Includes:

a) Official bulletin. Human Rights in New Zealand (1953) (4)

b) Booklet. ‘New Zealand Liberty 1951’ by Frank Langstone (2 Oct 1953)

c) New Zealand Freedom Association pamphlet. ‘OFF THE AIR – by order’ (20 Apr 1943) (3)

d) Booklets. ‘Labour - Socialism in action’ (1942) (2)

e) Instruction booklets. Includes an instruction booklet New Zealand coroners (1951), and instruction booklet Police Offences Amendment (1951).

f) Booklet. New Zealand Freedom Association: ‘Cabinet, Parliament and the Law Courts’ circular letter No. 1 (20 Apr 1943)

g) Booklet. W. J. Scott ‘Civil Liberties in New Zealand’ (Apr 1956) (2)

h) Booklet/Magazine. ‘Auckland Provincial Freedom Association – Aims and Objects of the Organisation’ (20 Apr 1943)

i) Booklets by R. M. Algie. Includes booklets entitled ‘The Socialisation of the Land – an examination of the policy of the Labour Government 1936-1940’ (20 Apr 1943) and ‘The State and the Small Farms Act – soldier settlement or state socialisation?’ (20 Apr 1943).

j) Newspaper cuttings (5 Jul 1960) V. Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ banned in New Zealand

k) Memo for Professor I. D. Campbell, ‘called to have a chat’.

l) Press cuttings relating to the death penalty in New Zealand ending (1961), youth moral conduct and censorship (1954), Privy council involvement in Commissioner murder trial Cook Islands (May 1954), ‘Deported Eight Times’ Ex-Serviceman’s Japanese wife is deported for the eighth time (22 Aug 1953), Premier S. Holland’s campaign against communism (1 Dec [1951]), prejudice and democracy (1944-1957).

m) Court Record (Jun-Jul 1960) about the smuggling of goods into New Zealand, notably, six copies of V. Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’

n) Council for Civil Liberties Annual Reports (1958, 1960)

o) List of correspondence addresses in New Zealand and the Council for Civil Liberties in Australia

p) Airmail memo – receipt for nine shillings and five pence from Progressive Books ltd.

q) Collection of documents, correspondence about New Zealand censorship and controlling of 16mm small film. New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties and E. A. Allen, Council for Civil Liberties New Zealand Annual Report (1957).

r) Correspondence General Secretary and New Zealand Secretary includes (2) pamphlets New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties ‘Subversive Activity’ (Oct 1956)

s) Letter from M. Brand and E. A. Allen, about murder of a Commissioner in the Cook Islands.

t) Series of letters from General Secretary introducing K. Digby to New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties members (Aug 1955)

u) Correspondence General Secretary and Minister of Island Territories New Zealand, investigating the murder of a Commissioner in the Cook Islands by three Niue Islanders. (22 Mar 1954)

v) Letter General Secretary and Miss Brand

w) Letter General Secretary and Mrs. Smith

x) Collection of correspondence about New Zealand censorship and control over 16mm small film. (1951-1953)

y) Documents and correspondence about the visit of W. Nash to Britain. Includes correspondence between E. A. Allen and Nash (4 Feb 1952), and letters about Nash’s visit from Allen to Lords Strabolgi and Stansgate (1952).

z) Letters R. Westgate and E. A. Allen, includes amended version of New Zealand Police Offences Amendment Bill (2) (14 Dec 1951).

a2) Official Secrets Bill New Zealand

b2) New Zealand Police Offences Amendments Bill (3) memo dictated by J. Platts-Mills

c2) NCCL minutes of meeting (10 Jul 1951), New Zealand visitor

d2) Memo from Ina to E. A. Allen about meeting between New Zealand - Australia councils

e2) Pamphlet protesting New Zealand Police bill

f2) Labour monthly newsletter (2pp) Vol. XXXX No. 10 (Oct 1951), about Australia and New Zealand

g2) E. A. Allen correspondence Rationalist Association New Zealand (26 Jun 1951)

h2) Newspaper cutting ‘General Says ‘To Hell with Afrikaners” New Zealand General angry over South African refusal to let Māori play rugby in Segregated Black-African team.

i2) Postcard to E. A. Allen from H. Luttrel (29 May 1954)

j2) Correspondence General Secretary, about Council for Civil Liberties in Australia and New Zealand and WWII (1943-1945)