Mountaineering - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

Date: 14 Feb-28 Dec 1925

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-01

Description: Contains outward correspondence from Eric Tyndale-Biscoe to his parents Cecil Earle and Blanche Violet Tyndale-Biscoe. Also includes one letter to "Fluffs" [sister?]. Letters describe Tyndale-Biscoe's voyage to New Zealand on the ship 'Ionic', his first impressions of New Zealand travelling from Wellington to Hawke's Bay by rail, working at Wanganui Collegiate (including events such as dances), mountaineering in the Central Plateau, holidaying in Tokaanu, and riding a motorcycle around the Central Plateau area (including road conditions). He also refers to family matters, including his father's work in Kashmir, and the fact he misses Kashmir. A number of letters are written on "Harvey House, Collegiate School" letterhead. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Letters also include Tyndale-Biscoe's hand drawn pen illustrations. These include Pitcairn Island, a view of the Hawke's Bay, and two maps showing the Ruapehu District.

Date: 16 Sep 1923-14 Jul 1925

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-05

Description: Contains correspondence from Phyllis Long to her family back in England. Letters relate to voyage to New Zealand, including trip through Panama Canal and life and people on board the ship. Describes Panama and the coaling station in great detail as well as activities and events on board the ship such as the ceremony crossing the equator, a cricket match, a tennis tournament, and a dress up party. Describes her impressions of Wellington, Nga Tawa school and the surrounding area, her colleagues, her accomodation, horses kept at the college, and food in New Zealand. Also includes a description of the 1924 fire at Nga Tawa. Letters also relate a number of holiday trips Long took. Tramping, skiing, and climbing around Central Plateau (two trips) including one with her future husband Eric Tyndale-Biscoe feature. Long also describes the Ruby Lounge in Palmerston North and methods of transport including train travel and taxis. People mentioned in the correspondence include Nga Tawa headmistress Frances McCall and colleagues Miss Cooper-Evans, Miss Rowe, Miss Halstead, Miss Kingsford, Miss Rickards, Miss [Lane?], Miss Page, Miss Hinton, Miss Dudding, and friend Sylvia Lysaght. Also travelling companions Frank McGrath, Mr Baines, Mr McLean, and Eric Tyndale-Biscoe. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Includes hand drawn map of Panama Canal

Date: 1926

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-032

Description: Published by Harrison and Sons, London, in 1926. Also one newspaper clipping laid in. Includes an inscription by T. E. Donne, who wrote the introduction, with a personal message to James Cowan, written in Māori: "Kia Jim, Na to hoa Tone, London Apl/26". Cowan has also written his name on the inside cover, and has added many annotations throughout the book. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with holographs

Date: 1925-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1296

Description: Loose pages of photograph album mainly featuring central North Island holiday scenes, 1925 to 1926. Compiled by Eric Tyndale-Biscoe with photographs possibly taken by Tyndale-Biscoe and Phyllis Long as well as others unidentified photographers. Some photographs are captioned by Tyndale-Biscoe. Tyndale-Biscoe appears in a number of images. Teachers from Nga Tawa School and Wanganui Collegiate also feature, in particular Phyllis Long. The horse Ngaio is also photographed. A camping trip to Kai Iwi Beach with the McGrath and Austin families in January 1926 shows children Mary, Hugh, and Joan McGrath on horseback as well as camp site images and beach and coastal scenes. A further trip to Kai Iwi in September 1926 with the McGraths, Sylvia Lysaght, and Else J. Rowe shows similar scenes. A January 1926 camping trip at Lake Taupo includes informal group portraits of the party, camp site scenes (eating, drinking, sleeping, clothing, tents), a geyser at Tokaanu, and lakeside scenes (swimming, swimming with horses, and posing on rocks). Also contains photographs of an excursion to Turakina Beach. Album contains photographs of two Central Plateau excursions based out of Whakapapa Village in July-September 1925 and September 1926. Images of the first trip show members of the party (Tyndale-Biscoe, C. N. Maclean, Miss Preuter, Miss Pease, Miss Harvey, Phyllis Long, Miss Dudding, N. A . Baines, and Miss Lisaght [sic]), the huts in which they stayed, Long and Tyndale-Biscoe on the summit of Ruapehu, Ruapehu crater lake, and snow scenes. The second trip shows members of the party (Frank McGrath, Elizabeth McGrath, Else J. Rowe, G. Downing, and T. Adams), the huts in which they stayed, tramping, mountaineering, roads in the area, and scenic images (Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Little Tama Lake). Tyndale-Biscoe is also photographed with his motorbike at Mokoia and repairing a wheel on the roadside of Wangaehu Hill. Some images include passengers in sidecar and on the pillion. Another set of images, possibly of a Wanganui Collegiate excursion, show the clearing a pathway in the snow and hut interior scenes: [students?] Dennis Young, Aubrey Fullterton-Smith, and Tom Latham are photographed by a fire and another image shows [teachers?] N. A. Baines and F. H. Latham playing cards in hut. Also contains a large formal group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate students and teachers in front of school building. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 120 prints. Physical Description: Four loose card album pages, 25.2 x 37.6 cm Processing information: Item re-allocated to a different Unit id after being boxed in August 2018.

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: 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: ca 1908-1909

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, Charles Tenison, active 1906-1910

Reference: PAColl-0763-01

Description: Photographs of a climbing trip to Mount Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe including: Mount Ruapehu from Haunhungatahi; climbers in the snow at the summit of Ruapehu; two men cooking outside a tent on the snow line on Ruapehu; Crater Lake on Ruapehu; Red Crater on Tongariro; Ngauruhoe erupting; Waimarino forest; Ruapehu from Ngauruhoe showing the lakes between them (called Nga Puna-a-Tania in the caption); the crater of Ngauruhoe; the Whakapapa gorge; and the Whangaehu glacier. Photographer probably Charles T Salmon. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1928-1936

By: Hames, Bernard Raymond, 1903-

Reference: PA1-o-1659

Description: Includes photographs of motor tours throughout New Zealand ca 1928-1936, undertaken by Bernard Hames, including in an Austin 7 named Pediculus and another vehicle named Baby. Also includes photographs from Methodist Church conferences and summer schools attended by Hames, including both formal and casual portraits as well as scenes of sport and leisure. Also includes scenic photographs, including photographs of the crater lakes of Mt Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe (the latter during a period of volcanic activity) and other locations in the Tongariro National Park, as well as a large number of other scenic locations and urban areas in both the North and South Islands. Also includes views of Greymouth and other areas affected by the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Appraisal and scheduling information - 3 postcards of England & Africa, and group portrait photograph in pouch commemorating laying of foundation stone at Wesleyan Methodist Church, Vereeniging, South Africa, were not retained Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Transfers: To Book Collections - 1 book entitled `Greetings from Auckland New Zealand', printed by Dawson Printing Company, Auckland.

Date: 1884

By: Graphic (London, England)

Reference: A-433-011

Description: Eight scenes in one engraving showing: 1. Mr J H Kerry Nicholls, the explorer of the King Country 2. Mount Ruapehu, an extinct volcano 3. The Ice Crown, Point Victoria 4. Crossing the Onetapu Desert by moonlight; on the brink of a precipice 5. Whatiwhatihoe, the home of King Tawhiao 6. A slippery descrnt into the valley of the Wanganui-a-te-ao River 7. The extinct volcano, Mount Pihanga, with the Upper Waikato River, flowing into Lake Taupo 8. The ice caves; source of the Wangaehu River Other Titles - Manganui-a-te-ao Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 405 x 293 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.