Orion (Ship)

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1939-1941

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-4161-01-015-07

Description: First, Second and Third Echelons in taining at various military camps and departing from Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1940-1941

By: White, Edward Norman, active 1940-1976

Reference: MS-Papers-1514

Description: Records journey to Suez on the ship `Orion', life at Naadi Camp and fighting with the 4th Reserve Mechanical Transport Co in Egypt. Also includes letters, photos, cards and related clippings tipped in. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter and photographs

Date: 1956

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-578

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1939-1941

By: Westbrook, John Egerton Jury, 1915?-1941

Reference: MS-Papers-1407

Description: Letters from Westbrook to his family after enlistment in the 18th Rifle Battalion; describes training at Ngaruawahia and Papakura; his journey on the troopship `Orion' (1940); fighting in Egypt, Greece, Crete (Apr-Jun 1941). Other items include: telegrams, photographs, troop newsheet, typescript description of embarkation Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 folder(s) (142 pieces). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

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

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1947

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-o-806

Description: Holiday at Lord Howe Island, 1947. Many good views of the Island, its beaches and its forests. Tourists in holiday mood and local school and school children. The liner "Orion" and the Sunderland flying boat "Australis". There are also photographs of passengers on the flying boat eating meals in transit and a view of the cockpit. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950

By: Royalton-Kisch, Alma, 1913-1992

Reference: MSX-9473

Description: A letterbook of personal correspondence from surveyor Alma Royalton-Kisch to her elderly grandmother "Gargie". The letterbook comprises carbon copy typescript pages of letters sent by Royalton-Kisch home to England during her journey. Royalton-Kisch notes in one of her letters that the letters take the form of a diary. Royalton-Kisch travelled first class on the 'Orion' from Tilbury in London to Australia and New Zealand and back, in 1950. This is a very detailed account of Royalton-Kisch's experiences and observations of life aboard the 'Orion', and of life in Australia and New Zealand. Of interest are her observations of the English class system and colonial life in the antipodes. Includes a handwritten note on the front cover written by Royalton-Kisch to "Caroline" explaining that she may wish to read it in future years, but it was written primarily for her grandmother. Royalton-Kisch has also written in pencil on the front page saying "Alma Royalton-Kisch DIARY. 1950. England, Australia & NZ and back". Title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: One bound letterbook containing typescript carbon copies

Date: 1975-1999

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm); Pictorial Publications Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Bailey-2018-3

Description: Includes: Envelope 1. Wellington Region (11 cards): Aerial view showing Paremata, Mana, Plimmerton, Porirua Harbour ... Photo Peter Morath. Colour view New Zealand. WL 1659 [Birds-eye view of motorway through tall buildings. 1990s?] Oriental Bay. Photography David J Kingston [1980s]. A New Zealand Kiwi Postcard published and distributed by A H & A W Reed VB 410 Otaki Beach, Horowhenua, N.Z. Tiki card. Pictorial Publications Limited, Hastings. P 3235 Paekakariki, Kapiti Coast. Tiki card. Pictorial Publications Limited, Hastings. P 3251 Paraparaumu and Raumati Beaches, N.Z. Tiki postcard. Pictorial Publications Limited, Hastings. P 3250 Plimmerton, New Zealand. Tiki card. Pictorial Publications Limited, Hastings. P 2563 Riversdale Beach resort - Wairarapa. A M I Photography. J/N 397. Printing by Colourview Publications Ltd., Oamaru, New Zealand. Wellington. Wellington City panorama. Photography David J Kingston [1980s]. A New Zealand Kiwi Postcard published and distributed by A H & A W Reed VB 411 Wellington double-saloon class tram no. 135 (1921) at Museum loading zone. Produced by Western Springs Tramway. Museum of Transport and Technology; printed in New Zealand by Longley Printing Co Ltd, Henderson Wellington Regional Council. Oriental Bay [Postcard issued to invite response on Regional Council's increased investment in environmental education. 1990s?] Envelope 2. Miscellaneous New Zealand (9 cards): Armbands of dyed fabric, Solomon Islands. National Museum of New Zealand Canterbury Museum exhibit, New Zealand. Maori rock drawing of taniwha ... Limestone cave, Opihi River South Canterbury D.N.A. Clothing. DNA Summer 97-98. 38 Poynton Tce, Newton, Auckland. [Published by] Little Billboards [1997?] Frances Hodgkins. Market at Concarneau. KIWI, N.A.G. 6 Jewellery by Lisa Walker. Avid, 48 Victoria St Wellington, 10-24 March 1997 "Kete muka". Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, Te Ati Awa. Collection of National Museum, New Zealand. Photo: M Strange T A McCormack. Flower study. National Art Gallery NZ Labour Party. Get well soon. Health care for all [1999] David Trubridge. Figure table, matai painted elm, red and purple. Photographer David Evans. Creative Profile NZ Envelope 3. Ships, planes (4 cards): Air New Zealand Ltd. Air New Zealand's Five Star DC-8s ... Printed in New Zealand Huddart Parker Line. M V Wanganella 10,000 tons Orient Line SS 'Orion', 24,000 tons R.H.M.S. "Ellinis" - Chandris Lines. Regular service - Greece - Australia - New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s) (24 cards). Physical Description: Photographs and photolithographs, sizes around 90 x 140 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1952

