Wilkes, Owen Ronald, 1940-2005

Date: 27 May 2005

By: Young, David Christopher, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-0768-1

Description: A recording made at the Wellington Memorial Service for Owen Wilkes, a prominent international peace activist and peace movement supporter who died 12 May 2005. The service was held at the Taraua Tramping Club Hall, Moncrief Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington, 27 May 2005. Speakers on side one of the tapes are George Boraman and Nicky Hager. Speakers on side two of the tapes are Nicky Hager, May Baas, David Young, Bob Rigg, Desmonde Cooper, David Kapper, Carrick Lewis, Ian Prior, Ann Evans, Sylvia Bagnall and Chris King. Speakers on side 3 are Keith Locke, Katherine ?, Kevin Hackwell, Stephanie Mills, Steve Dixon, Lynn Holland, Mark Roach, Chris Manson, Fay Tudor? and Wayne Hennessey. Venue - Tararua Tramping Club Hall, Mt Victoria, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010487; OHC-010488 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 2.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1979-2000

From: Richards, Llewelyn Morgan, 1935-2013 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12013-40

Description: Papers relating to nuclear free zones in general, and in particular to the proposed South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone. Includes exchange of views with Owen Wilkes and papers concerned with the Nuclear Free Zone (New Zealand) Bill 1979. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript, typescript

Date: 1972-1978

By: Dugdale, Guy, active 1970-2011

Reference: ATL-Group-00917

Description: Comprises 2 minute books and letters to PYM Auckland branch meetings, 1 copy issue five of Ponsonby Rag, 2 Southland Times newspaper clippings, pamphlets from Campaign Against Foreign Control in New Zealand, correspondence with Guy Dugdale, CAFINZ and article on submarine research by Owen Wilkes. Film shotlists for various demonstrations, report on 1975 Resistance Ride organised by CAFCINZ. Includes two recordings relating to Timor, NZ Aluminium Smelters, the Clutha Watchdogs and the proposals for a dam in the Clutha Valley. Accompanying material - Biographical material by Dugdale is available in the backfile. Source of title - supplied by library Quantity: 4 folder(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 C120 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Guy Dugdale 2011 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs (PACOLL-9933) - Other - 1 photograph transferred to Photographic Archive.

Date: 1980-1988

From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12055-34

Description: Instructions, reports and other papers relating to the US Naval Communications support for Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic. Includes some correspondence relating to Owen Wilkes. Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 2005

Reference: Eph-A-FUNERAL-2005

Description: Includes notices for the following persons, most with portrait photographs of the deceased: Gregory Martyn Aim, 4.9.1933 - 1.4.2005 Rona Bailey, 1914-2005 David Boyadjian, 29.7.1961 - 6.8.2005 Jack Burge, 16.8.1913 - 30.9.2005 Graeme John Butler, 20.9.1948 - 1.11.2005 Laurence Alfred Cameron, 13.12.1922 - 12.3.2005. Funeral service (1 copy) and card of thanks (2 copies) Diane Cooper, -2005 James Campbell Dakin, 1908-2005 Sonja Margaret Loveday Davies, 11.11.1923 - 12.6.2005 Rod Donald, 1957-2005 (card announcing memorial service) Irene Hughes, 1.11.1925 - 15.3.2005 Ngaire Lorraine Hunt, 24.10.1948 - 11.7.2005 Larry McCormack, 9.9.1956 - 13.12.2005 Olive Beryl McCracken, 31.3.1917 - 23.2.2005 Jack Bolton McKinney, 21.10.1917 - 26.8.2005 John Montgomery, 21.11.1951 - 25.1.2005 Denis Barry Phelps, 22.6.1943 - 9.9.2005 Clayton Ronald Potter, 27.2.1937 - 4.3.2005 Ramona Mary Roskam, 5.5.1945 - 22.8.2005 (2 copies) Greig Gordon Royle, 8.10.1913 - 1.8.2005 Grant Stephen Russell, 18.11.1953 - 17.5.2005 (2 copies) R S V (Dick) Simpson, May 1914 - May 2005 Kisega Toetu Sola, 15.12.1935 - 19.11.2005 Olwyn Violet Strickland, 26.11.1905 - 2.7.2005 Louise Thomas, 29.5.1912 - 4.6.2005 David Allan Wakim, 6.8.1945 - 2.10.2005 Muriel Mary Watt, 27.3.1917 - 2.7.2005 Owen Ronald Wilkes, 19.4.1940 - 12.5.2005 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying around 210 mm.

Date: [1982-1988]

From: Pringle, Michael, 1962-: Papers, photographs, maps, and posters

Reference: MS-Papers-6854-09

Description: Papers relating to Waihopai Defence Satellite Comunications Unit, Black Birch naval telescope and Mt John satellite tracking station with papers by Owen Wilkes and Dennis Small, paper delivered at the Royal Astronomical Society, Auckland (1982) by D P Buller, C R Dann and Owen Wilkes (1982), and copies of parliamentary correspondence re Waihopai Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1983-1992

From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12055-62

Description: Newspaper cuttings, drafts, correspondence, articles and other papers relating to the storage and disposal of chemical weaponry at Johnston Atoll. Also, correspondence from Owen Wilkes proposing a television programme on the secret history of chemical and biological warfare in New Zealand (1992), proposed study by Peter Wills on chemical and biological warfare and other material. Many of the papers are of United States origin. Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1947-1991

From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12055-37

Description: Reports, articles and other papers, produced and collected by members of SANA and others relating to biological and chemical warfare. Includes reports on the US Department of Defense safety programs for the disposal of chemical and biological weaponry on sites such as Johnston Atoll. Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 2008

By: Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica (Havana, Cuba)

Reference: Eph-D-GRAPHIC-ARTS-2007-AL

Description: Posters produced under the supervision of Xavier Meade, each showing a portrait of a liberator: 1. Tane Mahuta, by Xavier Meade 2. Maui, by Josh Watene 3. Te Whiti, by Xavier Meade 4. Tuaiwa (Eva) Rickard, by Jenny Rhodes 5. Rua Kenana, by Dion Hitchens 6. King Tawhiao, by James F Ormsby 7. Susi Newborn, by Tessa Laird 8. Ralph Hotere, by Katerina Mataira 9. Owen Wilkes, by Simon Cuming 10. Dean Hapeta aka Te Kupu, by Leafa Wilson 11. Hemi / James Keir Baxter, by Warren Olds 12. Richard Henry, by Nicola Farquhar This set of posters is numbered 42 out of a print run of 50. The posters are documented fully in: Aotearoa liberators poster project, by Xavier Meade, Waikato Institute of Technology. [Hamilton, N.Z] : Ramp Press, Wintec, c2008. Copy held in ATL NZ&P P Box q769 AOT 2008, General Lending NZ Pacific PAM 769.993 AOT 2008, and in Ephemera Workroom Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 42/50 Quantity: 12 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, 760 x 510 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2012.

Date: 1947-1997

By: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-2372

Description: Records of the organisation Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.) (SANA) A large proportion of the collection comprises official documents obtained by SANA from the United States government under the United States Freedom of Information Act. Also includes correspondence and other papers created by SANA relating to the New Zealand aspects of nuclear, chemical and biological warfare, with emphasis on the controversy over the question of the presence of nuclear weapons and propulsion on visiting naval vessels. Associated with the SANA material are also papers from Owen Wilkes and the Centre for Peace Studies, Auckland University, which are mainly concerned with the storage and disposal of chemical weapons in the Pacific region, especially at Johnston Atoll. Accompanying the donation was a comprehensive list, detailing the contents of each SANA box. The organisational files of SANA, although listed in the inventory provided, are not held with the Library. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: The collection has been divided into four series, reflecting the original division of the collection as arranged by SANA. The organisation Scientists against Nuclear Arms New Zealand (SANA) was founded in 1983. Two founder members, Peter Wills and Robert E White, who later also founded and became first Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at Auckland University, were instrumental in arranging for the records to be donated to the Library . Quantity: 65 box(es). 10.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Typescripts Finding Aids: A detailed inventory was compiled by the the donors and is held in the backfile.. Processing information: To co-ordinate with the SANA inventory the original SANA box numbers are included in square brackets in the title.

Date: 1986-2003

From: Richards, Llewelyn Morgan, 1935-2013 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12013-37

Description: Includes reports and 'think pieces' from Owen Wilkes, John Urlich and scribbled notes by Richards on aspects of disarmament policy. Also contains list of names sent by John Head who could be invited to join the NCCD (1995), report for discussion by Richards as Secretary on past decade and future considerations (1991), discussion on the 'Neither deny nor confirm policy' Derek Wilson of the Pacific Institute of Resource Management and discussion paper by Fran Wilde on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1989). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts

Date: 1981 - 1982

Reference: Eph-B-PEACE-Wilkes-1981/1982

Description: Includes circular letters from members of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Committee, Larry Ross; letter from lecturers of the University of Canterbury Sociology Deptartment, blank petition form to be filled in by academics in support of Owen Wilkes; a copy of the submission to the Norwegian Embassy by Dr Desmond John Ball of the Australian National University (30 April 1981) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, photocopies, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 18 December 1965-26 September 1966

From: Boshier, Roger, active 1960s-2018: Collection relating to Wellington Committee on Vietnam

Reference: MS-Papers-12315-04

Description: Comprises letters to the Committee, grouped together by correspondent, from Michael Bassett, Bruce Barnitt, M T B Hall, Max Heinegg, Trevor Hooper (Christchurch Socialist Forum), and Owen Wilkes. Letters are variously addressed, including to Barry Mitcalfe [chairman 1965-1967], "The Secretary", "Friends" or simply to the Committee. Papers appear to have been put into a folder and labelled at a later date. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and manuscript correspondence.

Date: 1967-1992

From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records

Reference: Series-6005

Description: Papers labelled 'Centre for Peace Studies Archive' which came with the SANA collection. The papers related mainly to the storage and disposal of chemical warfare materiel from Western Europe anhd other locations on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific region. Also included are correspondence, articles, research papers and cuttings from Owen Wilkes, dealing with a broad range of peace movement issues. Also, some papers relating to New Zealand's involvement in biological warfare. Quantity: 8 box(es). Finding Aids: A detailed inventory is not included for this series..

Date: 1980-1989

From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12055-53

Description: Papers relating to the GCSB, Waihopai Satellite Communications Station and other intelligence agencies. Includes correspodence with Owen Wilkes and Nicky Hager. Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1974-1984

From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records

Reference: MS-Papers-12055-52

Description: Papers relating to the intelligence work of the GCSB and Tangimoana. Includes papers by Owen Wilkes. Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1935, 1969-1973

From: New Zealand Labour Party. Blenheim Branch : Records

Reference: 93-154-7

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1969-1975

From: Mulheron, John Joseph, 1924-2006 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7362-2

Description: Copies of issues of the Farm Road Branch publication, Perspectives. Includes articles by Barry Mitcalfe, Dick Harker, Con Bollinger, Dr Robert Beaglehole, Geoffrey Fougere, Owen Wilkes, Allan Levett, Margaret Shields and Gerald Bowden. Includes draft copy of the New Zealand Security Inteeligence Service Amendment Bill, 1973. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr J Mulheron, 2002

Date: 1976 - 1996

By: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (N.Z.); International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. New Zealand Branch

Reference: Eph-D-NUCLEAR-IPPNW

Description: Includes: A4 sized draft invitation: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Inc, New ZEaland Branch cordially invites ... to hear Dr Helen Caldicott talk about "1984: initiatives for prevention of nuclear war" with Owen Wilkes and Prof Derek North. Wellington Town Hall, Thursday 5th April [1984. with illustration by Tom Scott] Abolition 2000. A total Southern Hemisphere nuclear weapon free zone! Compiled by Abolition 2000, C/- IPPNW, Dept of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand. 4.vii. 96 [1996] IPPNW's call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. IPPNW is collecting signatures ... contact IPPNW at Wellington School of Medicine, Department of Health, PO Box 7343, Wellington South World Court Project. Can the use of nuclear weapons be legal under international law? Time is running out!!!!! Please act now [1994] (2 copies) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War [1995]. Two copies of a flier mounted on display sheet so as to show both sides Pacific Conference of Churches. If it is safe, dump it in Tokyo, test it in Paris, store it in Washington, BUT, KEEP MY PACIFIC NUCLEAR-FREE [1980s?] New Internationalist. The money required to provide adequate food, water, education, health and housing for everyone in the world has been estimated at $17 billion a year. It is a huge sum of money ... about as much as the world spends on arms every two weeks [ca 1976] Dominion, Tuesday November 8, 1983. Outlook, specially compiled for use as a classroom resource. What if the bomb falls in Wellington?NIE re-prints; Newspapers in Education. World Court Project. Chemical - banned; biological - banned; nuclear - why not? [1994?] Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. "It's O.K! It's one of ours". Act now for a Non Nuclear Future; join Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Two copies mauve, one copy red) [Bob Brockie cartoon]. Question-time at the Bee-Hive. "And what does the Government intend to tell the International Court about the use of nuclear weapons?" [ca 1995] (Photocopy) Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and screen prints, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War in 2010. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts MS-Group-1883. Transfer made from there.

Date: 1995

From: Dick, Ian Douglas, 1918-1999 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7563-7

Description: Title continues:`...during and after World War Two'. Draft of article by Owen Wilkes on the development of the atomic bomb from the establishement of the DSIR in Great Britain in 1915 and in New Zealand from 1926. He discusses the Manhattan project and New Zealand's involvement, the Hiroshima bomb, the Montreal project, the hunt for uranium in New Zealand, cosmic ray research, the Harwell GLEEP, heavy water at Wairakei, the H-bombs and the significance for New Zealand of current research. Quantity: 1 folder(s).