Agriculture - Conferences

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1975-1993

By: Centre for International Development Education and Action (N.Z.)

Reference: 98-304

Description: Comprise incomplete, and disorganized, sets of minutes, annual reports, administration matters, planning papers for conferences, research papers on various topics, including papers on campaigns and lobbying, submissions to bills before Parliament, financial records and master copies of publications. Papers of other organizations include those of the Pesticides Action Network, the Seeds Action Network, the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, and the International Coalition for Development Action. Also, detailed reports on the Cook Islands and on the Rewa visit to Fiji in 1980. Source of title - Supplied IDEA, originally called the New Zealand Coalition for Trade and Development, was set up in 1975 to provide an alternative viewpoint to the official government policy on overseas trade and development. Later it became involved in education, work with the United Nations, and acted as a co-ordinator for related projects. The name was changed to the Centre for International Development, Education and Action in 1988. The organization disbanded in the early 1990s. Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typecripts, printed matter

Date: 1959 - 1981 - 1970

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-SHOW-Ruakura

Description: Includes programmes for 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1981 issued by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture. Also includes five programme pamphlets titled "Welcome to Ruakura", printed by the Waikato Times, with varying content listing demonstrations to be given. Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, on pamphlets, sizes varying

Date: [ca 1907-1930]

From: Dominion Farmers Institute : Photographs

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4336

Description: An artist's impression, done possibly in the 1950s, of the Dominion Farmers Institute on the corner of Ballance and Featherston Streets ca 1917-1919; an artist's impression of the Institute as it was visualised before the First World War (ie not as built); two views probably of the construction of the building ca 1917; two copies of the members of a conference (probably the A&P Conference) in 1907 on the steps of the old New Zealand Farmers' Union building at 5 Customhouse Quay with signs for other companies with offices in the building behind them: The Tawa Land Company Ltd, The Tinakori Quarrying Co Ltd, W Sinclair Barrister and Solicitor, Farmers' Union Advocate, The Empire Engineering Company, and New Zealand Land Mart (taken by Muir & Mackinlay); two copies of the members of the conference outside the same building in a different year (same photographer); and a group of working men in a group portrait in front of a pile of rope on the dockside ca 1920s. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1965-1972

From: Chan, Lionel Lai-hung, 1919- : Papers

Reference: 97-050-2/06

Description: Papers relating to Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Growers' conferences held in 1965, 1971 and 1972 including issue of the `New Zealand commercial grower' with report on conference proceedings (Jul 1965), conference folder for Levin conference (1971), conference folder for Gisborne conference (1972) with financial returns for the Chinese Growers' Publilshing Company (1964-1971) and other papers, and clipping from the `Gisborne Herald' (1 Jul 1972) of Mr J Yee, Mr H T K Hsiang (counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of China), Mrs Hsiang and Mr P Lee (1965) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2003

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-269

Description: The scene is a meeting of the European Union. Delegates are sitting at their desks and an official is reading a submission from an Australian farmer. Extended Title - Regarding draft policy 973, clause 67b, Mr Shagger Patterson of Wooloolabong says, 'geeze Froggies, steady on. All me & me cobbers want is a fair suck of the sav...' Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2001

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; MG business - mercantile gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-023

Description: Shows a farmer driving his tractor listening to a speech by Jenny Shipley on the National Party's policies for agriculturalists. The farmer is dreaming about being a pop star singing on stage supported by two scantily-clad female singers. Refers to business forums held to discuss National Party policies. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).