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111 Carters Rd, Amberley. Find directions to Hurunui Memorial Library

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Coronation Ave, New Plymouth. Memorial Gates, New Plymouth Boys' High School Coronation Ave, New Plymouth 1922-23 Designed as a memorial to the First World War Servicemen who were ex-pupils, the rolls have been extended to include those of the 1939-45 war.

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(Need to add some images) T.H.Bates (1873 - 1954) Biography Thomas Herbert Bates was born in Adelaide on 22 December 1873. He grew up there, trained at the local School of Mines and married Emma Watson. They had six children, four daughters and two sons. In 1900 he travelled to work in Britain but after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake he moved there to help with the reconstruction for a couple of years. About 1908 he arrived in Auckland and was offered a contract at Auckland Grammar School. In 1916 he moved to New Plymouth to supervise the building of the auditorium of Everybody's Theatre (which became the Mayfair) on behalf of the Auckland architects, Grierson and Aimer. He then completed a similar contract for Frederick de Jersey Clere's AMP Building on the Egmont/Devon corner of (now Peggy Gordon's). Soon after this he set up business on his own account in the old King's Building on the Brougham/Devon corner. His first project was the designing and construction of the McEwan's Building in King Street (demolished 1996) and, in 1925-26 he built his own offices, the Empire (now Victoria) Building alongside. From 1918 and through the 1920s and 30s, Bates was the predominant figure in New Plymouth's commercial building-design field. He had arrived in the town at a time of great change, with experience in the burgeoning use of concrete for construction and with a respect for the devastating effects of a major earthquake. Many of the late 19th century wooden facades of Devon Street's commercial heart were, at the time, nearing the end of their useful lives. New technology, social systems and community expectations were overturning the old order following the upheaval of World War I. Of more immediate impact, however, was the disastrous fire of 22 July 1916, which destroyed the Theatre Royal and a number of surrounding buildings. The fire all-but-cleared - except for the White Hart Hotel - the Devon Street block from Queen to King and Egmont Streets. It is this block that, now, contains the greatest concentration of Bates' work. His last contract was the refurbishment of the Criterion Hotel (now demolished) for the Queen's visit in 1954. Throughout his life Thomas Bates was involved with local and national cricket administration, being at various times, Taranaki Provincial Committee Chairman and Chair of the New Zealand Association. He was killed in an airliner crash at Singapore Airport in 1954 while on a flight to London.. Thomas Herbert. Bates

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Normanby Domain. Normanby Domain. N Z Wars Front 1912 LEST WE FORGET THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF A NUMBER OF SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD DURING THE MAORI WAR 1868 & 1869 BY NUMEROUS FRIENDS SUBSIDISED BY A GRANT FROM THE GOVERNMENT HELMET AND CROSSED SWORDS IN SCABBARDS ALSO TO THE LOYAL MAORIS WHO FELL WHILST FIGHTING FOR THE QUEEN REV FATHER ROLLAND WHO SPIRITUALLY MINISTERED TO THE SOLDIERS DURING THE WAR DIED AT REEFTON JULY 13 1903 Right Side SEPTER 7TH 1868 MAJOR VON TEMPSKY. F RA CAPTAIN PALMER P RI " BUCK. WN RI LIEUT HASTINGS WN RI " HUNTER " CORPL FENNESY. A C RUSSELL. " LUMSDEN. WN RI PRIVT GRANT " " HUGHES. WN RI " DOWNES. P RI " DARLINGTON. " " DEEKS. T VOL. CONSTABLES DAVIS. A.C. ELKIN. " FARREN. " GILLIGAN. " HART. " O'CONNER. " Rear AUGST 1ST 1866 PRIVT SPAIN. T.M.S. SEPTER 23RD 1866 TROOPER HAGGERTY. W.Y.C. OCTER 1866 SERGT DUFF. W.Y.C. GREEN. WNUI RA VOL WRIGHT. TROOPER HANDLEY. W.Y.C. PRIVT ECONOMEDES. WR. DECER 1866 TROOPER HIGINSON. W.Y.C. JULY 1868 PRIVT SHEAN. WN RR " MCCARTHY. AUGST 21ST 1868 PRIVT WALLACE. WN RR " KERR. " " GEARY. " CONST MCKOY. AC. CONST MCKAY AC. CONST DWYER. A.C. PRIVT MCFARLAND. PRIVT MITCHELL Left Side JUNE 9TH 1868 SERGEANT CAHILL. PRIVATE CLARKE. " SQUIRES. JUNE 12TH 1868 TROOPER SMITH. A.C. JULY 12TH 1868 CAPTAIN ROSS. A.C. SERGEANT MCFADDEN. " CORPORAL BLAKE. " CONSTABLE BEAMISH. " " GAYNOR. " " HOLDEN. " " ROSS. " CONSTABLES SWORDS. A.C. SHIELDS. " R LENNON. STOREKEEPER SEPTER 1868 PRIVT MCGINESKY. WN RR JONES & SONS HAWERA On the site of the Normanby Redoubt now the Normanby Domain

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Greymouth pioneers, 1868-1918. Photograph is reproduced from the Grey District Library John Charlton collection.

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description of H.V. Palmer's first tractor brought to the West Coast in ca. 1920 out of his memories "The trail I followed"

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Looking down Tainui Street from Mawhera Quay corner, approximately 1910. Photograph is reproduced from the Grey District Library John Charlton Collection.

