Reclamation of land - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1841

By: Hilliard, George Richard, 1801-1881

Reference: A-113-020

Description: Shows part of waterfront with three cottages and grid possibly for proposed road and sections on hillside and reclaimed flat land or part of Te Aro Flat. A rowboat and a canoe are shown in the harbour. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 190 x 310 mm

Date: ca 1884

Reference: 1/2-004538-F

Description: Looking across Te Aro from Mount Victoria towards Kelburn showing the railway across the harbour for the trains carrying infill from the quarry at the end of Oriental Bay which was then dumped in the inland water. The gas works on the waterfront can also be seen. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/[ca.1925]/Acc.14574

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map showing the Wellington Harbour Board's leased land on reclaimed land between Waterloo Quay and Fryatt Quay, including Kings Wharf, Hinemoa and Cornwell Street and Aotea Quay, Wellington. Sections are numbered and show acreage and owner. The Board's properties on Cornwell Street are listed as leased to: J Hamilton, Murray Roberts & Company, Public Works Department, Wellington Harbour Board, Wright Stephenson & Company, City Corporation Electric Power Substation, Co-operative Dairy Producers Federation Company. Surrounding Wellington Harbour Buildings are also shown, including garages, sheds, carpenter shop and yard, as well as Post & Telegraph Department, Public Works yard, Marine Department, and New Zealand Railway land. Written on recto: WHB Waterloo Quay reclamation T. No 1195 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on blueprint, scale indeterminable, 32.8 x 66.7 cm

Date: 1886

By: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmfs/A/1886/Acc.3319

Description: Map showing of Wellington Harbour as at 1886, from Waterloo Quay to Clyde Quay, showing harbour soundings, Queen's Wharf, railway wharf, wool wharf, buildings in the vicinity including government offices, Supreme Court, police station, harbour board, drill shed, freezing works, railway terminus, parliamentary buildings, Government House, Custom Post and Telegraph, marine telegraph, wool shed, boat harbour, Thorndon and Te Aro Baths, and several banks. Shows named Te Aro streets from Courtenay Place to Marjoribanks Street, and unnamed reclaimed streets from Wakefield Street to Jervois Quay and Cable Street, identifying the proposed reclamation corporation endowment. Includes two tables on the map, one showing class and tonnage of goods passing over wharves, the other berthage accommodation along the wharf. Soundings shown in feet. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Roberts, Edward, active 1847-1858; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: E-455-f-029

Description: Map of central Wellington in 1851, showing proposed reclamation of the area on the harbour side of Lambton Quay. Annotated by John Pearse. The base lithograph has extensive annotations, including writing over all of the section numbers Another copy in the Cartographic Collection (with no annotations & no colouring) includes the printed date 1851. Ref. no. MapColl 832.4799a/A/1851/Acc.630 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 370 x 497 mm

Date: 1985 - 1986

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council

Reference: MapColl-WRC-5/11/1B-Acc.

Description: Aerial photograph of Petone Esplanade with map showing proposed reclamation area, motorway allignment and proposed buildings Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations + aerial photograph. Physical Description: Black ink on white paper. Scale ca 1: 5000, 102 x 79 cm.

Date: 1910

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Seaton & Sladden (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-0155/0157

Description: Includes site plan showing workshop fronting on to Evans Bay Road. Buildings include laundry, coal bunkers, furnace, power house, boilermakers, blacksmiths, engineers & electricians, pattern store, shipwrights and boat builders (with sailmakers over), sawmill (with joiners over), salvage store (with upholsterers over), iron rack and wire store (with offices over). By the slipway are the boat shed, painters' shed and bond shed. Also includes a plan of the rubble and landfill. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, sizes varying

Date: 1933

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799eam/A/1933/Acc.10286

Description: Copy of cadastral map with street information, showing Te Aro land reclamation. The area mapped is from Taranaki Street and Taranaki Street Wharf to the Clyde Quay Wharf, including Oriental Parade and Blair, Allen and Tory streets off Wakefield Street. Streets named are Cable, Barnett, Chaffers and Herd streets. Three unnamed wharves are marked, probably proposed, between Taranaki Street Wharf and Clyde Quay Wharf. Railway land is marked, as is a boat harbour. Sections are numbered 1 to 25, and section 21 is noted as the original section, while all include acreages and boundary measurements. Printed on original map: T. No. 1321 Printed on original map in bottom left corner: T. G. H. 17/7/33 Stamped on copy: Copy of Plan No. 69/39 Scale of original: [1:792] Other Titles - Wellington Harbour Board - Te Aro reclamation skeleton plan Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo photoprint, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 61.6 x 78.5 cm

Date: [ca 1860s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000580-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: Item now at 1/2-025192.

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: 1924

By: Seaton, Sladden & Pavitt (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1924/Acc.10357

Description: Cadastral, part surveyed map, showing Section 212, Lots 32A and 33, Block 10, Reserve K, part of the Te Aro land reclamation, on Pringle Avenue (highlighted in yellow), bounded by Wakefield, Cuba and Manners street sections, in Te Aro, Wellington. Four Pringle Ave properties are highlighted in red, and two are marked sold. An ink annotation on the map reads: 'Copy of plan submitted to State Coal Dpt, 10/4/[19]26'. See also similar map MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1924/Acc.10356 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on blueprint, linen backed, scale [1:425], 51 x 54 cm.

Date: 1906

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799eam/Ki/1906/Acc.4867

Description: Tracing of a map of the area from Hamilton and Evans Bay roads to Childers Terrace, Lyall Bay and Onepu roads. Streets are named. The post office, recreation ground, baths, property of J. D. Topp, a church, fire brigade station, the tram line down Seatoun Road leading to Lyall Bay Road, also the new Kilbirnie Post Office are marked. The projected Wellington Harbour Board area of reclamation includes its acreage and is situated along the Evans Bay foreshore is shown. A note states that the authorised area of reclamation under the Empowering Act of 1906 is 22 acres, with power to lease about 5 acres. The low water mark is shown. Includes a proposed road between Lyall Bay Road and the Evans Bay Road leading to the patent slip. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, linen backed, scale not given, 56.8 x 30.1 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: 1979

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R22/7D-Acc.

Description: Identifies existing and proposed reclamations in the Wellington Region Base map: New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey 2nd Ed. 1974 Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Coloured ink on grey paper. Scale [ca 1: 100 000] 83 x 59 cm.

Date: 1869

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Taylor, Robert H, active 1907-1910

Reference: PAColl-D-0790

Description: View looking down onto the Terrace School and beyond that to Queen's Wharf and recently reclaimed land, and across the harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay. In the middle distance is the department store, Kirkcaldie & Stains, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1869, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Identical image at PA7-30-09, PA7-57-07, PAColl-D-0009. Image is in the centre of a panorama at PA6-271 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Protected R Taylor; Mount recto - beneath image - 1869 Lambton Quay & Queens Wharf from above the terrace 1869 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 290 x 390 mm mounted on card 485 x 550 mm

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14598

Description: A copy of a cadastral map of the area between The Terrace and Whitmore Street, Boulcott Street to Cuba Street, Brougham Street to Clyde Quay Wharf and Herd Street. Sections and subdivisions are numbered and include numerous Deeds plan numbers. Government, provincial and Thorn Reclamation land includes block numbers. Wharves are named. Names include Town Hall, and land belonging to the Wellington Harbour Board and Wellington City Council is marked. Streets are named, as are some rights of way such as Opera House Lane. Red ink annotations show property values in pounds sterling. Title supplied by cataloguer - subtitle taken from top right of map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo print, some colour, scale not given, 107.2 x 74 cm.

Date: [Between 1841 and 1929]

By: Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-o-430

Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originallty taken between about 1841 and 1929. Includes one photograph of a painting of Wellington waterfront from 1841, by Charles Heaphy. Only a few images identify the photographers, the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers and James Bragge. The Bragge photograph (looking down to the Harbour from Hill Street taken in the 1880s) was identified from his horse-drawn carriage with his name and occupation emblazoned on the side. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: Most of the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections.

Date: 1958

From: Kee, Douglas Franklyn, fl 1890s?-1966 :Rongotai [airport construction] / Frank Kee. 1957-1958

Reference: B-121-013

Description: Shows a hill being reshaped with earthmoving machinery Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 322 x 427 mm

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1967

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington Harbour Board

Reference: MapColl-WRC-C13/6-Acc.

Description: Identifies in colour works included in different states Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 71 x 100 cm.