Horses - New Zealand

Date: 2000

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-643-001/025

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Politicians response to digital television, matchfixing in cricket, community responsibility for child abuse, Maori support of disgraced Maori MP and lack of support for abused Maori children, Fiji - banana dictatorship, Middle East peace process, concern over disparity between NZ and Australian defence forces reimbursement for serving in East Timor, Queen Mother celebrates her 100th birthday, space exploration, world opinion swings againsgt Israel's heavy-handed tactics, ACC payouts in Australia, cost cutting measures in the NZ Police Force, silencing Dover Samuels and social policy critics, high cost of yachting's Viaduct Basin, state-owned enterprises over-spend on conferences, British royals have a go at the tabloid press, Mark Todd's chances of selection damaged following sex and drug scandal, South Africa's reluctance to comment on Zimbabwe, terrorism in NZ? or just plain violence, Human genetic secrets uncovered, 'closing the gaps' policy, May Day and workers' rights, Fiji embroiled in racism, the price of the American Presidential election and recounts, Prime Minister announces she not going to attend Waitangi on Waitangi Day. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies photocopies of computer print-outs, A4 size.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of computer print-outs.

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. The Auckland Blues win Super-12 game. As Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark soar in the opinion polls Jim Bolger considers a sex-change. Tim Shadbolt becomes deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party. Tuku Morgan is accused of seeking a fee for an exclusive interview with the media. Public opinion on Tuku Morgan's behaviour. Maori bashing continues over Tuku Morgan, as Maori hit themselves and ask why he just doesn't resign. Maori occupy land in Waiouru during winter as temperatures hit a low. They are protesting against the wild horse mustering? Winston Peter's accepts Tuku Morgan's apology and assumes the moral high ground. International study shows kiwi kids poor at maths but good at bullying. Bob Jones suggests that the Beehive be dynamited. A look at genetic makeup in terms of race. Comment on teacher inaction over bullying in school play grounds. Jim Bolger comments on a meeting between National Party and New Zealand First MPs held in his home. Buyer beware - used car importers rip people off. Comment on what iwi-based Treaty settlements mean to many Maori. The International Rugby Board (IRB) threatens to clamp down on New Zealand style rugby. The law forbids the rich and the poor from living in shoddy housing that leads to unneccesary fires and death. School leaving age kept at 16. Winston Peters finds himself on a high-wire with pressures all around him like, 'fiscal restraint', 'Maori hopes', 'social spending' and 'NZ First's last chance'. Winston Peters goes off to Hong Kong leaving Jim Bolger and Bill Birch defending the budget. Winston Peters at the handover of Hong Kong to China, continues to warn about the Asian take over. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1950s

From: Hewitt, Leonard Rodney, 1913-1964 :Photographs relating to mountaineering and aviation in Canterbury

Reference: PAColl-8058-1

Description: Scenic photographs of mountains, lakes, and native forest. There are photographs of people, possibly Hewwitt's family and friends, and four images of horses and riders in a formal display. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1011

Description: Opens with three images taken in a private flower garden in Wellington. The rest of the album appears to record a trip which includes a lake (perhaps Lake Taupo) where two women and a boy have been fishing. There are photographs of a car on a country road, a house in the country with horses and a large pig and piglet in a back yard. The concluding images are of a camp in a partly cleared river valley. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 23 Jan-9 Feb 1925

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-08

Description: Account of riding holiday taken by Phyllis Long and Sylvia Lysaght on horses Ngaio and Ladybird. Describes route from Punarima via Mokoia, Hawera, Ngaere, Stratford, Te Whera, Pohukura, Whangamomona, Ohura, to near Aria. Then by car to Te Kuiti and on to Waitomo Caves. Return journey by foot to Te Kuiti and back to Aria by car. Route on horseback continues with the two women travelling down the Awakino River to the sea and then back to Punarima via Tongaporutu, White Cliffs, Urenui, and New Plymouth. Account describes the people they meet and places they stayed along the way. Camping spots, bush, the condition of the horses (including Ngaio almost drowning), rats, mosquitos, bathing, and food (including picnics). Also description of Waitomo Caves. People of note include: Mr Henry and Mrs Ida Barwick (of near Te Wera): the Good family (also of near Te Wera) who rode through the Tangarakai Gorge with them; and the Ritchie family (including Thomas, Mary, and John) of Aria, formerly of the Chatham Islands, where they left their horses when they travelled on to Waitomo. Also includes description of Waitomo Caves with tourist postcards pasted in. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, photographs Also includes Long's photographs and sketches as well as a hand drawn map of the route taken (with location of accommodation and campsites marked).

Date: 12 Dec 1890, 1894, 30 Dec 1925-26 Jan 1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-09

Description: Account of riding tour taken by Phyllis Long and Sylvia Lysaght on horses Ngaio and Ladybird. Describes route from Wanganui to Kakatahi, Karioi, Waiouru, and Desert Road, to camp on Lake Taupo and later near Tokaanu, and trip back again via Waiouru, Ohakune, and Raetihi. Also includes accounts of staying with farmer Mr Watt near Wanganui and with two Maori families (including that of Mr Ham) between Turangi and Waiouru, meeting up and camping with fellow teachers at Nga Tawa (Else and Herve) and Eric Tyndale-Biscoe, Mr Cooper, Rev Hugh Austin, [and Mr Darcy?] who joined the party. Describes the terrain, condition of the horses, getting lost, a visit to Wairekei and the geothermal sights there, and sleeping out in the open. Also contains part of legal document relating to Maori land taken by Long from an "old Maori church, very much fallen to pieces". Titled "Te Ture Kooti Whenua Maori, 1894". Regards Kotohiko Kiriwehi [or Waitana, crossed out on document] of Hiruharama (Whanganui) who died on 12 December 1890 and had land at Whakaihuwaka and Pipiriki. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs Includes Long's photographs and sketches as well as a hand drawn map of the route taken on the trip.

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.

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1986

Description: Photograph album of Arthur Edward and Annie Vida Katie Pearce family photographs and Wellington recreation scenes, circa early 1900s. Contains group portrait of women and boy golfers as well as numerous portraits of the Pearce family [and relatives?] on the balcony and steps of their house 'Te Namu' in Lowry Bay as well as in a garden. Also horse riding and bicycle riding scenes, including a trip to the coast. A portrait of Nathaniel and Agnes seated on a pony and a house interior, possibly 'Te Namu', are also included. Donor's note that accompanied album read "A Pearce album" Album dated based on age of Pearce children in photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 16 b&w prints. Physical Description: Pale brown cloth covered photograph album with "Nature Prints" embossed on front cover, 27.5 x 31.1 cm

Date: 1944-1948

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1999

Description: Photograph album of Woodford House school and Stout family scenes, 1944 to 1948. Compiled, captioned, and mainly taken by Vida Mary Stout. Woodford house photographs show school buildings (including Nelson House, Chapel, Woodford, maid's hostel, Holland House), garden, and swimming pool. Photographs of building interiors include the dining hall, a science laboratory, senior study room, Stout's bedroom, and school chapel with crib and alter. Includes informal and formal photographs of Stout’s classmates. Group portraits show Form VM, Form VI, seniors, prefects, and sub-prefects. Photographs of a sports day in 1946 include a group photograph of the Sports Committee, teachers sitting around a table by the track, and prize-giving scenes. Photographs of the "Prefects' Holiday" at Waimarama Beach in 1947 include beach, sunbathing, and swimming scenes and the girls’ accommodation at the Whyte family cottage. Identified prefects are Anne Mail, Diedre Twigg, June Grant, Beverley Brewis, Barbara Dalziell, Cherry Ellingham, Natalie Maclaurin, Margot Spiers, Allette Weston, Miss Box, Diedre Withers, Miss Williams, Miss Bell, Miss Hewitt, Miss Birch, A Bÿgum, Anne Mail, Jo Glazebrook, P Whyte, P Kelly, N Lamb, Sheila Norman, Ali Averill, and E Hassail. Stout is also identified in a number of photographs. Family photographs include the Stout family’s Wellington home at 1 Katherine Avenue, their South Wairarapa house and garden 'Tahora', "The Cottage", and the Spier family's house in Lowry Bay. Identified Stout family members including John David Stout, Duncan Macgregor Stout, Agnes Isobel Stout, Annie Vida Kate Pearce, Bob [Robert Edward Stout], and Hilary [Hilary Margaret Stout (née Cameron)]. Album also contains photographs of boys Jeremy and Christopher. Photographs from ‘Tahora’ feature swimming pool scenes and pets including cats ("Socks"), a budgie, dogs (with many of black [Labrador?] puppy "Smoky" as well as a collie called "Scot"), horses ("Big Boy", "Ginger", "Signet", and "Nobby"), and lambs ("Daisy" and "Dandelion"). Album also contains photographs of a Vauxhall 14 and "John's Lanchester 10". Donor's note that accompanied album read: "This belongs to Vida Mary Stout - she didn't marry". Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 112 b&w prints. Physical Description: Orange textured card photograph album, 22 x 34 cm

Date: 1948-1951

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-2001

Description: Photograph album of Stout family scenes, 1948 to 1951. Compiled, captioned, and taken by Vida Mary Stout. Identified people in the album are John Stout, Agnes Isobel Stout, Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, Dr Robert Stout, Mrs Cameron, Bob [Robert Edward Stout], Hil [Hilary Margaret Stout (née Cameron)] and numerous photographs of infant Philippa [Philippa Vida Biss (née Stout)] as well as some of Johnny [John Cameron Duncan Stout]. Also photographed are "Ar", Cecile Clinkard, Yvonne Myers, Annette Borrie, Holmes, Aunt Mame, Harry Milsom, David Collins, Bill Bidwill, Cecile Bidwill, Jenny Bidwill, Susan Bidwill, and Anna Bidwell. Family scenes feature the Wairarapa, including swimming in the Ruamahanga River and pets "Herbert" the hedgehog and "Smoky" the dog. Wairarapa photographs also show the family’s house and farm 'Tahora' (including tennis course, trees, sundial, and rose garden) as well as A B Martin's cottage, ‘Waitawa’ farmland, and "Crook's cottage". Wellington photographs show views of the city and harbour as well as buildings and houses (including 1 Katherine Avenue) and events (a university capping procession). There are also scenes from the Spier's house ‘Hunahuna’ in Lowry Bay. Album also contains photographs of cars including a Vauxhall 14, Robert Stout's Rover, and “John’s Lanchester 10" as well as the Heretaunga Golf Club House and course. Also covered are a number of trips taken by Vida Stout with her "Uncle Bert" [Dr Robert Stout] and father. Destinations include Auckland (August 1949), Pipiriki (March 1950), and the South Island (February 1951). A trip to the Tongariro Chateau (May 1950) was taken only with her father. Photographs on these holidays includes sights seen while travelling to their destinations and landmarks and tourist scenes. The Auckland trip shows the Rangitikei Valley, Desert Road scenes (with Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mt Tongariro), Tongariro River (including fishing spots Duchess Pool, Dreadnought Pool), Lake Taupo, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Wairakei Geyser, and Karapiro hydroelectric power station. Photographs of Auckland include Auckland University buildings, spectators at the "Point-to-Point" race, and Patty and Jock Ewen's house at 43 Maungakeikei Avenue. Photographs of the journey home show the Waitomo Caves and Waitomo Hotel, Wairere Falls, Mangaotaki Gorge, Awakino River, Pukekura Park and coastal scenes of New Plymouth, St Mary's Church, Taranaki farmlands, Turuturumōkai Redoubt, and the Sarjeant Art Gallery and Castlecliff in Whanganui. The Pipiriki trip largely focusses on the Whanganui River with views from the road as well as popular tourist sights "The Drop Scene", "The Dress Circle", and the Paparoa Rapids seen from the riverboat. Also includes photographs of the landing stage at Pipiriki and a riverboat. Chateau trip photographs show Tongariro Chateau, Taranaki Falls, Matariki Falls, Mahuia Rapids, Te Tawhai Falls, Lake Rotoaira, Makatote Viaduct, Mangawhero River, view of the Paraparas, and Raukawa Falls. The South Island trip photographs mainly show Nelson (including Queen's Garden, coast, residential areas, and cathedral) but also include Kaiteriteri Beach, Captain Wakefield memorial at Riwaka, Havelock, Pelorus River, Pelorus Sound, and boat on which the party toured Queen Charlotte Sound. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 196 b&w prints. Physical Description: Orange card photograph album, 19 x 28.7 cm

Date: 1980-2005

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12157-033

Description: Research papers relating to various topics including mōteatea, including laments and waiata aroha. Includes a draft article 'Sailing the Waitematā' written by an unknown woman of the Auckland Region. The waiata begins with the line "Tēnei ka noho, ka whakamau ki waho..."; and a lament written by Paraone Taupiri for his horses that had died. Orbell later published an article called "Paraone's horses: a letter from Hohepa Tamamutu, 1875" relating to this topic, in 'Kōtare - New Zealand notes & queries, May 1999; v.2 n.1:p.3-7'. Also includes papers relating to fire as a metaphor. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: From box 9 in donor's list, and was previously in box that Orbell labelled "The Pictures". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, photocopies, printed matter Processing information: From box 9 in donor's list, and was previously in box that Orbell labelled "The Pictures".

Date: [ca 1917]-[ca 1969]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983 :Photographs of mountaineers and mountains

Reference: PAColl-8305-1

Description: Photographs of Mountains in the Southern Alps, mountaineers, men travelling on horseback, camping, carrying guns, and in the mountains. There are photographs of Edgar Williams which include portraits, with groups, and with what are probably grand children. One photograph shows a man mending a net and there are two group photographs of boys at an unidentified secondary school. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1917-1935

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

Reference: PA1-o-1578

Description: Photographs of a camping holiday at Timaru Creek near Lake Hawea, 1917. Among the group are John Robert McKenzie (founder of the chain of McKenzie department stores) and his future wife, Annie May Wrigley. There are also photographs of a visit to Wanganui. The rest of the album is a collection of clippings relating to racing and race horses dating from 1923 to 1935. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - A M Wrigley, 14 Grafton Rd, Rosneath, Wellington. Snaps of our camping at Timaru Creek, December 1917. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11399

Description: Photographs of a man and a woman leading show horses. In the background there is a large horse float bearing the words Swanndri Show Jumping Horses. Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: May 1950

From: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966: Sketchbook, original drawings, and watercolour by Russell Clark; photograph relating to 'The Ear' sculpture

By: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966

Reference: B-198-020

Description: Depicts a street scene in a country town, possibly in colonial times. Three business front the main street: 'D.F. Bean, General Store, Post Office'; 'A. Boyd, Saddlery'; and B.L. Hunter, Paka Puki Timber Mills Ltd.'. Tethered horses line the street, dogs play in a pack and boys walk and talk together, as do groups of men. One woman and girl can be seen looking in the general store window. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - RC [in ink]; Verso - top centre - Russell Clark May Journal 1950 [in ballpoint pen] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Indian ink on paper mounted on card, 185 x 240 mm; set in mat 320 x 360 mm

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: de Hamel, Michael Alexander, 1949-

Reference: PA12-10912

Description: Horses probably at Auckland Airport. They appear to be about to be loaded onto a plane. A stag behind a rock. Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10956

Description: Photographs of horses. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Park, Lloyd, active 1980s

Reference: PA12-10955

Description: Photographs of thoroughbred horses. Quantity: 5 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10967

Description: Photographs of horses. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1964

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973: [Autograph book; scrapbooks; sketchbooks] ca 1938-1973

Reference: E-116-f-2

Description: Plain exercise book filled with black and white photographs from newspapers and magazines, with ink and watercolour decoration. The material tends to be for amusement, sometimes reflecting on what she herself remembers as a young adult. A particular theme is horses, racing and showjumping. Front cover inscribed 'Joyce Verna Hewitt. Auckland / August 30th 1964'. Joyce was the artist's youngest daughter, born 1924 and died 2018. Quantity: 1 album(s) scrapbook. Physical Description: Newspaper and magazine clippings pasted into exercise book, with illustrations; [37 p.]; 305 x 245 mm