Roads - New Zealand

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Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908 : Photograph album of scenes taken in New Zealand

Date: [ca 1864-1890s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-1889

Description: Photograph album of prints, showing images of scenes around New Zealand, taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead from circa 1864 to circa 1890s. Compiler of album unidentified. Most prints have captions. - Includes images of scenes around Milford Sound, Queenstown-Lakes District and George Sound, which include images of lakes, ships, people, and buildings. - Also includes images of Christchurch, including the Christchurch Cathedral, the Victoria Bridge (with a caption inscribed in pencil saying 'Law Courts'), the Avon River, the Christchurch Botanical Gardens, Sumner and Shag Rock. - Also includes images of Auckland including Albert Park, North Shore, Auckland Hospital and a waterfall at Lucas Creek. - Also includes a series of images taken from what is described as the 'Hokitika Road' (Arthur's Pass) including the Otira Gorge, the Devil's Punchbowl, Mount Rolleston and Mount Philistine. - Also includes images of Dunedin including the Octagon (which includes images of horses and carts, buildings and roads), North East Valley, Leith Valley, Port Chalmers, and Dunedin Botanic Garden. - Also includes an image of a group of Maori standing outside Tamatekapua wharenui (meeting house) at Ohinemutu, and an image of (mainly Maori) people at Ateamuri [sic], Waikato. This includes two pairs of men shaking hands, and horses and carts. Other - A reference card from the Parliamentary Library tipped into the album includes the following: "919.31 NZ Scenery (Photographs). N 532. c 1884 68797. NZ Collection" Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - "General Assembly New Zealand Library" [insignia]. Also on spine "919.31"; "N532" and "New Zealand Scenery".; Backing board verso - centre - "General Assembly Library, NZ" bookplate with reference numbers, stamped with a "withdrawn" stamp. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue and black bound album, with gold embossed lettering. 18.5 cm x 26 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - From NZ&P Book Collections as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material.

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Eric Tyndale-Biscoe outward correspondence to his parents

Date: 17 Jan-19 Dec 1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-02

Description: Contains outward correspondence relating to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe's time as a master at Wanganui Collegiate School and travels in New Zealand. Work life at Wanganui Collegiate features. Tyndale-Biscoe describes school politics, colleagues, headmaster Rev C F Pierce (particularly the effect of a stroke on his performance at work), problems with prefects, bullying of new boys (including on school picnic), school trips (to the beach with boarders, to freezing works with agriculture class, and to Maori Pageant at Opera House), punishment of a boy caught smoking, rugby (match against Te Aute College), cricket, school dances, performance of 'Box and Cox' play at Harvey House (including annotated programme). Relates talks he has given about Kashmir (with lantern slides) in Wanganui, at Nga Tawa School, and in Christchurch as well donations of money at these talks (and politics surrounding this). Includes a printed program for "East & West Missionary Exhibition" at Drill Hall. Other topics include family matters, events in Kashmir and Britain, and education philosophy. Also discusses Nga Tawa headmistress Frances McCall and female teachers at Nga Tawa and social events (including beach visit and attendant scandal); Phyllis Long (later Tyndale-Biscoe's wife) is mentioned a number of times. Numerous mentions are made of Mr Frank McGrath his wife Elizabeth (including her mental breakdown), and Hugh and Vera Austin. Other names noted include D K Leather, George Harris, Marjorie Dalrymple, and Miss Downing. Describes holidays taken around the North Island in the school holidays. These include: fishing, camping, visit to a cheese factory, poultry, pig, and cattle farming [Gordon's? Waikato]; Kai Iwi Beach holidays; trip to Paihia (including map of route and descriptions of Auckland Zoo and stone store (Kerikeri); a number of trips to the Hawkes Bay with the Reeves Family and Mrs Williams; staying with The Gilbertson family at 'Clairinch" sheep station (owned by Mrs Williams) during docking; staying with the Maclean family in Napier; bathing in the Tukituki River with the Reeves boys; travelling to Wellington and going to the opera as well as trip back (including car accident); skiing at Whakapapa ski field (on "Waimana House, Waimarino " letterhead). Also relates preparation for an automobile tour (buying a car and fitting it with a caravan) as well as planning for job chaperoning Mrs Williams' son Bruce around Europe. Tyndale-Biscoe's correspondence also relates New Zealanders' impressions of missionaries, a trip to see the Don Cossack Choir, a woodchopping event, flooding in Wanganui on 26 July 1926, and a description of the Bishop of Wellington. Also includes a letter from Vera Austin to Mrs Blanche Tyndale-Biscoe thanking her for "Xmas toys" sent for her children, a letter from Mr Austin to Mr Cecil Tydale-Biscoe and another from Frank McGrath describing the esteem in which his son is held, and a holograph copy of Pierce's letter of commendation for Tyndale-Biscoe upon his departure from New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Letters also include Tyndale-Biscoe's hand drawn pen illustrations of events he describes in his letters. These include a lamb in a docking cradle, a diagram of the yards and movements of sheep during docking at "Clairinch" station, a diagram showing a near car accident coming back from Wellington, and a map showing motorcycle trips taken in the Wanganui area.

