War memorials - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: 1926

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-005

Description: Outline of a man sitting at the base of the WWI war memorial built on the site of the Rutland Stockade in Queen's Park, Wanganui. In the distance is a snow covered Mount Ruapehu. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 140 x 233 mm

Date: ca1984-1989

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PA1-q-635

Description: Photographs contained in this album include of Orape [?] Cemetery and Waiaua Marae Urupā. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-045625-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-136

Description: Shows a plinth set on a concrete base with an urn on top. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1923

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023431-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1850-1949

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-136

Description: Birth certificates for Andrew McEwen (1850) and Walter Charles Kelly (1879); University of New Zealand pass notices for McEwen; NZ Mission certificates of blessing for H Carr and E Gray; letter of congratulation to McEwen from Palmerston North High Schools Board of Governors; baptism certificate for James Iain McEwen; Wellington Education Board, Training College, report on special lesson, Wanganui River; unveiling of memorial stone in memory of 10 soldiers who lost their lives in World War I, Cheltenham, New Zealand, in 1919 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: [1955]

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Greenhough, Smith and Newman (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-06-03

Description: Copy of an ink birds-eye view of a proposal for the War Memorial Hall, Wanganui (architects: Newman, Smith & Greenhough). This proposal was the winning entry in an open competition held in 1955. The building was completed in 1958. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Marshall, B S, active 1980s?; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-10387

Description: Photographic postcards of scenes taken circa 1920s. Six show New Plymouth and one shows Whanganui. Photographers are S C Smith and Frederick George Radcliffe. Four are labelled 'Tourist Series' and these may have been taken by a range of photographers after Radcliffe's death. Five cards published by Frank Duncan & Co Ltd. Two cards published by Tanner Bros Ltd. Images are captioned: - Kawaroa Park. New Plymouth. FGR 6009. [circa 1917] - Breakwater. New Plymouth. Tourist Series. 2376. [circa 1924] - Devon Street looking East, New Plymouth. N.Z. "Tourist Series" 2279 [circa 1924] - New Plymouth from Western Park. "Tourist Series" 2277/8 [Panorama taken circa 1924] - The War Memorial, Durie Hill, Wanganui Tourist Series 2141 [circa 1924] - Maori War Memorial, Marsland Hill, New Plymouth, NZ Photo S C Smith NP17 [circa 1920] - The Breakwater from Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, NZ Photo S C Smith NP8 [circa 1920] Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Possible dates of Radcliffe image, and Tourist Series images, from an index compiled by Stan R Goodwin of Taumarunui. Index held in Photographic Archive. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Postcards Provenance: Donated by Rick Marshall, Wellington, 2015. Donor is the grandson of Mr B S Marshall. Transfers: From Book Collections - Monographs from Mr Rick Marshall.

Date: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-1483-F

Description: Panoramic view of the township of Rongotea. Small fenced park around a war memorial in the centre of the image. Various businesses and public buildings across the image from the left, including the Rongotea Post office on the far left, a building under construction next door, the Excelsior Tea Rooms, S J Teaz (Family butcher), Eggers & Thompson (Co-op Store), A 1 Bread, and J. Glover & Sons (Blacksmiths & coach builders). There is a group of people on the far left including two boys (one with a bicycle), 5 men (one on a bicycle and one on a horse) and there are two cars (Number plate of the one on the far left: WN-1949). Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Rongotea. N.Z. 5.6.'23; Marginal notes on negative - Rongotea Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.8 cm

Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]

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

By: Hames, Thomas Charles, 1856-1926

Reference: Pan-2026-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse with a large lawn in the foreground. Iron roof, finials, decorative edging around the gables. Verandah along the front of the house mostly hidden by tall flowering shrubs. A man and woman are posed on the lawn, the woman seated with the man standing beside her, both wearing hats. There are trees around three sides of the house, roads on the left. The stone pyramid-shaped Wimbledon War Memorial is on the left of the house with a car parked beside it and there is a small wooden building among trees to the right of the memorial. Two other cars on the far left with a woman holding up a long garment by the left-most car. She wears a coat with fur trim around the hem, and a hat. There is cleared farmland on hills in the background on the right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - T C Hales. Wimbledon via Dannevirke. 6 B&W Relationship complexity - See also 1/2-134180-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 92.3 cm

Date: [1984 and 1990]

From: Phillips, John Oliver Crompton, 1947- and Maclean, Chris Whitcome, 1952-: Photographs of New Zealand war memorials

Reference: 1/2-239418-F

Description: A photograph by Jock Phillips and Chris Maclean taken between 1984 and 1990 showing the Grief statue on the Moutoa Gardens New Zealand Wars memorial, Whanganui. Date taken from book publication date. Record title taken from the original housing Arrangement: Delivered in a ring binder labelled "Original photos for Sorrow and the Pride" and within a plastic bag labelled "Moutoa Gardens NZ Wars p.23". Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s). Processing information: The original housing is not of archival standard and has not been retained.

