Places

Date: 1888 - 1890

By: Borieson, C W, active 1889; Ashcroft, Albert Edward, 1862-1942; Humphries, Thomas, 1841-1928; Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922; General Survey Lithographic Office; Roe, J E, active 1910-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1888/Acc.35292

Description: A cadastral map of rural and suburban sections open for sale and selection of the area from Lake Horowhenua to Koputuroa Road, and bounded by the Kawiu and Makomako Roads. This cadastral map has numbered sections, some coloured, and include acreages and owners' names handwritten in some sections. The Wellington - Manawatu Railway is marked as are a school and a waterworks reserve. Streets and the Koputuroa Stream are named. The base maps are of sections in the Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District. Sections marked with red are large settlements open for sale or selection and are referred to in a key. Schedule of the suburban sections and rural lands in this district include the section number, acreage, value and rent. Terms and conditions of sale or selection of the Levin village settlement include the statement 'Drawn by F.J. Hales'. Includes a written description of rural land and the application date of 18 March 1889 at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington and includes J.W.A. Marchant's name. The inset map is a locality plan of Levin. Handwritten names listed are: Seager, Hewit, J. McGowan, G.H. Gower, Ingram, Borieson, Brown, Blair, R Prouse, Dalrymple, Toxward, Lancaster, Stuckey. Title part stamped and part handwritten on verso Signature centre top: C.W. Borieson, Contractor, Wellington Inset: Levin locality plan. Scale [1:506 880] Base map: Plan of rural and suburban sections Horowhenua Block, situated in Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District / Surveyed by A.E. Ashcroft & T.L. Humphries, assistant surveyors. Wellington, N.Z., General Survey Office, 1889. Handwritten note on bottom right: Next unit to be paid 1 Jany 1890. Note it will be needful to write Govt. to inquire the amount as the leases make it ... See units number of acres required for felling to comply with ... of residence [handwriting difficult to decipher] Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet, including a locality plan. Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, scales vary, 42 x 56.6 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr. J. Roe, 30.03.1977

Date: [ca 1898]-1953

From: Waldie family : Photographs

By: Neville Studio (Levin, N.Z.); ACME Studio; Starlite Studios; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PAColl-8736-1

Description: Levin Jubilee procession and school jubilee February 1940. Levin School reunion ca 1950. A group of housemaids dating from the 1890s. South Island landscapes and mountains 1953. Places and events such as a view of Caroline Bay Timaru, people on the deck of the Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu, a tent in the bush, and the deck of the Tamahine in Picton, all 1953. A portrait of a man and a woman taken by S P Andrew during the Second World War. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1890-1943]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: Series-2239

Date: 1864-1919

From: Stewart, Frances E V, fl 2005 : Histories of the Ranby, Withersgill, Burr and McKay families

Reference: MS-Papers-5229-3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1890 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-L-1800/1900s

Description: Includes material from the following schools: Private school for girls, Oxford Street North (opposite Dr Mackenzie's). Principal Miss Michell. [Printed by] W C Nation & Co., printers, Levin [1890s?] Pamphlet Little Akaloa, Chorlton and Menzies Bay schools centennial 1862-1962. 9-11 March 1962 Souvenir booklet Long Bay College (North Shore). "Pajama game", directed by Arthur Wright. [1987?]. Programme Long Bush School centennial celebrations 1862-1962. Southland's oldest country school. Banquet. Scottish Hall, Esk Street, Invercargill, 13 January 1962. Souvenir programme, ball programme, application form Longbush School Jubilee 1904-1954. Church service 17 October 1954. Order of service Lower Moutere-Wills' Road Schools centennial 1857-1957. Thanksgiving service. Lower Moutere Memorial Hall, 27 January 1957. Order of service. [Lyall Bay School]. "Peter Pan". [Concert late 1987]. Programme Lyttelton West School. West Lyttelton School. Certificate of merit awared to Tony Tikao for athletics 75yds under 10 yrs. December 1950. Fuller Bros Ltd., Printers, Chch [ca 1950] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1895

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0109-008

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1894

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm); Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952

Reference: Plans-80-0973

Description: Elevations, sections and plan for Clere's design for St Mary's Anglican church at Levin Other Titles - St Mary's Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Linen tracing, coloured 477 x 558 mm Provenance: Presented, 1962 by Mr E H Clere

Date: 1868 - 1981

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-086-1981-04

Description: A reproduction on a calendar of J C Hoyte's watercolours of Lake Horowhenua, ca 1868 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in calendar

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-296

Description: Photographs, probably taken by G W Barltrop. Scenes in the first part of the album are of the South Island, mostly around the Dunedin area, and further south, in Invercargill and Bluff. There are two panoramas, one of Port Chalmers and one of Lumsden. Most are landscapes, but a few show groups of people, including five young girls in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and a man driving a horse and buggy at Manuka Creek, with two young women sitting beside him, and a third woman standing by the horse's head. A graveyard scene is a close-up view of two headstones, one for Catherine Louisa Schaw (widow of John S Schaw), who died in 1874 aged 71. North Island scenes show a church at Levin; and views of the countryside, a bullock pulling a laden cart, and at the Rimutaka Summit all taken on a train journey. Group portraits include one of a large family group, with two young boys in the foreground with a cricket bat and cricket pads; and two large groups of men and women associated with the Missions to Seamen. One image show a plaque erected `In memory of twelve officers and seamen who were drowned or died from exposure, by the wreck of the Barque Lizzie Bell near the Oeo River, July 24 1901, erected by members and friends of the Missions to seamen, Wellington, New Zealand'. There is also a photograph of the wreck of the ship Antiocco Accame, which was stranded at Katiki Beach, Otago, on 31 October 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1896

