Skis and skiing - New Zealand

Date: 2005 - 2008

Reference: OHColl-1326

Description: Oral history interviews conducted by Nicola Robertson, Jan Lane, Roxane Gajadhar and Jackie Hunter-Letham with important figures in the New Zealand skiing industry on the history of skiing in New Zealand. Project recevied an award in oral history, 2006. Quantity: 24 audiocassette(s). 11 Interview(s). Search dates: 2005 - 2008

Date: 1989

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1707

Description: Includes - Weekend at Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University, Wellington, April 1989. Seaweed harvesting project, Kaba Peninsula, Fiji. Sunset over Tabarua Island, Fiji. Group at the Lady Norwood Rose Garden, Wellington. Children, Sanya and Shabnil Singh. Women in a kitchen, and a dinner party. Teenagers on skis. Groups of tourists in a resort, Fiji. Te Herenga Waka Marae at Victoria University of Wellington, 46 Kelburn Parade, Kelburn. Construction completed in 1987. Carvings associated with the marae were made by two groups under the Master Carver Takirirangi Smith. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1965 - 1967

By: Air New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-ANZ-1965-02

Description: Poster showing eight photographs of scenes in New Zealand, with a tourist bus in a mountain setting, sunbathers at a beach, Christchurch Cathedral, Wellington Harbour by night, a Maori woman in traditional dress at Pohutu Geyser, a chairlift near a ski hut, catching trout, the Central Otago high country, and a photograph of the new DC-8 jet introduced in 1965. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 920 x 620 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Vintage Posters Only, Australia, in 2007.

Date: [1930s-1950s]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-273

Description: Lantern slides of New Zealand landscapes, holiday scenes, and gardens taken by unidentified photographers, probably during the 1930s-1950s. Some have printed captions giving the location or subject. The images include: - Views of Mt Cook and of the Franz Josef Glacier, along with image of crevasses. Also images of skiing, including kea bird perching on upright skis. - Landscapes seen through windows above the altars of two churches: the Church of the Good Shepherd (Lake Tekapo) and St James Church (Waiho Gorge, near Franz Josef). - Scenes in Queenstown, including of the lakefront and the yacht `Kelvin' at the wharf, St Peter's Church, and looking over Lake Wakatipu to The Remarkables. - Images probably taken elsewhere in Central Otago, including a stone post office and other buildings; lake with boats [Lake Wanaka?]; a hillside flower garden; flower beds and gardens; and informal group portraits of children. - Views of flowers, gardens, or trees in Tauranga, Rotorua, and unidentified locations. - Exterior views of Canterbury Museum and Arts Centre in Christchurch. Arrangement: Set contains slides from boxes, 4, 5, and 8. Quantity: 19 b&w lantern slide(s). 30 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [ca 1900-1940]

From: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942 : Photographs, negatives and photo albums

Reference: PAColl-10849

Description: Photographic images of various sizes taken by Leslie Hinge, probably between 1900 to 1940. The images show a number of outdoor recreational, sports and tourism activities, including: - Images of skiers and mountain hikers on Aoraki/Mount Cook. - Two photographs showing a man at a rivermouth, location unknown, fishing up a doctored image of a shark's head. - Bushland with native ferns, ponds and waterfalls. - Closeup images of geothermal mud pools. - Horse and car tracks cutting their way through native forests. - Panoramic photographs of glaciers, mountain peaks and mountain ranges. - Mount Ngauruhoe from the Tongariro Chateau. - Boating, lake and wayside harbour scenes. - Miniature panorama photographs showing boats in Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; and an aerial view of Wellington Harbour, looking back towards the Hutt Valley. - A photograph of Oriental Bay, Wellington at night. There are also a handful of images that relate to industries such as whaling, forest clearing and farming, including: - A bullock team dragging a large log through bushland. - Images of whalers on harpoon boats heading out to sea. - Images of mobs of sheep being mustered. - Two large montage photographs showing whalers hunting and landing a whale for butchering at a processing station. - Two panoramic photographs of a large cattle stockyard, location unknown, containing mustered cattle. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Twelve mini-panorama photographs were originally found stored within an A4 envelope. The photographs have been placed in an acid free enclosure, and interleaved back in their original location. A4 envelope not retained. Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Provenance: Donor is the granddaughter of Leslie Hinge and acquired the collection from her mother, Ruby Blanche Keen (nee Hinge), after her mother's death in 2001. The collection had previously been stored under the family house at Oriental Terrace, Wellington.

Date: August 1961

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

Reference: 1/4-129324-F

Description: Related index card reads: Ski-ing [sic]. Mt Ruapeha. August 1961. Taupo Ski Club members at Blyth Hut after traverzing [traversing] Ruapeha from top of Brue Road to Ohakune, August 1961. Left to right: Unnamed Australian, R.A. Turner (with axe), Bud Vanderburg. Seated: Les Cleveland, Bill Harrington, Eileen McKay. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: August 1961

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

Reference: 1/4-129323-F

Description: Related index card reads: Ski-ing [sic]. Mt Ruapeha. August 1961. Taupo Ski Club members at Blyth Hut after traverzing [traversing] Ruapeha from top of Brue Road to Ohakune, August 1961. Left to right: Unnamed Australian, R.A. Turner (with axe), Bud Vanderburg. Seated: Les Cleveland, Bill Harrington, Eileen McKay. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: August 1961

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

Reference: 1/4-129322-F

Description: Related index card reads: Ski-ing [sic]. Mt Ruapeha. August 1961. Taupo Ski Club members at Blyth Hut after traverzing [traversing] Ruapeha from top of Brue Road to Ohakune, August 1961. Left to right: Unnamed Australian, R.A. Turner (with axe), Bud Vanderburg. Seated: Les Cleveland, Bill Harrington, Eileen McKay. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1960-2010

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

Reference: PAColl-10567-07

Description: Photographs taken by Les Cleveland of people and alpine scenes, largely in the West Coast Region, between 1939 and circa 1980s. Printed between 1960 and 2010. Many prints include captions detailing the location of the photograph and the date it was taken and printed. Multiple prints are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph". Identified people include Ben Sutherland (operating nozzle on claim at Goldsborough), Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken (eating fish and chips), Mike Sheldon (proprietor of the European Hotel, Charleston), Mick O'Neill (barman at Red Lion Hotel, Hokitika), Tex Smith (Southern Scenic Airways pilot), Kevin Blythell (meat hunter), and Lynne Rogers (seated in a Herbert Street coffee bar, Wellington). Also includes several nudes of Mary Cleveland taken on Mount Ruapehu and in Te Naihi Valley and a photograph of Les Cleveland boiling a billy. Unidentified people include a World War Two soldier, a whitebaiter and his children, two small boys on tricycles in Te Urewera, an injured woman being treated by the ski patrol on Mount Ruapehu, fishermen, and women working in the Carters' Sawmill Store at Hannah's Clearing in Haast. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, includes some composite images Transfers: Box three of five. See PAColl-10567-05 to 06 and PAColl-10567-08 to 09 for prints originally stored with these ones.. Processing information: Library staff arranged prints geographically and by subject where possible. The volume of prints required that they be housed in five separate boxes.

Date: 1960-1999

Reference: Eph-B-SKI-1900s

Description: Includes: 1964: Ski international meetings 1964. Visit of Swiss National team to New Zealand. Souvenir program 1964. 1970s?: Skiers, we've got it all! Mount Cook Ski Region, New Zealand. 1970s? 1972: ZAPP New Zealand Skiing Limited. 1st annual summer ski race training camp & ski school. Ruapehu, 18-27 December [1972]. Booklet 1979: Third International Conference on Ski Trauma and Skiing Safety in Queenstown, New Zealand, 15-20 July 1979. Flier 1983: Ski Hi New Zealand 1983. Mount Cook Line. Poster / pamphlet 1984: Ski Yer Heart Out. Flier and junior scholarship application form 1984 1985: Ski-Hi New Zealand 1985 winter holidays. Catalogue Snow Bound Ski Tours. Kiss away the winter blues [1985]. Yellow flier 1986: Mount Cook Line holidays. Take off and ski the South on a 9 day wander [1986]. Flier 1989: Ski Yer Heart Out. Catalogue 1989 Whakapapa the magic mountain, Ski Whakapapa 1989 (2 copies) 1991: Mount Hutt Ski Area. Skii Mount Hutt New Zealand 1991 1994: The Interislander. Sea to Ski Weekender; a weekend ski package to Rainbow Valley Ski Area. 1994. Flier Ski Travel Specialists. Ski USA. Catalogue 1994 Mount Cook Line. Ski Mt Hutt 1994. Pamphlet /booking form 1999: The Interislander. Ski South; take your car on a South Island ski holiday [1999] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes ranging up to 330 mm. Provenance: Two items donated by Alison Mudford, 2015. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-2424 (2 items only).

Date: [1930s]

By: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-305

Description: Album created with aviation pioneer Horatio Murdoch MacKay. Photographs include several in which MacKay was the first man to fly across the Tasman as a passenger, making the flight with Charles Kingsford Smith. One sequence shows Boeing biplane (purchased by New Zealand Airways Ltd in 1934), shipped from Vancouver and assembed in New Zealand, and the first landing at Green Island `Aerodrome'. A number of views of different aeroplanes, both monoplanes and biplanes follows. There are a large number of postcards of Launceston, Jenolan Caves, and Ballarat in Australia, and caves in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. Photographs of a group travelling on a South Island tour by White Star Taxis, a company which MacKay established, including views of the first hotel at Wanaka `The White Star Private Hotel'. One scene shows one of the taxis after an accident. Other scenes show a group skiing, a group at the summit of the Crown Range, and a large group on a motor launch. The last sequence is chiefly family photographs, including several houses, and two different wedding parties; several portraits, possibly of Horatio MacKay's wife Helen Emma (nee Griffiths). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue and brown patterned cover, entitled `Snapshots'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1932

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: PA1-o-262

Description: Collection of photographs, most of which show aspects of yachting, chiefly in Wellington harbour. Most images are not identified in captions, except one page of a Tararua trip to Field Hut in May 1932 (p. 48); and one page of images of a young woman, entitled Savannah, Ill. 1923 and 1925. The boating views show yachts, yacht racing, sailors, coastline, and a lighthouse (several views). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1939-1941

From: McKenzie, Roy Allan (Sir), 1922-2007: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1586

Description: Includes - Roy and other Timaru High School boys skiing. Photographs of school friends. Snaps of Dunedin, Roy at Fairlie, view of a garden, and interior of (probably) a school washroom. Trip to Australia on the `Awatea' Christmas 1939. Includes - Views of Sydney and the Harbour Bridge. Manley. The Blue Mountains. Melbourne. Trip to Milford Sound. Another group of photographs of a party of Timaru Boys' High School boys skiing at Mount Cook. Includes views of the interior of Ball Hut. The bunk room. group playing cards. dining tables set for a meal. The cook. Views of Hochstetter Dome, and Mount Cook from Malte Brun. School friends and school groups, 1939. The bar at Roydon Lodge. Views of a garden. Probably view of the stables on John Robert McKenzie's horse stud. Camping holiday with a caravan at Hamner. New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongatai, Wellington, 14 January 1940. John McKenzie, his horses and stables. Photographs of family and friends. Group of young men on a hunting trip. Group on a veranda, Easter 1941. Men in military uniform begin to make an appearance. Views of the Southern Alps from the Sealey Range. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1942-[ca 1947]

From: McKenzie, Roy Allan (Sir), 1922-2007: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1588

Description: Includes - Roy McKenzie's memorial to his brother Don who was killed in a flying accident off the Canterbury coast in 1942. Group and other photographs of RAF personnel in England. Roy McKenzie and another man in ceremonial Scottish dress. Soldiers in Italy. Skiing on Mount Ruapehu and other places. Photographs of young women. Family groups and friends, some beside a Cord 810 automobile. A late 1930s Jaguar automobile in front of a house. John and Annie McKenzie with a friend in a top hat. Post war trip to England on the `Port Hobart.' Includes - Passengers on deck. Tourist photographs of the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, and the Bournmouth Pavillion. A game of tennis. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca 1939-1944]

From: McKenzie, Roy Allan (Sir), 1922-2007: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1585

Description: Includes - Groups of skiers in snow covered landscapes. Views of snow covered mountains. Roy McKenzie in military uniform (Air Force). Loose photos of John and Annie McKenzie with friends. John McKenzie among his race horses. Group of soldiers reclining in a paddock eating. Group of photographs probably from a holiday in the Queentown/Milford Track areas. Group of soldiers (probably on the Empire Air Training Scheme, Canada). Portrait of a young woman called Errol. Senior High School boys. Trainees in Canada on the Empire Air training Scheme. Soldier groups. Snowy landscapes and other Canadian views. Skiing in Canada. Views of Fountains Abbey, England, and Liverpool Cathedral under construction. Groups of soldiers in England. Views of Oxford. A wedding. John McKenzie at the laying of a stone in memory of his son Don, May 1943. Group photograph of RAF soldiers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1939-[ca 1942]

From: McKenzie, Roy Allan (Sir), 1922-2007: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1587

Description: Includes - Photographs of Timaru Boys' High School's sports teams and Roy McKenzie's prowess as an all round sportsman. View of a school building at the high school. Locker room interior. Group photographs of pupils. The bar at Roydon Lodge. View of stables at John Robert McKenzie's horse stud. Clippings from the Timaru Boys' High school's magazine and newpapers mainly sporting subjects. School photographs including some sort of dramatic production, sports teams, and groups of pupils. Skiing photographs. Roy in military uniform and soldiers on parade. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11237

Description: Includes - Views of skiers on snow slopes. Horses and jockeys racing. People watching and playing golf. People among a group of classic cars. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10906

Description: Golfers, skiers, snow and mountains. Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 13 Sep 2011

From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011

By: Baine, Ian, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-1007-01

Description: Interview with Ian Baine about his experiences as a long-term member of the Tararua Tramping Club. Comments that his father Jack was an inaugural member of the Club in 1919 and led the first winter crossing of the southern Tararuas in 1922. Mentions his mother was also an early member of the Club and was in the first Southern Crossing with women (and chaperones) in the party. Refers to his father being a ranger for the Water Board and having a hut off the Wainuiomata Road. Talks about trips in the Wainuiomata and Eastbourne area when he was a child. Recalls Club members building huts and maintaining difficult tracks until the Department of Conservation (DOC) took over. Discusses search and rescue operations and tramping club members carrying out the dead from the crash of a [Lockheed] Lodestar [in 1949, in the Tararuas behind Waikanae]. Refers to skiing from Kime Hutt [in the Tararuas] in 1947, and the club moving to Ruapehu where he won many cups. Outlines the development of ski tows and lifts at Ruapehu in the 1950s and the evolution of skiing. Mentions a tramping trip in the Nelson area in 1948/49, and an alpine trip the following year from the Hermitage over saddles to Franz Joseph Glacier. Refers to attending an alpine instruction course in the South Island and equipment used. Comments on going to Europe for his work in 1955 where he climbed, skied and met his future wife. Reflects on injuries he has suffered skiing and tramping and friends who have been killed in accidents. Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDV-0041 - OHDV-0043 (field recordings) Tape numbers - OHDV-0044 (edited master) Quantity: 3 videocassette(s). 1 videocassette(s) Videocassette. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract; list of photographs). 202 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 80 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 2.21 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7592, OHDL-001773. Scanned black and white photographs from Ian Baine's albums of tramping, mountaineering and skiing trips and of his life. List of photographs available Search dates: 2011

Date: [Ca 1920s-1940s]

From: Curry, Roy Goodwin, 1918-2006: Collection

Reference: Series-6387

Description: Negatives taken by Roy Curry circa 1920s-1940s showing tramping and skiing trips and people. Also includes the film storage album that the negatives were stored in. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives separated from album for preservation purposes. The sleeve numbers were transcribed onto negative enclosures. Not all sleeves contained negatives and some sleeves contained multiple negatives. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. 118 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Negative album and negatives.