Built in 1883 by the Gear Meat Company. Later acquired by the Hutt City Council and is now used for recreational purposes and occassional ferry transportation.
Petone Wharf (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)
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First New Zealand consignment of alpacas being unloaded from the ship Matiu, at Petone ...
Date: [ca 16 Sep 1989]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1989/3383-F
Description: First New Zealand consignment of alpacas being unloaded from the ship Matiu, at Petone Wharf, Petone, Wellington region, 15 September 1989, after being quarantined on Somes Island in Wellington harbour. Somes Island quarantine station head Rod Sutherland accompanies them. Photographed by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Somes Island launch Matiu at Petone wharf - Photographs taken by Ian Mackley
Date: [ca 27 January 1982]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1982/0270
Description: Somes Island launch Matiu at Petone wharf, with children fishing in front of the boat. Photographs taken ca 27 January 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company, Petone - Taken by an unidentified photographer
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co
Reference: PAColl-D-0154
Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south-east towards Port Howard. The wharf is partially visible on the right. Jackson Street in in the immediate foreground on left (bottom). Identical image to PAColl-D-0166 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gear Freezing Works. Copright. Petone. N.Z. A7164 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 297 x 377 mm on card
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Godber album 3
Date: Between 1915 and 1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195
Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm
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Owen Dendy and his father at Petone Wharf - Photographs taken by Phil Reid
Date: [ca 8 February 1985]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP/1985/0715-F
Description: Owen Dendy is comforted by his father Mike Dendy at Petone Wharf. Owen was part of a rowing crew from St Bernard's College who had been rescued after getting into difficulty in the sea off Somes Island. Photographed circa 24 August 1994 by Evening Post staff photograher Mark Coote Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company, Petone - Taken by an unidentified photographer
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co
Reference: PAColl-D-0135
Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south towards the wharf. In the immediate foreground (on Jackson Street) is a building with an advertisement for Plume benzine. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 127 x 517 mm on card
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Panoramic view of Petone
Date: Between 1923 and 1930
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-2044-F
Description: Panoramic view looking down over Petone, the Petone Wharf, Wellington Harbour and Matiu/Somes Island. Neil Donehue & Company's premises in the left foreground; Jackson Streets runs from the centre foreground diagonally to the left. Gear meat Works with tall smoke stacks are near the waterfront centre left of the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Relationship complexity - See also 1/2-134177 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 66.2 cm
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Historic Wellington - photographic depictions
Date: [1920s-1930s]
From: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd: Papers and records
Reference: PAColl-10606-01-02
Description: Five black and white photographs of buildings and cityscapes in Wellington. Date and photographer unknown. Images depict views over Wellington towards harbour, along coast towards wharf at Petone, view of Basin Reserve with game of cricket in progress, old wooden government building with tram and pedestrians in foreground, and old general post office building with statue of Queen Victoria on the left. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Industrial
Date: 1992, 2004, date unknown
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11662
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
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Godber album 11
Date: [1908-1912]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-103
Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm
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Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company, Petone - Taken by an unidentified photographer
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co
Reference: PAColl-D-0166
Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south-east towards Port Howard. The wharf is partially visible on the right. Jackson Street in in the immediate foreground on left (bottom). Identical image to PAColl-D-0154 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gear Freezing Works. Copright. Petone. N.Z. A7164 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 297 x 377 mm on card
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View of the Petone Wharf
Date: 1909
Reference: 1/2-002541-F
Description: View of the Petone Wharf, taken from across the beach. The main entry gates to the wharf are closed, but the smaller gates are open. There is a boat alongside the end of the wharf, but it is to far away to be identified. There are children sitting on the foreshore. One of them is looking towards the photographer with her arms crossed in front of her. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
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Part 2 of a 2 part panorama overlooking Petone
Date: 1911
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0570-1/2-G
Description: Part 2 of a 2 part panorama overlooking Petone. Southward view looking towards Wellington harbour and Matiu Island. Shows Petone West School in the middle ground and Petone Wharf on the right. Part 1 at APG-0571-1/2. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1911. Original print of the full panorama in Godber Album Vol 110, p 152-153 (PA1-q-103) Inscriptions: Album page - Petone. 1911 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches