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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Collection relating to the selection of Labour candidate, Ralph K. Maxwell, for the Waitakere electorate, 1978.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-214
Scope and Contents

An anonymous letter directed against Ralph Maxwell, New Zealand Labour Party candidate for Waitakere, November 1978. Includes copy of: Candidate hit by smear letter, New Zealand Herald, clipping from New Zealand Herald. Maxwell won the electorate for Labour Party with a majority of 2,016.

Dates: 1978

Communist Party of New Zealand records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-9
Scope and Contents The papers which make up the core of this collection were donated to The University of Auckland by Wilfred (Bill) McAra a prominent member of Communist Party of New Zealand (CPNZ) on behalf of the ESPAL Society. The papers document the activities of the CPNZ from the 1920s until the early 1970s at both the national and local level. The collection includes papers relating to National and District Conferences, general and local body election campaigns, Communist Party study courses, the...
Dates: 1924 - 1972

Election posters

 Collection — Mss-rack 1, bay: 3, shelf: 5
Identifier: MSS-Archives-97/2-Outsize

Malcolm Douglas papers relating to Hunua electoral petition.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-94/8
Scope and Contents The papers in this collection include letters, press releases, copies of newspaper clippings, notes, etc. covering the period of Malcolm Douglas's candidacy for the seat of Hunua in 1978, his six months as MP, during which the Election Petition was presented, his loss to Winston Peters in 1979, and the Court of Appeal hearing of 1980 relating to the judgment in the Electoral Court. They have been left in the order in which they were received, except that a set of 'Notes of Evidence' from the...
Dates: 1978 - 1980

Manurewa Electoral Rolls case court proceedings.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-200
Scope and Contents

Proceedings of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Auckland Registry "in the matter of the Judicature Amendment Acts of 1972 and 1977 and in the matter of the Electoral Act 1956". The Manurewa Electoral Rolls case, 1978

Dates: 1978 - 1978

New Zealand Labour Party, Hunua Electorate Committee records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-94/7
Scope and Contents

At the 1978 General Election, Mr Malcolm Douglas, the Labour candidate for Hunua, won the seat with a majority of 301 votes. Because of irregularities, however, the Electoral Court order a recount. As a result of this, nearly 500 votes were disallowed and the National candidate, Mr Winston Peters, gained a majority of 192 votes. The collection consists of interview sheets, registration cards, disallowed and allowed special votes, submissions and court papers.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

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