Places

Date: 1939

By: Automobile Association (Wellington, N.Z.) Inc.

Reference: MapColl-832.4395gmbd/[1939]/Acc.25,535

Description: Map of Otaki, with revisions made in white correcting fluid. The area is from the sea to the racecourse including the Otaki River and the golf links, Otaki Beach, Rangiuru and Otaki Town settlements. Shows the sites of the King George V Memorial Health Camp, several areas of Church Mission Grant land, the Catholic Church Mission Station, Maori Church, pa, memorial to Te Rauparaha, schools, the hospital and sanitorium reserves and a mill. Includes dates when the Catholic Mission Station was opened and dates when the church, presbytery and school were built. Streets and streams are named and the old course of the Otaki River is marked as is the borough boundary and built up areas. A reference key shows numbered sites of interest. Printed on botttom left corner: L. and S. license 440/35/39 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale [ca.1:5 544], 56.8 x 69.7 cm.

Date: 1843 - 1939

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1843]/Acc.7915;7918;8370;8371;8372

Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from an area north of the Stokes Valley bridge to the harbour. Includes the road which runs parallel to the river. High Street, Victoria Street, Railway Avenue, and Hutt Road are named. The settlements of Richmond, Aglionby and Britannia are named. Includes numbered sections with owners' names. Clifford, Molesworth, Taine, Park, Child, Alzdorf, Hanson, Stokes, Dr. Evans, Riddiford, Dr. Dorset, Swainson, Barton, Compton, Captain Daniell, Colonel Wakefield, Burcham, Bidwill. Several areas of native reserve are marked as are the sites of a pa, Hughes' House, Masons House, Boulcott's House, Molesworth Farm, Aglionby Arms, Queens Head Inn are marked. Title supplied by cataloguer Hand-written along bottom of sheet 5: Photostat of plan in Survey office, Wellington. L. Hall, 1939 Quantity: 1 map(s) on five sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale not given, 196.7 x 63 cm., sheets 64.1 x 45.2 cm. and smaller

Date: 1935-1955

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-344

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1922 - 1923, 1931 - 1933

From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction

Reference: PA1-o-644

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-4636

Description: Photographs of: a new bridge over the railway line at Turakina in the middle distance with the river bridge and the railway bridge also visible; the bridge over the river at Turakina; men shovelling stone from a river bank on to carts running on rails over the river to the highway; jig line of Oreore metalling plant - a man standing at the bottom of inclined rails; a winch and steam traction engine in use on the construction of Turakina bridge; men standing on the new bridge over the railway line at Turakina; and a man standing on the new Turakina river bridge with part of the old one next to it. Photographer unidentified. All have the same photographic developer's stamp on the reverse but they may relate to PAColl-7364. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints at PAColl-5932-34 to PAColl-5932-37.

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 1936

From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1969]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-1936-01

Description: Front cover shows rail car driver at the controls, and the view in front. Inside are pictures of models of rail car, West Coast hotels, and a map of the road and air connections to Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers from Hokitika. Extended Title - Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded in four, each section 285 x 114 mm.

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931 - 1941

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Jo/[ca.1936]/Acc.14601

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of land bounded by Brandon Street (now Frankmore Cutting), Railway Terrace and the Johnsonville Railway Station Yard, Wellington, including part of Lots 33-4, 38-41, showing plan of land required for road purposes. The land is taken from Lots 33, 40 and 41, and part of a railway reserve, being the property of W H and A Bramley, the Johnsonville Town Board and Mrs C Halligan. Shows land schedule, including certificate of title numbers, acreage, and owner, as well as some pencil calculations. Reference key indicates railway reserve, railway reserve taken, road reserve, private land and private land taken. W.D.O. No. 5248A Written on reverse: Johnsonville See MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Jo/[ca.1936]/Acc.14602 for continuation of plan Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on diazo photoprint on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 45.7 x 56.7 cm

Date: 1933

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/St/1933/Acc.37771

Description: Cadastral map of Lots on the peninsula at Strathmore Park, between Lyall Bay and the entrance to the harbour, Port Nicholson, Wellington. Strathmore Park subdivision with proposed street, the Miramar Golf Club Incorporated and adjoining numbered sections, property belonging to J. C. Crawford and H. Crawford, Stellin Construction Ltd., are named with respective certification of title numbers. A building plan for Scots College, a beacon, sewer reserve and a military reserve are marked. Annotations to this map are boundary amendments with acreages. The route, through two sections, taken at the time of the boundary inspection is marked. A reference key to the sections adjacent to the Crawfords' property includes Lot numbers, the Title numbers and owners' names for Deposited Plan 8272. Names listed are: M.E. Bandsley, V. Coldstream, F.W. Mc Courtie, M.G. Payne, C.H. Pulsford, P.F. Kean, E. Gilmer, R.H. Simpson, C.T. Arthur, L.R. Dustin, E. Lerwill, G.H. Colley, H. Banks, A. McKay, L. Brewer, J.W. Foster, J. Osborn, E.E. Tonks, D. Andrews, The Public Trustee, C.H. Pulsford, H. Eames, M.L. Johnson, H.L. Flett, H.E. Crockford, A. Aitken, A. Cooper Note on bottom left of original: Copy, 8/11/33 - and indecipherable initials Scale of original: [1:3 168] Note on verso states: Lyall Bay, D.P. 8272 Title supplied by cataloguer Other Titles - Plan showing proposed boundary amendment between lots, Deposited Plan 8272, Strathmore Park, Wellington Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured pencil on duplicated plan, coloured, scale indeterminable, 73.5 x 77.5 cm.

