Shattky, Henry O, active 1931

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [After Feb 3 1951]

From: Barker, S :Photographs of Napier after the earthquake, 1931

Reference: 1/2-139759-F

Description: View looking across Heretaunga Street in Hastings at the damage done by the Napier earthquake to the Grand Hotel and surrounding business premises (including that of H O Shattky and Henry K Thomson). Shows the street-front facade of the hotel building collapsed in a pile of rubble, leaving the interior and rooms exposed. Photograph taken after the earthquake on 3 February 1931, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative