Ngāruawāhia Railway Station

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: Circa 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001157-G

Description: View of the the Waipa Hotel at Ngaruawahia, with the railway station centre left. Photographed by William Archer Price circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Ngaruawahia. 2398 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Circa 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001097-G

Description: View of the the Ngaruawahia Railway Station. Photographed by William Archer Price circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Railway Station. Ngaruawahia. No. 3630 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1914

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Bessie Cornish. 1905-1920].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-12-057-1

Description: Shows a photograph of an arrangement of four postcard photographs interspersed with floral decoration. Postcards shows the Waikato River, the railway station, the Post & Telegraph Office, and cows in a field. Extended Title - From Postcard album of cards collected by Bessie Cornish. 1905-1920, page 57. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photograph, 93 x 141 mm.

Date: Circa 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000977-G

Description: View of the the Waipa Hotel at Ngaruawahia, with the railway station centre left, railway lines running across in front of the hotel, with the main street between the railway line and the hotel. Photographed by William Archer Price circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main Street. Ngaruawahia. 48 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches