Geology - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1909 to 1918

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

Reference: PA1-f-008

Description: Photographs supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes of Annals of the Tararua Range (Vol 1, figures 1-146). Images show geology, topography, physiography and flora of the Tararua Ranges. Views of the Tararua Ranges, with peaks named (figs 1-6); ascent of Mt Waiopehu (3588 ft.), 22 Jan 1909 (figs 8-10); 1st crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 Feb 1909, finishing on a campsite on the farmland of Alfred Deal at Waingawa, also a view of Mr Deal's house, and views of Masterton, including the Masterton Post Office and public gardens (figs 11-45); visit to the High Fall on the Poruriri Ridge near Tokomaru, 30 Oct 1910 (figs 46-49); ascent of Mt Tawirikohukohu (3455 ft) via the Ohau Rover, 18 Dec 1910 (figs 50-52); 3rd ascent of Mt Waiopehu, 3-6 Jan 1911 (Figs 73-76); across the Tararua Range via Palmerston North-Pahiatua Road, 22-23 Jan 1911 (figs 73-76); visit to the Ohau-Mangahao divide via the southern branch of the Ohau River, 12 Feb 1911 (figs 77-83); 2nd crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 9-17 Feb 1911 (figs 84-128); ascent of Te Paki trig station on the Tararua foothils east of Shannon, 10 Dec 1916 (figs 129-132); topography & physiography of the valley of the Makahika, tributary of the Ohau River, 6 Jan 1918 (figs 133-134); 2nd ascent of Te Paki & topography of the Upper Tokomaru Valley, 28 Apr 1918 (figs 135-136); 1st visit to the No.1 gorge on the Mangahao River, 29 Feb 1919 (figs 137-138); topography & physiography of the Waireka & Wainui valleys, 13 Apr 1919 (figs 139-142); physiography of the Poruriri Ridge & Mangaharakeke Falls, on the Tararua western foothills near Tokomaru, 24 Aug 1919 (figs 143-146).

Date: Aug 1942

By: Grayland, Eugene Charles, 1916-1976

Reference: MS-0870

Description: Unpublished work on major New Zealand earthquake. Contains detailed research on the event and its aftermath, phenomena observed, geomorphological changes and damage sustained in Wellington and the Wairarapa. Full table of contents showing damage, and geological diagrams are included in the text Variations in title - Spine title: The NZ earthquake of August 1942 Source of title - Title transcribed Accompanying material - Six leaves loose in phase box probably intended for this volume Eugene Grayland of Auckland was an author, newspaper journalist and editor, book collector and publisher under his own imprint, the Colenso Press Quantity: 1 volume(s) (160 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (22 cm; ¼ red cloth, orange boards, in grey phase box)

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-038/039

Description: A view looking north along the coastline, with the sea to the right. Part of the fencing of a cattle or sheep run is on the flat land at Akitio in the left foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 360 mm

Date: 1949 - 1954

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm); D Bruce-Smith & Associates (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-073-027/031

Description: Includes floor plans, site plans, terrain and bore data. Most plans are by Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners, but one is by D Bruce-Smith and Associates. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and pencil drawings on paper, sizes varying up to around 600 x 800 mm.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-457

Description: Cartoon shows five vignettes: an N.A.C. officer and Councillor Howman using a jeweller's eyepiece to examine various rocks from road diggings, broken footpaths, building blocks, and finally a landslip. They choose the "rotten rock" of the landslip. The last vignette shows the festival organisers in Swanton exclaiming indignantly when they receive the rotten rock. Other Titles - \"Why, the miserable so-and-sos - they could've sent us something a bit fresher!\" Other Titles - Councillor; National Airways Corporation; United States of America Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 205 x 345 mm on sheet 255 x 385 mm.

Date: 1861-1864

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-051

Description: Other Titles - Geological Reports Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1863]

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-053/054

Description: An extensive view from a high point looking down to the Tauweru River Valley and ranges beyond. The tallest peak is noted as Maunga Pakeha Peak. Other Titles - Tauwera River. Mangareia Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 430 mm (double spread)

Date: [ca 1872]

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-050

Description: Essay by R B Smyth. Notes on rock specimens in Wellington Province collected by J C Crawford. Essay by J W Freeth. Account of occupation of Miramar Peninsula by Ngati Kahunginu as told by Te Manihera. Includes accompanying letter from H S Wardell and sketch map, 31 August 1872. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1983

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-001

Description: Waikanae Estuary notes for environmental geology class; Tring notes on New Zealand birds (July 1983) Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: Circa 1900s

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

Reference: PA1-f-003

Description: Album of black & white photographs taken during the early 1900s, showing geological formations in New Zealand. They include images of the Banks Peninsula, Sumner, Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Halswell River, in several sequences in the album; flooding of the Koputaroa Stream at Levin, on 4 December 1906; Lake Horowhenua; Paekakariki Coast; the Wairarapa, including Orongorongo Valley, Wharekauhau Stream, Wainuiomata, Palliser Bay, Mukamuka Valley, Eglinton's Hut; Tongariro National Park area, including Waiouru (in which the stables of Crowther & McCauley coach services are visible), the source of the Waikato River at the gorge and waterfall of the Mangatoetoenui Stream; Mount Ruapehu, crater lake, the Waihohonu Hut, Te Heuheu Peak, Flounder Glacier and Waikato Glacier; Mount Ngauruhoe, slopes and craters and the source of the Ohinepango Stream; Mount Tongariro, Ketetahi Springs and Ketetahi Hut, craters and crater lakes including the Red crater, and Blue and Green Lakes

Date: Between 1948 and 1949

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

Reference: PA1-o-003

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 3". Black & white photographs of geological and geomorphological aspects of New Zealand. Includes images taken on a second visit to the Rotorua area (Oct 4-12 1948), showing lakes, thermal areas, mountain rifts and other geological formations. A boring plant testing the ground on the line of the proposed Rimutaka Tunnel; views of The Terrace, Wellington showing the office building of the New Zealand Geological Survey at 156 The Terrace; Mangaroa Basin plain; Hutt River valley; the Wellington fault scarp along Grant Road; the geology of the Paekakariki area of coastal lowland; the new Wellington City number 2 water supply tunnel from the upper Hutt River (14 Jan 1949). Also shows images taken when attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress held in New Zealand, January-February 1949, including views of Auckland; "Birchlands" (home of Sir Frank Mappin, Mt Eden, where the Congress garden party was held); Mount Mangere; Auckland Ferry Wharf; an excursion in the Wellington area for the Congress to Baring Head & Orongorongo. Water supply in Paraparaumu, March 25 1949; Visit to East Wairarapa beyond Martinborough (a Victoria University excursion led by Dr A R Lillie and R A Couper), showing Dr Lillie, John Marwick, Thomas Ludovic Grant-Taylor); Castlepoint & the Matapihi Trig Station on the Ruamahanga River, April 14-17, 1949; inland pumice deposit at Waitarere Beach (11 Oct 1949); official inspection of the lower course of the Otaki River (21 Oct 1949) showing the Otaki Railway Bridge with piles beneath the piers exposed by erosion; coast of the Miramar Peninsula.

Date: 1955-1965

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-606

Description: `Radiocarbon dating from a post-glacial neach of western Wellington' by C A Fleming; `Petrological notes on loess from Waikanae' by A Ewart and notes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1957

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-062-001

Description: Shows site plan with Molesworth Street and Little Pipitea Street marked, and analytic result of bores. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on tracing paper, 470 x 703 mm.

Date: 1811-1939

By: Crawford family

Reference: ATL-Group-0759

Description: The bulk of the collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence and papers of James Coutts Crawford, 1817-1889 and correspondence with his sons H D, A D, C J, and J D Crawford who held a diplomatic post in China, and daughter Janet Willis. James Coutts Crawford's papers cover his naval career, sojourn in Australia, farming and development of land purchased at Miramar (Wellington) and service as Provincial Geologist. The papers reflect his interest in natural history, agriculture and mining. Early material was used in `Recollections of Travel in Australia and New Zealand' published in 1880. The papers of his sons deal with the development of the Miramar Estate and sheep farming. Arrangement: This collection is arranged so that the papers of James Coutts Crawford and each member of his family are self-contained as far as possible. The outward correspondence to members of the immediate family is collected under the writer while inward correspondence is confined to letters from extended family members and other writers. There is some overlapping of papers especially where the Miramar estate is concerned. Quantity: 406 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 4 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescript, printed matter, maps, photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: See inventory for details Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph albums (25 Sep 1984) PA-Group-00149.

Date: 1942

By: Grayland, Eugene Charles, 1916-1976

Reference: MS-0869

Description: Unpublished work on a major earthquake; contains detailed research on nature of event, phenomena observed, geomorphological changes and damage sustained in the main Wairarapa towns. Newspaper clippings showing the damage and a geological diagram are included in the text. Source of title - Transcribed title Variations in title - Spinee title: The NZ earthquake of 1934 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (113 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (22 cm; ¼ red cloth, orange boards, in grey phase box) Finding Aids: Full table of contents precedes text. Geological diagram

Date: 1906-1964

By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964

Reference: Micro-MS-0600

Description: Includes detailed descriptions of farming near Levin and geological and archaeological explorations thoroughout Wellington Province Quantity: 12 microfilm reel(s) negative.

Date: 1974

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-C18/5A-Acc.

Description: Shows features of interest located by the Recreation and Conservation Study of the Wellington Regional Planning Authority up to June 1974 - Geological features, Flora and Fauna, Archaeological sites and Historic sites. Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale ca 1: 63 360, 57 x 44 cm.

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-064/065

Description: Distinctive hills on a Wairarapa pastoral run Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 130 x 360 mm

Date: 1950 - 1982

By: New Zealand Oceanographic Institute

Reference: MapColl-832.4793caq/[195-?]/Acc.43707

Description: Map of the Hutt Valley, bounded by Pauatahunui in the west, Petone and Wainuiomata (south), Rimutaka range (east), and Maymorn Ridge and Hutt forks (north). Formations marked include: Hutt and Trentham formations (Holocene); Pakuratahi gravels, Stoke alluvium and Whitemen gravels (Upper Pleistocene); Belmont gravels, Emerald gravels, Normandale alluvial group and Kaitoke gravel group (Lower Pleistocene); spilites, chert and red and green argillites. Active faults are marked, as are rivers and streams. Major roads and the railway tracks are marked and population centres named. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo on paper, scale [1:63 360], 42.2 x 53.3 cm. Provenance: Donated by New Zealand Oceanographic Institute

Date: 1856, 1863

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-100

Description: Includes correspondence re publication: W Lauder Lindsay, Perth, Scotland (1863) re geology of Wellington J Symons, Edinburgh (1856) re J C Crawford's letter to Edinburgh Times Quantity: 1 folder(s).