Places

Date: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: ca 1920-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3740-11

Description: Includes zoo scenes, dog and puppies, wombat, pelican; models in bathing suits, Oriental Parade; Crippled Children's Society, child weaving, group of children playing with toys, bus; newspaper boy outside unidentified hotel; wig maker or repairer; series of photographs on township of Kawerau; New Plymouth; inside meeting house (bedded down for night, eating, performances) at Ruatoria, 1947, on occasion of Governor-General's visit; etc Arrangement: Large number of file prints from Free Lance Collection already in public files. Prints in this box cover negative range of 1/2-101647 to 1/2-101971, arranged in numerical order. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

Date: 1975

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1841

Description: Ruatoria, Waiapu, and mountains, rivers and country districts immediatly south of Ruatoria Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1950 - 1953

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CRICKET-1950/1953

Description: Includes: 1950: Ruatoria Cricket Club. Opening dance. Saturday 2nd December 1950. Mangahanea Hall, with Prince Ferris and his Orchestra. [Ticket]. Australia v Otago at Carisbrook. 10,11 & 13 March 1950. Programme. Australia v Wellington. Basin Reserve. 1, 3 & 4 April 1950. Programme. 1951: M.C.C. v Auckland. Eden Park. 6-8 March 1951. Programme. M.C.C. versus New Zealand (second test). Basin Reserve Wellington. 24, 26-28 March 1951. Programme (2 copies) 1952: West Indies vs Otago. Carisbrook Dunedin, 2-5 February 1952. Programme (hardbound) West Indies v New Zealand. Lancaster Park Christchurch. 8-9, 11-12 February 1952. Programme. West Indies v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park Auckland. 15-16, 18-19 February 1952. Programme. West Indies v Wellington. Basin Reserve Wellington. 23, 25-26 February 1952. Programme. (2 copies) 1953: South Africa versus New Zealand. Basin Reserve Wellington. 6-7, 9-10 March 1953. Programme. South Africa v New Zealand. Second test. Eden Park, Auckland. 13-14, 16-17 March 1953. Programme. New Zealand tour of South Africa 1953-4. Official souvenir cricket brochure, edited and compiled by G A Chettle. The New Zealand Cricket team in South Africa 1953-54. With the compliments of Beaths, the store for men, Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Greymouth, Kaikoura. Tour booklet Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 13 programmes, tickets, and other ephemera (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Booklets and tickets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: December 1971

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7986

Description: North Island trips. East Coast trip December 1971. Includes - Cooks Cove and the archway rock. Ruatoria. Waihau Bay and horse riders. Wooden cottage, church, and pohutukawa, Raukokore. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1910 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-N-1900s

Description: Includes material from the following schools: Napier Boys' High School annual prize giving. Municipal Theatre Napier, 12 December 1957. Ticket/invitation only Napier Girls' High School centennial thanksgiving service. St John's Cathedral Napier, 1 April 1984. Order of service Nelson College for Girls. Principal's report 1946 Nelson Girls' College concert by orchestra, choirs and gymnasts. School of Music, 4-5 October 1946. Programme Nelson College for Girls. Thanksgiving service. Nelson Cathedral, 1 December 1946. Order of service Nelson College for Girls. Commemoration service. Nelson Cathedral, 30 November 1947. Order of service Nelson College for Girls. Commemoration service. Nelson Cathedral, 28 November 1948. Order of service Nelson Girls' College Drama Club presents "Quality Street", by J M Barrie. College Gymnasium, 17-18 August 1948. Programme Nelson College for Girls. Concert by orchestras, choirs and gymnasts. School of Music, 2 and 4 October 1954. Souvenir programme Nelson College for Girls. Centenary 1883-1983. 25-27 February 1983 (2 different programmes) New Plymouth Boys High School. Sports programme Easter 1982. New Plymouth Central School Jubilee. Old Boys' Jubilee Re-Union. Agricultural Hall New Plymouth, 23 May 1934. Toast list Newlands College presents the 1997 Variety Show. Newlands College Hall, 15-16 May 1997. Flier only Ngakuru School Silver Jubilee and Early Settlers' Reunion. 6 September 1958. Souvenir programme Ngakuru School Silver Jubilee and Early Settlers' Reunion Dinner. Ngakuru Hall, 6 September 1958. Menu and toast list. Nga Tawa. Term III, 1977. [Events for] Term III 1977. Card Nga Tawa School centennial 1891-1991 birthday book 1991 Ngata Memorial College. Prospectus for 1984 Nightcaps School Diamond Jubilee 1884-1959. Banquet in Town Hall. 22 January 1959. Menu and toast list Normal School (now Moray Place) Jubilee 1876-1926. Conversazione, 10 February 1926. Programme North Invercargill School Diamond Jubilee. Jubilee Banquet. Smith's Country Club, 27 August 1938. Menu and programme North New Brighton (North Beach) School. Fifty years jubilee, 7-11 April 1966. Information circular North Wellington School. A proposal [ideas for a new secondary school in North Wellington. 1978] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: ca 1940-1950

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-12

Description: Snapshots of landscapes, coastal views, and towns which include Whangaparoa, Whakatane, Awanui, Whale Island, Ruatoria, Mercury Islands, Kennedy Bay, and rocks at the entrance to Whangamata Harbour. One sequence of images records the opening of the Uepohatu Memorial Hall at Ruatoria by the Governor General, Lord Freyburg in 1947. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1950s

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-039743-F

Description: Main Street, Ruatoria including Bank of New South Wales and H F Smyth & Co. (General Merchants) buildings, riders on horse back, dogs and several motor vehicles. Undated image (possibly 1950s) taken by unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 29 Apr 1957

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/570-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1957 of Ruatoria Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - N.71 72 I.50 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), approximate scale 10 chains to 1 inch

Date: 1980

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1980-1982]

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1980-01

Description: Programme for a powhiri and dedication service, luncheon and inter-house Maori cultural competition at Ngata Memorial College, Hawkes Bay. There is a greeting from the principal, John H Clarke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Gestetner print on pages of booklet of 11 pages, each 210 x 168 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in January 2006.

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1940s

Description: Includes programmes and fliers for the following: 1940s?: Adelphi Cabaret open every night from 8.30 pm. Frank Chapple and his Rhythm Kings (see child record) 1940: All Saints' Church Kilbirnie. Variety concert in aid of London air raid victims. Parish Hall, 6 November 1940. Programme (With Mr F H Porter, Dorothy Seymour, Mr Kingi Tahiwi, Miss J Wallace, Mr A Weller, Helen Harman, Mrs Roskvist, Mr C Tabor, Opheus Sextette, Mrs Lane, Mr T J Jenkins; also the Pioneer Club Play-Reading Circle in "A rogue in bed" by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, produced by Mrs D J Davies). New Zealand Red Cross Society Inc. Wellington Centre. "For England". Grand pageant and celebrity concert. Town Hall Wellington, 18 September 1940. Programme (2 copies) "Switzerland" Right off the ice! J C Williamson's ice show and ice ballet. His Majesty's Theatre, Dunedin, 16 March 1940. Programme. "Switzerland"; J C Williamson's super ice show (with Phil Taylor, Megan Taylor, Elsie Heathcote, Eric Gerrard, Ronald Priestley, Ray Blaxland, Eddie Marcel, Diana Grafton, Lovett and Joy MacKinnon, Rita Bramley, Connie Graham, Hal Scott, Russell and Marconi, and Doreen Parr)(2 copies) 1941: "Pageant of Empire". Town Hall Concert Chamber, 7-10 May [1941]. Proceeds to patriotic funds. Programme (with group photograph of entrants in the Victory Queen Carnival) Woolworths Patriotic Committee assisted by the dancers of Miss Margaret Oates present "Follies of 1941", produced to aid the funds of Miss Patricia Luckie, Commerce Queen, Wellington Victory Queen Carnival. Concert Chamber Town Hall, [1941]. Souvenir programme 1942: Special town entertainment for H.M. Forces. Big Town Hall Wellington, Saturday 2 May. Grand variety entertainment (Flier, letter, invitation) Miss G Helen Gard'ner presents her pupils at the Pioneer Club. 14-15 December 1942 (Songs and drama). Proceeds for the Merchant Service. 1944: Palmerston North Civic Centre Association. Free public performance. Opera House, 15 June 1944. Programme / flier. Palmerston North Civic Centre Association. Free public performance. Opera House, 13 July 1944. Programme / flier. Band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. "Flying high revue". Concert and revue programme (Entire proceeds for Patriotic Fund). [1944] Band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Concert and revue programme. [1944] The Victory Revue Comapny. W McKee and T Maloney present "The west goes south". (With Bud Denice, Stewve Willard, Ivan Perrin, Fred Horne, Cyril Satchwell, Catherine Berry, Val Simpson, Ray Pearce, Claude Jupp, Ken McMillan, Billie Ponds, Flo Turner, Vera Swanson, Molly and Doris Ogden, Pat Fitzgerald, Noeline Stringer, Russ Lawrence). Opera House Wellington, 29 September 1944. Programme 1945: Palmerston North Civic centre Association. Free public performamce. Opera House, 3 May 1945. Flier / programme. 