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Papers are related to the organisation of the Labour Party campaign in the Rodney and Waitemata electorates, and include correspondence, memoranda, reports and election ephemera.

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Caucus minutes from December 4 1935 to November 4 1938. Minutes for December 3 1935 and February 17 1937 have been annotated by John A. Lee.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of papers of the New Zealand Labour Party Auckland Regional Council from May 1973 to 1979 (with gaps); policy material for the New Zealand Labour Party general election campaign in 1975 and local body election campaign papers for 1974. The material in this collection was collated by Dr John Prebble who served as a member of the New Zealand Labour Party Auckland Regional Council Committee from 1973 to 1978 and in 1974 stood as a Labour Party candidate for the Auckland...

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...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of records of the Henderson Branch electorate committee of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1976- 1978; and includes minutes of the campaign committee, and various other committees, newsletters, 1975 election material, financial statements, and correspondence.Files of the last 18 months of the Henderson Labour Electorate Committee, now out of existence. Donated by Dr J. Prebble, Law Faculty. The papers consist of the records of the Henderson...

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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.