Places

Date: 1933

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/1933/Acc.10236

Description: Plan of the gas works with the entrance off Miramar Avenue. Sites of the foreman's house, stores, yards, office, carpenter, workshop, retort house, coal stores, condensers, oil storage and tar tanks, liquor tank, the coke plant and bunkers, engine rooms, de-tarrer, pumps, purifiers, garage, firebrick plant, C.W.G. holder and plant, fresh and saltwater tanks, calorimeter and valve houses and the gas tanks are named. The toe of the hill is marked. Other Titles - Wellington Gas Company Limited, works plan showing [location of plant] Initials on bottom right corner: H.P. 19.5.33 Handwritten note on verso under linen backing, Mr. Gordon Harcourt, Brandon House Other title assigned by cataloguer Scale of original: [1:480] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Duplicated copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 47 x 123.8 cm.

Date: 1908

Reference: MapColl-832.1291a/[1908]/Acc.1803

Description: Drawn on a published map, showing colour-coded road districts within Eden County, including Avondale, Mt Roskill, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, Mt Wellington, West Tamaki, Orakei, Remuera, Parnell, Auckland City, Grey Lynn, Point Chevalier, Mt Albert, Mt Eden and Ellerslie. Also colour coded are areas highlighted are Hobsonville Town District, Birkenhead Borough and Northcote. Titirangi, Waikomiti, Birkenhead and Takapuna ridings are outlined, and a ten mile radius from Auckland City encircles the area. Several gas works and the Central Post Office are identified. Base map: Sheet No. 2 ([Auckland], Wilson and Horton, [n.d.]). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 72 x 78.

Reference: 1/2-051403-F

Description: Map of the Miramar gas works. Shows the sites of the coal store, retort house, coke plant etc. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).