Longbeach

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: 1884

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-009

Description: A small wooden chapel with a belfry and lancet windows in Gothic Revival style, a grave and a garden outside, with a cabbage tree and bush beyond Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 245 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: [1925]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Grigg, John Hutton, 1895-1974

Reference: Pan-1973-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Longbeach Station looking over flat marshy paddocks running across the foreground. Homestead on the right with two conical turrets, partially hidden amongst trees. Several smaller houses and farm buildings can be seen beyond the paddocks to the left of the homestead. Established trees, including eucalypts in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1970 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J.H. Grigg. Longbeach. Ashburton. 1 oils. 2 B&W. Print from cowshed on left to Homestead on right. Some red outbuildings. Some white buildings, see by film; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 113.1 cm

Date: [1925]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Grigg, John Hutton, 1895-1974

Reference: Pan-1970-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large brick two-storeyed homestead, slate roof with two conical turrets. The house is seen across a lake with flaxes, willows and cabbage trees around the edge. Outbuildings on the far left middle distance and gum trees behind the house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1973 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J.H. Grigg. "Longbeach". Ashburton. 2 B&W. 1 oils. Red brick house. Grey slate roof. Various tints. Willows light green; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 100.2 cm

Date: [1970s-1990s]

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11723

Description: Transparencies of houses in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the house. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'South Island Houses'. The arrangement was by location of house, approximately from North to South, from back to front then from left to right. 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.

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-304

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1900s. All the views are taken in the South Island, travelling by horse and carriage to Takaka and the Waikoropupu Springs, the Motupipi limestone caves; Sumner and Cave Rock, and New Brighton; the Ashburton Domain. Several scenes show aspects of life at Longbeach sheep station, including the manager's house; the Longbeach Homestead seen across a lake; men at work at 7.00am with horses and dogs in the farmyard, with a windmill visible; and a watermill. From there the journey goes via Hawarden, Culverden, the Waiau River, Mason River, Conway River and Conway Hills, Charwell River, the Kowhai River, and then several images show the travellers having to negotiate a washout on the road at Wandle Creek. (The photograph on page 1071 has the footnote `Wandle Creek wash out. A `ticklish' drive). The last views show the Hapuku River, Kaikoura and the Kaikoura Wharf, and the Kaikoura Ranges. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, brown spine, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: [189-?]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0392-1/4-F

Description: Hack yard at Longbeach Station, Canterbury, photographed circa 1890s by J Grigg, probably John Grigg, 1828?-1901. Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 1, No 9, p 30 Source of descriptive information - File print, MNZ copyright register, MNZ negative register Inscriptions: From original item, bottom left: "Hack yard, Longridge - J Grigg" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Copy of a photograph in the Wheeler album, General Assembly Library, for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14

Reference: PAColl-6585-75

Description: Traction engine bearing the names "J C N [John Charles Nattle] Grigg, Longbeach" hauling wool bales to a railway circa 1900, probably in the vicinity of Longbeach Station, Canterbury. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3455; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 1337 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.9 x 20

Date: circa 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Strange, W S, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-0027-F

Description: View of Riversdale Homestead and surrounding gardens. Photograph taken in circa 1925 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Riversdale"; Marginal notes on negative - right of image - "W. S. Strange Longbeach 2 oils 1 B & W." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.9 x 114.2 cm

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32563-F

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

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32562-F

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

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32560-F

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

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32561-F

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

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32564-F

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

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32565-F

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

Date: Mar 1953

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-32559-F

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