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	Name	Summary/Abstract	Subject category
	Looking after Auckland Harbour Bridge	Painting the bridge was a constant job...	Auckland Harbour Bridge Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Company
	Redressing the Balance – A Brief History of Letter Balances and the Penny Post	During my recent research of MOTAT’s Weights and Measures Collection, the letter balances, or postal scales, stood out – when did they first become popular and how are they relevant to New Zealand’s history?	Postal service Postage stamps Scales (Weighing instruments)
	Harold Piper — What’s in an Aviator’s Logs?	The Walsh Memorial Library hold eight logbooks of Banks Peninsula-born pilot Harold Lord Piper (1899–1965). Log books are an invaluable record for any pilot — tracing the different aircraft types flown, distances and conditions they flew in.	Aviators Log books
	Open Wide: A Short History of the Murder House in New Zealand	Many businesses such as dentists and hairdressers have been overwhelmed with bookings after the return to ‘normal’ life post Covid-19 lockdown here in New Zealand. It makes you wonder: a rush to the dentist is usually unheard of because, for many, the idea of the dentist conjures up images of pain and cold, clinical sights and smells. But where did this anxiety come from? This article aims to delve into the history of the School Dental Service (SDS), the school dental clinics also known by my parent’s generation as the ‘murder house’, and bring our worst fears into the light. Did it succeed in improving children’s oral health? Was the ‘murder house’ really a place of trauma and pain?	Dentistry New Zealand
	‘We were novelties’: TEAL Solent Flying Boat Stewardesses	MOTAT has the last remaining Mark IV Short Solent flying boat in the world in its collection. In the Walsh Memorial Library’s recorded sound archive, there are a number of interviews recorded by members of the Solent Preservation Society in the 1990s. In the late 2000s we recorded some interviews with stewardesses who flew on the Solents between Auckland and Wellington and Sydney, and from Auckland up to the Pacific to Tonga and Fiji, and on the Coral Route which went via Fiji, Samoa and the Cook Islands to Tahiti. The Auckland-Sydney route started in 1949, the Wellington-Sydney one in 1950. In 1951 the Coral Route began — at first monthly and then fortnightly.	Flight attendants New Zealand Anecdotes Tasman Empire Airways Limited Employees Anecdotes Oral history
	Christening the Collection	An important aspect of the Registry team’s role is reviewing the Collection. Here is what we have discovered about our assortment of christening gowns…	Christening gowns
	Tales from the Air: Batten’s Journey to Brazil	Jean Batten is well remembered for her record flights between England, Australia and New Zealand. In 1935 she set off on another record breaking flight from England to Brazil in her Percival Gull aircraft.	Flight Batten, Jean Gardner, 1909-1982 Aviators New Zealand
	The Life & Times of a well-travelled Steam tram Engine - No.100 - celebrating 130 years of age	Built in 1891 by the well-known engine manufacturers Baldwin Locomotive Works, read about the history of MOTAT's Tram 100.	Australia New Zealand Conservation and restoration Wanganui Corporation Tramways
	Some Assembly Required: A Brief History of Early Ford Assembly in New Zealand	In the 1930s, New Zealand had a thriving car assembly industry. While this is no longer the case today, New Zealand still has one of the highest car ownership rates in the world. In 1939, New Zealand was second only to the USA for car ownership.	Automobile factories Ford automobile
	The Arrival of a MOTAT Icon	As part of the Registry team's Collection Review we delve into researching the MOTAT Collection. Here is some research I have been undertaking.	K (Locomotive) New Zealand Railways Locomotives

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