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McAra, W (Wilfred)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1904 - 1989

biographical statement

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Wilfred (Bill) McAra papers relating to the building industry in New Zealand.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-11
Scope and Contents This collection comprises drafts, research notes, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings and files relating to the building industry in New Zealand accumulated by Wilfred (Bill) McAra during the period 1935 to 1946.The papers in this collection are rather a mixed bag, some items relate more to material held in MSS & Archives D-10: Papers relating to the Building Investigations Committee of the Wellington Branch of the Carpenters Union, and MSS & Archives D-6: Records of the...
Dates: 1934 - 1947

Wilfred (Bill) McAra papers relating to the New Zealand Building and Allied Trades Federation.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-6
Scope and Contents They comprise papers collected by him during the years he was involved with the Federation and in consequence should not be regarded as a complete set of the Federation’s records. In particular, their sudden termination in 1943 probably reflects the end of McAra’s association with the Federation and his non-association with the new organisation formed on the period 1943 – 1945. This collection should be considered in conjunction with MSS & Archives D-10: Wilfred (Bill) McAra, papers...
Dates: 1939 - 1945

Wilfred McAra collection relating to the building industry.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-10
Abstract

The records relate mainly to McAra’s association with the Wellington Branch of the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners Union between 1938 and 1946. They document McAra’s participation in the Branch’s Housing Committee, later known as the Building Investigation Committee, established in 1938, to investigate the growing housing shortage in New Zealand.

Dates: 1938 - 1946

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Communism -- New Zealand 3
Building trades -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources 2
Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland 2
Building trades -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources 1
Building trades -- New Zealand 1
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Carpenters -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History 1
Carpenters -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Wellington 1
Carpenters -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History 1
Carpenters -- New Zealand -- Wellington 1
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
Civil rights -- New Zealand 1
Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland 1
Clothing workers -- New Zealand -- Auckland 1
Collective settlements -- New Zealand -- Waikato 1
College teachers -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- Archives 1
Communism -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources 1
Communism -- Songs and music 1
Communists -- New Zealand 1
Construction Industry -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources 1
Corporations -- New Zealand 1
Economic Stabilization Conference (1940 : Wellington, N.Z.) 1
Flour mills -- Employees -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland 1
Flour mills -- Employees -- New Zealand -- Auckland 1
Grey Lynn (Auckland, N.Z.) -- History 1
Industrial laws and legislation -- New Zealand -- History 1
Industrial relations -- New Zealand -- History 1
Joiners -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History 1
Joiners -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Wellington 1
Joiners -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History 1
Joiners -- New Zealand -- Wellington 1
Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- New Zealand 1
Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History 1
Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- History 1
Local elections -- New Zealand -- Auckland 1
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Economic conditions 1
Monetary policy -- New Zealand 1
New Zealand -- Economic policy 1
New Zealand -- Foreign relations -- Korea (North) 1
New Zealand -- Politics and government 1
New Zealand -- Politics and government -- 1945-1984 1
New Zealand poetry -- 20th century 1
Political parties -- New Zealand 1
Presidents -- Soviet Union 1
Public housing -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- History 1
Radio broadcasting -- New Zealand -- History 1
Social problems -- New Zealand 1
Social reformers -- New Zealand 1
Socialism -- Songs and music 1
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985- 1
Stevedores -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- History 1
Stevedores -- New Zealand -- History 1
Waihi (N.Z.) -- History 1
Waihi strike, 1912 1
War and emergency powers -- New Zealand -- History 1
Waterfronts -- New Zealand 1
Whangamata (N.Z.) 1
Women and communism -- New Zealand 1
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