Castle Point

Date: 1880 - 1900

Reference: PA3-0311

Description: Shows long white building (shearing shed, Castle Point Station) with a group of men standing and sitting around in front. In the foreground are stockyards with several sheep. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2895

Description: Transparencies showing a family outing to Castle Point, Wairarapa, New Zealand, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Also includes transparencies showing views of Huka Falls, Taupō. Transparencies showing Huka Falls are continued at PA12-2896. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-84.

Date: Between 1930 and 1939

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038907-G

Description: Looking down on the Castlepoint lighthouse from the hill above. There are two small buildings in a paved area in front of the lighthouse, with the cliffs beyond. Two men are standing further down the hill. Photographed, probably in the 1930s, by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: Probably March 20 - 21 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8793

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images taken between Lower Hutt, Masterton and Castle Point in the Wairarapa. Included are interior and exterior views of St James' Anglican Church in Lower Hutt; a view of the pass over the Rimutakas; St Matthew's Church and several street scenes in Masterton; Jessie Cooper's home; the open air Masterton Swimming Pool; views of the Wairarapa Plains with a sheep station; the Ruamahanga River; Mt Holdsworth Reserve looking up to the Tararua Range; views of Castle Point, including one of shells embedded in rock, the NZ native ice plant "disphyma australe"; and a woman selling fruit and vegetables at a roadside stall on the Carterton Road. Slides on this sheet are numbered 529-532, with gaps for 531, 534, 539-540 and 553. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 531, 534, 539-540, 553). These showed the Rimutaka Pass, a Masterton street scene, the Wairarapa Plains with the Ruamahunga River and sheep, and Cabbage Tree Grove on Palliser Road, which he took as part of his representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: December 1963

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129288-F

Description: Related index card reads: Builidgns. Castlepoint. Lighthouse. December 1963. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1934-1935

From: Borra, Jeffrey, 1958-: Photographs taken and collected by the Borra family

By: Borra, Attilio, 1904-1983

Reference: PA1-o-2054

Description: Photograph album of photographs taken or collected by the Borra family in 1934 and 1935, many likely taken by Attilio Borra. Photographs show people camping, scenery in the North Island of New Zealand, a cricket team, and people at the D P Fisher staff picnic in 1935. Inscriptions on the back of some of the photographs indicate that some were taken at Christmas 1934 and Christmas 1935. Places photographed include the Arapuni Spillway, Rotorua thermal areas and lakes, Whakarewarewa village, Waiotapu thermal area, Pukekura Park in New Plymouth, Cape Kidnappers, Castle Point lighthouse, and the Napier Soundshell. Some photographs have been removed from the album. Title supplied by Library. D P Fisher was an engineering firm in Wigan Street, Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 62 photographs. Physical Description: Bound album, 19 x 28 cm; front cover is missing.

Date: ca 1964, ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2894

Description: Transparencies showing the promotion of 'Listener' magazine at the Wellington Winter Show, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1964. Also includes transparencies showing a family outing to Castle Point, Wairarapa, New Zealand, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Transparencies showing family outing to Castle Point are continued at PA12-2895. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-03.

Date: [ca 1979-1985]

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1094

Description: Travel photograph album of New Zealand trips ca 1979-1985. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 320 x 300 mm

Date: 1886-1939

By: Matheson, William Brooklyn, 1861-1939

Reference: MS-1567-1619

Description: There is no diary for 1887 Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Cartographic Section hold map showing where Matheson farmed (832.45 ed 1886-1899) Matheson was a sheep and cattle farmer at Castle Point and Eketahuna Quantity: 53 volume(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (various sizes, various bindings, held in 27 grey phase boxes) Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Maps showing where Matheson farmed (832.45ed. 1886-1899).

Date: 1848-1985

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-10774-1

Description: Folder contains historical research material relating to the Wairarapa. Includes `Early Castlepoint - First years in a pioneer Settlement' compiled by the Castlepoint Historical Committee (1948); copies of the Masterton Historical Society's research booklets; map and tracing of the blocks of native land in Wairarapa and East Coast Districts; research notes, newspaper clippings and printed material. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed material

Date: 1970

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-844

Description: Journey up the coast out from Eketahuna and Pahiatua into the Central Hawke's Bay District and southern part of the Hastings District. Return via State Highway 50 to the Wairarapa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2000

From: Rangitane o Wairarapa Inc : Records

Reference: 2005-027-3/02

Description: Contains a volume entitled `A history of the purchase and reserves of the Castle Point block'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: Between 1930 and 1939

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038889-G

Description: View of cliffs and the Castlepoint lighthouse, photographed, probably in the 1930s, by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [Between 1943 and 1965]

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

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-201

Description: Album of photographs; many are contacts from 35mm film, some are prints, taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1943 and 1965. Consists mainly of trips, including camping trips, in the North Island and the South Island of New Zealand. Some are related to his zoological and botanical interests, including photographs of "vegetable sheep" (cushion plants that grow in New Zealand's mountain ranges (Raoulia australis)); and wetas. Others relate to his interest in photography. One trip shows members of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society at a camp at Dawson Falls (Mount Egmont); and another shows members of the Photographic Society of New Zealand attending a convention at Queenstown in 1956. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1857-1940

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0700

Description: Towns in various parts of New Zealand, Castle Point Lighthouse, Family holidays, and Views of New Zealand landscape and forest, buildings and people 1/2-115913 to 115936 Arrangement: Negatives at G 054552 1/4, F 175410 1/4 - F 175439 1/4. Those original prints copied, have their copy negatives at F 115913 1/2 - F 115936 1/2 Quantity: 29 b&w original negative(s). 725 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-f-051

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways Department. The first sequence shows Napier before the 1931 earthquake, and after. Photographs include various buildings seriously damaged, including the hospital, the Masonic Hotel, Public Trust offices in Napier and in Hastings, the Hastings Post Office, and a view of the Napier Park Refugee Camp. Further sequences show areas of interest in New Zealand, including an early photograph of the Pink and White Terraces taken by Charles S Spencer (before the Tarawera eruption in 1886); the Government Sanatorium in Rotorua showing various therapeutic facilities and treatments including diathermy treatment, the private slipper bath, the auxiliary massage douche and the cooling room; a group of men working on carvings at the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts; members of the Rotorua Hunt Club riding out; Chateau Tongariro interior and exterior views; the Blue Baths in Rotorua; Akitio Homestead and Maunsell's Homestead (Tinui); the Hermitage and Tasman Chalet at Mount Cook (Aoraki); and the Government Accomodation House at Waitomo. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B2'; 36.5 x 49.5 cm

Date: 12 May 1965

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-64454-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-021305-F

Description: View of Castlepoint looking south, showing the lighthouse and causeway. Photographed ca 1920s by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [192-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-021337-G

Description: Photograph looking along the headland of Castlepoint, showing the lighthouse to the left, taken circa 1920s? by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 26 Nov 1949

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-23334-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate