Deposit P5 - H E Holland collection

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AU NBAC P5

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H E Holland collection

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  • 1880 - 1937 (Creation)

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5.4 m

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(1868 - 1933)

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Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland was born at Ginninderra, NSW on 10 June 1868 and was apprenticed as a compositor to the 'Queanbeyan Times', 1882-1878. Joined the Australian Socialist League, 1892. Split from the Labor Party in New South Wales, 1898. Stood as a Socialist Labor Party candidate, federal Senate and the state seat of Lang, 1901. Stood as a socialist candidate in the New South Wales state elections, 1907. He was convicted of sedition following his involvement in the Broken Hill Miners Strike of 1909. With Tom Batho he launched the 'Sydney Socialist' paper in October 1894. He was sent to jail for three months in 1896 for libel. The paper was renamed 'the Northern People' and then the 'People'. 1902-1906 he edited labour papers in Grenfell and Queanbeyan. He launched the 'International Socialist Review for Australasia' in February 1907. In May 1912 he moved to New Zealand and became involved in the Waihi miners' strike. In April 1913 he became editor of the 'Maoriland Worker'. Holland was jailed in November 1913 for sedition following his role in the waterfront dispute. He stood as the Social Democratic Party candidate, Wellington North 1914 and 1918. In May 1918 he was elected for Grey (later Buller). From 1919-1931 Holland was chairman of the New Zealand Labour Party. In he 1920 visited Samoa as a member of a parliamentary party investigating New Zealand's colonial mandate. Holland died in Huntly, New Zealand on 8 Ocotober 1933.

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Material used by Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2004) in the writing of a biography on H E Holland. Includes correspondence, family papers and photograph; writings and lecture notes; papers re Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu; press cuttings re his speeches in New Zealand; large collection of pamphlets including material on NZ and the Pacific Islands.

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Researchers must sign an access agreement

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Series P5/11 are copies of letters between Edward Dye (1970-1942) and H Holland. Originals are held in Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand: MS-Papers-1298

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NBAC M62

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NBAC M7; NBAC M62
Alexander Turnbull Libary, New Zealand: MS-Papers-1501

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