NRAM: The Community Archive entry

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the records of a project titled 'NZTronix: The Early New Zealand Software Database'. NZTronix was a project to build a publicly accessible database, initially to gather and preserve information about early New Zealand computer games, later more broadly concerned with early New Zealand software. The project was an interdisciplinary one led by academics from Victoria University of Wellington: Susan Corbett (Commercial Law), Rachel Lilburn (School of Information...

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The bulk of the J. C. Beaglehole papers have remained in the family hands and have been or are being deposited in the Turnbull Library.

Abstract Papers of Sir Frank Holmes, MA (NZ: Victoria), HonDComm (2004), KBE. An economist who has played a significant part in shaping New Zealand's economic and social policy, Sir Frank served in the Air Force, studied at Otago, Auckland and Victoria Universities, and has been a public servant, university lecturer and Professor, consultant, Chairman and director of several companies. He is the author of many publications and has chaired a number of committees advising the government on social,...

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The collection consists of teaching materials and class notes: 1 - Algebra; 2 - Geometry; 3 - Applied mathematics

Scope and Contents This play reading group, or possibly two separate groups, appears to have existed in Wellington c1916-1926, when lists of characters and the names of the people who were to read them were laid in to copies of the plays, later purchased by the Library from their subsequent owners. The group was titled variously 'The Readers', 'The Play Readers' and 'The Playreaders'. Surnames of readers include: 1916: Beaglehole, Baldwin, Wickham, Page, Vickermann, Nicholls, England,...

Scope and Contents These Papers include material particularly related to Victoria University of Wellington. Other material has been deposited with the Alexander Turnbull Library.The papers include records from Hugh Price's undergraduate and postgraduate time at Victoria University, and from his printing course in London. There are records relating to the 'Newsquote affair' and to the book 'The plot to subvert wartime New Zealand...'. There are also papers relating to the establishment...

Scope and Contents The 'Equal Pay Campaign Archive' is a collection of Public Service Association and personal papers from c1943-1985, to do with the campaign leading to the Government Service Equal Pay Act in 1960. The collection was held in the Dan Long Union Library, and was listed in 1990 by consultant archivist Diana Morrow. Due to resource constraints this online finding aid contains only brief headings from the paper finding aid. The paper finding aid includes further descriptions at item...

Abstract Roberts was secretary of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation from its revival in 1916 until his 1940 appointment to the wartime Waterfront Commission; he was also secretary of the Transport Workers' Advisory Board, and of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour from its 1919 establishment to its 1937 demise. He was a Wellington City Councillor from 1950 to 1959, and Member of the Legislative Council from 1947 to 1951. The collection originated from the office files of the Alliance...

Scope and Contents Research papers consisting of election manifestos 1938-1984, and folders from S. G. Holland papers.Access to the Sidney G. Holland Papers (National Prime Minister 1949-1957) is restricted to bona fide scholars.This, and much of the unrestricted material came from Alan D. Robinson, a political science lecturer who studied the National party until his death in the 1970s. The part of the collection which has received significant use has been the set of party manifestos -...

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The papers were deposited tied into 23 bundles, with cover notes supplied by G. Schmitt.

Access was altered from 'restricted' to 'available' after the death of Prof. Schmitt in 2002.

'Open access' was confirmed in December 2005 on receipt of an email from the Fletcher Challenge archivist confirming that FC TP&P archives have been re-appraised as open access.