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On 28 February 2010 I collected a pamphlet from the Foxton Museum (open Sundays 2-4pm) and walked through historic Foxton stopping to look at the plaques (the text of some is included in this topic).. Starting at Coronation Hall where the plaque shows a photograph of cars assembled 'outside the Coronation Hall (c1915) in readiness for a parade. The front car's sign urges citizens to "Support the Wounded Soldiers". The others read "Remember Grand Patriotic Concert". Such concerts were held in 1915 and 1916. The Manawatu Hotel stands in the background. Between the hall and the hotel is a house belonging to S. Howan. Photo below: circa 1915 Photo below: 2010 Click here to see more details of the Foxton Coronation and Town Halls. Over the road are Ihakara Gardens. The Maori settlement of Te Awahou was located in this area. The war memorial stands on the triangle reserve which is reputed to have been the site of the meeting house of the settlement. The Ngati Raukawa people that lived here were led by Ihakara Tukumaru. Nearby Ihakara Gardens are on the site of the kainga's burial ground which was used by both Maori and Pakeha. Although Ihakara's people later abandoned the settlement they returned to bury the body of their chief there in 1881. This is one of the six graves still marked by a headstone. Photos (left): Sign outside Ihakara Gardens (right): View of 4 headstones in Ihakara Gardens. In Ihakara Gardens there is a plaque with three photographs taken by Wanganui photographers Harding-Denton in 1878. The originals of these photos are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. In the foregrounds of each is part of Ihakara Gardens with picket fence marked graves. This photograph shows at left the two storied Manchester House (with horses tethered outside) and residence. The building burnt down in the 1880s and was replaced. It had various uses including a drapery shop (Osborne), Bryant's billiard saloon, boarding house, butcher's shop, photographer's studio and a Gentlemen's Club. When it burnt down again in 1937 it was not rebuilt. In the distance can be seen some of the bush that lined the sand ridge along which a road was laid. Originally known as The Avenue but today it is Avenue Road. In the middle of the photo: "Tansley's Manawatu Hotel" had been in existence for over ten years (at the time of this photo). It began life as White Hart Hotel in the mid 1860s. The present day building is a 1900 replacement of the original that burnt down. On the right of the photo is Trasks's bakery and home. On the left of this photograph are the barracks used for housing immigrant settlers when thay had to wait for railway transport after they had arrived at the port of Foxton. It was also used as the Borough Council office when it was formed in 1888. At the back can be seen the privately owned public hall after which the street it is located in, Hall Street, was named. Originally this thoroughfare was known as Loudon Street. In the middle of the photo is the Court House, built c1865. This section also housed the district's first policeman, John Purcell, appointed in 1867. The Court House was not just used by the judicial system but also by several groups for meetings. Sittings of the Maori Land Court were also held here for, in early years, the only other village in the area was Otaki. This Court House was used until 1929 when it was replaced by the building now housing the Museum of Foxton History. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church is the next building along Main Street and it is the oldest building in town. New Zealand's first Presbyterian Missionary, James Duncan, raised funds from all over the Wellington Province to pay for the church, which opened in 1867. It was used as a church until 1970 and became the home of the Foxton Little Theatre in 1971. This photograph shows St Andrew's Church and several business premises including the newly built two stories Whytes Hotel. Down the right hand side of the street there is another group of business premises including Liddel's two storied shop. In the foreground is what was to become the Manawatu Herald building. Horses and a cart stand on the Triangle Reserve which today accomodates the town's memorial for fallen soldiers. The tram/railway line ran down the middle of Main Street from 1873 to 1881. In a later year a deviation was constructed which took the line to the west of the town through what is now the grounds of Manawatu College and down to a riverside reclamation. The Triangle Reserve in the foreground was first tidied up in 1899 when a post and chain fence wes erected. Cabbage trees and a seat were also installed. In 1908 John Chrystall drilled a well here which supplied water per a hand pump. Note there is no road running between Ihakara Gardens and the Triangle Reserve. The land to the west was the property of Rev. Duncan and roads through were not laid out until several years later. Photograph: The "Old Cemetery" as it was known, became very much neglected and from the early 1900s locals began agitating for it to be cleaned up. This photograph shows how it had been invaded by pine trees. Also in the photograph is the old Court House built in the mid 1860s and replaced in 1929. Historical background: Before any upgrading could be started the Borough had to approach the Maori owners. Several years of discussion etc. resulted in the land being offered to the Borough as a gift. In the mid 1920s the "Old Cemetery" became the focus of the activities of the Foxton Beautifying Society and they organised the cleaning up of the section, shaping and grassing of the hill, laying of footpaths, construction of the fence and planting of shrubs. Thus the "Old Cemetery" became Ihakara gardens and the town had one of its iconic features. The oldest marked grave (1850) is that of Dr J. Best a nephew of Capt. F. Robinson whose son is also buried here. Ann, the daughter of one of the district's other early settlers T and K Kebbell, was buried here in 1854. There are certainly others whose graves are no longer marked, buried here, for this urupu of the Te Awahou marae was the only burial ground in the town until 1871. Besides Ihakara, there are six other Maori of his whanau listed on the headstones. Earlier photographs show picket fences around sites where there is now no indication of a burial having taken place. There are twelve people who it is considered would almost certainly have been buried here. Main Street, Foxton PHOTOGRAPH: Main Street c 1922. The Memorial to Fallen Soldiers is in place but the water tower is not. The new Ihakara Gardens fence is still to be built but note there is no sign of the marked burial plots of the 1878 photos. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: The early 1920s saw several changes at the northern end of Main Street. Noticeable in this photo is the Fallen Soldiers' Memorial on the triangle reserve. The fence around the memorial was later replaced by a concrete one which has since been removed. On the let stands St Andrew's Church which was erected as a result of the fund raising efforts of Rev Duncan. Beyond it are the brick buildings replacing those destroyed in 1912 fire. The first of these is the general store of Barr and Tyer. Behind is the two storied Whytes Hotel. On the right is the two storied McColl plumbers building and next to it is the home of the Manawatu Herald (now Manawatu Print), which was built 1879. This publication began in 1878, in a building next to All Saints' Church. It served the district well, although not only from this site, until 1996. There is no building next to the Herald as in 1920 the Racing Club office was burnt down and was not replaced until 1922. The first verandah denotes Bauckhams store. This business was moved in 1924 to a new building on the corner of Clyde and Main Streets, which was built after a fire in that area. Bauckham's store was the forerunner of Foxton New World which was opened accross the street in 2002. The picket fence in the photo was replaced by the present roughcast one as part of the Beautifying Society's upgrade in 1921-22. The present day plantings in Ihakara Gardens were part of a 1990s clean up by te Historical Society and Keep Foxton Beautiful, using funds from the sale of the Band Hall in Cook Street. A similar photo on Kete around 1922: Similar view in 2010: Secondary department Foxton D H S Foxton District High School Secondary department taken from Ihakara Gardens. This photograph shows the building (now demolished) which stood on the land beside Ihakara Gardens. It was built as the Secondary Department of Foxton District High School and opened in 1927. As well as classrooms it contained woodwork and cooking rooms. A few years earlier the site had been considered as a possible site for school baths. Historical Background: Until this building was opened local children had to go to boarding schools or travel by train to Palmerston North for their secondary education. The latter option meant arriving at school late and leaving early, ideal for some nut not for the serious scholar. For many years School Committees and Headmasters pushed for provision of secondary education. Finally, in 1925, it was decided to translate Foxton Primary School into a District High School. This meant adding secondary classes to the already existing state school. During 1926 headmaster Frank Mason taught a few secondary pupils in his office while the new building was being built. In 1952 the secondary department moved to new buildings in Lady's Mile as increasing rolls had created overcrowding. These new buildings became the basis of Manawatu College in 1961. This building continued to be used for manual training for primary and decondary classes. The primary section of the school moved a class in and also established their library in one of the rooms. The building was later condemned and it was demolished in 1973. Ownership of the site was returned to the Maori descendants of the original owners who had donated it for educational use. Click here to see more details of the Foxton War Memorial. Click here to read exerpts on the History of the Foxton War Memorial published in the Manawatu Herald in 1919/1920. The view from Clyde Street dates from the early 1900s, prior to 1905. It was in that year that the old Bank of New Zealand building (next to the first telegraph pole on the left) was burnt down. Whytes Hotel is on the left and on the other side of White Street is the Red Store of M H Walker. A flag flies on the Post Office Hotel. On the right a group stands outside the building which was built as the Bank of Australasia and in the photograph is probably a doctor's surgery. It was also used by the Salvation Army Red Shield Club before it was burnt down. Historical background: The wide Main Street of Foxton has been one of its features from the first plan. The original tramway/railway ran down the middle to the station next to the Wharf Street corner. There were often complaints about the wagons of stock left in the street overnight and Foxtonians were pleased to see the line removed to the riverside in 1881. The muddy surface was not sealed until 1912. In the foreground is an ornate gas lamp. The reticulation of coal gas through the town was started by a private firm in 1908. The gasworks were in Cook Street and the Borough took them over in 1910. These works were closed in 1938 and all signs of them have now been removed. The lamplighter lost jis job when electric lighting was installed in 1925. The red Store across Whyte Street was founded by Thos Westwood in 1894 and sold to M H Walker in 1899. The next owner was Thomas Rimmer who was also a builder. It was burnt down in one of the many fires of 1912. Continued on next topic: A walk through historic Foxton - Part 2 - Click here to read

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From the Shuttleworth Collection

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German Bay/Takamatua. German Bay was renamed Takamatua during World War 1

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A tall brown glass crown top beer bottle. " HAWERA BREWERY CO. LTD / V.C. / TRADEMARK " is embossed within circular borders on the front of the bottle. " THIS REGISTERED TRADEMARKED BOTTLE IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF / THE HAWERA BREWERY Co. Ltd. AND IS NOT SOLD THOUGH A DEPOSIT / MAY HAVE BEEN TAKEN CONTENTS ARE SUPPLIED ON THIS CONDITION ONLY. " is embossed near the bottom of the bottle. The bottle is empty and the top is missing. " A.G.M / N.Z " is embossed on the bottom of the bottle.The "VC" range of beers were produced by the Hawera Brewery Company to commemorate Taranaki's two Victoria Cross winners from World War I, John Gildroy Grant and Harry John Laurent. During the 1920s the celebrated pair were also asked to plant trees in several parks and they each had a Hawera street named in their honour.

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This well worn bunting was used from about 1909 on Henry Ford's saddle shop in Devon Street, New Plymouth. It was almost certainly used for Victory celebrations in 1918.A set of British bunting (British flags on string). The rectangular flags are made from cotton and have the Union Jack in standard colours (red, white, blue). The string is a natural fibre that is twisted into two overlapping strands. The bunting has broken into three separate pieces and one flag is not attached to any of these pieces.

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Photo postcard of the Chalk Kiwi at Sling Camp on the Salisbury Plain in England, constructed after New Zealand troops occupied the camp in June 1916. Postcard depicts four army buildings in the middleground with the Chalk Kiwi visible on the hill that rises behind the camp.

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Photo postcard of a group of wounded soldiers with two nurses posing between two buildings. Ruthven McLauren Monteath is pictured in the second row, second in from the left. He was convalescing in Slingshot and Homechurch Convalescent Home, England after being wounded in France during WWI. Postcard was written by Monteath and dated 8/12/1918.

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Photograph of the champagne-breaking ceremony by Miss Jane Carrington to inaugurate the New Plymouth to Waitara rail-line. The Locomotive is the "Fox".

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Photograph of a large group of Waireka Battle Veterans sitting together near Ngamotu (the top of Paritutu can be seen in the rear). Back Row: T. Shaw, L. Loveridge, H. Berridge, W. Marshall, I. Langman, J. Andrews, W. Wilson, J. Pearn , T. Allen, J. Corney, J. Lawson, M. Carrick, E. Pearn, J. McKellar, R. Langman, C. Allen, C. Kingdon, T. McGuiness, E. Hart, F. Webster, C. Bullot, J. Newland, W. Pearn, W. Tuffon, W. Free, M. Jonas, H. Newland, G. Hoby, H. Brown, G. Haigh, W. Harrison, G. Curtis, I. Honeyfield, C. Happ, J. Kenyon, W. Newland, F. Oliver, E. Armitage, F. J. Mace, W. D. Webster

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Photograph of a large group of Waireka Veterans seated outside St Mary's Church. They are wearing medals and two men in the back row are holding the Waireka flags. Back Row: Kyngdon, C. M.; Bayly, Issac Mid Row: Pearn, Jas.; McKellar, Dugald; Newland, Wm.; Humphries, Thos.; King, W.; Langman, R.; Bullot, Ed.; Pearn, Wm.; Andrews, John Front Row: Haigh, G. B.; Pearn, A.; Black, John; Webster, W. D.; Free, W. H.; McKellar, J. S.; Hamerton, R. C.; Veale, Thom.; Langman, T.; Oliver, Frank; Crozier, John; Kenyon J.

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A brown leather Sam Browne belt with brass buckles and fittings. " H STANNERS / 24/1468 " is handwritten on the inside of the belt.This belt belonged to Horace Dartwell Stanners. Horace was from Eltham and served in Gallipoli. He returned to Eltham after standing on a bayonet and was reliant on walking sticks for much of his life. He died in the late 1960s.

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This belt belonged to Horace Dartwell Stanners. Horace was from Eltham and served in Gallipoli. He returned to Eltham after standing on a bayonet and was reliant on walking sticks for much of his life. He died in the late 1960s.A brown leather belt with a brass buckle with a clasp in the shape of a twin headed snake. " W WIGGINS / MAKER / WELLINGTON " is stamped on the leather near one end of the belt. " H.D STANNERS / No. 1 PLATOON / F Coy. 8th RNFS. / NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE / 13/11/15. " is handwritten on the underside of the belt.

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A brown leather belt with a brass buckle with a clasp in the shape of a twin headed snake. " W WIGGINS / MAKER / WELLINGTON " is stamped on the leather near one end of the belt. " H.M. Scott N.Z.R/8Coy Reinforcements " is stamped in faded letters on the underside of the belt.This belt belonged to Horace Dartwell Stanners although it may have initially been issued to another soldier. Horace was from Eltham and served in Gallipoli. He returned to Eltham after standing on a bayonet and was reliant on walking sticks for much of his life. He died in the late 1960s.

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A canvas kit bag with metal grommets at the top for a drawstring. " PVT.H.STANNERS. / 24 / 1488. / F.COY. / 8. R F S. / N.Z. / H.M.N.Z.T.S. / No 36 " is stencilled on one side. " H.D. Stanners. / F. Coy. " is stencilled on the other side. Some worn, illegible numbers are stencilled on the base of the bag and there is some handwritten writing on the interior of the bag which has been crossed out.This kit bag belonged to Horace Dartwell Stanners. Horace was from Eltham and served in Gallipoli. He returned to Eltham after standing on a bayonet and was reliant on walking sticks for much of his life. He died in the late 1960s.

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This chair was first used by New Plymouth dentist Cliff Johnson who had a practice in the Devon Buildings on the corner of Liardet and Devon Streets. It is thought the chair was purchased in 1926. When Mr Johnson purchased a newer model chair some years later this chair was given to Mick Pillette, a dental technician who operated out of the same building. The chair was used to treat patients until Mr Pillette retired in 2005. Mr Pillette estimated thousands of people would have been treated in it over this time.A fully adjustable dentist's chair mounted on a heavy hydraulic base. The chair features a two pronged padded headrest mounted on an adjustable metal support. It has a heavy metal frame which has been painted a very dark red with wooden armrests and a padded seat. The footrest is covered in green vinyl and also has a smaller child's footrest that can be folded out. The chair has various adjustment levers. The largest one is designed to be foot operated and can be used to raise the chair.

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A souvenir glass hatchet. The hatchet is made of clear glass but the head has been painted brown and gold. The head also features a grey head and shoulders drawing of King George and Queen Mary. " SOUVENIR OF THE / CORONATION OF KING GEORGE / AND QUEEN MARY / 1911 " is written on a scroll below the drawing." TARANAKI NZ " is written in white on the handle. The back edge of the axe head has been painted gold.

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A matching polyester ensemble made up of a black skirt and blouse covered in a colourful repeating design featuring butterflies, ladybirds and flowers. The long sleeved blouse has a collar and five buttons on the front. " STUDIO / NEWPORT / 16 " is written on a tag on the interior of the neckline. There is also a secondary tag featuring washing instructions. The ankle length skirt can be fastened using a zip and a hook and eye. It has the same tags as the blouse on the interior except it is size 18.Classic Manufacturing, the firm who made this ensemble, was established in 1926 and shifted to New Plymouth during World War II as part of a Government plan to encourage industry to move out of the larger cities. It manufactured and marketed women's clothing including under it's own label Newport, and a US franchise called ABS. The factory was closed in 2005. This ensemble was purchased from Gillis Fashions, St Lukes, Auckland in 1996.

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Classic Manufacturing, the firm who made this dress, was established in 1926 and shifted to New Plymouth during World War II as part of a Government plan to encourage industry to move out of the larger cities. It manufactured and marketed women's clothing including under it's own label Newport, and a US franchise called ABS. The factory was closed in 2005. This dress was purchased from C C Wards, New Plymouth, in 1994.A navy blue polyester dress and belt covered in a repeating floral design. The belt has a gold coloured buckle. There are three buttons at the front of the dress a single blue and red button near the collar. There are two thin belt loops at the waist. The shoulders of the dress are padded. " NEWPORT / 18 / MADE IN NEW ZEALAND / " is written on the interior of the neckline. There is also a secondary tag featuring washing instructions. A small loop of fabric has come loose from the dress.

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A navy blue polyester dress and belt covered in small white spots. The belt has a red covered buckle and two imitation pockets are fringed with red. There is a single blue and red button near the collar of the dress and there are two thin belt loops at the waist. The shoulders of the dress are padded. " NEWPORT / FOR THE / 5'2'' / MADE IN NEW ZEALAND / 18 " is written on the interior of the neckline. There is also a secondary tag featuring washing instructions.Classic Manufacturing, the firm who made this dress, was established in 1926 and shifted to New Plymouth during World War II as part of a Government plan to encourage industry to move out of the larger cities. It manufactured and marketed women's clothing including under it's own label Newport, and a US franchise called ABS. The factory was closed in 2005. This dress was purchased from the factory shop in Buller Street in 1995.

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A 745ml Provincial Bitter beer bottle. The brown glass bottle features a stained white label with an emblem of the Queen Alexandra's Wellington West Coast Mounted rifles that features a palm tree in front of a mountain. "Q.A.M.R. & 2 L.A.F.V. Regt./ A special brew of/PROVINCIAL BITTER/for the reunion of Queen Alexandra's Mounted/Rifles and 2nd Armoured Regiment./ 1st May, 1965, at New Plymouth, New Zealand./Brewed and bottled in New Plymouth,/ New Zealand, by/ TARANAKI BREWERY Ltd." is written on the label. "THIS BOTTLE IS THE PROPERTY OF THE ASSOCIATED BOTTLERS Co LTD N.Z" is embossed on the shoulder of the bottle along with the letters "ABC" within a triangle. The bottle is empty and the cap is missing.

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A 745ml Draught Provincial Bitter beer bottle. The brown glass bottle features a yellow label with a scorpion pictured at the centre. " LONG RANGE DESERT / GROUP / A special brew of rare old Nile waters, flavoured with Desert Sun, Sand, Flies / and Wog aromas - for the 1966 L.R.D.G REUNION / at New Plymouth, June 1966 / DRAUGHT PROVINCIAL BITTER / Brewed and bottled in New Plymouth, / New Zealand, by / TARANAKI BREWERY Ltd." is written on the label. " THIS BOTTLE IS THE PROPERTY OF THE ASSOCIATED BOTTLERS Co LTD N.Z " is embossed on the shoulder of the bottle along with the letters "ABC" within a triangle. The bottle is empty and the cap is missing.

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A plume made of red and white feathers attached to a metal piece to embellish military headwear. Fine cotton thread has been used to strengthen the feathers.This plume was worn in a hat which belonged to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stapp. A veteran of the 58th Regiment, Stapp served in the Northern War in 1845 before returning to England. He returned to Taranaki in 1858 and was appointed to a senior position with the militia. Stapp played and important role in planning the settler defences of New Plymouth prior to the First Taranaki War in 1860. He also took an active part in the battle of Waireka. After further service in campaigns on the East Coast he returned to Taranaki and commanded the Taranaki Volunteers before assuming command of the Western Military District in 1881.

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A glass spirit flask with a metal and leather covering. The flask has a metal screw top lid and stem and a removable metal container on the bottom half. The top half of the flask is covered in leather with a vertical viewing slit cut in both sides. "E.P.B.M" is stamped on the base of the cup along with "JD&S" and a bugle mark. "D" and "4" are also stamped on the base.This flask is thought to have belonged to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stapp. A veteran of the 58th Regiment, Stapp served in the Northern War in 1845 before returning to England. He returned to Taranaki in 1858 and was appointed to a senior position with the militia. Stapp played and important role in planning the settler defences of New Plymouth prior to the First Taranaki War in 1860. He also took an active part in the Battle of Waireka. After further service in campaigns on the East Coast he returned to Taranaki and commanded the Taranaki Volunteers before assuming command of the Western Military District in 1881.

2010-03-13T08:30:49.009Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152556

Architectural plans for the Returned Soliders Club located on Princes Street in Hawera. 1921 The Returned Services Club building is a single storey timber framed structure with a textured stucco plaster finish; the joinery is timber (with some aluminium) and the roof is sheathed in corrugated iron. The original architectural drawing shows the billiard room on the south side with timber trusses spanning across the room and supporting lanterns in the roof; alongside (on the north side) were a lounge, committee room, kitchen and other service rooms. The front elevation to Princes Street has a wide porch with columns forming a generous entrance; a wing on either side with an arched parapet each contains a floral wreath above the windows, symbol of peace. The Club building was constructed in 1921 and just before the War Memorial Arch. It has served its original purpose to the present day, with some modifications - externally a part of the front porch area has been built in and additions have been made to the rear (Hawera Town Centre Heritage Inventory, South Taranaki District Council PE10, p.89).

2010-03-13T08:30:48.339Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152507

A Colt muzzle loading percussion .44 calibre revolver. The revolver is a single action, open top 1848 Army Dragoon type New York model. It has a square backed brass trigger guard. " Saml. Colt, New York City " is stamped on the barrel. It's Serial No. is 9208.This revolver originally belonged to George Newsham Curtis. It was donated to Taranaki Museum in 1922.

2010-03-13T08:30:44.729Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152479

A flick of a switch sparked great fanfare in 1906 when New Plymouth was bathed in electric light for the first time. Civic leaders turned out in force on 19 January to witness streetlights powered by the Mangorei power scheme in action. There was much speechmaking and celebrating before the Mayoress, Alice Cock, threw the switch to light up the town. The Taranaki Herald reporter was impressed with the result. "The streets were at once brightly illuminated, the final act being signalised (sic) by hearty cheering from the assemblage." Forty one households and business were connected up to the scheme in its first year and by 1912 there were 230 consumers hooked up. Until state supplied power was connected in 1935 the power station, by the Waiwhakaiho River near Burgess Park, supplied all of the town's electricity. The much altered power station is still operational today. The plaque was hung on the wall of a beach house in Whitianga for about 30 years before it was donated to Puke Ariki by the Fairbrother family in 2006.A wooden plaque shaped like a shield with a brass light switch mounted on it. "Presented by the/MAYORESS OF NEW PLYMOUTH/ON THE OCCASION OF THE/ INAUGURATION OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING/OF THE TOWN Jan 1906/By the Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd" is inscribed on a metal plate which is screwed onto the plaque. Two metal rings are attached to the reverse with a strand of white cord tied to them.

