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Discussions from Frank Sargeson
No full textDubbed from Radio New Zealand Sound Archive recordings by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive.1. Sargeson discusses "The story of an African farm" by Olive Schreiner. Continued on side 2 (1956) -- 2. Sargeson gives a talk titled "The play and the playwright" (1958)
Charles Doyle reads his poems
No full textDubbed a from Radio New Zealand Sound Archive recording by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive.Recorded during the 1950's
Recollections of the past from Alan Mulgan
No full text1. Mulgan recalls traveling around New Zealand by sea in the 1890's out of the port of Auckland, before the establishment of the major rail links, and life around the port city (1952) -- 2. Narrates the Battle of Tsushima between Japan and Russia in 1905 (195-).
Dubbed from Radio New Zealand Sound Archive recordings by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive
Discussions and readings from John A. Lee
No full text1. A tribute to Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde) - recording incomplete (1939) -- 2. Talks about swagmen and recalls meeting Henry Lawson (1948) -- 3. Talks about "John A. Lee's weekly", his book "Children of the poor" and his attitudes to life (1964) -- 4. Talks about the swagger poets David McKee Wright, Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson (1967) -- 5. Talks about his writing (1967).
Radio New Zealand Sound Archive recordings dubbed by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive
William Ferguson Massey and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
No full textWilliam Ferguson Massey assumed the office of Prime Minister of New Zealand on 10 July 1912 and he held this position until his death on 11 May 1925. Throughout this long period of office, he never had the good fortune to steer New Zealand through smooth waters. War, which Mr. Massey regarded as the most awful calamity that could afflict the human race, broke out on 4 August 1914. For the next four years he had to apply his policy and administration to its prosecution and thereafter to reconstruction.
It was hard for a man with mainly agrarian interests to have to think in terms of war, yet Mr Massey did not falter in what he considered to be an Imperial duty. Asked on the night of 31 July 1914 whether, if in the event of Britain being involved in war, the government would offer an expeditionary force to be sent wherever the Empire needed its services, Mr. Massey made a prompt and dignified reply that it would. On the declaration of war, he immediately telegraphed the Home Government, 'All we are and all we have are at the disposal of the Imperial Government for the purposes of carrying on the war to a successful issue.
Co-ordination compounds of nickel quinoline and isoquinoline thiocyanates
No full textThe existence of a red nickel diquinoline thiocyanate had previously been reported from this laboratory. As this colour is unusual among nickel compounds, the further investigation of the substance was undertaken as the object of the first half of this thesis. With this in view, a comparison was made of the series comprising nickal tetraquinoline thiocyanate (green), nickel diquinoline thiocyanate (red), and anhydrous nickel thiocyanate (yellow). It was hoped that some serial relationship might be found between the cause of colour and the molecular structure. A comparison was likewise made of nickel tetra-and di-quinoline thiocyanates with the corresponding nickel isoquinoline thiocyanates. It was hoped that some explanation might be brought forward for the marked differences in physical properties of the isomeric tetrammines
The History of New Zealand Immigration up to 1870
No full textThe general purpose of the thesis is to make a critical survey of the immigration policies which have been adopted in this country. My original intention was to cover the whole field from the earliest times of our history to the present date, paying regard more to broad tendencies than to detailed policies; but upon reflection it appeared impossible to be certain of a right interpretation of the former without a close acquaintance with the latter. I intend to complete a survey of the "modern" period at a latter date in the hope that it will be possible to indicate a line of development in regard to immigration which will be in closer touch with the economic potentialities and needs of New Zealand than the present dangerous method of "trial and error"