Date: 1923

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023430-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1941

Reference: PAColl-4353

Description: Photographs of Palmerston North, taken 1941, comprising views of the cherry trees in bloom in the Esplanade Gardens, The Square, Broadway, and the war memorial at night Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-045609-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1937 to 1940

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-013

Description: "Along N.Z. highways" Second series. Includes maps (hand-drawn), plans, and black & white photographs by G L Adkin, covering trips around the lower North Island between 1937 and 1940. Trip on 18 April 1937 around Miramar Peninsula, includes views of the Massey Memorial, Wellington Harbour, Scots College, Rongotai Airport, and a schooner near the Wellington Heads. From 30 March to 1st April 1938, a round trip, Levin, Wanganui, Whanganui River, Turakina, Hunterville, Levin, including views of the Manawatu River, Foxton water tower, farm land at Turakina, a sketch-map of Turakina & vicinity and of Putiki Pa near Wanganui, Turakina River, Kaitoke Lake, war memorial tower on Durie Hill (Wanganui), Wanganui City from various vantge points, Moutoa Gardens, statue of Major Kemp, views up the Whanganui River as far as the turn-off to Raetihi at Makirikiri, further views of Wanganui including Virginia Lake, scenes of Putiki Pa, Turakina to Hunterville via Turakina Valley. 30th March 1939, a trip from Palmerston North to Ashhurst via the Manawatu Gorge. 16 December 1939 and 6 March 1940, trips from Levin to Wellington via the new Paekakariki to Pukerua Bay coastal highway (opened 4 November 1939), including views of the new highway, and images of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Miramar, Wellington. A plan of the layout of the various pavillions, views of pavillions including exterior and interior views of the Maori Court. Adkin lists names of Maori carvers involved in creating the Maori Court, including Pine Taiapa of Tikitiki, Iotua Tuarua of Rarotonga, and Hoani Mete Kingi of Wanganui.

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046347-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1922

From: [Ephemera relating to World War I memorial services and war memorials. 1914-1929]

By: Levin (N.Z.). Borough Council; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Memorials-1922-01

Description: Front cover shows a photograph of the [Levin?] Peace Memorial Gates, enclosed in a border with a crown at the top and crosses at the four corners. Inside is a roll of honour of about 100 men, and individual photographic portraits of eight of them (Private E R Nicholson, Private Mills, Private Fred Hughes, Private R Blunden, Lieut T E Davidson, Private Thomas McKain, Private William Laing and Private L W Boulton). Psalm 46 is reproduced, as is a photograph of the Levin Memorial, and a portrait photograph of Mrs Banks who "was personally responsible for the preparation and despatch of 3,700 garments for the needy during the four years of war". The programme fore the opening includes an opening hymn, speech by Mr Thomson Chairman of Weraroa Mardi Gras, a musical number by Miss Thelma Shaw; golde key presentation by Mr L A Bowen of Waipukurau. Premier Massey's speech was to follow, then Psalm 46, prayers addresses and a speech by Mr Linklate, MP. There are photographs of Massey, Viscount Jellicoe, and Miss Joan Bevan, Queen of the Mardi Gras for 1922. Some pages of text of the history of Levin and early men of mark, with portraits of Richard Prouse, F P Stuckey, John R McDonald, J McIntyre, Peter Bartholomew, Thomas Walker, Marco Fosella, James Malcolm, Hector McDonald, B R Gardener and John Davies. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 25 pages, each 195 x 130 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 1995.

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0776-F

Description: Images showing scenes from the official opening and dedication of the 28th Maori Battalion National War Memorial Community Centre, in Palmerston North, which was designed by architect John Scott. Photographs taken on 27 June 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Shows scenes of the wero (challenge), and dignitories being led to the service, watched by veterans and civilians. Frame 9 shows Bishop Panapa with Sir Eruera Tirikatene, who wears a korowai (cloak). Also shows Governor General, Sir Bernard Ferguson, inspecting Maori Battalion members. Includes views of the new building. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0777-F

Description: Images showing scenes from the official unveiling of the 28th Maori Battalion National War Memorial Community Centre, in Palmerston North, which was designed by architect John Scott. Photographs taken on 27 June 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Shows scenes of the powhiri (welcome) for the Governor General, Sir Bernard Ferguson, beginning with the wero (challenge). Also includes the march past of members of the Maori Battalion, led by Arapeta Awatere. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film