Surveyors - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: 1888 - 1890

By: Borieson, C W, active 1889; Ashcroft, Albert Edward, 1862-1942; Humphries, Thomas, 1841-1928; Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922; General Survey Lithographic Office; Roe, J E, active 1910-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1888/Acc.35292

Description: A cadastral map of rural and suburban sections open for sale and selection of the area from Lake Horowhenua to Koputuroa Road, and bounded by the Kawiu and Makomako Roads. This cadastral map has numbered sections, some coloured, and include acreages and owners' names handwritten in some sections. The Wellington - Manawatu Railway is marked as are a school and a waterworks reserve. Streets and the Koputuroa Stream are named. The base maps are of sections in the Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District. Sections marked with red are large settlements open for sale or selection and are referred to in a key. Schedule of the suburban sections and rural lands in this district include the section number, acreage, value and rent. Terms and conditions of sale or selection of the Levin village settlement include the statement 'Drawn by F.J. Hales'. Includes a written description of rural land and the application date of 18 March 1889 at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington and includes J.W.A. Marchant's name. The inset map is a locality plan of Levin. Handwritten names listed are: Seager, Hewit, J. McGowan, G.H. Gower, Ingram, Borieson, Brown, Blair, R Prouse, Dalrymple, Toxward, Lancaster, Stuckey. Title part stamped and part handwritten on verso Signature centre top: C.W. Borieson, Contractor, Wellington Inset: Levin locality plan. Scale [1:506 880] Base map: Plan of rural and suburban sections Horowhenua Block, situated in Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District / Surveyed by A.E. Ashcroft & T.L. Humphries, assistant surveyors. Wellington, N.Z., General Survey Office, 1889. Handwritten note on bottom right: Next unit to be paid 1 Jany 1890. Note it will be needful to write Govt. to inquire the amount as the leases make it ... See units number of acres required for felling to comply with ... of residence [handwriting difficult to decipher] Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet, including a locality plan. Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, scales vary, 42 x 56.6 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr. J. Roe, 30.03.1977

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1955]-1977

From: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010: Papers

By: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: 77-089

Description: Comprises reference cards and notes; photocopies from ATL Elsdon Best manuscript collection; photocopies from the `NZ gazette' re Tararuas; file of miscellaneous papers including newsletter of the Brisbane Bush Walkers and correspondence with the Appalachian Mountain Club from Tararua Tramping Club; file of extracts re surveying in the Tararuas; file of reports and notes re Tararuas; file, `Early history of the Tararua Ranges'; file, `Extracts from G L Adkin's `Annals of the Tararuas' and text of address; file `Maori travel and trails, Tararua Ranges' by Barton; and file labelled `Tararua misc' which includes photographs of tramping huts and trampers Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1900-1901

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1225

Description: Many of the photographs were taken when H E Girdlestone was working as one of a survey team in the Taihape area. Views of the survey camps variously descibed as near Taihape, on the Hautapu River, as Oroua Bridge, Mataroa Township, Raketapauma, and Rangiwaea Block. He has included scenic views of native forest from some of these and other locations. Most notably he has taken photographs of many waterfalls on the rivers and streams in the area. Many of these are on the Turakina river. One called Rereaupiko Waterfall is formed where the Mangoiwa Stream falls into the Hautapu River. There are also views of the Whanganui River and one of a load of passengers on the "Wairere," a Whanganui River boat. Other scenic views have been taken in the Trentham area, Upper Hutt. These include a stream and native forest, the Hutt River, and cattle in pasture. Other locations around the Hutt Valley and Wellington are a bridge over a stream in the Wainuiomata water reserve, Young's Gardens Karori Wellington, and Views of the South coast looking towards and from Sinclair Head. There are local volunteer military units who participated in a marching competition on the 5th of October 1901. Those named are the "Highlanders", "Kelburns," "College Old Boys," "Civil Service," and "Post and Telegraph." Finally there are many images of family, friends and collegues. These include a group of adults and children at a house in Featherston and shows people playing croquet, members of a survey team in a tent, Girdlestone and a fellow worker engaged in chopping down a large forest tree, groups of young women and men in their sunday best, a group of men in fancy dress playing instruments, the children and teacher of Mataroa School photographed outside what is probably the school room in March 1901, and people in kayaks and canoes on the River Avon Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1905-1918

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-05

Description: Photographs of surveyors on the job in the eastern Wairarapa, the Rangatikei District, and the Wanganui River. Most of these photographs date from 1905 to 1907 and include Hugh Bogle and Hubert Girdlestone. There are three photographs relating to sports. One is an unidentified rugby team with Hubert Girdlestone in the front row. Another is of a women's hockey match in Auckland in 1907, and the third shows hurdlers in action during the Basin Reserve sports of March 1909. Three images show an unidentified wood slab built cottage, and the rest are of unidentified people. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1901]

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918

Reference: 1/2-081605-F

Description: Surveyor and dog alongside a dwelling, possibly Jas Mackay at Raketapauma in 1901. Photograph taken by Hubert Earle Girdlestone. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1871

By: Campion, Edwin James, 1836?-1913

Reference: A-192-024

Description: Surveyors cooking over a camp fire in front of three tents in a bush setting. Two Maori men are occupying one tent and a Maori man is carrying firewood near the camp-site in the left background. The image is enclosed in a triangular cartouche, probably the shape formed by the opening of the artist's tent. Bunches of tied back canvas can be seen along the edges of the drawing Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 234 x 289 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Thompson, B H :Photographs relating to central North Island area

Reference: 1/2-081600-F

Description: Survey party including Hubert Earle Girdlestone (far left), at Mokai Patea block. Outdoor portrait of three men with a dog. Photograph taken circa 1910 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: From original album - beneath image : Survey Party. Bluey up. Frosty morning. Mokai Patea Block Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative