Actors, Variety and Performing Artists Equity of New Zealand

Scope and Contents These records were received in the Library without preliminary sorting. The provenance of some is therefore unknown. Actors Equity New Zealand appears from minutes to date from 1944 and persists until mid-1989, divided after 1970 into regional branches, with a national body. Amalgamation made necessary by industrial legislation led to the formation in 1989 of the New Zealand Performance and Entertainment Workers’ Union. Presumably records of amalgamating unions were brought together at that...