1 Registrar, OU, to Messrs Ramsay & Haggitt, 2 May 1935, DUHL, Acc. 96-176, OU HScExt, file 221.

2 Registrar, OU, to Norton Francis, 31 Jan. 1935, ibid.

3 Registrar, CC to G.T. Alley, 25 Mar. 1935, Alley papers.

4 CU, Canterbury WEA records, G.21.

5 G.T. Alley, 'Country Library Service 1930-1955', NZL, v.19, Aug. 1956, p.140.

6 G.T. Alley, in V. Macmillan's report on the work of the ACE staff during 1935, p.6; copy provided by CU Registry.

7 G.T. Alley, 'The A.C.E. Library Service', ACE News, 16 July 1935, p.9, DUHL, Acc. 96-176, OU HScExt, file 233.

8 G.T. Alley, in V. Macmillan's report for Aug. and Sept. 1936, pp.4-5, ibid, file 250.

9 G.T. Alley, in V. Macmillan's final report for 1936, pp.7ff, ibid.

10 G.T. Alley, 'Country Library Service 1930-1955', NZL, v.19, Aug. 1956, p.141.

11 G.T. Alley, 'The Canterbury Adult Rural Education Scheme', NZL, v.13, Oct. 1950, p.215.

12 'Library Demonstration' (undated), ATL, MS-Papers-6759-209.

13 McIntosh to John Russell (CCNY), 16 Apr. 1935, ibid.

14 McIntosh to Barr, 6 June 1935, ibid.

15 Barr to McIntosh, 20 June 1935, ibid.

16 Macmillan to Barr, 22 Oct. 1935, ATL, MS-Papers-1917-1. When I drew Alley's attention to this letter in 1960 he said that he had not known about it. He could have forgotten, of course.

17 'Proposals for a Rural Library Demonstration', ATL, MS-Papers- 6759-209.

18 Quoted in C.E. Beeby, The Biography of an Idea, p.xvi.

19 NZLA Proc. 1937, pp.9-10.

20 McIntosh to Fraser, 23 Jan. 1936, ATL, MS-Papers-6759-209; NL, Basement records, Row 10, Box 20.

21 McIntosh to Munn, 10 Jan. 1936, ATL, MS-Papers-6759-209.

22 McIntosh to Barr, 27 May 1936, ATL, Acc. 84-142-64.

23 AJHR, 1936, H-32A, G.H. Scholefield, 'Rural Library Services'.

24 Scholefield to Barr, 18 Feb. 1936, ATL, MS-Papers-0212-35.

25 A.D. McIntosh, p.c. 13 Aug. 1959.

26 McIntosh to Barr, 6 July 1936, ATL, MS-Papers-6759-209; Norrie to Barr, 9 July 1936, AP, NZLA papers; Barr to McIntosh, 15 July 1936, ATL, MSPapers- 6759-209.

27 Alley to Chairman CUC Council, 13 Aug. 1936, UC Registry, CC Registrar's correspondence, file 9776.

28 Alley to Barr, 8 Nov. 1936, ATL, MSPapers- 1917-1.

29 G.T. Alley, 'Taranaki's Rural Library Facilities'.

30 Ibid., p.16.

31 Ibid., pp.48-50.

32 Ibid., pp.50-63.

33 Ibid., p.63.

34 G.T. Alley, in V. Macmillan's report for Oct. and Nov. 1936, p.6, DUHL, Acc. 96-176, OU HScExt, file 250.

35 For this period of the NZLA's history see McEldowney NZLA, pp.23ff.

36 NZLA Canterbury Branch minute book 1937-1945, CU.

37 McEldowney, NZLA, p.26.

38 NZLA Proc. 1937, p.17.

39 University of New Zealand, First Conference of Librarians, Feb. 1936, minutes, WU, Miller papers.

40 NZLA, Report of Committee on Inter-library Loans, 31 May 1937, ATL, Acc. 79-042-18.

41 G.T. Alley, 'Country Libraries and their Problems', NZLA Proc. 1937, pp.43-7.

42 Wm Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV, ii, 258.

43 Correspondence, McIntosh with W.W. Bishop and C.H. Milam, ATL, MS-Papers-6759-208.

44 Scholefield to Collins, 13 Dec. 1943, ATL, MS-Papers-0212-35.

45 A.D. McIntosh, p.c. 13 Aug. 1959.

46 A.G.W. Dunningham, p.c. 21 Aug. 1990.

47 Alley PGC (Dunningham).

48 ATL, Acc. 84-142-64.

49 AJHR, 1937-1938, B-7, Appropriations from the Consolidated Fund, p.241.

50 AJHR, 1937, B-6, Financial Statement, p.20.

51 G.T. Alley, 'The Country Library Service', NZL, v.30, Dec. 1967, p.199.

52 G.T. Alley, in V. Macmillan's report for Aug. and Sept. 1937, p.4, DUHL, Acc. 96-176, OU HScExt, file 250.

53 V. Macmillan, 'ACE, Tentative Proposals for 1938', ibid.

54 McIntosh to Barr, ATL, Acc. 84-142- 64.

55 Lambourne to Secretary PSC, 22 Nov. 1937, NA, SSC 5, Acc. 1227, Alley, G.T., Personal file.

56 Lambourne to Alley, 29 Nov. 1937, Alley papers.

57 Minute written on Lambourne's memorandum of 22 Nov. 1937.

58 G.H. Scholefield, 'Autobiography, 1877-1963' (unpublished), p.213, ATL, MS-Papers-0212-67.

59 ACE offer, Norton Francis to Fraser, 18 Dec. 1937; Fraser to Francis, 26 Jan. 1938, giving assurances and expressing grateful thanks, NA, NLS 2, Box 19.

60 V. Macmillan's report for Feb. and Mar. 1938, p.2, DUHL, Acc. 96-176, OU HScExt, file 266; NZL, v.1, Feb. 1938, p.51.

61 NL, Basement records, Row 10, Box 19.

62 Reported by M.K. Rochester, p.c. 9 Oct. 1990.

63 Fraser to Hall, 1 Jan. 1938, NA, NLS 1 12/1/7.

64 Alley PGC (Hall).

65 Ibid.

66 NZL, v.1, June 1938, p.81.

67 Heenan to Fraser, 26 May 1938, ATL, Acc. 73-160-4.

68 AJHR, 1939, H-32A, pp.1-2.

69 Ibid., p.6.

70 NZPD, v.252, p.475 (23 Aug. 1938).

71 AJHR, 1939, E-1, p.7.

72 G.L. Somerset, Sunshine and Shadow. p.122.

73 J. Tait tape.

74 W.T.G. Airey, A Learner in China, p.133.

75 See The Frontiersman (official organ of the New Zealand Command), v.1 no.6, 17 Mar. 1937, p.8, for a report that the Metropolitan Police had decided that the (British) Public Order Act 1936, which banned political uniforms, would not affect the Legion of Frontiersmen.

76 D.S. Funnell, Quartermaster and Archives Officer, N.Z. Headquarters, p.c. 26 Aug. 1993 and 1 Sept. 1995. Mr Funnell had to draw on his own memory, since the headquarters records were destroyed in the London blitz in 1942, and the New Zealand records by fire in Eltham in the late 1940s.

77 J.A. Alley, p.c. 7 Oct. 1990.

78 NZLA Proc. 1938, p.10.

79 NZLA Annual Report, NZLA Proc. 1938, p.14.

80 Keppel to Hall, 11 Feb. 1936, ATL, MS-Papers-0212-35.

81 Alley PGC (Ballantyne).

82 P. Perry, p.c., 17 Feb. 1993.

83 Barr to Norrie, 24 May 1937, ATL, Acc. 84-142-64.

84 Norrie to Barr, 27 May 1937, ibid.

85 Barr to Norrie, 3 June 1937, ibid.

86 Report of N.Z. Library Group to F.J. Keppel, President CCNY, 18 June 1937, ibid.

87 Munn to Norrie, 5 Nov. 1937, WP, Correspondence files.

88 See McEldowney, NZLA, pp.28-9.

89 Minutes of combined meeting of the Carnegie Library Group and the Council of the NZLA, 17 June 1938, ATL, Acc. 97-002-01/1.

90 Alley PGC (Carnell).

91 McIntosh to Alley, 6 June 1938, ATL, MS-Papers-1917-4.

92 Alley to Fraser, 12 Aug. 1938, Alley's CLS Establishment file, sighted in 1960 – present location unknown.

93 Report to NZLA councillors and members of the Group, 15 Aug 1938, ATL, Acc. 84-142-64.

94 Application to Carnegie Corporation, from NZLA and Carnegie Group, 22 Aug. 1938, NA, AAOJ 6016/24B.

95 Cable, CCNY to NZLA, 16 Nov. 1938, ATL, Acc. 84-142-64; CCNY, Library Program, 1911-1961, pp.106- 7 (Library grants to New Zealand); McEldowney, NZLA, p.29.

96 M.K. Rochester, American Influence in New Zealand Librarianship, p.145.

97 Alley PGC (Carnell).

98 Ibid. (Barr).

99 McIntosh to Barr, 30 Oct. 1935, ATL, MS-Papers-6759-209; also, McIntosh to Dunningham, 30 Oct. 1935, same file ('I have endeavoured to give him a scare').

100 A.D. McIntosh, p.c. 13 Aug, 1959.

101 NZL, v.7, Nov. 1944, pp.180-6.