Roads - Design and construction

Date: 1910-1915

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: PAColl-0370

Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.

Date: 31 May 1993

By: Earl, Susan, active 1998; Isherwood, Henry, 1909-2003

Reference: OHColl-0678/1

Description: Discusses early roading construction and the roading construction company Isherwood Bellam (Bellum) and Company. Talks about the arrival of his father, a stonemason, in Auckland in 1909, work he did in the Auckland area and the advent of the firm. Describes joining the firm in 1931, going to Invercargill, returning to Auckland and shifting to Wellington in 1937. Discusses emoleum (emulsified bitumen), and its use on roads. Mentions the firm's work in Taranaki and the role of Russell Matthews, who built Tupare. Describes forming his own firm Bell-Wood (Bel-wood) Bitumen which operated in Wellington until the 1990s. Interviewer(s) - Sue Earl Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1927-1929

From: Duncan, June (Mrs), fl 1997 :Photographs from the estates of Joseph and Frank Duncan

By: Duncan, June, active 1997

Reference: PA1-q-613

Description: Cuttings relate closely with albums PA1-q-611 and PA1-q-612. They contain information about Joseph and Frank Duncan's work with the Wellington City Council and later as road paving contractors. There is also a lot of comment on and debate about the new bituminous roads being laid down in the 1920s as well as descriptions of jobs and contracts undertaken by Wellington and some other local authorities in the Wellington Region and elsewhere in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1860 - 1872

By: Sewell, R J, active 1860-1894

Reference: MapColl-832gmbd/ca.1865/Acc.1746

Description: Ink and pencil annotations on partly hand coloured map (incomplete - only part blue colour and some red for proposed roads). The pencil annotations add crosses (population) and accidental orange brush stroke indicate draft copy. Map is hand coloured to a key that reads: 'Lines of road proposed to be made - red. Local position of Military settlements - red circles. Lines of road to be made at a future period - brown. The crosses (black) represent the distribution of the Native Population approximately each cross representing about 100 souls.' The military settlements are most dense in the Wanganui, South Taranaki, New Plymouth, Waipa, Waikato and South Waikato districts and north of the Manawatu River. No such settlements are identified around Wellington, Auckland, Napier or the East Coast north of Mahia. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, card backed, with ink and pencil annotations, hand coloured (incomplete), scale indeterminable, 38 x 27 cm

Date: 1922 - 1923, 1931 - 1933

From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction

Reference: PA1-o-644

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1971

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1971.

Reference: E-476-f-007

Description: Landscape showing hills with rocks in foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 270 x 356 mm

Date: 1860 - 1872

By: Sewell, R J, active 1860-1894

Reference: MapColl-832gmbd/[ca.1865]/Acc.1747

Description: Map is hand coloured and probably the manuscript to the later published editions. The key to the map (from later editions is) 'Lines of road proposed to be made - red. Local position of Military settlements - red circles. Lines of road to be made at a future period - brown. The crosses (black) represent the distribution of the Native Population approximately each cross representing about 100 souls.' However, this not written on this edition. The military settlements are most dense in the Wanganui, South Taranaki, New Plymouth, Waipa, Waikato and South Waikato districts and north of the Manawatu River. No such settlements are identified around Wellington, Auckland, Napier or the East Coast north of Mahia. Most populated areas are the East Cape, Whanganui River, Waikato district. Other Titles - Map of North Island of New Zealand, south of Kaipara harbour Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, card backed, hand coloured, scale indeterminable, 44 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1973

By: Teaze, Lawrence William, 1922-

Reference: PAColl-1649

Description: Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

By: Carroll, A L K (Mrs), active 1988

Reference: PAColl-1118

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1865

By: McArthur & Company

Reference: A-001-012/030

Description: Landscapes showing the landforms in the area from Porter's Pass, via Arthur's Pass to Otira. Found loose in: Canterbury Provincial Council. Proceedings, session XXIII, 1865. Relate to Dobson;s Report ..., 1865, which includes 40 tinted lithographs by Ward & Rees after Dobson and R. Sherrin (A-001-002) (see A-004-010/036) Not in Dobson's hand (see TL 3/1/1/, 3/11/1986, and Photo file), but consistent with A-001/031, Browning pass .., which relates to Ward & Reeves lithograph after Haast (q.v.). Supplied title Quantity: 19 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white, between 107 x 171 mm and 127 x 178 mm

Date: [ca 1869-ca 1900], [ca 1950s]

From: Wainuiomata Historical Society: Photographs

By: Richardson, Wal, active 1950

Reference: PAColl-7664

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of road works in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, ca 1950s, by Pacific Photos, Courtney Place, Wellington. 3 photographs of Seaview, taken from the top of the Wainuiomata Hill in 1950 by Wal Richardson. Album leaf with 5 photographs of Wellington, ca 1860s-1900s, including preparations for visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Wellington, wedding of Ted and Amy Yates, portrait of a woman, Te Aroha Bathhouse and fire damage in Lambton Quay. Duke of Edinburgh visited New Zealand in 1869. Cadman Bathhouse opened in 1898. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 5 b&w original photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Wainuiomata Historical Society, October 2002, through Mrs Vicky Alexander. The photographs were given to the society by the late Mrs Claire Burdan, whose husband was descended from Richard & Mary Prouse, and from the Dixon family, of the Dixon aerated water business. The photographs appear to have come from these families.

Date: 1915-1918

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/01

Description: Correspondence re Pauatahanui School; Kitchener Memorial Scholarship, 1917; Reikiorangi; National Beamish Development Scheme, 1917; Dominion Farmers' Institute Ltd; notes on methods of metalling roads; Local Committees of Agriculture, and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1969-1979

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-151/9/11/Pt1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927, 1929 - 1931

From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction

Reference: PA1-o-643

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca 1931]

Reference: PAColl-6867

Description: 15 views of the building of the Kelburn Viaduct between Upland Road and Northland Road in Kelburn, Wellington. They show the viaduct from the north and south on Glenmore Street or The Rigi and from the east from above Norhtland Road. Trams are shown going up Glenmore Street and one view shows a bus crossing the new viaduct. Priestley's Garage and St Vincent de Paul's School can be seen in a number of the views. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-036647 to 036661 Quantity: 15 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1913

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-064-008

Description: Looking towards the frontage of a former synagogue, a two-storied building with gable roof, from the left, with the street running in front. Two men are digging up the street. The synagogue building is labelled The Federal Electric & Engineering Works Ltd. W N Beaumont & Co. Further copies at A-064-007 and A-064-006 A former synagogue taken over by a commercial firm Other Titles - Last of Old Bridge Street Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 160 x 112 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 252 x 171 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull

Date: 1878-1902

By: Tait, Christopher, 1851-1903

Reference: MS-2115

Description: First section gives accounts with various individuals while building roads and buildings in the Wairarapa and the latter part contains accounts for Tait's bacon business from 14 Aug 1899 at Makomako, Pahiatua; includes biographical note by donor Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Biographical note by donor Quantity: 1 volume(s) (215 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, 16 cm, dark green roan Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs L L Gregory, Pahiatua, 1968