2010-03-13T08:30:42.829Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152465

A red wool New Zealand Volunteers bugler's coat and belt. The front has six metal buttons that read "New Zealand Volunteers" and have four stars in the middle. The garment is fully lined with brown cotton. The cuffs have a band of black wool at the cuff opening and white and red braid trim. The narrow stand collar has the same combination of materials but has two metal bugle pins attached to the front. The epaulettes on the shoulders are made of red wool and they have gold letters attached that read "B", "TB" and "NZR". Next to the epaulettes there are shoulder pieces made of a wool ribbon with a red and white fringe. The ribbon is white with a repeating red crown pattern. The sleeves have a patch on each side of a gold bugle. The belt is made of white leather and has a gold clasp with a crown on it.This coat was worn by New Plymouth man, Harold Lobb, who became a bugler in his teens. He served in France during World War I and joined the National Reserve during World War II.

2010-03-13T08:30:41.929Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152414

A dessert plate decorated with a pink and white flower and a bud, large leaves and a gold rim. "Spear Leaved Geranium" and "Spode" are written on the base and a sticker with "ATKINSON/Pitt Street" handwritten on it is stuck to the base.This plate, part of a Spode dinner set, was buried by Arthur and Jane Maria Atkinson near their cottage at Hurworth in 1860 when they abandoned it during the First Taranaki War. Attempts to recover them later were unsuccessful until one of the sons of the then owners of the farm, James Smith, discovered the buried china in the 1920s. Annoyed by an order from his mum to dig the vegetable garden James stabbed his gum spear into one of the farm tracks and struck the buried stash. His brothers, Charlie and Richard, helped him dig the treasure up but it is not known who eventually dug the vegetable garden.

2010-03-13T08:30:38.289Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152375

View from the trenches during WWI in Belgium.

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WWI Medical Corps walking on wooden board walk over muddy ground in Belgium, circa 1917.

2010-03-13T08:30:35.219Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152373

WWI Medical Corps carrying wounded military personnel on a stretcher, Belgium circa 1917.

2010-03-13T08:30:35.159Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152369

Studio portrait of Lieutenant William Johnson (left) and John Elliot (right) in front of painted back drop. Both are decorated with the New Zealand War Medal (John Elliot wears bar only). Lieutenant William Johnson has a patch over his left eye.

2010-03-13T08:30:34.860Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152355

Photograph of the start of a cycle race, Kawau Street, New Plymouth. Visible behind the cyclists is the Provincial Military Hospital (two-storey building), which was demolished in July 1956. The Drill Hall is at rear and this was built in 1892 and demolished in 1984.

2010-03-13T08:30:33.789Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152344

Studio portrait of Captain William Newland who was at Te Ngutu o te Manu when Von Tempsky was killed.

2010-03-13T08:30:32.989Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152333

View of Pukearuhe Armed Constabulary Redoubt and settlement showing clifftops and sea. Plate 2 "Views of Taranki [sic]" album by W. A. Collis

2010-03-13T08:30:32.169Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152330

Six members of the Armed Constabulary, New Plymouth. They wear the simplified uniform with shawl-kilt that replaced trousers which evolved during the years of bush campaigning. This uniform was based on that used by Maori.

2010-03-13T08:30:31.939Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1152266

View of dwellings at Parihaka in 1881. Signed lower right corner "W.G. Baker." Framed.

2010-03-13T08:30:26.269Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1673948

This report concerns the raupatu (confiscation) of Māori land in the Tauranga district, following the war of 1864. The report covers 55 separate claims. The claimants represent several iwi, including Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi, Waitaha, and the Marutuahu people. The Tribunal's inquiry was not the first but it was the fullest inquiry into the confiscation that has ever been conducted. In contrast to the royal commission of 1927, which reported on the Tauranga confiscation and concluded that Tauranga Māori had not been badly treated, the Tribunal found that they have substantial grievances.

2010-03-13T08:30:08.095Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1289420

Ernest Rutherford was born on 30 August 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand, the son of a farmer. In 1894 he won a scholarship to Cambridge University and worked as a research student under Sir Joseph Thomson. In 1898 he became Professor of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. There, working with chemist Frederick Soddy, he investigated the newly-discovered phenomenon of radioactivity. Rutherford and Soddy proposed that radioactivity results from the disintegration of atoms. In 1907 Rutherford returned to England to become Professor of Physics at Manchester University. In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1914 he was knighted, but the war interrupted his work. He helped to develop methods of dealing with the new menace of submarine warfare, as well as studying underwater acoustics. In 1917 he returned to physics and a long series of experiments in which he discovered that the nuclei of certain light elements, such as nitrogen, could be 'disintegrated' by the impact of energetic alpha particles coming from some radioactive source, and that during this process fast protons were emitted. This was the first artificially induced nuclear reaction. Rutherford had virtually created a new discipline, that of nuclear physics. In 1919 Rutherford became professor of experimental physics and director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, succeeding Thomson. Many of his students at the Cavendish Laboratory went on to become pioneering scientists. From 1925 to 1930 he was president of the Royal Society (to which he had been elected in 1903). In 1931 he was awarded a life peerage and died on 19 October 1937. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

2010-03-13T08:25:35.345Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202752

A B 608, Passchendaele , on display at New Zealand railways’ centennial celebrations in In 1925 the minister of railways, Gordon Coates, agreed to a proposal to name a steam locomotive ‘in memory of those members of the New Zealand Railways who fell in the Great War’. More than 5000 railwaymen serve...

2010-03-13T08:25:26.632Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1527229

Detail of plaque on the Birch Hill Station war memorial. It reads: "In memory of the men of Birch Hill Station, who fought in the Great War. 1914-1918. J.T. Ford, W.J. Thompson, H.B. Brittan, P. Burke, M. Pavelka, H.D. Harris, J. Tait, A. George, M. Fitzgibbon, H. Coombes." Detail of plaque on the B...

2010-03-13T08:25:19.735Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1268094

This New Zealand national blue ensign flag was flown at Quinns Post, Gallipoli , in 1915. The flag was brought back to New Zealand by Private John Taylor, Canterbury Infantry Regiment. In the top left hand corner the flag has been signed by members of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment. The names incl...

2010-03-13T08:25:17.298Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44998

Herbert war memorial, unveiled 25 March 1923.

2010-03-13T08:25:15.405Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44657

West Eyreton memorial showing names. The memorial is at the intersection of North Eyre Road, Earlys Road and Downs Road, in front of the West Eyreton Hall. The memorial was unveiled by the Prime Minister Rt. Hon. W.F. Massey on 4 June 1922.

2010-03-13T08:25:14.286Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44652

Cust war memorial showing names. The Memorial is on the Oxford-Rangiora Road, the main road through Cust, in the centre of Cust village. The Cust war memorial was unveiled in 1922 to remember those in the district who served in the First World War. A German field gun once stood on a concrete pad to ...

2010-03-13T08:25:14.226Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44617

Lancaster Park war memorial, Christchurch. The plaque reads 'To Commemorate the Glorious Deeds of the Athletes of this Province in the Great War Aug. 1914-Nov. 1918'.

2010-03-13T08:25:13.876Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43568

Anzac Day notice, New Zealand Gazette , 1, 1916, p. 977 Prime Minister’s Office, Wellington, 5th April, 1916. I Hereby notify, for public information, that the Government have decided to observe a half-holiday, commencing at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the 25th April, in commemoration of “Anzac Day,” and I s...

2010-03-13T08:25:12.758Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43457

Members of the New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion take a break from trench improvement work, near Gommecourt, France, 25 July 1918. The New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, largely made up of Maori troops, carried out important labour and construction tasks on the Belgian battlefields. Major changes we...

2010-03-13T08:25:12.569Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43455

This shows the return of the Maori Pioneer Battalion to Putiki pa, Wanganui, in 1918. The Moutoa flag is in the centre. This flag was presented in 1865 by the ladies of Wanganui to lower Whanganui iwi to mark their success at Moutoa Island against Pai Marire warriors who threatened the settlement of...

2010-03-13T08:25:12.496Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43454

New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion members perform a haka for Cabinet minister Sir Joseph Ward at Bois-de-Warnimont, 30 June 1918. The haka introduced Maori custom and practice into the New Zealand armed services, and the use of these customs and practices grew during the conflicts of the 20th ce...

2010-03-13T08:25:12.436Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41996

Members of the Native Contingent aboard ship before their departure in February 1915

2010-03-13T08:25:09.156Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41992

A King's Colour awarded to the New Zealand Pioneer Maori Battalion by King George V in 1919.  The King's Colour awarded to the New Zealand Pioneer Maori Battalion symbolises 'the honour of the battalion, and the blood of soldiers killed and wounded in battle'. It was one of the 13 flags awarded to u...

2010-03-13T08:25:09.036Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41989

This work by William Blomfield, entitled 'The spirit of his fathers', appeared in the Christmas, December 1915 issue of the New Zealand Observer . It shows a Maori soldier charging two Turkish soldiers with the ghost of a Maori warrior behind him. Cartoons like this attempted to evoke the spirit of ...

2010-03-13T08:25:08.976Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41985

Members of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion laying a road in Messines, Belgium, 1917, shortly after the advance of 7-9 June.

