New Zealand. Parliament

This collection includes letters from Hultquist to his wife during his 1935 election campaign and during his overseas service; transcripts of the overseas letters; Labour Party telegrams received by his wife upon his death. Dr Michael Bassett used the letters as the basis for his 'A Labour candidate in the Bay of Plenty 1935' published in 'Political science' v. 24, April 1972: 62- 71.

Papers include correspondence relating to Herbert Thatcher's non- payment of the General Unemployment Levy, 1932-1935; New Zealand Timber Workers' Union records; reminiscences of Mount Eden Prison; eight volumes of newspaper clippings; letters from Lincoln Efford; and 1943 election ephemera and letters to Thatcher concerning pacifism and social reform.