shooting etc Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Grey phase box Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by St Catherine's College, Kilbirnie, Wellington, per Ms J McFadden, Nov 2002

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012740-G

Description: M2208 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [11 October 1900]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-633-21

Description: Three photographs taken by Malcolm Ross on the cruise of HMS Mildura to the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga, October 1900, during which the Cook Islands and Niue were annexed on behalf of New Zealand. The upper photograph (PA1-q-633-21-1) shows a group of people from Aitutaki in front of an outrigger canoe. The centre photograph (PA1-q-633-21-2) shows a woman on Aitutaki riding a bicycle. The lower photograph (PA1-q-633-21-03) shows the chief ariki on Aitutaki, with an outrigger canoe. Physical Description: Three photographic prints mounted on album page, 253 x 314 mm (page size)

Date: 1887

From: Alexander, J, b 1863? :Photograph album of English yachts on the Solent, and other photographs

By: Jackson, A G (Mr), active 1887; West & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-010

Description: Album appears to have been owned by J Alexander as it came into the possession of his son F R Alexander. Photographs taken by A G Jackson (and possibly also by his companions on the trip - H.A.F Jackson and J Alexander) in 1887 on a penny-farthing cycle trip from Christchurch to the West Coast, have been added to an existing album of commercial photographs of yachting on The Solent, England. Most of the yachts are named. Named yachts include 'Queen Eleanor', 'Silver Star', 'Raven', 'Bonina', 'Buttercup', 'Mavourneen', 'Nonparelle', and 'Vanessa'. Other Titles - Instantaneous photographs: Yachting Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 370 x 260 mm grey buckram, with black spine and corners, with title 'Instantaneous photographs Yachting' embossed on cover, in phase box.

Date: [ca 1918-1925]

By: Hart, J, active 1910s; Reeves, A J, active 1910s

Reference: PAColl-4292

Description: Photographs of: the Swallows Cycling and Motoring Club 1907 including two motorcycles with side-cars; a large wedding party ca 1910; the Wellington Cycling Club with a three-seater bicycle in the foreground ca 1910; the Marton Hunt ca 1929 with beagles in the foreground and a Mr Graham Clark on horseback seventh from left; two of the Hawke's Bay Hunt with beagles in the foreground and cars in the background; and the boys of Napier Boys' High School ca 1918 sitting on a grassy bank with two masters. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-071938, 071941, 071942, 072004, 072007 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: [1920s-1980s]

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

Reference: PAColl-9681

Description: Photographs of sports people and sporting events, taken and collected by The Evening Post's illustrations department Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1927-1930 1929-1951

By: Cyclists' Touring Club. Wellington (N.Z.)

Reference: qMS-0592-0593

Description: Minutes detail Club's activities, partucularly in Wellington and Hutt Valley, from its inception in 1927 to Sep 1930; secretary, A E Milne. Scrapbook of press cuttings (many pictorial) relating to cycling in New Zealand and elsewhere, 1929-1951 includes reference to New Zealand Cyclists' Touring Club founded 1896 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (49 cm & 25 cm, black boards & ½ maroon rexine, pink linen boards)

Date: 1899

From: Mueller, Mildred Violet, d 1969 :Albums

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910

Reference: PA1-o-355

Description: Scenes in Westland, the Southern Alps and Canterbury, taken in the 1890s by George John Roberts (1848-1910), Chief Surveyor in Westland. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - To Isabel from old "Yellow Tickets", Christmas 1899 Provenance: Album from the collection of Gerhard Mueller (1835?-1918), Chief Surveyor for Westland Province 1868-1892. Donated by his daughter, Mildred Violet Mueller, Auckland, April 1967.

Date: 1903 - 1904

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1903/1904

Description: Includes: 1903: Hawke's Bay Highland Society's Caledonian sports. Napier recreation Ground, 28 February 1903. Official programme New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Fourteenth championship meeting. Carisbrook Grounds, 7 March 1903. Official programme Wanganui Caledonian Society. NZ Championship meeting, 22-23 January 1903. Official programme 1904: Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club. 49th athletic carnival to be held at Domain Cricket ground, 26 March 1904. Official programme Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club. 50th athletic carnival to be held at Domain Cricket Ground, 3 December 1904. Official programme 1904 or 1910?: New Plymouth Carnival and Exhibition. Programme of athletic sports in the Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth, Wednesday 28th December [1904 or 1910?] Quantity: 6 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes and tickets, sizes varying under 150 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Athletics New Zealand in 2013.

Date: 1945-1948

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-4161-01-131

Description: Multiple copies of official and unofficial photographs; most contain captions. Visit of Archbishop C W West Waston; dedication of St Patrick's Church at Hiro (Headquarters of 34 Australian Infantry Brigade); group at Empire Day reception in Tokyo ( Charge-Sister E A Airey, Col G Jenkins, R L C Challis, Brigadier L Potter, Charge-Sister E M Webb, Col H M Foster, and Sister M A Scott); Empire Day parade at Imperial Plaza, Tokyo; Australian children at church on `Mothering Sunday'; inspection of Japanese boats; capture of Korean vessel; BCOF Talent Quest (winners of silver cup - Pte Ron Tuhoro, Pte Bob Kopua, Bill Heremaia, and R Anaru); Pte Rangi Haronga & Pte George Solomon playing at the radio Talent Quest; `Cosmopolitans' Band (includes LAC Wally Matthews of NZ). Series of photographs of BCOF housing on the island of Eta Jima; BCOF army school at Eta Jima; BCOF children's party at Eta Jima; YMCA helpers reading the British Commonwealth Occupation Force daily newspaper (BCON) at YMCA club at BCOF headquarters, Eta Jima (group includes Miss A Jones of Wellington); 130 Australian General Hospital at Eta Jima; Hodogaya Park (British Commonwealth Cemetery near Yokohama); series of photographs taken during the visit of Hon F Jones, NZ Minister of Defence; anniversary party at Corporals' Club at Iwakuni (group includes A M Gibbs, Corporal A Withers, Corporal J Lewis, and others); ANZAC Parade and medal presentations held at Kure (Capt V H Gilchrist); series of photographs taken on day of the unveiling of memorial plaque to William Adams, first British sailor to land in Japan, by Lt-Gen H C H Robertson. Lt-Gen H C H Robertson handing over the jewel box, to be presented to Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of her wedding, to Capt M J Smythe, who had been selected to courier the gold lacquer box to London; group photo of Commander-in-Chief BCOF, Lt-Gen Robertson and others; Sgt M Johnston & family with Miss J Earle, YWCA representative with BCOF in Japan; Mr & Mrs W MacMahan Ball with Lt-Gen Robertson. Wedding photographs - Cables wedding; Law wedding; Stanton wedding; Capt Gordon Surgenor of Auckland, bestman at one of the weddings, with the bridesmaids. Wing Comander S G Quill; 14 Royal NZ Air Force Squadron ceremonial parade at Iwakuni; visit of units of British Pacific Fleet; Corsair aircraft of No 14 Squadron, RNZAF flying past the control launch during realistic war exercises over the Inland Sea; BCOF Athletic Championships at Anzac Park, Kure (Lt W M Smeeton winning the high jump); group sunbathing at Miyajima (group includes Pte J Eaton, Pte N Castles, Pte C L Rider); cycling demonstration; Col C W Nye, Officer Commanding 130 Australian General Hospital holding baby Susan Margaret Abrahams; presentation to Lt-Gen Robertson as a mark of appreciation for assistance given to Japanese YWCA (includes Marjorie Horner, a member of NZ YWCA); Miss Jean Begg, Director of YWCA Welfare with BCOF and others at a farewell dinner; view of Sumitomo Villa (leave hotel); Coporal H D Farrell and wife on honeymoon at Sumitomo Villa; Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier inspecting 14 RNZAF Squadron (Flight Lt L G Mitchell, Squadron Leader J J de Willimoff, F/O A S Tye); Air Vice Marshal Bouchier with Air Vice Marshal Neville on board a launch on way to Eta Jima; children at kindergarten and school; sightseeing trip to Nikko; Corporal George Finlay at Iwakuni; Gunner S Whisker & Gunner L R McDonald in gardens of Maiko Hotel (leave hotel) and other photos taken at the hotel; visit of the Chaplains General of the AMF; visit of Lord Tedder, Chief of the Air Staff. Sightseeing at Beppu; Corporal Maurice Wright receiving British Commonwealth Base Rugby League Cup from Brigadier R G H Irving, Base Commander; Sister H Brett of Kelburn (on staff of British Hospital in Tokyo); Miss Jean Begg with others at first international meeting of Japanese YWCA held at Kawana Hotel; group photo of crew of last NZ Dakota courier to make the trip to Japan photographed on arrival at Bofu (F/O R Short, F/Sgt Shirley Britton, F/Lt James Dyer, F/Lt R Weston, and F/Lt Basil Health); photo of Formation Commanders of BCOF attending C-in-C BCOF Conference at Eta Jima; fire at Eta Jima which destroyed barrack buildings; exercises at Matsuyama; Driver T Gibbs of Taihape giving US sailors directions; Senior officers of BCOF photographed with Lt Gen V A H Sturdee, Chief of the Australian General Staff, during his visit (Air Vice Marshal Bouchier, Mrs Sturdee, Lt Gen Robertson, Major C J Miles, Brigadier R G H Irving, Miss Beris Burrell (NZYWCA), Air Vice Marshal J P J McCauley); guests on dias at Hiroshima Peace Festival; series of photos taken on election day, Eta Jima (F/Lt E W Perry, LAC M K Gemmel, LAC Milligan, LAC Daniel, ACI Groom, Sgt J A Lovegrove, Major D D Whitehead, Capt G R Surgenor, LAC L H Marcroft, Brigadier Clifton); patients being interviewed by Commanding Officer Major Wise on their arrival at convalescent depot (Pte N Castles of Featherston & Staff Sergeant P Corley of NSW). Series of photos taken of Miss Shirley Irene Thompson of Sydney to illustrate `Day in the life of an AMWS in Japan'. Quantity: 237 b&w original photographic print(s).