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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-4161-01-023

Description: War effort on the home front. Soldiers helping with harvesting linen flax, tobacco, oats, wheat and managing pigs Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. 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 has been called the "War Effort" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Some have negatives which can be found at G 176061 1/2 - G 176075 1/2. (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: ca 1910s

Reference: 1/2-002174-F

Description: A man on a horse and cart belonging to W F Harwood's Express outside a flax processing warehouse near Poroti. There are bundles of flax in the background. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1950s-1970s]

From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-7485

Description: Colour slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1. Whangaroa Harbour, St Paul's Rock ca 1972, 2. Te Pahi, 3-4. Marsden Point 1976, 5. Mangamuka Forest, 6. Formation at Kerr Bluff (North Cape), 7. Cape Reinga, 8. Church at Russell, 9-12 Piercy Island, 13. Pompallier House, 14. Waimate Mission House, 15. Warkworth Satellite dish, 16. Lyttelton, 17. Addington railcar, 18. Dunedin 1950s, 19-20. Church Havelock (New), 21. Brooklyn mid 1950s (from Washington Ave), 22. Foxton, flax mid 1950s, 23. Wesleyhaven, Naenae mid-late 1960s, 24. Statue at Paraparaumu Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film negatives

Date: 1915-1930, 1936-1937

Reference: Micro-MS-0872

Description: Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s) positive.

Date: 1792 - 1939

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/5-Acc.37945

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, spars etc) and shipbuilding. Accompanying material: O L C (old land claim) 833.835 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 57 x 44 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: [1910-1916]

From: Edwards-Sextus, Patricia, active 1999-2019: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6605-7

Description: Includes cheques prepared for Motatau 2 Block; correspondence and papers re Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board; letters by Pepene Eketone with translations re Mokau lands; memos re departmental organization; memo re Rangi Kerehoma (Europeanised); cost of preparing whitau; clipping re C A Wilkinson's address at Manaia (1914); papers re Kuini wi Rangipupu; Native Land and Appellate Court sittings (1916); Maori Land Boards, summary (1916); and related papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1860 - 1915

Reference: MapColl-832.11gf/1860-1972 (1972)/Acc.35846

Description: Map of the Kaipara Harbour land area showing pioneering industries from 1860-1915, including timber and flax mills, gum, sheep, cattle, stock fattening, dairying, winemaking, bootmaking, honey, wheat, maize, lime, brickworks, pottery, flour, canning, saddlery, turkeys, oysters, fish, leadlight windows. Shows Otamatea County Boundary, main settlements and features (approxiamtely 32) and Maori settlements (5). Three inserts list the major timber mills, the vegetation (light or heavy bush) and the major sources of income for the first half of the century (timber, gum, flax, sheep, stock fattening). Below map sources are listed. Descriptive text accompanies parts of the map. Traced over Cadastral maps - Ruawai (N27) and Manungaturoto (N28). Map is signed A.P.B.W. (Aug 1972). Other Titles - fifty Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Felt tip pen on tracing paper, hand coloured, scale [ca. 1:63 360], 51 x 76 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975. Papers (Exact reference unknown).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1371-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large field of flax plants, trees and hills in the background. Possibly in the Horowhenua area. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Source of descriptive information - Location possibly Manawatu-Wanganui Region, from other photographs in Moore's numerical sequence (RPM-0683) Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Flax cultivation. No. 683. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.0 cm

Date: Circa December 1958 to April 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8796

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand between 1958 and 1959. This sheet of slides shows hills at Holmridge farm; volcanic ridge at Tokatoka; sawmill and the Tokatoka volcanic rock in the distance; Dargaville township, April 26 Anzac Day procession with band rotunda visible, an old pier on the Wairoa River at Dargaville, cattle sales; a pile of wood blocks at a sawmill; Woodhill showing Peter Hildreth's farm country; sheep on the road beyond Helensville; Kaipara River at Helensville; scenes relating to the flax industry at Waihue showing cabbage trees in a swamp, views of the Northern Wairoa Flax Co. mill showing the buildings, flax in swampland, the flax mill, washed flax fibres, and the manager of the mill holding flax fibres. Slides on this sheet are numbered 604-627. Arrangement: None of this particular sheet of slides were removed to Mr Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for his lecture series when he returned to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11669

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1900s-1950s

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-01

Description: John Hough Nightingall, his wife Dorothy and sons Jack and Theo. Images of the two sons as babies and school boys in Tasmania, other family members and friends. With their father in the gardens at Melbourne and with their mother, father and friends on picnics and outings. There are also images of Jack and Theo as young men in New Zealand. John Hough Nightingall is shown with work collegues in factories and in formal groups, and there are two images of Dorothy dressed in traditional Maori costume. A section in this collection relates to the time in the early 1930s when John Hough Nightingall was associated with the flax fibre industry in the Foxton area. These photographs show flax plants, mills and machinary, and bails of finished fibre. They also seem to indicate that the whole family was involved in this work. Later in the 1930s images show Theo and friends at the Apollo Club, at parties, on the beach, at weddings, with friends, and with collegues in front of the Leicagraph Studio, Wellington, where he worked. There are also holiday and tramping shots, cross-dressers at a Christmas party at James Smith store, Wellington, and others at a private party. Arrangement: Negatives associated with the flax industry images are at 1/4-107380-F to 1/4-107429-F, 1/2-198297-F to 1/2-198334-F, and 1/2-198819-F to 1/2-198838-F. Many of these images are among the 150 lantern slides in this collection

Date: 1930-1939

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-12

Description: Airplanes associated with the Wellington Aero Club including photos taken during a flight over Wellington, also the flying boat "Centaurus". Nightingall family and friends. People on beaches. A grave covered with wreaths. New Zealand and other boxers. The clock tower at Blenheim. The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington. The flax industry and coastal landscape views Quantity: 104 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039357-G

Description: View across water to flax drying in a field, possibly near Foxton. There is a man in a canoe and logs in the water in the foreground. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039358-G

Description: Flax industry workers on a barge loaded with flax on the Manawatu River. Two horse-drawn carts are in the river, and a steam launch is tied up on the far side of the barge. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Similar image to 1/1-039338 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 2010

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-11226-12

Description: Folder contains application form, additional application for Noel Dell Schofield, a table of contents for the papers, essay on the history of the farm, photocopies of legal papers relating to ownership, copies of maps of the farm and of the south Manukau Harbour, copies of black and white photographs, copy of an archaeologist's report (Aileen Foster, 1975), and copies of papers relating to a proposed thermal power station (1973). Original owner (from 1910) was Henry Dell. Current owner is Jewel Dell. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, printed material (including photocopies) with mss annotations

Date: December 1958 to April 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8797

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand between 1958 and 1959. This sheet of slides relating to the flax industry at Waihue with flax fibre drying, and being transported on a truck; views of the Kawerau Pulp and Paper Mill (nos. 632-634); the Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill (nos. 636-640); and birds seen in New Zealand including the Australian native black swan, the grey duck, white-fronted tern, erect-crested penguin, kiwi, pukeko and wandering albatross. Slides on this sheet are numbered 628-650 with one gap where no. 647 was removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slide (no. 647) showing a notornis (takahe) for his representative collection on New Zealand used in a lecture series when he returned to England. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1949

Reference: PA1-o-1026

Description: Album illustrating the propagation, growing on, and harvesting of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax) at the Moutoa Estate's Paiaka Nursery, Foxton. Also illustrated is the work carried out at the Moutoa Estate's Phormium tenax Research Station into the disease Yellow leaf, and into the control of the invasive Tall fescue grass. The final section illustrates the processing of flax fibre at New Zealand Woolpacks and Textiles Limited, Foxton. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1926-1928

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/06

Description: Correspondence and papers include County Clerks' Association; minutes of Finance Committee, Jan 1928; National War Memorial; list of members of Carpenters and Joiners' Industrial Assn of Workers, 1928; Grey District Diamond Jubilee, 1928; Wellington Flax Growers' Corporation Ltd, 1927; unemployment; Dobson Mine Disaster Relief Fund; New Zealand Counties' Assn; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [Between 1926 and 1954]

From: Marsden, Lady Joyce : Assorted photographs and negatives from the papers of Sir Ernest Marsden

Reference: PA1-o-135

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Reasearch presented to Dr Ernest Marsden in 1954. Includes detailed photographs of various laboratory procedures and apparatus, including meat dehydration plant in the Meat Research Laboratory; mass spectrometer; electron microscope; Borthwick Beta-Ray apparatus; soil consolidation machines; geothermal bores; knock resistance tests, with a CFR engine; separating constituents of butter fat, the Fats Research Balance Room; members of the Soil Survey Conference in Napier, 1950, and members of the Geological Survey Conference in 1952; Rongotai Aerodrome under construction; the Magnetic Observatory building in Christchurch; the Dominion Observatory, and the Seismological Observatory; Crop Research Division buildings; Hop Research Station; members attending the Grasslands Conference in 1933; and members attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in 1949. Inscriptions: Album page - Presented to Dr. E. Marsden with the good wishes of the senior staff of the D.S.I.R. and in appreciation of the help & encouragement he has given them throughout the years of his association with the Department, 1926-1954 (With 30 signatures) Dr Ernest Marsden was Director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1926-1947 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown album, 26.5 x 32 cm