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Phyllis Long album two

Date: 1923-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-1946

Description: Photograph album, mainly of holidays, compiled by Phyllis Long during her time in New Zealand, 1923 to 1926. Some photographs are likely taken by Long but other photographers are unidentified. Album features horse treks and horse riding. Two treks with Sylvia Lysaght are covered; one in Taranaki and Waikato Regions in January-February 1925, and the other from Wanganui to Lake Taupo, December 1925-January 1926. Includes images of Long and Lysaght on their horses Ngaio and Ladybird, places they stayed (camp sites, houses, huts), people they stayed with, and scenic images (bush, mountains, rivers, farmland, and coast). Images from the second trek feature the party of colleagues and friends Long and Lysaght joined (including Eric Tyndale-Biscoe and [Hugh Austin?]) and the Lake Taupo site at which they camped and as well as an unidentified Maori whanau with whom the duo stayed on their return journey. Tramping and mountaineering trips also feature in the album. One set shows a holiday to the Central Plateau, with the party staying in a hut at Whakapapa Village. Photographs include excursions to the summit of Mount Ruapehu, Tama Lakes, Whakapapa Falls, and Taranaki Falls as well as some skiing images. Another set of images is taken on a trip to the Taranaki Region. Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) features with Long and a female companion pictured on the summit. There are also a number of images of Dawson Falls, including some swimming and bush scenes, and scenic images of the mountain and surrounding area, with Doreen Ross pictured in one image. Other places visited by Long include Wanganui and at a farm with an unidentified family [Ross or Lysaght?]. Photographs from the farm show various people (including children), a chicken coop, lambs being fed, dogs, and horses. Another set of photographs show a motoring, camping, and picnicking excursions in a Model TT Ford covered truck. In addition to Tyndale-Biscoe, Frank and Elizabeth McGrath and their children Mary, Joan, [and Hugh?] appear in numerous photographs. McGrath family images include informal as well as a set of formal studio portraits of both groups and individual members. The family in captured motoring, in beach scenes [Kai Iwi camping trip?], on horseback, riding bikes, reading, and at a Mokoia farmhouse, with Long and Tyndale-Biscoe often appearing in photographs with them. Other people that feature include Long's teaching colleagues and friends from Nga Tawa and Wanganui Collegiate schools. Those identified in captions include Tyndale-Biscoe, "Shrimp", Else Rowe , Aubrey Fullerton-Smith, Conrad, Mr Latham, Mr [Cr]opper?, Mr [F.H.?] Latham, Mr Izard, Doreen Ross, and Roy Ross. Album also includes a studio portrait of Phyllis Tyndale-Biscoe in 1927. There are a number of images of Tyndale-Biscoe with his motorcycle. Commercial postcards feature photographs of Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) as well as Waitomo Caves limestone formations, Wanganui River, and Wanganui Collegiate School. Three postcards are addressed to members of Long's family in England (and were sent). Another two postcards were sent to Long by Tyndale-Biscoe and "Himself" [Frank McGrath?]. Also a note from Hugh [McGrath?] to Long sent while she was travelling home to England. Larger mounted print of image of Long's horse Ngaio at PAColl-10463. Two treks and other excursions are described in depth in Long's diaries and letters to her parents. Tyndale-Biscoe's letters also describing mountaineering, motoring, and camping trips to his parents (MS-Group-2409). Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 260 prints, some loose. Physical Description: Photograph album with green textured cover, 21.4 x 25.8 cm Processing information: Prints that have come loose from the album as well postcards and prints stored in pocket at rear of album have been arranged in an enclosure which is held in the back of the box containing the album.

