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The Right Hon. J. G. Coates switching on the power

Newspaper caption: "More electric power for Canterbury: Opening of extensions at Lake Coleridge. The ceremony of switching on the additional power at Lake Coleridge was conducted by the Prime Minister...

Date 1926-08-09
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

Interest in the electric power scheme at Lake Coleridge

Newspaper caption: The party proceeded to Lake Coleridge in motor cars on March 22. It included Members of Parliament, the Mayor of Christchurch, the City Engineer, and several representative citizens...

Date 1910-03-22
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Canterbury Times

The 50 guilty people

Poster protesting against the 1981 South African Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand. Poster features 50 black and white portrait photographs of New Zealand National Party MPs including their...

Date 1981
Format Poster
Resource Type Image
Collection 1981 Springbok Tour posters

Mr Kirk visiting the internal areas of Addington Prison

Photos of the Leader of the Opposition, Norman Kirk, inspecting the interior spaces of Addington Prison.

Date 1971-09-20
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips

Mr Kirk’s visit to Addington Prison

Photos of the Leader of the Opposition, Norman Kirk, visiting Addington Prison. [Frames 14a and 15a] Mr Kirk looking inside a prison cell.

Date 1971-09-20
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips

Norman Kirk visiting Addington Prison

Photos of the Leader of the Opposition, Norman Kirk, inspecting the Addington Prison yard. [Frame 4a] Mr Kirk walking with R. M. Hall, chief prison officer.

Date 1971-09-20
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips

Labour caucus committee on housing

Canterbury Major Home Builders Group and Labour caucus committee on housing discussing Christchurch housing problems. From left, J. G. O’Brien (MP for Island Bay), T. M. McGuigan (Lyttelton), R. P. B...

Date 1971-02-02
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips

Opening of the Halswell swimming pool

Views of the opening of the Halswell swimming pool. [Frames 26a, 27a and 28a] MP for Wigram M. A. Connelly holding Paul McCarthy in his arms and throwing him in the pool, making him its first official...

Date 1971-12-18
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips

Canterbury Savings Bank board of trustees

Group photographs of the board of trustees of the Canterbury Savings Bank at their tenth annual meeting. Pictured: (back row from left) M. F. Hunter, J. B. Jenkins, H. E. McKinley, M. A. Connelly (MP)...

Date 1972-05-22
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1972 Christchurch Star negative strips

MP Mary Batchelor

Photographs of Mary Batchelor, new Member of Parliament for Avon, seated in an armchair holding a sheaf of telegrams.

Date 1972-11-26
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1972 Christchurch Star negative strips

Young “Ministers” of Tourism

Portraits of the young “Ministers” of Tourism at the Christchurch International Airport before they head to Mt Cook to study the possibilities of tourism of Mt Cook and Queenstown districts. Pictured...

Date 1972-07-08
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection 1972 Christchurch Star negative strips

Welcome at Nga Hau E Wha National Marae

Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, the MP for Southern Maori, and Minister of Maori Affairs, Wetere, being welcomed on to Nga Hau E Wha National Marae by Te Ari Brennan. Celebrating the official opening of...

Date 1986-09-05
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 1988 Christchurch Star photographs