New Year’s Festivities

To see off the old year and help usher in the new we thought it would be appropriate to see how the New Year has been celebrated down the years:

Ref: P.P. De Loree, Premiers of N.Z. Happy New Year, 1894, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 661-67.

Ref: Motor car invasion, Cockle Bay, 1939, 1 January 1939, South Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries, Footprints 15.

Ref: Lovely legs competition, Long Bay Beach, North Shore, Auckland, January 1957, North Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries, E0037.

Ref: W. Wilson for the Auckland Weekly News, A highly enjoyable New Year's holiday: snapshots of a holiday cruise in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, 12 January 1911, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19110112-1-1.

Ref: OCM Ephemera - 'Auckland Races', 1 January 1854, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries.

Ref: T.W. Collins for the Auckland Weekly News, A New Year holiday in the magnificent New Zealand bush, 4 January 1933, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19330104-31-1.

Ref: New Zealand Graphic, A New Year card drawn and sent to an old friend by an octogenarian New Zealander, 18 January 1908, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZG-19080118-14-2.

Ref: H.J. Lees for the Auckland Weekly News, A holiday drive at New Year, 12 January 1905, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19050112-17-2.

However you choose to celebrate, be it a 'lovely legs competition', a holiday cruise, a day at the races or a motor car invasion, have a great time but remember to beware the colonial hoodlum...

Ref: New Zealand Graphic, How the colonial hoodlum celebrates New Year's Eve, 28 December 1901, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZG-19011228-1237-1.

Happy New Year!

Ref: G.F. Jenkinson for the Auckland Weekly News, A happy New Year, 28 December 1905, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19051228-1-1. 

Author: Andrew Henry