1947: Goodwin Marionette Theatre. [Includes "The reluctant dragon", "The tempest"]. South Island tour, October-November 1947. Programme Wellington Society of Magicians (Incorporated). 14th annual report and balance sheet, 1947. (Typescript) Palmerston North Civic Centre Association. Souvenir programme of concert arranged fro the First Rotary Conference of New Zealand and the Fiji Islands, 52nd district. Opera House, 11 March 1947. Programme. Grand variety concert in aid of Royal Society of St George, Food for Britain Fund, Leeston Town Hall, 10 September [1947]. Programme (Photocopy - original in folder at MS Papers 3897: Bailey, A J, Folder 3). Shows Olga Purves, Miss New Zealand contestant. Official opening of 'Uepohatu' War Memorial Hall, Ruatoria, 13 September 1947. Special re-union of Ex-Service personnel. Toast list /[programme] (with items by Lt Col A M Awatere, Capt Waipaina Awarua, Tuini Ngawai, Col J Leggat, Hikurangi Party (response by Ladfy Freyberg and Col. G Dittmer), Col R F Gambrill, Tairawhiti Kiwi Club (response by Hon P Fraser, S G Holland, Hon E T Tirikatene); Major McCredie, Major Ray Vercoe, Capt H K Ngata, Sir Bernard Freyberg) 1949: British Enterprises present the amazing Mr Rooklyn from London. Grand Opera House Wellington, commencing 7 January 1949. Programme. British Enterprises present the Amazing Mr Rooklyn from London. New Zealand overland tour 1949. Programme. Roy Barton proudly presents the 1949 edition of Barton's Follies, with the sensational new comedian Willie Berrigan the perfect fool, in the non-stop American laughter revue "Fun and fancy free". Programme (shows photo of Jandy the unique eccentric musical clown) Celebrity Theatres Pty Ltd proudly present "Opera House" Grand gala opening, 26 April [1949]. All American stage hit "Hellzapoppin", for 2 weeks only. Promotional pamphlet. Stanley Holloway, England's greatest comedian with NZ's leading pianist and piano-accordionist Ossie Cheeseman. NZ tour 1949. Programme. Stanley Holloway, England's greatest comedian with Billy Mayerl, famous BBC pianist composer and recorder. NZ tour 1949. Programme. Quantity: 22 programmes. Physical Description: Printed programmes, under 300 mm.

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :Editorial cartoons. 1 July - 30 September 1992

Reference: H-110-004

Description: Shows the smoking remains of a house destroyed by fire. Only the brick chimney and the water tank remain. Refers to the arson attack on Luke Donnelly's house in Ruatoria following his acquittal on the charge of killing Rastafarian leader Chris Campbell. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1975

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1842

Description: Towns, localities and countryside between Tokomaru and Hicks Bay. There are photographs of Maori farmers at work, commercial forestry, and farm machinary. Some buildings; Horoera School, ruins of Hicks Bay Freezing Works, the Ngati Porou Dairy Factory, and an abandoned meeting house. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1950s-1970s

By: Crane, Ernest Arthur, 1915-1996

Reference: PAColl-0086

Description: Fiji and its people, its traditional buildings, crafts, and industries; the milk trade and a milk bottling plant; forestry and crops; scenic views and places; public health and tourism. As well as photographs taken in the 1970s, there is also a small group stamped "Fiji official photograph, Public Relations Office, Suva" dating from the 1950s. The Ngata Memorial College photographs date from 1977. They show the buildings, students and student activities, including a dance performance by visiting Cook Islanders. There are also five photographs and one negative of an international seminar on the relavance of Ghandi to our times, held in New Delhi in February, 1971. At some time between 1984 and 2000 all the prints relating to Tonga were returned to Ernest Crane. Wendy Crane returned these when she donated negatives in February 2000. As a result they have been given a different PAColl number. Arrangement: Negative relating to Ghandi conference at 1/2-169152-F. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1970s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-6996