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1927, 1929 - 1931

From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction

Reference: PA1-o-643

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1929-1931

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-768

Description: Damage to buildings, roads, rivers and landscapes resulting from the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1872 - 1905 - 1939

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-10/3/2-Acc.

Description: Three maps of New Zealand showing roads made and roads in the course of construction, shipping routes, railways and towns. Quantity: 3 manuscript map(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale indeterminable. 91 x 135 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1930 - 1947

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/1947?/Acc.14564

Description: A base map of the Porirua - Titahi Bay development area has been used for the subdivision of Kahutea, now called Titahi Bay. A photostatic copy of this cadastral and part topographic map is of the area from Porirua Harbour (near the present day site of Kahutea Terrace), to Whitehouse Road. Numbered sections include acreages and measurements, while some added annotations to the photostatic copy detail the monetary value of these sections. Dates include 1929, 1930, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1947. One section is marked as occupied. The Porirua - Titahi Main Road (bitumen) and Whitehouse Road are named. The subdivision includes un-named roads with details of gradients. Substantial handwritten notes refer to Deposited Plan 9621, sold and unsold sections, those with sea frontage and others with large areas of land. Other Titles - Plan of subdivision of part Kahutea No. 1A, part Kahutea No. 3 and part District Plan 1141, being part section 110 Porirua District Block XI, Paekakariki Survey District The scale of the base map is [1:792]. Title at base of map: Porirua - Titahi Bay Development Area Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on photostatic copy, coloured, scale indeterminable, 43.6 x 35.7 cm.

Date: 1936

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4792gbbd/[1936?]/Acc.10181

Description: Cadastral and topographical map of the area adjacent to Lowry Bay. Includes numbered sections with acreages, some including sites of buildings, a homestead, tennis court, circular garden, line of sewer drain. Boundaries are marked, especially building line distances from roads. Includes tracks and drives, roads are named, and the Wellington to Eastbourne Road is decribed as a bitumen road. The Francis Bell Reserve with the approximate area of 120 acres, also one section to be retained by trustees, are marked. The section of C. W. D Bell includes a note stating that it is not for sale. Vegetation and some topographic features are described. Note on bottom right states: All distances and areas are subject to amendment by final survey now in progress Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:1 200], 50.5 x 50 cm.

Date: Circa 1930s

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

Reference: 1/4-038927-G

Description: View of a road in the Upper Hutt area, possibly Silverstream. Four men are working on constructing a culvert for road widening. They are standing on a foot-bridge in front of a long clipped hedge. A gate leads into a garden and cabbage trees are visible amongst other trees. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. For another view of the same area, with the butcher's van of T Russell & Sons parked on the small bridge which is no longer in view in this image, see 1/4-038926. This image is dated from 1/4-038926 as "T Russell & Sons" are listed in Wise's post Office Directory in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1985

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-4752

Description: In `Pioneering the Milford Sound Road' Christie describes the surveying and initial work undertaken to put a road through over the Milford Saddle into the Cleddau Valley during 1934-1935. Source of title - transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/[193-?]/Acc.11701

Description: A base cadastral map of the area between Coutts and Yule streets and the City Reserve, includes some numbered sections with acreages and boundary measurements. A right of way is marked, as are three proposed streets. This area is adjacent to D.P. 3490. Annotations to this map are revised boundary measurements. Other Titles - Plan of proposed subdivision of Parts lots 1 and 2, Deposited Plan 4183, being Parts Sections 7 and 8, Evans Bay District VII and XI, Port Nicholson Survey District Scale of original: Scale [1:792] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on blueprint, scale indeterminable, 50.2 x 42.5 cm.

Date: [ca 1920s?]

Reference: PAColl-8378

Description: Photograph overlooking the Wairoa/Napier Road and surrounding country, near Mohaka in the Hawke's Bay, showing Hawke Bay in the distance. Taken circa 1920s? by an unidentified photographer. Other - Negative number on bottom right of print: 3027 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20 x 15 cm, mounted on file print card