Places

Date: 1939

By: Automobile Association (Wellington, N.Z.) Inc.

Reference: MapColl-832.4395gmbd/[1939]/Acc.25,535

Description: Map of Otaki, with revisions made in white correcting fluid. The area is from the sea to the racecourse including the Otaki River and the golf links, Otaki Beach, Rangiuru and Otaki Town settlements. Shows the sites of the King George V Memorial Health Camp, several areas of Church Mission Grant land, the Catholic Church Mission Station, Maori Church, pa, memorial to Te Rauparaha, schools, the hospital and sanitorium reserves and a mill. Includes dates when the Catholic Mission Station was opened and dates when the church, presbytery and school were built. Streets and streams are named and the old course of the Otaki River is marked as is the borough boundary and built up areas. A reference key shows numbered sites of interest. Printed on botttom left corner: L. and S. license 440/35/39 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale [ca.1:5 544], 56.8 x 69.7 cm.

Date: 1937

By: Edgar, James Douglas Charlton, 1903-1976; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: E-278-q-089-A

Description: View of the hills and landscape in the Kawarau Gorge, Central Otago. Reproduction of a painting by Charlton Edgar, possibly painted in 1937 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 88 x 109 mm on folded card

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1927-1934

From: Pedersen, Doris Taur, 1907-2001 :Photographs relating to Doris Pedersen's career in nursing

Reference: PA1-o-1005

Description: Album begins with Wellington Hospital in about 1927/28 and shows the new buildings which opened in 1928, the nurses home and Toxwood's hospital buildings of 1880. There are many photographs of nurses, some staged in operating theatres with doctors and nurses arround the patient, one administering chloroform onto a fabric pad over the patients face. The rest of the photographs in the album relate to Doris Pedersen's work in maternity hospitals and hospitals specialising in the care of very young children. These include Alexandra Children's Hospital, Karitane Hospital, a hospital in a large late victorian house with a big garden, and Dr Doris and William Gordon's Marire Private Hospital in Stratford.. Associated with these hospitals are many images of nurses and the children in their care. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1926-1930

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0518

Description: Contains letters, accounts and other papers regarding the building of the Waiomatatini meeting house; also includes receipts and other accounts Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts and typescripts

Date: 1926-1934

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0402

Description: Contains correspondence regarding the School Includes the proposal to establish the School of Maori Art and Crafts, 1926 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1937

Reference: MS-1789

Description: Produced by a group of East Coast Native school teachers in collaboration with Mr Pine Taiepa, a Maori carver of the Ngati-Porou tribe, East Coast. Includes a legend explaining the use of 3 fingers common in Maori figures Quantity: 1 volume(s) (23 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (duplicated) (26 cm; grey cloth) Includes diagrams

Date: 1934

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0018B

Description: Correspondence regarding the building of the Tuhoe Meeting House in Ruatoki including detailed lists of materials. contains letter from the Builder and contractor, R.J. Wills in regard to the Waitangi Treaty House and the Takitimu house in Wairoa. Language - English translations Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1932-1947

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0510

Description: Contains notes regarding various meeting houses, including Ratana Hall. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1934

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0229

Description: Contains correspondence about the meeting house Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1923-[ca 1930]

From: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967: Photographs of New Zealand gold mining

Reference: PAColl-9540-1

Description: Photographs taken in Washington and New York, USA. People establishing the Alexander Mine, West Coast. Views of Waiuta. Waiuta people. Portraits of women. In some cases there are prints on both sides of the mount. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s) stereographs.

Date: 1935 - 1939

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0372

Description: File 168 - Contains whakapapa, stories and sketches regarding this meeting house Whitireia was completed in 1939. Includes a letter written by Mr W. Ormond of Wairoa on the topic of Whakapapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter and sketches Contains illustrations and the names of Whakairo in the Whare nui

Date: 1935-1940

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0129

Description: Contains letters, accounts and newspaper material on wharenui Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1938

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0134

Description: Contains reports and costs pertaining to the building of a wharenui in Tokaanu Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1938-1939

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0127

Description: Contains letters, record and architectual plans of wharenui includes tukutuku designs. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and maps

Date: [ca 1930-1933]

From: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967: Photographs of New Zealand gold mining

Reference: PAColl-9540-3

Description: Views of Waihi, the open cast gold mines, and the mine buildings. Otira Railway station. Photographs of nurses. Portraits of women. Gardens. Joseph Divis on his trip overseas includes - Czechoslavakia. Japan. New York. Panama Canal. Joseph Divis and other people on board ships. In some cases there are prints on both sides of the mount. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s) stereographs.

Date: 1933

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0018C

Description: Correspondence regarding the construction of the Tokomaru Bay and Otaki meeting houses Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1937-1940

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0018

Description: Includes correspondence and papers relating to the building of the Te Kaha Meeting House including estimations and cost sheets and details for carvings for the house Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1935-1939

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0131

Description: Contains correspondence, records and accounts pertaining to building projects and also a form applying for subsidised unemployed Maori labour for development work Includes a letter written to Ngata re: return of Mokena Kohere's sword which was damaged in a house fire in 1935. Includes printed material "Te Reo Wairua", published in May 1938. Other Titles - He Hui Whakamahara ki a Timi Kara. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1934-1936

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0216

Description: Contains correspondence and other papers mainly concerning the proposed Carroll Memorial Meeting House at Wairoa Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts