Cook Strait

Date: 1962

From: Recordings and papers relating to Barrie Devenport and swimming across the Cook Strait

By: Devenport, Barrie, 1935-2010

Reference: MSZ-1562

Description: Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings kept by Barrie Devenport relating to swimming across Cook Strait. Includes diagram showing his planned course and actual course. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter Provenance: Noted New Zealand endurance swimmer in the 1960s Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Ms K Devenport, Wellington

Date: Aug 1998 to Dec 1999

By: Barrie, Ann Maree, 1947-

Reference: OHColl-0429

Description: Interviews long-time Owhiro Bay residents Roberta and Stanley Hoy, Gordon James (Jim) Goodwin, Heather Packer, Annette Jones, George (Clarry) Wahren, Maureen Hocking, Vera Konig and Clifford Denham about living in the area. Interviewer(s) - Ann Barrie Quantity: 18 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

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

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1969

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 volumes of newspaper clippings and bromide books] 1965-1992.

Reference: E-531-q-160

Description: It is the middle of the night and the scene is a bedroom with a couple in bed. The woman has woken saying that she has just had a horrible dream that her husband wasn't satisfied with stealing a few goods from the Aratika, one of the Cook Strait ferries. Outside the window looms the Aratika which is on a trolley attached by a chain to a car. Beside the woman lies a smug-looking villainous type. On the floor is a newspaper saying that $85000 worth of property has been stolen from the Aratika. At the foot of the bed is a bag of tools, including a crow-bar. The reference is to the pilfering of goods and property by railway and wharf workers that was occuring around 1978. Some of those responsible found themselves in jail. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 136 x 184 mm.

Date: 1780

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779; McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819

Reference: MapColl-833aj/[1780]/Acc.32061-2

Description: Map of Cook Strait in the vicinity of Queen Charlottes Sound and Admiralty bay. Relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings. Referenced in Tooley, 720 Reserve copy Acc.32074 Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b & w, 20.4 x 32cm, Scale not given Provenance: From McIntosh Collection, items 110, 111

Date: 1957

Reference: MapColl-833gmh/1957/Acc.43777

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Tracing

Date: 1977

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-197

Description: This cartoon features four scenes relating to inter island travel. The first has the end of the Rangatira Lyttelton-Wellington ferry, the second has the Picton ferry on strike and the third has a storm closing Wellington to flights and ferries Pencil dated 5/7/77 Extended Title - There are a number of obvious reasons Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 305 x 380 mm

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-048

Description: Shows a dead rata tree in the foreground, looking down into Cook Strait with Mana Island in the background The reference to Belmont Line is probably to an early surveying line Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1985

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-424

Description: Shows three vignettes. In the first a disgruntled looking farmer is watching as armed forces personnel put up a barbed wire fence. The officer is telling him that the government is erecting barbed wire around the coastline. In the second a topdressing pilot is being told to drop bombs instead of fertiliser in the event of any hostilities. In the third an officer is standing on Mt Victoria in Wellington and telling his men that the old signal gun is to be turned around and pointed over Cook Strait. He is holding a 'Capital Defence Plan'. Extended Title - In view of the present economic situation, the government may have to consider defence "on the cheap" - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, chinese white, crayon and letratone on paper, 350 x 408 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1880 - 1881

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbook] Drawing Book, 13. 12. 1880.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: E-060-3-013

Description: View from the sea near the Marlborough Sounds, looking towards two small rocks in the distance, one with a lighthouse on top On the same page as 'Mount Egmont from the sea' (E-060-3-014) Other Titles - Cook Strait Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 65 x 119 mm

Date: 1980

From: Heath, Eric, 1923- :Cartoons from the `Daily Smile' exhibition (1994-1996). [1970-1992].

Reference: B-143-004

Description: The scene is a summer's day at the beach. As mother sits knitting and the smaller children play in the sand, a slightly larger girl comes out of the water to be met by her father who is frightened and furious because she has swum across Cook Strait pursued by sharks. Refers to Belinda Donaldson who conquered Cook Strait in 1980. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper 345 x 470mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1970 - 1979

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Webber, John, 1751-1793

Reference: B-086-052/057

Description: Contents: Interieur d'un hippah de la Nouvelle-Zelande - Carte de la Nouvelle-Zelande visitee en 1769 et 1770.-Homme de la Nouvelle-Zelande (also on cover).- Mort de Cook.- Trombes de mer aupres de la Nouvelle-Zelande. - Famille dans la Baie Dusky. No 9 of an edition of 1,000 copies. Reproductions of engravings published in the official accounts of Cook's voyages Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 237 x 387 mm on sheets 312 x 458 mm in illustrated folder

Date: 1976

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

Reference: C-132-108

Description: Shows newsclipping of a letter complaining ("Sounds as a dump") about the amount of rubbish dumped in the Marlborough Sounds. Heath envisages Cook Strait completely full of rubbish so that one can walk across rather than having to depend on the Cook Strait ferry or high air fares. Published in the Dominion, 11? March 1976. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 340 x 500 mm (image) on sheet 510 x 635 mm; with newsclipping as collage. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: Aug 1907

By: Cooke, Fred, active 1906; Hoggard, Guy Rolfe, 1887-1983

Reference: MS-Papers-9983

Description: Comprises carbon of account by Cooke of the cruise of the `Muritai' in Queen Charlotte Sound, December 1906 to January 1907; he describes the crew, the yacht, life on board and off ship, the weather, the territory they sailed through and other matters relating to the experience. Cooke makes many personal remarks. Also included are notes by donor from letters received from Guy Hoggard, and two letters from Guy Hoggard; these give background to the Hoggard family, the `Muritai' and its history, the crew and related matters. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (case folder). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) with mss letters and notes Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr T Hoggard, Paraparaumu, Oct 1976

Date: 1998

By: Feeney family

Reference: MS-Papers-6348

Description: Two reminiscences, `Many are called but few are chosen' by Cecil Feeney in which he describes a crossing on a Cook Strait ferry; and `Ollie's last stand' by Peter Feeney, describing his family's preparation to move from Auckland to Wellington Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (two pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1965

By: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992

Reference: E-489-f

Description: Contains sketches, some entitled: City demolition Wakefield St, 8 set designs for "The Empire builders" ( Unity Theatre 1965 production), Pencarrow Baring Heads, Cook Strait from Houghton Bay, South Karori, Feilding turn off, Paremata Harbour (2), Pauatahanui, Taupo. Also contains some sketches of cattle. Inscriptions: Generally unsigned and undated.; (On cover): Croxley / LI-FLAT / SCHOOL SKETCH BLOCK Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 6 charcoal sketches, and 15 pencil sketches, in sketchbook 185 x 270 mm.

Date: [ca1908]

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-f-179

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-137-251

Description: Shows a father reading the newspaper to a baby in a cot followed by three scenes of a shooter, surfers and rugby players accompanied by parodies of nursery rhymes. Extended Title - And with this all-out effort, we feel we can claim to have shattered the iambic meter record for all time Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, chinese white, crayon and letratone on card, 560 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-004-1

Description: A view on board the Ahuriri steamer in a choppy Cook Strait, with a man seated at the rail leaning over, possibly a self-portrait of the artist being seasick. The hills of either the lower North Island or the top of the South Island are in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 105 x 205 mm

Date: 1718-1928

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2515-2518

Description: Selected papers from the Army and Naval History libraries. Include letters of General Sir Alexander Godley and papers on the Gallipoli campaign, and papers on naval exploration in the Pacific, including logs, charts and pamphlets. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1990