Tongariro (Ferry)

Date: [1900-1910]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-013

Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: February to March 1913

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-003

Description: Record of a trip from Woodville to Napier and Taupo via the Napier-Taupo Road, February to March 1913. Views include Dannevirke, the upper reaches of the Manawatu River, Waipukurau Lake, Tavistock Hotel, the rail and foot bridge across the Waipawa River between Waipukurau and Waipawa, Hastings Post Office; motor and horse-drawn buses which run between Hastings and Havelock North; house under construction in Henry Street, Hastings (house named Ackworth, owned by Laurence Denton, accountant); views of Cape Kidnappers and the gannet rookery; Ed James and family at their seaside bungalow at Te Awanga; views of Napier and Ahuriri; the Taradale Road embankment over the Tutaekuri River, the Ahuriri Lagoon and mudflats; Marine Parade, Napier showing Norfolk pines, the Municipal Baths and a monument to "six brave men drowned in floods while rescuing people at Clive". Views on the Napier-Taupo Road including the Mohaka River, Tarawera Hotel in Waipunga Valley; Lake Taupo; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River; hot pool at the Geyser House Hotel (Wairakei) with a group of children swimming; Wairakei Geyser Valley showing geysers, and mud pools.

Date: 1901

By: Marshall, Ryan and Company; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-Taupo-1901-01

Description: Poster with Maori pattern border shows illustrations of a Maori waka on Lake Taupo with Ngauruhoe smoking at the top, the small steam-sailing ship 'Tongariro' cruising on water at lower right, and inset views of the Karangahape Cliffs and the Waihi Waterfall at either side. The text explains that the mail steamer 'Tongariro' leaves Taupo every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the summer months, going to Tokaanu, and returning to Taupo the following day. The service is reduced to twice a week during winter months. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, brown on toothed cream paper, 507 x 395 mm.