Places

Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 19 May 1970]

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

Reference: EP/1970/2108-F

Description: Gun emplacements, Mt Victoria, Wellington, soon to be demolished by the Ministry of Works. Photographs taken circa 19 May 1970 by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-6611

Description: 5 views of Hutt County and Porirua: three views of a barren hillside in Horokiri valley; one of the church designed by Clere at Pauatahanui; and one of a boy standing next to the ruins of Paremata Fort. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018089 to 018093 Quantity: 5 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: Early 1900s to 1931

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

Reference: PA1-q-002

Description: Māori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).