Tonkin, A.S. Letter, 18 Sept 1933, Hastings, to all centres. Reproduces a letter from Editor of National opinion. 1l, typescript (carbon copy)., 1933 - 1933

This collection of records of the Hawke' Bay Division of the New Zealand Legion was donated to the Auckland University Library in 1969 by Mr Michael Pugh, who used it extensively in the writing of his MA thesis The New Zealand Legion and conservative protest in the Great Depression (1969). They are the papers referred to in the thesis as having been acquired from Mr J. Nelson, Havelock North, a former member of the Legion.

The papers include correspondence, minutes of meetings circulars and information sheets, reprints, newspaper clippings and an incomplete file of the Legion's newspaper National opinion. The basic arrangement of the papers was made by Mr. Pugh, and it has been necessary to retain this rather unsatisfactory arrangement in order to preserve the validity of the reference in the thesis. Within this basic arrangement, however, some further subdivisions have been made, although circulars, reprints and correspondence still appear in several different files througout the seuqence, and a file of Hawke's Bay Division correspondence appears in the file of Head Office material.