Description: Photographs of Te Araroa, the East Cape Road, and near Ruatoria taken ca 1970s by John Ingle. Views include the Te Araroa area with Te Araroa Bay, rocks in the bay, stormy sea, shags on rocks, mist on Te Araroa Road and houses in fog, and a storm over Te Araroa; light on the sea on the East Coast; and East Cape lighthouse; inland areas include willows in valleys at Tikitiki; erosion on the Raukumara Range (listed as Ruakamara); Mt Hikurangi near Tikitiki; Ruatoria River Valley. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1972

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1970-1974].

By: Hikurangi Māori Pastorate

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1972-02

Description: Souvenir programme of a family festival organised by Ngatiporou in Ruatoria. Includes Maori and English words of the hymns and action songs to be sung as competition items. Also includes advertisements for Ruatoria businesses. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 220 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2003.

Date: 1927-1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Moore & Thompson (Firm); Bierre, Eric W, 1899-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-145

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1927 and 1959, many undated. Includes a variety of subjects and places (see below). Also photographs of Ana Hato at Orakei Korako; roadmakers and road construction at Hopuruahine in Wairoa District; ancient eel weir (patuna), taken by J Faris in 1886; carvings on King Koroki's palace, Turangawaewae Marae, Mar 1938; Maori Meeting House at Te Kaha, East Coast and carved memorial cross, 1959; Meeting House at Whangara, 1959; school children waiting for the bus outside the Ruatoria Primary School, 1959; group of children at Whakarewarewa, 1944, etc Photographers include: W Hall Raine; A W Powell, Eric W Bierre, Moore & Thompson, and others. Also typed list of captions (not all photographs included) Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1971-1979

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

By: Crane, Ernest Arthur, 1915-1996

Reference: PAColl-6194

Description: A mix of family photographs and others taken as documents of various aspects of the countries visited. This is particularly the case with the photographs of Tonga and Fiji. The largest group of negatives relate to Tonga. They record the kingdom's geography, something of its geology, village and town life, factories and industries as well as traditional crafts. Crop plants, forestry, and dairying; buildings, the parliament, the Royal family and ceremonies associated with them, are also recorded. There are visits to other islands in the Tongan group, including a school visit to Vava'u, and a group of negatives relating to the staff and students ot Tupou High School. Other negatives date from the time that Ernest Crane taught at Ngata Memorial College, Ruatoria, in the early 1970s. Most of these record family events, holidays with friends, or visits to Gisborne. The only group relating directly to Ngata Memorial College are those of dancers from the Cook Islands who visited the school. There are a few negatives of Fiji, one lot dating from 1971 and recording friends in Suva just before departure. Another set is of a production of Shaw's play "Androcles and the Lion", performed by students of Dudley High School in Suva Town Hall, June 15th-17th, 1971. Family reunions, a holiday in Russel, Easter 1973, and other family events. These negatives relate directly and indirectly to prints deposited by Ernest Crane and held in PAColl-0086, and PAColl-6186. Arrangement: Negs at 35mm, 28046 to 35mm, 28326. Quantity: 259 b&w original negative(s) 35mm neg strips comprising 1,104 images. 21 colour original negative(s) 35mm neg strips comprising 52 images. Processing information: There are a further seven rolls of 35mm film negatives in the conservation shelves awaiting flattening and cutting.

Date: [ca 1942]

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/021-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd ca 1942, showing erosion at Ruatoria, Gisborne District Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size)

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-020

Description: Largly New Zealand material and photographs of paintings of the war in the Pacific by Allan Barclay Barns-Graham (official war artist) and Oliver Arthur Gillespie. New Zealand material includes views of coastal defences, military training at various camps, prisoner of war camps, Home Guard, public military parades, sports, army personnel including portraits, guns, tanks and other weapons, repatriated soldiers, medical units, ministerial visits, the posthumous investiture of Lt Ngarimu with the V.C., and mechanical transport. Arrangement: This collection is made up of empty negative envelopes with captions some of which have file prints attached to them, and sheets of contact prints which are also captioned. All of the negative envelopes have the relevant negative numbers written written on them. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material which has been called the "35mm" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Any negatives will be found in the 35mm registers at 16398 - 16509. (Feb 1995)