Papers Past (1840-1949)

This section contains summaries of newspaper articles (1840-1949) relating to Takatāpui LGBTI Rainbow+ sourced from the Papers Past website. Note the language in these articles reflect the societal attitudes of the time in which they were written.

• Supreme Court. Local Intelligence. Supreme Court. (Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, 23 May 1863) - Henry Turton
• The Opera. (Press, 9 January 1872) - Sappho
• Supreme Court. (Press, 3 October 1874)
• Criminal Sittings (Press, 5 October 1874)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 8 October 1874)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 13 October 1874)
• Supreme Court. (Press, 13 October 1874)
• Supreme Court. (Press, 6 January 1875)
• New Zealand. (Press, 26 April 1886)
• Magistrates Court. (Star - Christchurch, 30 April 1886) - Amy Bock
• Magisterial. (Press, 1 May 1886)
• A Christchurch Adventuress. (Press, 6 April 1888)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 26 April 1888)
• A Youthful Burglar. (Daily Telegraph - Napier, 2 November 1888) - Thomas Gleeson, Thorea Thomson
• Caught At Last. (Star - Christchurch, 2 November 1888) - Thomas Gleeson, Thorea Thomson
• Robberies In The South. (Auckland Star, 2 November 1888) - Thomas Gleeson, Thorea Thomson
• News Of The Day. (Press, 18 April 1889)
• A Well-known Swindler. (Press, 20 April 1889)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 26 April 1889)
• New Zealand. (Press, 24 May 1890)
• "lifer" Dale At The Guest-dinner. (Press, 28 June 1890)
• New Zealand. (Press, 18 October 1892)
• What Will She Do With It? (Ashburton Guardian, 19 September 1893) - Women's suffrage petition (1893)
• New Zealand. (Press, 13 March 1903)
• Assault. (Press, 23 April 1903)
• Crime In Christchurch. (Press, 26 January 1907)
• A Woman Bridegroom (Press, 27 April 1909)
• The Department Of Agriculture. (Press, 28 April 1909)
• The Woman Bridegroom. (Press, 28 April 1909)
• Amy Bocks Case. (Press, 30 April 1909)
• Amy Bock's Case. (Press, 1 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 3 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 4 May 1909)
• The Case Of Amy Bock (Press, 4 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 5 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 7 May 1909)
• Topics Of The Day. (Press, 8 May 1909)
• The Case Of Amy Bock (Press, 8 May 1909)
• Amy Bock. (Press, 10 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 13 May 1909)
• Amy Bock. (Press, 18 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 21 May 1909)
• More About Amy Bock. (Manawatu Herald, 27 May 1909) - Amy Bock
• The Amy Bock Case. (Press, 28 May 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 15 June 1909)
• The Amy Bock Case. (Press, 18 June 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 14 July 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 15 July 1909)
• A Story Of Interest. (Press, 17 July 1909)
• News Of The Day (Press, 21 July 1909)
• Woman Of Great Resource. (Press, 10 August 1909)
• News Of The Day. (Press, 15 March 1910)
• Passage Through Committee. (Press, 12 November 1910)
• With The Side Show Folk (Press, 12 November 1910)
• Magistrate's Court (Press, 7 December 1911)
• In Male Attire, Sad Case At Dunedin (Mataura Ensign, 6 November 1912) - Annie Read, Thomas Parkes
• Local And General. (Ashburton Guardian, 9 November 1912) - Annie Read, Thomas Parkes
• King Of Burglars (Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1912) - James Townsley
• Personal Items. (Press, 12 April 1913)
• Science From An Easy Chair. (Press, 25 April 1914)
• Monologues Of A Colonial Professor. (Press, 26 September 1914)
• Women in Print (Evening Post, 20 January 1915) - Lindsay Campbell
• Interprovincial. (Poverty Bay Herald, 6 February 1915) - Edward McGurk
• Lander Landed (NZ Truth, 27 February 1915) - Edward McGurk, John Leslie Lander
• Life Imprisonment. (Wanganui Chronicle, 18 May 1915) - John Leslie Lander
• Lagged For Life (NZ Truth, 22 May 1915) - Edward McGurk, John Leslie Lander
• Amazing Masquerade. (Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915) - Ellehan Eppheam, Miss de Vieu
• Freak Legislation In Victoria. (Colonist, 2 September 1916)