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0812

Description: Architectural plans for St Mary's Anglican church at Levin Other Titles - St Mary's Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Linen tracing, coloured 406 x 680 mm

Date: 24 Feb 1890

By: Pope, Robert James, 1865-1949

Reference: MS-1781

Description: An address delivered in the primary school, Levin, on the occasion of the jubilee celebrations in connection with the opening of the Levin school, on 24 Feb 1890 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (11 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; grey cloth)

Date: 1888-1944

By: Roe family

Reference: MS-Papers-0427

Description: Papers, mainly of F G Roe, relating to Levin Post Office, Borough Council, District High School and land dealings. Includes cuttings from the Levin Daily Chronicle Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 14 folder(s). 0.14 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Original photographs now at PA-Coll-5183 (a number of images are on Timeframes).

Date: 1880-1918, 1990

By: Devonshire, Mildred Jane, active 1990

Reference: 90-191

Description: Drafts of her works: Each of our part; Dannevirke Days; Quartz; Lake View. Also original Devonshire family letters and scripts of comic monologues. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - From label on front of folder: Archive of Women's Writing, National Library [sic], Original notes by Mildred Jane Devonshire plus typed copies of her accounts, 1990 Other Titles - Each of our part Other Titles - Dannevirke days Other Titles - Quartz Other Titles - Lake View Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts Finding Aids: Index at front of folder.

Date: ca 1890-1925

By: Levin Public Library

Reference: PAColl-0155

Description: Contains photograph of Queenstown, the Adkin house Levin, and the high tension electric cables carrying power from Mangahao Station. There is also a view of the Main Street of Levin in the late 19th century. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1951]

By: Goldsmith, Christina Mabel, 1885-1976

Reference: qMS-0854

Description: Goldsmith describes her mother's life from her birth in 1860 until her death in 1951, noting events in Wainuiomata, Whitemans Valley and Levin; some contributions from her son, R A Prouse. Photographs are included. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon), photographs (37 cm, blue pam case)

Date: 28 Nov 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Armstrong, Benjamin Murray, 1899-1990; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0070/01

Description: Ben Armstrong recalls family background, childhood memories of Ngamatapouri where parents ran a general store, education, Waitotara Primary School, early employment as a message boy at Waitotara Post Office at the age of 13, Mrs Taylor the Postmistress, lack of training, visits of Head Office inspectors, work clothing, wages, Post and Telegraph Association, move to Waverley as postman in 1914, routines, Post Office examinations, work at Wanganui Telephone Exchange, interest in Morse code, work in the Telegraph Gallery in Wellington 1916, Jock Cameron an instructor at the Gallery. Describes working at the Ohakune Post Office 1917 as a telegraphist, Mangaweka Post Office 1918, the town, social life, influenza epidemic 1918, peace celebrations 1918; work in telegraph, savings bank, engineers' office at Wanganui 1921-1924, marriage after moving to Levin, post office work in small offices, lack of electricity at Taupo up to the 1940s, work as senior telegraphist at Levin, female employees, Maori employees, changes in equipment, Depression in 1930s, team spirit in Post Office, social life. Discusses duties during World War II as part of garrison force at Fanning Island, and later duties back in NZ. Recalls work as Postmaster at Taupo Post Office 1946-1954, retirement. Compares Post Office in 1950s to early days. Finishes with stories from his working days. Venue - Tauranga Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Ben Armstrong's home at Rimu Street, Tauranga Accompanying material - Attached to printed abstract a copy of Chapter 4 from the book 'Harvey come quick' by Dorothea Joblin - contains reference to Ben Armstrong Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000739 - OHC-000742 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.07 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-109. Search dates: 1899 - 1984

Date: Apr 1899

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

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: 1/2-065713-G

Description: Removal of a rimu tree stump at Cheslyn Rise, Levin, Horowhenua, April 1899. Photograph taken by Frank James Denton. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Cheslyn Rise was the property, and house, of William George Adkin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: Apr 1899

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

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: 1/2-065697-G

Description: Scene amongst trees at the Adkin property of Cheslyn Rise in Levin, Horowhenua. Shows members of the Adkin family by a stream. From left: Dora, Mrs Annie Adkin, Clare, and Gilbert. Photograph taken in April 1899 by Frank J Denton. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1880s

From: Clark, G T :Photographs of Levin in the 1940s and 1950s, and one glass negative

Reference: 1/2-092986-G

Description: Photograph of Te Aro House Levin, premises of James Smith and Co. Two adult men, a boy, and three girls are standing in a line in front of the building. Photographed by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1890-1930]

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PAColl-9773

Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints