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New Zealand -- Politics and government -- 1945-1984

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Communist Party of New Zealand internal documents.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-89/34
Scope and Contents

Includes: 1963 pre-conference discussion bulletins; address by Vic Wilcox to Indonesian comrades, 1963; Report by Wilcox to National Committee, 15 March 1974...[concerning Wilfred McAra].

Dates: 1962 - 1974

Communist Party of New Zealand, Whangarei Branch collection of newsletters and leaflets.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-248
Scope and Contents

The collection includes copies of newsletters The Portland Conveyor and The Northland Worker published by the Branch, and single leaflets on the war in Vietnam, the American presence in New Zealand, the Budget, etc., as well as local Whangarei affairs. Most of the material is undated.

Dates: 1968 - 1977

Helen Clark collection of New Zealand Labour Party records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-239
Scope and Contents The records in this collection were donated to the University Library by M.P. Helen Clark formerly a senior lecturer in the Political Studies Department of the University. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports and memos of Auckland University Labour Club, Princes Street Branch of the New Zealand Labour Party and the Auckland Regional Council (Labour Party), as well as material relating to Labour youth organisations, such as the Auckland Labour Youth Council and the New...
Dates: 1952 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1979

Norman Douglas political papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-96/3
Scope and Contents The papers in this collection relate to Norman Douglas' secretaryship of the Northern Rubber Workers’ Union, 1958-1962, and of the Auckland District Woollen Mills, Knitting Mills and Hosiery Factories Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, 1959-1961.A set of subject files was found among the papers, which had been thought to relate only to unions and to the Parliamentary Committees of which Norman Douglas was Chairman. The files cover the span of his years as an MP. They have...
Dates: 1958 - 1975

Robert Chapman papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2006/2
Scope and Contents Chapman was a meticulous collector of almost every record of his life and has left an extraordinarily rich legacy in his papers. One example gives a sense of the depth of material contained in this collection: in the folder relating to the NZUSA 14th Congress at Curious Cove in 1952 (series 14, item 617), we find correspondence relating to Chapman’s literary contribution, speech notes and clippings about the event, and even a photograph of the attendees. In another we find letters and poems...
Dates: 1933 - 2005

Sidney Scott papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-276
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, copies of articles and speeches; newspaper clippings and an unpublished novel The last gift.

Dates: 1953 - 1970