Wairakei Power Station (N.Z.)

Date: ca1960-ca1988

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-602

Description: Railway trains, locomotives, and carriage interiors in New Zealand, Britain and North America. The Volcanic Plateau and Wairakei geothermal project. Most of the album shows ships on Auckland Harbour and at the wharves, including the launch 'Manu', used to provide "Captain Cook Cruises" circa 1980, and the refurbished waterfront and cast iron gates near the Ferry Terminal Building. There are also shots of people taking the sun in this area. The final section records some of the demolition and rebuilding in Auckland during the 1980s. Rationalist House also features. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1917-1971

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: PAColl-8687

Description: Photographs of Wairakei; the fossil forest at Curio Bay South Otago; Wanganui hospital and nurses (1917-1918); a re-enactment of Captain Cook's landing at Picton (1970); views of Wellington; Otaki River and Otaki Forks; Northland. Title supplied by the Library Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 81199 to 35mm, 81212. Slides at PA12-5487 to PA12-5488 Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s). 32 colour original transparency/ies. 15 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 41 images. Provenance: Photograph of Wanganui Hospital, nurses etc. belonged to Annie Hansen who an aunt of Eileen Tiller. Annie Hansen was the daughter of Anders and Elizabeth (Bessie) Hansen. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Hanson family diaries (MS-Group-0887).

Date: [1960-1969]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2906

Description: Transparencies showing views of a group walking at Mount Holdsworth, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1960s. Also includes views of the Wairakei Power Station, Wairakei, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes a transparency with the annotation "airport breakwater"; transparencies of paintings, annotated as "Lake Tarawera | Hutt Rd. paintings"; a transparency showing a portrait of the actor Richard Wordsworth; and transparencies showing construction sites in Wellington. Transparencies showing Wellington constuction sites continue at PA12-2907. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "airport breakwater", "Lake Tarawera | Hutt Rd. paintings" and "1/2 frame colour Minolta". Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies. 1 b&w original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in April 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-05.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7814

Description: Transparency slides of Wairakei Power Station, Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Napier and Gisborne, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1954-1978

By: Richardson, Ralph Cyril Hastings, 1902-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-7296

Description: Reports, correspondence and printed papers on the electric production industry, especially on the construction of the Wairakei geothermal power plant. Also includes report on the electrification of Auckland commuter railways. The reports were authored by Merz and McaLellan. Source of title - Supplied Mr Richardson returned to New Zealand in 1954 as the resident New Zealand civil and electrical engineer for the British consultancy firm of Merz and McLellan on the Wairakei Geothermal Project. He remained as part-time consulting engineer after his retirement. Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts, printed matter Provenance: Mr Richardson's papers were passed on to his son-in-law, the Hon Doug Kidd MP.

Date: [ca 1960-1969]

From: Horsman, John Irvin, 1925-1993: Photograph albums, chiefly relating to his world travels as a radio officer for the merchant navy

Reference: PA1-o-1907

Description: An album of photographic prints compiled by John Horsman, chiefly relating to road trips with friends in New Zealand and to sightseeing in Japan. Images taken between 1960 to 1969; mostly by Horsman. - One set of images shows Horsman with others [probably former shipmates and a fellow teacher at Okaihau District High School] on holiday in the Bay of Islands, shows: caravaning, beach and bush scenes around Paihia, a ship in the bay, Waitangi flagpole, Cortina and Consul cars. - One set of images of the 'Mon-Star Rally' and the 'Great Northern Rally' holidays shows roadside scenes and beaches around Northland. Also shows various hotels and country pubs: including Rodney Hotel, Warkworth Hotel, Hukerenui Hotel, Okaihau Hotel, Kaitaia Hotel, Awanui Hotel, White Swan Hotel. - One set of images of a road trip via Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty and Auckland shows: the Picton ferry in Wellington heads, Te Mata Peak views, a viaduct, East Coast farmland, Waikato River, Meremere Power station, Hamilton, Wairakei geothermal power station, Huka Falls, dams on the Waikato River, plus logging trucks and 'Welcome' sign for Tokoroa. - One set of images show sightseeing activites with Japanese woman Midori around shrines, parks, and street in Japan, including: Sika deer, tori and shrines, and Sarusawa Lake at Nara: Motomachi street, geisha [possibly maiko], tori and street scenes in Kobe. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Spiral bound Warwick school sketch book, 27.5 x 37.5cm

Date: [ca 1970s-1980s]

From: Mitchell, Margo, active 1960s-2018: Photographs of New Zealand buildings, roads, and industry

By: Mallinson, George, 1832-1908

Reference: PAColl-10610-1

Description: Photographic prints of state highways, public buildings, churches, libraries, and a river. Includes Te Waimate Mission House; Holy Trinity Church, Lyttelton; McLean Building, Napier; the lectern in Old St Paul's Church in Wellington; Wairakei Geothermal Power Station; and State Highways One and 30. Photographs have captions on the back, which discuss the image (including construction details for roads and buildings) and include camera and film used. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 10 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints on board; various sizes.

Date: [ca 1970s-1980s]

From: Mitchell, Margo, active 1960s-2018: Photographs of New Zealand buildings, roads, and industry

By: Lawson, R A, active 1962

Reference: PAColl-10610-2

Description: Photographic images of roads, state highways, public and historic buildings, churches, libraries, and trees. Includes Larnach Castle; Gisborne Boys High School Library; Hinehopu Track (also known as Hongi's Track); Wairakei Geothemal Power Station; and Wairoa Public Library. Photographs have captions on the back, which discuss the image (including construction details for roads and buildings) and include camera and film used Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 10 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints on board; various sizes.

Date: 1942-1966

By: Adams, Colin, active 1942-1966

Reference: ATL-Group-00762

Description: A collection of three unpublished maps circa 1942-1966, showing boreholes of the Wairakei Thernal Power Station north of Taupo, and two maps showing Pongokawa Rabbit District Boundaries; and additional areas to be added to the Pongokawa Rabbit District Boundary respectively. Titles taken from items: MapColl-832.16gcrc/1946/57250 and MapColl-832.16gcrc/[1942]/57249. Title supplied by library for MapColl-832.18genc/[1966]/57248. Quantity: 3 map(s) single-sided.

Date: 1958-1959, 1965

From: Morris, Raymond, fl 1955-2011 :Colour slides of New Zealand and overseas

Reference: PA12-8452

Description: Photographs of Rotorua, Hamilton, Auckland, New Plymouth, and Mount Cook, taken 1957-1958 and 1965 by Raymond Morris. Includes photographs of merry-go-round at Rotorua, Hamilton and Rotorua motor camps, and Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in New Plymouth. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2907

Description: Transparencies showing construction sites in Wellington. Also includes transparencies of a couple on a camping trip, standing near their vehicle. Also includes transparencies showing scenic views of Wellington, and a transparency showing a Hawke's Bay mileage chart. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "1/2 frame colour Minolta", "2nd Wellington Bats | Roge [Roger?] Hudson & wife" and "Waipukurau Mileage Pish [sic] & Camp". Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 8 - 9 March 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8785

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Lake Taupo; Geyser Valley and an unidentified guide at Wairakei; geothermal bores and power station; Lake Rotorua, and trout at the Fairy Springs. Slides on this sheet are numbered 326-351 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 327, 342, 344-346, 348-351) showing steam holes near Lake Taupo, Rotorua Park Square Steam Venture, the Grand Hotel and gardens, and the carved meeting house and scenes of thermal activity at Whakarewarewa. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1966

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8522

Description: Includes - Lake Manapouri. Lake Kanieri. View of the Shotover River from Skippers Bridge. Gaultheria in fruit, Skippers. Waiho River. Unidentified people on the porch of a house. Wairakei thermal area and geothermal power project, 1966. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1966-1968

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8523

Description: Plants include - Varigated bougainvillea. A native rush in seed. White rata in flower, Punakaiki. Kaka beak in flower. Kowhai in flower. Pohutukawa tree in flower. Also includes - Two views of Wairakei thermal area, 1966. Views of Mount Ngauruhoe. Unidentified coastal views with a woman and boy. Children's play area and picnic tables. Views of unidentified thermal area. Pottery. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1956-1960

Reference: PAColl-6630

Description: 9 images of the construction of the Wairakei Geothermal Power Station. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019146 to 019154 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

Date: December 1968-December 1969

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1209

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of Auckland Training School, and scenes of downtown Auckland at night showing buildings and street lights. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 53 proof sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: January-November 1979

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1212

Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Includes images of the information centre for the Huntly power station construction, Huntly coal mine, and an open day at the Rangipo power station construction site. Also includes images of the Minister of Energy and National Development, Rt Hon Bill Birch, at press conferences, with head of Tasman Pulp and Paper Company Ronald Trotter at the "Tasman Geothermal signing" in 1979, and with the Secretary of Energy William Duncan at Demand Restraint Advisory Committee meetings. Other named people in the images are Mr. B Kennedy, Mr Summers, Alan Bright. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 48 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W'). Processing information: Not all names associated with the item are indexed.

Date: May 1981-July 1983

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1215

Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Images include aerial views of some dams and power stations, the Hamilton District Office of the Ministry of Energy, the greenhouse at Ohaaki power station (which used geothermal resources for heating), the Hiko simulator at Wairakei (a computer controlled training simulation of a power station), diagrams of a fault in the Cook Strait Cable, the Head Office of the Ministry of Energy including images of cartoons about electricity production, an open day at Islington substation, an event labelled "Maori carving dedication" (location unspecified), the ship "MW Luminence" at Miramar Wharf, a Japanese doll, portraits of Kevin McCool and staff named Nixon, Dell and W. Strauss, and "Nixon retirement". One sheet labelled "Huntly simulator" has no contents. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 52 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W').