Skis and skiing - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: [ca 1930's]

From: Mosen, Neville Herbert, 1914-2004: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1867

Description: Photograph album created by Neville H Mosen of Raetithi. Contains views related to trips taken by the Tongariro Tramping Club and views related to the Mosen family and friends. Taken by Neville Mosen circa 1936 to 1937, and possibly some taken by other unidentified photographer(s). Contains scenic views and views of the Club members on bush walks and skiing in Tongariro National Park, featuring Ruapehu, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and surrounding environs, the Pinnacles at Blue Bluffs, Ruapehu crater lake, Tama Lakes, The Chateau, Whakapapa glacier, Karioi Lakes, Mangawhero River and various tramping huts. Bruce Davis, an amateur photographer who lived in Raetihi is identified. Also includes views of Raetihi township and Horopito locality, Napier, Tauranga (rail bridge and The Strand), and Ngauruhoe erupting (possibly 1937 eruption). Also includes views of Tom Parker posing with the fountain he gifted to Napier in 1936 and scenes of a parade and bonfire in Raetihi to mark the coronation of King George VI in 1937. Also includes the wedding of Gwen Wise (circa 1930s) 5 loose prints have page numbers noted and are in an envelope at the front of the album. Source of title - title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album bound with string and featuring an embossed image of mountains and a sun and the word 'Photographs' on the front cover, 21.5 x 27 cm

Date: [ca 1941], 1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Boyer, Charles Percy Samuel, 1902-1973

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-180

Description: Series of captioned photographs taken by Netherlands Indies Government Information Service (Film & Photo Unit) of Dutch evacuees arriving in Australia from Java on board the Dutch hospital ship `Oranje'. Includes ex-internees released from Japanese camps; Dutch family groups (all named); general views of the ship with walking wounded; nursing and medical staff; hospital facilities on board; Captain and officers. Series of photographs of returning soldiers from on board `Oranje' (no captions). Series of photos taken for The Dominion (Wellington) showing groups of nurses; military personnel; official welcome home; soldiers and their families (no captions). Series of photographs taken by C.P.S.Boyer of Wellington showing soldiers being welcomed home. Includes Lady Newall welcoming a NZ officer; Governor General chatting with a soldier at the Clearing Hospital; Mrs C A Bennie and Lady Elliot handing out cigarettes to invalided men. Series of captioned publicity photographs of Australian and Dutch personnel from the Oranje on leave at the hotel, Chateau Tongariro, skiing, horseriding, relaxing at the hotel and during a dinner party. Photographs taken during a military parade in Wellington, possibly 1941 Quantity: 110 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-031

Description: Views of New Zealand with particular interest in mountain scenery, both in the North Island and the South Island. They include numbers of images of chairlifts, skiing, rivers and springs, and thermal regions in the North Island. Most of the images are colour photos, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, during the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover labelled "Photographs", 250 x 300 mm

Date: 1900 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Ruapehu-1900s

Description: Includes: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1923-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-1946

Description: Photograph album, mainly of holidays, compiled by Phyllis Long during her time in New Zealand, 1923 to 1926. Some photographs are likely taken by Long but other photographers are unidentified. Album features horse treks and horse riding. Two treks with Sylvia Lysaght are covered; one in Taranaki and Waikato Regions in January-February 1925, and the other from Wanganui to Lake Taupo, December 1925-January 1926. Includes images of Long and Lysaght on their horses Ngaio and Ladybird, places they stayed (camp sites, houses, huts), people they stayed with, and scenic images (bush, mountains, rivers, farmland, and coast). Images from the second trek feature the party of colleagues and friends Long and Lysaght joined (including Eric Tyndale-Biscoe and [Hugh Austin?]) and the Lake Taupo site at which they camped and as well as an unidentified Maori whanau with whom the duo stayed on their return journey. Tramping and mountaineering trips also feature in the album. One set shows a holiday to the Central Plateau, with the party staying in a hut at Whakapapa Village. Photographs include excursions to the summit of Mount Ruapehu, Tama Lakes, Whakapapa Falls, and Taranaki Falls as well as some skiing images. Another set of images is taken on a trip to the Taranaki Region. Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) features with Long and a female companion pictured on the summit. There are also a number of images of Dawson Falls, including some swimming and bush scenes, and scenic images of the mountain and surrounding area, with Doreen Ross pictured in one image. Other places visited by Long include Wanganui and at a farm with an unidentified family [Ross or Lysaght?]. Photographs from the farm show various people (including children), a chicken coop, lambs being fed, dogs, and horses. Another set of photographs show a motoring, camping, and picnicking excursions in a Model TT Ford covered truck. In addition to Tyndale-Biscoe, Frank and Elizabeth McGrath and their children Mary, Joan, [and Hugh?] appear in numerous photographs. McGrath family images include informal as well as a set of formal studio portraits of both groups and individual members. The family in captured motoring, in beach scenes [Kai Iwi camping trip?], on horseback, riding bikes, reading, and at a Mokoia farmhouse, with Long and Tyndale-Biscoe often appearing in photographs with them. Other people that feature include Long's teaching colleagues and friends from Nga Tawa and Wanganui Collegiate schools. Those identified in captions include Tyndale-Biscoe, "Shrimp", Else Rowe , Aubrey Fullerton-Smith, Conrad, Mr Latham, Mr [Cr]opper?, Mr [F.H.?] Latham, Mr Izard, Doreen Ross, and Roy Ross. Album also includes a studio portrait of Phyllis Tyndale-Biscoe in 1927. There are a number of images of Tyndale-Biscoe with his motorcycle. Commercial postcards feature photographs of Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) as well as Waitomo Caves limestone formations, Wanganui River, and Wanganui Collegiate School. Three postcards are addressed to members of Long's family in England (and were sent). Another two postcards were sent to Long by Tyndale-Biscoe and "Himself" [Frank McGrath?]. Also a note from Hugh [McGrath?] to Long sent while she was travelling home to England. Larger mounted print of image of Long's horse Ngaio at PAColl-10463. Two treks and other excursions are described in depth in Long's diaries and letters to her parents. Tyndale-Biscoe's letters also describing mountaineering, motoring, and camping trips to his parents (MS-Group-2409). Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 260 prints, some loose. Physical Description: Photograph album with green textured cover, 21.4 x 25.8 cm Processing information: Prints that have come loose from the album as well postcards and prints stored in pocket at rear of album have been arranged in an enclosure which is held in the back of the box containing the album.

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-10630

Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards of Whakapapa Ski Field, Silica Springs, and Wanganui, circa 1960s-1970s. Includes images of chalets and lodges at the ski field, unidentified workers, parked cars, and infrastructure such as ski lifts, ski patrol huts, and signage. Also contains photographs of the nearby Silica Rapids on Mount Ruapehu. Images of Wanganui show the water tower on Durie Hill, Virginia Lake, river scenes, and the roadside on the approach to the town. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-10629

Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards of Tongariro National Park and the surrounding area, circa 1960s-1970s. Includes images of buildings in National Park Village, The Chateau and Information Centre at Whakapapa Village, a Whakapapa ski field chairlift (in the off-season), Taranaki Falls, clay faces on the mountainside, Tama Lakes, Whakapapaiti Stream, Mahuia Rapids, and the Makatote Viaduct. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1951-1960, circa 1970s

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10567-13

Description: Photographs of people, buildings, industry, and landscapes taken by Les Cleveland between 1951 and 1959. Largely printed between 1951 and 1960, with some prints made later, possibly in the 1970s. All prints have captions which include the title Cleveland gave the photograph (often including the location of the photograph) and the date it was taken and printed. Almost all images are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" and some are also stamped with Cleveland's home address. The majority are signed by Cleveland and all are stamped or identified by Cleveland as being a "Vintage Print". Some prints include reference numbers to Cleveland's index cards. Identified people are Jack Ritchie (former licensee of the Junction Hotel, Dillmanstown), Ron Biggs (boiling a billy), Dorothy Debenham at Greymouth, Mary and Heather Cornwell at Milford Sounds, June McMillan at Makara Beach, Senior Sargent George Christopher Donnelly (making a bet at the Kumara Races), and Mike Armstrong (washing dishes in a hut at Welcome Flat). Timber workers are photographed at work at the Kopara Sawmill including Ted McGhie, Ron "Tiki" Brimmicombe, Doug Macalister, and Neil McLean. Unidentified people include timber workers, the crew of the fishing boat Hauiti (photographed in Milford Sound), men in fancy dress participating in the Mayor of Thorndon campaign, children lining up to go to the pictures in Greymouth, children on a bulldozer in Karamea, a boy fishing at Reefton, a man smoking an crib logging at the Arawhata River, and a climber resting on a rock by the Cook River. A Taupo Ski Club group is photographed outside Blyth Hut at Ohakune Ski Field [Turoa] and includes Les Cleveland as well as a box of Lux soap. Buildings photographed include in Greymouth (band rotunda, police station), in Westport (Seatons Boarding House on Bright Street, Kawatiri boarding house (also known as Flemings Boarding House), and St Canice's Catholic Church), and in Nelson Creek (Saddlers Store, Jimmy Diamond's hut, township). Further prints of buildings show the Stafford Literary Institute, flooded bushmen's huts at Mussel Point, a cottage at Blackball, a derelict house at Bell Hill, ornamental faces on the Aubrey Gualter building (corner of Brandon and Featherston Streets, Wellington), the Four Square store at Crofton, Club Hotel in Palmerston North, a two-storied house with external staircase in Turakina, Enterprise Printing in Nelson, a cottage on the road to Goldsborough, J McFarlane's Hotel in Kumara, the Whanganui town clock, and the Weights and Measures Office in New Plymouth. Photographs of industry include a Pelton wheel at Dillmanstown; remains of a gold dredge at Callaghans near Kumara; Jack's Mill near Nelson Creek including a Type CBA No 119 A&G Price Ltd bush locomotive, derelict mill buildings, and a slab elevator; Kopara Sawmill buildings; an open cast coal mine at Charleston; and dredge buckets abandoned at the side of the Greenstone River. Scenic prints show the Tatere River and Tatere Gorge, Moeraki River, the sea at Punakaiki, surf at Hokitika Beach, a log jam and driftwood at Karamea Beach, Okarito River, bush scenes (including at Waterworks Reserve), the head of the Karangarua River looking towards Copeland Pass, the Karangarua Gorge, and Lake Haupiri. Other photographs include gravestones at the cemetery in Charleston, a hedge cutter mounted on a surplus World War Two Bren Gun Carrier, and vehicle scenes outside the George Hotel, Otira Gorge (a Hupmobile tourer and a front-end loader lowering a V8 engine into a truck), Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order and were placed in a box labelled "Vintage Prints" by curatorial staff during appraisal. Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Box one of two from set of prints classified as "Vintage Prints" during Library appraisal. See PAColl-10567-14 for box two.. Processing information: During processing, Library staff arranged prints by date. The volume of prints required that they be housed in two separate boxes.

Date: [ca 1950-1970]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10567-16

Description: Photographs relating to mountaineering and skiing taken by Les Cleveland circa 1950s to circa 1970. A small number of prints include caption information on the rear of the print. One vintage print is stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph." Contains prints of scenic mountain landscapes which feature peaks, valleys, and glaciers in the Southern Alps (including Mount Cook). There are several aerial photographs. Unidentified mountaineers are photographed, including climbers roped together on a mountain face, building a snow cave, and at mountain huts. Also contains photographs of a group backcountry skiing, likely in the South Island. Downhill ski scenes are mainly taken at Whakapapa Ski Field. People, in skiing attire, are photographed but are unidentified with the exception of Austrian ski instructor Joe Maka[d?] (giving a lesson) and Judy Ryan of the Taupo Ski Club ( in a group photograph with staff from the National Downhill). People are photographed relaxing in ski huts and smoking, and one woman has her leg in a full cast. Cleveland's wife Mary Cleveland is photographed at an alpine geothermal area, likely Ketetahi Springs. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in one file box labelled "Mountaineering". Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographs Transfers: Box two of two. See PAColl-10567-15 for box one.. Processing information: Prints arrived at Library in one file box labelled "Mountaineering" by the donor. Prints were in no discernible order. Library staff arranged prints by subject where possible and were able to discern some series through paper manufacturers and subject matter. Prints are now housed in two separate boxes.

Date: 1961-1972

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: Series-6438-1

Description: Sub-series comprises of original negatives taken by Les Cleveland on Mount Ruapehu, largely at Whakapapa Ski Field, 1961 to 1972. Photographs feature skiers from the Taupō Ski Club and staff. Collection contains further skiing and mountaineering photographs, including at Series-6419. Title transcribed from item. An original envelope containing negatives of Ruapehu from this same period was stored in another part of Cleveland's collection. See PAColl-10645-25 in Series-6441. Arrangement: From sequence in file described as "Ruapehu". Quantity: 105 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Negatives and original envelope enclosures have been separated to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1969-1973

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11570

Description: Transparencies of Cleveland family, taken by Les Cleveland in 1969 and 1973. Photographs show Mary Cleveland holding baby Peter Leslie Cleveland in 1973. Mary Cleveland is also photographed skiing on Mount Ruapehu. Some scenic images of the mountain are also included. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Set originally labelled "Family" by Cleveland. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames

Date: 1968 - 1969

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11559

Description: Transparencies of alpine and ski scenes, Mount Ruapehu, 1968 and 1969. Taken by Les Cleveland. Photographs from 1968 include snow clearing (showing snow plough and chalets) and views from the top of the Bruce Road at Whakapapa ski field. Also photographs of skiers and the first chairlift on Ruapehu (Knoll Ridge) as well as vies of Pinnacle Ridge. Photographs from 1969 show a charter plane on a grass airstrip at National Park, National Park village and Mount Ruapehu from the air. Whakapapa Ski Field images include Happy Valley ski area, a series showing the Knoll Ridge chair, skiers queuing for the tow, ski field boundary, and National Downhill slope. Also Central Plateau roads [Desert Road?] and views of Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-02

Description: Prints chiefly of welding industry events, Miramar Gas Works, and nature, taken by Les Cleveland, circa 1960s to 1980s. Contains prints developed by Wellington Photographic Supplies in eight separate photo wallets. Prints include: - Demolished buildings at the Miramar Gas Works with the Taubmans paint factory in the rear of one image. - Machinery and welding demonstration of Argon Arc technology at Industrial Gas Co, Gracefield, with onlookers, 1962. Delegates and speakers at a welders conference. - Heraldic display at Hopwood Hardware, Palmerston North and the adjacent G H Bennett and Company Ltd Booksellers and Stationers in 1971. Also cars and pedestrians on Broadway. - Car wrecks and cutover bush in the Ruahine Ranges. - Skiers on the National Downhill slope, Whakapapa Ski Field, as well as tow house and tow repairs. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 115 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera original print wallets. Physical Description: Photographic prints and print wallets

Date: 1924

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-210

Description: Snapshots of a group of 14 people (identified only by Christian names or nicknames), on a climbing and skiing holiday in the Ruapehu District. Names listed on first page of album: Marge, Jean, Thyra, Doris, Joe, Peggy, Marg, Norman, Teddy, Rufus, Les, Dooly, Radio and "Uncle". Other Titles - Ruapehu. 1924 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with soft grey card covers, entitled `Ruapehu 1924' (hand lettered in white ink); 14.5 x 16.5 cm

Date: 1960-1977

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7976

Description: North Island trips. Includes - Skiing on Mount Ruapehu, 1960. Napier, 1967. Timber village between Taupo and Napier, 1967. Cape Kidnappers and gannets, 1965. Kauri forest, Northland, 1977. Street, Rawene, 1977. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1930s]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-o-458

Description: Photographs of the North Island central volcanic region, taken by Roland James Searle circa 1930s. They include many of the newly opened Chateau Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe, Mount Ruapehu, the area aroung the Salt Hut, and the Ketetahi area with blowholes. A pencilled title on the first page reads "The Chateau and Round-about" There is one photograph of Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki). Photographs only fill the first 22 pages, the rest of the album (26 pages) is empty. Other Titles - Chateau and Round-about Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green textured cloth cover; 250 x 345 mm

Date: ca 1933

From: Coleridge, Kathleen Anne, 1944-: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1215

Description: Record of a group of men and women shiers on Mount Ruapehu Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Sep 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-162

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, Sep 1949 Includes: E G Christian, supervisor of staff training at New Zealand Railways correspondence school with his assistant A G de Joux; Mrs L Flower with her collection of jugs; Miss Margaret Haddon-Jones, music tutor for adult education department of Victoria University College and her pupils, making and playing woodwind instruments. Also: Damage done by an explosion to a house nextdoor to Mansion's Private Hotel, Ghuznee Street, Wellington; furniture and other items to be exhibited by the Dominion Museum, Wellington (after being in storage during the war years); new 5,000-line automatic telephone exchange at Lower Hutt. Also: Procession walking down `Royal Mile', Edinburgh to mark the opening of the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama; construction of Auckland Electric Power Board building in Newmarket; Kent Wong sexing chicks at E Chambers' farm, Hornby; opening of Kahungunu War Memorial at Nuhaka by Rt Hon Peter Fraser; New Zealand Railways laboratory (chemists testing for faults); Molyneux River hydro-electric power scheme (Roxburgh camp); public gardens in Christchurch & Wellington in Spring; Omarama; Larry Frost of Ruapehu Ski Club; electric train on display in a London department store at Christmas time. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1930-1937]

From: Rennie, William Stanley Norman, d 1976 :Photographs of Ruapehu Ski Club

Reference: PAColl-9904-3

Description: Groups skiing and tramping on Mount Ruapehu. Group in fancy dress and evening dress at the Chateaux Tongariro. Scenic views of Milford Sound and the Milford Track include - View of Milford Sound and Mitre Peak. Arthur River on Milford Track. Giant Gate Waterfall, Milford Track. Bowen Falls, Milford Sound. McKinnon's Pass, Milford Track. Photographs taken on Mount Ruapehu by J F Loudon, photographer, Hamilton. First part of a group of photographs showing the activities of a group of people based at the Whakapapa Hut, Mount Ruapehu, ca 1930. Many of these photographs were taken by Leo L White. Re the group located at the Whakapapa Hut and the date of this. Firstly the women are wearing clothes and headgear that date from styles current in the late 1920s-early 1930s (ca 1926-1932). Secondly, a group of mainly women lined up with their cameras, are identified as ready to take photographs of Lady Fergusson departing [the Chateaux] for Taupo. Fergusson's term as Governor General ended in 1930. This is probaly the earliest group of photographs in the collection and also occupies the following two boxes. Quantity: 93 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Hugh Rennie, Wellington, 2010

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Rennie, William Stanley Norman, d 1976 :Photographs of Ruapehu Ski Club

Reference: PAColl-9904-4

Description: Group of photographs showing the activities of a group of people based at the Whakapapa Hut, Mount Ruapehu, ca 1930. Many of these photographs were taken by Leo L White. The narritive accompanying the images suggest that they were intended for a publication like the Auckland Weekly News. They include - Men and women on the hut porch, the women mending trousers. Snowball fights. Watching other groups climbing Mount Ruapehu. Chopping firewood. Melting snow for drinking. The mail arriving. Taking photographs. Climbing to the ski fields. Skiing. Walking in the bush. Lunch breaks. Preparing food. These photographs are a fairly good record of what, for women, was smart winter wear in 1930. Re the group located at the Whakapapa Hut and the date of this. Firstly the women are wearing clothes and headgear that date from styles current in the late 1920s-early 1930s (ca 1926-1932). Secondly, a group of mainly women lined up with their cameras, are identified as ready to take photographs of Lady Fergusson departing [the Chateaux] for Taupo. Fergusson's term as Governor General ended in 1930. This is probaly the earliest group of photographs in the collection. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Hugh Rennie, Wellington, 2010