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1950/1952

Description: Includes: 1950: John Brown and Company Ltd :Launch of M V "Ruahine". Clydebank Shipyard, 11th December 1950. [Menu, invitation and ticket]. New Zealand Shipping Company. RMS 'Rangitoto', leaving London on 3 January 1950 for Wellington via Curacao and Panama Canal. Passenger list New Zealand Shipping Company. RMS 'Rangitoto', leaving Wellington 22 December 1950 for Southampton via Pitcairn Island, Panama Canal and Curacao. Passenger list New Zealand Shipping Company. RMS 'Rangitoto'. Luncheon 27 December 1950. Menu Rangitoto Jockey Club. First meeting 29 December 1950. Programme Union Steam Ship Company :Union Line. T.S.S. "Monowai", Commander G B Morgan, D.S.O., D.S.C. Breakfast. Monday 20th March, 1950. [Menu] Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd: Picton Service [Ticket issued to Mr W R Lloyd on 19.12.1950, for sailing on the 'Tamahine' on 22 December 1950] 1951: New Zealand Shipping Company. M.V. 'Ruahine'. Breakfast 29 December 1951. Menu Orient Line to Australia. RMS 'Orion' from London (Tilbury), 27 October 1951. List of passengers and general information. Booklet with red cover Rangitoto Jockey Club. Second meeting 5 January 1951. Programme 'Ruahine', New Zealand Line. [Cover picture by] Stanley Pellett. (Pamphlet with 12 photographs of interior and decks). [ca 1951] Shaw Savill Line. Signposts on the Panama route. England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. 8-page booklet Shaw Savill Line. Signposts on the Panama route. England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. 16-page booklet Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Berthing slip. 'Monowai', 2 March 1951. 1952: [New Zealand Shipping Company] :Menu, M.V. "Ruahine", Sunday July 13th, 1952. [Huia] "Q.S.M.V Dominion Monarch" (Capt. D Aitcheson). Concert and prize distribution held in the Lounge at 9 p.m. on Tuesday April 1st, 1952 at sea. Compere Dr E A Booth; stage manager Mr P D Pickup; choreographers Mrs P Smith and Mr Ron Oates; producer Glyn Davies. Programme. Shaw Savill Line. Official card of race meeting on board S.S. "Arawa". Monday 19th May 1952 at 8 p.m. sharp. Antipodean meeting. Patron Captain W G West, Clerk of Course Mr Rimmington, Judge Mr McCourt, Veterinary Surgeon Mr Stewart. Printed on board at sea [1952] Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Union Line New Zealand Australia Service. "Monowai" timetable May 1952-March 1953. Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Union Line. T.S.S. 'Monowai'. Breakfast, 7 September 1952. Menu Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Union Line. T.S.S. 'Monowai'. Luncheon, 7 September 1952. Menu Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Union Line. T.S.S. 'Monowai'. Dinner, 7 September 1952. Menu Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying below 230 mm.

Date: 1939-1941

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-4161-01-015-08

Description: First, Second and Third Echelons in taining at various military camps and departing from Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: [ca 1952-1955]

From: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6309-02

Description: Includes notes on sensory environment; general instructions re household administration (rent, insurance etc); unused postcards; and letters, mostly from Margaret Scott but also from Harry Scott, to Dr and Mrs F O Bennett (Pearl and Os), while travelling to Canada and while living there, and while on further travels in the United States and and Europe Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Apr - Dec 1937

From: Snowden, Rita Frances, 1907-1999 : Papers

Reference: MSX-9294

Description: Travel journal in the form of letters in a triplicate book, addressed "Dear everybody", kept while on board the 'Orion'. Only one copy of the triplicate remains in the book. Journal follows on from the one at library reference number MSX-9293. Rita Snowden, accompanied by her friend Rene Watts, travelled to London on the 'Orion' in 1937. This was the first of multiple overseas voyages they took together. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: Feb - Apr 1937

From: Snowden, Rita Frances, 1907-1999 : Papers

Reference: MSX-9293

Description: Travel journal in the form of letters in a triplicate book, addressed "Dear everybody", kept while on board the 'Orion'. Excepting the final letter, there is just one copy of the triplicate remaining in the book. Journal continues at library reference number MSX-9294. Rita Snowden, accompanied by her friend Rene Watts, travelled to London on the 'Orion' in 1937. This was the first of multiple overseas voyages they took together. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: MSS

Date: 14 September 1940, 1 January 1941, August 1945

From: Wilcox family: Papers and photographs relating to Norman Bramwell Wilcox

Reference: MS-Papers-12204-5

Description: Four souvenir menus, three with autographs, comprising: -Two Canadian Pacific menus entitled " H.M.N.Z.T. Farewill Dinner to N.C.O.'s 3rd Eschelon N.Z.E.F.", dated Saturday September 14 1940. One menu is covered in signatures. The other appears to be a photocopy with some signatures and with small photographs affixed that appear to have been cut from a group photograph. Photographs include Norman Wilcox. -A menu for "Xmas dinner" for the 24th Battalion NZEF Sergeants Mess, "Helwyn", 1 January 1941. It is inscribed on the front cover "Dear Helen Please keep this for me Love Norman", and there are autographs on the inside front cover. -Orient Line menu for "Dinner held on board "Orion" to commemorate the end of World War no. 2 August 1945". This menu is not autographed. It includes a page listing the ship's officers. It is likely that 'Helwyn' is Helwan, now part of Greater Cairo. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Four menus of various sizes printed on card and annotated in pen and pencil; one has a plastic cover taped on.

Date: 1935

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1935

Description: Includes: 01. [New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy?] :D-485 (Revised - January, 1918). School certificate of dockyard apprentice, H.M. Dockyard. Devonport, 5th July 1935. I hereby certify that Reginald Samuel Hurden (naval shipwright apprentice), attended school at the yard for 3+ years ending August 1933, during which time his conduct was excellent and his progress good ... Headmaster [1921] 11071/D273 2000 9/24 4729 G&S 124 02. Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand: R.M.M.S. Aorangi. Deck sports tournament, voyage 23 North. Award to [C A Jeffery] for [Consummate skill at quoits, by J F Spring Brown] Commander [Certificate card. 1935?] Canadian Pacific [Line]. Duchess of Richmond. Menu, 1 August 1935. New Orient Line Royal Mail steamer "Orion". Maiden voyage from Australia, November 1935. 24,000 tons. Wellington Public Libraries bookmark [1935] New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. Summer cruises to New Zealand by P & O and orient Lines. Tour "G". Auckland to Rotorua and return. One-day trip by motor-car. 1,000/9/35-10266. Flier New Zealand Shipping Company. Fancy dress ball [and] Supper. RMS Rangitane, 4 May 1935. [Menu card] New Zealand Shipping Company. For a restful passage and an early arrival, go the direct route to England, 'via panama'. 1935 season [Blotter] New Zealand Shipping Company. RMS 'Rangitata' leaving Wellington 10 May 1935 for London via Panama Canal. Passenger list [Booklet] Shaw Savill & Albion Line. RMS "Tamaroa", sailing from London, 1st November 1935. Passenger list Shaw Savill & Albion Line. Via Panama Canal; the ideal route to England. [Printed by] Hutcheson Bowman & Johnson Ltd, Printers, Wellington [Booklet] W. Hodge. 'Star of China'. Jubilee year, 1 August 1875. On this the 10th day of July 1935, I celebrate my 83rd birthday. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, on booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 27 October 1937-31 December 1937, 27 March 1938-3 April 1938

By: Sing, Caroline Agnes, 1892-

Reference: MS-Papers-3949

Description: The journal, 27 October-31 December 1937, is accompanied by shipboard leaflets, programmes, and a sheet of diary entries, 27 March-3 April 1938, for calls at Malaga, Gibraltar and Cadiz Source of title - Supplied Caroline Sing, accompanied by Miss Tvauhild Skjondahl, travelled to New Zealand on the `Rangitiki'. Their two months tour took them from Auckland to Christchurch. They sailed for England from Australia on the `Orion' in February 1938. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume, 16 items). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 1985

Date: [ca.1940-1950]

From: Waters, Sydney David, 1883-1965 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8455-14

Description: Drafts and research notes for a book on ships in World War Two. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1957 - 2001 - 1963 - 2002

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Russell, John, 1937-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2002-01

Description: Contains photographs of the following ships: MV Otaki in Liverpool, 1963. SS Chandler, Niger River 1957. P&O liner Chusan passing the Rakaia, off Gravesend, 1961. CPR liner Empress of England, on St Lawrence Seaway 1962. P&O liner Orion, at Hamburg 1963. S.T. Lincoln in Portland, Maine in 1961. MV Piako in Gladstone Dock Liverpool in 1963. M.T. Warilla at Newcastle NSW, 1963. SS Gothic in Lyttelton, 1960. M.T. Sirius Cove in Sydney, 1959. M.V. Wharanui at Kingston Jamaica, 1960. M.V. Sussex in Gladstone Dock Liverpool 1962. The cutter Matthew Flinders in December 1960 (at Brisbane?) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on each page of calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on 8 leaves, each 300 x 211 mm (spiral-bound) Provenance: Purchased from the author in 2002.

Date: [1910s-1920s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-077

Description: Album of postcards of ships. Not all have been listed in the name fields. The first part chiefly British Naval warships; other sections show liners of shipping lines such as P & O Orient Line, New Zealand Shipping Line, and the White Star Line. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth album, 29 x 23 cm