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Date: 26 September 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1984/4508-F

Description: Farewell party for Mrs McDowell (known as Auntie Frances) of Korokoro, photographed 26 September 1984 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1905 to 1907

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 14 March 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Stevenson, Alan, active 1978

Reference: EP/1978/0995-F

Description: Michael Gore (left) and Matthew Hickling (2nd from left) at the new Korokoro Playcentre, photographed on 14 March 1978 by Evening Post staff photographer Alan Stevenson. Original caption reads: "With a brand new building behind them, young engine-driver Michael Gore, 4, takes his passenger, Matthew Hickling, 2, for a make-believe tour of the Korokoro Playcentre grounds. The children are among 14 tinies who moved house, lock, stock and toys from the old scout hall to the new centre in singer's Road, which was officially opened by the Mayor of Petone (Mr Gee) last Saturday". (Evening Post, 14 March 1978). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 20 Apr 1986

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1986/1877-F

Description: Evening Post caption of 21 April 1986 reads: "Concerned Korokoro residents study a map of Frank Cameron Park and the adjacent Wakefield subdivision from the top of a pile of soil which shows obvious signs of the tip site below. They are the Burgess family - from left, Tony, Gavin, Robert, and Maureen - and at rear are Mrs Mavis Dempsey, Dr John Ainsworth and Graeme Rennie." Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer 20 April 1986. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: ca 27 Nov 1972

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1972/5649-F

Description: Korokoro picketers, protesting about the Korokoro rubbish tip, at the Petone Borough Council buildings, photographed by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Published in the Evening Post, 27 November 1972. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1884-1997

By: St. Augustine's Church (Petone, Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0533

Description: Baptism records, ca 1890-1960 Marriage registers, 1890-1960 and 1974-1995 Confirmations register, 1945-1953 Minutes, ca 1940-1992 Financial records, ca 1940-1970 Church magazines ca 1930-1970 Vestry correspondence 1985-1996 Offertory book, 1884-1903 Mothers' Union cash book, 1974-1980 Mothers' Union minutes, 1927-1931, 1980-1985 Vestry minutes, 1920-1937, 1989 Register of banns of marriage, 1970-1989 Register of services, 1903-1919 Visitors' book, 1947, 1957 Programme, 1967 Faculty, 1969 Cash book, 1953-1976 Annual report, 1980 Corso booklet, 1980 Certificates of marriage dissolution, 1982, 1987 Source of title - Supplied title Other - Serials hold copies of the parish magazines for Apr 1959-May 1960 (Bay 56/10) Anglican church. Quantity: 38 folder(s). 73 volume(s). 1.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.

Date: 1904-1982

By: Korokoro School

Reference: MS-Group-1305

Description: Two school registers (1904-1960), four log books (1904-1962) and four minute books (1957-1983) Balance of registers and log books held at the school (ph: 569-1821). Source of title - Supplied Hutt Valley primary school founded in 1904 Quantity: 5 folder(s). 5 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, duplicated and printed matter Finding Aids: Computerised index to admittance registers, 1904-1997, by Joy Adams held at MSDL-0061.

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994; Aikman, Colin Campbell (Dr), 1919-2002

Reference: Plans-94-039-429/430

Description: Job 132 - Floor plans Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, various sizes

Date: ca 31 Jul 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/3154-F

Description: Evening Post caption of 31 July 1957, page 14, reads: "Scene at the former Korokoro cemetery [New Zealand] today when two caskets containing remains which were removed some months ago were reburied in a corner of the now levelled area." Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer ca 31 July 1957. Inscriptions: On negative bag: Re-interment at Petone Catholic cemetery Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 5.6 x 5.6 cm

Date: ca 16 Aug 1972

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1972/3915-F

Description: Wives and mothers, protesting about the Korokoro rubbish tip, photographed by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Published in the Evening Post, 16 August 1972. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: ca 11 Oct 1965

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1965/3815-F

Description: Mayor and Mayoress of Petone, New Zealand, Mr Ralph Love and and Mrs Flora Love, photographed at their Korokoro home, with Petone in the background. Photographed circa 11 October 1965 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 5.6 x 5.6 cm

Date: 1874-1987

By: Ashton, Chris, active 2000

Reference: MS-Group-0931

Description: Includes ms transcript of diary of Mrs Talbut kept on board the `Wennington' during voyage from London to Wellington, 16 Jan-24 May 1874; cash book of Henry Hill Kingham, engineer of Timaru, 1891-1921; notebook of Thomas Riddler of Petone, 1904-1911; deed between members of Te Puni, Warena, Karena and Parata family, Taare Waitara, Miriana Rapira, Eparaima Takarangi, Ani Matene and Ripeka Love (the lessors) and Thomas Riddler (lessee) re land known as Te Koro Koro South, 1904; deed re lease of Section 11 Horokiwi between Rangiwahia Te Puni and others to Thomas Riddler, 1905; family tree showing antecedents and descendants of Eva Gertrude Talbut and Thomas Riddler (1878-1976); family tree showing descendants of William Riddler (1801-1879) and Elizabeth Sparrow; family tree of descendants of John Ridler (b 1630) William Riddler and his wife Elizabeth (née Sparrow) arrived in Petone in 1841, having been engaged by Henry Petre to bring out a consignment of stock. He took up a block of land alongside the Hutt Road. His grandson Thomas Riddler married Eva Gertrude Talbut in Petone in 1903. Eva Talbut immigrated to New Zealand on the 'Wennington' in 1874 with her family. Ivy Young married Charlie Bentley and the couple had two children, Margaret (the donor's mother) and Douglas. On the dissolution of the marriage the two children were adopted by Thomas and Eva Riddler. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: The donor is the great-great-grand-daughter of William and Elizabeth Riddler.

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm