Tainui (Ship : 1908-1939)

Date: August 1919

From: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965 :Photograph album of views of England, Ireland, voyage to New Zealand after World War I

Reference: PA1-o-934-62-3

Description: New Zealand soldiers on the deck of troop transport `Tainui,' take a "goodbye" look at England. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "Goodbye England" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.4 x 6 cm, on album page

Date: 1923-1930

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1945

Description: Album of photographs compiled by Phyllis Long of her journey to New Zealand in 1923, time teaching at Nga Tawa School, and return to England in 1926. Also includes photographs likely taken in Kashmir in circa 1928-1930. Long is likely the photographer of most images, with other photographers unidentified. Some images have captions. Photographs of Long's trip to New Zealand on board the ship 'Tainui' include a commercial postcard of the ship and passengers waving from the deck as the ship leaves the wharf, Panama Canal (Culebra Cut, Gatun Lock, Mira Flores Lock, dredges, and a coaling station), Pitcairn Island, and Pitcairn Islanders approaching in a rowboat and selling local goods on board the ship. Further ship board scenes show deck sports (croquet, tennis), crossing the line ceremony (greasy pole, Father Neptune), unidentified people in deck chairs, and Phyllis Long with various children including Jo, Eileen, Audrey, and the Whiteside family. Nga Tawa photographs show the original school building (Wellington Diocesan School) with images of the entrance, a side view, and veranda. Also the swimming bath and interior images of the dining room and gym. Album also includes a photograph of the new school building, built after the 1924 fire. Students in school uniform are seen on excursions with Long such as having a picnic beside a river and in a copse of trees, wading in the water [Rangitikei River?], swimming, and on the poolside during swimming event. One poolside image shows a large monster costume. Teacher's accommodation where Long lived (a cottage on the school grounds) is shown with exterior and interior images and sometimes with teachers, including Long, in shot. Miss Else J. Rowe, Miss Halstead, Miss Cooper-Evans, and Frances McCall (the headmistress) are identified. Also images of their horses Ngaio, Kaiwarau, Pipette, and Petone. In one image McCall holds a puppy. Long and other teachers are also seen setting out for a picnic on horseback and swimming in a river under a railway bridge. Some group photographs show teachers and students. Other images show a pitched tent, boiling billies over a campfire, flooded farmland, an unidentified obelisk-shaped memorial, Long and an unidentified man standing on coastal rocks in Sydney, and a Rough Collie dog with a stick. Image of Long's return to England on board the ship 'Marama' in 1926 include unidentified people on deck and children in fancy dress. A series of images, likely of Kashmir, show river scenes (canoe with outrigger, [house boats?]), street scenes (pineapple stall, rickshaw, water buffalo pulling carts), children swimming, and houses. See Phylis Long's letters home to her parents describing her arrival and life at the school in MS-Papers-11956-05. Phyllis Long taught at Nga Tawa School near Marton from 1923-1926. She met her future husband Eric Tyndale-Biscoe during this time. They moved to Kashmir after they married in England in 1927. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 132 prints. Physical Description: Photograph album with plain brown leather cover, 22.6 x 24.9 cm Processing information: One print of Nga Tawa school was was loose and has been placed in an enclosure at the rear of the album.

Date: 1898-1915, nd

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-373

Description: Fold-out advertising brochure with panoramic views of the Kilbirnie & Lyall Bay area. The auction was to be held by Harcourt & Co, 26 Oct 1900; brochure to mark the establishment of industrial facilities at Miramar, 1913; map of Wellington showing electric tramway route and the principal buildings, published by Graham Ltd, 1904; printed passenger list `Majestic', from New York to Liverpool, May 1898; printed passenger list for `RMS Tainui' leaving Montevideo, Jan 1911; Regulations for the Junior Cadets, 1910; Reports of the Proceedings of the 14th & 15th Annual Meetings of the Wellington provincial Industrial Association, 1909 & 1910; souvenir programme for Grand Inaugural Concert of Wellington Pipe Band and Dancers' Association, 16 Jul 1913; Wellington Golf Club annual report and balance sheet, 1898; address given by C J Crawford at the Town Hall during mayoral campaign; Wellington Sports Club brochure, nd; Waihi Gold Mining Company Ltd annual report, 1915 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039552-G

Description: Ship Tainui on Mokau River. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1927-1929

From: Elston family: Correspondence and photograph album

Reference: PA1-o-947

Description: Album compiled by Elston family (Alf & Dot Elston, and children Joan & Alfie) during voyage from England to New Zealand on the Tainui in 1927, and first two years in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1918

From: Edwin, Irene Atherton, 1875-1952 :[Drawings of camouflaged ships seen at Wellington, New Zealand during the First World War and in 1921] 1917-1921.

Reference: E-276-q-018

Description: Looking down onto Wellington Harbour with the Tainui and part of a second ship, the John Ena, moored at Queen's Wharf, rough indications of three wharf sheds, Point Jerningham and Miramar on the right, the eastern hills in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, ink inscriptions on lined paper, 249 x 201 mm

Date: [ca 1890-1906]

From: Richmond family : Papers

Reference: 77-173-68/5

Description: Postcards sent to Mary Richmond from Japan, England, Australia, Russia and Portugal; views of Rimutaka Incline, Wellington; maps of Holland and Switzerland; passenger list for RMS `Tainui' which sailed from Wellington on 21 Aug 1890 for London; business card for Yellow Cabs, Wellington, NZ Ltd; visiting cards (some from crew of frigate `Novara'); in memoriam card for Tom Bremner, 16 Jun 1898; Christmas card from Mrs Charles R Russell Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/2-234084-G

Description: Ship Tainui on Mokau River. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1925

From: [Ephemera, menus, programmes relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly used on voyages to New Zealand. 1920-1939]

By: Shaw, Savill & Albion Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-1925-01

Description: Pink pamphlet listing the projected sailings to and from New Zealand to Southampton for 1925, also taking passengers for Tasmania and Australia. The boats listed are the Athenic, Corinthic, Ionic, Arawa, and Tainui. Inside is a chart of fares, and text concerning all rules and regulations relating to travelling on the ships. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: Jul 1909

From: Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924 : Papers

Reference: 77-075-3/03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (cyclostyled)

Date: [1927-1951]

From: Hutchinson family : Papers relating to J C Hutchinson and H A Hutchinson

Reference: MS-Papers-10457-4

Description: Includes passenger lists, brochures, information pamphlets about the various ports, particularly Australian, visited by the Hutchinsons in 1927 and 1951; also peripheral material Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 7 Aug 1917-8 Aug 1918

By: Petersen, Hans Christian Frithjof, 1890-1955

Reference: MSX-8159

Description: Diary kept by Sergeant Hans Petersen of the New Zealand Field Artillery and covers his war service. He served aboard troop ships as a gunner. He left New Zealand aboard the `Tainui' on 7 Aug 1917. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2008

Date: 1929-1935

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-329

Description: Includes correspondence and material re New Zealand Shipping Company, Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd. Includes plan of accommodation on the RMS Tainui and TSS Remuera. Also NZ Shipping Company list of fares and sailings, Apr 1932 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1920s]

From: Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1483-12

Description: Mainly World War One and family photos. Includes group taken on board SS Tainui, 1923 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1909

From: Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924 : Papers

Reference: 77-075-3/10

Description: Voyage to London on RMS Tainui. Includes concert programme, 16 Jul 1909; menus, postcards (Montevideo etc), shipboard photographs; London theatre programmes, etc Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1910s-1920s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-077

Description: Album of postcards of ships. Not all have been listed in the name fields. The first part chiefly British Naval warships; other sections show liners of shipping lines such as P & O Orient Line, New Zealand Shipping Line, and the White Star Line. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth album, 29 x 23 cm

Date: Mar-Oct 1926

From: Mulgan, Alan Edward, 1881-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0224-20

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1911

By: Aris, Bernard Ford, 1887-1977; McIntosh, Doris Hutchinson (Lady), 1909-1989

Reference: A-078-002

Description: Shows a steamship travelling through rough seas. Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 274 x 381 mm Provenance: Presented by Mrs A D McIntosh, 20.2.1961

Date: September 1919

From: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965 :Photograph album of views of England, Ireland, voyage to New Zealand after World War I

Reference: PA1-o-934-76

Description: Four photographs of New Zealand soldiers on the transport ship `Tainui' on their way home to New Zealand. By this time they were in the Pacific Ocean. Top left image - Soldiers Stephens, Fisher, and Campbell crossing the equator, 2 September 1919. Top right image - group of soldiers on boat parade. Bottom left image - Soldiers of the troops orchestra. Bottom right image - Billy Bates speaking at a meeting of the sergeants mess. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Top left image; Crossing the equator 2:9:19. Top right image; A boat parade: discipline becoming slack. Bottom left; The troops orchestra. Bottom right; Billy Bates conducts a bolshy meeting of the sergeants mess. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Reference: 1/2-020552-F

Description: Shows a full length view of the ship RMS Tainui. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).