Bank of Australasia

Date: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints

Date: 1928

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1399/1403

Description: Includes floor plans, sections and elevations of a two-storeyed stone building. Includes detail of staircase, ledger desks, strong room. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on waxed linen paper, 565 x 730 mm.

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Frank Duncan and Company; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PA5-0121

Description: Bank of Australasia, Tauranga, taken by H Winkelmann and published by Frank Duncan & Co. Auckland. Stamped on back: C T Prosser Tauranga N.Z. Land and Business Agent Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 87 x 137 mm

Date: 1946 - 1947

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-058-063/065

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations of tellers' cupboards and desks, and detail of the steel plate and locking bar on the back door. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 550 x 720 mm.

Date: 1947 - 1950

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-058-057/062

Description: Includes floor plans. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 550 x 520 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1945

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to banks and banking, credit cards, methods of banking, saving and payment]

By: Bank of Australasia; Burrell, Ellen Olive, 1887-1980

Reference: Eph-A-BANK-1940-01

Description: Pass book in which banking transactions at the Upper Hutt branch were recorded by hand. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 177 x 125 mm. with ink holographs

Date: 1913-1930

By: Hunter, Robert Henry, 1868-1951

Reference: MS-1060-1063

Description: Acoount in the names of Messrs R & G Hunter Quantity: 4 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (dark blue hinged lid box)

Date: 1907

Reference: 1/2-030970-F

Description: The Bank of Australasia building in Dunedin. Taken in 1907. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1898-1925

By: Bradmore, M (Mrs), active 1967; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-4261

Description: Photographs including: Bank of Australasia staff and building ca 1908-1910s, pupils and staff of Wanganui Girls College in 1898, Wanganui Collegiate, St Mary's Cathedral in Timaru, Hydro Grand Hotel in Timaru, Patea and Waverley Cricket Clubs (Cooper Cup match) 1925, promenade at Caroline Bay with Reilly's Dominion Hotel on left, soldiers' memorial in Waikaia, Waikaia Presbyterian and Anglican churches, Wanganui croquet club, and Waikaia bridge. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-031196, 032587, 057199 and 059786 Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: File print at PAColl-5744-27.

Date: 1901 - 1951

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-058-066/068

Description: Includes floor plans and elevations, including plans for a surgery in the same building for P Downes esq (date unknown, ca 1900-1930) Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print and ink drawings on sheets, sizes varying up to 515 x 740 mm.

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1912 - 1923

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Bacon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-058-035/056

Description: Includes elevations to Wyndham and Queen Streets, floor plans, sections, details of fittings in banking chamber, draoinage plan, details of stairway and reinforced concrete. Quantity: 22 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on sheets, sizes varying up to 560 x 800 mm, with one measuring 1030 x 700 mm.

Date: 2001 - 1877 - 1878

By: Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936

Reference: Eph-D-ARTS-2001-01

Description: Shows a painted trompe l'oeil montage by William E Gordon "Stray leaves 1878". The original of this work is held at the Whanganui Regional Museum, bequest of William F Gordon, 1936. The items shown in the painting include: a banknote from the Bank of Australasia; a cheque from the Bank of New Zealand Wanganui Branch,an 1875 telegram; an issue of Te Waka Maori for 17 July 1877; an issue of the "Chronicle extra" concerning the loss of the "Avalanche"; a libretto of Gounod's opera "Faust"; the first issue of the "Serio-Comic" (an Australian periodical?) for 19 April 1877; a portrait of George Grey on a small card; an issue of the "Illustrated London news"; a nursery catalogue for James Laird's Egmont Nursery, Glasgow Street, Wanganui; sheet music for "The last rose of summer"; Wanganui Harmonic Society, 3rd concert 17 Ap[ril [1877?]; an issue of the "Grafton Observer"; a trade card for the New Zealand Insurance Company; an issue of the "Presbyterian Church news"; an engraved portrait of Edward Trickett (sportsman?); a sticker for Read Brothers - "The Bull-D[og]; a ticket for the Parramatta steamer; playing cards, dominoes. This exhibition also featured works by Henry Wrigg; see Roger Blackley's exhibition catalogue at NZ&P q759.9931 BLA 2001. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 421 x 500 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Roger Blackley in 2001.

Date: 1950

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-041-054/056

Description: Designs for desks, drawers and partitions, floor plans, site plan and sections. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 550 x 700 mm.

Date: 27 Aug 1904

Reference: PA5-0284

Description: Shows two men standing at door of Bank of Australasia [Gore], taken by writer of post card, 1904. Verso has message, dated Gore, 27/8/[190]4 from Bert to Mr Bradmore? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 85 x 138 mm

Date: 7 April 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1144-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Palmerston North taken from the Bank of New Zealand building, looking down over The Square. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: No marginal notes - No. 357. Panorama of Palmerston North, N.Z. (from Bank of N.Z.) 7.4.1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.6 cm

Date: 1931

From: Rogers family: Collection relating to the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake and the Matheson family

Reference: MS-Papers-12097

Description: Draft and copy of a memorandum to members of the NZ Staff Appreciation Fund, Bank of Australasia, relating the bravery of banking staff at the Napier branch during the earthquake. Details of the bravery of Mr Hughes, Mr Baker, Mr Cuff, Mr G F Russell in Napier are provided, and mention is made of Mr J M Curtis, Mr Rogers and Mr Stewart in Hastings having similar experiences. The draft also has handwritten notes at the bottom, [probably by Murdoch Edgar Hughes] briefly updating the careers of the men mentioned. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 2 typescripts of the same letter. Physical Description: one typescript with ink and pencil handwriting one typescript

Date: [ca 1908-1994]

By: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-1126

Description: Specifications, construction files, selected calculation books, registers and indexes, and historical notes. This collection comprises a very full record of the many major projects undertaken by the firm. Most relate to commercial buildings including work for the Reserve Bank, Mutual Life and Citizen's Assurance Co Ltd (MLC), National Bank, T&G Assurance Company, James Smiths Ltd, New Zealand Breweries, Bank of Australasia, ANZ Bank, Bank of New South Wales, Wellington Commercial Travellers Association, DSIR, WBL Karaka, and many other projects. Relationship complexity - Records in other formats received as part of this collection are held in other Sections. Architectural plans are held in the Drawings and Prints Section of the Library, and a selection of photographs of the firm's work is held in the Photograph Archive. Quantity: 25 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Rob Mitchell, Hataitai, 2002 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Large collection of the firm's architectural plans (DP-2002-058) - To Photographic Archive - Selected photographs of the firm's projects (PH-2002-311) - To Photographic Archive - Further black and white photographs, 14 phase boxes.

Date: 1891-1943, 1950

By: New Zealand Bankers' Association

Reference: MS-Group-0304

Description: Contains minutes of meetings of representatives of the Associated Banks, 1891-1943 and `Matters on which the Associated Banks of New Zealand are in agreement', 1934, 1950. Also Chairman's correspondence files, 1898-1932, comprising mainly inward correspondence and Chairman's letter books, 1905-1927, containing carbon copies of outward correspondence. Minutes and reports of the New Zealand Coinage Committee (1933); extracts from reports, memos, correspondence, extracts from the `Accountants' journal' report of the Decimal Currency Committee, clippings and other notes Also minutes of meetings of representatives of member banks, 15 Oct 1903-21 Dec 1934 and chairman's letters, 1892-1944. The volume containing Chairman's letters, 1939-1942 was listed as `missing' at the time of the transfer of Chairman's letters, 1892-1944 Quantity: 64 volume(s). 4 folder(s). 6 box(es) (38 folders). 5.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss,typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Chairman's letters, 1892-1944 (51 vols) were previously held by the Union Bank of Australia before being transferred to N Z Banker's Association

Date: 1889-1999

From: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0172-003

Description: Letters to Hill from: G Allen (Mangamahu, 1894); G Blake (Tokaanu, 1891); C La[nt...] (1899); J Hooker (Sunningdale, 1899); F W Hutton (Christchurch); R Smith (manager of Bank of Australasia, Napier) Inwards and outwards correspondence of J D Hooker with Sainsbury & Logan of Napier (1899), Williamson & Hall of London (1899; one enclosing letter from W T Thisleton-Dyer), and R. Coupland Harding. Also includes 1899 accounts of the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute from J Wilson Craig, Hill, and J M Crerar & Son, and notes on accounts by Hill. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.