Newspaper buildings - New Zealand - Hawke's Bay Region

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 188?, December 1886

By: Bushell, Lydia, active 1984

Reference: PAColl-3266

Description: Includes 7 photographs of the fire and 1 photograph of Emerson Street Free School, taken ca 1880s by an unidentified photographer. The fire of 18 December 1886 destroyed 26 buildings, among then the `Daily Telegraph' & `Hawkes Bay Herald' offices causing £60,000 worth of damage. (from Campbell, M. The story of Napier p76) - transcribed from back of file print of 1/2-147207. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Lydia Bushell, Sydney, Australia, in March 1984.