Waihi Strike Commemoration Committee: 1978 – 1987
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS. Archives. 94/4. Series 3
Scope and Contents
Both Bill McAra and Diana Wilsie were prominent members of the Waihi strike commemoration committee. This series contains papers pertaining to the organisation of the annual commemoration at the grave of Frederick George Evans and their efforts to have a memorial plaque for Evans erected in Waihi. From 1984 there is also material relating to the commemoration of Ernie Abbott’s death.
Frederick Evans was killed during the 1912 Miners' Strike in Waihi, and Ernie Abbott was killed by a bomb at the Trades Hall in Wellington in 1984.
Dates
- 1929 - 1988
Creator
- From the Collection: Lawrence, W. E. (Bill) (Person)
- From the Collection: Ley, Mike (Person)
- From the Collection: Gould, Nat (Person)
- From the Collection: Hogarth, George (Person)
- From the Collection: Glass, W. I. (William Ivan) (Person)
- From the Collection: Gordon, Carl B. (Person)
- From the Collection: Roth, Bert (Person)
- From the Collection: Durning, Bill (Person)
- From the Collection: Anderson, G.H. (Gordon Harold) (Person)
- From the Collection: Ayo, Dick (Person)
- From the Collection: Campbell, Rob (Person)
- From the Collection: Carroll, George (Person)
- From the Collection: Consedine, Jim (Person)
- From the Collection: Corney, Kevin (Person)
- From the Collection: Cowie, J. (Person)
- From the Collection: Devereux, Selwyn (Person)
- From the Collection: New Zealand-China Society (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Labour Party. Thames Labour Representation Committee (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Federation of Labour. Conference (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Democratic People's Republic of Korea Society (Organization)
- From the Collection: Peace for Vietnam Committee (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Socialist Publishing and Distribution Company (Organization)
- From the Collection: W.I.S.E. (Auckland, N.Z.) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Waihi Strike Commemoration Committee (Organization)
- From the Collection: Thames-Coromandel District (N.Z.). District Council (Organization)
- From the Collection: South Auckland Marxist-Leninist Group (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand. Department of Labour (Title of a work--Our Maori population and the labour force) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Youth Carnival of Peace and Friendship ((1952 : Sydney)) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Pioneer Publishers (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Federation of Labour (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Carpenters and Related Trades' Industrial Union of Workers (Organization)
- From the Collection: Northern (except Gisborne) Road Transport and Motor and Horse Drivers and their Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers (N.Z.). Auckland Branch (Organization)
- From the Collection: E.S.P.A.L. Society (Organization)
- From the Collection: McAra, W (Wilfred) (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilsie, Diana Mariam (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilsie, Maurice J. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilcox, V. G. (Title of a work--On the pamphlet "Class struggle in New Zealand".; ) (Person)
- From the Collection: Woods, Leo (Person)
- From the Collection: Communist Party of Aotearoa (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Building Trades Federation (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand. Army. Home Guard (Organization)
- From the Collection: Owens, Robert (Person)
- From the Collection: Locke, J. (Person)
- From the Collection: Rosenberg, Wolfgang (Person)
- From the Collection: Richmond, N. M. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wall, Maurice (Person)
- From the Collection: Waring, Marilyn (Person)
- From the Collection: Ware, Alan (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Not restricted
Extent
From the Collection: 5.5 metres (49 boxes + outsized)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository
Contact:
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz