Cities and towns - New Caledonia

Date: 1943-1944

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: Barns-Graham, Allan Barclay, 1906-2006

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-112

Description: Large number of unsorted photographs, mostly captioned. Includes: Visit of NZ Defence Minister, Hon F Jones. Shows him talking to L/Bdr Robert Abbot (Opotiki); Genr Joseph Larrington (Napier); Bdr Lem Wakelin (Whakatane); Gnr Maurice Gillard (Whakatane); Bdr Frank Jury (Auckland); Sgt Alex Ferguson (Te Awamutu), and Bdr Basil Fenton (Takapuna). Watching unloading operations on the beach: Major General Rush B Lincoln; Col W W Dove; Col C W Salmon; Brig C J Duff; Col J I Brooke; Lt Col H W D Blake; Major General Barrowclough; Major G W Waddell, Major H G Guttensohn. Amphibious training 14th Brigade at Ducos Peninsula, Noumea Harbour, Jul 1943. View of Base Training Camp Bourail; camp of Avenger & Dauntless servicing units; Base Ordnance Depot; Armistice Day parade (NZ WAACs in march past, inspection of troops, salute being taken by Rear-Admiral Shaf-Froth, Lt Gen Vandergrift, Major Gen R B Lincoln, General W W Dove, and Governor Laigret), 11 Nov 1943; embarkation practice; cook house ovens, 37 NZ Bn, Taom. NZEFIP camp life; Bourail Beach Club; view of 4 Gen Hospital from hill; troops on parade & Pipe Band leading the parade; nurses' quarters at 4 NZ Gen Hospital, Boguen; 22 NZ Field Ambulance at Tinyep; 30 NZ Bn HQ at Koumac; training exercise (Mortar platoon of 29 NZ Battalion up Mt Tonta); paintings by Lt A B Barns-Graham - Town of Bourail, cookhouse at 35 Bn, camp site near Bouloupari with Pique Ouiliambou in distance, and a view of French gendarmarie from `Signals' hill; general view of the high-power transmitting station `Gracefield' in Bourail. Various photographs of sporting and recreational activies including swimming sports, boxing matches, life saving and group photo of lifeguards, rugby matches (exhibition), woodchopping at Sports Meeting, horse races, entertainers and outdoor theatre. The Vicarage, HQ NZEF IP in Bourail; NZ Governor General with physical training class at 2 NZ Convalescent Depot; group photo of staff at Base Pay Office, Bourail; general view of Base Training Depot; traffic control post; mess bures at Noumea Transit Camp; Northern Racing Club at Taom; WAACs on parade in Noumea on the occasion of the return of French volunteers from Egypt. Cpt A McCulloch with Governor General after being invested with military medal (taken at 4th Gen Hospital, Dumbea), 1943; His Excellency with Major J Willis and Sister Cargo, 4th Gen Hospital, Boguen Valley; D Support Coy 29 Inf Bn climbing Mt Tonta, May 1943; NZ force training for amphibious operations; embarking on a landing craft at Sandy Beach; various views of the WAACs and Bourail Club (group photos, inside staff quarters, kitchen, doing laundry, at servery, swimming, etc) Base Pay Office and bure, Tene Valley; Battalion Athletic Team, Apr 1942; thatching a mess hut in Works Services Unit area; 28 Bn rugby team; group photos of A, B, C & D companys; photo of Col Henri Montchamp, Gen Barrowclough & Lt R E Moore; Squat-pot factory (concrete plant at Le Clerc's farm); pipe bands; Robbie's Hall, 29th MT copany recreational bure. Emaciated Japanese prisoner taken at Guadalcanal; 28 Bn Rugby Team; Bourail Club during construction; thatching a mess hut in Works Services Unit area; Battalion Athletic Team, Apr 1942; jungle warfare US troops on Guadalcanal; NZ soldiers making a mock assault on beach; Occupational Therapy Dept; Brigadier Goss with officers; practice exercises at Taom; Guard of Honour in Bourail for Major Gen Rush B Lincoln; unloading operations at Nepoui & view of wharf and harbour; interior of chapel in Bourail township; embarking at Guadalcanal, Aug 1943 (loading barges at Michel Dock). Quantity: 177 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1982] 1986

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-306

Description: Visit to Vanuatu and Noumea includes - Views of the hotel grounds and the sea, Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Taking tea outside with other tourists or friends. A Cruize liner, Port-Vila. Gardens, houses and social occasions. Traveling in Vanuatu. This includes countryside, forest, villages, coastal views, churches, a metal bridge-like structure, and people, especially children. Events surrounding the opening ceremonies of the first Vanuatu Games (called First Interdistrict Games Vanuatu), Port-Vila, 1982. Two storied colonial house. Old church and religious figures in a Roman Catholic church. Volcano erupting. Noumea, New Caledonia, its surroundings, and in particular church buildings. Loose pages in the front of the album record a holiday in New Zealand, 1986. This includes Hawke's Bay. Picnics by the way. White baiting at the Rangitaiki River mouth. The Coromandel Peninsula. Oil rig at Moturoa. Friends. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1967

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7147

Description: Coastal views, Nelson, 1967. Views of Tasman Bay from Takaka Hill, 1967. Public monuments and Cathedral, Noumea, New Caledonia. Coastal view from Ouen Toro mountain, Noumea. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1966

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7148

Description: Noumea and coastal views, New Caledonia. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1976]

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-930

Description: Photographs recording a journey through the island nations of the South Pacific which include Fiji, Tahiti and other islands in the Society group and the Tuamotu Archipeligo, Hawaii, American Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, and Noumea in New Caledonia. Subjects include the principal towns, the local people and some traditional buildings, occupations such as fishing, tourist excursion operators, and traders in shops and markets. Also beaches and other scenic landscapes. The last three pages of photographs are a record of delegates and events at the 16th South Pacific Conference held in Noumea. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 22 colour and 378 black and white photographic prints. Physical Description: Photograph album with colour and black and white photographic prints mounted on magnetic pages, 30 x 35 cm.

Date: 1966

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7149

Description: Noumea, coastal, and aerial views, New Caledonia. Also Amedee Island, its beaches and lighthouse. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: October 1982

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1695

Description: Photographs of Noumea include - An event with performances. Ocean views and a lighthouse. Views of Noumea and some of its colonial buildings. Photographs of Fiji include - Ratu Inoki's christening. Shiu Ram's funeral. Performances and people at Dromuna. Lunch during visit of Ratu Va and some of the Lomaviti chiefs. Opening of the meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs at Bau by Queen Elizabeth II, 30 October 1982. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1973

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-1263

Description: Album of printed photographs, travel brochures, images clipped from publications, postcards, and typescript itinerary with details of travel to New Caledonia and Vanuatu with 'Atlantic & Pacific - Explorair and Escortair Holidays', in September and October 1973. All of the images are photomechanical. The holiday included the Hancocks, the Simpsons, the MacDonalds, and the Kirkaldies. Quantity: 1 album(s) 20 pages. Physical Description: Album, ringbinding, magnetic pages, ephemera and photographs, 29.5 x 25 cm.

Date: 1966

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7150

Description: Yate Dam, New Caledonia. Bastille Day, Anse Vata, Noumea. Views of Noumea Harbour. Fish in aquarium, Noumea. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1963-1976]

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-929

Description: Photographs of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. Included are views of principle towns their buildings and people. Places and Islands in New Caledonia are Noumea, the east coast, the Isle of Pines, Ile Nou, Ile Ouen, and Ile Amedee; in the Loyalty Islands, Lifou, Mari, and Ouvea; in Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, Aoba, Tongoa, Penticost, and Tanna; in the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, and Malaita; in Western Samoa, Savaii and Apia. Photographs depict traditional and European buildings, scenic views of beaches, and other landscapes, and in some places tourists. But most of the photographs are of the local people in groups or individuals, or at work fishing, weaving, gardening, at school, pumping water, killing a pig, preparing food, eating, and playing. A few images from the Solomon Island section show the wreckage of aircraft from the Second World War. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 501 black and white, 17 colour photographic prints. Physical Description: Album of colour and black and white photographic prints mounted on magnetic pages, 30 x 36 cm.

Date: 1950s-1990s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-11

Description: Largest group of images relate to a trip Jack Nightingall made to Tasmania in the late 1980s or early 1990s. There are weddings, photos of family and friends including one of Jack and Theo (1970s), and their mother Dorothy as an old woman. Two images taken on a yacht in the early 1950s (proof sheets of images which include these two can be found at PAColl-7167-10-33). The other group of images are coloured postcards dating from 1965 and bought by Jack Nightingall during his Pacific voyage on his yacht to Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Others are of scenic tourist locations in the South Island and include Queenstown, the Te Anau caves, Lake Manapouri and Doubtfull Sound Quantity: 52 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 38 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14156-F

Description: Aerial photograph of Vallee du Tir, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in August 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14184-F

Description: View of the hospital, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder black 32, New Caledonia.

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14172-F

Description: View down Rue du Dr Guegan towards St Joseph's Cathedral, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in August 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder black 32, New Caledonia.

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14158-F

Description: Aerial photograph of industrial buildings and waterfront, Doniambo, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in August 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14148-F

Description: Aerial photograph of Noumea, Moselle Bay, and the coastal landscape beyond the city, New Caledonia. Photographed in August 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14152-F

Description: Aerial photograph of Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in August 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14259-F

Description: Vietnamese street vendors selling fruit from barrows, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder black 32, New Caledonia.

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14175-F

Description: View of Moselle Bay, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder black 32, New Caledonia.

Date: August 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-14176-F

Description: View of Moselle Bay, Noumea, New Caledonia. Photographed in 1948 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 13.2 x 10 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder black 32, New Caledonia.