Schools - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: Nov 2000-Jun 2001

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-0551

Description: Interviews with a number of people who spent their childhood in this rural district north west of Auckland City during the 1910s and 1920s. The area was long used as a portage by Maori between the Kaipara and Waitemata harbours. Pakeha initially settled during the mid to late 1800s and, after forest and gum clearance, the area was slowly developed into dairy farms. In 1915 nearly 5000 acres of scrubland at Kumeu North (renamed Huapai) were subdivided as orchards, mixed farms and weekend homes. There was an influx of new residents (including weekend only residents) following this. Huapai School opened in 1919. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 27 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 1873-1876

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-f-174

Description: Photographs, mainly of Auckland, but including some good views of Tauranga and one of Oamaru, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Also includes major bridges in Canturbury and Otago, government buildings and one native school. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1860s-1880s

By: Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: PAColl-6553

Description: 6 views of Auckland: looking along Mount Eden Road; looking towards Mount Eden from Epsom with two children in the foreground, one on a tricycle; looking down on Hobson Bay with large houses dotted along the shore; view from Mount Eden showing the domain and Parnell Road; looking down from Mount Eden towards One Tree Hill and Epsom; and Symonds Street showing the Old Grammar School and grounds. Photographs taken by John Kinder. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015135 to 015140 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Provenance: Owned by Mr L M Lennard in 1959, who subsequently gave the originals to the Auckland City Art Gallery.

Date: [1885 or 1886]

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-54-07

Description: Panoramic view of Auckland taken from the summit of Mount Eden looking north-east. Auckland Hospital can be seen on the far right, and churches, a school in the distance. In the immediate foreground is a plantation of trees and waste land. Photograph taken by G D Valentine taken in late 1885 or early 1886. On verso - Tarawera Crater and Lake Rotomahana taken after the eruption of Mt Tarawera in June 1886 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Auckland from Mnt Eden. 99. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 19 x 29 cm

Date: 1973-1988

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-14

Description: J R Sutcliffe re Marton District High School, 1903-1909; Mrs E O Syder of Tauranga, re Ngaio School, 1927 & Wellington Girls' College, 1933; E Naomi Smith (nee Hansen) re Aranga School (additional to her sister, Kamma Grainger's notes about the school); Roy Somers re Aranga School, 1907; notes on education by J N Stainton, undated; Ruth Salisbury (nee Shirtcliffe) re Kairanga School, 1903 & Lower Hutt District High School, 1911, and Ranzan School (near Hope); Evelyn M Robertson of Lawrence re Waipori School; Olive Winifred Randall (nee Hulse) & her brother William Henry Hulse re Auckland education and subsequent careers, from 1900 onwards. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: [1980s]

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-17

Description: Ruth Wix re Reikorangi School, 1940s; Mrs Margaret A Wright of Wainuiomata re teaching at Te Teinga Maori School, Gisborne District, 1958-1966; Jim Wyatt re Katui and Aranga schools; Ralph Wall re schooling in New Plymouth and Auckland Teachers College, 1920s-1930s. Notes written for the Wilford School Jubilee (Petone), 1978. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-b

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: ca 1920s-1930s

Reference: PAColl-6612

Description: 9 views of Auckland and Portland: the front of Prince Albert College; view of the swing park in Myers Park; views of Myers kindergarten; view looking down towards the kindergarten and the buildings beyond; Portland Hall and Portland library from the front; closer view of Portland library; and three views of Auckland zoo. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018120 and 1/4-018179 to 018186. Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: film negatives

Date: 1882-1967

By: Hetherington, Jessie Isabel, 1882-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-0644

Description: Draft mss and annotated typescript of her autobiography `Numbering my days'. In this work she recounts her childhood in Thames district and Auckland, and Girton College, Cambridge; teaching in Australia; Wellington Teachers' Training College 1915-1923; work as an inspector of secondary schools 1927-1942; journeys to Europe including Coronation 1937. Includes an incomplete report to Director of Education on education in Australia, 1937. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres.

Date: [1927-1995]

From: Ogilvie, Gordon Bryant, 1934- : Papers relating to Denis Glover

Reference: MS-Papers-7252-005

Description: Comprises letter from Ogilvie to Auckland Grammar and reply from the school's archivist; photocopies of parts of history of the school and listings of Glover's activities while he was there Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927-1928

Reference: PA1-o-1376

Description: Photograph album compiled by an unidentified boarder at St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, 1927-1928. Contains images of school buildings, pupils, school pool, picnics, and digging for toheroas. One friend, Fan Mack, is well represented but also includes portraits of Audrey Nolan, Avis Danby, Joyce Demler, Bernice Laird, Pearl Kimber, and Joan Dods. Also includes photographs of Misses Bowell, Chadwick, Yates, Clouston, M Green, and D Bowie, who perhaps were teachers at the school. Also includes images of Northland including Dargaville from the air, church in Pahia, Kaihu Creek, Stone Store, Northern Wairoa Bridge, and Wizard Smith and his car. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Possibly compiled by Miss Davidson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cardboard covered album 18.2 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-a

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-026

Description: Shows a small group of men, possibly soldiers, standing near the sea, with the Melanesian Mission of Kohimarama at the left, the beach on the right. Other Titles - [Houses and people by the sea. Former title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page, 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1973-1985

By: Tritenbach, Paul, active 1950s-1996

Reference: PAColl-5053

Description: Slides of New Zealand parks taken for Paul Tritenbach's book on Botanic Gardens and Parks published in 1985. Slides of the Auckland area and the South and North Islands generally. Other slides were taken as illustrations for a wide variety of articles. There is also a group taken to illustrate Tritenbach's book on Auckland's historic schools published in 1985 Quantity: 1569 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1880 - 1889

Reference: MapColl-v832.1291bje/[188-?]/Acc.25356

Description: Cadastral map of the Parnell Borough of Auckland, from Mechanics Bay, St. Georges and Judges Bay down to Hobson's Bay, including the Waikato and Kaipara railway routes. Shows the Parnell rise and the road to Manukau and Epsom, Gladstone and Avenue Rd, St. Stephens, Ayr and Brighton, as well as the Domain. Sections 1-4 and 95 are shown, and numbered blocks and lots within each section. Grammar School, St Stephen's School, an orphan home, a cemetry, a sawmill the Alexandra Hotel, Windsor Castle. a cattle market and reclaimed land are also shown. A private road is shown off St. Georges Bay Road leading to the only named property, that of Mr Aitken, Section One, (84) - 538. Stamped 'Boylan and Lundon, Civil Engineers' and on the linen 'Imperial tracing cloth' with trademark. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 684], 167 x 107 cm.

Date: 1846, 1979

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-153

Description: Handwritten copy of a letter from Bishop Selwyn to Joshua Thorp at Thames, concerning the imcomplete state of St John's College and the possibility of enrolling Thorp's son there (1846). Also, a letter from J King Davis at St John's College, to W Hampton Thorp asking to borrow Thorp's diary of his school days at St John's College (1912). There is a covering letter from Jessie Thorp, who provided thre original copies (1979). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-12

Description: Ethel Neal, pupil at Glen Eden School and Pio Pio School, 1915-1923; Florence C Newman re teaching at Panmure School in 1920s; Mary Meads (nee Stokes) re school days at Ohakea School, ca 1905; Eva E Maddox (nee Duthie) re teaching at Matauri Bay School (then Whakarara Native School), 1905-1915; Sister Mary Mella (Gladys E Thompson) re schooling at Tongaporutu & Okau, 1914-1920; K Joan Mirrielees re teaching at Omokoroa Primary School, 1923. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: 1924-1995

From: Gale, Len 1926- : Papers relating to left-wing activity and cartoon art work

Reference: MS-Papers-5568-4

Description: Comprises a series of weekly letters from Gale to his grandson, Cody, telling him of his boyhood, adventures, family, friends and life in Auckland when he was growing up. Topics covered include oyster fishing, the zoo, Western Springs Speedway, the Wynyard Wharf, the camp on Motuihe Island, schooldays at Mt Albert primary school, the axe, huts, curtain rods, the `Herald' round, a fire, tennis, golfers, lightning, a seaman and a sailor, frogs and mosquitoes; and the Titirangi mechanics and short pieces not part of the letters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1885 - 1910

From: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997: Photographs

By: Finlayson & Collins (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3298

Description: Photograph of Manunui School group, King Country, ca1910, including members of Bremner family; photograph of either Papakura or Drury school group (exact identification uncertain), ca 1885 -1890, Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Provenance: Photograph of unidentified house given to Professor Bailey by Miss De Renzy, 25 Fleming Street, Christchurch Processing information: Combined in to ATL-Group-00790 and title changed, October 2022. Previous title: Bailey, C L :Photographs of unidentified house and schools in King Country and Papakura - Drury district