• The Ohinemuri Gazette. Friday, October 27, 1916... (Ohinemuri Gazette, 27 October 1916) - Frederick Wright, Kathleen Woodhouse
• Alien Arrested. (Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 May 1917) - Hjelmar von Dannevill
• Local And General (Evening Post, 16 July 1917) - Hjelmar von Dannevill
• The Unspeakable un Dirty, Diseased Degenerate Germany - Germany
• Behind The Scenes. (Colonist, 22 August 1918) - Noel Pemberton Billing
• Sydney People Duped (Press, 2 May 1919)
• A Boys Masquerade (Evening Post, 16 August 1919) - Ada Reeve
• Woman Army Doctor (Thames Star, 23 October 1919) - James Barry
• Samuel Butler (Hawera and Normanby Star, 31 December 1919) - Charles Paine Pauli, Samuel Butler
• Accused Sentenced (Evening Post, 28 May 1920) - Charles Mackay, Walter D'Arcy Cresswell
• C. E. Mackay Sentenced. (Press, 29 May 1920)
• Extraordinary Case. (Poverty Bay Herald, 14 July 1920) - Eugene Falleni, Harry Crawford
• Italian Woman Poses As A Man. (Press, 17 July 1920)
• Guilty Of Murder (Hawera and Normanby Star, 7 October 1920) - Eugene Falleni, Harry Crawford
• Sydney Man-woman (Evening Post, 11 May 1921) - George Rocake, Winifred Wilson
• Well-known Writer Dead (Evening Post, 12 January 1923) - Katherine Mansfield
• A Long Sentence (Evening Post, 12 October 1923) - Hector Froggatt
• Unpleasant, Yet A Fact (NZ Truth, 23 February 1924) - perversion
• The Dazzling Dandies (NZ Truth, 7 February 1925) - New Plymouth Prison
• Undetected Sex Perversion (NZ Truth, 28 March 1925) - eugenics
• Escape Of A Prisoner. (Press, 12 June 1925)
• A Queen Street Incident (Evening Post, 3 October 1925) - Kenneth Dell
• Hospital Instead Of Court (Evening Post, 3 October 1925) - Kenneth Dell
• Dubious Doings Of Dell (NZ Truth, 10 October 1925) - Kenneth Dell
• General News. (Press, 15 January 1926)
• Three Months (Evening Post, 20 April 1927) - George Grace
• Modern Censorship Problems. (Press, 25 February 1929)
• Chequered Career Ended (NZ Truth, 9 May 1929) - Charles Mackay, Walter D'Arcy Cresswell
• Man With Female Mentality (NZ Truth, 9 May 1929) - June O'Hara, Nikora Hune Haora
• Forbidden Books (Evening Post, 11 May 1929) - D. H. Lawrence, Radclyffe Hall
• Her Feminine Bridegroom (NZ Truth, 13 June 1929) - Deresley Morton, Peter Stratford
• The Adolescent Girl (Evening Post, 22 July 1929) - Jessie Scott
• Magistrate - Leonard Hollobon
• Verdict Of Guilty (Evening Post, 30 October 1929) - Frank Sargeson, Norris Davey
• Prisoners Sentenced (Evening Post, 31 October 1929) - Leonard Hollobon, Norris Davey
• Jury And Court (Dominion, 1 November 1929) - Frank Sargeson, Norris Davey
• Crimes In Wellington (Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1929) - Frank Sargeson, Norris Davey
• Accused Discharged (Evening Post, 4 November 1929) - Harold Mather, Walter Robinson
• Hair Dresser's Death. (Press, 31 March 1931)
• Bonfires Of Books (Evening Post, 12 May 1933) - book burning
• Posed As A Girl (Evening Post, 9 June 1933) - Rosanna Laihae, Te Ahurangi Matene
• Hitler - Ernst Rohm
• Obituary (Evening Post, 16 April 1935) - Dorothy Kate Richmond
• Miss D. K. Richmond (Evening Post, 17 April 1935) - Dorothy Kate Richmond
• Charge Of Murder (Evening Post, 3 September 1935) - Eric Mareo, Thelma Trott
• Woman Mountaineer (Evening Post, 4 October 1935) - Freda Du Faur
• Mareo Guilty (Evening Post, 27 February 1936) - Eric Mareo, Thelma Trott
• Obituary (Evening Post, 7 July 1936) - Robert Gant
• Commuted (Evening Post, 5 August 1936) - Eric Mareo, Thelma Trott
• More Offences (Press, 21 August 1936)
• To Wanganui (Evening Post, 30 September 1936) - Phillip Stewart
• Old Otago (Press, 28 January 1939)
• Heavy Criminal Calendar (Press, 7 February 1940)
• Instruction By Films (Press, 16 April 1940)
• Posed As Woman (Evening Post, 27 January 1942) - William Preen
• Sexual Offenders (Evening Post, 1 June 1944) - New Plymouth Prison
• Strange Masquerade (Evening Post, 26 September 1945) - relationships
• Clothed As Woman (Evening Post, 8 November 1945) - Garth Gilmour
• Sequel In Court (Evening Post, 22 November 1945) - relationships
• British Fascist Organisation (Press, 21 October 1947)
• Inquest Verdict At Auckland (Press, 26 July 1949)