New Zealand Labour Party. Waitemata Labour Representation Committee

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

The earliest material in this collection is from the Waitemata Labour Representation Committee and includes correspondence proposing its formation in 1935, a report of its inaugural meeting in 1939, and reports of subsequent meetings. The collection also includes minutes of meeting, etc. from other Labour Representation Committees: Waitakere, North Shore, Rodney, and a small amount of material from Wellington, Dunedin and Manurewa.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with J.T. Head, a friend and NZ Labour Party official in Waitemata, relates to the activities of the Democratic Labour Party and the New Zealand Labour Party annual conference of 1940 (the year of John A. Lee's expulsion) and also to the war.The collection consists of seven letters by William John Lyon, one letter by J.T. Head and a memo about the letters from J.T. head. The letters were given to Dr Michael Bassett of the Department of History, University of...