Places

Date: 1980

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4105-001/014

Description: Includes a map of view angles, perspective drawings of views, maps of topography, a chart of the quality of views from various parts of the area. Other Titles - CSR-Baigent Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on draughting paper, 420 x 595 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: ca1912

Reference: PAColl-7678

Description: Collection comprises: Two photographs of Mauriceville West, showing the dairy factory, and a cow & bulloch, probably on the property of Alfred Forsberg, taken ca 1912-1915 by Benjamin Murgatroyd. Two photographs of Falkner's sawmill at Kaiparoro, taken ca 1906 by Robert Wallis of Eketahuna. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-034288-F

Description: A20067 Probably the premises of Lane & Brown, Totara North (from Helen Smith, 7 August 2000) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: 1906

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

Reference: 1/4-023407-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 11 Dec 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/4353-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Forestry spokesman for the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) Mr Guy Salmon unfurls a symbolic unsigned cheque made out to Minginui Sawmills Limited for $500,000 on the steps of Parliament yesterday. "Conservation organisations have been pressing the Government to extend such a loan so that the Minginui mill could afford to install machinery to process exotic (pine) timber at its Whirinaki State forest site. "The cheque, representing a Development Finance Corporation suspensory loan, was presented to the deputy Opposition leader, Mr David Lange, yesterday afternoon as part of a conservation protest at Parliament. "The organisations say that a suspensory loan would in effect provide a guarantee to continued employment to the Mingunui village residents." (Evening Post, 12 Dec, 1979). Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1921-1922

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

Reference: PA1-q-001

Description: Album (2), 1921-1922, Mangahao Hydro-electric scheme, images 59-122. Album showing the development of construction of the Mangahao Hydro-electric power scheme, with all aspects, including service roads, the sawmill supplying timber for buildings and other requirements of construction, work camps, the tunnels for water pipes. See also Album (1) 1916-1921, Tararuas & Mangahao Hydro-Electric construction, images 1-58 (at PA1-o-009).

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11320

Description: Transparency slides of timber industry related scenes taken by Doug Werren, circa 1950s to 1960s. Includes images of the site of a timber mill during demolition, the logging of native timber [Ruapehu District?], logging truck owned by Dominion Timber Company (Owhango), and a MG magine glazing cylinder for paper (bound for the Kinleith Paper Mill on a George Dale & Sons truck). Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1972 - 1979

From: Price, Nina, 1953- :[Lino cuts, biro drawings and a painted cardboard model of a house, relating to Denniston, West Coast. 1972-1979]

Reference: A-460-015

Description: Detail of sawmill machinery, showing two blade saws in the foreground, surrounded by rollers, chains and the machinery's frame Artist's note adds: 'I got advice about where this sawmill was and it wasn't in Denniston but in Waimangaroa, at the foot of the Denniston hill' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, 175 x 275 mm on paper 210 x 303 mm

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: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

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: 1974-1975, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982

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

Reference: PA12-11670

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: ca 1890-1935

Reference: PAColl-7225

Description: Collection of photographs used by Dewar in his book Chaslands, a number of which include extensive notes. The photographs are of: Harry Croft's hut on Wallace Beach; Heathfield Dairy Factory with six wagons loaded with urns outside (the notes name all the men in the photograph); Waikawa sawmill tramline with timber truck; Arthur and Fred Croft outside their house at Chaslands; Chaslands School (the notes name all the teachers 1895-1950); MacLennan Railway Station showing the cleared hillsides around it; a car at the far end of the bridge near Chaslands; the boys and girls of Ratanui School with their teacher George Dewar ca 1935; the Chaslands rugby football team with Fred Croft, Donald Little, Bandy Kini, George Dewar, Kangaroo Bill Wells and Herb Ottenshaw (others not known); the junction of McLennan and Tahakopa Rivers showing the ford from Owaka to Chaslands (with notes); the first passenger train on the Catlins extension line at MacLennan Station; Tautuku Bay from the top of MacLennan's Hill; two of men in Cathedral Caves; bush scenes around Chaslands; Houipapa Valley from Gibb's Hill with Catlins Lake in the distance; white pines near Owaka; the buried forest north of Poimawea; a car on the road at Smillies Quarry; Curio Bay at Waikawa; and Mount Samson with the bridge over the Chaslands River in the foreground. Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/2-002484 to 002506 Quantity: 23 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: ca1938-ca1943

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-06

Description: A saw mill in operation; dredge gold mining on the West Coast; nurses and clients of a Plunket service in Christchurch in 1943; a toll bridge and the Wellington/Porirua motorway at the Tawa junction. There are also photographs relating to the Rev Taylor and Waimate North, and a portrait of Guide Rangi. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1957 to 1968

From: Luke, David M fl 1950- :Photographic albums, negatives, colour slides and prints

Reference: PA1-o-275

Description: Photographs of a series of tramping trips taken by David M Luke, alone or with friends, in the Wellington area between 1957 and 1968 Terawhiti solo reconnoitre trip, 3 March 1957 From Cross Creek to Upper Hutt, following the 17 mile route of the old railway line over the Rimutaka Range, with Hew Bruce, 17 March 1957 Terawhiti, with Hew bruce, 15 September 1957 Terawhiti, with Hew Bruce, 26 January 1958 Terawhiti (an attempted trip, abandoned during the day by bad weather) with Hew Bruce, 15 March 1958 Terawhiti, with the Wrigglesworth family, 25 October 1958 Terawhiti, with Hew Bruce, 17 May 1959 From the Horokiwi Road, along the hills between Belmont and Porirua, towards the Haywards-Pauatahanui Road, with Hew Bruce, 17 October 1959 From Kaitoke, over the Puffer, into the upper reaches of the Tauherenikau River, with Hew Bruce, 9 January 1960 A trip to the site of the gold mines on the summit of Diggins Hill, with Hew Bruce, 22 February 1964 Terawhiti (a New Zealand Historic Places Trust Field Day) with Jack Wrigglesworth, and Kelvin and `Mick' Fleet, 4 December 1966 Makara, a Sunday drive, 2 June 1968 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey cover, entitled `Photographs'; 20 x 26 cm

Date: ca 1892-1906

Reference: PAColl-7321

Description: Photographs of: a panorama of Toko taken from the top of Bruce's Hill February 1906; the road through Toko showing the cleared land and some houses ca 1900; pack horses being loaded in the mud 1895; the New Zealand flag being raised in front of a crowd around some speakers 19 November 1900; two of men standing amongst planks in the first sawmill in Toko 1893; men next to logs at the Tariki Road Sawmill their names - Rudkin, Bridgeman, Beesley, Brosky, Cranen and Wilson ca 1900; the Tariki Road Sawmill showing the rail tracks leading to it; two of the children of Toko School in 1894 and 1896; three of school children tending the gardens and planting trees at the school 1900; group of Toko school children under some trees 1900; and the children of Toko Sunday School 1897. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003366 to 003380 Quantity: 14 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives