Railways - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region

Date: 6 Jan 1912

By: New Zealand. Native Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8811

Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, signed by Hohepa Paama, Tawhiri Te Mutu, Rapaera Te Teira and 43 others living on Matakana Island, regarding who should work on the railway line from Waihi to Tauranga, and asking that preference be given to them in the construction of the line. With typed translation. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript

Date: 1962

By: Tauranga Harbour Board

Reference: MapColl-832.16gme/1962/Acc.28760

Description: Drawn on an outline of the North Island, depicts existing railway routes, projected routes and shipping routes, and outlines the Tauranga Harbour Board's 1963 district. Reserve copy: MapColl Reserve 832.16gme/1962/Acc.28761 Singed ERN, 25/9/62. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:2 300 000], 33.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 12 Oct 1983

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Lord, George Oscar, 1903-1986

Reference: OHInt-0470/17

Description: Oscar Lord was born in Auckland in 1903. Describes leaving the family farm at Taneatua and becoming a ganger on the railway line between Te Puke and Taneatua. Focuses on working on the gang. Gives details of living and working conditions on his next job on the Rotorua-Taupo railway line in 1928. Notes that 150 men were employed and the project stopped abruptly. Describes how the men were transferred to other jobs and he went to a road-building job near Opoutama. Recalls returning to the farm at Taneatua, hard work on the farm and conflict over the division of the land. Talks about his subsequent work reclaiming land at Whakatane, managing a dairy farm at Otakiri and working for his brother Frank at Rotorua. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2865.

Date: 21 Apr 1983

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Gleeson, Albert, active 1923-1983

Reference: OHInt-0470/12

Description: Bert Gleeson discusses fishing in the Rotorua area and the very large rainbow trout caught at Lake Okataina. Describes some of the theatres and dance halls in Rotorua in the 1920s and his involvement, with his wife Edna, in running the Peerless (dance) Hall between 1923 and 1925. Talks about driving a service car from Rotorua to Whakatane and the need for two cars to drive together to help one another with breakdowns. Recalls the Rangitaiki swamp, getting stuck, Rotomoa township and drivers Sandy and Bob Laird. Describes some of the cars operated by the Rotorua Motor Coaching Company. Discusses the construction of the Rotorua-Taupo railway line. Talks about the Depression, tree planting and rates of pay for married and single men. Describes a pay cut during the Depression while working for the Rotorua Motor Coaching Company. Comments on the long hours worked. Recalls spending three years during World War II at the Army camp at Arawa Park used to bring up to standard men who were unfit for the war. Describes spending three years in the camp. Mentions it became a camp for Maori Battalion. Discusses the Rotorua to Taupo service car run. Mentions the opposition company Hot Lakes Transport Company. Notes that Aard was an association of motor companies rather than a company itself and that the Rotorua Motor Coaching company was part of the White Star line. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2860.

Date: 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2243B-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a ship behind wharf buildings, and railways rolling stock on the far left. Harbour on the left of the image, railway line along the shore with a road running parallel. There is a railway bridge across the image in the centre distance. The Guinness Brothers' building is in the right foreground and a horse and cart are on a small grassy area between the railway line and the road in the centre foreground. A large two-storeyed building with a turret in the centre right middle distance. Township on the right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Tauranga" N.Z. From Redoubt. 1928. No. 165; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Tauranga from Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.3 cm

Date: 20 Jan 1915

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8810

Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, signed by Hemi Maka, R H Wineti, Enoka Ngaitai and fifteen others living at Otamarakau, regarding who should work on the railway line from Tauranga to Opotiki, and asking that preference be given to them in the construction of the line from Waitahanui River to Matata. With typed translation. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 30 Jan-14 Feb 1917

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8812

Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, from T H Tarakawa of Te Puke, requesting that a railway station be erected at Pukaingataru where the roads from Te Tumu and Maketu meet. With typed translation and rough sketch map. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript

Date: ca 1900s

Reference: PAColl-7268

Description: Two views of Lake Rotorua in the distance with bush and in one case a railway in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [ca 3 March 1987]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1987/0990-F

Description: Buckled railway line and a locomotive flung on its side by the force of the Edgecumbe earthquake. Photographed ca 3 March 1987 by an unknown Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1800 - 1890

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: MapColl-832.17gme/[18-]/Acc.619

Description: Copy of photocopy of a PWD 24643 (25973) map depicting the North Island main trunk railway, Waimarino section, through the site of the Waimarino Pa (Ngatokorua) and beside Maori graves (urupa). Also depicts a smaller section of the railway line beside tussock bush, as well as diagram showing banks, cuttings, form level and the height above datum 2450 feet. Stamped 'Photostat copy'. Scale indeterminable as copy is reduced. On catalogue card: [This map] "shows the position of the Waimarino Pa (Ngatokorua) and maori graves. This is in line with the situation that Rochfort indicates for Wamarino." Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Copy of photostat copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 39 x 61 cm.

Date: Circa 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1095-1/2-G

Description: Looking towards the Matata Railway Station, where a train has stopped. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1924. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 200 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Matata Railway Station. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1923 or 1924]

From: Hume, Keith Hamilton, fl 1974-1982 :Albums featuring Ohura and Rotoiti and timbermill

Reference: PA1-o-232-49-2

Description: Railway wagon laden with timber on jetty at Ngongotaha, taken 1923-1924 by John Martyn Hume Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - Ngongotaha Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.8 x 13.2 cm

Date: January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000832-F

Description: Maori reinforcements leave Rotorua by train, photographed in January 1944, by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "The train moves out."

Date: [between 1926-1932]

From: Say, James Searle, fl 1981-1982 :Photographs of the Waihi and Tauranga districts

Reference: 1/2-057538-F

Description: Opening of a railway line between Waihi and ?, at Tauranga. Shows a group of men, women, and children alongside railway tracks, and a steam train decorated with the Union Jack flag. Photograph taken between 1926-1932 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Dated by women's clothing Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1934

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Tauranga Chamber of Commerce

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Tauranga-1934-01

Description: Shows a man reaching to help a friend (whose hand is visible at the left) in climbing to a place with a view of the beach at Tauranga and Mt Maunganui in the background. The sun is at the top right. Dated 1934; see reproduction in "New Zealand Railways magazine", July 1934, page 2. Similar to a Publicity Studios poster issued at this time (for sale at auction 1999). Other Titles - Booklet cover Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Coloured print, on booklet cover 230 x 199 mm.

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1929-01-outside

Description: Promotes Rotorua's tourist attractions, and shows the Railways logo "Follow the Sun". Shows photographs of a geyser playing, Mount Ngaruhoe from the Chateau Tongariro, and a group of Maori women standing beside a geyser. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on brochure, 230 x 375 mm, folding to 203 x 95 mm.

Date: 1927

By: Rotorua chronicle (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1927-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text in black and red, giving sample fares for rail journeys to Rotorua from Auckland, Hamilton, Thames, Waihi and Morrinsville. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Block print, on poster 760 x 503 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1984.

Date: 1934

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Tauranga-1934-01

Description: Poster advertising Tauranga as a winter tourist destination shows a man reaching to help a friend (whose hand is visible at the left) in climbing to a place with a view of the beach at Tauranga and Mt Maunganui in the background. The sun is at the top right. The predominant colour is orange. Date confirmed in "New Zealand railways magazine", 2 July 1934, page 2. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 890 x 570 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Van Sabben Poster Auctions, Netherlands, in 2013.

Date: 26 Jun 2001

From: Locke, Keith, 1944- :Collection

Reference: MSDL-1634

Description: Includes correspondence to Tranz Rail regarding the Rotorua Tourism rail campaign. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to library within a folder called "Parl word etc docs LOCKE (PSFS01GREEN$)/CER Inquiry/Correspondence - other/Rail campaign" Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).