2010-03-13T08:25:08.916Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41951

Film of the first ballot under the 1916 Military Service Act, which introduced conscription during the First World War. Filmed on 16 November 1916 at Rouths Building, Brandon Street, Wellington. The NZ Truth reported that the, 'first gamble in human life was commenced' by the Government Statistician..

2010-03-13T08:25:08.726Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41864

The newly formed New Zealand Pioneer Battalion arrived in France in April 1916. In late August it became the first unit of the New Zealand Division to move onto the Somme battlefield. That bitter campaign had started on 1 July 1916 with horrendous losses among the British. Sent ahead to prepare for ...

2010-03-13T08:25:08.536Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41852

Major changes were made to the nature and form of Maori military service in late 1915 and early 1916. The Native Contingent ceased to exist and was replaced by the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, sometimes referred to now as the Pioneer Maori Battalion. The Native Contingent was decimated by events a...

2010-03-13T08:25:08.406Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41849

The first Native Contingent sailed from Wellington aboard the SS Warrimoo in February 1915. Its motto was 'Te Hokowhitu a Tu' (the seventy twice-told warriors of the war god), signifying the 140 warriors of the war god, Tu-mata-uenga. This name was given by Wi Pere, an East Coast rangatira. The cres...

2010-03-13T08:25:08.346Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41705

Before the outbreak of war Prime Minister W.F. Massey had made it clear that New Zealand's main contribution would be supplying troops for the major theatre of conflict. After 5 August 1914 preparations were rapidly made. But before New Zealand could commit its troops to Europe, any direct threat in...

2010-03-13T08:25:07.565Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41615

Firing a trench mortar On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie were assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo. The fallout from this faraway event would ultimately claim the lives of 18,500 New Zealanders and wound a further...

2010-03-13T08:25:07.286Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1406142

Washing clothes on HMS Philomel In December 1939 the New Zealand naval forces were a quarter of a century old. They had come into being with the arrival of the decrepit training cruiser HMS Philomel at Wellington in July 1914. Almost immediately, however, the outbreak of the First World War interrup...

2010-03-13T08:25:03.596Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1406132

The Admiral Graf Spee photographed in Montevideo Harbour following the Battle of the River Plate. A shell-hole is visible below the forward guns. Initially Germany's interwar naval development had been constrained by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which imposed strict limits on the size and number o...

2010-03-13T08:25:02.856Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1325290

Prohibition poster from 1920s Alcohol remained an important issue after the First World War, and the prohibitionists slogged it out with the liquor trade throughout the 1920s. The campaigns dragged on bitterly, with each side lambasting the other with cartoons, advertisements, posters, leaflets, pam...

2010-03-13T08:24:59.376Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216605

These images show the Robert Scott memorial oak in Oamaru. There a number of memorials in New Zealand to British explorer Captain Robert Scott. Scott used New Zealand as a base for both the British National Antarctic Expedition in 1901-04 and the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. News that he a..

2010-03-13T08:24:57.246Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44655

Ashley war memorial. Situated on Fawcetts Road, opposite Ashley School. THE ROLL OF HONOUR  1914-1918 WAR ASHLEY GORGE SCHOOL Information from the original Ashley Gorge School Honours Board now at the "Northbrook Museum" of Richard Spark at Rangiora.

2010-03-13T08:24:55.126Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43713

Helensville was once a popular refreshment stop for passengers travelling north of Auckland. Today its station features a café and shops. Regular passenger services between Auckland and Helensville ended in 1980, but a daily return commuter service resumed on a trial basis in July 2008. This involve...

2010-03-13T08:24:54.056Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41915

The first part of the film shows New Zealand soldiers, along with their horses and equipment, embarking on a troopship and departing from Wellington on 25 September 1914. This attempt to leave had to be aborted because of concern about the whereabouts of German raiders. The Main Body of the NZEF eve..

2010-03-13T08:24:50.596Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41594

Belgian battle scene Since 1917 Passchendaele has been a byword for the horror of the Great War. The name conjures images of a shattered landscape of mud, shell craters and barbed wire, and of helpless soldiers mown down by machine-guns and artillery. The capture of the Belgian village of Passchenda...

2010-03-13T08:24:49.296Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354522

This law allowed for the confiscation (raupatu) of Maori land as punishment of those North Island tribes who were deemed to have been in rebellion against the British Crown in the early 1860s. New settlers would be introduced onto confiscated lands. On the eve of the British invasion of the Waikato..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.716Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354521

Six p.m. closing of pubs was introduced as a 'temporary' wartime measure. It ushered in what became know as the 'six o'clock swill', as patrons aimed to get their fill before closing time. The practice lasted for the next 50 years. Since the 1880s the campaign for the prohibition of alcohol had dev..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.639Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354520

Pilot E. F. ‘Teddy’ Harvie and his passenger, Miss Trevor Hunter, set a record for the longest flight within New Zealand in a single day. They flew approximately 1880 kms from North Cape to Invercargill in a time of 16 hrs 10 mins. It was a remarkable feat considering 22-year-old Harvie had been fly..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.576Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354519

Captain Cook and astronomer Charles Green observed the transit of Mercury at Te Whanganui-a-hei (Mercury Bay) on the Coromandel Peninsula. The inner planets, Mercury and Venus, occasionally pass across the Sun and can be observed as small black dots. Timing these 'transits' from different locations..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.506Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354514

Ridden by Jimmy Pike, the New Zealand-bred (but Australian-owned) wonder-horse beat Second Wind by two lengths to claim one of his greatest victories. The Melbourne Cup is the pinnacle of thoroughbred racing in Australasia. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious ‘two-mile’ handicap in the wo..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.156Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354513

From a dairy factory at Pukekura, Waikato, Henry Reynolds launched his Anchor butter. The brand name was allegedly inspired by a tattoo on the arm of one of his workers. It would become one of this country's best-known trademarks. New Zealand's temperate climate is well suited to dairy farming. Its..

2010-03-13T08:24:46.079Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354510

Six p.m. closing for pubs was introduced as a 'temporary' wartime measure in December 1917. It was made permanent the following year, ushering in what became know as the 'six o'clock swill', as patrons aimed to get their fill before closing time. Since the 1880s the campaign for the prohibition of ..

2010-03-13T08:24:45.826Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354509

Graham shot dead three policemen and fatally wounded two other men before escaping into the bush. One of New Zealand's largest manhunts concluded when he was shot on the evening of 20 October . Graham died of his wounds the following day. Ultimately, seven men were to die as a result of his shooting..

2010-03-13T08:24:45.748Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354508

Count Felix Graf von Luckner had earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea-Devil) due to his exploits as captain of the German raider SMS Seeadler ( Sea Eagle ) in 1916–17. After his capture in Fiji, he and five of his crew arrived in Auckland en route to a prisoner-of-war camp on Motuihe Island. He..

2010-03-13T08:24:45.686Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354501

It is clear that no matter how the second wave developed in New Zealand, it was many times more deadly than any previous influenza outbreaks. No other event has killed so many New Zealanders in so short a space of time. While the First World War claimed the lives of more than 18,000 New Zealand sold...

2010-03-13T08:24:45.236Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354497

The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) aimed to catch Sutch in the act of passing information to Dimitri Aleksandrovick Razgovorov, a Russian diplomat. The pair had been under surveillance since April, after the NZSIS chanced upon what they believed was a clandestine meeting between t..

2010-03-13T08:24:44.966Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354490

The Governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The passing of the Electoral Act was the culmination of years ..

2010-03-13T08:24:44.486Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354484

The Labour Party's Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman Member of Parliament, winning a by-election in the Lyttelton seat caused by the death of her MP husband James McCombs (one of the first Labour members, who had held the seat since 1913). Read more about Elizabeth here . Although New Zealan..

2010-03-13T08:24:44.036Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354482

The editorial in The Press on 11 September 1928 observed that if Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm successfully crossed the Tasman that day, the rejoicing in New Zealand would be even greater than that in Australia. New Zealanders had yet to 'see a plane arrive from another c..

2010-03-13T08:24:43.916Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354474

Alongside Britain and Australia, New Zealand was one of the first countries to become involved in the global conflict precipitated by Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. In contrast to its entry into the First World War, New Zealand acted in its own right by formally declaring war on ..

2010-03-13T08:24:43.406Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1325286

Franklin Memorial Hospital, Waiuku  Franklin Memorial Hospital was officially opened in Kitchener Road, Waiuku, on 28 April 1923. This was a 'cottage hospital', funded partly by the Auckland Hospital Board and partly by public subscriptions, as a memorial to the men of Franklin who had served during...

2010-03-13T08:24:42.866Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1325273

This pro-continuance poster from the 1920s shows a New Zealand soldier kicking an old man representing Uncle Sam back across the sea from New Zealand to North America. It urges New Zealanders not to follow the United States in banning alcohol and claims prohibition there has caused more harm than go...

2010-03-13T08:24:42.426Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1325271

In this 1919 cartoon from Truth a publican and a priest, both showing signs of having been in a fight, kneel in supplication at the feet of a soldier. This refers to the April 1919 prohibition vote being decided by the special votes of the 40,000 New Zealand soldiers still overseas, on troopships, o...

2010-03-13T08:24:42.376Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1324163

Details from the memorial showing the names listed. Photos of the unveiling of the memorial, 12 May 1920.

2010-03-13T08:24:41.116Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1324162

Detail from the honours board showing the names listed.

2010-03-13T08:24:41.046Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1324147

Plaques at the base of the flagpole.

2010-03-13T08:24:40.236Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1268149

Riverton RSA roll of honour board, 2008. Details from the roll of honour showing the names listed.

2010-03-13T08:24:37.625Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216729

New Zealand was ill-equipped to cope with the Western Samoa mandate allocated by the League of Nations in 1920. After occupying German Samoa at the outbreak of the First World War, the New Zealand administration was blamed for mishandling the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed a fifth of the loca...

2010-03-13T08:24:36.846Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216695

Text from the 1920 League of Nations mandate proclaiming the terms under which the former German Samoa would come under New Zealand jurisdiction. A transcript of the full text is provided below. The Council of the League of Nations: Whereas by Article 119 of the Treaty of Peace with Germany, signed ...

2010-03-13T08:24:36.646Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216637

Crosses at the Bluff New Zealand Returned and Services' Association memorial park.

2010-03-13T08:24:36.486Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:202819

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marks the moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front in 1918, with the signing of the Armistice. In 2004 an Unknown New Zealand Warrior from the First World War was laid to rest at the National War Memorial. Despite the difficult circumstance..

2010-03-13T08:24:35.736Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45925

It became known to Samoans as ‘Black Saturday’ – the day that New Zealand military police fired on a Mau demonstration in Apia, killing 11 Samoans, including the independence leader Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III. New Zealand occupied the German colony of Samoa in August 1914. After the war New Zealand..

2010-03-13T08:24:35.476Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45923

Rewi Alley, friend of China, died of heart failure and cerebral thrombosis at his Beijing residence. Earlier in the month Alley had celebrated his 90th birthday with the Communist Party leader, Zhao Ziyang. Alley went to China in 1927 and ended up dedicating 60 years of his life to his adopted coun..

2010-03-13T08:24:35.337Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45919

Peter Fraser's trial in the Wellington Magistrates' Court was the sequel to a speech he had given attacking the government's military conscription policy. A number of other union leaders were charged with the same crime. Fraser was convicted and served 12 months in gaol. Somewhat ironically, in 194..

2010-03-13T08:24:35.076Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45918

It was New Zealand's worst naval tragedy. When the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Neptune struck enemy mines and sank off Libya on the morning of 19 December 1941, more than 750 men lost their lives. Among them were 150 New Zealanders. In early 1941 the New Zealand government had answered the Admiralty's c..

2010-03-13T08:24:35.017Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45915

The distance between Dunedin and Paris may seem far, but even in the 19th century ideas and technology travelled fast. On 31 March 1889 Gustave Eiffel's famous tower was officially completed in Paris, France. At 300 metres high (plus a 24-m flag pole), it was the centrepiece of the 1889 Paris Unive..

2010-03-13T08:24:34.787Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45913

The Finance Act (No. 3) abolishes the poll tax, introduced in 1881, which is described by Minister of Finance Walter Nash as a 'blot on our legislation'. A public meeting held in Dunedin in 1871 had called unanimously for a ban on further Chinese migrants. As work on the goldfields became harder to..

2010-03-13T08:24:34.656Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45912

The Agricultural and Pastoral show aimed to demonstrate excellence in agriculture and animal husbandry. These shows became an annual event in communities throughout New Zealand. Back in 1843 Auckland was little more than farmland, and the show began as a purely agricultural event. The main point wa..

2010-03-13T08:24:34.577Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45908

Ernest Rutherford's discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Einstein referred to him as a 'second Newton' who had ‘tunneled into the very material of God’. Born in 1871 near Nelson, Rutherford began his international career when he won a sc..

2010-03-13T08:24:34.316Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45869

By becoming mayor of Onehunga, Auckland, Elizabeth Yates struck another blow for the rights of New Zealand women in local-body polls held the day after the first general election in which women could vote . Elizabeth's husband, Captain Michael Yates, had been a member of the Onehunga Borough Counci..

2010-03-13T08:24:34.176Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45868

Flight TE901, an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus, near Scott Base, killing all 257 passengers and crew on board. Image: recovery party accommodation on Mt Erebus  . New Zealand women went to the polls for the first time, just ten weeks ..

2010-03-13T08:24:34.116Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45865

By winning the world light-heavyweight championship, Timaru boxer Bob Fitzsimmons became the first man ever to be world champion in three different weight divisions. He also became one of New Zealand's first sporting heroes. Fitzsimmons arrived in New Zealand with his family from Cornwall as a ten-..

2010-03-13T08:24:33.906Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45863

On 18 November 1947 Ballantynes, a Christchurch department store that was a local institution, suffered the worst fire in New Zealand's history. It was Cup week and the city was buzzing with visitors and shoppers. In mid-afternoon, when the fire began, an estimated 250-300 people were shopping at Ba..

2010-03-13T08:24:33.766Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45645

A petition with more than 240,000 signatures was presented to Parliament, demanding an end to the manufacture and sale of alcohol in New Zealand. Since the 1880s the campaign for the prohibition of alcohol had developed into a powerful mass movement. Its supporters promoted sobriety as a ‘patriotic..

2010-03-13T08:24:32.827Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45637

In the eight days leading up to the Olympic 1500-m final Snell had already completed five races: the heats, semi-final and final of the 800 m – in which he won gold – and the heats and semi-final of the 1500 m. Joining him in the 1500-m final was Kiwi teammate John Davies, who just made it through h..

2010-03-13T08:24:32.276Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45634

From the family sheep farm in Shag Valley, East Otago, amateur radio operator Frank Bell sent a ground-breaking Morse code transmission. It was received and replied to by London-based amateur operator Cecil Goyder. Frank and his older sister Brenda were to become world radio pioneers. Their father,..

2010-03-13T08:24:32.087Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45631

Citing the Terrorism Suppression Act, police arrested 18 people in nationwide raids linked to alleged weapons-training camps in the Urewera mountain ranges, near the township of Ruatoki in eastern Bay of Plenty. Among those arrested was veteran Tuhoe activist Tame Iti. Police claimed Iti was involv..

2010-03-13T08:24:31.896Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45627

For decades, many people believed that a deadly new influenza virus came to New Zealand aboard the Royal Mail liner Niagara , which arrived in Auckland from Vancouver and San Francisco on 12 October 1918. This is no longer thought to have been the case. Among the ship's passengers were Prime Minist..

2010-03-13T08:24:31.618Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45018

The memorial was opened in 1923 to mark the school's Diamond Jubilee. It commemorates ex-pupils who fought and died in the First World War and was designed by the school's art master Mr. L.D.Coombs. Details of the memorial showing the names listed.

2010-03-13T08:24:31.137Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44958

Riversdale war memorial, c1986. Riversdale war memorial, 2008. Details of the memorial showing the names listed. First World War veterans pictured in front of the Riversdale war memorial, circa 1924.

2010-03-13T08:24:30.961Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44954

Mataura war memorial, c1986. Mataura war memorial in its new position opposite the Mataura RSA, 2008. Details from the memorial showing the names listed.

2010-03-13T08:24:30.748Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354468

The Talune On 7 November 1918, the New Zealand passenger and cargo ship Talune arrived at Apia from Auckland. On board were people suffering from pneumonic influenza, a highly infectious disease already responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world. Although the Talune had been qu...

2010-03-13T08:24:27.306Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354467

These figures are taken from Geoffrey Rice, Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic , University of Canterbury Press, 2005. The population figures are those of the 1916 Census. Death rate is per 1,000 of population. Maori populations for counties are inclusive of interior boroughs. Only register...

2010-03-13T08:24:27.246Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216701

A Mau parade moving west along Apia's Beach Road. The scene would have been similar on `Black Saturday’, 28 December 1929. See related map .

2010-03-13T08:24:24.257Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216693

The steamship Talune at the Napier breakwater in 1908. The second wave of the global influenza pandemic came to Western Samoa on board an island trader, the Talune, on 4 November 1918. The acting port officer at Apia was unaware that there was a severe epidemic at the ship's departure point, Aucklan...

2010-03-13T08:24:23.797Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216688

NZ troops arrive in German Samoa When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, Britain asked New Zealand to seize German Samoa as a ‘great and urgent Imperial service’. New Zealand's response was swift. Led by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Logan, the 1385-strong Samoa Advance Party of the New Zealand Exp...

2010-03-13T08:24:23.456Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216674

Capture of the walls of Le Quesnoy by George Edmund Butler, painted in 1920. The painting shows New Zealand soldiers scaling the ancient walls of the old French fortress town before capturing the remaining German defenders on 4 November 1918.

2010-03-13T08:24:22.677Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216661

Parade Cafe, 148 Oriental Parade, Wellington. Located in the heart of Oriental Parade, Parade Café's atmosphere is fun and relaxed. The clientele range from suits and families to hungry swimmers still wet from the beach or the Freyberg Pool. Since the 1920s the premises has been a tearooms, a dairy,...

2010-03-13T08:24:21.987Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216658

NZ troop ships leaving for Samoa With hindsight, New Zealand's capture of German Samoa on 29 August 1914 was an easy affair. But at the time it was regarded as a potentially risky action with uncertain outcomes. As it happened, New Zealand had a great deal of luck on its side. At the outbreak of war...

2010-03-13T08:24:21.776Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216647

Visitors entering or leaving Oamaru via Severn Street pass through the start of New Zealand's largest war memorial, the North Otago memorial oaks. In 1919 locals planted 400 oak trees in North Otago, one for every  serviceman from the district killed during the war. They were planted in the form of ...

2010-03-13T08:24:21.226Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216632

Balfour war memorial plaques situated on the wall of the Balfour Bowling Club/RSA building.

2010-03-13T08:24:20.537Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216629

Pukekohe Returned Servicemen Lawn Cemetery memorial chapelet. On 12 April 1949, during an official visit to Pukekohe, the Governor-General Sir Bernard Freyburg V.C. unveiled a memorial chaplet (chapelet) in the Pukekohe Returned Servicemen’s lawn cemetery in Wellington Street. This included a Pukeko...

2010-03-13T08:24:20.407Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216621

Second Lieutenant Victor Emiel Adolph with his camel. Adolph was a section commander in No 16 (New Zealand) Company, Imperial Camel Corps. He was fatally wounded during the battle for Hill 3039, one of the key actions of the British raid on Amman in March 1918.

2010-03-13T08:24:20.037Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216613

Camel, Abassia, full marching order by George Lambert, 1918.  A pencil and watercolour drawing of a camel at the Imperial Camel Corps training depot, Abbassia, Egypt, by the Australian official war artist, George Lambert.  "The riding saddle had a stout wooden peg at front and rear, and from these w...

2010-03-13T08:24:19.567Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216612

Patumahoe War Memorial Hall On 1 July 1925 the Patumahoe War Memorial Hall was opened. This replaced the old Mauku Volunteer Hall, which was moved to the back of the new hall to serve as a supper room and library. ('Patumahoe News: The Passing of a Hall: Old Memories', Franklin Times, 4/5/5, p. 5; '...

2010-03-13T08:24:19.497Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216576

The Buckland First World War memorial The Buckland War memorial was unveiled on 25 April 1921. Uniquely amongst the memorials of the region, this consisted of a rough-hewn Celtic cross on a plinth. (A Buckland School, 1892-1992, Pukekohe, 1992, p. 14).

2010-03-13T08:24:17.608Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216574

Pukekohe School First World War memorial During the winter of 1924 a grove of memorial trees was planted at Pukekohe Primary School to commemorate old boys of the school who had fallen during the First World War. Memorial stones were subsequently placed at the base of each of the trees. In 2006 the ...

2010-03-13T08:24:17.537Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216573

The Whangarata First World War memorial The Whangarata First World War memorial was unveiled in the Whangarata School grounds on 15 September 1924. This obelisk was inscribed with a roll of honour of 55 names, including the names of fourteen fallen. ('Whangarata District War Memorial: Unveiling by M...

2010-03-13T08:24:17.477Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216572

Awhitu First World War memorial On 15 November 1920 the Awhitu First World War memorial was unveiled in the Awhitu Domain, Awhitu Central. This was a granite obelisk inscribed with a roll of honour listing 41 men from the district who had served in the war, including the names of eight fallen. (‘Awh...

2010-03-13T08:24:17.407Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216548

Leader of the Labour Party since 1965 and Prime Minister from late 1972, 'Big Norm' died suddenly at the age of 51. He was the fifth New Zealand PM to die in office. Kirk had faced a number of health issues during 1974 but maintained a punishing work schedule. Following a Cabinet meeting on 19 Augu..

2010-03-13T08:24:16.087Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216546

Colonel Robert Logan led a 1374-strong expeditionary force to capture German Samoa (afterwards renamed Western Samoa). The 80 Germans stationed there were in no position to offer resistance. On 6 August, shortly after the outbreak of war, the British informed the New Zealand government that the cap..

2010-03-13T08:24:15.925Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216544

Joseph Pawelka escaped from Wellington's Terrace Gaol. It was the last in a series of bold but seemingly effortless prison escapes Pawelka made over an 18-month period. Pawelka's first escape was from a prison in Palmerston North in which he was being held on theft charges. On 12 March 1910 he clim..

2010-03-13T08:24:15.707Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216540

The journalist, poet and novelist, born Iris Wilkinson, was one of New Zealand's finest writers of the inter-war era. Troubled for years by depression, illness and poverty, she took her own life in London. Read more about Robin Hyde's life here. Although today best known for her novels Passport to ..

2010-03-13T08:24:15.398Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216536

As his damaged Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber rapidly lost height, Pilot Officer James Stellin struggled to avoid crashing into Saint-Maclou-la-Brière, a village of 370 people in the Seine-Maritime region. He succeeded, but at the cost of his own life. The villagers gave him a hero’s funeral and have..

2010-03-13T08:24:15.077Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216532

After 38 years on the Lyttelton–Wellington ferry run, and service in two world wars, in 1951 the TSS Wahine was chartered by the New Zealand government to transport K Force troops to the Korean War . Shortly after leaving Darwin, the Wahine ran aground on Masela Island in the Arafura Sea. Everyone o..

2010-03-13T08:24:14.787Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216526

The 19-year-old fullback Nepia was one of the stars of the 1924-5 All Blacks, dubbed 'the Invincibles'. He played in all 32 matches on the team's tour of the British Isles, France and Canada. Still only 25, he appeared in his last test match in 1930, in the final game of the home series versus the B..

2010-03-13T08:24:14.377Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216525

Regarded as one of the highpoints of the New Zealand effort at Gallipoli, the attack on Chunuk Bair highlighted the leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone. But a massive Turkish counter-attack on 10 August recaptured the position from British troops who had relieved the New Zealanders. The..

2010-03-13T08:24:14.297Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216523

Jack Lovelock won New Zealand's first Olympic athletics gold medal before Adolf Hitler and a crowd of 110,000 at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He led the 1500-metres field home in a world record time of 3:47.8. In the lead-up to the 1936 Games Lovelock seriously considered competing in the 5000 m inste..

2010-03-13T08:24:14.157Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216504

The unveiling of Scott's memorial, Port Chalmers, 1914.

2010-03-13T08:24:13.007Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43908

Tuakau War Memorial Hall. On 18 March 1918, a roll of honour listing local men who had been on active service during the war was unveiled at the Tuakau public hall. Work soon began on a more substantial memorial to the town and district's fallen, and on 15 September 1924 the Tuakau War Memorial Hall...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.467Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43900

Pokeno First World War memorial. The Pokeno First World War memorial was unveiled on 25 April 1921. The commemorative obelisk was mounted on a concrete base into which stones reputedly gathered by soldiers during the Waikato war were incorporated. ('Pokeno Memorial: Unveiling Ceremony', NZ Herald , ...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.417Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43893

Maramarua First world War memorial   The Maramarua First World War memorial. The Maramarua First World War memorial was unveiled by Mr T.W. Rhodes, MP for Thames in May 1924. The memorial was situated on a plot of land donated by a local farmer, Mr Alexander McInnnes. ('War Memorial: Unveiled at Mar...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.337Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43875

Above: Waiuku First World War memorial c1986, prior to restoration. Below: Waiuku Memorial in 2009. Waiuku First World War memorial The Waiuku war memorial was unveiled on 9 June 1921. This took the form of a granite obelisk on the corner of Queen and George streets. The people of Waiuku later also ...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.280Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43869

Papakura-Karaka First World War memorial. The Papakura-Karaka war memorial was unveiled by Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe on 5 June 1921. The memorial was located on a triangular plot of land on the Great South Road at the southern end of the town that had formerly been occupied by the Town Boar...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.167Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43867

Pukekohe First World War memorial. This memorial was moved to its present site in April 1980. On 6 November 1921 Prime Minister William Massey unveiled the Pukekohe First World War memorial. The war memorial gates were situated on a plot of land donated by Mr William Roulston on the eastern side of ...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.107Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43866

Papatoetoe First World War memorial The Papatoetoe First World War memorial was unveiled on 29 September 1922. This consisted of a stone arch and memorial gates on the Great South Road outside the Papatoetoe School. ('Papatoetoe War Memorial: Two Sites Discussed: Obelisk Favoured', Franklin Times , ...

2010-03-13T08:24:11.047Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43865

Otahuhu First World War memorial. Governor-General Sir Charles Fergusson unveiled the Otahuhu First World War memorial on 25 April 1928. The bronze figure of a New Zealand Mounted Rifleman had been donated to the borough by a local businessman, Alfred Trenwith, and stood on a plinth near the Nixon M...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.987Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43861

Mauku Victory Hall On 7 June 1922 the Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe formally opened the Mauku Victory Hall. The name had been chosen to show that the hall had been built not as a war memorial, but to commemorate the Allied victory in the First World War. ('Mauku', Pukekohe & Waiuku Times , ...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.917Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43860

Manurewa First World War memorial. On 2 January 1921 Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey unveiled the Manurewa war memorial. The granite obelisk was placed outside the Manurewa school gates on the corner of the Great South and Hill roads. In 1924 a memorial plaque was also placed on one of the ga...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.790Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43857

Howick war memorial in c1986. Howick memorial in 2008 showing names. Howick and Pakuranga First World War memorial In 1920 construction began of a First World War memorial for the Howick and Pakuranga areas on Stockade Hill, Howick. The exact date of the unveiling ceremony is unknown, but was probab...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.640Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43852

East Tamaki First World War memorial.    On 23 April 1922 Sir Frederick Lang, MP for Manukau and Speaker of the House of Representatives, unveiled the East Tamaki war memorial at the entrance to the East Tamaki recreation ground. ('East Tamaki's Tribute: District's New Monument', NZ Herald , 24/4/22...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.547Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43850

Drury-Runciman First World War memorial, c1986. Drury-Runciman First World War memorial, 2009 - showing names. Prime Minister W.F. Massey unveiled the Drury-Runciman war memorial on 25 April 1922. This listed the names of 19 local men who had died during the war. After the Second World War a further...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.489Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43849

Clevedon First World War memorial. The Clevedon First World War Memorial was unveiled on 28 August 1921. In 1952 a Second World War memorial stone was dedicated on the same site. (C.C. Munro, Clevedon Centennial, 1852-1952 , Clevedon, 1952, addenda, [pp. 8-9]; F. Murray, 'Yesteryears', Clevedon Roun...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.417Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43848

Bombay War Memorial Recreation Ground. On 22 November 1923 the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J.H. Gunson, opened the Bombay War Memorial Recreation Ground. The five-acre recreation ground included four tennis courts, a football field, and a sports pavilion, with space also set aside for a garden. A memorial...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.343Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43843

On 15 May 1921 the Ardmore First World War memorial was unveiled on the intersection of the Clevedon and Church roads. This listed the names of seven local men who had given their lives during the war. On 25 April 1975 the memorial was rededicated in a new location beside the Ardmore hall. In 1993 p...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.257Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43842

The Alfriston-Brookby First World War memorial was unveiled on the Manurewa to Brookby road on 15 November 1920. This plain but dignified granite obelisk was the first such memorial erected in South Auckland. It listed the names of thirteen local men who had given their lives during the war. After t...