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James Cornwall loose prints

Date: [ca 1890-1940s]

From: Cornwall, James Caleb, 1879-1964: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10267

Description: Photographs of family and New Zealand scenes taken between circa 1890s and circa 1940s, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall. - Features images of unidentified hydro-electric dams and power stations. - Identified figures include Allan Brown's five children; Mr and Mrs Tom Smith and their daughter Edley (of Carterton); Mrs and Miss Grube; Jock the farm dog (1931); school children at Clareville school, near Carterton, with school building; James William Emet Cornwall, Fred Horton Cornwall, James William Cornwall, and Jack Lindsay walking down the street; [Jim Paul?] at his house; and F M Wallace and another unidentified man at the stock yards. - Images relating to farming show a lamb in docking cradle (an invention of James Cornwall), a dog [Jock?] herding sheep, Jack Lindsay's farm near Whakatane (including cow shed and cows), a horse, and the 1915 Agricultural and Pastoral (A&P) shows in Masterton and Fielding featuring events involving horses and cows. - Also contains a number of images relating to transport. Boats including a passenger liner, sailing ship, tugboat 'Melodeon', ship 'Australia'. Series of images relating to railways show viaducts on the main truck line (including Makatote, one near Horopito, and Mangaweka), a steam train travelling between Waiouru and Tangiwai, and train tracks near Rewa on the Rangitikei River. Further photographs show cars, road bridges (including on the Old Kaimai Road), and a horse drawn wagon on a beach. - Scenic images show the Rangitikei River area, Pukekura Park in New Plymouth (lake, lily pads, bush scenes), topiary at 'Coopers Garden Newman' with a lounge suite theme, waterfalls, bush scenes, thermal area, a blossoming tree, and flowers. - Identified places include Waihi Beach, Palmerston North Domain (Cornwall family camping trip), war memorial in Dannevirke Domain, Tauranga (including The Strand, beach scenes, Mount Maunganui, Military Cemetery, Ocean Beach, Mt Dury, the blowhole, [bowling club?], and Cornwall family), Manawatu River, Hastings (Main Street), Napier (Marine Parade), Fetherston War Memorial, and Masterton (Queen Street, Queen Elizabeth Park scenes (lake, band rotunda), Post Office). - Miscellaneous photographs include a Scottish pipe band, a brass band, a water tower, an image titled 'Native hut Fijian Court' at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in Wellington (1940). - Some of the images are printed as post cards and some are duplicated (one is hand-coloured and some may use other tinting or printing processes). A number of images have a brownish hue. Quantity: 126 b&w original photographic print(s) including one hand coloured image. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

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Mitchell, Margo, active 1960s-2018: Photographs of New Zealand buildings, roads, and in...

Date: [ca 1970s-1980s]

By: Mitchell, Margo, active 1960s-2018

Reference: ATL-Group-00294

Description: Photographs of roads, public and historic buildings, Wairakei hydro-electricity, and timber processing mills, taken circa 1970s to 1980s, by Margo Mitchell and some by other unidentified photographers. Twenty of the photographs have captions on the back, which discuss the image (including construction details for roads and buildings) and include camera and film used; these images are possibly from a portfolio as part of study. Ten of the photographs have no identifying details. Some of the name details in the captions are mis-spelt. Architect of Holy Trinity, Lyttleton named as Mr G Malliuser is Mr George Mallinson. Renunga Deviation should be Rununga Deviation. Donor worked as a photographer for the Ministry of Works. Quantity: 27 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour and black and white prints, some with board backing; various sizes. 15 Photographs have "AA" in a circle embossed on the bottom front right- hand corner and Five have "RA" embossed in a circle on the bottom right-hand corner.

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Ohakune Mountain Road Association: Minute Book

Date: 1910-1960

By: Ohakune Mountain Road Association

Reference: MSY-8445

Description: Comprises one volume from the Ohakune Mountain Road Association, relating to the planning, construction, and 1963 opening of the Ohakune Mountain Road. Includes minutes, reports, correspondence, and financial records of the association. Early entries have been handwritten directly in to the volume, later handwritten and typescript entries are pasted to pages. Also contains ephemera interleaved between pages. Title supplied by Library, K H Grimwade, 2010. "The Ohakune Mountain Road: Yard by yard". Taumarunui, Ruapehu District Council. See published collections at Library references: L 388.13 GRI 2010; PamBox q8484 . One of two minute books created by the Ohakune Mountain Road Association. Location of the second minute book (1960-1963) is not known. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

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Transparencies of New Zealand vacations

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Hare, Evelyn Nina, 1911-1989: Collection

Reference: PA12-12161

Description: Transparencies of holiday scenes in the North Island and commercial tourist photographs of South Island tourist sights and accommodation, circa 1960s. Taken by commercial photographers (most of whom are identified) and Evelyn Hare. Most slides have captions. South Island photographs are commercial slides. They show a Mount Cook Air Services plane on a snow field; the Hochstetter Icefall [glacier]; a convoy of [tourist?] busses on the road to Ball Hutt; the Hermitage exterior [and view from room?]; Skyline Gondola, Queenstown; view of Southern Alps from Franz Josef Hotel; Waiau River; and Hamner Lodge pool. Commercial photographers include Robin Smith, R Warburton, and John Dimble. Two of the photographs are published by Avon. Taupo scenes show the AC Baths (with Joan and Eve identified), Edgewater Hotel, and scenes from lake shore including moored boats. Further images taken in the Central Plateau area show a paddock of cows with mountains Tongariro, Ruapehu, and Ngauruhoe in the background and Desert Road scenes. Also includes a photograph of Hare standing in the garden behind 'Willowbank' in Ōhau. Hare identified by photograph where she is named in PA12-12160. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies mounted in card with captions. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card.

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Hansen family photographs

Date: 1862-[ca 2005]

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Hinemoa (Ship : 1876-1944); Meluish, William, 1822?-1888; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PAColl-10718

Description: Contains photographs relating to the Hansen family, circa 1862 to 1990s. Taken by Hansen family members and photographers including Frank Arnold Coxhead, Fredrick George Radcliffe, Arthur Waldemar Schaef, William Meluish, and Burton Brothers. A commercial set of "New Zealand Graphic Series" stereoscopic prints shows a trip down the Whanganui River and the town of Whanganui. These are taken by Fredrick George Radcliffe with the exception of one photograph by Arthur Waldemar Schaef. The collection also contains a stereoscopic print titled "Milford Sound Starvation" by the Burton Brothers showing two men posed with empty barrels and an empty bottle on the rocky shore at Milford Sound. Photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead show numerous views of Puyseger Point and its surrounds including Preservation Inlet. Futher nineteenth century prints include photographs, largely taken in Fiordland and the Otago Region, of landscapes (including Milford Sound, Dunedin gardens and coast, and Lake Wakatipu and surrounding peaks) and buildings in Dunedin (Garrison Hall, Knox Church, First Church, and Royal Exchange Hotel). There are also photographs of roading (Otira Gorge, Hokitika Road), railways (Rimutaka Incline), and an unidentified shepherd with his dog and herd of sheep. Other photographs include a William Meluish photograph of the goldrush at Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeka, taken in 1862. There are photographs relating to roads, railways, buildings, mainly in the Otago Region Assorted family prints from circa 1900s to 1930s include a photograph of Anders Hansen on board the government steamer 'Hinemoa' and further photographs taken on board the 'Hinemoa'. Other identified Hansen family members are George and Annie Hansen, who are also photographed on board a ship, which is likely bound for the Auckland Islands circa 1925. Other photographs relating to boats and shipping include row boats and small steamers on the water [delivering supplies from lighthouse tenders?] and wool being loaded into barges at a coastal woolshed and wharf. Photographs from the Wellington Region show Eastbourne and Wellington Harbour scenes. Photographs relating to a coastal farm, possibly Orongorongo Station, feature farm buildings, an unidentified group of three women and a boy riding in a cart drawn by a draught horse with another saddled horse behind, and two men shooting and bludgeoning a shark on the rocky shore. There is also a photograph of an unidentified wedding party. Two photographs from circa 1990s to 2005 show carved greenstone and bone Māori artefacts, collected by Anders Hansen and his family when he was the lighthouse keeper at Little Papanui on the Otago Peninsula. A Hansen family trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki in 1977 includes photographs of accommodation (a resort, Rapae Motel) and other buildings, beach scenes, vehicles (bus, cars, motorcycle, tractor), a variety of flora (trees, flowers, and other plants), a waterfront scene, thatched roofs under construction, and local people (children by the road, women collecting water lilies, group selling produce). Identified buildings are Cook Island Liquor Supplies and a post office. Also photographs relating to Vaipae and the Ngatangiia Passage. Donor identified some images as being taken on a journey to the Auckland Islands. Greenstone and bone artifacts that appear in photographic prints are now at the Otago Museum. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 54 colour original photographic print(s). 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints and ephemera. Provenance: Series of photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead were given to Anders Hansen by the photographer while he was the lighthouse keeper at Puysegur Point circa 1880s to 1900s.

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Coxe, R K, fl 1890-1895 : Diary of a tour of New Zealand

Date: 1890-1891

By: Coxe, R K, active 1890-1895

Reference: MSX-8177

Description: Diary of R K Coxe, a young man travelling with a companion 'Geoff' to New Zealand on board the Lusitania, departing 5 Dec 1890, arriving in Auckland 28 Jan, and leaving on 4 Apr 1891. Gives detailed and lively descriptions of the voyage, fellow passngers, including Robert Louis Stevenson's stepson Lloyd Osbourne, ports visited and of New Zealand. Gives acerbic impressions of Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Wellington, Lyttelton, Christchurch and Dunedin, and of New Zealanders, both Pakeha and Maori. Includes photographs taken and labelled by him. Source of title - Supplied by Library In Dec 1890 Coxe left the United Kingdom on the vessel Lusitania for New Zealand. He toured the North Island and visited relatives in the South Island, before travelling to Australia on 18 Mar. After a stopover in Melbourne, he left Adelaide for the United Kingdom on 4 Apr. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, David Bristow, UK, 2008

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Highway funds plundered. Uniteds directly responsible. The Right Hon. J G Coates furnis...

Date: 1932

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to roads, road building and maintenance, motorways in New Zealand]

By: Daily telegraph (Napier, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-ROAD-1932-01

Description: An arrangement of text, relating to the Highways Act and criticising, George Forbes and the United Party for the petrol tax and stressing its disadvantages to farmers. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 282 x 220 mm.

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Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Date: 1919, 1924-[ca 1927], 1931-1936

By: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998

Reference: PA-Group-00972

Description: Photographs formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston: - A panoramic photographs of Wellington Girls' College pupils taken 1919 by Lorne studio. - Two photograph albums containing images taken during road trips around New Zealand in 1927 (North Island), 1931 (North Island), 1934-1935 (Christchurch, Dunedin, and Oamaru), with a focus on camping and visits to tourist sites. Also contains series of images relating to a vacation in Dunedin for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1924-1925), and to Anakiwa, Marlborough Sounds, for a summer holiday (1935-1936). Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Images are captioned though few people are identified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (Panorama). Physical Description: Photograph albums, panoramic print Provenance: Donated by Rachel Brown, Wellington, 1999 and 2015. Johnston was the cousin of the donor's father.

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Interview with Alan Graham Ferry

Date: 21 June 2007

From: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Engineering New Zealand oral history project

By: Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017; Ferry, Alan Graham, 1917-

Reference: OHInt-0965-11

Description: Interview with Alan Graham Ferry, conducted 21 June 2007. Interviewee discusses family history, childhood in Kaitaia, education, and his four year engineering cadetship with Fletcher Roberts in Dunedin. Served in the Pacific during World War Two. Discusses his professional career as a civil engineer for the Public Works Department, including work on Roxburgh Hydro scheme, Westport harbour during the Waterfront lockout 1951, and South Canterbury roads. Outlines his time on Colombo Plan projects: supervising the building of a dam in West Pakistan and being director of works in Western Samoa. Talks about his work for the Ministry of Works in Dunedin (particulary on the Abbotsford slip area), the National Roads Board in Wellington, and his research and publications on gravel roading. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Physical Description: Audiotape cassettes, typescript papers Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-8410. Search dates: 2007

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21st Century Road System. "I'd better pull over for a while, Dear - I'm having the most...

Date: 8 April 2007

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-246

Description: Shows a large Easter bunny bouncing beside a jammed highway with a large Easter egg called '21st Century Road System'. A driver tells his wife that he best pull over has he is having a ridiculous hallucination. Refers to the poor road system in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 260mm x 280mm

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Cyclists on road through native forest

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Brown, Denzil James (Rev), 1925- :Photographs

Reference: PA11-267-1

Description: Two young men cycling along a metaled road flanked with mature native forest on one side, and what looks like lower regrowth forest on the other. Photographed by George Ibbetson in about 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s).

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New Zealand. Public Works Department - Activity file

Date: 1941, 1975

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Miscellaneous items transferred from Printed Collections

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8128-1

Description: Review of the activities of the Public Works Department prepared by Robert Semple in 1941 to illustrate to Parliament the broad activities of the department; includes summaries and photographs; many photographs were noted in 1975 to have been removed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Date: 1920-1931, [ca 1950]-2000

By: Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-

Reference: ATL-Group-00562

Description: Collection comprises papers and photographs relating to interests and activities in science, conservation issues and road safety. Includes newspaper clippings on road safety and accidents collected into scrapbooks by Dr Margaret Bailey as part of the research by Dr John and Margaret Bailey into road safety, other papers related to environmental and conservation activities and groups concerned with issues such as the soil and water management of Porirua harbour and Pauatahanui inlet, Margaret Bailey's Doctor of Philosophy thesis and John Bailey's Doctor of Philosophy thesis. Slides, taken John Bailey circa 1950s-1991, showing scenes and events throughout New Zealand with a focus on the development of the Porirua City suburb of Whitby during the 1970s-1980s. Also includes are scrapbooks by the mother of Dr Margaret Bailey, Jean A Thomson. Title supplied by Library. Relationship complexity - Further items held in the Ephemera Collection (Eph-C-BAGS-Bailey and Eph-D-BAGS) During her career in government service, Margaret Bailey was noted for bringing the concept of cleaner production as part of waste management practices to prominence. She has published various works on this subject for the Commission for the Environment and Chemistry Division in Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Her other publications relate to research work done in conjunction with her husband Dr John Patrick Bailey as part of their research company Bailey Partnership Inc which focused on drink driving and fatal road accidents. Quantity: 97 volume(s). 106 folder(s). 0.38 Linear Metres. 2121 colour original transparency/ies. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - MS-Papers-9701 were transferred June 2010 (A2010-108); MS-Papers-11879 were transferred January 2015 (A2015-007). Processing information: Formerly MS-Group-1478. This collection was merged with PA-Group-00546 in April 2021.

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New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department :[New Zealand ... Korean language version...

Date: 1971

From: [Collection of assorted tickets, collected by the Moxon family. 1969-1971]

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1971-01-map

Description: Map panel of pamphlet in Korean promoting New Zealand as a tourist destination, shows a map of New Zealand with text in Korean, and the main highways marked in red. Dated from year of arrival in the Library. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on panel of pamphlet, 217 x 95 mm.

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The Roundabout RULE. Tax payer. More tax. For better roads. For political bandwagons 'V...

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005203

Description: Shows a roundabout with arrows going around in a clockwise direction. A sad looking 'Tax payer', followed by money 'More tax', followed by a road 'For better roads', followed by a electoral campaigning truck on the road 'For political bandwagons', followed by 'Bringing political propaganda' a hand raised with the message 'Vote me!', which leads back to the sad looking 'Tax payer'. Refers to the 2005 New Zealand general elections and the cycle of how the tax payer pays more tax for things like better roading and political campaigns. Also refers to the changes to the driving rules at roundabouts. Published in The Press, 12 March 2005 Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

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New Zealand fights for the future. [1940s]

Date: 1940 - 1945

Reference: Eph-D-WAR-WII-1940s-01

Description: Shows a soldier in the right foreground, and children going to school on a country road, in the background. Both are photographs, the soldier in sepia colouring, the background photograph in blue colouring. Some of the children wear school uniform, while some have bare feet. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 557 x 710 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

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AUCKLAND TRAFFIC PLANNING. Sunday News, 30 August 2002

Date: 2002

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009317

Description: Shows three representives thinking about Auckland Traffic Planning. The first is representing 'Roading' and thinks of more roads. The second represents 'Urban planning' and thinks of give way signs. While the third and final representative for 'Public Transport' can not think of anything. Refers to the problem of Auckland traffic. See DCDL-0009317 for colour version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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