2010-03-13T08:24:10.197Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:43421

This web feature was written by Imelda Bargas and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team . We are grateful to Geoffrey Rice for his assistance and to Karen Cameron for information about the pandemic in Samoa.

2010-03-13T08:24:09.327Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:42603

Harry Seresin's Coffee Gallery at Parsons Bookshop, Massey House, Lambton Quay, c. 1957. Born in Hamburg in 1919, Harry Seresin was the son of Russian Jewish parents. He was 19 when he arrived in New Zealand just before the outbreak of the Second World War, a refugee from Nazism. Seresin was struck ...

2010-03-13T08:24:08.967Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:42581

The D.I.C. tea rooms, c. 1928. The typical image of the department store tea room was of high ceilings, cane furniture, palm trees, silverware, white tablecloths, and waitresses in crisp black and white uniforms. For the less affluent, an outing to such tea rooms might be a birthday treat.

2010-03-13T08:24:08.847Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:41539

Influenza instructions for nurses In the early 21st century anxiety over the danger of Influenza A virus subtypes H5N1 (avian flu) and more recently H1N1 (swine flu) has revived memories of New Zealand's worst disease outbreak, the lethal influenza pandemic that struck between October and December 1...

2010-03-13T08:24:07.457Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354466

The Niagara Many people believed that the second wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic arrived in New Zealand in the form of ‘a deadly new virus’ on board the RMS Niagara . The ship arrived in Auckland with cases of influenza on board just a fortnight before the second wave took hold in the city. Spec...

2010-03-13T08:24:05.917Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1354465

These figures are taken from Geoffrey Rice, Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic , University of Canterbury Press, 2005. The population figures are those of the 1916 Census. Death rate is per 1,000 of population. Maori populations for counties are inclusive of interior boroughs. Only register...

2010-03-13T08:24:05.857Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216481

Camel Corps Christmas card, 1917. On the front of the card is a red, black, green and blue colour flag representing the four battalions of the Imperial Camel Brigade - 1st (Anzac) Battalion, 2nd (Imperial) Battalion, 3rd (Anzac) Battalion, 4th (Anzac) Battalion. Inside the card is signed 'Best wishe...

2010-03-13T08:24:04.577Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216474

Ambulance bought by the Dunedin branch of the SMAC for the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Medical Aid Committee (SMAC), the Communist Party, and a number of trade unions raised enough funds through raffles, exhibitions, film screenings and public talks from civil war veterans to send three nurses – ...

2010-03-13T08:24:04.147Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216444

Anzac Jack knife In 1916 John (Jack) Hoey Moore sent his mother in New Zealand a selection of ‘curios’ he had collected from Gallipoli. Amongst them was a bone-handled knife supposedly made from the shinbone of a Turkish soldier, which Moore's mother enclosed in an ornate wooden case and used to rai...

2010-03-13T08:24:02.427Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216443

This Beretta Model 1915-19 pistol was taken from a captured Italian soldier by Sergeant Pekama Hunia, C Company, 28 (Maori) Battalion, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF). Hunia was killed in action in Italy on 15 December 1944. He was mentioned in dispatches (15 February 1945) by General...

2010-03-13T08:24:02.367Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216417

The Imperial Camel Corps Memorial is located in Victoria Gardens, Thames Embankment, London. It was officially unveiled in 1921 by Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode, who had been the first commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, which included the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade. The man who had co...

2010-03-13T08:24:00.777Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216415

These images show New Zealand troops en route to German Samoa then, following the demand for German surrender, landing and marching through the streets on 29 August 1914. Approximately 1400 soldiers of the Samoan expedition were all volunteers from New Zealand Territorial Force units. After their e..

2010-03-13T08:24:00.647Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216408

Bolt was an outstanding figure in the development of commercial aviation in this country. He achieved a number of aviation firsts, taking New Zealand's first aerial photographs in 1912 and delivering its first official airmail in 1919. He later served with the RNZAF during the Second World War. Tod..

2010-03-13T08:24:00.187Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216407

In the midst of boxing's golden age, Gisborne-born Tom Heeney took on Gene Tunney for the world heavyweight title in front of 46,000 spectators at Yankee Stadium, New York. Although he was defeated, his title bid aroused tremendous interest in both New Zealand and the US. A plumber by trade, Heeney..

2010-03-13T08:24:00.117Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216404

New Zealand's first female Olympic medallist, Yvette Williams (now Corlett) won gold in the long jump with an Olympic-record leap of 6.24 metres (20 feet 5 and 3/4 inches). Her triumph came 32 years after New Zealand's first female Olympian, swimmer Violet Walrond , competed in the 100 and 300 m at ..

2010-03-13T08:23:59.897Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216400

The Privy Council granted New Zealand citizenship to Western Samoans born after 1924. The government challenged this ruling, leading to accusations of betrayal and racism. In 1899 Samoa was divided between Germany (Western Samoa) and the United States (Eastern Samoa). When the First World War broke..

2010-03-13T08:23:59.627Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216398

Paddy, a ginger and brown Airedale terrier, achieved national celebrity status due to his exploits on the Wellington waterfront (and beyond) during the 1930s. He was remembered as a 'little light in the dark days of the Depression'. Paddy probably began life as Dash, the pet of a young girl who die..

2010-03-13T08:23:59.487Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216394

Vivian Walsh became the first New Zealander to obtain an aviator's certificate, following the establishment in October 1915 of the New Zealand Flying School at Orakei. Most of the 100 pilots trained by Walsh and his brother Leo at the School saw combat with the Royal Flying Corps during the First Wo..

2010-03-13T08:23:59.208Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216393

The only stage win by a New Zealander in the Tour de France was a team time trial. Although Chris Jenner didn't finish with the core of his Credit Agricole team, he is still credited as sharing the stage win - he got to stand on the podium that day. Few New Zealand riders have completed the world's..

2010-03-13T08:23:59.137Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216389

The New Zealand Racing Conference was formed to control the thoroughbred horseracing industry in this country. Horseracing had been quickly introduced to the early settlements. It was a feature of the first anniversary celebrations in Wellington, Auckland, Nelson, Otago, and Canterbury. Race meeting..

2010-03-13T08:23:58.819Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216388

The Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire (1981) was based on the true story of British athletes competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics. At the end of the film one of the main characters, Harold Abrahams of Britain, wins gold in the 100-metres final. Jackson Scholz of the United States finishes ..

2010-03-13T08:23:58.758Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216385

The New Zealand Boxing Association was formed to promote and foster amateur boxing in this country. Having drawn up the rules for fighting, the Association staged the inaugural New Zealand championships at Christchurch later in 1902. The winner of the heavyweight division that year was Bob 'Ruby Ro..

2010-03-13T08:23:58.557Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216366

Shows cartoon of a Samoan maiden leaning on the shoulder of a New Zealand soldier on a Samoan beach. A German lolls on a hammock in the right background, and says: 'You can have her an velcom but hurry up mit der trade'. This refers to the New Zealand occupation of German Samoa in 1914, and to the i...

2010-03-13T08:23:57.417Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216364

Camel Corps at Magdhaba  by H. Septimus Power (1926).  This painting by Australian official war artist H. Septimus Power depicts the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade at the Battle of Magdhaba on 23 December 1916. The cameliers have reached their final assembly point and are about to dismount and go into...

2010-03-13T08:23:57.273Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216361

Second Lieutenant Victor Emiel Adolph was a section commander in No 16 (New Zealand) Company, Imperial Camel Corps. He was fatally wounded during the battle for Hill 3039, one of the key actions of the British raid on Amman in March 1918. In the aftermath of the raid Adolph was posthumously awarded ...

2010-03-13T08:23:57.057Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216358

Dr Margaret Cruikshank was the first woman doctor registered in New Zealand and served in Waimate from 1897 to 1918. She died during the 1918 influenza pandemic and a memorial statue was unveiled in 1923. Situated on the corner of Seddon Square in Waimate, the monument was sculpted by Trethewey and ...

2010-03-13T08:23:56.867Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216342

This German naval flag, flown at Apia, Samoa, was captured by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF), 29 August 1914 .

2010-03-13T08:23:55.917Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216341

This German sign from the post office in Apia was taken by members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) following the capture of German Samoa on 29 August 1914 . See also: image of the post office on the Alexander Turnbull Library website (you can see the sign hanging next to the front door...

2010-03-13T08:23:55.867Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:1216339

New Zealand First World War transports Moeraki and Monowai leaving Wellington for German Samoa on 15 August, 1914. The transport ships were converted merchant steamers. Before leaving New Zealand waters they were joined by three cruisers of the Royal Navy's New Zealand Division: HMS Psyche , Pyramus...

2010-03-13T08:23:55.747Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:45283

James Cowan, photographed by Stanley Andrew, 1929. James Cowan spent his childhood on a Kihikihi farm, which occupied land confiscated from Maori. Events following the New Zealand Wars dominated life and society in the area, and this engendered his lifelong fascination with Maori and colonial histor...

2010-03-13T08:23:54.397Ztag:api.digitalnz.org,2008:44887

Ngatimoti war memorial in the Motueka Valley. We are very grateful to Anne McFadgen for supplying the following information and list of names. In June 1920 a Ladies’ Committee was formed by Mrs C.B. Brereton expressly to organise the building of a war memorial. Several options were considered, but t...

2010-03-13T08:23:53.477Z